my band MUSIC VIDEO

Acusator are a 5 member unsigned band from southern England and hail from the town of Fareham, they have been in band for around three years and have had several public appearances in the Southampton and Portsmouth area. The venues in which the band has played live in front of an audience include clubs like the cellars and the joiners.  They are a thrash metal band who has released several songs on their Facebook and MySpace page which are avalible to download for free. They no long have drummer George Pickering (second from right) who has left the bad for personal reasons.

 

The band consists of:

. Bobby Brooks- vocals

. Michael Hanley- Lead guitar

. Alex Marsh- Guitar, vocals

.Simon Mcadden- bass guitar 

 

Acusator will be appearing in my music video to perform their first LP track ‘The pack’ which was released earlier this year and can be listened to on their official Facebook page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

music video idea

My music video is going to be a series of shots of the band playing. The video will start off with a wide shot of a set within the studio, the band will be at the back of the set with guns in there hands as if they have just finished shooting. In the foreground there will be people lying on the floor pretending to be dead bodies. The band members will throw their guns on the floor and pick up their instruments, the camera will pan towards the band through the dead bodies on the floor, and the guitarist will start playing and eventually be followed by the other band members as the song kicks in. then the rest of the video will be various shots of the band performing the song, the cutting between band members vary at different points in the song to compansate the different instruments playing. for example there will be a close up of the guitarist when the guitar solo is playing. once the song has finished the camera will pan back out following the same path it did for the intro and the people on the floor will pretend to come back to life as if they are zombies reanimating. the band will put down there instruments and pick up the guns again as if they are about to fight off the zombies, the camera will then dip to black and te video will end.

the video will be very dark in colour and will reflect the forboading sense that the song gives you as you listen to it. this will be acheived by having a black painted set and have very sharp lights on the band.

Multi Camera Evaluation

Multi Camera evaluation                                                                           Andrew Sharp




Talk show: Paranormal investigators
Our first show was a paranormal based discussion/talk show in which we had a professional medium come on the show to talk about her experiences. the show started with our host (Scott) introducing the basis of the show and then introducing the first guest  The show had a set which was split in two to accommodate a walkway in the centre in which our host and guests would walk through. There was a raised platform towards the back of the set in which a number of guests were placed who volunteered to speak out about their own experiences e.t.c. the set design was very well done on such short notice for our original plan didn't work due to a lack of material. The end result was a very dirty, grimy looking wallpaper with cobwebs and stains on the wall to make it seem more like a haunted house or just generally something creepy to suit the theme of the show. The set was designed by georgie mould who thought of the idea of using tea bags and ripped wallpaper to give the set its grimy look which worked extremely well in my opinion.

we had a bit of a tight schedule due to the change in idea late on so we had to work fast especially with booking a guest onto our show, we needed someone that we could consider a professional to come on and talk about paranormal activity for it is a rather loose subject which is subject to conspiracy. after several rejections and 'thanks but no thanks' replies from various local mediums and exorcists we finally booked our professional medium gilly H who was more than happy to come on and talk on our show. The pre production stage was a bit all over the place, we had debates over who was doing what but eventually scrapped a fair share of work between us (sort of). We then filmed a pre-recorded segment which would be put into our show which was a film of 8 people going on a 'ghost walk' around Royal Victoria Country Park which is supposedly haunted. The second pre recorded segment was our opening title sequence which was pictures of our guests and host edited into a background with the title eventually emerging at the end.

On the day we had between 2-3 rehearsals which all went relativity smoothly and we were confident that our show was ready. We all knew what our roles were, mine was a camera operator my job was to follow the host and capture his performance throughout the show. I didn’t have an incredible amount to do but I feel like I did enough to earn my PASS grade. The actually show itself didn’t run as smoothly as we would have hoped due to our V Ts not projecting properly causing us to retake a few shots. The show was an overall success and everyone agreed that we did well considering our late change of heart to do a paranormal based show. Our director very deservedly revived a Distinction grade; she was calm and reserved but was also very clear to what she wanted.


