Monday, 7 February 2011

Studio Setup photos

We used a studio to shoot the music video footage. We used different equipment to set it up such as a HD camera and bright lighting. 


This is the camera that we used to shoot the studio footage. We attached the camera to a track so we could move the camera left and right easily and it makes it look more professional. We used the black curtain for the background to make it look more studio like.  

These are the lights we used for the studio recording of the music video. We set them up behind the person singing to light him up.


We used different lighting facing the guitarist so he looks better on camera. 

This is the track we used to mount the tripod so we could do the tracking shots. We used this to make it smooth and so that we could track easily and in the original music video they use tracking shots and we liked the effect so we used it in ours We used a lot of tracking shots for the studio take for the music video so the track was very useful to us. 

This is the set up of the studio with the lighting, camera, track and black screen.
We also used a Jib to get high and low angle shots for the music video.  

This is how the studio shoot looks from the position of the camera track.


We used spotify to play the music track in the background to help with lip syncing

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Planning

Once we decided the music track we picked the location of where we are going to film the music video. We had a shooting schedule where we were all equipment was available to us and when the locations were available to us.
The locations we are going to use are Wem Townhall video studio where they have all the equipment and the black studio screen.  The second location that we are going to use is the new building development in Wem. We chose to use this location because it looks modern and clean which is the effect that we wanted.
We got there permission to film at the locations and we booked a time where we could film when there was no one around and no cars there.

Genre and Target Audience

The genre of the music that we have chosen is rock and brit pop. We chose this genre because it is very popular and it appeals to a wide range of audience. It is suitable for teenagers and the older generation but it is mainly aimed at teenagers. The original music video has currently 439,174 views on youtube so it is successful and popular.  
Our target audience is predominantly teenagers because I think that they can relate to it more because its modern and new. 
After our target audience research it was very popular with older teenagers and the older audience.
To found out our audience we did some research by giving a questionnaire to a range of people to find out what audience they think will like it the most. 



Thursday, 3 February 2011



This is the music track that we have chosen to make a music video for. The original music video is filmed in black and white and it is set in the past. It is mainly set in corridors with loads of straight lines.
The paste is quite slow which suggests the audience is relaxed and calm. This follows the name of the song because the name suggests that they don't do things today they do things tomorrow. There are a few pans and tracking shots in the original music video. The opening shot is of a close up of a door and a man taking a sign off the door handle. It tracks up the to the mans face and him shutting the door.
The next shot is of a corridor with loads of straight lines which draw the eyes to the end of the corridor.
Then there is an over the shoulder shot of someone writing something down. It the cuts to a shot of the person thats writing with a guitar which suggests that he is writing music. We then see a medium close up a metronome ticking away which suggests that it is set in the past and it shows that time is passing.
It then goes into focus on the back of the metronome and then it fades to black and a transition is used to go to the next shot of a road and it quickly cuts back to the corridor we saw before and we can see a sign on the left wall saying stage which suggests that they are about to go and preform on a stage.  Then a POV shot is used as they walk down the corridor and it goes to a tracking shot of three men with guitars it then cuts to a high angle shot of a man with no top on and starts walking down a corridor. It then cuts to another man with a white shirt on a guitar in his hand. It is a mid camera angle and there is low lighting and the man in the white shirt is lit up to show he is the most important thing in the scene.
Then we see a woman in a black shirt which symbolises a maid. The camera is positioned behind the woman and tracks behind her as she walks.
Then a POV shot is used as we see another maid walking past and it quickly cuts to another POV shot of someone typing on a type writer.
We then see a medium close up a guitar and a mic stand. We will be using a mic stand in our music video as well. 
The next shot is of a of a room and the props suggest that it is a dressing room because of the way the room is lit and the mirrors on the wall. It then pans across and then there is an picture effect where it is quickly edited to show different still shots. Then there is a medium close up of a a bin and the man opens it and we see his reflection. It cuts to the same shot as we saw before of the road. this is used as a time laps. The next shot is of the man we saw before standing in a wind. This shot is framed so the man is in the centre of the frame and he is looking down which shows that he is powerful. The next shot is an a high angle shot which pans up as the man runs up the stairs and the end of the shot shows a theatre type building with a stage and seats facing it. A high angle tracking shot goes on to the stage and it pans across to show everyone coming on stage.
The end scene is of a tracking shot which is going backwards down the corridor. 
We are going to use the tracking shots and studio take in our own music video that we are going to create.