Creative arts evening

On creative arts evening we plan to do this clip however get people to volunteer to sit in the chair. This will hopefully be like a free advertising strategy as clips like this have the ability to go viral on youtube and social networking sites.




We will bring the chair we used in this clip into school and then ask people to sit in the seat and do movements or lip synch. We will then quickly take the footage and edit it. We will then show this to the person either face to face or post it on youtube the next day.




As well as this we will also get volunteers to sit in the chair and  lip synch some of the lyrics. We will then edit these shots into our short rough cut that lasts around 60 seconds and then show the volunteer the results. this will create a great secondary video for our group, having lots of different shots of different people.

Mise En Scene - costumes tbc

When we went to shoot our sample footage we decided to go with this as costume as we were just shooting sample footage. This costume is now our narrative costume apart from i'm wearing different shoes and a Wight Tshirt.

For our final performance costume we have gone for very similair as this insomnia video. We have used black trousers a grey blazer and white shoes. We thought this was a very unique costume and a convention used in faithless videos.

Sample scene 4

When shooting we shot lots of me lip synching. We did this on the chair and lip synched the whole thing. Here is the outcome and a few points about it:



Mise En Scene
When shooting we took advantage of what we think is great mise en scene. We asked people what they thought of the background and they loved it, as it was urban and looked very effective. The graffiti is used in lots of music videos like Blue-one love as it gives the video an urban feel.


Feedback

We then got feedback on our video. The main piece of feedback was that there should be more emphasis when lip synching the words. People said i didn't put enough emotion into it and could be more clear with my lip synching. However they liked the mise en scene and some of the footage they said was really good but the best bits need cutting and small bits put into the video not one long bit

Editing
The editing of this clip was incredibly easy as i just matched the audio to the visuals of me lip synching. As soon as i did this the clip started to look very good and our team were happy with the results. As well as just dragging the audio, with like all of the other videos we chose the black and white effect to represent the dark place he is in.

Sample scene 3

 When on our shoot we decided to have a shot of me tapping my foot against the wall to the beat as we thought it would be an effective shot and have seen it in many different music videos like George Michaels Faith. I then edited the clip to the beat and found it quite effective.







As we have gone with the idea of having a black and white music video, when editing we always use the black and white to see how it looks. This is because it is not a definitive decision to go with black and white. if it looks good in colour we can discuss and decide whether or not we should keep with the black and white idea

CT:Sample scene 2

This is our sample scene two where i experimented with different editing techniques. This is rough but it gives us and idea of how it will look when it comes to the actual shoot and we know what we need to do when it comes to changing it.

Our Twitter page

Our twitter page

Our group have created a new Twitter with the username TeamDeJaCu. We will use this twitter as an advertising tool and to let people know about our group and what we're planning to do. Here is our twitter account!
















As well as just setting up our twitter and tweeting we have also followed influential twitter pages. One of these pages was beggars group media. A media group responsible for videos from the likes of Bon Iver. They are an english group and they are a company we take inspiration from.
We also followed Faithless as he is the artist of the video we are doing and we take many ideas from his work as inspiration.                                                                                                                                                                              

CT: Mise-en-scene The Chair

THE CHAIR:

Muhammed Ali

What we have found is that in many of Faithless' music videos is that Maxi Jazz when he is lip syncing is usually in a stationary position. He is usually either standing up straight or sitting down.

We took particular interest in the music video Take The Long Way Home by Faithless as they use an old looking armchair for Maxi Jazz to sit on whiles he's singing, and we're planning on incorporating this in our music video and will form an intertextual link with Faithless' other videos, but also it's common

Take The Long Way Home

for juxtaposition to be used in Faithless' videos
for example in Take The Long Way Home Maxi Jazz
is seen sitting on an arm chair in front of a moon in his
 armchair and these two things are very juxtaposed, and
with our music video we're planning on shooting with an
 armchair in the middle of a field to achieve juxtaposition.

Like in the video Take The Long Way Home we are in the process of planning our green screen shot where we plan on shooting our main character sat in his chair with the green screen behind him. One of the main factors of this is choosing the visuals that will go behind our character whether they will be moving or a still image, it may be the safe option to use a still image however, using a moving background could be equally effective.