Research on camera movements

There were lots of interesting shots which I looked at; music videos with bands. But because our group decided to include a narrative I researched a music video with similar narrative as ours. The artist is Eminem and the song title is No love. It is about a boy who is being bullied in school and later on he stands up for him self. Because I will be shooting the narrative i looked at the camera techniques which are used. There were close ups of the boy's face and use of slow motion whenever the bullies are bullying him. I think slow motion is used to make the audience feel the pain like the boy. We won't use slowmotion because it's a fast and punk music but we will shoot close ups of the faces to show the facial expressions of the actors. One thing that I found out that the editing skill sthat we diid for our fast and slow sequece is shown in the music video. At the end of the music video the boy's face keeps coming up matched to the music.

These are the shots that we will shoot:
-Back to back shots of the band
-Close ups (not only face)
-Static shots of the band
-Singer at the front singing and guitarist as the backround
-Film instruments in different angles
-Track the singer
-Film behind objects
-Hand motions from the singer

by Sung min

Narrative? or no Narrative?

On 1st of October we went to the drama studio to film performance scene. I think we rushed in to film because we felt that we were behind than everybody else in our class. We found out that we didn't plan specifically and in depth also we found out that because we were not proffessional band there were limits in performing shots and produce the music video with only performances. On the other hand, there was only one guitarist in the band when we filmed in the drama hut; we needed another guitarist so we decided that I will be the guitarist. And so we came to a conclusion that we should include narrative which is related to the lyrics.

These were the few ideas that we had:
-boy friend and girl friend relationship-place the camera as the point of view of the boy so when he looks down on her, the camera looks down the singer
-friend to friend relationship-best friends but starts to bully her and then through our the song she stands up for her self


We analysed the lyrics as well:

by Sung min

Results to questionnaire

1. Are you female or male?

• Female -> 13
• Male -> 7

1. How old are you?

• 13-15 -> 1
• 16-18 ->7
• 19-21 -> 5
• 21-23 -> 4
• 24+ -> 3

1. Whats your favourite genre of music?

• Pop ->3
• R n B-> 2
• Rock -> 5
• Classic -> 1
• Indie -> 6
• Punk -> 3
• Soft -> 0

1. Who is your favourite band?

• Paramore ->5
• Versa Emerge -> 4
• Ting Tings -> 2
• Veruca Salt -> 1
• Bring me the Horizon -> 4
• Bullet for my Valentine -> 3
• My Chemical Romance -> 2

1. Do you play an instrument?

• Yes -> 12
• No -> 8

1. How many times have you been to a music concerts?

• Many ->2
• Some -> 6
• 1 or 2 -> 7
• Never -> 5

1. Do you like all-female bands?

• Yes -> 7
• No -> 13

1. Do you buy CD's?

• Yes -> 4
• No -> 16

By Louise Thorne and Sung-min

Practice shots

This is our practive shots of what we will or might do in our music video. I wanted to have a go at editing, so for this clip I experimented editing with the music. I found out tha it takes a lot of time but when you know what you are doing it actually is very fun. Even though the singer doen't sing, I tired to match it with the visuals and the lyrics; like when the lyrics are 'I watch you change from light to dark', I used the fade to show this visully. Also when I researched other music videos I found out that they film behind objects in punk music videos so I tried this by shooting the singer behind bushes Further on different shots of the guitar as well as the singer, I found out that re-using editing will provide continuity and will make the viewer to become familiar with it.

Questionnaire

1. Are you female or male?
2. How old are you?
3. What is your favourite genre of music?
4. Who is your favourite band?
5. Do you play an instrument?
6. How many times have you been to a music concerts?
7. Do you like all-female bands?
8. Do you buy Cd's?

by Sung min 

Storyboard

After we had an idea what to do for our narrative in our music video, we started doing the storyboard. We started by dividing the seconds with the lyrics and planned what we are going to film and drew them. We knew that the storyboard will help us to be more organised; we know this when we did our opening sequence of a film. As we planned it we knew what kind of props we need as well as other equipments. Drawing by hand was difficult to show how we are going to do it but it is there to help us. To help us further we wrote down the lyrics beneath so that the singer know which line she will sing and for the camera man to know how to shoot that scene. We tried to put various of different camera shots like close up shot but in a high angle. We brought this to every time we filmed but as we did it lots of changes were made I think is due to not enough research and planning. For the music video to turn out better I think next time we should actually go to the location and do some practice shots and see if we could actually film as we would like to. Next time, when we do the storyboard we could add some colour and be more specific about each shots and also think the angles of the camera that will go well with different types of editing.

by Sung min

StoryBoard

The StoryBoard is in Order from 1-10, 1 at the top and 10 the bottom