Bruno Mars - Runaway baby - Final video

This is a final video.

Music Genre Mindmap - P1(a-f)

This mindmap represents all existing music genres. 

Music Video Examples (a Critique) - P1(a-f)

Here is two videos that I find inspiring:



1) Flo Rida - Whistle                                            
      Whistle - is a pop rap song which was very popular in 2011 - 2012.  In this video I like the script and shots as well. The song is slow and sad, as well as video. Through all the video it is kept an amazing atmosphere that is really suitable to the song. I think that this is a good example of music because this music is energetic, fast and drives you to move.

2) John Newman - Love Me Again        

In this one I like the camera work. It has been shot by two cameras at the same time to have such an effect. The atmosphere of the video is amazing. Slow motion shots are done perfectly. I think that this song is a good example because it is very energetic.

Music Video Analysis 1 - P1(a-f)

Music Video Analysis 2 - P1(a-f)

Semiotics/Media Codes - P1(a-f)

Denotation - the literal, straight-forward or common sense or meaning of a word or an image. What the word or object is literally. It involves the what?where?who? or what is happening.

Connotation - an idea or a feeling that a word invokes for a person in addition to its' literally or primary meaning; the implication of such ideas or feelings.

Colours 

Red - is a very popular colour, which can be found in magazines, it has many connotations such as passion, love, danger, anger and aggression.

Blue - is a calm and peaceful colour, but can also carry negative connotation such as feelings ( sadness, upset). It can also connote truth, wisdom, loyalty, optimism and faith.

Black - is a colour with many negative connotations such as death, danger, darkness and hate. It is a bold and dominant colour which shows confidence.

Orange - is a very bright and happy colour with many positive connotations such as warmth, friendliness and happiness.

Pink - is a calm colour and can take on various different shades, it is very popular in magazines targets at a female audience, as it is a stereotypically 'female' colour.

Green - is a bold colour that has both negative and positive connotations. Brighter green stand out and are more positive signifying beginning and to go, whereas darker green represent jealous, anger and envy.

White - connotes purity and has representations of light goodness, innocence purity, and virgnity. It is considered to be the colour of perfection and cleanliness.

Purple - is another 'girly' colour typically seen in gossip or fashion magazines. It has many positive connotations, such as being kind, loving and compassionate. It is also the colour of royalty.

This information have been taken from Wikipedia's page.

Semiotics - the theory and study of sings and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication. A person who studies or practices semiotics is known as a semiotic

Treatment/concept (Presentation) - P2(a)

 

This presentation have been made by our group. We have decided to use Bruno Mars's song for our film because it is energetic, catchy and grabs viewers attention.

Script - P2(b)

We have wrote our script in Google Drive document which allows my group to access the script at all the time, have the same file and be able to add/delete something in our work if there is a need for it.

There is a link for this document: ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o64zrmtkVit9znUXtbHBMFTi9F9zDz-2yYRFflEgI6U/edit)

There are some images to show this document: 

Storyboard - P2(c)

Hopefully this time we have managed to create a storyboard and follow it as it should be. We haven't replaces any scenes or deleted any.

Production schedule and Shotlist - P2(d)

To make sure that we are meeting the deadlines, we needed to make a production process plan and be good with organising our time. Therefore, we met with all the crew and decided when can we film and when we can not. After discussing that, we have created the plan and our really organised group have been following this plan at all the time. 

Shot list. 

We didn't want to make your video look boring for a viewer because our project is a music video and it should be energetic fast and contain a huge amount of different shots. Therefore, before we start shooting, we have decided to make this list to make sure that we have included every shot we possibly could. 

Recce - P2(e)

We have been shooting out film mainly in Kent College but in different parts of school like:

•  Library 
• Wesley common room
• Main entrance.
• Drama studio.

Those pictures shows the places where we have been filming: 

Library. 

This location took place during 1- 3 scenes where we were filming how the boy is trying to talk with the girl he likes, but she is completely ignores him. 

