Final Video

Here is our final video, to make this even better we have shortened down alot of the shots and added in more footage! hope you enjoy

Ross and Henry

FINISHED VIDEO!!!

We have as of today, finished our project, music video, Do You Feel It Too? by the Go Team! We have finalized it on the final day, and realized that it is actually immense and that we actually deserve an A. We sped up and slowed down some clips of footage so that it make it add effect, as it's not all on speed, we also did this to create some space for some other clips of footage. Overall we are greatly pleased with this project and are glad we were given the opportunity to work with such great teachers and music video producers.

Henry

Last lesson before final cut is due in

Hello, this may be one of our last ever blogs for this project :-( We have done our written work, our project is almost finished, we just have to finalize some details. We have been spending the last month on final cut, just making it as good as possible. We have had professional advice from Ben Unwin, a professional music video director. We took his advice on board and hopefully that has aided us in searching for a good grade. We tried to make our project as good as it could possibly be by using a variety of shots, angles and camera movement. We are now waiting for the presentation at the picture house in Cambridge for all of the projects to be shown on the big screen.

Henry and Ross

Filming the opening

On Wednesday we finished up the last of our filming, this was for the opening to our project. It included scenes in a garage and also alot of shots with Ross's Grandad, this all helps to set the scene and also actually explain the main idea of our music video!

Ross

Ben Unwin's feedback!

Ben Unwin had a look at our video and also gave us some helpful feedback, he added that maybe we should not split as much of our footage as we have because it looked like we had a journey going on through the piece and this sort of cut it up. Also that the scenes involving tourist and the public should be used abit more. We are going to take these into consideration for the final cut.

Ben Unwin's feedback!

Ben Unwin had a look at our video and also gave us some helpful feedback, he added that maybe we should not split as much of our footage as we have because it looked like we had a journey going on through the piece and this sort of cut it up. Also that the scenes involving tourist and the public should be used abit more. We are going to take these into consideration for the final cut.

Rough Cut FeedBack

After everyone watching our video we got some good feedback and also some more helpful feedback. A lot of people thought that we had got the genre right, or placed the scenes to the soundtrack well. Also that we had a clear use of the songs title through the whole piece. Alot of people thought that it was funny but also dragged a little bit, this is going to help us to re edit parts of the video where we feel we could use other bits of footage or re shoot certain scenes. With this we have also got to add transitions and other edits to make our piece totally finished.

Rough Cut

We spent the deadline day for the rough cut finishing off the rough cut version of our music video. We rendered all the animations that we did, so that they worked. We then altered the settings so that it could be played as a quicktime video. We then helped another group who needed all the help they could get as they are mentally challenged. We spent 30 minutes helping them film some of their video. After this we uploaded our rough cut quicktime video.

Henry the media guru

Animations

In the last couple of lessons we have been working on the animations for our peice, to do this we used Istop motion and other materials, we used little paper balls on a big peice of coloured card, using these we formed the words and phrases we wanted. we then reversed these for the rough cut of our video.

Ross

Animation

In our last lesson, we began our animation of the words of the song. We tore lots of different pieces of paper up and scrunched them up into balls. We then arranged them on a section of blue card on the floor. We then set up a camera and aimed it at the card and made sure that it took up the whole of the screen. We found this simple, yet effective. We took the tips from the istop motion sessions we did all the way back in AS Media Studies. We are using istop motion to actually animate our project. We find it an easy and yet effective way of gaining results, as it looks impressive and fairly professional. We realize that this takes a long time, but it is worth it in the long run as we already have the majority of our footage and our rough cut doesn't have to be in until tomorrow. And our final product doesn't have to be in until the 2nd of November and it's the 10th of October today, so we are pretty much on top of things.

Henry

Filming day 2

Over the last few days, we have got the second part of our filming done, more public dancing and humiliation. This time we had another helper to help us film so that we could do some filming with both banana and spiderman. The first thing we tried was going in the corn exchange, they allowed us 15 minutes on the stage and we got some good footage with different angles, high and low, close ups and distance shots. We then blazed it up in Kings college and got some good footage of dancing and some nice shots. We then had some time on our hands, we were thinking of getting some driving scenes of banana and spiderman because we couldn't get a tandem bike without alot of expense. We then came back and began to do some animation on istop motion as we're using some of the go-team's ideas. We are the best.
By Henry

Wednesday FILMING

We filmed the first part of our music video on Wednesday. We started at 10 in the morning when there were the least amount of people about in town. As we could do without the distractions of constantly being asked for our picture taken. As it was just two of us that day we only filmed the individual sections of the video, where it's solo dancing and some cutaways. We still need to film dancing together and the animation part of the video. We need another member of the group to do the filming for us.

animatic feedback

There are good ideas here but it is too vague at the moment and lacks pace. The timeline exercise next week should help you a lot to fill the gaps and get more of a sense of pace.

