Filming

I did my second day of filming yesterday and i only have one more day to go. I have my schedule in front of and and all my paper work with me. However i don't have a scanner until we get back to school. So all my paper work will be up next week. I had great fun filming, even more fun filming my two actors getting in the sea in october! Brave people i must say! I cannot wait to start editing my footage and putting it to the music track. I have made a video diary of my filming, they will also start being published next week.
Until then, peace out!

Paper work

I am curently doing more than one peice of paper work at the moment. I knew right from the begining that i wanted to create a music video, i also knew exactly what band and music track i wanted to use. However i still needed to do some reasearch on music and target audience to know if my video would work or not. I have just been given back my two sets of questionairs i gave out. 10 of them where titled 'Muisc and music video survey' the other 10 where titiled 'Music videos survey'. The first one is more genral but the second questionair will help me more with my video. I am now working out the results and making a conclution. I am also finishing the last two sences on my story board, making sure it will link in with the song and make sence. While i am doing this i am also learning and using Microsoft word script writter. I havent actully got a script however i am matching up the lyrics to the actions and the scenes, to make it clear when i am filming and editing.
I will be posting up all this paper work up as soon as i can so watch out!

Music video reasearch

Kings of Leon- Radioactive

This video and song is completely new and I want to just get an idea of how this video works. Now I have heard and seen comments about this song and video that hate the whole idea. However I feel that a band needs to grow with their music and this is what they have done. The majority of the people who dislike this song hate changes or haven’t listened to them from the very start.

On you tube there is a video that explains the making of the video and the song. As Jared Followill (the bassist) says it is a very spiritual song and contains a lot of gospel singing. Which means it actually means a lot to them as they grew up being around gospel music and spiritual surroundings. You can see this is you listen to the lyrics. The chorus says ‘Just drink the water, where you came from, where you came from’ Water is the purist thing you can drink and can also be turned into in holy water. Everywhere you go water tastes different, people say your roots are the water you drink meaning the place you was born. Kings of Leon are all related and the majority of their childhood they travelled around church to church because their parents where preachers. This means they come from a very religious background. All the spiritual and religious meanings are shown in the video. The video is so beautifully put together, showing peace and happiness in such a far away country to us. Kings of Leon are playing with the children and just finding their inner self. This may be what people find cheesy but it just shows the purity and the normality of the band. The editing of the video captures the beauty and warmness. The brown, yellow and red tinge to the picture gives the video a hot feeling but also a happy warm side. It is almost grainy showing old footage, we know its not but it gives the feeling.

The video matches up to the songs lyrics and the background of Kings of Leon. The video isn’t a narrative, it contains the band being filmed playing but also just has lovely shots of them just playing around.

  Kings of leon Radioactive music video

The beginning!

Blogging is completly new to me and has taken me some time to get my head around it all. After looking at some previous media students blogspots i am now ready to have a go!