Copyright.

Above is a copyright symbol which you would usually seen appear on many things. It is the recognition that the creator of a work has the right to control what happens with their work and what is done with it. Whilst searching and looking around for music to use in our video, we had to make sure that it wasn't copyright as this would mean the artist/band has probably been signed and would therefore not be able to use that specific piece of equipment. 

Personal Favourite Music Video

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I also really like this music video by Rihanna 'What's my name' ft Drake. I think thats it's cool how they basically show you around the whole town, showing the big buildings to the smaller buildings and then to the shops. As the main artist in the video, Rihanna walks into the shop and we see her through a close up mid-shot of her, the reason for this is to give us a better understanding of her and see whats happening close up in the picture. The whole camera focuses on her in the shop with the male attraction and attention of Drake the other character.
I also like how throughout the video it refers back to the two characters together in a different location from the main location. For example one minute we have Rihanna walking down the street dancing and then get an image of them two in a house together; I think that this is very effective.

Comparing artists

I would compare our band that we are using for our music video 'The Big Hurt' to this band known as 'Vampire Weekend', shown above. The reason for this is not only because they are both bands but for the fact that they both can produce music in which;

• is very frantic
• up beat
• crazy

Not only this but whilst listening to both types of their music, it creates an image in my head of people in big bundles rushing about going crazy bumping into each other and everything very frantic.

Magazine Adverts

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This is a montage in which I created through 'onetruemedia.com' which allowed me to put together different magazine adverts in order to create a powerpoint like presentation. Looking at these different adverts gives me an idea of what we could do if we decided to produce a magazine advert for our music video that we are in process of creating. The many different adverts show different colours, layouts and features that we may decide to have on ours and try to create similar effects that they have obtained.

What we did/ and what we learnt from the Preliminary task?

What we did
In class, we were given a task to undertake which required us to lip sink to the song 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart'. Our teacher said that it would be preferable if two people was to do this task as in the actual song, we have a man and woman singing to one another like a conversation. However, even though it was a man and woman we didn't have to use this same method; even though we did. We were told to get ourselves into groups and basically decided who was going to undertake the roles, who was going to film and who was going to play the song out loud. Therefore, all of us in the group was given a designated role and we did this independently.


What we learnt
After planning, shooting and editing the preliminary task there are many things in which I think I myself have learnt and what the other people in my group have learnt. Firstly, as we didn't actually do a lot of planning for the preliminary task as we were basically told what song we would have to lip sink to, however how we performed the song and presented it would be up to us. We found it quite hard doing it as we hadn't got together and all put our ideas in, in fact we left it and went away and tried shooting it and it wasn't easy at all; we didn't have any ideas of what to do or what we shouldn't do. Therefore, from doing this I learnt that for our actual music video we wouldn't have no help from the teachers, we would have to choose the song ourself, and perform to the song and we wouldn't actually be successful if we weren't to plan everything out.
Furthermore, by having to undertake a task that required us to lip sink to a song that we wasn't so familiar with on the spot meant that if we are able to get a song from unsigned.com and each day listen to it and familiarize ourself with it that when actually having to perform the lip sinking it will be in time, look effective and flow.

Our Preliminary Task!

This is the preliminary task that we were set,  after editing it and moving things around we finally came up with this.

Preliminary Task

Last week in class we made a start on our Preliminary Task which involved us getting into a small group and choosing two people who would in which sing to 'Don't go breaking my heart'. The first we had to do was blue tooth the track from the iMac onto some sort of device which would allow us to play the song our loud in order for the singers to sing to it. We then carefully chose two people who would sing the male and female part in the song, these were Liam and Megan; they then began practising the words to the song.
Me and another person in the group, Charlie then set up the camera in order to be ready for when they had learnt the song. Once this had been done, we then got ready the music device and the camera so we could play the song and press start on the camera at the same time. We then did this and shot up to about 1 minute of Megan and Liam singing out loud.
What did I learn?

