Rebecca Wood 9282 A2 Advanced Portfolio

Today I thought I'd use some 'left' over footage from the Pitch Video to experiment and practice with effects solely in Premiere Pro.  I found a way of creating a flash bulb transition by key framing a small section at a high brightness (appearing to be almost white), and changing it back to normal. It's an effect I've been meaning to try out as it is quite common in music video and is an effect I will consider for post-production of my video. I have practiced changing the rate of the video playback in my previous videos but yet again it is typical of music videos, especially slowing down shots to get a more dramatic effect (like in the Editors' No Harm video ). I also had a go at cloning myself at the end, which was tricky than I thought. It would have been easier if I had planned out the proxemics. Although after a bit of tweaking I think I managed to convey the illusion of there being two of me in the room. 

Here's a feedback sheet my teacher gave me in response to my preliminary music video for Popscene

I've contacted Bloc Party's current label, Infectious Music, to get in touch about using their song as part of my coursework. They are a UK independent record label which was re-launched in 2009 but was first formed in 1993. They sign mainly alternative acts, such as Alt-J, Drenge and White Lies.  http://www.infectiousmusicuk.com/

Music video pitch from 10woodre

I've come across a few online articles when searching for the best music videos of all time, using ratings from NME, timeout and Billboard I've complied a short list of the music video that are considered to be the best of all time. Interestingly the music videos I've looked at are all completely different in concept and type.  Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit Influence for the look of the video came from the 1979 film, Over The Edge. The band distributed out flyers two days before the shoot, asking fans to appear in the video. A radio station in LA (KXLU) also made a casting call for extras. At the end of the filming, Kurt Cobain suggested letting the extras wreck the set. Bayer, the director, agreed and the destruction at the end of the music video occurred. Kurt didn't like the director's cut, so he personally watched over the re-edit, which is the final version. Amy Finnerty, who had only just joined the music programming department at MTV, campaigne

Untitled The Stone Roses For the album cover, Squire (the guitarist in the band) produced a painting titled 'Bye Bye Badman' that was his take on the May 1968 Paris riots. Hence the french flag in the painting. The Lemons link to the lemons that were used to neutralise the effect of the tear gas used in the riots. It is a Jackson Pollock-influenced piece. Squire said that "Apart from untitled, I made the album covers on canvasses that are roughly four times the size of a vinyl album." Untitled was used on the front of their greatest hits album Source - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/may/13/stone-roses-john-squire-art Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of the Moon Pink Floyd's album covers are pretty famous. The band's light spectrum prism is one the most well known . Initial inspiration came from a was a photo of a prism on top of some sheet music. The prism on the cover is related mostly to a light show, according to the designer of the album cover