the xx- island

we have decided to do the song Island by The XX.
we found the XX on facebook and then searched there music on youtube, all of there music is good but as we had to make a music video for it we had to decide would be easier to lips so thats when we decided to do the song island!
Here is the email we sent the XX to ask if we was allowed to use there song.

On 15 Sep 2010, at 22:33, shantelle lake wrote:
I’m currently working on a media project for my media A levels. For the course I have to make a music video that will show my skills and abilities to make a video. I love The xx, and their song Island which I think will make my music video great. Would I be able to have permission to use Island for my Video.

Shantelle Lake

CC: katiealiceoneill@googlemail.com
From: caius@theyoungturks.co.uk
To: shantellelake@hotmail.co.uk
Subject: Re:
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 23:39:29 +0100

sure you can!

lyrics!!

I don't have to leave anymore
What I have is right here
Spend my nights and days before
Searching the world for what's right here

Underneath and unexplored
Islands and cities I have looked
Here I saw
Something I couldn't over look

I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore

See what I've done
That bridge is on fire
Going back to where I've been
I'm froze by desire
No need to leave

Where would I be
IF this were to go under
It's a risk I'd take
I'm froze by desire
As if a choice I'd make

I am yours now
So now I don't ever have to leave
I've been found out
So now I'll never explore

music

for the lipsing sync we didn't use our own music which we will be using for our music video, as we didn't know which music we was going to use so we used a last years music, as we knew we could use it and didn't have to ask, however for our own music video we had to ask around. we have emailed a numerous amount of people as we couldn't decide which music we liked best. we found alot of our music by going on the website unsigned.com this is very helpful as it has alot of verity on there to choice from.

unsigned is a website made up of singers who are unsigned it allows students like us to go on and use there music for out music videos. it also gives people the chance to get to know these people.

Analysis of the lip sync video

The lip sync video to ' I wont forget you' over all was a success. We were able to make informed decision's about what roll we should take to ensure that we did the video within the two lessons. The shots that we decided to do were to ensure that there were many different angles of Meghan' face. the close up shots were used to show the quality of the lip singing. While editing we edited out Meghan's voice singing over the song. We made sure that Meghan did this to make sure that her singing was in time with the song playing out loud we used Final Cut Express to edit our video. which was easy once you know how to use it.

lip sync, how we made it

when making our music video our group contains, myself Shantelle Lake and Bobbi Freeman but for this lipsing sync none of us in the group wanted to lips with the music so we used Meghan, as we didn't have our song yet we decided to use a song from the last years which was 'I wont forget you'. we chose this song has we didn't have a long time to remember the lyrics and this song was a easier option.

so to make this we had a double lesson, in which the first half of the lesson we gave Meghan the chance to learn the lines whilst we set up the camera and tape, we also had to have the music playing out loud for Meghan to lips to, we had difficult with my phone to blue tooth it over so we decided it was easier to stay in the room and let it play out loud. once we was already Bobbi filmed the shots of Meghan, whilst myself, Bobbi and Joao gave suggestions of what shot would look good and work well, at the end we decided to have a mid shot, close up and a low key shot. we thought we would have different shots to link in and make the video better. Once we had all the shots on tape we then needed to edit the shots, this is how we got to change the shots and link it in all together, we edited our shots on final cut express, on this it gives us many things to do with our video, for our video we just cut, and add a dissolve which gives a better effect to the video. for all this it took us two double lessons.

lip sync demo

This is our demo of the lipsing,

research: Channel 4 Top 50

As a research i have been watching the Channel 4 Top 50 music videos, here's some examples of the videos and what has made them so well known, what effects they have. Watching these videos gives us ideas for our own music videos.

Godley and Creme- Cry - 1985
* has a enormous amount of people changing, and dissolving
* after there shot they have made over 100 music videos

Missy Elliot- Get your freak on - 2004
* simple story line
* her videos get people excited
* the things she uses in this video is horrible, using this makes people want to see it

Dire Straits- Money for nothing - 1985
* Cartoon
* Laminated characters,
This video got famous has nobody has ever done this before it was a new shock to people

Fat Boy Slim- Prise you
* Funny
* In Cinema
* Tourist video, recording
* This type of video could only be done once. its a one hit wonder
* Video camera look
* Success full video
* terrible dancing makes it funny

Fat Boy Slim- Weapon of choice
* uses an famous actor
* clever effects of video, eg. flying
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channel 4, 100 greatest music videos


musical youth- pass the dutchie -1982

this video was the first black music video shown on mtv
its about young people talking about drugs but they wasn't allowed to say the right word so they used dutchie instead because it rhymed with it,
the children are always smiling and happy,

How might we measure the success criteria of a music promo video?

- Charts
- Word of mouth
- Number of hits on youtube
- Newspaper articles/ tv reports
- How many times shown on televison
- Amount of publicity
- Downloads (legal/ illegal)
- CD sales
- Last word

It is worth nothing how there has been a massive swith in the importance of youtube from television channels such as MTV.

Sinead O'Connor

Another well known video is Sinead O'Connor- Nothing compares to you. The clip consists almost solely of a closeup on O'Connor's face as she sings the lyrics; the rest consists of her walking through an unknown area of Paris. Towards the end of the video, two tears roll down her face, one per cheek. O'Connor stated on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s that it was caused by the lyric "All the flowers that you planted, Mama/in the back yard/All died when you went away," because she had a very complex relationship with her late mother, whom she has claimed abused her when she was a child. This video become famous due to the real life scene, it shows her emotions, it is very truthful whilst telling her story of her relationship with her mother.

lady GaGa : Telephone

Lady GaGa ft beyonce- telephone is one of the most famous videos that has been brought out in 2010. it has had 85,387,420 viewers. within the video she has a lot of things going on as well as promoting things such as her lipstick products. she also includes clips of lesbien action. in this video it links to advertising for virgin mobile this is known as product placement, she is also advertising fags as she has glasses made out of fags.
in this video she also has reference from the film 'Kill Bill'

in this part of the video it shows the main subject, which is cars and ladies dressed in little outfits fixing the cars, yet again this is another miss leading picture, because in a garage its usually men working, it fits in with the music lyriacs as it says shut up and drive and she is fixing the cars.

rihanna

this is the start of the video, this is misleading as she pulls up in a Ferrari, but when you see a Ferrari you just presume its going to be a man driving it but then the door opens and its a pair of leopard heels steeping out the car.

background information on shut up and drive

Shut up and drive” was a song that was written by Carl Sturken and Evan Rogers for the R&B singer Rihanna. The song was very successful as it reached number 1 on the Billboard dance charts, and it also received platinum. The song was released as a second single from her album in June 2007.

The music video was directed by Anthony Mandler and choreographed by Tina Landon. The video was set in a garage where a host of European cars were featured. The video opens with Rihanna driving a Ferrari F430 into a garage and other cars such as 1969 Ford Mustang and Skoda Rapid were included in the video.