Sabbatical with options, Prefuse 73 Feat. Aesop Rock

Feed back from Teacher. Dr. Nick Potmitus!

This is my feed back from my Teacher Nick:

The use of free running was effective, but could have been more. Lyp syncing was good, as fast paced song, good flow. Skate Boarding more skateboarding. I could have also made my own grffiti animation, as this would have given have given me a sense of pride.

Once I had posted my video on Youtube I got some feedback from a Rapper from Florida America named Nephilim Muse real name Danielo Rojas. He had this to say about my music video - Superior editing with the animated graffiti. and feathering in the rapper / performer. Great choice of music and skateboard talent, but the thing that really impressed me was the animated graffiti. Looked real. I would pay to have this guy produce one of my videos.

Green Screen

For the performance part of my video I used a green screen for the first time.

Final Cu

Final Cut.
I used Final Cut for my editing. I became very comftable with using Final Cut during this project even though I have used it before. I advancedin layering and effects.

1) Apple Mac Laptop - The Mac was pretty much the main resource of my project, research, blogging, planning, editing and evaluation. Without the mac my project would probably have been rendered impossible. As the laptop has been at college and at Coleridge I could only use it during lesson so I've had to use the time wisely.

2) HD Camera - This is the secobd time I've have used these HD Cameras, compared to the college cameras these are pretty amazing. The HD cameras are so much more advanced and gave the project a more professional feel.

3) Camera - I used the camera to take pictures of shoot.

4) Microphone - I used this for my voice over.

5) Tripod - Keeping the camera steady while recording.

6) Head Phones - Listening to the music track so lip sync was possible, also to edit the footage so to keep in time with the lipsync.

7) Fire wire Cable - Connecting Cameras to the Mac.

Voice over Prefuse73

Task 1 Cont.

1. My first screen grab from a music video is 'Around the world' by Daft Punk. Rather than how the lyrics relate to the shot, but how the beats in the music relate to how the dancers are dancing.

2. My second screen grab is from the music video 'Rock show' by Blink 182. This is a good shot of how the record company would want the Artist to be represented as the shot is of the band playing to fans and acting in an upbeat way.

3. My third screen grab is from 'Freak on a leash' by Korn. The rock music is complimented by the shots ability to be dark but still have an energetic feel to it.

4. My fourth shot is from the same video as 3. and it features an intertextual reference. In the film Bad Boys 2 it features bullets going through objects just like in this Korn video

5. My fifth shot is from the Blink 182 music video and uses a fish eye lens on the camera which is frequently used on skateboard videos. This use of Camera is effective due to its target audience, Skaters.

6. My sixth shot is from the Korn video and has interesting lighting. Throughout the video a bullet flys through shots. The sot is filmed in a dark room and the walls have bullet holes in which let light seep through revealing the band playing.

7. My seventh shot is from the Daft Punk video. The costumes in the video give good imagery of what the music sounds like as they are lively and colorful.

8. My eighth shot is from blink 182 video. The shot is of the band performing a live performance which is commonly used in music videos as it is a good way to show the band.

9. My last shot is from Daft Punk, this music videos features a concept, a standard live performance and cuts back to a narrative video. Around the world is a good example of this due to the concept being that you see sounds and hear colors.

Task 1

A shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals:
The lyrics in this scene are 'He steps with a double back shuffle' and within the scene the free runner jumps from the building to the concrete block, this links the to the lyrics 'He steps' then he proceeds to do a back flip which can almost be linked to the lyrics 'double back shuffle'.

A shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented:
I think that this scene is the best shot of how to represent my Artist. The way my artist is almost see through with a urban surrounding with graffiti on the walls, this shows a link between his genre Hip-Hop and activities which can be linked.

A shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre:
As my Genre is Hip-hop/IDM I went for a extreme sport and urban mix, so I feel this shot illustrates my music genre as it has the Skateboarders and the Graffiti.

A shot that shows an inter textual reference:
This shot uses both my own work (my artist infront of a green screen) and video footage, the Graffiti, from YouTube which has creative commons.

A shot that demonstrates your use of camera:
This shot shows my use of camera as I set up the shot on a tripod and I tried my best to create an almost symmetrical effect with the skate park and the bushes behind it.

