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From May 23rd through May 25th Myself, James Greene, Alex Bently, Shuan Sykes and Adam Butt was filming our music video We’re only human.

when filming on May 16th we filmed just blocks ahead of college and filming somewhere at a patch of field that looked as if it was being digged, we filmed for about an hour though Shaun coulden’t make it due to maths lessons, filming went okay dispite our music player being a PSP wasn’t that loud enough to hear so lip synching was difficult, there were people looking at us in their cars and worst off we were stopped by a police woman in a car asking us what we were doing luckely Alex explained it was all a project and I apolgiesed for the inconvenence as we were wasting police time as they have bigger probelms to solve.

24th of May went much better, we were filming by a huge field area around chilton which is popular to dog walkers and its a public area with the exception of farmer area’s where Cows graze there. we filmed for the whole day getting a whopping amount of footage and plenty to edit meaning our time at those fields were used perfectly and they way we felt should of worked, some probelms included finding good area’s to film and also there were lawnmower people mowing the grass so we didn’t want to get them in shot and some shots required severeal takes but we still felt we did well. 

25th of May went even better as we only needed to do a small number of scenes and we were filming at the town center but during busy market times where more people would be around as market stools were up.

we filmed around pubs and resuturents and we were filming for about 1 and a half hours and we only needed about 5 scenes, filming went without a hitch and it was sunny helping us out big time.

I know it seems rather silly but part of me didn’t want to watch this show but for good reasons, 1, Unwell, 2 very late at night, 3 we know the out come.

its hard to say if it was a good show as to be honest, This wasn’t a good show, not becasue of the acts and politics but becasue there was to much at too litte a time, most acts such as mongolia and Spain was over shadowing other acts but also there was not many fun songs on the show, while acts like England, Russia, Cyprus, Greece, Sweden, Malta, Turkey, France, Italy, Ukraine and Serbia were pritty good acts some acts such as albania, Ireland and Germany were not that very good yet they did well pointswise.

England was the first to play which really sucks as some people could be tuneing into the show half way and not be aware of the song played by Englebert Humperdink, (i bet people will call him Hump a Dick unrespectul people) this dosen’t help as later songs more people would be aware of, England has been on a losing streak since 1998 and the best we ever got in future was 3rd and 5th in 2002 and 2009, with England being 13th last year, this year we were 2nd to LAST only above NORWAY so I am assuming that EUROPE hates ENGLAND.

Sweden did have a good song with a good singer but i felt it lacked the real electricty such as Greece and Crypus both had awesome songs.

Sweden Winning is good enough, Sweden has had good luck in Eurovision now haveing its 5th win alongside, Holland(the neverlands), France and ENGLAND (we had victorys back then), it Ironic as Sweden won the contest in 1974 with ABBA as the singers meaning sweden has always had awesome songs and can sing a good song, now in the 5 times champion section.

The most wins of the contest goes to IRELAND haveing 7 victorys and also a 3 year winning streak giving them the highest concequtive wins but haven’t won since 1997 so they have an even worser losing streak.

it dosen’t help that Contrys like Italy, Spain and the Neverlands haven’t won sfor a long time, Italys last win was in 1990 while spains last was in 1969 tieing with England, Holland and France but if spain was to win chances are they couldn’t hold the show to costing mesures so them losing this year don’t matter.

One of the biggest complaints with the contest is that most contrys tend to vote for their neighboors or politcal partners and not give a damn about the songs proving that Most of Eurovision is unfair even if England had a song just as good as Russia or Sweden we could still lose as neighbors gets majority of votes, some contrys would even be lucky to get even 1.

the Thing i’m trying to point out here is this, If you let the good singers sing first and leave the random at the end it can eather be easier for the show or mess up with those who had good songs but others voted for more random songs, like the winning song at the end was really good.

my main point here is that Eurovision should just be about having fun with many countys hearing their music and songs, contesnly getting a contry screwed out of victory does not equal fun, it makes it a choir and viewers like myself hate choirs.

if you liked Eurovison then more power to you and i expect the show in Sweden next year to be a good one, so if you plan to viset Sweden for a holiday the go ahead, I sometimes think Eurovision is a way to get tourists in some way.

I also think Eurovison as the singing version of WRESTLEMANIA as it has a huge audience, many attendence and many diffrent acts to watch but this is on FREE TV but only on BBC 1 or what ever channel it plays on europein contrys.

hope this blog was a good one.

