Planning Our Music Video

Hi, It's Deedi your favorite blogger! I'm back with another one.

Today I'm planning the music video I'm creating. Let's start off with the date and how I plan to get everything done. 

First off, I need to get in contact with all of my friends and everyone I want included in this video. Letting them know when I need them and asking when they'll be available. This should be done by tonight and the latest tomorrow morning which makes the deadline for this • 11/20/2019 •

Next, I'll choose and prepare all the props I plan on using for this music video. For props I'll be creating a couple of posters to include with lots of inspiring motivational messages. Those I'll have done by the end of day Thursday, • 11/21/2019 •

After, that's all finalised I need to choose the locations and based on the storyboard that I'll be creating. Which will also be done by Thursday, • 11/21/2019 •

My storyboard and plan for the music video will be done by this week Friday • 11/22/2019 • 

Which also on Friday as well is where'd I'd begin filming after school. So Friday Morning I'd where I'd check out my camera for the rest of the day/weekend.

Locations
The locations I'll  be using fort this music video are:

• The front of my home & backyard
• Nearby Park
• Campus Grounds

Health & Safety
To ensure my health & safety I'll have my phone with me at all costs. To ensure the health and safety of everyone being filmed in this music video, I will make sure they all have some sort of contact to anyone in case of any sort of emergency.

Props
The props for this music video include;

• Basketball
• Posters of Empowerment
• Plants

Costumes

•  A fancy costume for myself as my solo clop, for the aesthetic of it all.
• Casual Everyday Costumes

Schedule

The planning goes into more detail on my personal set of notes which will add on to this blog after I update it in a few days. See you on the next one guys. Bye!!

Love, Dee ♥

(Research & Conventions) Creating A Music Video!

 HEY!

  Yes, you read that right so this week we doing a music video for our class. I'm so freaking excited for this project. I have been wanting to film an actual music video for sooo long!! This is so exciting for me, and one of the many great reasons I joined this course. I'm working on this particular project by myself so I have full control this time. Though I am including all my friends in this music video so I'll still be able to have them in my video. I've already thought of so may different ideas and places, and songs to do the video. The hardest part was deciding on a song to do. Going through the thought process of all the songs I know and how many great songs there are, let juts say it was a very difficult decision. But I have finally Settled on  a song for my music video which I am so excited for which is; Bleed The Same by Mandisa ft. Toby Mac & Kirk Franklin.

So, I did my research on music videos. I looked up the music video to the song I'm doing. The music video uses different lighting affects and aesthetic. Lighting uses are backlighting, hard lighting, low-key lighting and neutral lighting. The angles used in this music video are lots of wide shots, a few high angles, and mainly consist of close ups towards the face and medium-close ups.

 This song's length is about four minutes long but, our music video has a limit to a minute and 30 seconds has a really nice message to the world, and how we function as a society. One of the most powerful lyrics in the song says "Tell me, who are we to judge someone by the kind of clothes their wearing or by the color of their skin?" This is an issue currently happening with our society on how people are being discriminated by race, skin color, sexuality, or gender. In my music video I want to reached out to those who feel attacked and struggle with situations and events like these. these things and motivate them to through positive lyrics like these. Also, the chorus my favorite part of the song sums up the entire theme to the music video where it says "We all bleed the same. We're all beautiful when we come together. We all bleed the same, so tell me why? Tell me why we're divided. -- Fight for each other! Let love be the cry!" 
 The genre this song would fit in is Gospel Pop. The conventions of this genre are usually motivational, and inspiring. The music videos usally consists of lots of wide shots these videos include lots people. There are parts where the artist does a solo and they sing in front of the camera, that scene shuffling through all the different ones. The locations with this type of genre have a huge variety. Depending on the theme of the song and what message the video is coveying. With all that in mind I plan to include lots of different scenes, different locations. Lots people of all types of race, culture, and ethnicity. This is actually happening! 😆😆 Alright I'll see you on the next vlog! 

Love, Dee ♥

  

Commercial Blog

Hey you guys,

So, I'm a little overdue with this blog. What matters though is that Cambridge sees this for the sake of my grade. My partner Tay and I did the NIKE commercial and we finally got to edit it today and look back at our videos. Something funny happened actually when looking back at our footage we found out that my finger was in the way of the lens of the camera the entire time. I didn't realize this before. Though when we moved to film on the grass area my hand was out of the lens way, so I still don't understand how that managed to happen, but it did. Moving on, when we finally got to edit our videos I got to admit there were some issues between cooperation and working as a team. I arrived at class finding my partner Taylor getting a head start on editing our footage which was amazing to find out that we had already got started on working on it. Everything was fine until it came to both of us editing together. 

  I felt like Taylor had more control than I did. I wanted to included creative edits to our commercial and have the commercial align very close to our storyboard. But most of our footage wasn't able to make it on there which could have but wasn't able to because unfortunately, my partner complained that it was going beyond the time limit. There was so much I could've done to fix that such as speed up a video or slow down a video but that I didn't get to do at all. We didn't get to fix any sort of lighting or add transitioning effects though all weren't really necessary to be put into the commercial which I completely understand. Though I would've like to try and practice with the software and maybe some effects might've even contributed to the theme.  The only thing I had more control over because she didn't care very much, was the audio. 

  So, our idea was to merge two songs together (an instrumental track, and a song with lyrics fading in later on). So I downloaded three songs; two which consist of the same song with both an instrumental track and the official song lyrics. Then, an instrumental to a different song. Though after editing and merging both the songs together it didn't seem to flow together and after letting my partner listen and letting her know my concern she said it sounded fine. Though I had another alternative I wanted to try then we would both compare the two but she didn't allow me to. Towards the end of class, still having over 20 minutes left till class ended we watched the video a couple of times and I felt like I had no choice to agree on settling on submitting it. Though I told her I want go back and edit some things and add a bit of creativity to the commercial. But she went ahead and exported the video and submitted the project.
 Overall, the honest grade we deserve is like a very low C or a D+ because we both didn't do our best to meet the criteria/rubric of the project. The cooperation wasn't there and finally our video didn't turn out to be of good work ethic. That's to summarize this blog guys.

Love, Dee

Filming Blog

Hi, Blog!!
  So last class, we were filming for the NIKE commercial project we've talked about last blog. At the beginning of class we gather all our tech including the camera and tripod. We changed into our clothing and got our props signed our borrow items and the each of us my partner Tay and I received filming passes. After, Tay and I walked to the track where we would filmed our first scene. Before we filmed anything though we figured out how to work the tech, we turned on our camera and set up the tripod. Tay and I reviewed the storyboard, which was the draft for how we planned to film commercial  and discuss what we were going to be filming and how. We picked our filming spot and I went first as the subject to be filmed. I was posed 'started and ready to run',  I crouched down and my hands were on the floor in a starting position. Tay had the camera and did a tilt going up and down my position and she did a countdown to 3 for when I should start running and I was off but as I was told I was running a little faster than I needed to. We took about 3-4 takes of that same scene than, it was Tay's turn and we took a couple of takes of her doing the exact same thing.
  After we were finished our tilt, low angle, and slightly a tracking shot than we were able to move onto our next scene. This time Tay and I were both running and we took a long shot of us running towards the camera and past it and about 4-5 takes. The camera kept falling and going into a high angle. Though the camera didn't fall off the tripod, it kept tilting downwards pointing the lens up towards the sky but we figured out how to keep it steady. Tay and I had the idea to use a bit of choreography into our commercial because NIKE had dance wear such as bras, leggings, footwear etc. so, we thought why not have a little fun with it? We used a choreography of one of our favorite KPOP songs called "Loving Till It Hurts" by ---.