Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone from Ain on Vimeo.
Richard Ayoade also directed this very simple but effective video.
Monday, 27 September 2010
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
ARCTIC MONKEYS - Crying Lightning from Framestore design on Vimeo.
This video, aswell as the song, is quite dark and mysterious.
The mise en scene is very ominous and and dark, and quite descolate. ALso quite cool and spooky with them all playing in this huddled little boat with lights for a sial and the microphone stand like the maiden head along with the fact that they can stand up totaly fine in this tiny little boat that looks like it will tip over at certain points. Pretty cool. The camra work is nothing particularly that special how ever it still works really well, especially the swooping over the water shot at the beggining, of course this whole video was done on green screen also so there were a lot of clever angles they could have achieved.
The music video for the single debuted on Channel 4 in UK on 24 July 2009.
The music video, directed by Richard Ayoade (who worked with the band previously on the video for "Fluorescent Adolescent", as well as their "At the Apollo" live DVD), shows the band performing the song on a boat on a rough sea. During a short instrumental interlude, a large figure rises up from the sea in the form of frontman, Turner. He falls to his knees where the boat passes between his legs before the other three band members (Cook, Helders and O'Malley) also rise up out from the water.
Richard Ayoade also Directed Arctic Monkeys Live At The Apollo DVD.
Arctic Monkeys - Teddy Picker
Arctic Monkeys : Teddy Picker from Hairol Fitri on Vimeo.
This video is very effective at making the viewer feel closer to the band by giving them an inside view to their life when they're actually in this big old expensive recording studio in London. The Mise En Scene is also very personal and interesting, showing the band placing personal items on their amps and them looking at old chart songs which they have covered. The Editing is very fast paced with lots of quick changes but also slow-paced with the out of the studio shots being slowed down a little. There are also a variety of shots used to make the studio environment look glamerous aswell with shots such as Alex dancing with a light behind him and them relaxing in the massive leather studio chairs. Some of the camera-work is really interesting too with shots revolving around them as they sing or play and close up shots of personal objects and the like.
Friday, 24 September 2010
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm
Arctic Monkeys - Brianstorm from jean portela frongia on Vimeo.
I'd like to have the jesters in my video dance in a similar way to the dancers in this video. Plus this video is awesome.
The Editing is very very fast paced to go with hte musicality of the song. The mise en scene is slightly commercial and slightly band like too with the dancers in front of a big LED screen and the band playing infront of them. But it also feels like the dancers are dancing to the music as they're facing the band or you could see it that the band are watching the dancers and playing as the camera shots come from both sides.
Production Idea
Music Video: Arctic Monkeys - Secret Door
Lead Character walking through the city and sees these strange looking jesters setting up for something. He stops to look at them and looks right down the camera close up of the jesters mouth as he says the first line of the song, then they all start dancing, and our main character walks on. Gets back and gets shouted at by his girlfriend straight away as he's late, they're going to a boring, middle class dinner party. He get's ready quite quickly and remembers glimpses of the jesters in slow motion. At the dinner party he seems out of place, out of mind and really doesn't want to be there. people keep trying to talk to him but he just ignores them and keeps singing the song. They leave him to hold his coat and his glass of champagne at the buffet table. A couple of the less popular guests start talking to him, well really talking to each other in front of him. Then a shot going through all the guests talking about business and all that rubbish up to his eyes then the camera turns back round and he's looking at the guests being the jesters, his fool's on parade. They do a big dance thing. Then the leader of the other jesters who he saw singing earlier sneaks around behind him and comes up and takes it's mask of, it's his old girlfriend we saw in pictures in his room when he was getting ready, they walk off arm in arm and before he goes he turns around and stops to think about the dancing guests/jesters and we see them behind him then he walks on again, out of the dinner party house and down the drive, holding his arm out and no one else is there.
Lead Character walking through the city and sees these strange looking jesters setting up for something. He stops to look at them and looks right down the camera close up of the jesters mouth as he says the first line of the song, then they all start dancing, and our main character walks on. Gets back and gets shouted at by his girlfriend straight away as he's late, they're going to a boring, middle class dinner party. He get's ready quite quickly and remembers glimpses of the jesters in slow motion. At the dinner party he seems out of place, out of mind and really doesn't want to be there. people keep trying to talk to him but he just ignores them and keeps singing the song. They leave him to hold his coat and his glass of champagne at the buffet table. A couple of the less popular guests start talking to him, well really talking to each other in front of him. Then a shot going through all the guests talking about business and all that rubbish up to his eyes then the camera turns back round and he's looking at the guests being the jesters, his fool's on parade. They do a big dance thing. Then the leader of the other jesters who he saw singing earlier sneaks around behind him and comes up and takes it's mask of, it's his old girlfriend we saw in pictures in his room when he was getting ready, they walk off arm in arm and before he goes he turns around and stops to think about the dancing guests/jesters and we see them behind him then he walks on again, out of the dinner party house and down the drive, holding his arm out and no one else is there.
Monday, 13 September 2010
Action Points
Analyze, mise en scene, camera work, editing and effects of a selection of whole short films on the BBC Shortfilms webpage
A2 Brainstorming
Music Video - The Metros. bmx based film maybe, live band video, short docu style band video of the the band rehearsing to recording to playing live, story to lyrics with slowed stop-motion live sequences, interesting stop-motion art type thing for an aphex twin video?
