Holiday Work and Animatic

Hello everyone.  Many of you are filming this week, some were able to take advantage of the good weather yesterday; Friday and Saturday also look sunny... if you have any issues with equipment, Jason is in this week so he can help out.

You have two written tasks to complete over the holiday.  The first is preparation for the A2 skills question in the exam and the second is the print analysis for the digipak, part of your planning.  Please make sure you upload stills as evidence for this post and that you analyse the front and back cover (at least) of the CD packaging.  Any questions, email us before the deadline.

Some of you also have improvements to make to posts.  Please ensure you email your teacher when these are done and we will update your grade accordingly.  Some of your posts need visual evidence and comments.

The animatics require an individual reflection task from each of you.  You should each edit the post the animatic is uploaded into so there is one group post for this task.  The questions are as follows.  Please ensure you use bullet points:

1. What was your individual contribution to the storyboarding and animatic task?
2. What have you learned from completing this process in terms of, camera - distance, movement and angle; editing - duration and transitions; sound - relationship between lyrics/sound and visuals, emotional colouring; Mise en scene - locations, character blocking?
3. How else has this process fed into the development of your concept?
4. How was this task more complex/different from the same task at AS?
5. What were the challenges/difficulties of carrying out this task?

Well done all of you on a great first term in year 13; I hope you get some time to relax over the break.. :) 

Group concept pitch - Due 17th Oct

When you have completed your pitch - post your slides/Prezi up and reflect on the following:

What was the feedback from the group on your presentation? What was identified as the strengths and weaknesses of your concept?  How will you now respond to this constructive criticism? 

Make it clear, how did each of you individually contribute to the pitch?

Please also check the post below to make sure you have evidence of vital areas of planning such as recces, props, casting, practice shots etc. before you begin storyboarding and animatic production.

The pitch reflection is due by Friday 17th October

Planning Pitches - Revised date: Monday 13 October

Well done all of you; you have completed the two main AV analysis tasks - the next will be print analysis after the pitches. Moving forward the planning tasks are:

• Making improvements to the content and presentation of the MV deconstruction and Tech Analysis.
• 6 frame storyboard per student taken from secondary research - can be electronic or drawn and scanned.
• Call sheet and risk assessment uploaded into Brighton planning post.
• Questionnaires completed and uploaded to survey monkey. 
• Individual reflection on purpose, methodology and construction of questionnaire.
• Location reccies.  What is the purpose?  what locations are you considering at this point?  What has informed your current decisions?  What do you plan to film at each location?  What resources would you need to take to a location reccie?  What dates and times have you arranged to go to potential locations?  Group post with some found images.
• Concept development - to get the green light you need to be very definite about what is happening in the beginning - middle and end. and what the camera is doing.  Storyboarding or having a shot list for the first ten and last ten seconds would help.
• Props, costumes, actors, lighting, SFX, camera movement. Take a couple of areas each and use either found or original images as evidence.
• Visual effects - evidence and some explanation of how you are going to achieve the effect.   If you need help from JF then it is time to ask him.

REMINDER - AFTER EFFECTS CLINIC TUESDAY LUNCHTIME

Work for Week 22/9 - pinning concept down

As per our lesson today - the overriding objective this week is to decide WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO FOR OUR VIDEO! In other words, start mapping out the concept to the lyrics.  The processes that you will carry out to help with these creative decisions are:


1. edit and review Brighton footage  and video diaries of who did what on the shoot.  Reflect - how has this process moved your ideas forward? - due FRIDAY 26th 3.35pm


2. Video analysis - review progress so far with KJ on Tuesday - reflect on how well you are using theory and finish off the final video analysis - due FRIDAY 26th 3.35pm


3. Technical analysis - map ideas to the lyrics ready for Thursday's lesson so you can make a focused decision about the kind of sequences that as a group would be useful to analyse to support your own concept.  Final analysis due on blog MONDAY 29th 3.35pm

Interesting colour, pro-filmic and visual effects - get creative!

A source of alternative music videos

Have a look at Bugvideos.co.uk for a range of alternative videos

CF - Planning tasks Wk 15th Sept

As per our lesson today - you should now be working on:

1. Planning for Brighton  - post ideas for test shots, details on props, costume, locations, kit if needed -  (Due Wed 17th Sept for lesson with KJ) - group post

2. Start video analysis task - cover all questions in the booklet over 3 videos.  Complete 2 videos worth of analysis by Sunday evening 6pm 21st Sept.   - individual post

Video discussed today:

Carpark North - Human
Directed by Martin De Thurah

I've just found this making of video - interesting to see the visuals ... but it's in DANISH!  Alex - you'll have to help us out

Another video set in Brighton that is worth having a look at for inspiration (no swimming though on Thursday - not covered by our risk assessment!

Laura Marling - Rambling Man

Blog posts - deadline 14 september 2014

1. Institutional Context: Prezi/PPT – Grp.
2. Class Music Video, Lonely Boy: music video – Grp.  planning/evaluation – Ind.
3. Music Video theoretical essay: with visual evidence – Ind.
4. Summer hols work: 3 x track ideas with comments  - Ind.
5. Develop comments on 1 track: mise en scene, camera, editing - Ind.
6. Moodboard on genre of track – Grp.
7. Detailed response to questions on chosen track – Grp.
8. Semiotic  analysis of Music Video: Narr/Perf/Conc – Ind.

Concept - lo-fi montage editing

STUFF PICK from Ground's Oranges on Vimeo.

Performance and Concept - camera and set

Labrinth - Let It Be from Us on Vimeo.

CREATIVITY: Woodkid 'Iron'

This video was one that creatively influenced Ben, Chris and Alistair in their work a couple of years ago:


Woodkid "Iron" from WOODKID on Vimeo.

(if you liked that, have a look at their others, in particular 'I Love You' - spectacular

This is their final video.  See if you can spot where the visual link is...

Visual inspiration - John Baldessari

Take your creative inspiration from all areas of culture - not just confined to other music videos. Take for example this fantastic short film documentary about John Baldessari, the artist. PACKED with visual ideas that could inform your work
A Brief History of John Baldessari from Supermarché: Henry & Rel on Vimeo.

Performance music video

Great narrative music video

Narrative music video in reverse

Great Moodboard

Moodboard on Prezi

Effective use of slow motion

Hand drawn with ink bleeding effect

split screen amazing performance vid

Mute Math - Typical (Reverse Video)

The whole band played the song backwards during filming.

Here is the original video:

http://youtu.be/7XVWR-5fiG0



and here is the making of the video: