Music Video's

 

 Thriller - Micheal Jackson

• This video is about half narrative half performance. This is cleverly contructed so that the performance is part of the narrative.
• The victims in this music video tend to wear blues and pinks, mostly innocent calm colours to exaggerate this contrasting to the bright red that micheal wears to connote a sense of danger.
• I like how this video is very dark eerie and suspenseful.
• Micheal Jackson presents himself as being dangerous in the video.
• I think this video is trying to attract young adults of any gender due to the set-up at the begging where the expected video turns into an intertextual movie in the music video.
• This video in particular helped to launch Micheal as a solo artist and evoked a change in the way music videos are made and presented, which has resulted in it being so legendary.

 

 

The A team-Ed Sheeran

• This video is 100% narrative in order to portray its message of how drugs negatively effect the lives of people and in this case, this young girl whose taking class a drugs, relating to the title as shes part of the 'a-team.' I would assume that this video is aimed at a teenage audience to warn them against the effects of class a drugs.
• This video is cleverly set in very glooms depressing settings such as the girls grimy apartment, out on the streets and the alarming car park where she awaits her 'client' as she has been forced to prostitute herself. The dark filters and black and white clothing help to reflect the lack of hope and hapiness in her life. She also tends to wear very rugged or revealing clothing so that it is easy to understand exactly what is going on with her and that the audience can tell what a terrible state she is in.
• For Ed Sheeran this was a perfect song to really kick off his career. It presented him as a very caring person which i believe is reflected through most of his videos. i also think that this presents him as being a rolemodel by trying to stop the audience from doing things which other singers/bands enforce.

 

Omarion- Ice Box

• This video is about 50% narrative 50% performance. This video is very dark, to connotate the dark depressive state that he is in. I would assume this video is aimed at a younger audience because it appears very commercialised.
• This video was very important for Omarions career as the song became a worldwide hit. it was a chance for him to display that he had other talents then pure singing alone.



Rihanna - We Found Love

 

• This video is half narrative and half performance, and there is a clear line between the two as the performance half of it is very creative and the narrative is straight forward.
• The clothing, locations and colours are very dull in the narrative part of the video, the two main characters are wearing quite dark, scrappy clothing whereas when drugs are being used colours are heightened to reflect their moods and how their feeling. The locations are in typical British area's such as a chip shop. The areas looked quite scruffy and their appartment was small and messy, this was used to portray the life the two characters lived.
• The video is showing the highs and lows of drug use, and how it can affect relationships and essensially ruin lives.
• This video is mainly appealing to late teens and young adults, and young to mid-teens would feel like they want to aspire to be like this, as it is deemed as cool to be like the way they are in the video, however they dont understand the true meaning behind it.
• This markets Rihanna well as - at the time - it showed Rihanna as theyve never seen her before. She was rebellious and daring in this video, she also came out with a new sense of fashion and playing next to a characteristically good looking guy whom teenagers who would aspire to be like. 
 

My Skills audit at the beginning of A2

My Skills audit at the beginning of A2

I currently rate my ability in the creative use of the following technical skills as:

Filming	1	2	3	4
Holding a shot steady
Framing a shot, including and excluding elements where appropriate
Using a variety of shot distances as appropriate
Shooting material appropriate to the task set
Selecting mise–en-scene, including colour, figure, lighting, objects and setting
Editing so that meaning is apparent to the viewer
Using varied shot transitions and other effects selectively and appropriately for the task set
Using sound with images and editing appropriately for the task set
Using titles appropriately

 

I set myself these technical skills targets, when I begin the A2 Coursework:

1. Practice holding steady shots

2. Practice editing skills for more precise cuts

3. Make sure we take a lot of shots to have a variety of options when editing.

4. Use and practice more shot transitions

 

I currently rate my ability to research and analyse media texts as follows:

Research and analysis	1	2	3	4
I can recognise a genre by identifying its particular patterns of codes and conventions
I am able to comment upon the construction of values and ideology within a media text
I am able to discuss possible audience reception of a text, in a meaningful way

 

I set myself these research targets, when I begin my A2 coursework:

1. Watch/read and identify codes and conventions of media text for revision.

2. Practice evaluating and analysing values and ideologies in media texts

3. Get familiar with types of audiences and their reception to their film

4. revise overall more

 

I currently rate my ability to plan my own A2 coursework as follows:

Planning	1	2	3	4
I can create a detailed shot script
I can use storyboarding and take photographs in preparation for filming
I can manage time effectively
I can respond to and overcome difficulties while filming
I can use my previous research of genre to inform my own work

 

I set myself these planning targets when starting my A2 coursework, as follows:

