1, 2, 3, 4
I got a sheet for my bed,
And a pillow for my head
I got a pencil full of lead,
And some water for my throat
I've got buttons for my coat; and sails on my boat
So much more than I needed before
I got money in the meter and a two bar heater
Now it's getting hotter;
Oh it's oly getting sweeter
I got legs on my chairs and a head full of hear
Pot and a pan
And some shoes on my feet;
I got a shelf full of books and most of my teeth
A few pairs of socks and a door with a lock
I got food in my belly and a license for my telly
And nothing's going to bring me down
I got a nice guitar and tyres on my car
I got most of the means; and scripts for the scenes
I'm out and about, so I'm in with a shout
I got a fair bit of chat but better than that
Food in my belly and a license for my telly
And nothing's going to bring me down
Nothing's going to bring me down
But best of all (best of all)
I've got my baby
She's mighty fine and says she's all mine
And nothing's going to bring me down
Best of all
I've got my baby
She's mighty fine and says she's all mine
And nothing's going to bring me down
Not today, no, no
Monday, 31 January 2011
Editing
We have started editing in Final Cut Express for our music video; Paolo Nutini Pencil Full of Lead.
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Treatment Sheet: Proposal for music video
The following is our treatment sheet for the music video we will create....
Proposed Title/Song: The title of our song we have chosen to create a video for is 'Pencil Full of Lead' by the artist 'Paolo Nutini'.
Synopsis: No matter what happens to him he remains happy and with a smile on his face and a spring in his step.
Of Song Lyrics: The lyrics of the song represent our synopsis for the video, by saying how happy he is and no matter what happens throughout the day, nothing is going to bring him down.
Proposed Storyline and Characters: Our idea for a storyline is to reverse the lyrics in the song which state that everything is going right, and instead have everything go wrong for our main charcater. Yet even though all these unfortunate events keep happening to him he remains happy, until the final scenes where his girlfriend finishes with him over text.
Setting(time & date): The timing of the footage will be throughout daylight hours beginning in the morning at breakfast time. The settings will range from rooms in his house such as his bedroom and kitchen, to public outside places including a car park and gardens.
Length(time & shots): The length of the video will need to be is 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The length of each of the shots shall be quite short but we will make up the time by shooting alot of scenes and using fast snappy editing.
Format: Mini DV and then edited using Final Express
Style:
The genre of the song is hybrid of influences from Jazz, Blues and Indie Rock. This gives off a very upbeat and joyful sound to the song. This style of music is rather uncommon in the UK singles charts.
The type of shots will be very short and snappy mixed with alot of different camera angles. Angles and styles of shots that we will include in our shooting will be; Close ups, Long shots, worms eye view, panning shots, POV as well as a range of others.
There will be plenty of movement and action going on in our shots and it will all be very fast paced to co-incide with the song. We might even think about speeding the shots up in editing once filmed.
We will match our shots into the beat of the music so that events happen in time. We will also match the pace of the action with the fast pace of the song.
We will think about using a few samples such as an alarm clock at the beginning of the video to.
There will be a narrative that runs throughout the video and will only include one character. All action that happens in the narrative will be appear as it is happening in the present tense and there will be no use of flashbacks or past tense filming. As well as the narrative that runs throughout the video, there will be a band performance, but instead of a conventional band we are going to be using a blue screen and the same character for each instrument. We will then import each individual shot of the musician onto the same background.
Target Audience: The audience that we will be aiming to reach out to will be the fans of the song 'Pencil Full of Lead'. We imagine that there won't be an immediate age range for our audience but any age up from young teenagers.
Technical Aspects: For our production we shall designate adequate timing for our filming and our editing. The only specific responsibility in our group will be for Tom who is acting as the main and only character throughout the video.
For technical equipment we will be using Sony Handycams and also for the band sequences will be using a Blue screen and then harnessing it's benefits with the use of Final Cut Express editing suite.
Resources:
We only have one character throughout the whole video, and we will set certain dates which we will film on for each scene. To get to the locations we intend to use we will need to arrange transport to and from the place.
Rationale:
The video we are going to create is worth making for entertainment purposes. Another reason that music videos are worth making is to promote the song and artist.
Proposed Title/Song: The title of our song we have chosen to create a video for is 'Pencil Full of Lead' by the artist 'Paolo Nutini'.
Synopsis: No matter what happens to him he remains happy and with a smile on his face and a spring in his step.
Of Song Lyrics: The lyrics of the song represent our synopsis for the video, by saying how happy he is and no matter what happens throughout the day, nothing is going to bring him down.
