Progress So Far...

Are group is doing well and keeping up to date and on schedule with our work.  We have rendered all of our individual footage so that it is all desaturated and ready to begin piecing together as a final product.

We have also begun to discuss our ancillary tasks and have all decided that we want to design and produce an album cover for our music video. We previously said that we would also do a magazine article but after a group discussion we have decided that a webpage would be the best solution. This is because we are working in a digital age and a website would help link all our work together and be constant, rather than a magazine article that would only be featured in one issue whereas the website would be ongoing.

Editing

Today I have edited my own set of filming, now our group is beginning to construct our overall final music video with all our filming put together. We will now begin to plan our groups storyboard from looking at our individual filming.

LaFace Records

LaFace Records was formed in 1989 as a joint company with Antonio 'L.A' Reid and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds and Arista Records. The nicknames of the duo's production company was their inspiration for the combined name 'LaFace'. LaFace went on to become a successful label throughout the 90's and was responsible for producing famous artists such as; OutKast, P!nk, Usher, Cee-Lo and more. Towards the end of the decade LaFace produced fewer artists and Babyface begun to focus more on his own music career. In 1999 the label was acquired completely by Arista and BMG and in 2001 L.A Reid was appointed CEO of Arista. As a result of this LaFace was dissolved as most of its prominent artists moved to the main label Arista to work under Reid.

In 2004 after the reconstruction of BMG labels, LaFace was reactivated as one quarter of the newly reconstructed Zomba Music Group. Most of LaFace's former artists who moved onto Arista returned to LaFace upon its reactivation.

Research for Funhouse Album

The song 'I Don't Believe You' was featured on Pink's 'Funhouse' album. It is the fifth studio album produced by pop rock singer and was released by LaFace Records worldwide in October 2008. The album reached number one in the charts in six countries. To date Funhouse has earned Pink three Grammy nominations and three VMA nominations. It became her highest charter in the US, four of the tracks reached top twenty and was her best selling album since 2001's 'Missundaztood' having sold over seven million units by July 2010. Pink rereleased her album 'Funhouse' a year after it was first released, this time with a Funhouse tour in Australia.

Youtube Video Blogging

Our group has set up a YouTube account called 'KKEmedia1' unfortunately we are having some technical issues with our video as we recorded the video blog on the Mac's webcam, so we will now film our blogs with the proper cameras so we won't have any problems next time!

Initial Editing

We have uploaded all of our groups filming to the mac and have transferred them to separate folders on Final Cut Pro and then rendered all the shots. We have now begun looking at each of our filming and have begun cutting and ordering the scenes so that we can arrange if anymore filming is needed before the final filming deadline at the end of this term. We have about 10 minutes of unedited film to work from which gives us plenty of shots to work with in order to cut our filming down to the length of our recorded audio.

Roland Barthes 5 Narrative Codes

In our groups we were asked to research a music video that featured Roland Barthes 5 narrative codes. We decided to look at the music video 'A Team' by new artist Ed Sheeran. This was a previous music video we had gain inspiration from and felt it was good to work with as it a low budget video that is something we as a group could easily match and produce.

Narrative Theorist Research - Todorov

I have looking into Todorov's narrative theory and found information on equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium interesting and something we can think about in our own music video.

first set of filming complete

For my half term filming i have concentrated on close up shots of my models face and to indicate her loneliness. These shots contrast with another of my group members 'couple' shots. This week we will be analysis our film and starting to edit the footage we have. We will then get a storyboard flowing and can then arrange anymore filming we need to do or anymore shots we need to capture.

Half Term Plan

We have now made a group decision that over half term we will each take the camera for 3 days so that we are all filmimg our own ideas and that overall we have a lot of filming to work from and edit with. Also it is a good way of equally all putting the same amount of work in and that every one's ideas are being used.

After half term we plan to begin editing the footage we have and then begin to plan a group shoot one weekend to film any new footage that we need.

A music video we have looked at that has given us inspiration for this is 'John Legend - Ordinary People'. This is because the video focuses on different couples and scenes in between the artist singing. We want to try an incorporate this idea with our video with each member of our group filming different scenes and then putting them together between the lip syncing shots.

Get ahead Media Studies OCR

Today we were shown the media studies get ahead blog. We were also shown an example of a high grade final music video. It has given us a boost to get our idea's flowing and to think about adding some lip syncing so that its more of a music video than narrative. We want to try and make sure we are constantly updating our blogs and developing our ideas so that our final product is of high quality.

For todays lesson we will begin brainstorming our idea's for our story board and get the ball rolling!

Inspiration!

Looking through different music videos that fit our genre on YouTube, I have found some videos that I want to use some of techniques used in our music video.

'Sia - Breathe Me'


I like the idea's of layering Polaroid pictures to create a moving film, i think this is an interesting technique and one that our group would like to try and recreate in parts of our music video.

'A Team - Ed Sheeran'


I really like this music video its simple yet it tells a story. The camera angles used are interesting and the technique of having constant movement around the girl while she is still is very effective. I also really like how the video is in black and white and shot at night so that the lights can be seen.

New Song From Recording

After recording our orignial chosen song our artist prepared a song that she thought sounded better and that we would like. We recoreded the song and listen back to all the audio we had recorded and all agreed that the new song was of a better quality and had good imagery and still slotted in witht he genre we wanted to work on.
The new song we are going to use is 'Pink - I Don't Believe You'.

Plan for Music Video

Here is the plan our group has put together for the upcoming weeks and how we plan to manage our time each day.

Recording Audio

Wednesday 6th October:
Today we recorded the audio for our music video, we met our friend and recorded our original song we wanted to do 'Hide and Seek' as well as a song our friend had prepared that she felt we would like. This was 'Pink - I Don't Believe You'. We all agreed that we like the song and the way it sounded when we played back the audio. We are now going to look at both songs and their lyrics to see which has the best imagery and the one that we feel would be better for our music video.

New song idea

After looking into song choices we have decided upon another song that fits our genre and has good imagery. The song is 'Hometown Glory' by Adele.




Here are the lyrics for the song and our own ideas if we were to shoot this as our music video:

Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap

The song we have chosen to look at is 'Hide and Seek' by Imogen Heap, below is the original music video for the song:



Here are the lyrics for the song and our filming ideas:

Getting Started

Today we have got into our groups for our new coursework project; music video's.

We have began initially planning our genre of music we want to work with and have been browsing YouTube for inspiration.

We have come across a song that we all really like and think that it has a lot of imagery we can work on. The song is called Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap, which one our friends has performed to the school quite a few times, therefore we want to use her version so that we are using non-copyrighted music.

Between now and our next lesson we will be contacting her to see if she would like to be involved in our music video.