After meeting with 'St. Michael's and All Angels' Church we chose our placement of where we wished to record and asked the reverend questions of which we wanted to know. For example, we asked if we were allowed to move anything, where the exits are, light switches and other things.
He gladly answered our questions and was happy to work with us. I then asked him about any thing he wished to know. He was mainly concerned with what the song was about and if it had any blasphemy within the lyrics. After which he only told us of how we would arrange to meet and then allowed us to take photos and start planning things ahead of time.
Photos seen above!
Once we started using Final Cut Express to create our animatic we learned new things such as how to import music and shots into the program, even overlaying text and images. Also we learned how to add effects and transitions to our video. Also we kept accidentally finding new things, such as voices overs and other things we didn't believe we'd be using.
For the beginning of our music video, we wanted to reflect the slow pace within the music into our video so we added a nice fade in/out transition to incorporate the idea and therefore reflect the slow moving pace. The list of transitions and effects can be seen on the right. For cuts between a chorus and verse we used an additive dissolve, which appeared a lot quicker and sharper, depicting the quicker pace of music.
For some of our shots, we wanted to convey camera movement and pans but it was close to impossible for us to present this within our drawings, so instead we used a text overlay to show certain pans and movement that would occur when we film the music video.
Within the group, Jamie and I listened to our song, and Elliot worked on listing shots and idea son a rough piece of paper. I used Elliot's notes and started asking Jamie to draw the angles and shots that i was describing. I also made note of the timings for each shot and their duration. I also began taking pictures of the shots and placing them into our final cut animatic. Elliot then listened to the song along with the images that we had drawn and pointed out flaws or weaknesses within it.
The image on the right shows some of the progress we have made with storyboard. as you can see the images we have put together and the piece of paper we used initially to record ideas.After we made it to around halfway through storyboarding the song, we took photographs of the images we had drawn in-case we lost any sheets, and then began to upload them onto the computers. We then began to edit them into final cut along with the music, to see how it was looking so far.
2. We then had to draw out the ideas we had already written using the storyboard sheets. Me and Jamie began listening to the song again, workign as a team to draw the angles and shots we wished for and that i was describing to Jamie. I began to make note of the timings for each shot and their duration so that we knew when everythign would play and so we knew where we placed our ideas. Elliot then began to listened to the song along with our ideas and images of which we had drawn. He helped to point out flaws or weaknesses
3. The image on the right shows some of the progress we have made with storyboard. As you can see the images and paper that we have put together are used initially to record ideas. After we made it to around halfway through storyboarding the song, we took photographs of the images that we had drawn incase we ever lose any of the sheets. We then began to upload them onto the computers so we could began to edit them into a final cut project alongside the music, to see how it was looking so far.
Within my group, it was decided that the setting for the music video would be within a church since it would be best fitting and is a unique set. Since the song itself is slow and compared to normal rock songs it is very smooth and actually contains string instruments to replace popular guitars and such, it is very suited to the church's atmosphere.
We also chose the church based on the lyrics, "Need something to confess" - "I'm gonna give all my secrets away" - and "something to get off my chest", all these lead to an idea of confession which led us to the idea of a confession box which lead to a church. So we decieded within our music video that we would include a confession box from the church to add a greater relationship between the visuals and the lyrics.
I have the surrounding photos of a local church called 'St Michaels and All Angels Church' of which is a likely candidate for a filming location. I have also sent off an e-mail asking for permission to use this church along side with my group. I will post a screen-shot of that e-mail when we send it and any replies we get.
The song "Secrets" is the second single released from OneRepublic's second studio album Waking Up. The song is Genre calssed as Pop rock, Cello rock and Alternative Rock. The song was releashed in september 2009 and writen by the lead singer of OneRepublic, Ryan Tedder.
The song was prominently used and featured in the soundtrack of the 2010 film The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and was also used to launch the "Big Pony" fragrance line for Ralph Lauren. An instrumental version of "Secrets" also featured prominently in the Facetime portion of Apple's iPhone 4 video introduction in 2010. The song has been heavily utilized in network promotional advertising for various series and several other film trailers in the United States.
UK tribes states that:
I started to research into magazines and their advertisments so i could get a more developed understanding of what our advert would be like if it was realistically going through to print.
The picture to the left is a lovely image of a middle shot cello with its bow, all mostly in full screen. Its a nice close up when the Cello was playing by it self within the video. I like this shot because it establishes the instrument being used and shows off the user's ability.
another instrument had became more interesting for the viewer to watch. So with this picture you see the medium shot of the lead acoustic guitarist with the Cello besides it. She sitting down due to how cellos are played so hence why she is placed as such. The picture helped me to noticed how the cello is always shot from the front view, no sides are used or anything to justify the musician, other than the close up shots used on her later on.
This next shot on the left is a beautiful shot of an extreme close up on the strings and bow of the cello, which would be nice to incorporate into my own video. As you can see it enhances the audiences knowledge on the musicians abilities to play their instrument. This is a nice concept of how I'd like my own shots represent my cello.
The next two shots are taken after one another, with maybe a 5 second gap. But here you can see her in a normal framed shot which gives you a nice over-view on the musician and her instrument, with the second shot you have
the long stretch out with the bow, taking up the whole screen with her arm's length which is a nice dramatic way of playing the cello and would again go well with my song choice due to its dramatic nature.
"Your footage might be great, but it'll only become a great video through editing. To do a good job you'll need patience, time and more patience. You'll need to decide the 'feel' and pace of the video. Will it be made up of long sweeping shots, or quick sharp edits? Do you want to follow the mood of the song and edit to the music or do you want the video to contrast with the track?"- From A. Flegenheimer. (Link to Source)
Don't Be Over Ambitious: A simple idea well executed is often more effective than a complex idea done badly.
