Level 4
The candidate is expected to demonstrate excellence in the creative use of most
of the following technical skills:
·shooting material appropriate to the task set;
including controlled use of the camera, attention to framing, variety of shot
sizes and close attention to mise en scene
·editing so that meaning is apparent to the
viewer and making selective and appropriate use of shot transitions, captions
and other effects
·recording and editing sound with images
appropriately
·Where a candidate has worked in a group, an
excellent contribution to construction is evident.
0-4 Is Tinie Tempah walking through and door and opening it. It is in slow motion. The shot if very dark and you can just see an outline of the singer. There is light coming from the outside directly in front of him. Medium shot/Handheld 4-6 Is a long shot of a road. A car drives out from behind a row of buildings with people in. There are also people standing in the street. The camera then cuts closer to the car. Establishing shot/long shot 6-7 Is a close up slow motion shot of the car where you cam see the main artist. It continues driving round the corner. Medium shot/ 7-9 It cuts to a man dancing in bright colours. This has stopped slow motion. Everything around him is also colourful. Long shot. 10-11 Is a low angle shot of peoples dancing in the from then it zooms through to Tinie Tempah where you can now only see peoples legs. Long shot to medium shot/zoom/handheld steady shot 11-13 Is two people dancing go together doing the same dance moves in sync. Medium shot/stable. 13-15 Is a lot of little cuts to different people dancing in the same area the man was. There was people in the background dancing to the tune. Some close ups and medium shots. 15-17 is a medium shot of Tinie tempah singing along sitting on some crates in glasses and bright clothing. 17-18 Is a little cut to a different position of Tinie Tempah singing in the same position. 19-20 Is another straight cut to a person dancing in bright clothes in the same area as before. 20-24 Is a cut to Tinie Tempah sing again and it keeps doing little cuts of people dancing in the same area. Bright clothes and in time with the beat. 24-25 The filming changes place with a women dancing in the main of the shot and a person standing to the side. Everyone is happy and dancing as it fits with the tune. 26-27 Is Tinie Tempah lip syncing again with the lyrics and he is dancing discreetly. He is now standing up in different clothes which are still bright. All the shots of Tinie are mainly on his own creating a star images. In the background it looks like its not very developed area. 27-29 Is a cut of two girls facing the camera dancing in syncs and within this there is a cut to a closer shot of the two at a slightly lower angle. 29-30 It cuts to Tinie singing on his own doing a usain bolt sign as it fits to the lyrics. Also with this it cuts to Tinie standing in front of the girls and people on the side dancing singing along with the lyric. Everyone is in bright clothes and look quite old fashioned.
I mostly listen to all my music on Spotify or
Apple Music through my phone or on my computer. I haven’t bought CD’s in a
long time as i can now download it all straight to my phone. Some songs I listen
to on YouTube as well.
I wake up to music as my alarm and listen
to music all through the day apart from in lessons. I usually listen to music
while doing work and it stops any distractions around me. The only time I really
share music is if someone is around, like when friends are round we
stick on some bangers, they choose a song, I choose a song. Music for me is a
break from life and makes me stop thinking about everything that’s going on and
just listen to the song .
This is my editing for banana phone. We were given a number of special effect to attempt on a piece of paper. That included different activities and shots. For the first shot we had to make it look like a really small object looked the same size as a person further away. I added in the blur of the person on the left side as I thought this looked different then had a transition that made the screen go to normal. After this I finally did a dissolve so the blur gradually entered the screen only this time on the right side of the small character. The second shot was a tracking shot which we filmed on a wheel chair. this was more about the timing of the lip syncing and the camera work so I only added in a black and white effect. After this we had to shot someone walking backwards over many of obstacles and then reverse the clip so it looks like they are walking forward. The lip syncing didn't go with the song as it was in reverse but I think it look very different. Furthermore we had to film and person within another camera screen. The head and shoulder had to look like they fitted together but still looked like it was on a different screen. This was simply editing the song to get it in time with the lyrics then leave the video how it was. I thought this looked very good. Second from last we had to shot a person in 3 different places then clone them so it looked like they were on one screen. This was a thing I and never done before but I thought looked good in the end. The lighting changed a bit therefore it didn't match up the best. Also I think the camera moved so the shots didn't match the best but it doesn't look that obvious. Finally we had to produce a stop motion story line with mini action figures. This was pretty simple once the pictures were loaded onto the computer. All i had to do is get them in the correct order and then decide how long each shot would be so it flowed nicely. I decided to choose a different soundtrack and i thought banana phone didn't go.
The shots that the video must include
was:
- Filming a person sitting down with
the monitor window open and with another camera film the monitor.
