Dance Rehearsal - Music Video

Digital Pack Analysis - Lloyd Banks

Above is a example of another digital pack from the R&B artist Lloyd Banks. The first thing I see is the hugh intertexual reference to money and the connotations of that. The dollar bill is iconic in the world for its gangster link and the fact that as a gangster you are constantly trying to get more money, legal or not. The idea that Lloyd Banks has chosen this style is to build a image for identify in which his fans of the him can look up to and aspire too. There are two ways of reading this pack. The first is the representations of youth and also in some cases black people and how they are shown in society, it is usually very negative relating to crime and violence that money could be the problem. The other way of reading the artwork is the fact that it could mean that it is for young people to have high dreams and could aspire to do as well as Lloyd and as the cover shows to make a lot of money. The colour scheme is very true to the gangster way of life and the dollar bill. Overall I like this digital pack due to it nature of building identities for the artist. With relation to my artist, we want to build a very light heart image and to show that the artist does not take himself too seriously.

Journal Three

This week have tried to focus on the final development before we start to shoot. We have chosen to do some rehearsals before we start to shoot to make sure that what is filmed is as high standard as the final video looks and sounds like. To do this we, as a group decided to meet every week and work on the dance routines that will be featured in our final music video. The dance we learnt this week were 'Macarena' and 'Cha Cha Side' because we plan to spoof theses throughout the video. I feel that theses rehearsal have been successful as we now have I primary idea of what the video will finally look like. Also from theses exercise we have found that we need to learn the dances to the beat of 'One More Time' as the beats are different for all the songs so we will have to speed up or slow down some of the dances. Also this week, I made sure that we had all the locations sorted before we started shooting. We have planned t soot at another school location, to accomplish a old more traditional feel to our video, and to make it more relatable.

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Calendar - Our Production Plan

Can’t see it

 

Locations

you should have pictures from a recce     How are you getting access to Woolwich Poly?

 

Potential Errors

Who wrote this cause I’ve read it 4 times now!

 

Progress, Ideas and Discussion

I can’t watch this video YouTube have blocked it for copyright – YOU SHOULD HAVE NOTICED THIS

 

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Where are your comments on your feedback?

 

Digital Pack Analysis

Change the dimensions, it doesn’t fit

 

Capitalisum, creativity and the crisis in the music industry –

also spot the spelling mistake which Leanne DID MENTION IN YOUR FEEDBACK!

 

This serves no purpose as you have just copied and pasted you haven’t passed any comment on what you have understood from it or how this will impact on your artist in conjunction with the production of the digipak

 

Major Labels vs. Independent Labels

 

Copying and pasting from Wikipedia doesn’t constitute as research what it actual mean is that ‘I’m lazy’. You should be referencing where you are copying and pasting from and commenting on what knowledge you have gained and how this contribute to your project or even better read the research on the internet put it in your own words and reference whereyou got your knowledge from. You have actually got a really good video if you comment on it would be better.

 

As much as I love your visuals you also need to make relevant commentary on Big Four

Adorno and Horkheimers Theory some quotes in this would be good and also linking it to your artist

 

The Breif

SPELLING!

 

Paradise - Coldplay (Directed by Mat Whitecross)

This lacks detail and clearly you have NOT EVEN BOTHERED TO ACTION LEANNES FEEDBACK because she already mentioned this.

 

 

• I have now hopefully sorted the problem with the production plan and not being able to see it. 

• I have now changed the locations write up into my own words to avoid mix-up with copying fellow group mates.

•  I have now also added a post on Iconic Album Artworks with links to boosh.

Above is the feedback given by one of the course tutors. I feel that I still need to add a lot to my blog, I do understand the individual work load needed for the is high, but as a group we where told we can share the task of some the posts that are relate-able to our group work, such as location when that will be the same for all our groups. Id understand and will take on board the comments but the fact that I have been accused of copying all from other members is bit strong since there is no evidence to who did what task. This needs to be made clearer and we will discuss this as a group.

Calendar - Our Production Plan

Locations

We have a lot of potential location's that we can use to film our music video.  It will be a challenge to avoid using the typical shots at tour school because it could make our music video look lazy.  We have also taken into consideration that we need enough room to use a green screen we had to decide on a big room so that we have space to dance and not damage any of the equipment. We have decided that one of the drama rooms would be an ideal location, this is because we will have enough room to set up the equipment we are going to use e.g. lighting, green screen and camera. In addition the drama room doesn't have any natural lighting, this will be play a major part when filming. By not having any natural lighting it means that it won't affect the green screen when filming, if there is any uneven light shone onto the green screen it could make it more difficult when editing the green screen out. Before we are able to use the room we have to be granted permission from the person who resides in the room, if we are then granted permission we have to negotiate a day and time we are able to use it.

Another location that we are looking to shoot our music video at is Woolwich Polytechnic school for boys. We have decided that we would like to use a different location other than Welling School; this is because we do not want to be predictable in our locations and we would like to think we have made an effort in finding locations other than our own school and as a group we decided that too many videos have been shot in this specific location. Woolwich Polytechnic would be a good location because people wouldn't be familiarized with this location. The location is the main part of the song as it is set in a school, before we can use it we have to obtain permission from the school itself. Again if we are granted with permission we have to see when we are able to shoot, we have to find a time and day that suits us all. The way in which we would get the access to woolwich poly, is to write a letter to the school asking permission to use there school two night after school hours to get the maximum amount of shots.

Potential Errors

There are several potential errors that could affect the shooting of our music video. The first and major problem is that our first choice location, Woolwich Polytechnic, may be unwilling to allow us to film there, we also have to get permission to use the rooms that we are going to be in use, we plan on using a drama room and we will have to get permission to use it from the teacher in the room. Both of these problems can be avoided by simply getting permission before we go there and getting a time slot as to when we can use the spaces that we want, and after we have got the permission then we will be good to go on with filming. Another potential problem is that we all have to learn the dance routines that we will be performing in the music video. We can eradicate this by making sure that we are all practising the dances prior to the filming and together so that we can all try to be in time when it actually comes to shooting the video.We will have to edit out the green-screen and make sure that the lighting is correct so that during editing this doesn't cause a problem a error with the lighting could lead to us having to re-shoot the whole video as the lighting was just wrong, and we have to make sure that the green-screen is set up properly to give us the best results. If we can avoid all of these errors then we will have made the best music video that we possibly could.