Showing posts with label Pia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pia. Show all posts
Tuesday, 8 December 2009
Evaluation.
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our music video challenges may conventions of real music videos, This is what makes it fit its genre style of Indie/Alternative as Alternative videos can be abstract or differents and challenge the generic music video, Whilst Indie videos many consist of a documentry type video following the bands everyday life, or life on the road on tour.
The video we produced doesn't contain the artist so does not have lip syncing, neither does it meet the demands of the record label. It does show some Voyeurism as you are let into this persons head and life seeing everything through their eyes the way they would.
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancilliary texts?
Our music video & digipack do not link directly to one and other but there is some continuity, and certainly in our digipack. Both the DVD cover and advert use the same image of a street, Just not the same ones in our digipack as our video although they were both from cambridge. We had decided from the start that we would we would use the same image to create continuity throughout our digipack, we also used the same font style in both, This was so our tagert audience would recognise this when they saw it and this would make it easier for them to find in a shop or online.
From our feedback we have been notified of some problems with spelling in our digipack with the words 'Avaliable' and 'Wembley' and given the chance we would change these, apart from that our digipack includes the correct information for what they are.
What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
The feedback we have recieved from other groups has been helpful to us when planning and creating our video and digipack, from this we have known what was missing from our blog and thoughts on what we had produced so far. Whilst making our video we posted a roughcut onto our blog and from the feedback we recieved we found out that the effects we had used on it seemed confusing and made some people feel dizzy and so we removed these.
The feedback we recieved once the video was completed was around what we had been expecting and thinking ourselves or already knew about as we already knew that lots of goodwins points were missing, with basics like lip syncing and a main character or artist missing made our video abstract whilst still fitting its genre. They all also gave mixed feedback some said that the storyline idea was clear showing their daily life, possibly in the artists eyes, whereas others said there was no particular storyline
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Whilst researching and planning for our music video we used our blog and used google images and youtube alot to back up our ideas we had put on the blog with similar images to what we had in our heads and links to videos we liked and wanted to incorperate in our videos, for example when we first started on our ideas for 'The Hush Sound - A Dark Congregation' we had the same idea in our head when we listened to it of Lily allens video LDN where everythings half happy and colourful and half dull and mundayne, we linked our blog to the video and to some print screens to go on the blog. We used google to get existing images of things for our mise-en-scene like objects and settings, and later on used it to get existing posters and DVD/CD covers of from artists when planning and designing our digipack.
We made our music video using some software called 'Final Cut' which allowed us to capture our footage off of the video cameras and onto the computer and from this we were able to put our music on it alongside the video and cut up the footage acording to the track and to the points we wanted to. It also allowed us to put effects on we later took of and make transitions from one clip to another.
When making moodboards, cropping down or re-scaling images and creating our digipack we used Adobe Photoshop, which let us again use many effects and do lots of different things with our images, we could also move each layer seperatly without anchoring them down although we could do this at the end by flattening the image.
The main blog also helped us with knowing deadlines and what are blog and products should include.
Our music video challenges may conventions of real music videos, This is what makes it fit its genre style of Indie/Alternative as Alternative videos can be abstract or differents and challenge the generic music video, Whilst Indie videos many consist of a documentry type video following the bands everyday life, or life on the road on tour.
The video we produced doesn't contain the artist so does not have lip syncing, neither does it meet the demands of the record label. It does show some Voyeurism as you are let into this persons head and life seeing everything through their eyes the way they would.
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancilliary texts?
Our music video & digipack do not link directly to one and other but there is some continuity, and certainly in our digipack. Both the DVD cover and advert use the same image of a street, Just not the same ones in our digipack as our video although they were both from cambridge. We had decided from the start that we would we would use the same image to create continuity throughout our digipack, we also used the same font style in both, This was so our tagert audience would recognise this when they saw it and this would make it easier for them to find in a shop or online.
From our feedback we have been notified of some problems with spelling in our digipack with the words 'Avaliable' and 'Wembley' and given the chance we would change these, apart from that our digipack includes the correct information for what they are.
What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
The feedback we have recieved from other groups has been helpful to us when planning and creating our video and digipack, from this we have known what was missing from our blog and thoughts on what we had produced so far. Whilst making our video we posted a roughcut onto our blog and from the feedback we recieved we found out that the effects we had used on it seemed confusing and made some people feel dizzy and so we removed these.
