Editing

Video editing is both an Artistic and Technical process in which a collection of video material (footage) is compiled and altered from its original form to create a new version.
The artistic process of video editing consists of deciding what elements to retain, delete, or combine from various sources so that they come together in an organized, logical, and visually pleasing manner.
Video shots are structured in such a way that they are shot in order and of correct length. This process does not require any additional equipment other than the Camcorder itself, but requires good shooting and organizational skills at the time of the shoot.

Today I and my group did a substantial amount of editing after school. We managed to edit some footage. We have yet more to amend, but at the same time we have productively captivated footage of just over two minutes long. Giving us just over two more minutes’ worth of editing left to do. The process is very tiring and time consuming, so we’re always feeling reluctant to do editing after school hours; however we are getting there with the motivation we’re receiving from the teachers.
Although our Christmas holidays have started for us, we’re all going to make the effort in coming in 9.00 in the morning tomorrow to expectantly complete our music video if not most of it.
some of the footage we filmed consists of beautiful nature scenery.
such as these:



By Taslima Begum

Codes and Conventions of music Videos.

We looked at the various style of pop videos (as our music video falls under the category of pop) and the 3 main forms that they come in; Performance, Narrative and Image.
Performance speaks for itself; these videos in general consist of performances, usually based on a stage or something of a similar sort. Narrative (which we have used) is where the video tells the spectators a story either the one associating to the song or a distinct narrative is told. Image is when the video emphasises on the artist/s as the central concept.

There is a individual style of video for every type or genre of music. Some conventions even spread over into different genres. I looked at different genres of videos and the codes and conventions that go with them.

For example the conventions on average that go with Hip/Hop & Rap videos are; Sex, Money, Cars, Girls, Big Houses, Clubs, Bling and Alcohol, and are usually narrative or performance based videos. R 'n' B videos are quite glamorised, include a lot of voyeurism and bling and are mostly image-narrative based. Boy band videos are performance based and are continually flooded with clips of concerts, screaming girl fans and dance routines. Indie Band videos are on the whole on live stages and are fairly performance based. Heavy Metal videos are surrounded by mosh pits, dark clothing and blaring rockers and are all performance based.

My group watched the video for Nelly ‘Hot in here’. The video was hip-hop/ r 'n' b and was very stereotypical of the genre with the videos being flooded with girls, dancing, cars, bling & clubs and was very performance based, the reason why it is performance based is because there were girls dancing on tables and 'grinding' with men, and on tabletops as well, the girls are also very inadequately dressed. The video has a verse/chorus structure to it and uses a lot of common motifs such as tattoos on the rappers etc.

By Taslima Razia and Masuma

Lyric interpretation...

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own
We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

I know how this feels. You're so in love with someone,you don't care what anyone else tells you to do, even if the person is all wrong for you. If you love them, you do what you want.

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

You just want to ignore everything else, to have that perfect moment, to forget all the bad things that may be going on around you.

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel
Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

When you're in love, I love you can't fully express how you feel. It's said too often, too casually, to give the full meaning that you have inside.

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

This bit, I think may be just about wasting time in meaningless ways, just so you can be with that person a little bit longer.

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

You find a peace, a goodness, a happiness in that person, you want to be able to find it inside yourself, so that they feel the same way with you.

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

Could be metaphoric for you seeing yourself reflected in their eyes and you feel like you are a better because of them. Like you are even a part of them, and they are of you.

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

You may not remember where or how you met them, but you know you love them and you know that you wan to always love them. And you don't know what is going to happen later, but you don't want to stop being in love with them.


Love has been categorized and simplified by our daily lives living in a world that if full of strife and cynicism. This song expresses how powerful and simple love really is. If you are in love, you don't need anyone or anything except the person that you share the purity with. It is like a bright light, drowning out everything around us. It is so beautiful we are drawn to it but sometimes afraid to let the light shine on us. Everyone of us interprets love differently only knowing what we are taught and many times we will go our entire lives never experiencing it because we never really take the time to feel it. We never know when we will meet our soul mate or what we will have going on in our lives at the time, but to take the chance and make changes takes a great amount of trust and emotion. A garden of new life blooms, each flower delicate and precious we need to appreciate each one for what it is. To express to someone that you love them opens us up our inner self. How do you put into words how you feel about that other person. Sometimes it is suiting to lay there and share the moment, leaving everything that we know behind us. Being in the presence of our true love confirms our desire and need to live our life to its fullest. No matter how much we think of ourselves, this person can bring us right back to the reality of what we are. Chasing cars simplifies the complications of life, we all have things that we strive for maybe to never get them, but to share in the chase together unites two minds as one sharing the same goal. To live is to learn, to love is to live.


