The boys came up with a brilliant idea for the introduction to the narrative shots based on the opening scene of Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs". The scene (linked below) shows the men walking in slow-motion down and hill and into a deserted carpark whilst wearing sharp black suits and ray ban style black shades. This is exactly how we wanted our characters portrayed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzMpH9jjo4w
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Inspiration
This morning on the bus i was considering our music video and i thought that due to the black and white desaturation that we had played with i'd like to play with more effects.
i remembered that i had seen a really cool projector style effect in Green Day's video of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
The video above shows the black blots and lines that are indicative of projected films. I really wanted to attempt to incorporate this effect into our video, but we haev yet to find a way to do it.
i remembered that i had seen a really cool projector style effect in Green Day's video of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams".
The video above shows the black blots and lines that are indicative of projected films. I really wanted to attempt to incorporate this effect into our video, but we haev yet to find a way to do it.
More Editing
The preliminary edit we uploaded helped us to see what we wanted to do next to our video.
We have been playing around with the colours of the shots. We went into the effects bar and chose video filters and we have been playing around with the colour saturation on our performance shots and we also thought that the shots looked awesome if we used the posterise effect which gives the shots a black and white Andy warhol style effect.
We have been playing around with the colours of the shots. We went into the effects bar and chose video filters and we have been playing around with the colour saturation on our performance shots and we also thought that the shots looked awesome if we used the posterise effect which gives the shots a black and white Andy warhol style effect.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
Influences
Another video directed by Romanek, is Linkin Park's "faint".
What i liked about this video was the use of a sepia colouring again.
This may be something that we play with during the course of editing.
What i liked about this video was the use of a sepia colouring again.
This may be something that we play with during the course of editing.
Editing Influences
The music video below is for Jay-Zs "99 problems" which was produced by Rick Rubin.
The video itself was directed by legendary director Mark Romanek.
What i liked about this video in particular was Romanek's use of greyscale.
The contrast was very effective because it gave the video a very edgy appearance which fitted in well with the mise-en-scene of the piece ( back street new york).
His use of deliberate camera shake whilst filming also highlighted this gritty, edgy theme.
Subsequently, i have been trying out the desaturation tool on final cut pro in order to greyscale some of the performance shots. The group were pleased with the overall effect of the greyscaling and we are thinking of using it throughout the piece.
The video itself was directed by legendary director Mark Romanek.
What i liked about this video in particular was Romanek's use of greyscale.
The contrast was very effective because it gave the video a very edgy appearance which fitted in well with the mise-en-scene of the piece ( back street new york).
His use of deliberate camera shake whilst filming also highlighted this gritty, edgy theme.
Subsequently, i have been trying out the desaturation tool on final cut pro in order to greyscale some of the performance shots. The group were pleased with the overall effect of the greyscaling and we are thinking of using it throughout the piece.
Monday, 10 January 2011
narrative planning
Here are a few ideas for the things we want to film on monday for our narrative shots:
1. Guitar solo- As in the song, played as it would be, in time with music.
2. James Ward singing - lip syncing with the lyrics is yet to be done.
3. Shots of the lead singer walking round the back of the stage and the musicians coming out from behind the doors and following him out with their various instruments- and drumsticks!
4. Fight scene- our actors in suits, to be filmed on the common, fight over a woman.
Narrative storyline
1. Walking across the common in black suits
2. meeting a beautiful woman
3. Chemistry between lead singer and woman
4. Woman's boyfriend/ significant other turns up angry.
5. Fight ensues between lead and boyfriend.
6. the band gang up on the boyfriend and they subsequently win the lady.
Almost emulating typical hollywood action storyline with the customary protagonists, antagonists, damsels and action!
1. Guitar solo- As in the song, played as it would be, in time with music.
2. James Ward singing - lip syncing with the lyrics is yet to be done.
3. Shots of the lead singer walking round the back of the stage and the musicians coming out from behind the doors and following him out with their various instruments- and drumsticks!
4. Fight scene- our actors in suits, to be filmed on the common, fight over a woman.
Narrative storyline
1. Walking across the common in black suits
2. meeting a beautiful woman
3. Chemistry between lead singer and woman
4. Woman's boyfriend/ significant other turns up angry.
5. Fight ensues between lead and boyfriend.
6. the band gang up on the boyfriend and they subsequently win the lady.
Almost emulating typical hollywood action storyline with the customary protagonists, antagonists, damsels and action!
Music Video Update
After our very successful filming day, we have been getting on with our editing using Final Cut Pro.
We uploaded all of our footage onto the mac and spent a few lessons cutting down the footage to the best performance shots and uploading the track itself onto the timeline.
Unfortunately however we encountered a few problems and we have realised that several of our performance shots are not in time to the music! to try and solve this problem we played around with the editing tools and managed to cut down a few of the shots of James playing the guitar so that we could duplicate them and stick them back together to make the shots look realistic and fit with the beat as well.
We have planned to film the rest of the footage, primarily the narrative shots, next week (mon) as we have realised that we cant do a lot more with the shots we have now without adding in the narrative shots to get the whole piece in time with the music.
We uploaded all of our footage onto the mac and spent a few lessons cutting down the footage to the best performance shots and uploading the track itself onto the timeline.
Unfortunately however we encountered a few problems and we have realised that several of our performance shots are not in time to the music! to try and solve this problem we played around with the editing tools and managed to cut down a few of the shots of James playing the guitar so that we could duplicate them and stick them back together to make the shots look realistic and fit with the beat as well.
We have planned to film the rest of the footage, primarily the narrative shots, next week (mon) as we have realised that we cant do a lot more with the shots we have now without adding in the narrative shots to get the whole piece in time with the music.
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