Music Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiVvAXzqA3c&feature=youtu.be
During this year, I have been working with James Donovan to create a music video for the David Bowie song; The Man Who Sold The World.
The group blog shows the process of the planning and filming for the video.
We shared responsibilities for the video, but I focused more on the group blog while James paid more attention to editing. We both worked on the storyboard and filming.
Research and Planning:
We started off with two options for our music video, the other one being Nine Inch Nails' Hurt. I preferred the David Bowie song so that is what we went with. I had several ideas for the video and wanted it to be quite a surreal experience. I wanted to take inspiration from songs such as Ashes to Ashes.
For the storyboard, it was basic just showing shots that we wanted to take.
Later on I would create a new storyboard that worked better as it showed the video in order.
I also took it upon myself to create a name for the band, while James created the album name. I didn't want something simple so I chose names that referenced history and mythology which led to the name being Nero Redivivus. I was also the one who created the logo through Photoshop.
Filming:
During this time, I took multiple shots on my own including; time-lapses of the sky and a crowd and a lip-sync. I also filmed a close-up for the VHS scene.
Thursday 16th November
Location: Yewtree Cemetery
Shots Taken: Depth of field, pan-shot and hand on tombstone.
Weather: It was sunny but still had a lot of wind blowing.
For these bits, I was the only person on the camera so I did the work for lip-syncing and setting up the music for the shots.
Saturday 25th November
Shots Taken: Mirror shots with greenscreen. Medium shot with lighting under face. Shot of water blowing with the wind.
Weather: Frequent rain. Bright. This didn't effect filming as we were inside.
Monday 4th December 2017: Greenscreen shots. Close-up of eye.
Saturday 9th December: Cemetery, re-shot depth of field, pan shot with lip-sync. James' house, re-shot the mirror scene and filmed shot in the cupboard. Town, shots of crowds and river.
The poor weather did affect some continuity but we re-shot the scenes were it would have been affected.
Sunday 10th December: Close up of putting a video into a video player. This is something that I did alone.
Editing and Extra:
I primarily focused on extra work during this period of time. This included creating a magazine advert and a digi-pack for our group.
I attempted to create a different magazine advert for the concert however this ended up looking terrible. I wanted to add in an image of the two of us. I had to put this into Photoshop to remove the background but this ended up looking poor.
For the digi-pack, I used InDesign and got a template in order to design it. I used images from the music video, the logo, the magazine advert and images online to create it.
Link to Wix:
One of the things that needed to be created for promotional purposes was a website. I did this task by using Wix to design a website to promote the band.
The biggest problem was the fact that this was too complicated for me to create a good site. However I made three pages for basic presentation.
Overall, the greatest issue with making the website was that the designer existed to create a legitimate website for real music, not a fictional band like what we were doing. This mean that there was a lot about the base design that couldn't be changed.
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