By Taslima Begum

Day 4 of filming

Today i did some more filming of shots of scenery, which we're going to use to put in between cuts.
the shots consisted of lots of cars, as the title is called 'chasing cars' we think its quite fundamental that we are able to relate to the title. the shots we're mostly of cars driving straight, cars turning into the next street and some shots with cars waiting in traffic. we are hoping to use editing to fast forward the cars driving, so we have a speedy effect. in addition to this, i did some shots of pleasant scenery, this consisted of popular sighting's such as 'the tower of london', 'st pauls cathedral' etc. because all the filming is based in London, i think it is substantial that we ensure there is various shots that display's the different yet meaningful aspects of the city.
We still have a lot of eminent scenes which we need to shoot. shots that have the most significance in demonstrating the whole theme. this is going to take place tomorrow, in a restaurant. after we have completed our goal we can crack on with the editing and hopefully create a music video which is unique!!!

taslima begum

Day 3 of filming

Its been raining all afternoon today. we wanted to finish off all the main indoor scenes between the couples. we have successfully completed all the shots that were required for this particular scene. these shots contain some of the main elementary scenes which emphasizes the narrative for the this music video. the scenes were acted out by Masuma Begum, who is a member of this group and Zakwan. the whole shooting was filmed in a studio apartment. we were able to capture various shots including high angle shots, point of view shots, dolly zooms and many more . also the lighting was perfect for our setting. so by the end of the day we were really happy with how the filming went.

after our group completed the main filming. we went away and i did some filming of scenery, that can be used between cuts. i thought it'll be best if i capture some footage whilst it was raining in the dark. i went to a river side and the setting looked absolutely beautiful. the effect of the lighting reflecting onto the river was really nice; as raining being one of our principle element of our music video i thought it'll come in use for when we are finally editing.

i think today went really well for our group as we achieved great results in terms of filming, we have ticked all the boxes all that is left to do is a few more shots in a restaurant!!
Taslima Begum

Shayne Ward-No Promises

This video is very good in showing that there are very similar generic conventions used in this video as is in our music video. we came across this video recently and were actually quite suprised to see that this video has almost the same storyline as us where there is a typical narrative storyline of a typical love story between a girl and boy,scenes of the boy and girl together all happy and cheery and then there are also scenes of them both fighting and arguing. by doing this the aim was to make the audience think what is going on, are they together? or aren't they? whereas if you watch the video right to the end you will find out that the woman was infact dead and the man was having flashbacks of how it used to be, this is the same storyline that we are using for our music video this shows that these types of music videos share the same generic conventions as it is always showing a narrative of the story of a couple in love about something relevant that is happening in their life that means something this is why this music video is very similar to the music video we are going to produce as this is waht we are showing in our video.

By Razia

Today in lesson our group did our shot schedule where we decided what day we were going to film,what time, where we are going to film,what actors we are using,what scenes with what part of the song. This will be useful for us as when we do go out to film we will be organised as we will know what to do exactly where and when to do it so we will be on schedule and organised.

We also wrote our email to polydor records asking for their permission to use their song in our music video.

By Razia

Email Sent To Polyder Records Asking Permission

This is a copy of the email we sent to polydor records asking them for their permission if we can use the song Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol.


By Razia

Mad- Neyo

We have uploaded this video because in this video there is intertexuality to the music video we are going to produce for example it show two people in love going through a hard time in their relationship, they are using the effect of black and white which we are going to implement in our music video whilst we are editing. Also in this video the woman dies during the song this is quite similar to our music video as the same happens in ours but we are going to show this through flashbacks.


