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What music meas to me

Childhood:

This was the first music that I actually got into as it was the first album that was given to me. It is a Danish band though all their songs are in English. We played this CD in the car a lot when I was younger, and on holidays, so it always reminds me of good times when I play any of their songs. This particular song was my favourite because it seemed really happy and upbeat.

Early Teens:

I clearly remember this song from my early teens as it was a very popular song and was the first album that I bought myself. This song was what made Gorillaz my favourite band for a long while. The music videos for their songs where always interesting and new. I played this song again and again so it has really been stuck in my memory from that, and how ever much I play it I never get tired of hearing it. 

Now:

I have recently got into Dubstep and this is one of the songs that I currently enjoy the beat of. I enjoy the heavy beat and it always fits whatever mood i'm in. Skrillex is probably my favourite Dubstep artist as I like his rhythm and beats, but I also really enjoy Flux Pavilion but I decided to use this song as it is the one I listen to most at the moment.

Prelim Evaluation

1. Did you enjoy the media workshop day? What was the best bits and why?

I did enjoy the workshop day. I enjoyed helping out while waiting for the dance. I found that helping out helped me to learn about all the aspects of the film crew and equipment. Then when it came to dancing it was  nice to feel part of a group. My favourite part of the day was helping out with the shoot and getting free sweets.

2. What have you learnt from participating in all the prelim tasks?

Our first task was to analyse a music video where I analysed Soldier Boy's crank that. This helped us to learn about the music video genre and how the video worked and the conventions behind them. Then we created a lip sync to a set song to learn about editing and how to create a basic music video. Thirdly we had to learn how to perform the dance routine as a group. This helped us to work together to create a smooth routine for the shoot.
3. Are you pleased with the footage and your edit? Is it how you expected it to look?



I am quite pleased with the edit as it does have a strong resemblance to the original, the flaws were more with the footage as many shots were blurry and then multiple shots have characters in different places to where they should be. Even with this I still think we made a very good final piece. From what I saw from last year I actually thought it would be a bit more accurate but i guess with a much larger cast it makes it a lot harder to make precise footage.

4. Do you think your prelim experience will impact next terms music video course work?

I think it will impact it a lot and I will make sure to improve on how I feel the music video could have gone. I will spend more time creating an accurate video to my plan, and I will make sure everyone is doing what they should be and putting their all into it. It is all about preparation and as long as I put time into it then it will turn out how I want and I will be able to overcome the obstacles.

Music video analysis

I will analysing the music video 'Crank That' by Soldier Boy which strongly conforms to performance music video conventions.

I this music video it is very discontinuous having shots from multiple different locations and also including shot of internet videos. This all builds on the audience reaction as most of the shots are of audience members dancing and enjoying the music. The video conforms to all of the conventions of a music video. It has singing by lip syncing throughout and has dancing throughout which is what the audience expects. The dancing is very specific to the artist which attracts his audience and the dance is also supposed to be simple and catchy for more audience appeal. There is a strong juxtaposition of age groups but the video shows that you can connect them together through music. It is quite comical throughout to keep the audience entertained.

The artist is wearing clothing that is strongly identifiable to his person. There are a lot of money shots of him for the audience appeal. He switches between his acting on stage persona to his artist persona when he signs a record deal and meets up with the label. His lyrics connect with different visuals in the video and all of his dancing fits with the music. Overall the video is striking and memorable and clearly shown to be of this specific artist.

Muzzle flash effect research

I have searched through youtube and have found a few different ways of doing it and i have found one that gives a good result without spending hours on it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGI4Ih0PSY&safe=active

This gives a good lighting for the rest of the scene as well but we would need to find the actual muzzle flash animation.

Film Inspirations

                           Shooter

This film is one of the most extensive recent sniper films. We used this a lot for inspiration as it had dozens of sniper scenes and had very varied shot types. The different uses of scoped in and different perspectives give all the shots different feels which meant we could choose different perspectives to get across our specific ideas. The two scenes we have favored most are the one where he takes a mile-long shot at a can which fires the bullet in while looking at the shooter and then looks through the scope as it hits the can and makes it explode. We could use a similar technique but have a zombies head instead of a can. The other shot we liked was the fast paced scene at the end when he takes out four guards in a matter of seconds from long range. We may have a shot similar but we are in favor of having a more skill based sniper rather than being able to shoot four zombies in the head within a matter of seconds from over 100 meters away.

Zombieland

This film has what we feel has a good representation of zombies and we will represent our zombies in a very similar way. When people get bitten in the film they turn into a zombie within 24 hours. This means that they have a sudden hunger for human flesh and have no longer have any memory of their previous life and only have primal instincts that completely control them. They also do not gain any strengthened physical aspects. They run slightly slower but can run for long distances. They can't sprint and they can easily be sneaked around. They can only die by trauma to the head or by mass damage to the rest of the body. They also have a very nice ratio of humans to zombies where you don't see hordes of zombies everywhere but you also only rarely find other survivors.

I Am Legend

Although we don't like how the zombies are represented, in that they are like vampires and only come out at night or they get burned. We prefer the more conventional zombie representations but there are some ideas in this film that we liked. We are also having the use of a military camp where survivors are gathered, though would be considerably smaller. We have also taken inspiration from the final scene, where Will Smith decides to blow up the large horde of zombies by taken his own life with a grenade. We are thinking of having a similar scene at the end of our opening as it conveys lots of emotion and shows how desperate the new dystopian world is. We do feel they have far to few survivors as throughout the film we are led to believe he is the last human on earth. The zombies are also portrayed with intelligence which we would prefer them not to have.

Jobs for meeting on 17th + next week (21st jan)

Jeremy: Finish of mindmap and clearly outline ideas.

Aidan: take pictures of possible locations.

Daniel: Arrange possible locations that aren't for public use and take photographs of the area.