1. Use time more effectively, start work earlier so there is more time to edit and evaluate.

2. Stick to the storyboard when filming

3. Be patient with cast

4. Be more detailed in planning

 

I currently rate my ability to evaluate my own A2 coursework as follows:

Evaluation	1	2	3	4
I know how to ask questions of my target audience in a way that will reveal the success or otherwise of my coursework
I know how to look back at my research and identify the success or otherwise of the codes and conventions I used in my own coursework
I am able to judge the success or otherwise of my camerawork and editing
I am able to identify a strong link between my research, planning and final product
I am able to give persuasive reasons for all of the decisions I made during the coursework process
I am able to analyse my final product, in the way that I have created meaning

 

I set myself these evaluation targets when starting my A2 coursework, as follows:

1. Spend more time on evaluation

2. Think of more persuasive reasons

3. Practice evaluating and analysing skills

4. Identify strong links

                

 

Evaluation

Preliminary Task: The Money

This is the preliminary task in which my group created. In creating this I learnt the different types of shots used to create an effective scene. I also learnt various editing skills, but mainly basic editing. We had to be very presise with all the editing for the scene to work. For example, when Rahab opened the door outside of the room, we had to edit it precisely at the same width in which the door was opened from inside the room so its was believable and the so the scene went smoothly.

feedback: I like the preliminary task and think it ran very smoothly; the shots moved very swiftly. The 180 degree shot was used effectively and done well. Also, I think the zoom shot at the end was done very smoothly and correct.

Final Shooting Script

FINAL SHOOTING SCRIPT

Written by Kia Yasmin Dacres – Lebrun & Briony Anne Dillon

 

1.  CLOSE UP OF THE BALLERINA BOX BEING WOUND UP BY MARIANNE FOLLOWED BY A ZOOM IN OF THE BODY OF THE BALLERINA.

 

2.  MARIANNE WALKS OVER TO HER BED CLUTCHING ONTO THE LETTER IN HER HAND, PALE FACED.
- Continuation of the ballerina box music.
- Background consists of her band posters and photos of ballerinas on her wall.

 

3.  SHE SITS ON HER BED STIFFLY, LOOKING AT THE LETTER WITH A DEEP SIGH. SHE OPENS THE LETTER.
- Ballerina box music quietens, original music begins.

 

4.  OVER THE SHOULDER SHOT OF MARIANNE HOLDING THE OPENED LETTER. BRIEF LOOK OF THE LETTER, WITH LARGE RED ‘X’’S OVER PHOTOS OF HERSELF.
- Music loudens and settles.
- TITLE: “Music By: Briony Anne Dillon & Kia Yasmin Dacres – Lebrun”

 

5.  EXTREME CLOSE UP OF THE LETTER. PHOTO’S OF MARIANNE AND OTHERS WITH LARGE RED ‘X’s SCRIBBLED OVER HER FACE SPECIFICALLY.
- TITLE: “Amy Rodrigues”

 

6.  EXTREME CLOSE OF MARIANNE’S GLARING, WATERY EYES.
- Voiceover of taunting whispers overlapping, her clustered thoughts.  

 

7.  CLOSE UP MARIANNE, THEN APPEARS ANDREA, HER “BULLY”, BESIDE HER.
- Andrea: “Remember me?”
- TITLE: “Wendy Kouassi”

 

8.  EXTREME CLOSE UP OF MARIANNE’S MOUTH, SCREAMING. ZOOMS INTO HER MOUTH, FADING INTO BLACKOUT TO THE NEXT SHOT.

 

9.  LONG SHOT OF MARIANNE ON HER BED, LOOKING AROUND FRANTICALLY, BREATHING HEAVILY.

 

10.         BIRDSEYE VIEW OF MARIANNE RUNNING OFF HER BED.
- TITLE: “P.S Be Careful” blood-splattered on her bed.

 

11.         LONG SHOT OF MARIANNE RUNNING TO HER DRAW, WITH HEAVY FOOTSTEPS.

 

12.         BIRDSEYE VIEW OF HER OPENING HER DRAW, TAKING OUT HER MEDICATION AND CLOSING IT.
- A lot of subliminal objects in her draw, e.g. a red marker and a knife.
- TITLE: ‘Directed by Kia Yasmin Dacres – Lebrun and Briony Dillon’ in newspaper cuttings.

 

13.         MIDSHOT OF MARIANNE PUTTING MEDICATION PILL IN HER MOUTH AND IMMEDIATELY SPITS IT OUT.

 

14.         SHE SITS IN THE CORNER OF HER ROOM, SLIDES DOWN THE WALL IN TEARS.