Lip Synching practise

(Repost from group Blog)

Here is a video that James and I made to practise lipsynching, nearer the start of the project, it's just taken a while to get onto youtube.




We thought it would be fun to do, we had a free afternoon and thought it would be beneficial practise, having been enthusised by the busted day.

xx Luke

Test Shoot thoughts

http://musicvideogroup22008.blogspot.com/2008/07/test-shoot.html
here is Angela's thoughts on the matter, with the video.

I think that it was super helpful, as it gave me the chance to test shoot James, so i can see how to film him.

Also, it showed us that it is possible for such a powerful voice to come out of li'l ole James.

Peace out

Here's your group work on Marketing!

Music Video Research

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BLK feedback

no progress on this blog for a while Luke, please add to it regularly - gaps are to be avoided as this will have a negative impact on the marking of your individual work for this project

BLK feedback

some great posts Luke, keep up to date by posting your thoughts/reflections on the progression being made by the group.

lets have some analysis of some music vids using the framework we've used in class.

like the playlist, good idea.

stunning

I agree about the white album (so called as it had no title and so this just described it) (but I'm sure you already knew that!) and the system of a down album - they're both very stunning and stand out a mile despite a lack of any decent art!

album research

1- +44 - When your heart stops beating

2) The Beatles - The White Album
3) Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
4) System of a Down - Steal This Album!
5) O.P.M. - Menace To Sobriety

6) Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication

7) Angelspit - Krankhaus
8) Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing
9) A1 - The A List
10) The Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

Typical Features

- All have a striking image, with the exception of The White Album, which is striking in itself, as it is just blank. Steal This Album is notable, as like the White Album, there is no striking image, but the message offered by the cover and title itself are rather contraversial, making the album cover as a whole striking without the need for a striking image.

- Most have the album name, except for the White Album, When Your Heart Stops Beating, and Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned. This is because in the case of the White album, the artist name speaks for itself, and the title of the album is descriptive of the cover. In the case of +44, it is a striking image of the band name, a band whuich was much hyped at conception, so the name speaks for itself. Always outnumbered, Never Outgunned is rather anomalous, as it lets the image speak over both the title, and artist name.

- All of them except Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned have the artist name. The White Album, although mot noticable, has the artist name embossed into the vinyl cover, which is why i chose to use the vinyl version not the CD version.

Ways of Categorising the Covers.

- The A list, Krankhaus, The best damn Thing, all have a striking image of the artist.

- Always outnumbered, Never Outgunned, Californication, Menace To Sobriety, Hold Your Colour, and When Your heart Stops Beating all have a striking, more artistically abstract image

some initial thinking

There are two real directions i can see my idea going, both of which are certainly feesable.



The first is a public hidden camera thing, with a public performance, with alot of focus on public reactions, two very obvious examples of this are "praise you" by Fatboy Slim (dir. Spike Jonze) and "Slam" by Pendulum.

My second possible idea is a really cheesy euro-beat or j-pop song with a really brightly coloured video, with simple choreographed dance routines. The song could be something like "bing bang" by lazytown, the song i had been considering for this one is "Running in the 90s" by initial D. The dance routiney thing i have been thinking, is choreography like "wearing my rolex" by Wiley, or a brilliant example, "baby one more time" by Britney Spears, or "thriller" by Michael Jackson. Yes, oviously we aren't proffessional dancers, but maybe 5 or so people doing a dance routine, could be super effective.