Film Music Video Feedback

Knowledge and understanding of:

Characteristics of a music video

Film language to explain ideas

Chosen theme and creativity

Thorough and effective time management

Creativity and filming on location

Bollywood Music Video:

Group Members: Emily, Georgie, Beatrice and Katherine

Good use / good display of music video

Good theme and creativity

Creativity with filming on location is good – location chosen well

Film language and movements within the film good and matches the video.

Good planning and organization with cast of the music video

Could of done better with choreography and matching music with videos.

Also could of done better with filming – as in making sure what you want to be in the scene, in the scene.

Overall very well done.

Bones:

Group Members: Nick Sung, Davis Wong, Brandon Tang, Saskia Leung

Good use of B&W

Good use of angles and tracking

Special Effects of color use and special effects

Could of done better with filming – as in making sure what you want to be in the scene, in the scene.

Consistency could of tried harder to make the video more consistent.

Good ending with character walking into the black.

Was not very well portrayed à Display of theme and creativity.

Good explanation of what the music video is about.

 Good use of symbolism.

Not as explanatory but good use of color.

Kind of lazy to say, “Just watch it and interpret it yourself.”

Jay Chou Music Video:

Alistair, Charles, Bryce and Nic Tse

Could of used different angles

Good tracking of the basketball.

Not all the words the characters are saying match the lyrics but good try to try and match it.

Theme is not very evident I first thought it was about basketball after explanation, I now know it is actually about trying hard to succeed could have been more obvious.

Action filmed very well

Aaron, Bradley, Dylan and Ryan:

Good use of angles

Goood/Funny storyline

Good camera angles and shots

Continuity not very good at some places

Good overall

Sound Design Research

Sound Design:

With sound design, to make weird organic sounding science fiction kind of wounds you can use different ways to create the sound you want. For example, for a squishing sound, the guy in the video used raw chicken, squishing around in barbecue sauce. and for a suction sound he used the sound of him trying to get dog food out of a can. 

for the Kung Fu Panda movie, the sound team posted a video on how they recorded "whooshing" sounds. They had a mic on the floor and swung different things around on a piece of string. For example they swung a skirt, a tennis racket and even a harmonica. Last they did something different and they attached a bungee cord to two different walls, then stretched it far back and let go. It made a really cool whooshing sound with an echo. 

Ideas for sounds we can use for our sound clip: 

For the first scene where there is the huge flying bird, i was thinking that we could have some sort of whooshing sound made by swinging a racket or something accompanied by soft but dramatic music leading into the next scene. 

Recent Lessons (Combined Reflections)

Over the past couple of lessons, we have been viewing music video analyses. Below are some of the things that i noted down whilst watching presentations.

Music Video analysis

Ryan:

As Good as I Once Was By Toby Keith

Good introduction to the background.

Good connection with the artists other videos.

Lighting and color description not good.

He just said that it stayed the same throughout the video.

Did not mention anything in particular.

Alistair:

This Too Shall Pass By Ok Go

Brief introduction to the artist and their types of music video

Rube Goldberg Machine

Uniqueness of the music video

Interesting information about the video

Explains the color and lighting explained good

Displays a good consistency throughout the video – he explained the main colors of the video

BT:

This Too Shall Pass By Ok Go

Introduction not too good.

Had to start over again.

Did not write and key points or notes down to remind him of things to say.

Kept saying um…

Explained well why he chose the video

Explains pros to this video in comparison to the Rube Goldberg one.

Very good in that he related it to ourselves (levels)

Lighting – good use of natural light

Explained the camera angles and distances fairly well.

Bradley:

Thriller By Michel Jackson

Had some technical difficulties

Good/ok explanation of color and lighting.

Explained colors and why they used it in the video.

Explained the lighting really well

Explanations of camera techniques shaky but explained it fairly well 

Editing explanation good and also put in personal point.

Related to Bollywood dancing

Related it to other videos of the time.

  

Aaron:

Collide By Howie Day

Explains the video context.

Explained use of colors well

Lighting displays the themes of the different parts of the video – explained pretty well

Referred to pictures on screen showing a good variety to different types of shots and distances.

Explained what editing has done and what it can do.