• directing 
• whole takes 
• layering 
• singing out loud

As I was not one of the people singing I was able to get more confident and learn more about directing a scene. As we were not using the background noise or the voices of the two people singing this enabled me to talk out loud to the participants and instruct them on what I thought was best and looked good through the camera; this meant telling them to stand more closely together, holding hands more and telling one of the participants to move around more like the other one. Next is the point about the whole takes, as we were going to have to edit and layer the takes it would be much more easier if we were to shoot long takes of them singing; this made it more easy for us to edit and to move around and fit them together so it looked good and flowed properly. Even though I was not one of the people editing the takes, I did follow what they were doing and took an interest, this allowed me to get some more knowledge of editing and how to layer the takes. Below is a screen shot image I took when Charlie from our group was editing our footage, is shows the layers in which I have been talking about and shows the green two blocks at the bottom which represent the music 'Don't go breaking my heart'.

Doing all this has enabled me and my group to have more experience and better knowledge of shooting and editing this will be good for when we actually shoot and edit our music video.

100 Best Music Video's!

1. Michael Jackson: Thriller
2. Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
3. A-ha: Take on Me
4. Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
5. Madonna: Like a Prayer
6. Robbie Williams: Rock DJ
7. Michael Jackson: Billie Jean
8. The Verve: Bittersweet Symphony
9. Madonna: Vogue
10. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
11. Coldplay: The Scientist
12. Michael & Janet Jackson: Scream
13. Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall
14. Christina Aguilera: Dirrty
15. REM: Everybody Hurts
16. OutKast: Hey Ya
17. Blur: Coffee & TV
18. Beyonce: Crazy in Love
19. Madonna: Material Girl
20. Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
21. Queen: I Want to Break Free
22. Justin Timberlake: Cry Me a River
23. Britney Spears: ...Baby One More Time
24. Radiohead: No Surprises
25. Madness: Baggy Trousers
26. TLC: Waterfalls
27. David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes
28. Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly
29. Electric Six: Gay Bar
30. Weezer: Buddy Holly
31. Eminem: Stan
32. Chris Isaak: Wicked Game
33. U2: The Sweetest Thing
34. The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl
35. Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2U
36. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away
37. Guns N Roses: November Rain
38. Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice
39. Pulp: Common People
40. Missy Elliot: Get Ur Freak On
41. The Spice Girls: Wannabe
42. Bjork: It's Oh So Quiet
43. Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
44. Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Out of My Head
45. Aerosmith: Crazy
46. Adam & the Ants: Prince Charming
47. The Prodigy: Firestarter
48. Johnny Cash: Hurt
49. Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity
50. Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al
51. Run DMC & Aerosmith: Walk This Way
52. Massive Attack: Teardrop
53. Wham: Club Tropicana
54. Daft Punk: Around the World
55. Fatboy Slim: Praise You
56. Eminem: Without Me
57. Meatloaf: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
58. The Cure: Close to Me
59. Abba: Knowing Me, Knowing You
60. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
61. The Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up
62. Blur: Parklife
63. George Michael: Outside
64. Bjork: Human Behaviour
65. Aphex Twin: Windowlicker
66. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
67. The Beastie Boys: Sabotage
68. Madonna: Ray of Light
69. Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two Tribes
70. The Police: Every Breath You Take
71. Bjork: All Is Full of Love
72. Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love
73. Basement Jaxx: Where's Your Head At?
74. Wu-Tang Clan: Gravel Pit
75. Duran Duran: Rio
76. The Beatles: Strawberry Fields
77. MC Hammer: U Can't Touch This
78. Godley and Creme: Cry
79. New Order: True Faith
80. Radiohead: Just
81. Ultravox: Vienna
82. 50 Cent: In Da Club
83. Shakespear's Sister: Stay
84. The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays
85. Sid Vicious: My Way
86. The Streets: Fit But You Know It
87. Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
88. Elton John: I Want Love
89. Smashing Pumpkins: Tonight Tonight
90. The Pet Shop Boys: Go West
91. The Specials: Ghost Town
92. Herbie Hancock: Rockit
93. The Rolling Stones: We Love You
94. Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart
95. The Cardigans: My Favourite Game
96. So Solid Crew: 21 Seconds
97. Cornershop: Brimful of Asha
98. Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy
99. Supergrass: Pumpi 
100. Musical Youth: Pass the Dutchie

In class we started to look at Channel 4's Best Music Video's, the reason for doing this was to give us an insight of music videos in which some were made many years ago but then leading to video more up to date and more in our generation. Above shows the list starting from 1 and going all the way through to 100; some of the music videos are shown for some of the songs. I think that looking at these music videos have given us ideas on what we could do in our video however some what we shouldn't do.