Rebecca Wood 9282 A2 Advanced Portfolio

Textual Analysis Of Various Albums from 10woodre

Today we filmed for our recreation of Popscene, here are some photos I took for the CD cover task alongside the one minute recreation of the music video. For the background we used black paper so that we had a simple background which made the band stand out. We decided to get shots from a variety of angles and positions to give the music video interesting for the audience and to stay similar to the original. There were a few takes done from above with me standing above the band looking down at them with the camera. Then I went round the group following the action and getting close-up shots of each person and shots of their feet. We had quite a simple mise-en-scene for our performance music video: Guitar/bass guitar (with leads) drum kit (with drum sticks ) amplifiers microphone and stand Wet floor cone While filming the video we decided to get photos for our CD cover. I took quite a few so that we had large enough selection for the inlay. Here are some of them:

Here's the a list of some of the key shots in the original Popscene music video, and the key shots that will be included in our version:

Here's some of the articles I've been reading in order to get use to filming with the DSLR again ahead of our second recreation task: Produce Your Best Ever DSLR Video-6 key areas to consider 5 Essential Settings You Need To Double Check Before Shooting Video On Your DSLR (Or Cinema Camera)

We are planning on doing a recreation of Blur's Popscene music video, directed by David Mould. We've discussed possible venues to film the music video, and we've decided on the school hall. This location is close to the music department where we are allowed to borrow equipment such as microphones and microphone stands, as well as a drum kit and amplifiers. These will help to set the scene and make it look more like performance video

The Strokes - Reptilia Reptilia is a performance piece video, throughout the video there are only shots of band (The Strokes). There is more emphasis on the instruments in this video rather than a narrative, the use of shallow depth of field, coupled with the consistent use of close-ups draws the viewer's attention to the band playing the piece.This therefore meets the demands of the record label (Rough Trade) like Goodwin stated in his theory. Lip syncing and synchronisation of the instruments is used. For example when the guitar riff comes in it cuts to a close-up of the guitar's fretboard with the guitarist playing in sync to the track. At 2:56 there's a cut from rhythm guitar to both rhythm guitar and bass guitar. A couple of seconds later the screen splits into four, and there's the lead guitar and vocalist shown on screen as well, showing all the instruments playing at once (expect drums). At the end of the last chorus the speed of the cutting between s

history of music videos Infographic

As practice for our main task we made a short re-creation of the music video to 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams. One shot we found hard was the initial tracking shot through the classroom door. Originally we filmed it with me and the camera on a tripod sat on a office chair with wheels. However, due to the bump of when the chair crossed into the classroom we decided that the footage wasn't stable enough. Although, after filming again with a shoulder mount the footage was more stable. Half of the footage was film in school and the rest was film outside of school. The overall look of the video isn't really too consistent because multiple people and cameras were used to capture the footage so there wasn't continuity in the setup of the camera. That being said it was only a preliminary task to get us used to the equipment again and to the different pace of music videos.

Here's a case study of the video we are planning to do a 30 second video for: Happy’ – pharrell williams (case study) from 10woodre