Evolution From Feedback

After recvieving feedpack on my ptich from my peers and my teacher. I ahve thought about changing my idea slightly wether I am allowed to do so or not is a different matter.



I would like to follow up the idea of having someones face and using that as the "stage", a stage of lights more like. Having strobe lights and any other lights emmiting from the face, also having streams of light flowing from the face and around the face creating a nice atmospheric look.

Feedback from pitch

People seemed to like my idea for my music video. Te only problem they actually had with it is the length of the song as itsself and keeping the same thing over and over could get boring very quickly. An idea that I had from another student for my feedback would be to use that idea but mix it with live footage of a rave to take place with some strobe lights and to cut own the time of the song.

Another idea that I was given was to have a face and them to sing the lyrics but the lights are on the face instead of the skin and they are mimicking the music in time.

Final Thoughts

I have decided to use The Omen by The Prodigy, the music style and tempo will go very well with my visual idea. And it has little vocals making it easier to work with.

To sum up how my idea is going to look. I am going to have an array of lights and bangs and flashes in a multitude of colours and size trying to create a good scene to go with the music. THe lights are going to be in time with the beats of the music and continuous sound will be used with streams of light, bass beats will be used with bangs and or flashes. Obviously depending on the loudness of each beat depends on the size of the flash and or bang.

I am not going to need any actors or a location to use be at for filming and I will not need a camera. This saves me some time on filming and getting prepared for filming. I can just straight away get working on making my music video. I am going to obviously need to use post production software (After Effects).

Which song to use?

I am torn between two songs to use for my musiv video, one of them is The Omen by The prodigy which I posted before and the other is Shut Me Up By Mindless Self Indulgence :



Both of these songs would go brilliantly with my music idea, the second song has more lyrics though which could be a problem though i think I could create some light effects to look like a moving mouth.

Starting on the pitch

Righteo here goes, this is the decider time. For my music video I have decided to go along with using the idea of a lightshow containing of streams of light bangs and flashes. The lights would ahve to go with the music, of course suttle bangs or pops for little beat tempos. Streams of lights could be used for continuous sounds that are made.

23rd september 09 production progress

So far I have looked at a few music videos and analysed them to have a better look at how a music video is made and what techniques are used. I have come up with a few ideas so far as to what my music video can be but I am still indecisive about it, and I am still indecisive about that. I think I need to do some more planning so I can come up with a good pitch for friday.

Thoughts on Artists,The Prodigy - The Omen

I really like this song it's really upbeat and catchy. This song could go very well with ideas 1 & 2 that I have creating a mixture of "wow" sensation and appreciation of the music itself.

This song doesn't really have lyrics to it except for the same words over and over again. So with this there aren't any lyrics to match with my first idea unlike with Gojira there is. This doesn't mean that it wouldn't work with that idea it would just be a different concept. The Gojira song would be a more "literal" realisation of the song and The Prodigy one would be more irrelevant but fun video to watch.

Thoughts and Ideas 2

This is a game on the Xbox 360 called Boom Boom Rocket. I have never played this game but it looks very fun. From what I have gathered of this game it is a game where you match the foreworks colour to the buttons on the gamepad and hit them on time with the bar at the top of the screen. The fireworks themselves match the music and make the beat, much like with Guitar Hero I pressume.

I posted this game because I like the idea of a light show to create for my music video, not as bland and simple as this but a really bright and vibrant show full of different colours and lights and beams and streams of lights going in pace with the music.

Britney Music Video Conclusion

I've found that working in a group can be very stressful and sometimes not very rewarding. Initially I was a backing dancer, but then that devloped into being sort of a choreographer due to our lack of time in learning the dance moves.

We hadn't planned this task our very well between us all and the lack of communication between us was shocking. There were a few people who sat down almost throught the whole of the filming and did nothing if anything.
I admit I did sit down a few times but not for long I was soon up again dancing or helping the others learn to dance.
With out the assistant director it enabled things to spiral out of control even more.
I would like to pin the blame of us not doing much on the heat of the space we was in, it was too hot and too close.

If we had planned this out a lot nicer or had the class split itno two groupd working on the project this could have turned out very well. Other than that I think the video itself turned out fairly good.

Thoughts on Artists, Gojira - Sight To Behold (Lyrics)

Reflecting ourselves in the blood of all the beings we slay
Misunderstand each other, out of control we remain
There is a mystery, we're facing a sight to behold
This is what we make of the world, we throw everything away

The way we all behave is not understandable
It is so sad to see the wealth of our planet fade away
We all behave like children, taking off the head of our teddy bear
to see what's inside, taking, not giving back
We drain the oceans and suck all the blood out of the soil
We spend the time we have left fighting and killing each other
Lust for comfort, entertainment becomes an obsession
And there is so much time to kill

The way I see things is so simple
The fact I'm walking standing on this land
Exhausted is the realm of nature, friends are dying
The living creatures on our side
The way I see myself so confused so sophisticated
I have to stay away from me
But I still don't get the point
What's worth destroying all the worlds
Try not to get it anymore

You burn yourself, set fire for good
We die eyes closed, dig our own grave now
Tossed in the blaze naked on the flame
Lost with no pride, drowned in the filth
The giant snake is coming down to eat our heads
and the flood will kill us, Mantus is rising from under

The way I see things is so simple
The fact I'm living dying on this land
Exhausted is the realm of nature, friends are dying
The living creatures on our side
The way I see myself so confused so sophisticated
Don't have to stay away from me
But I still don't get the point
What's worth destroying all the worlds

Try not to get it anymore [4x]


This band Gojira have a tendancy to sing about real things and problems rather than drugs or sex.
The speak about our planet and about us as a destructive race, thats what I like about this band they are more "real" because they're songs are "real".

