Music video ideas; Rihanna

Rihanna - Rude Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e82VE8UtW8A

This music video contains post modern elements. It is postmodern as it contains alot of special effects with the use of green screen. It focuses on unexpected perspectives such as mirroring, layering and distoritions. We like parts of this video when text overlaps the visuals and drawn images appear on the visuals. We would want to use a range of colours in our music video to making it abstract and surreal. I think this video collaborates all the other elements of our research together. The video is one of our main focuses. It uses alot of green screen and layering of images. In our music video, we want to include a constant theme throughout. This theme will be a leapord print and will feature in the backgrounds aswell as mise-en-scene. The editing will be fast paced and made up of quick cuts to match the time of the beat.

I analysed the video in terms of shots and as a whole the video contains;
65 different Background images,
107 Shots of her,
11 shots of males,
and 23 shots of them together.

Our music video will contain more shots of the female model which is Hannah. I have created many background images which will feature in the music video changing in time with the cuts.

Media schedule for Coursework

This is my Media schedule for my coursework. I want to try and work to these dates so we meet the dealine. Most the tasks will be shared within my group as well as us working together. This will make it easier to stick to the schedule.

13th January onwards; Research and planning on music video, magazines and CD covers

Start of February; sort out music soundtrack
10th February; Practical lesson using digital cameras
12th February; lesson on editing using adobe premiere
13th February onwards; filming music video
1st March onwards; editing music video
5th March; start taking photo’s for the magazine and CD cover
7th March onwards; start creating the magazine and working on CD cover
1st April; DEADLINE!

Update blog throughout the weeks of work

Location idea's and inspiration

This link is of a niche music video. The location is a possible location we can use as we could film against a plain background or a brick wall to give it a raw effect. The background could be plain so the effects and layers stand out aswell as costume as bright colours.

Delinquent ft Kcat-My Destiny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KHtASLwuU0

This video was filmed against a blank wall aswell as cuts to a brick wall. There are parts of the video which include a metal fence and cuts back to dj's in the background on DJ decks. The video gives a raw effect and works well with the sound as niche is a raw/underground genre of music.

Music video idea’s

Mise-en-scene - These are a few idea's for our mise-en-scene for our own music video inspired by the research we carried out.
Location;
• Outdoor
• Graffiti/brick wall/shutter OR plain white wall ( green screen and edited)
• Raw effect

Lighting;
• Late afternoon/early evening if filmed outdoors
• Part artificial lighting

Costume; (Female)
• Leotard OR little shorts and a skimpy top.
• Revealing but provocative
• Female will titillate male target audience, contain leapard print.

Costume; (male)
• single male in video
• Baggy jeans and a funky t-shirt
• Cap
• Accessories, big chain
• Male will attract the female audience

Make-up;
• Leotard outfit-subtle make-up, main focus is costume
• Shorts outfit-wild make-up, focus more of face

Acting;
• Mainly dancing
• No narrative structure

Props;
• Old fashioned stereo,
• Big headphones
• (Dj Decks)
• Large frame

Research on Music Videos

These links are of video's that inspire our idea's for our music video.

Gnarls barkly-crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2B6SjMh_w

In this video, I like the symmetry effect all the way throughout. I would like to include part symmertry in my video with the use of effects. I would make the layers symetrical on both sides if I did use this idea. We also like the images created from the black ink in the video. An idea would be to include images like the ones in the Gnarls Barkly video but related to our song.

Black eyed peas-boom boom pow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m48GqaOz90

In this video, the 'juttering' was an idea I would like to use. When the song get slightly remixed back, the visuals also get 'stuck' on the sound as if the CD was skipping. (e.g. 13-16seconds into the video). As a baseline song, our track has parts which skip and jutter and the idea in the Black Eyed Peas video would work well with our soundtrack.