The feedback we recieved once the video was completed was around what we had been expecting and thinking ourselves or already knew about as we already knew that lots of goodwins points were missing, with basics like lip syncing and a main character or artist missing made our video abstract whilst still fitting its genre. They all also gave mixed feedback some said that the storyline idea was clear showing their daily life, possibly in the artists eyes, whereas others said there was no particular storyline
How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Whilst researching and planning for our music video we used our blog and used google images and youtube alot to back up our ideas we had put on the blog with similar images to what we had in our heads and links to videos we liked and wanted to incorperate in our videos, for example when we first started on our ideas for 'The Hush Sound - A Dark Congregation' we had the same idea in our head when we listened to it of Lily allens video LDN where everythings half happy and colourful and half dull and mundayne, we linked our blog to the video and to some print screens to go on the blog. We used google to get existing images of things for our mise-en-scene like objects and settings, and later on used it to get existing posters and DVD/CD covers of from artists when planning and designing our digipack.
We made our music video using some software called 'Final Cut' which allowed us to capture our footage off of the video cameras and onto the computer and from this we were able to put our music on it alongside the video and cut up the footage acording to the track and to the points we wanted to. It also allowed us to put effects on we later took of and make transitions from one clip to another.
When making moodboards, cropping down or re-scaling images and creating our digipack we used Adobe Photoshop, which let us again use many effects and do lots of different things with our images, we could also move each layer seperatly without anchoring them down although we could do this at the end by flattening the image.
The main blog also helped us with knowing deadlines and what are blog and products should include.
Monday, 23 November 2009
Digipack (DVD/CD)
Theses are the relating to the Tour/Album adverts, as you can see the images are roughly the same as the ones in the adverts and so they have continuity throughout and make it easier for the buyer to recognize the album instore. The covers don't contain much, just an image, Band name & album name and on the back they would have the track list.
Digipack (Adverts).
Existing Adverts.
Here is some existing Tour/CD Posters.
In all three of these tour posters the basic layout is fairly similar, with the Band name/logo at the top in the biggest and boldest font, with the tour dates then underneath with the venues in larger/bolder font than the dates. At the bottom there is then some information on contacts for booking the tickets, when/if their album is out, the bands website(s) and any other sites. All three also have images related to their tour/Album to promote them.
These three adverts just promote the CD/DVD Album. They all have the same images from their album artwork, with brief information on when/where to get it from, whats the product includes and any additional websites.
Here is some existing Tour/CD Posters.
In all three of these tour posters the basic layout is fairly similar, with the Band name/logo at the top in the biggest and boldest font, with the tour dates then underneath with the venues in larger/bolder font than the dates. At the bottom there is then some information on contacts for booking the tickets, when/if their album is out, the bands website(s) and any other sites. All three also have images related to their tour/Album to promote them.
These three adverts just promote the CD/DVD Album. They all have the same images from their album artwork, with brief information on when/where to get it from, whats the product includes and any additional websites.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Digi Pack
A magazine advert for a DVD would include a record label, DVD title & artist, Star rating and review quotes, the band's web site(s) and information on when and where to buy them.
It needs to be able to attract the audience eye, and also appeal to the right audience, maybe have something that can be specifically identified to that band for example a logo or an image of them. Its can also show the same or similar image as the album cover so the buyer can identify it easily in a record shop.
The advert must be eye catching and must attract the right kind of audience for that genre of music. It should contain basic information which lets the buyer know important information about their product and this could include the rrp.price.
A DVD cover would usually include the artist name & album/DVD title on the front cover with track names & numbers on the back, similar to an ordinary album cover. It may also include, Record labels, a certificate rating for age, special features and additional features.
Here on Madonna's video collection DVD it has her (the artist) on the front, with her name. It also has the DVD symbol to show it's a DVD. It also has her record label in the bottom left hand corner, back and the spine of the DVD case. On the back it has the bar code for obvious reasons and the track list of what videos can be played these are dated from when they were released as the DVD album includes her videos from 2000-2006. There is also a seperate section for special features which are unreleased videos. The front and back of the cover both include a picture of madonna. There is also the DVD logo on the front, spine and back of the cover.
It needs to be able to attract the audience eye, and also appeal to the right audience, maybe have something that can be specifically identified to that band for example a logo or an image of them. Its can also show the same or similar image as the album cover so the buyer can identify it easily in a record shop.
The advert must be eye catching and must attract the right kind of audience for that genre of music. It should contain basic information which lets the buyer know important information about their product and this could include the rrp.price.
