Star Image - Eminem

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Evaluation of Lip Sync Activity

After producing a successful lip sync video i have learnt various editing, and shooting skills which will come in useful when we proceed to create our music video. The lip sync exercise has allowed me to improve both editing skills and acting in front of a camera. The exercise allowed me and my group to film our very own sequence consisting of long shots, mid shots and close ups.During the filming process, we had to film a long shot through a window 3 floors up from the media department down to street level. This made some of the footage less clear the others and ultimately effected how professional the video looked. When we are filming our music video we will have to think of other alternatives so that the footage is as good as possible.

Using Final Cut Express to edit our footage proved a challenge not just to me but to my group members too as software was new to all three of us. With the help of a user guide we were able to begin editing a footage to choose the best clips to use within out video. After we had successfully chosen our clips and synchronised them into with our song. We began to add some effects to make the video flow frequently and look more professional. Some of the effects used include fade in/out and cross dissolve.

I hope to have learned the skills necessary to create a professional music video.

Lip Sync Finished

Treatment

For our Music video, we have chosen the band Weak(end) Arrows. They are a three piece indie band who are becoming more popular as their songs appear on radio and are marketed across the internet. We have all contributed ideas toward the production of their music video. The chosen song by the band is called 'Rabbits'. This is Weak(end) Arrows first single. We decided to do this because the other two members of my media group are part of the band( Sam turner - Lead Guitar, Connor Simmons - Bass)

• We plan to have two intercutting sequences, similar to many music videos reales in todays market.
• The first shot will be the band performing the song.
• The other shot will be the narrative about the song itself.
• The Shots of Weak(end) arrows themselves will be in a blackout room, with lots of different lighting effects and camera angles.
• The narrative linking to the song will be the three band members dressed as rabbits telling the story much like Ghost Of  You by My Chemical Romance.

The location that we are filming the band perform is the drama studio on the school premises. This location is perfect as it is a blackout room and perfect for a band or performance to take place. There are various different lights and we can film many different camera shots. The narrative will be filmed at a different location which has not yet been confirmed. 

Chosen Song for Lip Sync

After having a group meeting we have come to the conlcusion of a the song we will lip sync for the task. We have chosen Mr Brightside by the killers. The killers are a Las Vegas rock band and their songs appears on the groups debut album "Hot Fuss"We have chosen this song because we all know the lyrics relatively well and have all heard the song played a number of times. This will help us to create a good lip sync task. The song was named "song of the decade" by UK radio stations Absolute radio and XFM. It was also voted 9th for the greatest guitar riffs in the " 21st centruy by Total guitar Magazine.

Blink 182 has always been considered the fun-loving, silly, pop rock boys in the mainstream charts, but with the release of their self-titled album, a new side of Blink 182 was revealed. The song I Miss You expresses most of this dark feeling that are consistent for the entire album. Even the music videos from this album were no longer bright and full of slapstick comedy, but raw, intense, and dismal. The video is very dark and gloomy which is a code for the sign of evil and unhappiness. We can see a white car which keeps appearing and walking across the camera, this is code for purity and heaven. This may be trying to say they are in a gloomy and tough patch but will pull through back to goodness. A lot of effects such as smoke and lighting are used to emphasis the gloomy and dark state of the video. The whole video is very old fashioned and filmed in some sort of castle or manor that we see in the beginning. Finally throughout the video we see the band walking through a dark forest which once again shows the the theme and connotes evil and danger.

Analysis of

Under Cover Of Darkness by The Stokes is made to look like an orchestral video rather than the punk band they actually are. The video is filmed in 2 places, a theatre and a posh mansion. At the beginning we see the band playing up at the balcony's of a theatre, we see each band member playing their instrument which is a conventions of a typical music video. As the video progresses we see the band in a old style mansion which conveys, well mannered and rich people rather than a indie band. We can then see the band playing on the stage of a theatre whilst being conducted, this is juxtaposition as punk band playing in a theatre is extremely out of place. The video its self looks very old fashioned because the parts of the video are in black and white which is a colour connoting the past which also links to the theatre which is a performance of the past in todays world.