This song in particular would be a great one to use to resemble my first idea a lot of the lyrics would fit in with some of my mental images. Here are some examples of the imagery I get from the lyrics.

"We drain the oceans and suck all the blood out of the soil
We spend the time we have left fighting and killing each other"

These lyrics project the image of war into my head, I know it seems very obvious but that is how I see it. Maybe a tank rolling across the battefeild to resemble the oil and quick shots of shooting from soldiers.

"The giant snake is coming down to eat our heads
and the flood will kill us, Mantus is rising from under"

This gives me an image of a nuclear warhead being launched in the air and coming down onto the armies, creating the finale finish to the song with a mushroom cloud.

Music Video Analysis 2

Love By Gojira



This music video is a mixture of live action footage, camera still shots and some green screen. The camera shots take up most of this video clip. Most of the shots of the man in the video are close ups of his face where the rapid burst camera shots create a nice laggy feel and make it work nicely with the music. There are also mid shots of the man in the bath where we see him duck under the water and then come back up bald.
The are shots where the man is running along the screen these look to have been done by photoshopping and image of him to over exaggerate the running to make it match the fast tempo of this song.

Original Britney Music Video (Hit Me Baby One More Time)

Here is the music video that we was set to recreate, we didn't have to do the whole thing they just wanted the first 60 shots or so to be done. I think this was a hard video to create because of the choreography that is within this sequence and the amount of people that there is on set at a time we just didnt ahve those amounts of people or time on hand for us to do the work we needed to do.

Music Video Analysis 1

Wonderboy By Tenacious D (Directed by Spike Jonze)


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This music video mainly focuses on the use of close up shots and a few mid rangs shots, I think this is to emphasise the fact that the song is really story like and to tell it they need a story teller so they use the close up shots to use Jack Black as the story teller.
As the story progresses mid shots are used more I think they do this to bring in more of the surrounding area to help tell the story, to show the audience where they are and what theyre doing. There are alot of pan shots in the clip to help show what the characters are doing, for example when Jack Black is walking in the snow the camera follows him to keep the focus on the "Story Teller", also when he is climbing the mountain the camera follows his feet moving up and his arms and hands climbign higher this might be a camera trick to fool ours eyes into thinking he is climbing or maybe to emphasis the tension in this at the fact he could fall.

The Mise en Scene in this music video is really good. The landscape and scene is amazing, where they are looks as though they are in the mountains in a Lord Of The Rings movie ( New Zealand ) I don't know if they had shot it there but they must have had a big budget to make this video. When jack black reaches the top of a mountain you see in the distance in front of him more mountains and with him in his costume and the scenary it creates a powerful aura especially with the music mixed with it. The props and costumes they have suit the era that they are trying to capture. The sword and the guitar seem to fit the same time era, if I am not mistaken the guitar is a lute.

I particularly like the editing in this video. They use a lot of fades and quick cut shots to emphasis the emotion and speed of what is going on through the story. They use quick shots near the end when Jack Black goes into the cave and meets the "Hydra" and fights it, the quick cuts show rage and anger in the scene and also show the fear in Jack Black through this. The fade shots are very useful when there are "inspirational" parts of the story, the fade shots include Jack Black slightly transparent with the mountains and snow in the background. The raw power of the mountains size mixed with Jack Black's powerful voice makes this part of the story awe inspiriing.

Thoughts and ideas

I have been a big fan of this music video for ages, it is an official video for Linkin Park's remix of their own song "Points Of Authority". This music video was made around the year of 2002, the CGI in the sequence was very advanced for its time.

I would  like to create a scene like this for the song that I am going to choose, but instead of being  all CGI I would like to bring in short cuts of live action of a band playing to the song. If I had the time it would be possible to create this scene, but I am not aware of my time limit as of yet.Another idea would be to create the whole thing in CGI no live action but to have the band maybe playing in a tower in the middle of the battlefield.

Another posibility would be the band playing behind one of the armies on a stage or some sort of fortress and them playing their music sends out streams of light creating a morale boost to the army.

Goodwins 6 Points

1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within
screens,telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6. There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).

Britney Spears Reconstruct Animatic

We all worked together on this as a class but some of us had different jobs, Hayden in our class created an animatic sequence for us to try and follow or help us with our planning.

Here is the sequence:

Britney Spears Reconstruct 3

As the day went on with the filming, we had to do on set choreography and learn the dances as we shot them and I helped in getting everyone to work together and work out what it is we need to do and help with some of the shots. We really could have done with some time of doing choreography but that didn't happen we managed to pull of the dance routines pretty well and were are in sync most of the time.

Although we were trying to be comedic with our costumes we could have worked harder, I could have worn the skirt properly without my jeans and I could have worn a wig and maybe some makeup, it would have kept the comedic feel infact it would have increased it and made it feel more real.