By Razia

Storyline For Music Video

We have decided to use a narrative in our music video, the original song is a very typical contemporary love song sang by a male artist. However in our video we have decided to use a female character as the singer. The storyline in our video is going to be a typical love story between a girl and boy, we will have scenes of the boy and girl together all happy and cheery and then we will also have scenes of them both fighting and argueing. by doing this we aim to make the audience think what is going on, are they together? or aren't they?. Meanwhile the lyrics of the song will also only confuse the audience even more as the lyrics 'if i lay here, would you lay with me' insinuates her wanting him too be with her but it could also be her asking him if he'll be with her. however towards the end of our music video we will be reveiling the fact that the couple aren't together any more, and the real reason for this will also be reveiled, the reason for them being apart is because 'she' the female actress has been dead throughout the whole music video and while she is singing to him, 'her love', she is also having flashbacks on their relationship. This has been used in many music videos, one of the main music videos which inspired us to use this plot as our narrative was the song 'Mad' by Neyo. Another idea we have for our music video is to have some of the flashbacks, the happy, cheery ones in colour and having the rest in black and white, we plan to do this when editing our video.

By Masuma Begum

Day 3 Of Filming.......

Today on the 21st of november we are filming some of the shots for the indoor scenes. We are shooting the main character singing in the house, we have used various rooms such as the living room, bathroom etc.

Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars (lyrics)

We'll do it all
Everything
On our own

We don't need
Anything
Or anyone

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

I don't quite know
How to say
How I feel

Those three words
Are said too much
They're not enough

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden
That's bursting into life

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes
They're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things
Will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me
And just forget the world?

By Masuma Begum

Day 2 Of Filming.......

Today we're going to go out and film some shots for our music video.
Going to commercial road and taking shots of cars. we are going to be on top of the bridge and taking high angle shots. Also going to take shots of masuma lip synching in the grave yard.

Day 1 Of Filming......

we've completed our story board. its been raining all morning, so were going to go out to film some shots for our music video.

we successfully completed our task and filmed lots of elementary shots that we can use for our music video. alot of these shots consisted of close up shots of puddles, leaves and cars. the lighting in these clips are great and think it'll look good if we put it inbetween various shots. the main element in our video is water, we want a watery and damp affect. e.g water dripping on the windows.
therefore all these shots of water are very significant.

Ideas for music video..

Our target was to achieve and settle on a simple song and to produce something unconventional. As a group I think we have reached our objective in agreeing on a song by Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars for our main music video.
Although this is an open love song, I think ‘chasing cars’ by ‘snow patrol’ is not the standard and predictable love song that you will come across in your contemporary music videos, it is in fact quit different to your ordinary song, and I believe we can establish a video with some originality. This song contains influential lyrics therefore our aim is to produce a video where the visuals link with the lyrics.
The intertextuality is very limited in the snow patrol video, because it has an original idea, so lacks any intertextuality at all. The original video is quit dreary and the codes and signs we capture from this are very uninteresting, so therefore our target is to re create a more attention-grabbing video.
‘’Show me a garden that’s bursting into life.’’ This line demonstrates how he only wants to see the optimistic things in life. This song is positive and to us it is about ignoring reality. Everyone wants to escape from all the bad things in life and I think the lyrics illustrate this. In the original video it is about snow patrol sharing his feelings about how this girl has helped him overcome all these bad effects. This song is to a great extent about memories, therefore the idea that we have come up with, is to portray the good memories in colour and the bad memories in black and white.
There is going to be 2 main characters throughout our video, with the female acting out the most dominant role. We are going to base our video on two couples who are madly in love but do not have consent from their families. When they’re together nothing matter, but as soon as they go home there is lots of confrontation and their parents cannot bear the thought of their offspring seeing each other. These symbolic codes will grasp the viewer’s awareness and it will make them think about the couple’s situation, and hopefully feel some emotion for them.
We want to have the female performer to have the most leading part in lip singing. It will be rather unusual to have a female, singing along to a tune sung by a male as it rarely happens. So it is quit risky. However we believe it’ll be interesting to continue with this idea as it will be exciting to watch the female side of the relationship.
The original video has one man throughout, which doesn’t do much justice to the song because the lyrics are very powerful. I think it will visually look better and exciting if the female stars as the main character, I believe it’ll captivate the audience’s attention more and make them focus on the lyrics.

