Look at these...

Look at this / these... http://xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/music-groundbreakingvideos/1/ http://whatculture.com/film/6-groundbreaking-films-that-redefined-their-genres.php http://www.ifc.com/fix/2009/06/50-greatest-trailers

Laura who?

Homework and lesson time: Make sure you have decided on a song / genre / sub genre Look at (or try to find) benchmark videos from the genre What does Laura Mulvey have to say about where viewers look... Crypic I know, but think how her views on the male gaze can be interprited by you in your own work. This is true for music vids and trailers... What draws a viewer's attention to a text et cetera.

A2 start

With the short film / trailer option, make sure you think about your effects. Obviously there's not the Hollywood resources to hand, but there's loads of cool stuff you can view and learn... If you're doing horror, buy some liquid latex and have fun experimenting with effects, below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzC85Tm-fMY Link from that to other ideas to get you started... If you're doing music video, there's nothing stopping you putting the whole band in some sort of makeup too! Remember... Research your genre, PLAN your ideas to the n'th degree and have a really clear plan in what you want to achieve. Plan, check, revise, repeat...

holiday work

Write up your blog... What I learned about... 1. Scripting 2. Storyboarding 3. Locations 4. Planning 5. Organisation 6. Teamwork 7. Editing - transitions and sound 8. The final produc... Two stars and a wish... Just like in Year 7 :-)

Using Beat Markers in iMovie 11 (MacMost Now 479)

This will help you with your music vids. Beatmarkers are important - so have a look and try and apply the techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=956afqCwryg

Groundbreaking or OMG

You can decide on this...

Is it a music video or a cookery show?

Bricolage?

Homage?

Parody?

Just what is it and what do you think of it?

It's certainly original but does it work?

Did you turn it off / not get it / hate it/ laugh at it / think it hit its target demographic?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeZlih4DDNg

All yours...

Have fun - and post a thought underneath...

Friday's Lesson: Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Check out the video below.

Below is the background info on the track...

Have a scan through and look at the level of detail... Look at one of your own, favourite, videos and research it. What is it about? What do YOU think it's about? Who directed it. What else did they direct? Are they as good? Is the directer affieliated to a specific band or label?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrTB-iiecqk


"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" (commonly referred to as "Street Spirit") is a song by Radiohead, featured on their second studio album The Bends, which was released in 1995. Noted by singer-songwriter and guitarist Thom Yorke as "one of [the band's] saddest songs" and describing it as "the dark tunnel without the light at the end", "Street Spirit" was released as the band's ninth single and reached number five on the UK Singles Chart, the highest chart position the band achieved until "Paranoid Android" from OK Computer, which reached number three in 1997.
Yorke has suggested that the song was inspired by the 1991 novel The Famished Road, written by Ben Okri, and that its music was inspired by R.E.M.

The black-and-white music video for "Street Spirit" was filmed during two nights in a desert just outside Los Angeles. It premiered in February 1996 and was directed by Jonathan Glazer, who said, "That was definitely a turning point in my own work. I knew when I finished that, because they found their own voices as an artist, at that point, I felt like I got close to whatever mine was, and I felt confident that I could do things that emoted, that had some kind of poetic as well as prosaic value. That for me was a key moment." Glazer would later direct the video for "Karma Police".

Youtubers commented:
For me, this song could have had two meanings- firstly, it may have been a statement on the absolute despairs of depression- the sense of disconnectedness, the warped sense of detachment and time, where things happen about you but you're uninvolved- a sense that time around you is moving slowly; unresponsiveness and dull noir.
Secondly, everyone within this clip is trying to be beautiful in some way; but attempts of liberality fail, and they fall to the ground. They attempt to ascend, but fall.