Pete

FEEDBACK!

The beginning to our video has been said to be the best part so far, people would like to see more of the signs being held, by random people and also the characters. these are good ideas which we will try and include in the final piece. It has been said that it is a bit slow with the music but we will speed it up once we start to film with the track. The bike shots are said to be potentially hard to film but sure this will be overcome once filming starts. Also that some scenes seem abit static and unclear but will be made obvious one filmed.

Ross

The anamatic shows our ideas so far for our music video, it starts off with someone placing a vinyl on to a player and two boys liking the song and getting an idea, the next shot is of the two boys on a tandam bike riding through the centre of town, the main objective of the piece is for the two boys to try and get people to "feel the music" in the same way they do, i.e the use of the title of the song "Do you feel it too?". The scenes then progress to show the use of the characters dancing to the music and animation of the songs title in a whacky and abstract way. this comes from the inspiration of previous "Go! Team" songs.

Ross

animatics

After gathering our ideas and drawing an animatic storyboard in pencil, we confirmed our ideas by going over them in pen. We then captured the photos and made an anamatic of our ideas for the song. This is only a rough cut as we did not have enough time to look at all of the different angles and movements for each shot.

Storyboards

In our 4th lesson we have to design some story boards for the different shots that we are going to produce in our music video. We have had some new ideas for beginning shots, such as Ross's grandad putting a vinyl onto a set of decks and beginning the song, this is where the camera pans round to see me and Ross sitting in our chairs and we then wake up, feel the music and get up and then begin dancing down the street. We then somewhere get a tandem bike and ride dwon the road towards the camera, which is stationary, and then we turn off and there is a sign that says 'Do You Feel It Too'.
We also have the idea of using the Go Team's idea of using animation in the video by filming letters, of the words 'Do You Feel It Too?' and 'The Go Team' we think this is quite effectful and carries on the theme of anmation, as it's in all of their videos that we have seen. We then go to different locations in cambridge, such as Kings College and do some banana-rama dancing, and some other random locations, all the tme there will be animations and cut-aways spliting up the action and making it more varied. We have drawn all these ideas onto our story board in pencil and once we have confirmed these as our actualy idea then we will go over them in pen and take pictures of them.

PICTURES AND VIDEO

Here are some pictures and video of the band doing what they do best!

This Video is a good example of how abstract and out of the box we can make our video, it has also given us some good inspiration for techniques!

Ross

Check out this video: The Go! Team - Doing It Right



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We saw this video by the Go Team and decided to incorporate the technique of the animations of words, such as 'Do You Feel it Too' and 'the Go team' we thought this was a good idea and we are keeping their ideas.
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our pitch

In our music video, we plan to incorporate techniques that will make the video look professional. We are going to use, long shots to get all of the characters in during the dancing scenes. At the begining we were thinking of putting a vinyl onto a set of decks and starting it playing. This signals the start of the song and we were going to remove the vinyls at the end of the song to signal the finish of the track. We have several ideas for cutaways and sequences, one being two of us in our costumes (spiderman and a giant banana) riding a tandem bike and waving. We area also planning some good locations to do some funky dancing in, such as on a boat, colleges, and other locations in Cambridge.

Henry not Ross

INFLUENCES!!!

When looking for inspiration for our music video we looked in a few different areas and also at different genres. We found a video done by a Dj called DJ Format, the song to this video is called "We Know Something You Don't Know "




We like the use of costumes and outrageous dancing in this video and thought that we may be able to conincide these ideas with our own.

Ross AND Henry

Teacher comments

so what is the plan? We need a pitch on here plus why not include shots of the band and other videos by them etc to give a sense of your ideas ?

messaging

We messaged the band, the 'Go Team' from MySpace and told them of our ideas and what we plan to do in our music video.

Henry and Ross

MUSIC VIDEO PROJECT 2007/8

Welcome to Henry's and Ross's BLOG! After listening to allof the different tracks on the cd we have decided to go with a track called "Do you feel it too" by "The Go Team". www.thegoteam.co.uk After watching other music videos for inspiration and also looking at the bands "myspace" and "website" we have come up with some ideas for what our video is going to look like.

Henry and Ross