Related it too home videos

Showed examples

Characteristics – explained on a whole and related it to the music video

Chose the main characteristics to explain.

Emily:

Across the Universe – I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

Talked a bit fast

Explained types of music videos – talked too fast but explained it okay

Explained why the video is both narrative and conceptual music video - good

Explanation of camera techniques good.

Color and lighting explained well – military colors/ dim drab lighting

Editing explained very well

Dylan:

Smooth Criminal By Michel Jackson

Good background of the music video/song

Explained why and style

Explained camera angles within the music video well. – with pictures

Camera distances explained with pictures from video – explained well

Explained why the different distance and angle shots were used

Color explanation was explained well

Lighting explanation good

Camera techniques was explained fairly well

Editing is more old but still good – good explanation

Had his own personal opinion  - really good

Nick Tse:

Tui Hou By Jay Chou - Chinese Music Video

Explained MV storyline

Explained type of MV – More narrative approach – no shots of Jay Chou singing.

Explained how color and lighting sets the scene well

Dark colors – Dangerous

Explains color and lighting fairly thoroughly.

Explains why different shots are used and justified why. – Fairly good

Editing – no or little transitions

Editing explained well and also showed more than one example

Editing – in the “Flashbacks”, the color is in B and W, to make it feel like a memory.

Cynthia:

Mukashi kara aru basho - JUJU

Explained “what is a MV”

Gave background information on the MV

Color and lighting explained well

Explained what kind of color and lighting used

Camera techniques (angles and distances) – explained very well – explained the meaning of the flash back movie clips.

Showed examples of different camera techniques.

Characteristic of MV – explained very well and explained the relationship between the actions and the lyrics and music.

Editing – explained fairly well

Georgie:

Rolling in the Deep By Adele

Color and lighting – explained good

Camera angles and techniques explained well

Stated personal opinion.

Editing explained not so well – only explained briefly.

Synchronization explained okay

Transitions – no or little transition

Comparisons with other MV. – very good – compared with more than one.

Nicholas Sung:

Fix You By Coldplay

Background of the MV – explained briefly

Mood, lighting and music – significant relationship – explained very well.

Color and music – combines the mood of the music to the color of the light. – Explained well

Lighting and lyrics – explained good

Camera techniques – explained well

Rule of thirds – explained briefly

Characteristics – explained well – explained narration as well as performance

Editing – explains different cuts, along with synchronization – fairly well

Katherine

Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

Describes what the music is about and what it symbolizes – well one

Color – describes how colors were used and how they contrast also what atmosphere they show – very well 

Colors – Black, white, Red.

Lighting – Transition of light explained well

Silhouetting – explained well

Camera Techniques – showed how different camera techniques and angles affected the audience and how it shows emotion.

Camera angles – Explained very well

Editing – explains how the editing affected the video – very well

Symbolization – explained briefly but very well

Clothing – explained how the clothing affected the video – explained very well

Analogies – Explained very well

Very Good song choice and Very good analyzation of the music video

Charles

21 Guns by Green Day

Clumped together - What are Music Videos? Characteristics and Chosen MV together – rushed through but explained fairly ok.

Lighting – explained different types of lighting – explanation not bad but not great

Color – explained briefly

Distance – Explained well but rushed through

Talked a bit too fast – rushing through

Camera Angles – explained well

Camera Movements explained well – related how his MV is different to the MV we did.

Editing – explained ok – rushed

Presentation could have been put together better.

Beatrice

Can’t nobody by 2NE1

Explained why she chose it

Introduction

Similarities with western MV

Color and lighting – explained well

Camera Distances – explained well

Camera Angles – explained well

Movements – explained briefly but very well

Editing – explained well

Saskia

Firework By Katy Perry

Color – explains how the color sets the mood

Lighting – Natural Light – Explained well

Camera Shots and Angles – Explained Briefly

Camera Movements – Explained okay

Editing – explained well

Characteristics – Explained briefly but very well

Explained her thoughts on the MV and our how are MV should be like it

Dean

Stan By Eminem Featuring Dido

Explained why he chose the MV

Storyline of the MV – Explained ok

Themes – Explained ok-ish

Editing/color/lighting – explained well and fairly thoroughly

Camera Distance Shots – explained how different shots are used to show the environment around the character and how it portrays emotion.

