Monday, 20 July 2009

Preliminary Work - Visit from Tom

The class got a visit from technical wizz Tom who gave us a 2 day workshop on music videos and the types of planning involved and what we would need to consider when planning/filming a video. We did a practise run and planned out and filmed a music video on the song 'Midnight at the Oasis'.

First of all we watched the video 'Thriller' and filled in a table on different aspects of the video and how it can relate to the genre and music followed by other videos we chose in groups.





We then came up with ideas and wrote out a synopsis and drew a storyboard of what would happen in our version of the music video for midnight at the oasis.


We produced a storyboard showing a more detailed sequence of what would happen throughout the video, timing, costumes. This made it easier to not get lost when filming and putting it together.


Lyrics


Midnight at the oasis

Sing your camel to bed

Shadows painting our faces

Traces romance in our heads

Heaven holding a half moon

Shining just for us

Let's slip off to a sand dune real soon

Kick up a little dust

Come on cactus is our friend

He'll show us the way

Come on 'till the evening ends

'till the evening ends

You don't have to answer

There's no need to speak

I'll be your belly dancer

Prancer and you can be my sheik

I know your daddy's a sultan

A nomad known to all

With fifty girls to attend him

They all send him

Jump at his beck and call

But you want need no harem

Honey

When I am by your side

And you won't need no camel

No no when I take you for a ride

Midnight. At the oasis

We also produced a mood board to brainstorm ideas we got from the lyrics of the song to give a hint of what we could involve in the music video.



On the second day we began filming our video, we imporvised with the equipment we could use and using the school grounds as a location. We also used costumes from the school drama department and filmed our scenes.

From filming for most of the day, as a group we learnt the amount of intense planning we would actually need and the large amount of things we need to consider when filming.

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