Proposed Storyline and Characters: Our idea for a storyline is to reverse the lyrics in the song which state that everything is going right, and instead have everything go wrong for our main charcater. Yet even though all these unfortunate events keep happening to him he remains happy, until the final scenes where his girlfriend finishes with him over text.
Setting(time & date): The timing of the footage will be throughout daylight hours beginning in the morning at breakfast time. The settings will range from rooms in his house such as his bedroom and kitchen, to public outside places including a car park and gardens.
Length(time & shots): The length of the video will need to be is 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The length of each of the shots shall be quite short but we will make up the time by shooting alot of scenes and using fast snappy editing.
Format: Mini DV and then edited using Final Express
Style:
The genre of the song is hybrid of influences from Jazz, Blues and Indie Rock. This gives off a very upbeat and joyful sound to the song. This style of music is rather uncommon in the UK singles charts.
The type of shots will be very short and snappy mixed with alot of different camera angles. Angles and styles of shots that we will include in our shooting will be; Close ups, Long shots, worms eye view, panning shots, POV as well as a range of others.
There will be plenty of movement and action going on in our shots and it will all be very fast paced to co-incide with the song. We might even think about speeding the shots up in editing once filmed.
We will match our shots into the beat of the music so that events happen in time. We will also match the pace of the action with the fast pace of the song.
We will think about using a few samples such as an alarm clock at the beginning of the video to.
There will be a narrative that runs throughout the video and will only include one character. All action that happens in the narrative will be appear as it is happening in the present tense and there will be no use of flashbacks or past tense filming. As well as the narrative that runs throughout the video, there will be a band performance, but instead of a conventional band we are going to be using a blue screen and the same character for each instrument. We will then import each individual shot of the musician onto the same background.
Target Audience: The audience that we will be aiming to reach out to will be the fans of the song 'Pencil Full of Lead'. We imagine that there won't be an immediate age range for our audience but any age up from young teenagers.
Technical Aspects: For our production we shall designate adequate timing for our filming and our editing. The only specific responsibility in our group will be for Tom who is acting as the main and only character throughout the video.
For technical equipment we will be using Sony Handycams and also for the band sequences will be using a Blue screen and then harnessing it's benefits with the use of Final Cut Express editing suite.
Resources:
We only have one character throughout the whole video, and we will set certain dates which we will film on for each scene. To get to the locations we intend to use we will need to arrange transport to and from the place.
Rationale:
The video we are going to create is worth making for entertainment purposes. Another reason that music videos are worth making is to promote the song and artist.
Monday, 17 January 2011
Director Corin Hardy and his views on making the video Pencil Full Of Lead
My aim with this video was to set up a situation where a clay Paolo would live in a real world and behave just like a real person. Once the viewer has accepted that, I then wanted to break the rules I had devised for myself and see what goes on when a clay Paolo just pushes it a bit too far.
“I got very lucky with the animators. Fantastic Mr Fox had just wrapped and the lead animator Mark Waring, and Andy Gent – who built all the puppets for the film – were both available and agreed to do the video.
It was shot in a TV studio previously graced by Gloria Hunniford’ chat show, and somehow this felt strangely fitting. We shot each take in two versions, one with a stand-in Paolo dancer and then one without. The animation was matched to the stand-in wherever possible and this helped us get the very real movement into the clay Paolo that I wanted.
The animation schedule was brutal. We had three weeks to animate and I pretty much moved into Clapham Rd Studios. Due to the animation needing to be composited into live action, it had to be 25 frames a second which gives the movement a beautiful rich feel, but is really tough work and there are no short cuts.
The post happened as we went along, and it was inspiring to see the shots come back 24 hours later bedded into the film and actually see the laborious work coming to life.”
“I got very lucky with the animators. Fantastic Mr Fox had just wrapped and the lead animator Mark Waring, and Andy Gent – who built all the puppets for the film – were both available and agreed to do the video.
It was shot in a TV studio previously graced by Gloria Hunniford’ chat show, and somehow this felt strangely fitting. We shot each take in two versions, one with a stand-in Paolo dancer and then one without. The animation was matched to the stand-in wherever possible and this helped us get the very real movement into the clay Paolo that I wanted.
The animation schedule was brutal. We had three weeks to animate and I pretty much moved into Clapham Rd Studios. Due to the animation needing to be composited into live action, it had to be 25 frames a second which gives the movement a beautiful rich feel, but is really tough work and there are no short cuts. The post happened as we went along, and it was inspiring to see the shots come back 24 hours later bedded into the film and actually see the laborious work coming to life.”