Improv show: Think fast

For our second show we knew straight away that we needed to have an idea and stick to it. We threw around a couple of ideas to start with for example me and Seb had the idea of a movie quiz based show and a couple others. we eventually decided that we would like to do an Improv based show due to the interest Tim had in a show called 'Thank god your Here' which puts people into scenarios in which they have to make up a character on the spot and be as funny as they can be. we had a clear early vision which was a high and I decided to take up the mantle as director for Tim wanted the role as floor manager (he was first choice as director) we had a lot of meeting to discuss mainly the set design of our Improv show, we had the idea to have several sets within our show which would be sectioned off into three or four. We decided to have two sets with a walkway through the middle so that our host could come through the centre and then when it was time for the first scenario the cameras would track over to the left or right to capture the action. We knew what improvisers we wanted as seb who does acting at the local theatre suggested them and stressed that they would be a good choice. 

we had a bit of controversy when I made the decision to step down as director for I didn’t feel like I had a good grip on the concept of the show and didn’t have the drive to boss people about and overlook everything that's going on. This was entirely my decision and we quickly discussed it together and georgie took up the role of director and we had a good few days of intensive work done in which need catching up on. We then had another issue when I couldn't reach our actors and we had no other actors to play the scripted parts. Shortly after our designated painter dropped out meaning we had yet another thing to sort out. We had too many meetings and didn’t focus on what really needed doing. We had a lot of conflict between us and didn’t talk and some of us didn’t show up to college which messed up the show for most of us. We had a big heart to heart meeting to discuss what had gone wrong, this did temporarily cause even more falling out between us but we just gritted our teeth together and got on with it. The threat that our show would be pulled if we didn’t produce it in two days really got people to start working together again.

The show itself was so by the skin of our teeth that it can only be seen as a work of art. i had the tricky job of lighting and sound so I was busy and effectively didn’t stop for two days. i had a pretty solid lighting plan for our show which required a quite complex format because I had not only to light one set but three all at different points in the show. On top of this we had no time for a full rehearsal so the actual show itself was a big risk for me. Also on the sound side we had a problem with our lapel microphone (tie mic) for our host which were giving back too much feedback and eventually didn’t work. To accommodate this I had to set up a shot gun mic literally at the last minute to make sure we had some form of sound to compensate the lack of lapel microphones. We had a mic in the centre to capture the whole set which also meant we could hear what was going on in the gallery. The show was such a gamble and worked incredibly well it was just as good as we hoped it would be before we were put on the edge of being cancelled. I am very proud that we pulled off this very ambitious show and it is a huge bonus to hold the mantle as the lighting and sound operator on the best Multi camera show of the year.  

  

Razorlight Wire to Wire

i chose this video because it is a very symbolic one. it catches the serious undertones of the song with a clever execution.
.i filmed over a time period of 4 days with the addition of cgi in post production.

Press Pack evaluation

Press pack evaluation


For my press pack I did both a promotional poster and a behind the scenes magazine interview to help promote my thriller film. The reason I chose to do a poster is because it seemed like the best, traditional way to help promote a film. Also I had recently heard about minimalistic style posters which are simplistic designs with not much detail which is designed to tease the audience by showing an iconic image from the film. For example a poster for the popular ‘Lord Of The Rings’ films contained a yellow circle in the middle of a blank page which fans would immediately know as being the iconic ring from the films. I felt that the poster was the perfect style to what I imagined, a simple yet revealing poster that captures the imagination of the film within it. The font used was one I found from a website called ‘dafont’ which is a database of fonts of all shapes and sizes, it came in very useful when deciding what I want to use for my title especially. Ironically the font I used as the title was called distorted and of course the name of my thriller film is ‘Distortion’. The font was perfect aswell and captured the gritty look and mysterious feel that the film is all about.

I always had the intention to do a promotional poster for my thriller, On the other hand I didn’t always have the intention of doing a behind the scenes magazine interview though I was persuaded after analysing  couple of professional film magazines. As I discussed in task 1 of the assignment the magazine interview had to most of all look the part to be taken seriously. It had to have the correct layout in order to keep the reader interested and prevent them changing the page or becoming bored ect. The page needs to have the right amount of writing, in some cases it can be spaced out to make it look like less. My behind the scenes magazine interview contained a moderate sized amount of writing which ultimately took up a lot the page. It needed this to make the page more full and interesting. However it stood out a little bit too much on the page and possibly made it look too simplistic. Though the important part is the interview itself the layout and design are crucial to the success of the magazine.