 Wesley House common room.

On this picture you can see the Wesley's common area, where we have finming scenes 4 - 6, where the girl want to apologise for her poor behaviour, she comes in to the room and sees this guy with 4 another girls.

The Main Entrance.

On this picture you can see the main entrance where the 7th scene was shot. In this scene, guy with the flowers wants to talk with this girl, but she doesn't want that. She hits him with flowers and leaves.

Drama Studio.

In drama studio the main song have been played and filmed. This shots helped us to fill the gaps between the different shots and also gave the viewer a nice impression.

Risk Assessment - P2(f)

Before shooting any scenes, we have make this small risk assessment and showed and explained it to our crew. This helped us to not deal with any injuries or harms. Part of it because our crew was really organised and mature to understand how serious it is. 

Legal and/or ethical issues - P2(g)

We have wrote this email for a music owner, because we were planning to use his music and we didn't want to be blamed for copyright issues. Unfortunately, we didn't receive a reply from the music owner. 

Relevant certification and/or scheduling - P2(h)

In this picture you can see the Global music industry has its own certification awards. We were doing the Bruno Mars's song - is a single from the album " Doo-Woops&Hooligans" which was released on October 4,2010. 

Setting up appropriate equipment - P3(a)

This list shows the equipment which we have been using through the filming production. 

• Camera - Canon 7D DSLR + Battery 
• 32GB Compact flashcard  
• Canon 50 mm f/1.8 mf/af (human eye effect) 
• Canon 18-55 mm  zoom f/3.5-5.6 mf/af (wide angle)
• Canon 18-55 mm  zoom f/3.5-5.6 USM mf/af (wide angle) 
• Tripod - Velbon DV6000 + carry bag 
• PS-Hague Pro Steadymount
• Dolly – Velbon DL-11
• Canon camera bag

Here is the copies of our booking sheet of the equipment.

Unfortunately, this booking sheet does not represent all the equipment which we booked during our filming process.

Camera - Canon 7D DSLR + Battery

Those images shows the camera Canon 7D DSLR which we have been using nearly at all the time to film. This camera allowed us to take different shots with the use of different lenses.

32GB Compact flash card

This flash card was always in our Canon 7D DSLR camera where the all footage have been saved. After every time we done our filming, we would have to transfer the data to our laptops.

Canon 50 mm f/1.8 mf/af. 

 This lens is giving you a normal human eye effect. Therefore, we were using this lens to music video  5 -6  scene. There are some pictures to show those shots:

Canon 18-55mm zoom f/3.5-5.6 mf/af 

This lens gives wide angle which we haven't use a lot, unfortunately, but there were some shots where this lens was essential. For example our 8th scene ( Kent College's main entrance ) 

Canon 18-55 mm  zoom f/3.5-5.6 USM mf/af (wide angle) 

This lens allows you to film using dolly and the footage will be high quality even if the camera was shaking. This lens decreases has better focus then the previous lens and the footage will not be as blurry as if you would use Canon 18-55 mm  zoom f/3.5-5.6 mf/af. Therefore, we have used this lens in the same shot ( 4th and 8th ), so that the quality of the footage would be high.

Tripod - Velbon DV6000 + carry bag 

The tripod is essential part of equipment as well as camera, because tripod alloys us to steady and focus our camera so the footage will be high quality. Therefore we have made sure that we use it at all the time.

PS-Hague Pro Steadymount

Steady mount is a really useful peace of equipment as well, but we did use it a lot, because nearly all our shots have been based in one place, except of the 8th shot where we have used the Canon 18-55 mm  zoom f/3.5-5.6 mf/af lenses.

Dolly – Velbon DL-11

Dolly - very useful equipment if you are filming how someone is walking. We have used this equipment again in the 4th shot when our singer is singing.This is a picture of this shot

Canon camera bag

 

Camera bad is essential equipment, because it protects camera in case it falls. Therefore, we have used this bad at all the time.