Characteristics – Explained fairly well

Kept no eye contact with the audience, read directly from the script.

A but rushed

Anne

Strawberry Fields Forever – From the movie Across the Universe

Color – explained briefly but not very detailed

Lighting – Explained ok – did not go through much detail

Special effects and Editing – explained well

Characteristics – explained ok – only explained briefly.

Bryce

All of the Lights By Kanye West Featuring Rihanna and Kid CuDi

Color Editing - Black and White, color changing – Explained well

Text Lighting and Color effects – Explained well

Camera Techniques – explained well

Editing/transitions – explained okay

Characteristics – explained well

Overall – Explained everything well but it seemed like he had the information but was struggling on what to say.

Davis

The Killers – A Dust land Fairytale

He explained very well about what characteristics the music video had as well as the meaning of the music video.

He also explained very well about how contrast and lighting were used in the music video.

Camera Shots – explained briefly but well

Explained why he likes it very well. 

One new term that we learned is a Jump cut. A Jump Cut is when, in film or television, an abrupt "jump" from one scene to another. 

After everyone was finished presenting (presentations took three lessons to finish) we worked on filming and editing our music video. For our group, i stayed to edit because i was not there at another time when editing (and i had to contribute my part to the editing process), whilst everybody else continues filming the rest of the scenes that needed to be filmed.

The last lesson (the last lesson before easter break), the majority of the groups including ours thought that we had that class to finish up our videos but Ms. Wong did not know that, that was what we thought and was planning on doing a video screening of our music video's. So, ending up, she let us have that lesson to finish and during the lesson, we finished our music video but did not have time to render the videos so one of us had to return at break to finish the rendering. 

Music Video Storyboard

For our music video storyboard, we split the pages up into 4. We each had a page to write. We did this because we had 4 pages total for our storyboard which is too much for one person. 

Music Video Brain storming

Going Crazy By Song Ji Eun
AOI - Relationships, drug abuse/gambling addiction, love

Characteristics of K-Pop music videos:
- longer cuts
- story plots
- sad mood
- dialog
- stalker shots

Ideas:
Idea one:
A couple, the guy has a addiction to gambling or drugs, the girl is trying to get him away from it, they fight/abuse, she wants to leave, he doesn't let her, [he kills her].

Idea two:
Stalker guy - stalking the girl, then the girl gets random txts, emails, phone calls etc...
He kidnaps the girl
put a knife to her face....
OPEN ENDING

Idea three:
Complicated relationship
guy is really nice to her
guy finds out girl is cheating on him
the guy goes crazy, hangs himself
she goes crazy once she finds out he is dead
hangs herself as well

Idea chosen: Idea number two.

Today in class, we came up with ideas on what our music video was going to be on. This class i found was fun because i got to work with people i don't normally work with and had lots of fun doing so when all our ideas came pouring out. I think that the music video that we are going to make is going to be awesome!!

This is the song we are using:

Music Videos

What music videos normally have:
Some sort of story line.
Scenes of the band/singer singing/playing instruments (guitar, drums...)
singer singer in multiple different scenes


A music video is a short video or film which goes along with a song.
Used to promote a song
"illustrated song"
Song words match the singers lips/or whoever is singing
"Abstract Film"
Shows

Genre of Music videos:
Pop
Jazz
Rock

Camera Shots/Angles:
Head Shot

Long Shot

Extreme Long Shot

Universal music videos:
American music videos are mostly portraying story lines and relationships.
Indian music videos are more traditional dancing and singing. They always have some sort of traditional aspect to them.
A lot of music videos have trademarks resembling either that type of music or the place the artist is from.

First Class Editing

Last class, we edited our short film. For some of the lesson, another group asked my to go and help them film a part since they were an all guy group and they needed a girl. So for the first part of the lesson i was up at the 9th floor helping them film the scene. After returning to editing we encountered some difficulties when trying to make a freeze frame at the end of one scene. We also had difficulties when we tried to add titles and credits because we could not find the button which lets us add the credits. In the end, we figured it all out but then when we watched it through from the top, we found that in the middle of the clip, there was a random 'un-rendered' screen came up. Though we didn't have enough time to try and fix that last class, so we have to try and figure it out in tomorrows lesson.