CT: Faithless - Muhammed Ali

There is a lot of footage of Maxi Jazz' performance in this video as he sits in a stand as if he's watching a big match. The shot types vary on the lyrics the shot types are usually MCU, CU, ECU and MS.

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This is other performance footage in the video which links the lyrics in with the visuals which he does quite a lot in his videos i have found. This is something that we should take into consideration in our planning.

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Again there is dance footage included in the video however this isn't all synchronised.

Insomnia Idea Update

There are a few updates to our idea:

• Instead of a girl being the nightmare that the sufferer has, we now have decided to go with a mask to provide  a scarier nightmare. This mask will be borrowed from a friend or someone at school, we will use many different angles and effects to anchor the preferred reading.
• From the ASFF: 
• The use of smoke machines could be very effective. 
• An effect that signifies insanity. Here is the video in which the effect was used:
• Another idea we have had is a close up of the main character (me) tapping my feet on the floor along with the music.
• We also took major inspiration from the faithless videos that we observed. A key feature of almost all faithless videos is him sitting down in a chair lip synching. We are going to use this shot but add a bit of a difference by shooting in the middle of a field.

DW: Faithless-Bombs

Juxtaposition 1-00mins

 1. Juxtaposition is used well within this music video to signify political and social issues, for example this shot where the school children are running with the Navy ship in the background firing. The juxtaposition is with the harmless children and the dangerous Navy ship.

Medium Close-up 2-10mins

2. Also what's common in his music videos is his presence and shots of him lip syncing with a medium close-up on his face directly singing to the camera.

T.V shot 3-27

3.  What also works well is this scene with the T.V as they've obviously made the effort to program the T.V for the scene as it fits in with the narrative.

CT: Faithless - Mass Destruction

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There is an ECU used on his mouth to create an interesting visual effect because it is an unusual shot. This can also act as a transition between shots also it gives the video an entertainment value as its really abstract.

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A juxtaposition is used when the character switches to a young boy instead of Maxi Jazz, as the young boy sits in his seat. Also the girl members in the background, the female drummer and guitarist are counter-stereotypical as rock instruments are played by women.

Faithless - Bring my family back

In this video, like many other faithless videos he approaches poverty and alot of the videos are set in poverty inflicted areas. This is emphasised by the mise en scene which has been graffitied.









In alot of videos like this one, instruments are included in the mise en scene. This represents that it is a music video.

Maxi Jazz wears alot of long coats and dark clothes. This is going to be used in our music video in our costume choice. We will wear dark clothes and if there is one available, a long coat

Faithless-Music Matters

 Act: Faithless
Song: Music Matters

1) This video like many others is very abstract. The effect used is very effective and makes the video entertaining. It is used on the face and if can be done will be used in our final piece.

2) The video is one long continuous take that is edited with many different effects. There is one frame with different scenes of different things happening each time.







3) Here a lightning like effect is used with many different colours. It is used to give a rave feel to the video and is used in many different dance videos to give a nightclub feel.

Shoot 4: Shoot: 4th December (narrative, curly hill woods)

On the 4th of december we decided we would use our lesson time to shoot a proportion of our narrative scenes. 

Once again we did not stick to our shooting schedule.

We shot in two different locations these were Brooke street bridge over the river river Wharfe and Middleton woods at the top of Ilkley. When filming on the bridge we aimed to use a variety of shots including LS, OTS, CU ect. Our character would proceed to walk along the bridge and stop to look down at the river. We carefully framed our shots so that there were no cars or other people on show, this was because we wanted to show our characters isolation to the world and we thought if we included cars in these abstract shots it would affect our preferred reading.

When shooting in the woods the backdrop was perfect as the sun was just rising so it gave our shots an early morning effect which is what we want to achieve as are character would be awake in the early morning. Again we used a variety of shots which we aim to use for our narrative scenes as our character walks through these woods. We differentiated between POV shots and OTS shots as well as MS, LS and ELS. One shot which we thought would particularly work well was a POV shot which the camera tilted to look up at the trees and then rotated quickly. This could be a possible conventional ending point but also the sky could signify dreams, which he is hoping for but he cannot sleep.

One problem we encountered was our SD card being full which was a problem to a certain extent. As a result of this, we had to delete footage, though this was luckily on our Mac. We are planning to buy a bigger SD card or even better several and we can appoint certain scenes to certain memory cards to help organisation and time management.