Researching Student Work

The genre for this video is performance and narrative, which is what we have chosen to do for ours. The performance part of it is the band just playing the song, not with an audience. This is like what we want to do. At the start of the video, the singer picks up he microphone. This is like the shot that we have chosen to finis our piece. We were sure whether to have the camera at same level as the microphone, or have it looking down, but looking at their clip, we hve decided the lighting would probably look best at the same level as the microphone. We will still test both ideas when doing our test footage. The other angles that have been used through out he bands performance have given us ideas on how we can have the camera. This means we will have to do quite a lot of takes, in order to get all the angles we have planned. We want to have some where the camera is at the same level as the band, but also want some variation. To do this we will have the camera looking up at he band, maybe at a slanting angle aswell. We thought this would give the singer a good opertunity to sing to the camera, which we thought was very effective in this student work.

The narrative part of the video is actualy a guy running. This sort of ralates to the running people in our video. Although, in their video, they have lots of low shots of the guys feet, and lots of closeups. We will have a few close up shots, because they do look effective, but mainly we want to use long shots, in order to get lots of people running in each shot, but also to get the background in. We thouht it might be tricking filming outside because of the weather the lighting might not be okay, but from what we can tell the lighting did not effect ay of the outside shots fromhis video.







The way the performance is done in this video is how we want ours to be. We like how they are in a white wash room, with shots of the band all together. We are still trying to find somewhere like this, but if we cant, then we will just have to use the college hall, although we think this video looks good with a white wash wall in the background. It makes it look very professional, but also doesnt distract the viewer because it is a plain background. Also, a white background would be much easier for lighting, as if we use the hall, we can shut the curtains but would need to leave all the house lights on, which might not give us the effect that we had originally wanted, which was that a band is playing t a normal gig, but with no audience.

How the girl is portrayed in this video is sort of how we want the girl in our video to be, but less sad. In one of the shots they have the camera spinning around the girl. We think that looked really good, so we might use that sort of effect. The way they have dressed the girl, different from anyone else in the video, is how we will dress our narrative girl. We interrpreted the song as being about how everyone is very similar now a days, and so we want a girl who stands out from the crowd and who is different.