Rebecca Wood 9282 A2 Advanced Portfolio

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I've began to look at the lyrics, and the overall atmosphere and tone of She's Hearing Voices creates; in order to start to come with some more concrete ideas. Here's some of ideas I've come up with,  after listening to the song at least a hundred times.

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An effects I've found that I would like to explore is colour isolation. I'd like to pick out red and blue for my music video so that it links directly to the lyrics, 'red pill, blue pill...'

I've started thinking about which songs that I can do for the music video task. I was think about She's Lost Control by Joy Division because I could imagine a narrative following a person that was lost control of their life. However I'm quite reluctant to make a music video for this song, even though it hasn't got one already, it's still quite a famous song and band, therefore I couldn't include a band in video and I like to idea of having both a narrative and performance video in one. Another song idea I had was Moaning Lisa Smile by Wolf Alice, I had a few ideas about this song but there is already a music video to it. She's Hearing Voices by Bloc Party is another song I am considering, as the lyrics are interesting and have a possible reference to the Matrix, which means I can include intertextual references in my video. There is also no music video to this songs,which is good and a narrative/performance video could work with the track. Joy Division -...

Here's an article from Q magazine from September 2015, it talks about controversy in music videos. It mainly focuses on Rihanna's event video for Bitch Better Have My Money. It raises some interesting points on how far is too far for music videos, and when does artistic creation blurs to simply just for sales. It implies that since the Billboard Top 100 and The Top 40 have made music videos count as part of the chart position, artists/record labels have been creating intentional music videos to shock people and cause a stir online. I agree with this to some extent. It is completely possible for music videos to be made just for sales and money, but on the contrary many are also made to raise awareness to a certain zeitgeist in society at the time. On the other hand, Rihanna's audience isn't fixed to one demographic, and many children may listen to her music. Since the internet is almost accessible to all, there is also the possibility that young children might see this ...

We were tasked with taking photos against a consistent background for album covers in preparation for the digipack task later on in the course. There were a range of different typical album cover shots to choose from, I also added in a few extra as well. For the photos I used a DSLR on a tripod, and I also decided to set up an additional light source to the right of camera to create harsher shadows.  The light source (two phones attached to a hole punch with blue tac) 'WE ARE A LOT OF FUN' Album Cover: For this photo I changed the green screen to black on Photoshop so that we stood out against the background. I later de-saturated the image a little, and adjusted the colour balance to give it a red hue. I also used a ball prop to make us look more 'fun'.  'GANGSTER' Album Cover: This image was also ran through Photoshop. Again I got rid of the bright green background. For the 'gangster' look I decided to have an out of focus clenched hand c...

Today I decided to have a go at using a green screen, I want to see if it would be something that I could use for my music video. I used this article to help me get rid of the green background in Premiere Pro: How to Chroma Key in Adobe Premiere Pro Chroma keying is usually something that is done in After Effects, but sometimes, whether the simplicity of the project or just the fact that you do not want to send your footage to After Effects, you'll want to chroma key in Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro comes with a great keyer built right in called "ultra key." Here's a short video, note this is only for practice purposes and trying out the keying setting on Premiere Pro. After trying out the green I don't think I would use it in the music video, because it would be hard to make it look like the two aren't different images due to lighting consistency, and I don't think it would fit in with the narrative/song I'm thinking about making a music video fo...