Thursday 30 August 2012

Pitch for my ideas


My music video is 75% performance and 25% narrative. There will be many different elements to it as I want it to look like a real metal band. The video begins with a slow motion over exposed shot of a girl; the main female protagonist. This shot will introduces one of the main characters and the effects used will help to signify the reminiscent memories that the main male protagonist has of her. The narrative in the music video will show the good memories of the relationship that the male lead has and then the bad memories of the turning point when everything went wrong, showing the journey the took together. My storyline is linear and it will start with the good memories and end with an ambiguous image of a dead-end sign signifying that they’re relationship has run its course. I will vary my shots with close-ups to follow the codes and conventions of a music video, allowing the audience to get closer to the band and also medium to long shots to show the grouping of the band and also to signify the distance the characters now have from maintaining the course for a healthy relationship.

Thursday 23 August 2012

Alterations made along the way

During the course of the creation of my A2 Media Coursework so far, I've encountered several problems but also some good ideas concerning the quality of my Music Video.
I felt that my initial idea to not include a band performance was foolish and that it was the only way I could truly convey the true metal genre as 95% of the Metal videos I've seen contain at least some band performance.
I also decided that for the editing part of my coursework I would prefer to use Sony Vegas Pro 11.0, rather than Adobe premiere CS6 suggested by the media teachers, as I am more confident with it and I have previously found it to be simpler to use and faster at rendering.

Tuesday 7 August 2012

Health and Safety Evidence

For my music video I decided that I will be using slow motion footage of smashing various objects such as  box TV's, DVD players etc.
Due to this I had to ensure that my crew were happy with the health and safety precautions that I would enforce.
I made sure that they will all have protective goggles, protective glasses, long sleeved shirts, long trousers, shoes and hard hats for times of severe risk. For example when cleaning the backdrop of debris whilst a TV would be suspended above their heads.