LESSON WORK

Today we have worked on our treatment coming up with new ideas, we want to have a color background and have pictures of the band members face onto it for a colorful and comic like effect in the video. We can use the software Comic Life and add it into the video as a stop frame effect to make it look like a comic.

We have also decided on our 5 band members with a lead singer, drummer. bast and 2 guitarists

MUSIC VIDEO ANALYSIS PREZI

Here is my music video analysis of 3 videos on Prezi online. Prezi is a software we have used before and here we have created a presentation of music video's analyzed. We used the Prezi format because i found it dynamic and exiting and formal at the same time in a new way.

http://prezi.com/sgerqln6n39t/a2-media-analysis-of-3-videos/

TREATMENT RESEARCH

Today we have looked into how to write up a treatment for our planned video. We have looked at websites such as http://www.georgeking-assoc.com/education/vid101c_summer07/how-to-treatment.html. We found out that the treatment is to present in the present tense what we are going to do in our music video. So now we are going to start writing out our treatment for our video.

MACCABEES

The Maccabees are a UK based alternative band who we are making our music video for. We want 5 members of the band such as in this image. They were colorful clothes and have long hairstyles. They have had 2 previous albums 'Color it in" (2007) and 'Wall of Arms' (2009). The song we are going to use is Precious time released in 2009 from the 'Wall of Arms' album.

The Maccabees are known for being very colorful and alternative as people. Their album covers are usually very bright with primary colors. There videos are also very creative using stop frame animation and studio work performances we how to emulate this style.

MUSIC VIDEO ANALYSIS

Today we have analyzed music videos in class we have looked at narrative and performance elements of the some music videos. We looked at Wheatus - Teenage Dirtbag. We looked at the conventions of this video. The first element we noticed were performance shots of the band with close us of lip syncing with very stylized gestures.

This pleases audiences with the feel as though they are getting close to the stars of the video of the band. Most videos are not primarily narrative and mostly include band performances shots

ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS

We have been using new software on the macs in Adobe After Effects. we have experimented on it in todays lesson by looking at potential effects within the actual video itself.

We have seen how to do this by watching tutorials on Video CoPilot. We have found effects useful and can possibly use these in our video.