Inspiration videos

 

I really like this music video. I like the shots of the guitar and I think the walking shots of Jake Bugg in a close up are really good too. There's a lot of movement on the camera and I think that is something to take into consideration. I really like all of the location shots in this video, I think they are cool. The clothing that Jake is wearing is very simple, hoodies and jeans. The one thing to take into consideration is that this song is more uptempo than my song.

 

 

Another thing I have noticed in this video is that there are scenes of walking whilst singing. Mise-en-scene is very important in this video.

 

 

This video includes a lot of establishing shots and a lot of shots of feet walking. Eventually there is some lip synced parts in the song and these are again all walking shots. This is definitely something I am going to have to think about for this genre. The clothing that Ben Howard is wearing is very basic and continuous throughout the whole song.

 

 

This video is a very basic idea of him cycling and then establishing shots of the location he is in. There are the odd shots of lip syncing but not that many. The clothing in Ben's videos is very simple and the main performance consists of him wearing the same clothing throughout.

 

 

This video contains a wide range of shots but a lot of close ups of the lead singer and the band and the long shot of the band in the car. The whole video is in black and white which creates an atmosphere. There are a lot of establishing shots again and the band are wearing the same things continuously.

 

 

This is a more uptempo song but there are a lot of shots of the guitar and Miles Kane. There is a lot of movement on the camera and a lot of movement on the camera. The imagery relates to the lyrics well.

 

 

I absolutely love this video, it helps that the song is really catchy. I love the fact that Frank Turner stands in the same place throughout the whole song and that graphics allow everything else to change. It is edited really well and I love the fact animation is used too, not too much but not too little. Some of the close up shots on the guitar are really good. I love it!

Conventions of a website homepage and examples

These are some examples of website homepages. There are thousands of artist websites out there and they all vary slightly but the main conventions are:

Image of the artist at the top of the page (or in view as soon as the homepage loads)

1. Pages available listed at the top or side of the page
2. The title or name of the band or artist
3. An advertisement for their latest single or album
4. The music video for their latest single
5. Latest news

Give Me Love animatic

This is the first idea of what my music video will look like. I scanned my storyboard images onto the computer using my Epson scanner and then cut the images down in Microsoft PowerPoint. After doing this I was able to save the images as JPEGs and upload them to Movie Maker. I then added the MP3 file of "Give Me Love" to Movie Maker and changed the lengths the images would be on display to fit the cuts in the music.

Give Me Love storyboard







Below is the full storyboard that I made for my Ed Sheeran video. I completed this before I started filming so that I had an idea of what I wanted to film:



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Audience

 

My target audience is female biased with 2/3 of my audience being female. The female fans will be the kind of girls who like to follow stars around (fangirls) but the male population that enjoy listening to this music are males who appreciate songwriters and play music themselves. The main age range is 16-19 year olds which belong to the social class group E meaning they are students, unemployed, employed in a low paying job or some of them could have apprenticeships. Most of my audience attend college which could lead on to higher education meaning they have ambitions of a good future where they could be earning a good wage. My audience are very media and drama/dance orientated with a prominent interest in pop and indie music which would suggest they are out going, like to have fun and have an open mind. Most of their music is watched on YouTube, on the music channels, via their phone and social networking sites which means they are people who like to keep up to date with celebrities.

Ed Sheeran clothing

These images show the kind of clothing Ed Sheeran wears on a day to day basis when he is working or not. He has a very simple style of jeans with a tshirt, hoodie or cotton shirt. He only dresses up when he goes to a suite and tie event. I also noticed that he wears a thick black neck chain and pendant. I made my borther wear on of these for the ancillary text photos.

These are the kind of clothes that Ed would wear on a daily basis. I searched clothing websites and these are some of the images that I found. The hoodies on the bottom right are from Peacocks and I bought the green version of the plain hoodie for my video.

Total cost: £16.00

Give Me Love Lyrics

These are the first lyrics that I annotated to get my ideas on what was going to be in my music video



 

 

After a little bit more thought I then looked at the lyrics again to see if there was anything extra I could add to my notes on my lyrics.