- Cloning editing task
- Depth of field task
- Reverse shot
- Wheelchair/tripod
- Lego stop motion
- Split screen
- Make someone colour and the background
black and white
Homogenous Group: A group that all have the same characteristics
Mediation: The selection and construction of material in how it is given over to audiences via editing and point of view
Hegemony: Traditional stereotypes that are reinforced and circulated as common sense to audiences
Marginisalisation: How stereotyping can lead to someone or a social group being ‘placed’ on the outside of accepted cultural norms
Ideology: An overarching set of ideas often uses as a form of social control
Moral Panics: Issues in society that often lead to the blaming, and marginalisation of a scapegoat
Deviancy Amplification: Associated with moral panics, this explains how the media exaggerate a negative representation to ensure a dominant shared reading
Liberalisation: A more diverse, tolerant, equally acceptable approach
Pluralism: Again, more liberal suggesting and range of different, challenging representations
Web 2.0: Interactive internet media e.g. blogs and social networking
Manifest: Obvious, on the surface meaning
Cultural Stereotyping: The stereotyping of social groups in society by the media
Prosumer: A producer and consumer of media
Passive Audiences: Audiences that accept and do not challenge representations
Iconic: Well known and respected
Aspiration: Looking up to something or somebody
Encoding/Decoding: Putting meaning in, taking meaning out
Dominant, Negotiated and Oppositional Readings: The intended meaning of a text, where meaning is uncertain or where audience have decoded a completely different reading
Anchorage: How meaning is made more definite
Binary Oppositions: Where representations are deliberately different to construct further meaning
Narrative- Free thing in music video, can be jumpy and not completed
Editing- forget reality, can use different cuts. Abstract ones compared to a film opening.
Camera movement/ Frame- Master shots/ establishing shots/medium close ups
Diegesis- This is basically the setting of he music video. The flow of the video is broken up an can jump from place to place.
This music video is jumpy and doesn't look like its full completed. There are different setting involved. The cuts are very simple in this music video. The camera isn't just stable it flows with the movements of the singer. The setting is in the music video is in the middle of a desert which isn't a normal place to shoot a video.
This the actual video of Solsbury hill which is very different and abstract. It is very confusing and has very different scenes occurring all mashed into one. this apples in music videos as they do nor have to tell the full story.
Today we analysed a video called Solsbury Hill. First we had to close our eyes and imagine in our heads what the music video would be. A rough overview of the video. I viewed it as a animation of a a country side hill area with a lake at the bottoms of the hills. Secondly a eagle came out of the night flying over the lake and the video followed the eagle round the country side.
One of my class mates thought the video would be a man trying to find a women in a airport. Both have movement and travel. Secondly going down a bumpy road on a journey. This again has travel. Maybe everyone thought the lyrics made them think of a journey. These are the lyrics to solsbury hill
1- Does the visual match to the lyrics, contradict or amplify the message. Usually the message is contradicted or amplified during a music video.
This is AC/DC back In black. This matches the first of the six concepts. The visuals of the video match the lyrics that are being sung. This usually happens in a classic heavy rock band video. The message they want to get across in lyrics and visual is usually the same and they want to focus on one message.
2- Thought Beats. This is seeing he sound. The music video will speed up or slow down with the beat or completely not match at all. Visuals are usually copied with the choruses to amplify message.
This is bounce by Calvin Harris. The beat of the song matches the visual in the video. Bounce is being said in the video and the ball bounces in the video. This is called thought beats, you are seeing the sounds in the video.
3- Genre related style and iconography present. Artists have a trend when they repeat certain visuals throughput the music video. Becoming a trademark visual people will be viewing.
This is Amy Winehouse Back to black. The trademark in Amys visual was here big jet black hair with the black eye makeup that was recognised all the time. You can see this throughout here videos that the image is made.
4- Multiple close ups of main artist, vocalist. This creates a star image and a brand visual for them into there music career.
5- Voyeurism, what you are focused to view. Usually in a 'male gaze' fashion. Women are place there almost for a sexual object.
As you can se in this video Ariana and Nicki are there for the male attraction. They are wearing very little and moving in a sexual way. There facial movements also entwine with the male gaze persona. The other women in the background are also dressed in he same way.
6- Inter-textual references to other media texts. Not unusual for there to be direct links to other media texts in a music video through either lyrics or visuals.
This is a song from when I was younger. This is a classic song I would listen to. This song makes me feel happy and throws back the days in my head. Also I still remember all of the lyric from so long ago.
This is a tune from my early teenage years. This song makes me dance and I know most of the lyric again. I use to listen to this song only. This song means school discos and throwing back the years.
This is a song I would listen to now. This is a happy upbeat song and makes me happy. I can listen to it over and over again without getting bored.
