Music Video Ideas:
Include an Animation Sequence?
Include an Animation Sequence?
A while ago, my group and I came up with the idea of using an animation within our music video. One of my first ideas is to use newspapers as the background of the animation and to include Brian (the singer) or a character to travel across the scene in a pan shot which would be inspired by the style of "Russel Howard's Good News" title sequence opening.
To gain more inspiration, my group and I did some research on similar styles and animations which we wish to achieve. One of these which we all liked was found by Sam (Wight):
One of the ideas which my group has been inspired by is the constant appearance of text which spells out different sentences. We hope to use something similar to spell the lyrics of our chosen song - "Information". By doing this, we'll be using one of Andrew Goodwin's theory:
"There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals".
My group could amplify the connection between the lyrics and visuals by possibly using newspaper cutouts to spell the lyrics of the song within the mise-en-scene. The reason behind this is because newspapers are associated with informing viewers/readers about the latest news and stories. The artist himself, Brian Korteling has mentioned that the song is about:
"leaving a situation with no clear idea if it is the right thing to do or not but going on gut feeling....".
By doing this, we would be enforcing the lyrics "give me information" from each verse of the song within the mise-en-scene and the visuals.
One shot I find very interesting, is the shot of when the band are singing in the middle of the lake and the camera pans round onto each member, while at the same time, the "outer layer" camera is doing the same camera movement. I find this shot very memorable and I hope to include something similar in my group's music video if possible.
Animation is a consideration though often this technique is quite hard for students to pull off unless the animation is very fast and has a variety of different images.
ReplyDeleteThe "Rivers and Homes" music video is great and if you had access to a larger cast you could pull this idea off. What I like about this particular music video is that the target audience is featured in the narrative.
Soooo manyyyyyy ideas Austen, I suggest you take a lot of shots and practice possible ideas as much as you can. You can post experimental footage onto your blogs so that we can monitor the process of your ideas. I'd like to see you try ideas in "Rivers & Homes"...get your camera out and start shooting. If you need classroom time out for shooting then let me know.
Warning: Long essay ahead! Just a heads up, if you read this, thanks!
ReplyDeleteI do understand that animation can be difficult, I myself do animation as an A-Level at Hewett.
The animation side is simple, if it is to do with lyrics appearing. (Hopefully, I have explained this in the next post, which should be called:
"Music Video Planning - Basic idea"
I have to say, along with yourself, if we did indeed have a greater cast, and also a team of different camera men then the "Rivers and Homes" music video could of been a possible idea, however, I don't think we do. Well, we might do, if we used the whole Media Studies group, but I would think it would be tricky to do so for a similar idea.
Perhaps this can be something I can mention in a question such as: "If you could revisit A2 Media, what would you do differently?".
Myself and Sam are hopefully going to start shoot of our main shot - Brian against a black background next week, period one and two. We have successfully booked a hall to shoot in (or so, I have been told by Mr.Seal in an email). However, Sam, or myself need to contact Brian to see if he is free at those times. Hopefully, he will be. If not, then we will have to shoot guitar playing close ups, or do other planning.
I will mention this is a post sometime soon, however, I will be unable to do so tonight (17th/Sep/2012) since my Dad needs the PC/Laptop to finish reapplying to a job/promotion.