Weather

This week it has been snowing on and off, there for we are unable to film. I am still hoping that we will be able to film in the snow once it has stopped snowing and once we make sure that it is safe.

Filming Day Two: 30/11/10

Hayley took the camera and a tripod home to film some more footage of her lip synching, the next day she came in during her free time to upload the footage from the camera to our group computer.

Artists Recommendations

During my research on Aida I found some artists that Jenn was a fan of, these people also have Reverbnation sites.

Reverbnation is a site that allows musicians to promote themselves and their music.

Joshua Hyslop- http://www.reverbnation.com/joshuahyslop

Folk/Indie

Billy The Kid- http://www.reverbnation.com/bilythekid

Folk/Acoustic/Indie

Advertisements

As part of our coursework we have to create an advertisement to advertise the band and the digipak. Below are some pictures of advertisements and the first image is of an advert that was made by another student for their coursework.

Plan For The Week

My plan for the week is pretty short and simple, to edit as much of the footage on the iMac as I can. This will also allow me to see if we will need to go out and film some more footage, while doing this I will also keep trying to regularly update my blog.

Mood Board

This is the mood board was created by myself using photoshop and various different images. The images that I used represent the more commonly used words that can be found in our song lyrics, you can see the more commonly used words within the song in the wordle posted a few days ago.

Research on Digipaks

A digipak is a style of compact disc of DVD packaging, which typically consists of a gatefold paperboard or card stock outer binding with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD. Digipak style cases became more popular among record labels and recording artists in 2000, the packaging is often used for CD singles and special edition of CD albums.

Photos Filming Day 1

Make an on-line slide show at www.OneTrueMedia.com

Wordle

Below you can see the wordle that was made using the lyrics of the song we are using for our music video. The really big words are more commonly said than the smaller words within the song.

MTV

• Music Television launched on August 1, 1981.
• The first images shown on this channel was a montage of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing with the flag having the MTV logo on it.
• The first music video played was "Video Killed The Radio Star" by The Buggles.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?annotation_id=annotation_652189&user=MTVTheFirst24&feature=iv

Here you can find broadcasts from MTV's first 24 hours.

Filming: Day One 12/11/2010

The day before we did some more filming, Hayley and Paul took the camera out over to Central Park to take some more shots to be used within our music video. The next day Hayley, Paul and I went to Hayley's house to film Hayley lip syncing to the song and some other shots, and with the footage that we have so far I am going to make a rough copy of the music video.

We also had Paul bring his digital camera to allow us to take pictures of what we were doing, these will be taken and made into a slideshow which we will pot onto our blogs.

This will allow us to show our peers and teachers and get some feedback on how we can make the video even better.

The Video's That Shaped The 80's

Boomtown Rats- I Don't Like Mondays

• Told a story
• Related to the real world.

The Buggles- Video Killed The Radio Star

• 1st video on MTV
• Heralds the video age of the importance of the medium

Ultravox- Vienna

• None of the band playing instruments
• Looked like a film

Duran Duran- Girls on Film

• Banned- This was the first controversial video
• Introduction of sex in music videos

Elton John- I'm Still Standing

• Awfully Camp
• Creativity on the spot

Queen- Break Free

• They dressed up in drag
• People thought it was disgraceful
• It was disaster for their US career

Michael Jackson- Billie Jean

• Magical
• He's got the "Midus touch, everything I touch turns to gold"
• People didn't want to play the video because he was black.

Herbie Hancock- Rockit

• Originally on low rotation
• Herbie is hardly in it, as MTV wouldn't show black artists.
• Soon was on high rotation
• In the first year of the MTV awards, this video won the most.
  

Practice Run

Last week Hayley and myself went over to our drama studio to film a practice run of our music video. During this practice we used two different pianos and a variety of different shots. Below you can see the practice run that we filmed.