And Ignore All I've Said: The most interesting videos are made when the rules of convention are bent, buckled and broken, so keep experimenting and above all else, make something interesting.
Once me and my group have chosen our song to use for our music video, we decided that we'd have to ask the Copyright holder for his permission, and so we researched the copyright holder and it turns out that the man who wrote the song and produced it was their lead singer who is well known for writing many songs and working with big performers when producing their songs.
The reason we have chosen these three songs is because we wanted nice lyrics of which we could explore, but since we chose live performance we also looked into how we could present this live. With 'Bittersweet Symphony' we could picture how it would be videoed, with violins opening the video, how it could pan out to a wider image E.t.c. And so we went through a list of things we could do for the video which is posted below:
With 'Secrets' we straight away loved the lyrics and liked how we might be able to play with this, since it used a unique set of instruments which aren't normally videoed live. But with this in mind we came up with the idea of scenery. But again more ideas shown below:
But in the end we found that Bon Jovi and The Verve are way to big for us to pull off due to how people would already recognize the song and then put the original artist in recognition of the song, therefore turning our own song into a fake look-a-like. So the final choice was One Republic - Secrets.
A company who are in competition with MTV Networks for an audience would be Box Television (formerly called ‘Video Jukebox Network International Limited’) It is a British television company which is content subsidiary owned by Bauer Group (50%) and Channel 4 (50%) and acts as its music television programme production arm.
4Music, realeshed in 15 August 2008, is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen. The channel replaced The Hits and is available on broadcasted 24 hours a day. 4Music is now the home for music/celebrity orientated shows and comedies that were once shown on Channel 4. It's mix of music and comedy is similar to that of the defunct channel Play UK.
Kiss TV is a commercial music television channel which started as a pirate radio station in London in 1985. The playlist predominantly consists of mainstream hip-hop, Dance and R&B. The Channel is based from the Bauer radio channel, Kiss 100. Kiss tv celebrated the 20th Anniversary of its launch in 2005.
Magic TV, realeased in September 13 2001, plays mainly easy listening music videos and is based on the Magic Radio network also owned by Bauer. Like some other Box Television music television channels under Bauer's brand, Magic operated a jukebox service where viewers were able to request videos to be played via a premium-rate telephone number. Magic mainly focuses on music from the 80s and 90s although a large section of daytime is now dedicated to 'Today's Magic Hits' to keep up with the current market.
Smash Hits! is a British commercial television channel that broadcasts general pop music in shows such as Chartbusters, which is about recent music and Pop Domination (which is new and old music). It also shows other programmes such as themed countdowns and charts such as Top 50 Boy Bands. The channel also has hours dedicated to a particular artist or band such as Pussycat Dolls: Ultimate 10. It is based on the former Smash Hits Magazine, which was owned by EMAP (Bauer). The channel broadcasst general mainstream pop music on a "jukebox" system, where viewers had to call a premium rate telephone number to select a Music video to play.
Q, also called Q The Music (queue the music) because that is the slogan's name, is a UK music channel based on Q Magazine, launched in October 2000. The channel specialises in indie, rock and alternative genres. Therefore plays a wide viriaty of music, prodominantly bands like Snow Patrol, Coldplay, and Stereophonics.Q was originally a jukebox channel,however this element was dropped in 2004.
Kerrang! TV, realeased in Spring 2001, is loosely connected to the magazine, Kerrang!. And as of 2005, all of its programme content is music videos, the majority of which is open scheduled, for text requests from their playlist. The TV station's playlist is mainly nu metal and pop-punk/skate punk, although with some unusual exceptions. Certain bands, such as Tenacious D and Limp Bizkit get higher than average play rates, due to higher rates of text requests. The station unusually guarantees to play a requested video, unlike others where a voting system is in place. However, it may take some time for the video to be played.The first broadcast of Kerrang! TV had a countdown of voter's most desired videos. The most popular choice and the first video ever shown on Kerrang! TV was Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit. Limp Bizkit's Break Stuff and Everlast's Black Jesus were also in the first 3 videos ever played.
Within the Mise En Scene of the first few seconds, the thunder allows us to see the scene out side the house. Like the fact we can tell its raining, and that the house is a tacky or worn down. The thunder and rain help to set the scene of a horror/Shocking story within what we would beleive to be an old or abandoned house. reason to beleive that is by the way the house's outer design is falling to pieces and basically rotting away. The curtains within the window are also helping to prove this by being a faded yellow colour, instead of a pure white which would implicate pureness (you can tell that the curtain use to be white by over time it has inherited this colour of old), It represents the old fashion imagery to help again give the house a sense of old or out of it time. The way the curtain glides over the camera with a ghost-like movement further my point of the set being a horror/shocking film based.
Next we are then zoomed towards the first human seen in the music video, at this point the music moves a little bit more towards non-diagetic sound and way form the diagetic sound of rain, thunder and the wind. The Non-diagetic music consists of violins which give the woman a sense of tenderness around her. The room is dark with the acceptance of a lamp left on and a mirror reflecting the light, which is contrasted on to the woman. When the lightening is stricken again, it presents the whole room which the woman is asleep in. The mise en scene in the room is shown to be very plain with a damp/worn out floor panels with a black-grey wall to match. The atmosphere gives no emotion out to the audience except from the only bright coloured woman, who is surrounded by 'Blue'. (Blue vest, blue covers, blue dressing gown and blueish sheet).
