Rebecca Wood 9282 A2 Advanced Portfolio

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

Front Cover: For the front I used a photo of the microphone with a shallow depth of field so that the background is out of focus. Although in the image you can see still that there is a band formation in the background. In Photoshop I edited the image along side the other photos for the CD. If you have seen my previous blog post on the filming of the music video you might recognize the shot. I ran the file through Photoshop to adjust the composition so that it was more balanced using the rule of thirds. Also so that it was the correct size for a CD cover 4.724 inches, or 4.974 with the bleed area. The bleed area is so that no unprinted edges occur. The colours and brightness were changed to be constant with the inlay. Back Cover: What I've noticed when doing this task is that the print colours can look quite different from the ones on a monitor screen. The blue hue did come out more than I expected it to, as you can see there is quite a stark difference between the screens...

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:

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

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.

Working in a group of four, we are currently planning to re-create Pharrell William's 'Happy' video. This will be similar to the original's 0:00-0:30 section.