Research Into Similar Products: 'Beetlebum' - Blur

Below is the music video for 'Beetlebum' by Blur:

This video uses setting interestingly. The band, Blur, are shown to be playing a stuffy old room in someone's flat, this is a funny use of setting because it isn't where you'd expect a band to be playing. This seems to show where this particular band come from: their social class, their possible home/their rehearsal space. By doing this the video makes us have a possible connection with the band and really makes it personal to them as if we we're there watching them play/practice.

In my music video I could also use this idea of using an odd setting where the band I use will be playing.Like what I said in the post about the video for 'Charmless Man', I think I will have the band playing in places that the character in my video passes, such as certain rooms or streets or smaller, more cramped places like a lift or in a bathroom. 



Another video that uses this idea of setting is the one to 'Coffee and TV' by Blur again. It too uses the use of a dark, stuffy looking room that the band are playing in which again makes it personal and allows us into their personal are where the band plays.

Production Pitch

Bellow is my production pitch for my A2 Media Studies course work, have a look then leave a comment saying what you think:

Production Pitch

Production Calander

Copy of Media Studies Production Calendar 2013-2014

This is production calendar to help me stick to deadlines with my media main product production, I will try to stick to these timings the best I can and mark in when I begin a section and when I end.

Research Into Similar Products: 'Liquid Lives' by Hadukon!

This is the video to 'liquid lives' by Haduken! I like the use of camera shots in this video which are shot from the head of the guitars looking down the neck as they are being played. This adds a much more interesting view on the scene, having the camera fixed on a moving object while the background moves, creating the feel that the world around is moving with the object being stationary.
I am planning on using this technique in my own music, having shots like these inbetween the shot of the band playing and shots of the possible story.

This clip from 'Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows' uses a similar tehcnique. In this clip the camera is again connected to a fixed point which is moving in relation to everything else. So this too shows another way of viewing the movement of action and gives a more interesting way of viewing.

Research Into Similar Products: "AS Media Coursework - 'Come Together' Music Video"

This is a music video done by a media student at A2 level. I have chosen to look at this because it has made good use of split screen. The first example of this is at 0.24. It shows two shots of a person playing guitar but from different angles, a shot of the person singing, as well as a fourth shot of someone tapping their foot to the beat.
I liked this becuase it showed you that there was more going on at the same time than just the person playing guitar, they were also feeling the beat of the song through their foot tapping and feeling the meaning of the sing in the emotion of their face as they sang the lyrics.

Another example of this is from the film 'Mean Grils'. The picture below shows a clip from the film where four girls are talking to each other on the phone but are shown to be doing this through the use of a four way split screen.
This to has the effect of more than one thing going on as it is clear that the four girls are talking to each other at different locations but are clearly connected through this shot.



                                

This is something that I could do in my own music video, leaning more toward the affect that they have gone for in the 'Come Together' music video. I could do something similar but instead of four shots of the same person I would like to do four shots of the each person playing their insrument but possibly in different locations so that it is as if the band are playing live but from different areas.

Here is an example of my attempt of this technique: