locations we used in our music video

we used this background in our music video because it is urban which goes well with the song.

We also used this green screen which gives us the opportunity to use various backgrounds and also gave us the option of using a moving background which we took full advantage of.

Today I found some UV lights which I have been given permission to borrow. I will be bringing them into college tomorrow and hopefully we can do some test footage to see if we are happy with the effect they give

The outhere brother 'boom boom boom' analysis

This video follows similar conventions for example there is no narrative. The chemical brother's video has a great use of colour which we aim to create in our music video. However this is very cheap video with very few different shots types.

http://www.myspace.com/mia
This is a link to M.I.A's music myspace. Simply from looking at the bright flashing background and the bright colours and retro style photographs used throughout, I am confident that our ideas for the music video fit with the style of the artist and also with the style of her other songs.

This is a message we sent to M.I.A through their myspace. Although they are unlikely to reply, the issue of copyright means we should ask the artists permission before we use their song to make our music video.

We took this clip off the talk talk x factor advert. If we can achieve the same effect, we think this would work well in our music video . The only problem with this is you have to send your clip off to the x factor and they put the effect on it for you, we are not sure that they will then send us the clip back. Therefore we will need to work out how to achieve this effect for ourselves

We still need to add an intro to our video which we decided would be zooming into a phone. Hopefully using green screen, we will be able to create the effect of someone touching the phone. We also need to edit the cuts between some of the shots as they are quite jumpy, we can do this by using the fade tool. We also have 45 seconds of music on our rough cut (from 00:49 to 1:33) that we are having cut out. We also need to add an ending, we have had some ideas to reverse to phone on the intro, so zooming out of the phone.

This video uses the green screen technique. We would like to try and use this same technique for our own music video. The style of the song in this video is quite similar to ours, for example repeated words/ phrases and an upbeat tempo. This video also has similar dance scenes to the ones we are looking to create in our own music video. Although the genre is a bit different and the style of the video is set in the 80s so a little dated, we would like to recreate the colourful theme and retro feel of "pump up the jam".

These are some screen grabs from final cut that we have captured to show our progress in producing our music video. We have long shots of footage which we will cut down into short pieces to make our final music video.

Green Screen Practice

This is our first practice at the green screen effect. To do this, we set up a green screen and filmed someone in front of it. We then put it into final cut, added the effect and and put in a background. We are happy with the effect this gives and will definatley be using is in our final video.