Video practise

This is a video I shot in my own time to practice different shot types for our actual video. Doing this gave me a lot of ideas for what shots look good and which ones don't.
It was shot with an Ipod touch as I don't have a real camera at my house. I played around with effects and filters on final cut which I think I will also do for the video we will be shooting and editing.

This video is purely performance based, I feel as if this could get boring to watch for the whole song so adding some verity to the locations or even adding a narrative could be a good move for our video.

Music video shots

Research. Music video shots

This is a shot from the metros video 'Education Part 2' that i think is cool because it has the lead singer walking in a corridor of a typical school. The band are young in this video and look as if they fit into the school with the clothes they're wearing etc. The song is about education so doing some shots of the video in a school is a clever idea.

This is my favourite shot of the video Brainstorm by Arctic Monkeys. I like it as the song is drum based and they have Matt Helders(drummer) larger than the others in this shot. I like the smokey lighting effect use and the fact they all have their backs turned away from the camera which creates a sense of mystery.

I like this shot from the video 'Radio Ladio' by Metronomy because it has all three of them on keyboards and they're a keyboard based band so i think it sums them up well. They have a bright background and all of them are wearing smart clothes with bright colours that don't really match....i also like the fact that their faces are painted a certain colour a bit like ompalompas from willy wonka and the chocolate factory.

This is a shot from the video Hummer by the band Foals. I think this shot is clever because of the dark blue lighting used which makes it almost seem as if they are underwater even though they're quite obviously not as they're wearing tennis clothing, acting like mummies and wearing goggles.

I like this shot from the video 'In One Ear' by Cage The Elephant because it has Matt(Lead singer) going mental dancing to music while singing. This sums up the band Cage The Elephant as every live show they play their lead singer goes crazy!

I like this shot from Stevie Wonders video 'I just called to say i love you' because it has stevie singing the lyrics on the phone while sitting besides a paino which he plays very well...along with 293894 other instruments!

This is my favourite shot the from video 'Killing in the name' by Rage Against The Machine. I like it because the security has come on to control the crowd. The video is just Rage playing live, with the crowd moshing to the beautiful sound and going crazy to it, the shot with the security is a clever one as the band fight for freedom in the community and security coming on stage perhaps states that.

Music Video day 1

Today we have been put in groups of 3 to 5 people and set the task of making a music video for a local artist who has recorded music.
I have been researching many Cambridge artists and bands, I am lucky to know a lot of bands so it would be easier for me getting in contact with these bands and artist.

We created a shortlist of artists that we could potentially film.

My concern on this is getting the bands together as I know a lot of local bands are very unorganized and don't turn up to soundchecks and radio slots when they have been booked.

It would be a lot easier to shoot a solo artist as it would only be one person to shoot for the day.

My shortlist includes:
Lewis Mokler - Acoustic artist from Cambridge, he is very reliable so would be good to shoot but works a lot of the time.

Total Emergency! - Indie Rock band from Cambridge, this is my band so would be easier to film as I could organize the day of recording and have a large range of professionally recorded songs. The con of getting my band is that our guitarist is at UNI but would be able to come home for a weekend and our bass player works until late but is free on Thursdays and Sundays.

Alice Wilkinson - Pop/R&B singer from Cherry Hinton Cambridge, professionally recorded songs and would be reliable as she is a solo singer wanting to make it in music business.

Voilet Bones - Indie rock band, the guitarist used to work at our college so we have contacts with him.

Prince Among Theives - Indie rock band from Cambridge, recently released a music video for one of their songs and are looking to make another. Not sure how reliable this band is at turning up.

Fair and Square - Comedy acoustic band from Cambridge, two of us in my group know the guys in the band but they can be unreliable as when I played a gig with them they didn't turn up to soundcheck. Would be fun and different to create a music video for them as no one else would be creating a video for a comedy band.

The Running Mayfairs - Indie band from Cambridge, some of the guys are at UNI so it would be hard getting them all together to shoot the video but they have experience of being shot in music videos in the past.