A DVD cover would usually include the artist name & album/DVD title on the front cover with track names & numbers on the back, similar to an ordinary album cover. It may also include, Record labels, a certificate rating for age, special features and additional features.
Here on Madonna's video collection DVD it has her (the artist) on the front, with her name. It also has the DVD symbol to show it's a DVD. It also has her record label in the bottom left hand corner, back and the spine of the DVD case. On the back it has the bar code for obvious reasons and the track list of what videos can be played these are dated from when they were released as the DVD album includes her videos from 2000-2006. There is also a seperate section for special features which are unreleased videos. The front and back of the cover both include a picture of madonna. There is also the DVD logo on the front, spine and back of the cover.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Plan C, Filming plan
We plan to film out of college on Tuesday 10th November, where we plan to get our Graveyard/Flashback scenes done. We can then Film the Artist lip sync parts on our morning lesson on Wednesday 11th November as this part can be done at college in the media studio or behind the stage in the hall.
Hopefully if everything goes to plan we'll be on schedule for the Music Video Final Deadline: Last lesson of week ending 13th November
Hopefully if everything goes to plan we'll be on schedule for the Music Video Final Deadline: Last lesson of week ending 13th November
Plan C, Mise-en-scene
- Location(s), Graveyard, Media Studio in either the white/black room. The graveyard location we plan to use will either be a graveyard near Kim, down ditton lane or one in reach.
- Clothing, Main Character (Graveyard): Dark/Dull clothing, Wintery Clothes to go with their emotions... Not colorful & Bright. Main Character & Lover (Flashbacks): Any normal/Everyday clothing.. can be colorful to reflect the happy emotions. Artist: Isn't particularly important as if we do close ups then they would only see their face/top of clothing so make-up/hair would be more important for this.
- Props, Red rose.
Plan C, moodboard
Graveyard scenes moodboard.
For our grave scene we are planning to have the main character at the grave of their lover, where they are greaving and remembering the good memories that they had with that person. I also thought that the red rose on the grave could also fit in with our lyrics 'A red rose fell upon the soft snow'. I also think that for our editing on this piece that it should be made black and white or we should desaturate the colours to make it seem cold and sad.
For our grave scene we are planning to have the main character at the grave of their lover, where they are greaving and remembering the good memories that they had with that person. I also thought that the red rose on the grave could also fit in with our lyrics 'A red rose fell upon the soft snow'. I also think that for our editing on this piece that it should be made black and white or we should desaturate the colours to make it seem cold and sad.
Memories/Flashback Scenes Moodboard.
At the moment for these scenes we are not exactly sure what the flashbacks will be of but this just gives a brief idea of what memories that they could have shared.. it also gives an idea of what effects we could put on these clips, a kind of low fi old fashioned coloured picture.
Artist, Performance Moodboard.
This is just a basic idea of what we could do for our performance. As we dont have much time the idea for this is just to find a girl to Lip Sync for us and so that we have more time for our other scenes this will probably be done during one of our lessons in a studio so that the person feels more comfortable and we can control the lighting/background more. She will probably be infront of a plain white/black backround and the shot will probably be a close so we wouldnt need to worry about if what she's wearing fits in with our genre as it would only be some of her top in the frame.
This is just a basic idea of what we could do for our performance. As we dont have much time the idea for this is just to find a girl to Lip Sync for us and so that we have more time for our other scenes this will probably be done during one of our lessons in a studio so that the person feels more comfortable and we can control the lighting/background more. She will probably be infront of a plain white/black backround and the shot will probably be a close so we wouldnt need to worry about if what she's wearing fits in with our genre as it would only be some of her top in the frame.
Examples of similar videos.
Here are some video with similar ideas to what we want ours to turn out like, and with the use of funerals/graveyards/flashback, etc.
This video shows Amy miming throughout & the plot is of her walking with a precession of other people many of them carrying instruments with a hearse. When they arrive at the graveyard the grave is small and they put a small box in it & say their goodbyes, at the end R.I.P The heart of Amy Winehouse comes up.
The whole video is in black & white making it seem cold and also re-inforcing the song title 'back to black' with the colour video going back to black and white.
- Amy Winehouse - Back to black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygAu1x2uQo
This video shows Amy miming throughout & the plot is of her walking with a precession of other people many of them carrying instruments with a hearse. When they arrive at the graveyard the grave is small and they put a small box in it & say their goodbyes, at the end R.I.P The heart of Amy Winehouse comes up.