Blue Screen
In our video we will use some band shots, with Tom playing each member of the band. In order to do this we will use blue screen and merge the images together, to get the effect. Tom will be using a variety of instruments, including a saxophone, drums, guitar and xylophone.
The blue screen will look something like this:
Recce Shots
These are some of the locations that we have chosen to do some of our filming. These will be from the second set of scenes, where our actor will make his way in to town.
Friday, 14 January 2011
Textual analysis- Mali
I am analysing the music video of Beyonce’s ‘Crazy in Love’. The genre of the song is pop and the video was directed by Jake Nava.
The genre characteristics of a pop song include a dance routine, song performance and the main ‘good-looking’ singer wearing revealing clothing. In this video you can see Beyonce wearing short dresses so that the male audience want her and the female audience want to be her. The dance routine is easy to follow.
The relationship between the lyrics and the video show that there are strong references to each other. This is because when she sings ‘you’re so crazy in love’ she used arm movements that point towards the camera seeming that the audience is the person that she is singing about.
The video is from the first song that Beyonce released after she split from her band, Destiny’s Child. The song show that not only is she a song vocal singer, she is also ‘sexy’ and can dance well. Throughout the video she changes clothing several times, each outfit more revealing than the last, keeping the audience wanting to see more. At the beginning of the video she can be seen rolling around which promotes voarisum.
Monday, 10 January 2011
Risk Assessment
Here is our risk assessment sheets that we filled out to ensure that there is minimum chance of anyone getting injured whilst creating our video.
Storyboard
Here is our story board that shows the order of events of things that will happen in our music video, which we all contributed to. We will also include bandshots inbetween some of these shots, however we haven't yet decided where our band shots will be fitted in.
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Audience Quetionnaire
Here is our audience questionnaire, to help us to create our music video and to ensure that we are aiming our work at the correct target audience age. We would be very grateful if you could give us some feedback by filling out our questionnaire.
1. Do you watch music videos?
2. If so, how often do you watch them?
3. Do you think the music video is an important component to the music industry?
4. Which is your favourite music genre?
5. What sort of music video do you enjoy watching to this genre?
6. Where do you usually watch music videos? eg. Youtube, Music channels, etc..
7. Do you think the music video adds to your listening experience?
8. What is your favourite type of music video? eg. Narrative, comedy, action etc..
1. Do you watch music videos?
2. If so, how often do you watch them?
3. Do you think the music video is an important component to the music industry?
4. Which is your favourite music genre?
5. What sort of music video do you enjoy watching to this genre?
6. Where do you usually watch music videos? eg. Youtube, Music channels, etc..
7. Do you think the music video adds to your listening experience?
8. What is your favourite type of music video? eg. Narrative, comedy, action etc..
Letter to Paolo Nutini
This was the letter we sent to Paolo Nutini via Myspace asking for permission to use his song.
Wednesday, 5 January 2011
Our New Song and Artist
Due to no reply from the artist of our first choice of song, we have chosen on the different song of 'Pencil Full of Lead' by 'Paolo Nutini'.
Paolo Nutini is a singer songwriter that originates from Scotland who released his debut album in 2006 and was named 'These Streets'. The album which the song we want to use comes off though is his second album named 'Sunny Side Up' which was released in summer 2009 and made it to number 1 in the UK top 40.
His debut album was noted for having a much more 'Poppy' sound to it whereas the album 'Sunny Side Up' went more experimental and brought in influences from Jazz, Funk and Indie.
The single 'Pencil Full of Lead' was released on November 2nd and peaked in the UK charts at #17. I think that the most suitable music genre which this song falls into is a hybrid of Indie and Jazz Funk.
We have decided to use this song because we feel we have a wide range of ideas that we could use for our music video.
Paolo Nutini is a singer songwriter that originates from Scotland who released his debut album in 2006 and was named 'These Streets'. The album which the song we want to use comes off though is his second album named 'Sunny Side Up' which was released in summer 2009 and made it to number 1 in the UK top 40.
His debut album was noted for having a much more 'Poppy' sound to it whereas the album 'Sunny Side Up' went more experimental and brought in influences from Jazz, Funk and Indie.
The single 'Pencil Full of Lead' was released on November 2nd and peaked in the UK charts at #17. I think that the most suitable music genre which this song falls into is a hybrid of Indie and Jazz Funk.
We have decided to use this song because we feel we have a wide range of ideas that we could use for our music video.
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