Short Film - some kind of story including de ja vu with lots of repetition, story about some kind of weird gang, story about someone who suffers from some quite entertaining sleeping disorder but then it starts to ruin his life, then it's not funny, and you will feel bad for laughing earlier.
Short Film - some kind of story including de ja vu with lots of repetition, story about some kind of weird gang, story about someone who suffers from some quite entertaining sleeping disorder but then it starts to ruin his life, then it's not funny, and you will feel bad for laughing earlier.
Friday, 10 September 2010
What is Creativity?
The 4 characteristics of Creativity:
Imagination, Purpose, Originality, OfValue.
'Imaginitive activityfashioned so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of value'
Creativity Wheel
Originality
'I can think of unusual ways of doing things' e.g. In music we had to do a lifecycle story and instead of doing birth-life-death i went death-birth-life and wrote the piece around a pheonix. I composed a piece for Jack's AS work which was out of the norm music and helped bring another aspect to the piece, I just don't like to follow the heard along.
'I don't always believe things jsut because everyone else does' e.g. Miss said in media that NME sales were declining because physical print magazines are becoming more and more unpopular where as I really believe that it is jsut because the content of the magazine has become ridiculously unrelated to the music that it used to represent and is no longer a good music mag.
Value
'I can spot problems and ways of dealing with them' e.g. My band played a gig a few weeks ago and we had no keyboard stand so I suggested we used an ironing board instead, the others bands liked it so much they used it aswell.
'I can see how other people work differently to achieve their purpose' e.g. alot of people around me will plan their answers to things where as I will jsut go for it then go back and correct things and change them afterwards.
Imagination with a Purpose
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Imagination, Purpose, Originality, OfValue.
'Imaginitive activityfashioned so as to produce outcomes that are both original and of value'
Creativity Wheel
Originality
'I can think of unusual ways of doing things' e.g. In music we had to do a lifecycle story and instead of doing birth-life-death i went death-birth-life and wrote the piece around a pheonix. I composed a piece for Jack's AS work which was out of the norm music and helped bring another aspect to the piece, I just don't like to follow the heard along.
'I don't always believe things jsut because everyone else does' e.g. Miss said in media that NME sales were declining because physical print magazines are becoming more and more unpopular where as I really believe that it is jsut because the content of the magazine has become ridiculously unrelated to the music that it used to represent and is no longer a good music mag.
Value
'I can spot problems and ways of dealing with them' e.g. My band played a gig a few weeks ago and we had no keyboard stand so I suggested we used an ironing board instead, the others bands liked it so much they used it aswell.
'I can see how other people work differently to achieve their purpose' e.g. alot of people around me will plan their answers to things where as I will jsut go for it then go back and correct things and change them afterwards.
Imagination with a Purpose
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Wednesday, 8 September 2010
Production Portfolio Briefs
At the moment I want to do the Music Promotion Package, it seems most appealing.
I also quite wanted to do the Short Film choice but 5 minutes doesn't really seem like enough time, but it'll be worth looking in to, perhaps more ideas could be put into it or a simpler idea much expanded.
The Documentary, Local Newspaper and Original Children TV Drama productions don't really appeal to me at all.
I also quite wanted to do the Short Film choice but 5 minutes doesn't really seem like enough time, but it'll be worth looking in to, perhaps more ideas could be put into it or a simpler idea much expanded.
The Documentary, Local Newspaper and Original Children TV Drama productions don't really appeal to me at all.
Monday, 6 September 2010
G325
Written paper sat in the summer. Synoptiv Paper (draws together all course learning). Section A devoted to production work - as/a2 (G324).
For Research tasks I watched numerous film openings on an online site about film openings and watched several films I had remembered opening in a imilar way. I looked into the effects of slowing the clips down and adding large amounts of contrast aswell as changing the levels of light in the camera menu. I asked people in a recorded interview about their preferences to film openings and how they associated them to the rest of the film.
My planning activities didn't really go that well at AS and having recognised this, it is something I intend to work alot harder on effectively getting done in time for the production.
Some of the challenges were that some of the footage moved slightly or was not long enough so I took to slowing the the footage and slightly layering parts over each other after they'd been cropped.
For A2:
Plan better - shots list, props list, location/time needed to be there.
Even more location shooting/wrecking
Plan the dialogue better, alot better.
Organise actors better.
For Research tasks I watched numerous film openings on an online site about film openings and watched several films I had remembered opening in a imilar way. I looked into the effects of slowing the clips down and adding large amounts of contrast aswell as changing the levels of light in the camera menu. I asked people in a recorded interview about their preferences to film openings and how they associated them to the rest of the film.
My planning activities didn't really go that well at AS and having recognised this, it is something I intend to work alot harder on effectively getting done in time for the production.
Some of the challenges were that some of the footage moved slightly or was not long enough so I took to slowing the the footage and slightly layering parts over each other after they'd been cropped.
For A2:
Plan better - shots list, props list, location/time needed to be there.
Even more location shooting/wrecking
Plan the dialogue better, alot better.
Organise actors better.
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