The whole video is in black & white making it seem cold and also re-inforcing the song title 'back to black' with the colour video going back to black and white.
- My Chemical Romance - Helena
This video show the band at a funeral of 'Helena' with the frontman of the band giving the service and when they all close their eyes to pray, 'Helena' gets out of the coffin and starts dancing then closes her eyes and falls back into the coffin. Many other people at the funeral also start dancing and the bands performance is also in the church. The band then carry out the coffin to the hearse whilst other people dance with umbrellas. - Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOY6eP-q4o
This video begins with the band performing behind bars and then cuts away to the frontman with his girlfriend and a camcorder recording each other, all loved up. The other band members then come round and tell him something he then tells his girlfriend who trys to stop him. The next part is of them robbing a store but the police come and catch the frontman who is then put in prison. The Girl then is in her car which is hit by a truck. There is then the group of people at the funeral as the coffin is lowered into the grave, whilst the guitarist plays a rift ontop of the coffin. We then see the frontman in prison having flashbacks to him and his Girlfriend and footage from the camera, he is then let out and they all vistit the grave- Funeral For A Friend - Roses for the dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVG17cTHkEE
This video is another example of flashbacks with the boy on his journey to the rooftop and what he had done before he got there and cut-aways to his mother in his room after he has jumped. There are then flashbacks of when he was younger as he gets to certain places or his mum finds certain objects, ie. there is a flashback to him getting a guitar for his birthday/xmas, it then cuts to his mum holding the guitar. & another example is when he gets to a park and it cuts between him in the park to him as a child on the swing to his mum holding the hat he was wearing when he was younger and then back to him on the swing.
Plan C...
After looking closer at the lyrics we've realized that the song is about the funeral of someone's (the main character) lover, The very first opening lyrics give this sense.
'A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quite earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths'
The idea for our music video that we have produced from this idea is that we would have about 3 actors, people in our music video.. The Girl/Guy who was mourning, Their lover in flash backs and someone to play the artist miming for cut-aways.
So our video would be made up of 3 main parts. Our main character at the grave mourning, Then the main character in flashbacks of memories with/of their lover and cut-aways to the artist miming along to the song in a performance type situation, which we could possibly just film at school. This would mean that we could probably get all our filming done in one night and use our over night of taking the camera out to get the footage of the grave scene & Flashbacks.
Our main problem is that the editing deadline is at the end of next week so we dont have long to get all our footage taken & edited, as we have this problem we've decided that we will also carry on with our current idea & footage as a back up for if we don't manage to get this idea completed in time for the deadline. Another problem is that the lyrics our down and depressing and give this feeling whereas the music with the piano sounds quite upbeat.
'A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quite earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths'
The idea for our music video that we have produced from this idea is that we would have about 3 actors, people in our music video.. The Girl/Guy who was mourning, Their lover in flash backs and someone to play the artist miming for cut-aways.
So our video would be made up of 3 main parts. Our main character at the grave mourning, Then the main character in flashbacks of memories with/of their lover and cut-aways to the artist miming along to the song in a performance type situation, which we could possibly just film at school. This would mean that we could probably get all our filming done in one night and use our over night of taking the camera out to get the footage of the grave scene & Flashbacks.
Our main problem is that the editing deadline is at the end of next week so we dont have long to get all our footage taken & edited, as we have this problem we've decided that we will also carry on with our current idea & footage as a back up for if we don't manage to get this idea completed in time for the deadline. Another problem is that the lyrics our down and depressing and give this feeling whereas the music with the piano sounds quite upbeat.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Tour Poster
Here is an idea for our groups tour poster, Pia drew a cartoon picture of the group and we have used bold colours to colour in roughly the clothes, this is to try fit the genre of the music, a indie funky effect but also to draw attention to the publics eye so that they notice the poster and take interest in it. We are aiming to make our dvd cover very similar to the tour poster so fans or the public that have seen the two can identify a specific style or pattern of the group. It may be more noticable to the groups fans but it's going to still be made attractive and bold for the other majority.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Digi Pack Idea...
This is our idea of the digi pack...
This our idea with a little colour, Just to give and idea.
&& This is an idea for a possible Tour Poster..
It incudes informations about where the tour is taking place, where tickets are available and promotes the band, their new single and bands websites. I think i may put abit more information into our tour poster like the release of the album with an image of it and an itunes image & website.
