Research Posts: Teacher Assessment

Group Discussions

Storyboard and Animatic Video

Storyboards



Group Animatic Video

Roles

My group role for our music video will be in charge of the technical aspects of work and editing. I will take charge of Photoshop for our Digipaks and editing the music video in whatever way we need to. As a whole group we will take the role of a director, working together to decide what we want to show in the video, the style of it and all the different shots that we want to include.

Technical Tutorials

This is the CD cover we created using Photoshop CS3, this is an experimental cover which allowed us to test out different tools like Gradient, Magic Wand, Text, Crop and more.

Final Song Choices

For our Final Song Choice we needed to choose between two songs, "Cigarettes In The Theatre" by Two Door Cinema Club and "A Girl Like You" by Miles Kane.

The song by Two Door Cinema Club was one of the first choices for a song since we needed to narrow it down as previously we had more than one option for a song but now we have at least 2 songs to decide between. The Two Door Cinema Club song we analysed seemed to give us more of an option for an illustration sort of music video based on the lyrics, some parts of it can be made to be amplified.

However for "A Girl Like You" sung by Miles Kane this leaves more space to become a bit more creative and make an amplification music video. The music video would not particularly fit the Indie Rock genre if it was made an illustration video because of the lyrics, (e.g. "crawling crawling on the floor"). This would not work well if we had filmed it.

In the end we decided to go with the song "A Girl Like You" once all of our group listened to the songs again and compared them to decide which was better.

Initial Group Ideas

 

 

This Mind Map presents the initial ideas our group came up with when we had discussions about what to do for our music video project. Our intial idea was to go with the pop genre and make a music video towards that as pop is the most popular genre today however through further discussions we decided that perhaps Indie Rock would be better. Indie Rock has become increasingly popular lately however it is still not a greatly known or listened to genre so this gives our group a range of different ideas and possibilities for our group to take when planning our videos.

 

Once we had chosen to go with the Indie Rock genre we had to put in research to many different bands from the genre in their style, their performance, their music and videos so we can get a deeper understanding of Indie Rock.