Who I might be doing a music video for...

At this point I have decided to create a music video for my friend Gino D'Andrea's acoustic project (1 track)

I think it's likely Gino and I can come to some arrangements for me to make him one. Him and I will have meetings do discuss our ideas of what he wants and what I think will be best. I'll let him pick his song too. I think I'll have great fun creating him a music video.


I am already thinking about what I want to see in the video and it includes Gino sitting down with his Guitar and performing in this mist. Then I want to use lots of close ups of his face to see the emotion. I want a dark blue background..slightly grey. Perhaps footage of a girl whos living her everyday life with no worries then..yeah it's too long to type all the info.

Its going to be fun!

Todays Lesson

Todays lesson I found out that I will be piting my presentation on the 6th Feb at 1:30PM.

I aldo filled out a worksheet about 'Good Charlotte' Star image and development.

...I'll continue this post later.

Some of my favorite videos that clash because they are so different

Neils Children- You didn’t care
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df_3ca31IZg&feature=related

Neils Children- Another Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71g-e7D9LWA&feature=related


This video really contrasts with the 2 Neils Children videos:


The Bronx- Shitty Future

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnklQt3eHpQ

Simple Plan

Today in class we had the pleasure of watching 2 Simple Plan videos. We watched the one called ""Addicted" and also "I'd do anything". We talked about the purpose of the music videos. Then talked about what Simple Plan are like now in comparison to in the 2 videos we watched.

We talked about:
"Star Image" - It is more about the band or solo artist's image and how it may change from video to video e.g Madonna never looks the same in any of her videos.

"Star Vehicle" -

"Star Power" - This is where sometimes in a video the band or solo artist is trying to promote their charity or trying to make people think about a certain thing e.g Live 8 song..trying to promote live 8.

With Simple Plan their 'Star Image' has recently changed. The lead singer has now got an arm full of tattoos and has longer hair. David (bassist) has a stubble and so does Chuck the drummer. The music has become more 'Pop'. This is all reflected in the latest video because there are lots of close ups on the band members.

I will be putting up the videos soon.



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Chris Cunningham

I really love Chris Cunningham's work. Its strange and therefor very exciting.

Chris has done one of THE HORRORS videos. Its amazing! He's such a creative guy. He's got lots of really crazy and random ideas. He's currently working with them on their next album due out this year.

Today in our lesson we watched a video about Chris's work and it was very interesting. He was talking about these videos he worked on and we also got shown the videos. He seems to only really do videos for experimental dance music. It's not the sort of thing I'd listen to but the videos really go well with the videos just because of how strange the music is and also the vids.

It was intersting watching his 'starter' videos.

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First Music Video Lesson

Today was good. Interesting lesson. We learn't about the codes and conventions of an average music video. We also got shown exapmples of music videos which I enjoyed because as everybody who knows me knows....I LOVE MUSIC!

After learning about these codes convention we got the opportunity to look at some music videos online. I went on yahoo videos to watch some. I am starting to look at music videos in a different way.

I have not decided yet what band I'm going to do my music video of. The possible bands are:

The Horrors
Aiden
Avenged Sevenfold
The Ghost of a Thousand
Patchwork Grace

The Ghost of a Thousand are getting huge now andvare friends of mine (not very close) and they even got nominated for a Kerrang award but they have not had a music video out yet..this would be a good opportunity for me to make them one. I'm not too sure though if they would trust me though haha.

Patchwork Grace are also buddies of mine. I do them one but they live in Derby so it would be hard for me to meet up with them to film them for my video. I have a contact for their manager though who is really sweet and seems to like me so he would probs be able to arrange something.

Avenged Sevenfold are amazing. Just got their new album and I could do one of the songs from it.....Probs their song called 'Scream' in which hasn't been realesed and doesn't have a video. It's a really excellent song and I think it would be interesting to make a video for it.

Aiden..I just love them. Thats the simple reason why I'm considering doing them one.

The Horrors...it would be fun to make a video for them. They are a very exciting 60's influensed band. I could do something really experimental for them.

Arrrgh! Can't decide. I have to listen to the songs and see what I could do with them. Which one I could get the best grade out of making.

Anyway..Bye for now :D

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