A shot that demonstrates your use of lighting:
This shot shows my use of lighting as my artist is in front of a green screen so I had to make sure the lighting was correct, this means that I need the whole green screen to be lit up so when I came to place something behind my artist the green screen would not be seen.

A shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene:
This shot shows Skaters on top of the skate park, this shows mise-en-scene as they are wearing typical skateboarding fashion, baggy jeans, skate brand t-shirts and hoodies.

Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other music videos:
The first shot shows I have watched other music videos as I have used an interesting effect and the actual footage is eye catching due to the stunt involved.

This second shot shows I have watched other music videos as this image has an interesting background and holds your attention.

Final Cut - Prefuse 73 Feat. Aesop Rock - Sabbatical With Options

Junction Rough Cut Feedback

We all showed our music video rough cut at the Junction on Thursday, I was given this feedback.
The footage outside of the skateboarding and the free running is all very interesting especially the footage which has been edited with special effects, also my performer was worked very well as was very confident but they felt that the footage would be better if it was refilmed outside rather than on a green screen.

Using this feedback if I had more time I would reshoot the performance outside maybe in a more urban setting.

Digipak cont.

I found that this digipak was very interesting duet to the cd being placed in the middle and pictures on both sides. I think that this would work well with my digipak because I intend to use more images than text as my video is very visual due to the effects I have used.

Digipak - Distorture - Revere

Distorture's first release: 'revere', a professional six-panel digipak ep of seven tracks totalling some 35 minutes of dark folk and ambient, noise and industrial song-form

1. Conversation of Scarecrows
2. Limning the Incarnadine
3. Carcosa
4. Eiton Euclarion
5. Remeant
6. Sinecure Saccade
7. Hour of the Spiral Dawning

I really like this digipak due to its design, its very bold with the contrasting red and white.

DigiPak

A Digipak is 4 pages with a CD size template, contains the outer front cover, the outer back cover and the two inside pages. Also contains something extra which is a benefit from buying the actual CD as opposed to downloading online for free. The something extra could be a booklet, a behind the scenes CD or footage, and exclusive interviews with the band perhaps. A digipack’s function is to advertise the CD album, it must have an attractive front cover in order to promote the album and must attract the right customer and age group relevant to the genre of music. The digipack is something extra which adds to the benefit of buying the actual CD, it may also contain some extra footage, interview, DVD or extra for this same benefit.

Green Screen Animation

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I decided I would use a animation for my green screen. I looked on youtube to find an appropriate clip. I felt that I should use a video with an urban feel, so in a city. I also wanted the video to link to my genre Hip-Hop/IDM so went for Graffiti.

This stop frame animation was perfect as it was creative commons meaning I ca use it as long as I am not making money of it.

Rough cut - Prefuse 73 Aesop Rock - Sabbatical With Options

This is my music video rough cut.

Editing my video

Here is a screenshot of Final Cut and my rough cut.

Process of making a Music Video

Earlier in the year two directors named Jake and Jim talked us through the process of making a Music video.

1. This first step is that a Video Commissioner at a record company puts out track to potential directors/production companies. Unfortunately this is a hard process for a student as not many Video Commissioners would want a student to make their video, so I had to choose a track, which was Prefuse 73.

2. The second step is the Directors 'pitch' for track. This involves ideas and concepts which will be based upon the brief from record company and the track. For my project I came up with a Pitch then read it to my class and teacher.

3. The third step is that the Record company chooses the one they want and allocates a budget; The producer will look after the budget and arrangements of the process. The producer takes a percentage of the budget for his role.

4. The fourth step is the Director of Photography and art Director is called in. The art director oversees the preparation and organisation of the look of video this involves scouting for locations, planning of shoot. In comparison to my music video, I searched for a good skate park which I could film my out door footage.

5. The fifth step and one of the most important is Shooting. My shoot took place over a couple of days as I had outdoor footage and indoor.

6. The sixth step is Off-line edit where an editor assembles all the footage over a period of a few days, the record company and artist may want to see it and suggest changes.

7. The seventh step is the online edit, adding special effects and getting final version ready.

8. The final step is the delivery of finished video to client and play it on tv and/or online.