Final song choice

Sandi Thom- I wish i was punk rocker 

We have chosen to do this song as it is original and goes well with the plan we already had in mind. We were indecisive between Natash Bedingfield- Unwritten and this song. We realised the vision we had for Unwritten had already been applied to the original video. Therefore we went ahead with this song, as the video only has  a shot of the artist singing the song on unknown streets of London, simple but it does work well.  We have in mind different locaions, landmarks of London such as Oxford St, Hyde Park and Buckingham Palace. The props, costume and make-up would also be very different from the video, the artist is shown here to be dressed casually wearing natural make-up, in ours the artist would be dressed in bright colours with a more edgy make-up.

List of the potential songs

Natasha Bedingfield - These words
Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten
Sandi Thom - I wish I was punk rocker
Mutya - Fast Car
Sugababes - Too lost in you

Vladimir Propp

Vladmir Propp (1895-1970) was a Russian and Soviet scholar. He extended the study of narrative structure, in a formalist approach. He studied 100 Russian fairy tales he came into conlusion
- That the tales have a sequenceof 31 functions
-  that all the characters could be resolved into 8 broad character types



 This Video Of Katy Perry - Hot'N'Cold could relate to the theory Propp has done.
As the the artist/ main characte is shown to be happy getting married, but then a dilemma occurs as the groom runs out of the church. But at the end it both characters end up marrying.

Animatic Video

Lip Synch Tutorial

In our lesson, we were given a reintroduction to use Final Cut Pro, learning on how to use base tracks editing. We were shown how to place markers on the sound of the music to match the singing of an artist, this was to enable the sound to be in-tune with the video. Then shown to place all the footage from different angles on the timeline, so they were all in synch. To make the demo music more thrilling we were shown how to cust different parts of the footage, how to show the specific footage we wanted to be in the video at different times to match the beat of the music. I found it very challenging to cut the footage at different times, it was complex, when played back it would look out of order, but then I found to use the stereo waves we much easier to put the music and footage in synch.

We chose a grop member ALima who will be performing in our chosen artist, we had to make sure she learnt the lyrics. we were given only a day to practise, therefore we had to print the lyrics, which was a disadvantage as in many of the shots, she would get confused. However, in editing we managed to make it work.

We had to make the most of the location we were set. 

Our final piece, looks rough but with this practise and more time we will have on our original piece it will look much better.

He's the greatest dancer by Sister Sledge

Review of previous student video analsed

In my media lesson i watched previous a2 music videos. Doing this allowed me to seel real life examples of the product i have to create myself, giving ideas for my music video.

My Favourite Video was by Adam, Lisa, Nasima & Sayvita
This is the video


Adam, Lisa, Nasima & Sayvita from 283goswell on Vimeo.

This video has an excelent variety of camera shots and angles such as close ups, extreme close ups (lip) medium shots, establishing shots and so on. It also has great variation of location.
My favourite part of this music video would have to be the black and white effect, while having just red stand out, the colours go very well together. lip syncing was good, along with the general story board for this music video.
The Genre for this song is indie pop, and i think the constume, along with the contrast of colours really help portray this.

Review of previous students work

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