- Music video (in different styles)
- Short film
- Documentary
- News programme
- Radio play
- Voice over
Friday, 17 July 2015
Summer Projects
Over the six week summer holiday I have decided to gain experience and increase my knowledge about media filming and production by doing a range of media projects. Some ideas for the types of projects I may do are:
Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Product Research - Mama Fan Video
"Mama" is a fan-made music video for a rock song.
MAMA
The opening of the music video begins in black and white with a mid close-up, but the colour fades into the picture as the volume of the music increases. The lip-syncing actress is wearing mostly red, fitting the 'dangerous' vibes that are often found in the rock genre.
Most of the video is made of jump cuts and mid shots. The camera doesn't move and the actress doesn't move off screen, giving the effect of her being boxed in. Despite this, she still makes the video interesting with the speed of the shots and the various props and makeups she uses. For example it will quickly jump from a shot of her blowing out a lighter to a shot of her licking her lips as blood falls down her chin, then back to her with a clean face and lip-syncing again.
Through the verses and chorus of the song there are no colour effects used, aside from the occasional black and white close-up. When the song hits the bridge at 3:00, everything changes. The amount of shots increase and many different colour effects are used. For example, ghost overlay, reverse, negative, and sepia. This gives the idea of a breakdown into hysteria.
A final interesting point in the video is at 3:27- half-way through the bridge- when the song suddenly calms. The effect she has used makes the video flicker and vary in saturation, giving the image of an old movie. This fits with the section of the song because it sounds a lot like an old movie or wartime radio broadcast.
MAMA
The opening of the music video begins in black and white with a mid close-up, but the colour fades into the picture as the volume of the music increases. The lip-syncing actress is wearing mostly red, fitting the 'dangerous' vibes that are often found in the rock genre.
Most of the video is made of jump cuts and mid shots. The camera doesn't move and the actress doesn't move off screen, giving the effect of her being boxed in. Despite this, she still makes the video interesting with the speed of the shots and the various props and makeups she uses. For example it will quickly jump from a shot of her blowing out a lighter to a shot of her licking her lips as blood falls down her chin, then back to her with a clean face and lip-syncing again.
Through the verses and chorus of the song there are no colour effects used, aside from the occasional black and white close-up. When the song hits the bridge at 3:00, everything changes. The amount of shots increase and many different colour effects are used. For example, ghost overlay, reverse, negative, and sepia. This gives the idea of a breakdown into hysteria.
A final interesting point in the video is at 3:27- half-way through the bridge- when the song suddenly calms. The effect she has used makes the video flicker and vary in saturation, giving the image of an old movie. This fits with the section of the song because it sounds a lot like an old movie or wartime radio broadcast.
Product Response
In this response I have tried to keep the camera in the same position like she has, and use a variety of colour effects.Sunday, 12 July 2015
Product Research - Black Sugar
"Black Sugar" is an eleven minute fantasy about a group of bored suburban teenagers who experiment with a mysterious new drug.
BLACK SUGAR
The preview image for this short film was confusing, and still is even after I've watched it. It's very blurry with a dark colour scheme. However, there is a patch of pink glow, drawing in the watcher as it looks very mysterious. The synopsis is what pulled me in.
"A group of bored suburban teens experiment with a mysterious new drug."
As the category is clearly stated to be "Fantasy about other worlds" I knew that something literally unbelievable was going to happen. It was going to be something as the result of taking a new drug, so I knew anything could happen.
The most intriguing part of the film is the sequence where the teenagers who have taken the drug start to hallucinate and appear to have been transported to another horror-filled world. They are taken by some sort of monster, which appears to be perhaps stop-motion, or maybe just someone in a costume, but I am very unsure. It reminded of the skeleton fighting scene in Jason and the Argonauts (which I will link below.)
I liked how it had the two worlds switching easily on the screen. The real world contrasted with the horror world with the fact that that the pace of the horror world was much faster, and the camera was mostly freehand and jolting to create a panicked atmosphere. The colour scheme was also darker, using dark blues and blacks.
BLACK SUGAR
The preview image for this short film was confusing, and still is even after I've watched it. It's very blurry with a dark colour scheme. However, there is a patch of pink glow, drawing in the watcher as it looks very mysterious. The synopsis is what pulled me in.
"A group of bored suburban teens experiment with a mysterious new drug."
As the category is clearly stated to be "Fantasy about other worlds" I knew that something literally unbelievable was going to happen. It was going to be something as the result of taking a new drug, so I knew anything could happen.
The most intriguing part of the film is the sequence where the teenagers who have taken the drug start to hallucinate and appear to have been transported to another horror-filled world. They are taken by some sort of monster, which appears to be perhaps stop-motion, or maybe just someone in a costume, but I am very unsure. It reminded of the skeleton fighting scene in Jason and the Argonauts (which I will link below.)
I liked how it had the two worlds switching easily on the screen. The real world contrasted with the horror world with the fact that that the pace of the horror world was much faster, and the camera was mostly freehand and jolting to create a panicked atmosphere. The colour scheme was also darker, using dark blues and blacks.
Wednesday, 1 July 2015
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