Saturday, 9 September 2017

Case Study task - Summer work


Lil uzi vert's song "you was right" is a song about him admitting his wrong doing for cheating on his girlfriend Brittaney with a groupie. This song, in particular, has some outstanding visual effect as compared to his other videos so I will be deconstructing it to find the meaning behind his choices of mise-en-scene, effects and his representations.




The music video for T-Shirts, on the other hand, was one of Migos's more conceptional videos because there was quite a lot of hidden messages given off by the location, choice of lyrics, props and mise-en-scene. Only a vast majority were able to understand what T-Shirts was really about since Migos tried to aim specifically at their target audience. I see this as very inspirational for when I make my music video because I want it to be something exclusively enjoyed by the people that listen to rap music which as a whole is going to make them enjoy it more.

Monday, 3 July 2017

Practise Lip Sync

This is the complete lip sync music video we recorded and edited. There are many improvements that can be made but overall as a first task i think it turned out really well. Doing this task taught me how to use Adobe Premiere and it allowed me to gain a little insight on to what it will be like recording a music video for next year.






Evaluation

What have I enjoyed: I enjoyed the editing side of this task because it allows me to input my creativity onto the software to make the video exactly how I wanted it to be. I also liked recording because it gave me ideas on how to improve when I do the real task for A2.


What have I learnt: I have gained an understanding of how Adobe Premiere works. I played about and explored the possibilities the software has to offer so that I can make the video to the best of my ability. Filming with the is going to play a major part in next year's music video.


The Major challenges: One of the major challenges was to get the lighting right in the shots and to work with manual focus because every time the camera moved, it had to be changed and sometimes we forgot to do this. So next time I'll definitely pay lots of attention to getting the focus right in the shots.


The Major challenges for the main project:

I think working on my main project next year will be much harder because it will take more time to plan and film as it will be about 3-4 minutes long. I'll also have to do the shooting outside of college meaning I will have to communicate clearly about when, how and what we're filming with the members of my group I am going to be in. So time management and communication will definitely be challenging, as well as the filming and editing.


Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Promlem - Ariana Grande ft. Iggy - Anaysis




Problem - Ariana Grande Feat. Iggy
analysis
  • Synopsis - Female empowerment. Moving on from a boyfriend. Performance based.
  • Themes/Motifs - 60s - dress, hair, make up, backdrop/green screen, editing/SFX
  • Ariana Grande - “Young”, cute, sexualised. Wearing bright colours
  • Iggy Azealia – Classy, sexualised
  • 2 Shot: female empowerment. Men chase women
  • Fast cutting rate
  • Big Close ups – Ariana/Guy/Whispering
  • There was no story behind the music video
  • Since there no narrative you have to listen to the lyrics to gain an idea what it is about