Meeting Minutes - 8/12/16

Song Choice Change

Music Video Change – 1/12/2016

We decided on the 1/12/2016 to change the song we were going to use for our music video. Originally we had chosen to use Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus, however after a recent survey with an audience between ages 17-18; it was revealed they thought it was too close to the original music video. Not wanting to go on that idea we tried several ways to think how we could change the music video, and after several attempts we couldn’t pick an idea for the music video so instead decided to change the song.

Picking a new song wasn’t particularly easy as none of us could pick a song from the previous list we had made, so we decided to put our names on sticky notes and pick between a list of three that we had all chose and narrowed the choices down to U Know You Like it, Panic at the Disco we was then left with Locked Away by R. City ft Adam Levine. We decided on this song due to the story behind it and the way that it can be told. Unlike with Teenage Dirtbag we were only able to tell one type of story line with the music video, however with Locked Away there are multiple story lines we could have gone with and we decided to do a Bonnie and Clyde theme, playing on the idea of these criminals.

By Danniella Chapman

Teenage Dirtbag Storyboard

Here is our storyboard for Teenage Dirtbag. This is only a couple of the storyboards as we had decided half way through drawing them to change our idea due to the audience feedback. They thought that it was too similar to the original music video.  The storyboard was drawn up by Nathan Gilbert.

By Danniella Chapman

Amateur vs Professional

Students Work (Amateur)

Actual Music Videos (Professional)

Music Video Analysis

These are two different music video's, one of which was done before. There's one thing that both music video's have in common, and this is the song which is WINGS by Macklemore x Ryan Lewis. 

There are however differences within the music video's, as students they don't have access to be the best quality cameras and software as someone such as Macklemore who are available to give some of the best director, and pay for the best cameras and software. In the students work they don't use many effects on the shots and scenes, however in the professional work they use a constant sepia effect, most likely to make it seem more sad and to create emotions for the audience. Transitions for shots run a little smoother in the professional music video since they have higher quality software, in the students work they are shaky and not as smooth. Since the music isn't coming straight off from productions, the sound isn't as great quality either. Where as from music videos its coming from the artist themselves. At the end of the video, the sound cuts off straight away instead of fading out, which causes an abrupt end to the music on the students work.

The sound quality from the professional music video is the best, as you can even hear even the lightest of steps. The professional music video is more clear as well since they enhance the rain drops and slow it down. The music video's are quite similar as well when looking at the narratives. So you know the students music video looked toward's this one for inspiration. A sepia effect is used for the professional music video as a child walks through a rough neighbourhood, this is used to create an old type of feel to the music video and to make you feel sorry for him.

By Danniella Chapman

Meeting Minutes - 1/12/16

Amateur vs Professional

Students Work (Amateur)

Actual Music Video (Professional)

Music Video Analysis

There are going to be some clear differences within these music video's, some being the camera and software simply due to budgeting differences, one is filmed by students, while the other is being filmed by professionals who have filmed many music video's before. Right from the beginning you can see there are clear differences, in the students work when starting to zoom into the house, you can see the camera shaking, which unless done on purpose there won't be any camera shakes within the professional music video's due to the high quality camera's that would need to be shaken on purpose to show. Another difference is lighting, most of the lighting used in the students work is natural and is too bright in some parts for the camera as the light shines on his face too much, where is with professional work, the lighting is controlled by expensive technology which blurs out and dims down the light. One thing i like about the students work is the creativity used, despite not having the connections for expensive editing software some transitions work out in their favour including when they transport from one place to another, personally i thought it was brilliant, and was incredibly well re-hearsed. 

The professional music video has a lot of creativity, and multiple effects that make it. With the use of toy soldiers coming out of the water and oh so famous, chair spin which made its debut on fresh Prince of Belair. Overall the professional video had better quality, sound and lighting, which could mostly be down to budget differences.

By Danniella Chapman

Target Audience Questionnaire

For our music video we decided to choose the song Teenage Dirt-bag by Wheatus, in this music video we will matching the video to the lyrics of the song; the story is that there is a boy who is seen as the loser of the school, and he fancies this girl named 'Noelle', but she has a boyfriend who is one of the people who victimises the 'loser' mostly, but 'Noelle' eventually gets sick of the bullying behaviour and leaves her boyfriend. It comes to prom night and the 'loser' is sitting on his own, he looks up and sees 'Noelle' walking over to him, she finally comes out and says how she feels about him and turns out she likes him too. But, it comes to the end of it and he wakes up from his dream.



On a scale of 1 to 10 how good do you think this idea is?

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What would you change about this?

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By Danniella Chapman