The assignment on a whole was a useful way to promote my film, it helped me explore different ways in which you can promote a film and how they are done. I got to use the knowledge ive picked up from other films that have been promoted. Particularly when I discussed about how films use the internet and viral marketing campaigns to make little challenges for fans to promote a film. Viral marketing is a very interesting way of promoting a film because social networking sites and fan sites are so popular today its very to easy to keep interest alive. A good way of doing this is by doing the website for the press pack, though this is rather cliché when it comes to promoting a film. I didn’t do a website because it felt like all of the products would just be put into one department and it would act as a HQ for all the promotional attributes. It’s a better idea to use different types of promotional perks like a poster and a magazine interview because you can expand on just one area with all your perks in. the audio pod cast didn’t grab my interest either because were it is generally just a audio file you are limited to where you can put it and how your going to get people to listen to it, it seems like a long shot to put it on the internet because its unlikely to be found. The DVD cover design was possibly a good idea because it is similar to making a promotional poster, but with a little more detail, I decided to do a poster nonetheless because my new found fondness for minimalistic style posters. I did not do a video trailer because I like the whole secrecy surrounding the film which is reflected in both the magazine interview and most of all in my minimalistic style poster. All in all I am happy with the items I chose to do and I feel that they are a overall success

Media Jobs Task 4

the media industry is always trying to adjust its paramaters to make everything suitable and appropreate. for example the watershed, which is the name for a set time (after 9pm) in which television can start to show programmes with swaering or explicit content in without leagealy being sued. also in newspapers only so much swaring and nudity etc is allowed for certain papers, it has always been that there is a topless woman on page 3 of a lot of common newspapers.

the freedom of information act was brought in 2000 which creates a public "right of access" to information held by public authorities. If you are a public authority you have a legal obligation to provide information through an approved publication scheme and in response to requests. there was recently a lot of speculation on what the government is up to whether it was what they were spending money on plus there was speculation as too the elected members of parliment (MP's) spending tax payers money on unnessasariy things. the freedom of information act gives the media and therefore the public more insight into current government affarires and also states that they have the right to know what goes on in there goverment and public authorities. people can use the act to find out about a problem facing your community to see how effective a policy has been, to find out about the authorities spending and to genrally see if an authority is doing what it says it is. this means the media can post news or shows about used to be sectret government issues which gives the public a lot more control.

Media censorship has been greatly exercised in our day and age, because of its highly revealing content that can infuriate those it may offend, or influence others by its immoral message. There is always some kind of censorship involved, especially in countries where it is strictly prohibited by the government or concerned agencies, that strive to keep viewing-audiences away from such material. Children and young adults are those that are greatly affected by the media, and censorship is something that needs to be regularized before this audience.

video instillation idea

 idea 1
 to show a normal day from start to finish what you go through. mainly to highlight small things you do which generally build up a day to show all the hidden pleasures that you would do without really thinking about it. such as waking up and stretching or sneezing which are usually dismissed or just done without a lot of conciousness but are considered to be nice. to do this i will film someone doing all the normal things during the day but highlight them and show them in a quick fire style with shot after shot back to back from the start of the day to the end of the day. i will not need any hard to get props or locations because my instillation video follows a normal day and will only require every day things such as food,drink and t.vs ect. i have a location avalible to use which is my own house which is suitable for the filming whenever.

idea 2
 to show  a number of people giving there opinions on the same film (or something else media related) and gauging the reactions to compare and show how different peoples opinions on the same thing varys. it can also be interepreated on a larger scale like politics or football e.tc i will have the different people sat in a chair and tell them a film, just to gauge there reactions and opions. i will use a still camera and place the different people in the same chair to make it as fair as possible to show that the only focus is the individual reactions and opinions. i will most proberly film this within the college to keep that official feel in terms of surroundings though it will not be relevant. i will chose possibly 3 diffrent films from different time periods to make it a varyed test.