Performance shooting and editing lip synching

After yesterdays filming we spent an hour in todays lesson editting our shots and lip syching. We also discovered on after-effects that we could bend the lighting effects and texture ect. of a film clip to our preference. We then moved which clips we wanted to iMovie so we could time the music with the lip synching of the lead singer during the performance shots.

Filming Schedule

10:15 : begin to set up the musical equipment on the stage where the main performance is filmed.

11:00 finish the setting up of the drums guitars and lights for the main performance.

11: 15 film the non-performance shots of the video including design elements ie colored screens and fish eye lens.

1:00 start the performance filming with all members of the band playing instruments . also camera and light operators need to set up their equipment .

- during this stage as well as following are plan for the performance clips in our music video, we would like to experiement what angles and shot we can gain from the stage.

3:50 stop filming, put all the equipment back and clear the stage

NOUGHTS AND CROSSES FOR MUSIC VIDEO

We had to create noughts and crosses from pieces of card for a clip in our music video and we spent half an hour having to cut them. The noughts and crosses game highlights a theme in our music video of the bang being very playful, reference to Lyrics "play super scalextrics".

When we used our noughts and crosses and coloured pieces of card - this was the outcome (picture left). A birds eye angle shot allowed us to view the giant version of noughts and crosses. The strong sweet flourecent colours relate to the child like playful theme along with the theme of our digi pack. With two band members playing the game, once captured on camera, we moved the clip onto iMovie then edited the parts we wanted, increasing the speed of the clip in succession with the beat of the music.  

DIGI (back)

This is a reverse angle of the front cover with exactly the same hand positions. It show strong contrasting neon colours as a pattern on the back drop of the Photoshopped pictures of the band members.

DIGI PACK (Middle)

The first image shows the band in a natural position again with the headless effect and a posterized effect in order to make the bodys more defined.

 


The second image here is the list of songs from the album, the is an obvious convention of albums all having song lists

DIGIPACK (front cover)

This is the image that is going to be the front of our digipack, a repetitive pattern along with Photoshopped photos. The headless people are the other members of the band, however I am at the front of the digipack so i stand out more being the lead singer. This is an entertaining humerus representation of the band members because of the surreal body without heads, this is due to every other being normal in the representation apart from the heads. We are subverting from convention because we do not show all of our band members which is an uncommon theme among artist's which would conventionally like showing there face on the front cover. We decided to pose our band members in a very symmetrical fully frontal pose, this symmetry fits in with the repetitive patterning of the background. The rigidity of the pose is an amusing subversion of what happens in the video, allot of audiences would recognize that we have used an example intertextuality, our designs deliberately echoes Magrittes famous surreal image 'the Son of Man'. Our cd design fits in really well with out video because

- we feature the band members as playful 

- our use of bright contrasting colors 

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NME: Are Major Labels About To Abandon The CD? Er, No

Recent satistics have shown that CD's are becoming sur-plus to the music industry due to the popularity of online music download e.g itunes, however NME argue how important the CD is to the music industry http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?blog=146&title=are_major_labels_about_to_abandon_the_cd_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1