Music Video
Skills Audit
Demo Work
Demo Work
Demo Work
Contents
Demo Work
Contents
> Theoretical exploration of the purpose
and application of research
> Secondary research into
music video genres, codes, conventions,
techniques, and theories
> Primary research with the
client to inform ideas development
> Focus group presentation of ideas for
feedback and review via questionnaire
survey
Moving Demo
Staging and Blocking
Monday 24th January
The first half of todays lesson was purely theoretical. We were looking at staging and blocking. To do this we analysed a couple of scenes from popular movies, as well as looking at what goes into staging and blocking behind the scenes.
Then in the second half we applied this theoretical knowledge. We picked a random short scene from a random film and filmed it using the knowledge we’d just learned. Slightly annoyingly, I was used as one of the actors which means I didn’t get too much experience behind the camera, but we will be doing another similar task on Wednesday, so I will make sure to do some technical work then.
Wednesday 26th January
We did our proper staging ang blocking practical today. As I said on Monday, I wanted to get more of a role behind the camera, and so today I chose to be in control of the audio. This was especially good as a while ago I missed the lesson on the audio technology, so being able to use it today was especially good in getting my knowledge back up.
Being in control of audio meant I was using the audio zoom recorder and the boom mic with the boom pole. Using the boom pole was especially fun to use, I learned especially that holding it for a while can get very tiring on my arms, but it was a great learning experience.
Once we finished recording we were able to upload all our shots and audio recordings. There are several audio recordings that we can delete as I did a couple of test shots throughout, but overall there should be everything that we need. We will be editing this demo in lesson tomorrow.
Thursday 27th January
I thought we were going to have the first half of today to work on project 2 but instead we were given the whole lesson to edit the staging and blocking task from yesterday. It was good to get plenty of time for editing, but it was slightly annoying we couldn’t work on project 2.
I started my edit by putting all my shots in the correct order. We had a rough order planned out, but the vast majority was up to me. I was happy with the order I chose and I believe it helped to keep up the pace of the piece.
Once I had the visuals, I added in all the proper audio recordings. This took a lot longer than I thought it would, which restricted the time I had to add effects later on. However, I believe this was time well spent as getting all the better audio recordings helped the scene feel much more professional. There were a couple of transitions between the different audio tracks which I felt were a little rough. If I were had more time with editing I would have liked to make these transitions a bit more smoother.
I finished my edit with adding an adjustment layer, which I then added a slight green colouring to. This was to emulate the more Matrix feel, and I was pretty happy with how it came out. Overall, I was pretty happy with my edit and I thought the final piece gave our work justice.