Preliminary Work - Work of the week - Tom's second visit

The class received a second visit from Tom so he could help us with the new apple macs and teach us to become more comfortable with knowing how to use programs for editing such as Final cut express and iMovie.

We re-filmed some of the footage we had from last time so we could edit it and hopefully get some more useful shots then last time.

The video is about a popstar who is running late for her show so rushes through various halls to get her make up done then rush onto stage

We did various shots such as floor level, high angle and medium close ups. After we were happy with how much we filmed we looked at our shots through final cut express and cut them down. We then put them in sync to the music and had managed to produce a mini music video (without effects) with Tom's help.

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.

Preliminary Work - Visit from Spencer

Our A2 media class got a visit from Spencer a successful Graphic designer who spoke to us about marketing and helping us gather our ideas.

'Listen so customers will talk, Talk so customers will listen'

He mentioned how the best ways to grab peoples attention is by being completely random and different. Yet you would also have to consider who wants it and how you can interest them.

Song lyrics:

Alright

Those were the days
Your mother would say you could come out and play
Wed' kick things around
Climb up a tree and jump across the canal

Then every summer was a year in my head
When it ended, yeah, we wished we were dead
But nowadays it comes and goes before before you noticed

The sun is shining
We've nothing left to loose
The sun is shining
Put on your favorite shoes
Were getting tired im
Sick of waiting for you

Iv'e gotta move on
But my heart belongs in a world that has gone I went to your house
Your mother's still their but she said you moved out
She said you left 11 years agoShe said she told me this before but I dont know
She wont understand if I say that I love you

The sun is shining
We've nothing left to loose
The sun is shining
Put on your favorite shoes
Were getting tired
I'm sick of waiting for you

The sun is shining
It's gonna be alright
The sun is shining
Stop putting up a fight
Im getting high so high
We've nothing left to loose
Nothing to loose

(The sun is shining)
We've got nothing to lose
(The sun is shining)
Put on your favourite shoes
(We're getting tired and I'm)
Sick of waiting for you
Waiting for you
(The sun is shining)
Stop putting up a fight
(The sun is shining)
It's gonna be alright
(I'm getting high so high)
We've got nothing to lose
Nothing to lose


We spent the time together as a group with Spencer and listened to the song and conducted a brainstorm on the things that we immediately think of when hearing the song:

Following on the concept of being different and unique, we came up with another brainstorm on the opposite things to come up with different ideas we could use in the video:

As a class we put ideas together of other things we think of when listening to the song.