Weather Issues.

Half Term's weather forecast for Banham, and Bury.

My orignal plan for my narrative filming was to film on Monday and Friday, and by checking the weather in todays lesson I've noticed an issue. Friday's plan for the Banham Zoo location is still okay, and with the chance of sunshine was something I dared to hope for.

My issue is with the filming on Monday at the Tent location, as that will be filmed outside near sunset/evening. Looking at the temperatures and the costumes I have planned, I don't think it will be warm enough for filming to take place as a possible 5C is far too cold to stay outside for an hour or so. Luckily, Wednesday is warmer with a possible 12C, although there is the risk of hitting 0C. It's a risk to change the days of filming, but I think it will be easier for my actors to perform in a warmer situation, so Filming must change from Monday to Wednesday.

Little Mix - DNA (Goodwin)

Little Mix are a good girl band to look at for example of Goodwin. Since they are a relatively new band, and have only produced a couple music videos, they have yet to develop a 'style' or 'motif' of their own, but each band member does have a certain outfit/costume styling. Rather than having the same outfit duplicated, each member has a version of an outfit style, for example, Jade (purple hair) has a more 'cute' version whilst Leigh-Anne (black hair) has a more 'urban' version. This could be seen as a visual style which fits in to Goodwin's Six.

Little Mix also demonstrates the typical characteristics of their genre, girl pop band, which is a synchronized dance routine, which all members contribute to. Again, the band are dressed similarly, but all have their individual styles.

The music video also presents many close ups of each band member, which is a main point in Goodwin's Six, and also, by watching the music video, there is a strong link between music and visuals, like cutting to the beat, which this music video demonstrates very well. There is also a link between lyrics and visuals, with the narrative of the song, and singing about loving someone you don't want to and 'DNA'.

Here's the music video to see the relationships stated above.

Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Goodwin)

Lady Gaga is a prime example of an artist that follows the Goodwin Six. As a female artist, she is seen in a voyeuristic way, by wearing underwear or very small outfits. This also ties into the narrative of her music video, as she is being 'sold' to wealthy Russian men.

In this screen shot, Lady Gaga is also performing a dance routine with back up dancers, which is a stereotype from Goodwin, as well as her being voyeuristic.

In saying this, the music video also contradicts Goodwin, or at least change what he means when he talks about voyeurism, as there are shots of Lady Gaga wearing little of no clothing, which shows her as being anorexic, not the traditional object of desire. Lady Gaga is famous for being controversial. 

The music video also includes many close ups of the artist, another point from Goodwins theory, but again, some shots are controversial, but this could be seen as part of Lady Gaga's motif, as she often sticks to outrageous and controversial outfits, narratives and inspirations.

Here's the music video so you can see all these features/points from Goodwin in action.

FILM DATES.

After many texts, calls, skype chats and emails, I've finally managed to organise all my actors and sort out days when they are available for filming. So far the filming dates are as followed:

MONDAY: Practice set up of 'tent time lapse' scene, then if there is time before the sun sets, filming said scene with narrative actors Taylor and Billy.
Location: Karen's House

TUESDAY: The 'band' scenes and auxiliary photographs are to be done all tuesday with no exceptions with actors Olly, Jack, Jordan and Hollie.
Location: Dad's House

WEDNESDAY: Reserve day if tuesday's plan falls through or if some scenes are unfinished.

FRIDAY: Zoo scenes and car shots to be filming during this day, all filming within the zoo MUST be done this day as I cannot return to this location afterwards. Extra shots must be taken as a precaution. Car scenes can be done other days earlier in the week if time allows. Will include narrative actors Taylor and Billy.
Location: Banham Zoo and A14

Hopefully all the scenes will be filmed and ready for editing after the half term. I've given myself an extra day on wednesday just incase weather ruins scenes (e.g, the recent fog for 'tent' scene). If the weather is bad friday, I will have to film 2 weeks later on a saturday, which will only be done if the weather is extremely bad. Friday's filming MUST happen.
The camera so far is booked for the whole of half term, and hopefully it will stay that way, giving me more leverage if things go wrong. Wish me luck!

Time Lapse Practice

Yesterday's lesson was practice day! I've been trying to find camera which had a time lapse effect already on them, but failed in finding such a function on any available cameras. So yesterday I tried to 'cheat', rather than taking photos every second or so, I decided to see what a sped up video clip would look like. I was hoping this would create the same effect I was looking for, and luckily, SUCCESS. By changing the speed to just over 8000% I was able to get the effect I was after, and reduced 37 minutes into 30 seconds. Here's the product of my hard research and work. (Sorry for the quality, YouTube decided to be a silly and reject the higher quality video.)

The director of GIVERS - Up up up

During todays lesson, I decided to do some extra research into the original music video of my song, and did some digging on the director, Tim Nackashi. He's not a director I know of, and his music videos are not made for very famous people either, although he has a very artistic and beautiful style in which he creates moving image.

The first music video that stood out for me was by OK Go - WTF?
It's a very simple performance and concept based music video, having only the band shown in a assume a white room. But the way he uses colours throughout the video is rather spectacular, and on some occasions dizzying. Such a simple ideas by using the colours of shirts have created an awesome background.

OK Go - WTF?

The next video by Nackashi is for Fools Gold - The Dive, which personally I am in love with. The use of colours and effects are so beautiful, it's really given me inspiration for my own music video when I reach the editing stage. The style of this video is magical, just see for yourself, I can't explain the video and give it justice. 

Fools Gold - The Dive

Controversial Music Video

The music video I have chosen to look at is RUN DMC and Areosmith - Walk This Way. When this was first released, music culture was very divided between rockers (fans of areosmith) and Hip Hop fans (like fans of RUN DMC). Both stereotypes hated each other because of their music tastes, and at the time, not many artists/groups were like RUN DMC as black people then did not get the same amount of air time that white rock bands did, like Areosmith. 

That is why this collaboration breaks the boundaries that were constructed by fans and revolutionized way of thinking about rap music, as it was the first to hit the top 5 on Billboards Hot 100. The music video represents this divide of stereotypes by having RUN DMC in one room complaining about Areosmiths loud music in the other room; separated by a thin wall. The battle of music begins and RUM DMC then show the others what they are about, antagonizing each other and representing the hate between their fans. When Steven Tyler breaks a barrier through the wall this could represent them breaking down the boundaries and getting along with each other, because the next shot is the two bands performing on stage together. In this scene you can also see stereotypical fans of BOTH bands there, together, proof that Areosmith and RUN DMC succeeded in what they wanted to do.