Rizzle Kicks

Down With the Trumpets...

- What I really like about this video is the use of the SnoriCam towards the end. In AS we didnt have the chance to use one so hopefully A2 we do. Also really like the colour grading of the video. The light colours keep it simple and fresh. Almost as if Rizzle Kicks are a fresh new sound to the music industry.



Prophet...

- I believe this video is extremely clever. After watching it over and over with Lana we think that the video is made from a large amount of still images put together - similar to stop animation. I also really liked the light effect used. We have this avaliable to us as it is a setting on Lana's camera. Hopefully we can play around with and find a way of incorporating it into our music video.



Heart Skips a Beat...

- In this song where Rizzle Kicks are featured, the element I really like is the location. It is very similar to the ideas we had for ours. Also, slow motion is again used.

Also similar to our ideas...

Here is Coldplay's video for their new song "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall". They've used the UV paints idea which we would still like to use in our music video. It looks very colourful and has real "fun" feel to it.

The Orphan

This scene (< link as embed code disabled) from The Orphan is one of the most amazing scenes I have seen in a film. I believe it is the simplicity of it that stands out so much to me. It allows you to truly understand what it's like to be deaf and it really is breath-taking - I found myself rewinding it over and over again. The overall film is not brilliant however if they had played on the idea of having scenes from the young deaf girl's point of view, it could have been beautiful (although still a "horror" film).

EXAMPLE has stolen our idea!!!

The artist "example" recently released his new video for the song "Stay Awake" (a matter of nights ago) and his stolen our idea!
At 2:50 you see the colourful flour paint idea we want to use.

Green Screen with Andrea

During our free periods, Andrea and myself decided to play around again with the green screen and see what we could come up with.
We had fun with it so the video is quite cringey, but allowed us to experiment.



We found that when we filmed with the Flip camera, the green screen didn't work so well and so we had to use the new Panasonic cameras. You can see the difference in the bloopers video.



I really enjoyed using the green screen however as it can only be used in the media room, we have bought our own.
We are think of making green screen t-shirts so that we can having images on the characters in our music video.

Preliminary Exercise

Here is our final preliminary exercise!



I believe that our re-make of Rebecca Black's "Friday" was surprisingly good. I was very happy with the final result and thought it looked almost identical.
I found filming and editing very fun. We filmed chronologically so that it was easier to edit, however there were shots we filmed continuously in the car and then added an insert.
I didn't really find it difficult editing the video to fit with the lip syncing, as Lana was clear and it was easy to match up.
We noticed some continuity errors like in one shot the door being closed, and the next it was open. However this is good practice to make sure we don't make the same mistakes in our real coursework.
Moreover, we forgot to film a section of the video so Lana had to film it on her iPhone. The shot was therefore different as iPhone's shoot portrait (hence the black screen at the beginning). This highlighted the importance of sticking with one piece of equipment and also follow storyboards to the very last detail.
We also learnt the importance of learning lyrics as there are a few at beginning Lana didn't know and it is obvious to the audience.
I believe we have learnt a lot from our preliminary exercise and we had lots of fun doing it.

Paint Scenes

As seen in a previous post, one of the ideas we are really excited about is the paint balloon fight. This has the potential of looking fantastic in our video as the colours will be bright, and if put into slow motion I reckon it could look really professional. I went on YouTube and found some cool videos.



We also really liked the idea of a flour fight.



I also really liked the idea of some of our characters being dressed in paintballing outfits. I think they look really intimidating and then to see them have a water balloon fight could be really comical. I also like the idea of people being "masked" as it can look quite scary and mysterious.

Green Screen

Today we messed around with the green screen to see what kind of things we can do with it. We also took this oppurtunity to practice some more lip syncing.



PS. We have basically finished our preliminary now, just editing and putting together final pieces. Will upload on Monday!

Genre

Looking at Digitalism (a electic duo similar to Justice) I will be able to see some of the conventions used in our chosen genre. Here's their video for their catchy song "Pogo".

Looking at this video, it is obvious that these kind of music videos try to be as different as possible. They are mainly performance based.

Inspiration

Here is Eliza Doolittle's video for Mr Medicine. Myself, Lana and Yasemin really like the idea of fancy dress (again shown in Badman Riddim - Vato Gonzalez). We also liked the idea of somebody walking along and gradually being joined by more people. This same idea is used in Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy.






However, to achieve a top grade we wouldn't be able to use one continuous shot. Therefore, we may only use this as a small element of our music video.

Ideas for Coursework

Locations

• Skate park on Southbank
• Brick wall near Lana
• Shoreditch (Brick Lane)
• Tunnels by Lana's Cousin's flat
• My garage (bin bags on wall and create an all black studio)

 Ideas

• Young children - similar to Is Tropical - The Greeks

• Party scenes/festival scenes in slow motion (DJ Fresh - Louder )
• Overhead shot of people spelling words out with their bodies e.g.

• UV lights
• Clips on lots of different TVs e.g.

• Woman 'falling' into TV
• Black and white
• Flash over image
• Letters like "All of The Lights - Kanye West"

• Hula hoops (not the crisps!)
• Ball pond
• Projecting images onto tshirt - easy way of re-creating Evian baby advert
• Fisheye lens effect e.g.

• Paint on drums/ UV light paint e.g.

• Shots from colour to UV light 

• Letters on t-shirt
• Spotlights on different people on different lyrics
• Fastforward/rewind effect like in Nicola Roberts - Beat of My Drum  (0.44seconds)
• Pulse effect on the beat of the song also like Beat of My Drum (0.41 - 0.45s)

• Water balloom fight (put food dye in water/UV paint)
• Silhouettes of people with coloured backing
• Filming skateboarders etc (DJ Fresh - Louder)

Storyboard for Preliminary Exercise

Here are our storyboards for 'Rebecca Black - Friday'

Preliminary Exercise

For our preliminary exercise in A2 we must re-create a music video shot for shot. At the moment we are currently storyboarding, filming and editing our version of Rebecca Black's "Friday".

Inspiration

In the video for the song "Badman Riddim" by Vato Gonzalez, I really like the backgrounds that the artists perform in front of. The skate park I found in London will be perfect for shots similar in our music video.



I want the life in this video :( and now very tempted to buy roller skates! However, in this video for DJ Fresh's No.1 song, we really like the slow motion shots. In our music video we hope to create a similar effect with shots of people partying in slow motion, or the shots where we are hitting the drums.

Location

Last Friday night, I went up to Southbank with my boyfriend and found the skate park.
The colourful graffiti is perfect for our video, as is the red lighting at the back.

Here is a proper picture as the picture I took was extremely blurred.