By Taslima Begum

Research - Music promo research

The purpose of a music video is to promote the artist and song by appealing to the audiences who view it, using conventions that suit the genre of the act shown. This can be shown by using techniques such as camera angles, mise-en-scene and lighting which can manipulate the way a viewer sees the production. As examples I will use different genres to prove that different types of music need a different approach to the making of the music video as part of my research on my own music video.


Michael Jackson - Scream

The Michael Jackson video featuring his sister Janet Jackson In 'Scream' is the most expensive music video ever produced costing up to a whopping $7 million. The production was released in May 1995 and directed by Mark Romanek who has now directed many popular song videos including Madonna and Jay-Z. The timing of the video acted as a response to the critics after Michael Jackson's backlash in 1993, meaning Jackson had to regain his fans with a massive record and a video that matched the situation. The video highlighted sexuality in a very exceptional way by using different aspects of mise-en-scene which creates the audiences' feelings with visual effects.
The theme of the video is a futuristic space ship travelling through space with the two characters on board far away from Earth, with possible inspiration from Star Trek or Star Wars. Clips are then shown of them dancing, almost competing against each other with great enthusiasm and a wide variety of different shots with fast camera cuts. The amount of money spent on the video is very evident to the audience.

Firstly, the make up used in the video is very similar between both artists, which emphasises the way that the production is trying to make the genders appear as equal. However, Janet has very darkened eyes which gives her a more tougher look to the audience. The makers of the video may have tried to make this with idea that the female character has a darker side to her giving her more personality. This also stops any stereotypes which usually try to represent women as innocent and sweet. Also making her hair messier gives her a wilder look that could be more vulnerable to a man, especially in this case where she is seen to be competing against Michael Jackson. Michael also has these features in a less extreme way so he looks a bit calmer than Janet with less eye make-up and straighter hair.

The costumes of the characters also match each other which in an interesting way shows hardly any difference between the sexualities. The costume used seems too masculine for a typical woman and too feminine for a typical man which shows that the style of the video aims at audiences of both audiences. Again it emphasises the point that men and women are shown as equal. There are certain clips in the video where Janet Jackson is more revealing than others. The shots which focus on her bikini top underneath her coat gives the video a sexual element and certainly her own attractiveness. During this scene she is wearing white instead of black which shows a change of rhythm of the video.

The different props shown in the video highlights the theme of the video being futuristic and also the props matches the colours and surroundings in the scenes. Although there is one important prop that is used throughout the video which portrays the artist's sexuality, the chair. It is the same scene which is shown with the two characters switching and they both reveal sexual actions to make them more appealing to the audience. The shot of Michael Jackson shown in front of the planet Earth almost looks like he is standing on top of the world which gives us the impression that he is overshadowing his sister vocally in the video. This is probably what the video makers were trying to achieve because he is the more successful artist and the video was made for the response of his own personal disaster.

The percentage of camera shots are zoomed in on Michael Jackson which also highlights the point the video is about him. We gain the feeling that Michael is competing against his sister but is overshadowing in ability which in a way is in favour of the male dominance in the video.

By Taslima Begum

Pitch For Our Music Video

Our target was to acheive and settle on a simple song,and hopefully produce something unconventional. Although this is an open love song, it isn't your standard and predictable love song with an ordinary video

we did loads of research and looked through various pop video's. i came across a few video's which i thought were ideal for our final production. these video's were produced years ago and not your typical pop video you'd come across in the contemporary...

The most recent activity me and my group were involved in, was sweading a video. we had to make a short model of a music video by Dido-'Thank you'. the process before re-creating this video was quite prolonged, as we had to wait for another group to complete their storyboard so we could begin our filming, from their illustration of the orignal video.
our mission was to produce a very indistinguishable video from the guidance of the storyboard. we learnt that the story board had to be sketched precisly in order for you to make an identical video.



Taslima

Analyzing a Music Video

Editing: various terms: jumping cutting, MTV style editing or montage editing. creating the visually de-centred experience of 'jumping' from location to person to instrument without any normal narrative continuity. Instead it is often the beat of the rhthm of the track which provides the organsing principle of editing movement. the editing moves so fast it creates the need for viewing 'Repeatedly'. there are exceptions though. some 'Continuity editing' used such as atmospheric dissolve shots such as in sinhead O'Connor's-'Nothing compares to you'.