As you can see we have chosen to use continuity throughout our digipack in this case using the same image for both, for our final version we may use the same image, if now then i thiink that our images would be very similar. In the poster i use the colour picker tool and took a sample colour from the image, just under the end of sound and used it as the background colour and then decided to use a brown colour for the text as it would stand out, and used this for all the info on the poster.
I did the text using GIMP2 which is similar to photoshop and so i used a text from there switching through the different bold/italic versions of it, the text was DejaVu Serif Semi-Condensed.
This our idea with a little colour, Just to give and idea.
&& This is an idea for a possible Tour Poster..
It incudes informations about where the tour is taking place, where tickets are available and promotes the band, their new single and bands websites. I think i may put abit more information into our tour poster like the release of the album with an image of it and an itunes image & website.
As you can see we have chosen to use continuity throughout our digipack in this case using the same image for both, for our final version we may use the same image, if now then i thiink that our images would be very similar. In the poster i use the colour picker tool and took a sample colour from the image, just under the end of sound and used it as the background colour and then decided to use a brown colour for the text as it would stand out, and used this for all the info on the poster.
I did the text using GIMP2 which is similar to photoshop and so i used a text from there switching through the different bold/italic versions of it, the text was DejaVu Serif Semi-Condensed.
rough Cut
Evaluation of Rough Cut.
As You can see we haven't got alot of our footage yet, so instead we have just put text telling the view what should be in that place. Over half term we are planning to get a camera each and to all get some footage done which we can choose from to put into our video when we come back, our video will include some lip syncing which i hadn't put into the rough cut as we're not sure where it will come in the video. The footage should be of any everyday life and it is just an example in the video, it may change once we come back. But, with the footage we have we have been editing it and trying out lots of different techniques in it like threshold and a mirror effect.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Moodboard
This is a quick moodboard from some of the things that inspired us for our video, these include Lily Allen 'LDN' and Kanye West All falls down
criteria...
We need...
Holding A Shot Steady
We have a shot of the person taking the camera around her life, standing looking at herself in the mirror for a couple of seconds.
Variety Of Shot Distances
We only have two long shots and they will feature different angles and shot distances.
Selecting Mise-En-Scene
We are going to show the character wearing quite Indie clothes, we already have the shot of the town which is quite an indie thing to do.
Using Varied Shot Transitions
We are going to use some transitions when we go from the two different shots.
This is what we are going to do over and after half-term.
Holding A Shot Steady
We have a shot of the person taking the camera around her life, standing looking at herself in the mirror for a couple of seconds.
Variety Of Shot Distances
We only have two long shots and they will feature different angles and shot distances.
Selecting Mise-En-Scene
We are going to show the character wearing quite Indie clothes, we already have the shot of the town which is quite an indie thing to do.
Using Varied Shot Transitions
We are going to use some transitions when we go from the two different shots.
This is what we are going to do over and after half-term.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Filming Plan.
We Plan do get filming more filming done by the time we come back from half term, this means that filming will take place over half term and i will need to find my own camera and get it checked by the college this week so that we can be sure that we'll be able to get some filming done.
The filming will be of any everyday life.. i.e. Waking up, Getting up and ready, making breakfast, riding a bike, going out.. etc. We do have some set ideas for what we want from this, we want the footage to be from our point of view and will introduce the lip syncing through a mirror or in a similar way. I will probably use my bike for the bike footage and put the camera in my basket... my only problem is that the footage we currently have is in an urban area and i live in a very rural area, also the footage of the bike in town is a different kind to mine so that may be strange.
This is a similar bike to what i will be using to get the filming.
Frying eggs could be part of everyday life.
Location(s)
My house
The filming will be of any everyday life.. i.e. Waking up, Getting up and ready, making breakfast, riding a bike, going out.. etc. We do have some set ideas for what we want from this, we want the footage to be from our point of view and will introduce the lip syncing through a mirror or in a similar way. I will probably use my bike for the bike footage and put the camera in my basket... my only problem is that the footage we currently have is in an urban area and i live in a very rural area, also the footage of the bike in town is a different kind to mine so that may be strange.
This is a similar bike to what i will be using to get the filming.
Frying eggs could be part of everyday life.Reach.
My house
Wednesday, 14 October 2009
Filming....
We've decided that we are going to test out some ideas & footage.
