directors commentary

by Tom wood

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Our music video has been inspired hugely by Eminem - My Name music video because he takes the humour out of the song which is what we have done in our music video by jumping around in most of the song because we felt as a group that that’s what the song is about. In Eminem’s music video he relates the words that he is rapping with the actions that he is doing which we have used in our music video by acting out the scenes we have literally taken the meek out of the song which was partly inspired by Eminem. From the beginning of doing the story board we knew as a group that we were going to reverse the jumping at some points in the video because we felt it would be different and new in a way that we did it. We created something new and original while editing our music video: when Mo jumps of the wall we made him jump to the trumpet, we the trumpet in the song is heard Mo jumps down but when it is heard again we reversed it so that he jumped up the wall for a short period of time, when the trumpet is heard again he jumps up the wall a little a bit more up and finally when the last trumpet is heard he jumps fully down to the ground ( I am really bad at explaining things so its better if you examine the scene it self). In our music video we explain what jumping is which is different from other music videos and original at the same time. We used a lot of low angles in our music video which where inspired from Eminem feat Cashis 50 Cent & Lloyd Banks - You Don't Know which uses low angles to make the stars look big. In conclusion I believe that our music video is original because its different from the music videos that are played on MTV.

Editing

I think we did very good on the editing, we have used a few different special styles to suit our soundtrack. I think the best edit we did was the one right at the beginning when we made Moe’s jump off the wall match the beat, we had to slow it down to the precise speed of the track and then reverse it so that every time the trumpet is heard he changes from jumping off the wall to jumping back up again. The group all had an input into how fast it should be and when it should be reversed etc and it all came together to make a very cool effective opening sequence. One of our hardest tasks to overcome was lip syncing our video to the actual soundtrack, the original house of pain main vocalist changes from fast pace to medium pace throughout the tune so it was near impossible to get it spot on however we used the same technique of slowing down our video to suit the soundtrack and in the end it looks almost as if moe is actually singing the song himself. Plenty of our original footage was well out of sync or way too long for our video so we did a lot of marking in and out after we had captured the footage off the camera, I personally don’t think that we cut out anything that we could or should of used. We did a long take of Beatrice, Marcel and Moe jumping between the gaps in a castle wall which was way too long to edit in as a full sequence so we decided to brake it up and mix and match with other shorter takes, this made it look like it was filmed at a faster pace and keeps the excitement of the tune going, the original house of pain video to jump around was very busy and fast paced just like the tune itself so we decided to keep it that way. the only aspect I think we might get marked down on is continuity, there are very few scenes in which we are wearing the same outfit as we were in other takes but in the original video they aren’t wearing the same outfits and we kind of nicked that idea so I hope they realise this and don’t hold it against us.

by tom wood

Blog problems

I tom am the fourth member of the group, due to problems with my log in on the blog i havent posted anything up until this point however i have still been involved with the blog

by tom wood

Technolgies in the construction, resarch, planning and evaluation

In the production stage we used camcorders to film and we used cameras to take photographs of the location we used in the video. We used chroma key on final cut pro to create a background for the scenes that we filmed in front of the green screen.

When we were putting the video together we used Final Cut Pro. This was a really good programme however we did have several problems when we first started using Cut Pro because we weren’t use to using it on Apple Macs. Another problem we had with the Macs was that they did freeze and crash while our team was editing the video

While we were making the video our teacher advised us to put screen grabs into the blog. To do this we had to use a programme called Preview, this programme allowed us to copy what was currently on the screen and turn it into a picture that we could save.

the original vs the remake

After watching our finished music video I decided to watch the original music video, compared with the original music video our music video is better because it relates so much to the song whereas the original was just the main guy from house of pain rapping without ant of the lyrics being performed out e.g. the periodical son has returned in the original music video was just rapped out while on the other hand in our music video we went to the effort of getting some kind of white rob to highlight that tom was supposed to be the prodigal son.

The original music video in my eyes is to slow paced and you cab kind of get bored with it, I feel it’s the type of music video you would want to watch once or twice because when you come to watch it the third time you can get bored with it however on the other hand our music video is slow paced at the beginning so that people can disguise the intro from the actual song. After the into the music video is fast passed which is what normal music videos seen on TV are which is what we wanted to achieve. Our music video can be played over and over again and the view won’t be bored because it has humour in it which the audience can laugh at each time they watch it. I believe that the audience will rewind the music video if they can so that they can laugh at certain parts of the music video.

shots from the music video

these are some of the shots from the final music video.

this shot was really good but in the middle of song mo said the lyrics to fast and i wasn't able to fit it in with the speed of the song.

i choose to have the screen go to black while editing the end of this shot because it showed a bit of violence and i showed that by using a black screen,