Camera Shots: jumping directly between long shots, close ups and extreme close ups. Primarily the close up on the singer's face is the main generic convention for music videos. Also the extreme close up on the lips for lip synching.

Camera Movement: Whip pans, fast dolly track shots and fast overhead crane shots to follow the running, walking or dancing of performers. Also fast vertical tilts and horizontal pans.

Lighting: Expressive lighting a key feature of music videos. Extreme artifical light to create the bleaching effect on pop stars faces (making them seem ageless). Also the use of switching from colour to black & white or sepia to indicate a shift from shorus to verse. Also lighting effects such as strobes or flashing needs to be identified.


By Taslima.

Our group have looked at these video's in particular we chose to upload these because, we want to create something comparable to these video's. these clips fall under the genre we have chosen for our final production. It also incorporates really good camera shots and uses a variety of them. some of which we want to embrace in our final product. we have taken noticed that 'pop' has become such a broad genre, this is one of the reason for our final decision upon this genre. we really like how these video's are diverging to your conventional, standard pop video.
Music videos always have the most extreme effects where you can not use any where else. they usually have lots of varying editing done to 'wow' the audience. we would like to achieve this and impress our viewers with our distinctive use of editing.

A predictable pop video usually has the artist in the final piece. this is a way of increasing their popularity and promoting them selves to gain more fame. we obviously dont have the ability to include an artist,instead we will have something different as an end result, our aim is to successfuly accomplish a pop video thats been transformed.

By Taslima.

Paulo Nutini-Last Request....Razia

The Script-Man Who Cant Be Moved....Razia

Kings Of Leon-Use Somebody....Razia

Snow Patrol-Chasing Cars.....Razia

Different genre's of music

Most songs and compositions belong to a specific type of music or genre. Music can be divided into genres in many different ways. Here are some different types of genres..


- Cultural & Traditional

- R&B

- Country

_ Rock

_ Pop

_ Reggae

_ Jazz

- HipHop

we have watched many video's, and we have decided that the most suitable genre for us would be pop. all the clips we came across the video's that fell into this genre (pop) was our prefrence. in addition, it'll also be the easiest for us.

Evaluation

Working in a group we have learnt that creating a music video is not as simple as it looks. Making a music video is very complicated and very time consuming and it consist 100% of your dedication and effort. we have learnt that, to create a decent music video your location, costume and the effects you choose to use has to be appropriate in order to suit your genre which means your research has to be very detailed. today's music video differs from music videos made in the past hugely. music videos nowadays are created with many special effects. whereas before they didn't have the advantage of using various special affects.
Modern music videos are made and used as a marketing technique intended to promote the sale of music recordings. therefore it is crucial that your music video attracts your audiences.

Music videos use a wide range of styles of film making techniques, including animation, live action filming, documentaries, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film. Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation and live action.
In one of the exercise's we were tasked, me and my group encountered many mistakes through out the short process. the mission was based on lypsyncing to a specific song of our teachers liking. we had to shoot a 30 second long video and sing a long to a particular verse. although it didnt sound really perplexing the task was extremely intractable, especially because we was not familiar to the song. when editing our final clip, getting the song to fit in with our lypsyncing was realy obscure. we had a slight problem with the timing which we couldnt do anything about.

By the end of this task me and my group knew we had to pull our weight up in order to create a superlative video for our final piece. we are looking into pop video's at the moment and have are mind set on this. we're looking at various video's created by different artists. e.g: The Script-'man who can't be moved'. we really like this video because it's different to your typical teen pop video. and the effects used in this video is very similar to what we want to include in our final version. we want to create something deviating and unusual as our final production. however we need to bare in mind how difficult it'l be to create something complex, this is because we have a limited amount of resource's and equipment, also the location and setting has to appropriate and not some where out of our reach.

By Taslima

Music Video By Razia

As we have been looking at music videos for our media coursework, i was just browsing on the internet looking at different music videos have chosen a video and downloaded it as i find it quite interesting and the video is typical sort of video of the genre RnB and this could maybe be the genre of my chosen video.