Hopefully we will find our own video cameras or borrow some from friends this weekend as we can't take the college cameras out for another weekend again.
The plan once we've found these cameras and had them checked by long road is to film from our point of view.. through our eyes, i.e. waking up, making breakfast etc. then going on the bike.
Hopefully we will find our own video cameras or borrow some from friends this weekend as we can't take the college cameras out for another weekend again.
The plan once we've found these cameras and had them checked by long road is to film from our point of view.. through our eyes, i.e. waking up, making breakfast etc. then going on the bike.
Saturday, 10 October 2009
New Plan. (:
After meeting up in town, we decided not to waste any time waiting until we'd found 'the girl' to mime for us. This was because the girl we had planned to have mime for us had work and so was unavailable and other people we asked we're either busy or didn't want to do it.
We came up with a range of ideas which included...
and decided that we would test some of them out first before we dedicated ourselves to just one idea again.
However, The idea we like best is of the camera being hand held used as if it was what the main person could see for their point of view, we also thought of the main person holding the camera facing them as they mimed/got on with things. This technique has been used by various indie artists in their videos.
i.e...
Jamie T - Calm down dearest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcKVXsuk_o
In this video he's playing around with the camera, most shots are with the camera pointed at his face. The video has lots of different techniques used throughout, it also has some short man terrorizing Jamie.
Lily allen - LDN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5JMjGZ6bRY
This is the other alternative video to LDN by lily. The video follows her from leaving her front door to getting on her bike, and then it follows her from the bike as she bikes around london (LDN).. the shots are a mix of what she can see with the camera attached to her bike, shots of the camera facing her whilst she sings along, Behind, infront & to the side of her biking.. there are also clips of her in a cafe and sitting in the park.
From this version of lily's LDN video, we thought of the video of Corrine Bailey Rae, where shes riding a bike in it.
Corrine Bailey Rae - Put your records on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I
In this video she is on her bike with alot of other women biking behind her. She is singing on her bike & it also cuds away to her in a corn field singing.. these clips are also linked with her having a red ribbon on her bike, then holding it in the field & tying it to a tree with other red ribbons on at the end.
Another Video that has this idea of what the person can see is the video for,
Kanye West - All falls down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWqsIClPqU
In this video you can see through his eyes.. but can see him in reflections of the car window and a mirror, in these he sings so there is some lip syncing by him there. The viewer can tell they're looking through his eyes through due to the reflections, him looking at his hands etc.
Calvin Harris - Flashback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Xrd2khu6k
This video also has parts that are from the artist point of view, when he looks at the photos and as he walks with/behind people, and then the camera switches round to look at him.
We came up with a range of ideas which included...
and decided that we would test some of them out first before we dedicated ourselves to just one idea again.
However, The idea we like best is of the camera being hand held used as if it was what the main person could see for their point of view, we also thought of the main person holding the camera facing them as they mimed/got on with things. This technique has been used by various indie artists in their videos.
i.e...
Jamie T - Calm down dearest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcKVXsuk_o
In this video he's playing around with the camera, most shots are with the camera pointed at his face. The video has lots of different techniques used throughout, it also has some short man terrorizing Jamie.
Lily allen - LDN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5JMjGZ6bRY
This is the other alternative video to LDN by lily. The video follows her from leaving her front door to getting on her bike, and then it follows her from the bike as she bikes around london (LDN).. the shots are a mix of what she can see with the camera attached to her bike, shots of the camera facing her whilst she sings along, Behind, infront & to the side of her biking.. there are also clips of her in a cafe and sitting in the park.
From this version of lily's LDN video, we thought of the video of Corrine Bailey Rae, where shes riding a bike in it.
Corrine Bailey Rae - Put your records on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I
In this video she is on her bike with alot of other women biking behind her. She is singing on her bike & it also cuds away to her in a corn field singing.. these clips are also linked with her having a red ribbon on her bike, then holding it in the field & tying it to a tree with other red ribbons on at the end.
Another Video that has this idea of what the person can see is the video for,
Kanye West - All falls down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWqsIClPqU
In this video you can see through his eyes.. but can see him in reflections of the car window and a mirror, in these he sings so there is some lip syncing by him there. The viewer can tell they're looking through his eyes through due to the reflections, him looking at his hands etc.
Calvin Harris - Flashback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Xrd2khu6k
This video also has parts that are from the artist point of view, when he looks at the photos and as he walks with/behind people, and then the camera switches round to look at him.
