Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Spike Jonze / Charlie Kauffman
Writers, directors, producers etc. these two men are brilliant examples of postmodernistic cinema and the creativety and surrealism that seems to come with it.
Spike Jonze's work.
'I'm Here' - Jonze's excellent short film about robot love and is a celebration to life enriched by creativity.
'Where The Wild Thing's Are' - Jonze's scream adaptation of the classic childrens book by Maurice Sendak.
'Being John Malkovich' - Kauffman's surreal, yet excellent film about...whatever it is really about...
'Adaptation' - A Jonze/Kauffman film about Kauffman's writing life and his turn to help from his twin brother Donald. (Basically an autobiography of Kauffman's life by himself)
Charlie Kauffman's work
'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind'
'Human Nature'
This also lead me onto Michael Gondry, another eccentric writer who replicates Kauffman's/Jonze's amazing writing abilities. His collobaration with Kauffman was through 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.
'Be Kind Rewind'
'The Science of Sleep'
'Lost in Translation'
Gondry and Jonze are also keen Music Video diretors'producers who have worked with the likes of Bjork, The Beastie Boys and Weezer.
Spike Jonze's work.
'I'm Here' - Jonze's excellent short film about robot love and is a celebration to life enriched by creativity.
'Where The Wild Thing's Are' - Jonze's scream adaptation of the classic childrens book by Maurice Sendak.
'Being John Malkovich' - Kauffman's surreal, yet excellent film about...whatever it is really about...
'Adaptation' - A Jonze/Kauffman film about Kauffman's writing life and his turn to help from his twin brother Donald. (Basically an autobiography of Kauffman's life by himself)
Charlie Kauffman's work
'Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind'
'Human Nature'
This also lead me onto Michael Gondry, another eccentric writer who replicates Kauffman's/Jonze's amazing writing abilities. His collobaration with Kauffman was through 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'.
'Be Kind Rewind'
'The Science of Sleep'
'Lost in Translation'
Gondry and Jonze are also keen Music Video diretors'producers who have worked with the likes of Bjork, The Beastie Boys and Weezer.
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Choice of music video
For recreating my own video, I firstly wanted to create one that had brilliant visual creativity, one that looked more arty than a recreational shot of the band. However with the budget, or lack of one rather and having to recreate one minute of the music video as perfectly as possible, I knew I would have to tone down my choice.
Below are some of the first music videos I wanted to replicate.
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Pulp - Common People
Darwin Deez - Radar Detector
Muse -
Starlight
Resistance
Uprising
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
'Glosoli' - Sigur Ros
Below are some of the first music videos I wanted to replicate.
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Pulp - Common People
Darwin Deez - Radar Detector
Muse -
Starlight
Resistance
Uprising
Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
'Glosoli' - Sigur Ros
Tuesday, 6 July 2010
Animatic Storyboards
An animatic storyboard is a digitally created storyboard that is created by still images taken and being edited together in sequence. This method has the same technique as hat animated films, short films etc. use. It is a much more visually helping type of storyboard compared to the basic hand created storyboard.
Animatic storyboards still require illustrations/sketches of the individual shots, but with the use of digital media it is possible to edit these frames together in a more accurate motion and time way.
This process allows the animators and directors to work out any screenplay, camera positioning, shot list and timing issues that may exist with the current storyboard. This animatic storyboard is a great help to animators as it cuts down the possibility of having to delete scene from the final production, animation is a long, time consuming and expensive process which is made easier, and cheaper by cutting the amount of footage that the final production needs to have removed.
Sounds can be added at this process to once again help with time and motion, as to see how long speach will actually take to perform. A sondtrack or score could also be added here to get a basic understading of how the piece will look and feel with the selected musical score or soundtrack.
Animatic storyboards still require illustrations/sketches of the individual shots, but with the use of digital media it is possible to edit these frames together in a more accurate motion and time way.
This process allows the animators and directors to work out any screenplay, camera positioning, shot list and timing issues that may exist with the current storyboard. This animatic storyboard is a great help to animators as it cuts down the possibility of having to delete scene from the final production, animation is a long, time consuming and expensive process which is made easier, and cheaper by cutting the amount of footage that the final production needs to have removed.
Sounds can be added at this process to once again help with time and motion, as to see how long speach will actually take to perform. A sondtrack or score could also be added here to get a basic understading of how the piece will look and feel with the selected musical score or soundtrack.
Thursday, 1 July 2010
BBC Music Video Festival
We visited the Forum today for a workshop on music videos. BBC are running a local music video festival which is suprisingly the only one in the whole of the UK. It was a collection of local and also national music videos from independent artists.
The event to place in the Forum's Fusion room, a round room with the curved wall having the capability to be projected onto. I have been lucky enough to visit the room and its various events many a time since it has been opened and I have always enjoyed being able to just sit and watch some of our local talent and also to be able to see what other counties are producing. We were encouraged to watch a selection of the music videos on offer here, before given a lecture on the good's/bad's of making a music video.
The lecture was constructed to give us a taste of a good example of music video alongside a bad attempt at one. The lecturer, gave the interesting idea that music videos also have their own genres, ranign from chase videos to videos of the band performing. Below are some of the examples that I particularly liked, namely the ones with the better songs!
1. The worst music video of all time...coincidentally the best video also!
Armi Ja Danny - I Want To Love You Tender
2. Here is an exmplae of a music video that films the band, although it was named under the category that used heavy amounts of lighting, or something or a similar nature.
Casually Sunshine - Brother Build Me A Wooden Horse
3. Here was one of the good examples at how music videos can be created. A mix of band footage and also a story/narrative video.
Drunk Girls - LCD Soundsystem
4. This was one of the best msuic videos from the whole day, actually probably was the best.
It has the art feel, literally, the video is clever how it has been constructed and also the song is not that bad either.
Hold Your Horses - 70 Million
The event to place in the Forum's Fusion room, a round room with the curved wall having the capability to be projected onto. I have been lucky enough to visit the room and its various events many a time since it has been opened and I have always enjoyed being able to just sit and watch some of our local talent and also to be able to see what other counties are producing. We were encouraged to watch a selection of the music videos on offer here, before given a lecture on the good's/bad's of making a music video.
The lecture was constructed to give us a taste of a good example of music video alongside a bad attempt at one. The lecturer, gave the interesting idea that music videos also have their own genres, ranign from chase videos to videos of the band performing. Below are some of the examples that I particularly liked, namely the ones with the better songs!
1. The worst music video of all time...coincidentally the best video also!
Armi Ja Danny - I Want To Love You Tender
2. Here is an exmplae of a music video that films the band, although it was named under the category that used heavy amounts of lighting, or something or a similar nature.
Casually Sunshine - Brother Build Me A Wooden Horse
3. Here was one of the good examples at how music videos can be created. A mix of band footage and also a story/narrative video.
Drunk Girls - LCD Soundsystem
4. This was one of the best msuic videos from the whole day, actually probably was the best.
It has the art feel, literally, the video is clever how it has been constructed and also the song is not that bad either.
Hold Your Horses - 70 Million
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