Fiona the Turkey

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Mark has been busy filming. He prepared a green screen last month and filmed all the shots where it was required.
Now he has been extra busy filming at his house. The video requires a messy living room where the character can be a slob. Luckily he had had the house to himself all week so it was already in a slob-ish state.
Filming went well and did not require too many takes. However, it still took a couple of hours!

Green Screen

Today I spent two of my free periods ironing and then filming the schools green screen. I managed to rope in two of my friends who were actually much better ironers than me. Shortly we were joined by one of our school caretakers called Linda. She gave us ironing advice and told us be should be using steam! So we watered our irons and it got very warm very quickly.
Once we'd ironed the green screen we had to get it up on it's frame. This wasn't too hard but still took us a few tries.
That took us all of the first free period, so in the second we began filming. We only had about 50mins before the tech crew wanted to clear it all away, so we go going. It actually didn't take long to shoot.

Below is a picture of the ironing process and my glamorous actor/model

Artist Analysis - Who Says

I really like this video. Nothing really happens, but it just shows Mayer going out with his friends and doing random activities. The idea of the song isn't about getting stoned. It's more of a libertarian statement of 'who says' I can't do what I want in my own home.
I really like the parts where he's sat at a restaurant table, and one shot he's acting as though the camera isn't there but the next he's singing into it. My first reaction was 'thats pretty cool', so I'm thinking if I can use it then my audience will have a similar reaction.
It has the short opening part (actually the longest one yet, at 46 seconds) at the beginning, and yet another bridge for him to walk along! During the start there is really quick flashes of all the locations to be shown later on. I like this idea, and it could actually work for my video.
I like how he goes to each location with his friends but then half way through he'll become invisible to them and just sing to the camera. It makes it quite personal.

Preliminary Task - Why Does Love Do This To Me? The Exponents

We were asked to make a video utilising all the skills we have learned on Final Cut. This includes green screen, split screen, key frames, colour manipulation, editing to the beat, transitions and filters. We don't like transitions (especially the ones on Final Cut Express) so we shoved all those in at the beginning.
The song is a disease.

A wonderful vid from Film Riot

Just watched a Film Riot video on YouTube. Great insight into how a professional looking music video is made. Although we may not have access to the kind of equipment used, as said in the video music videos are entirely visual. I feel confident that I can make a great video if I use great visuals.