(Source: eurovisionblog.org)

For the most recent task involving music videos I have once again teamed up with James Greene, Adam Butt Alex Bently and Shaun Shykes to make a music video on a copyright cleared song We’re Only Human from BigTunaMusic, we will make a music video with the song as James had purchased the song from a site called AudioJungle and we will plan its production.

We plan to use diffrent locations for the video including feilds next to chillton and beyond the motorway from quantock meadow, the real hope to this is we can make the music video from a decent location and have the video made in certain ways.

Shaun suggested the Scienticed from Coldplay but that would be extreamly hard to do as the video looks like its backwards but i was suggesting a Will Young type video like Leave right now since its just will singing with some people in the background while he’s singing though James has said he would make the video up as we went along.

We will be using a standard camera set with HD, a Tripod, Sony Vegas as that is James main editing software on his laptop, location reeckes, risk assessments and hopefull our own props as we want this video to be perfect after we did a pitch last week about our music video idea’s.

When You watch a Music Video what do you feel when watching it and listening to the song and its lyrics? is it something to watch when listening to the song or is it something just to get more intrested to the song?

Now a Music Video is used as a promational way to get a song out to the public whether its for music television like MTV or CD for CD sales and profits and ratings. a music video also helps when trying to get a song to the public when hearing the song at a live show or concert to let people know the song and would they like it.

Music Videos come in all ranges such as narrative story based to go with the song, animated, Concert or recording studio based, lip synced, non lip synched, clip video for music video for a movie promotion and even make belive based.

If i am requested to i will be doing the main lip syching with some members of the group being back up singers with some doing other lip sychs.
We will not be relying on green screen since we feel that green screen is just the easy way out.
We most likly would be filming quite near a freinds house should that house be required for filming.

TASK 1) We are to make a music video of the song Alfie from devine comidy haveing perfect lip syching and background singers.
We have all got to learn its lyrics which our team leader had done and match we what we are saying.

Task 2) I am part of a group that insists of Alex, Amy and Gemma and we have already made ourselfs the correct folders on our media drives.

Task 3) our pre production material includes proposals for our main first idea, the right treatment to get our production underway which involves risk assiments and time keeping, timing structure to keep track of our music video’s time and how long and what we are doing at which time and shot lists explaing what shots we will tend to use.

As part of the next project in College i am doing work on Music Videos and why they are used for songs and how they work, as part of this I made a survey that you can all answer  to take part. (it is also on the URL post should you want to take part.)

Now as real part of the project is to take many music videos and in turn mention what each video has in terms of production, quality and how it targets the auddience in both its song and the accual video.

while looking at many lists of top music video’s a lot of them had Thriller by michael Jackson, Sledgehammer from Peter gabral, Bohedumam Rapsodey from queen, Enter Sandman from Matalica and many more off big name bands and solo artists, but one music video that tends to be on multipule lists including music fans is Take on me from AHA, proving that the video is a very popular video for a popular song. but one artist thats music videos pop up alot is Michael Jackson who has been know to make very scucessful songs and with those songs has music videos that involves a huge amount of dancing with Thriller and Billy Jean being his most scucessful and popular videos and when he died, many of his music video’s were played in tribute to the big name star proving that his Music video’s are still importent to fans.

On Youtube alone Triller had a total of 111,024,163 viewers alone on the youtube channel michaeljacksonVEVO. 

(Source: surveymonkey.com)

Since the end of january the college media group of year 1 was given a script called Burying the past, it was a script of a man having to do an evil deed for a former EX of his, origanaly everyone was put in groups of 3 and did the first scene only but soon we were all in huge groups all trying to do the whole film from beggining to end with all the bits like a car, props and main characters.

the group i was in involved Me, Alex Bently, Adam Butt, Sean Syches and our project mamager James Greene, the plan was we would make changes to the script like having 2 main male charcaters rather than a man and a woman, have he car changed to a Van and hav the characersbe mafia based.

In poduction terms we had James as director, Alex as producer and Myself, Adam and Sean as cameraman or runners, in terms of characters James played Ben and Adam played Garry but we also had Sean play Gavin only to be the real corspe for the film as we used a fake body bag as the real corspe.

As Cameramen, Myself, Alex and Sean all had to collect and film the footage for the film and ensure that it was all filmed and ready for capturing when we was ready to edit fully. 

The group name was FusRohDah as in the move from Skyrim as many of the team played it and it felt funny plus we had a likeing for the name, We even made a Facebook group name made by James.

most scenes were filmed in the college sports field for the burying scenes but we also used Adam’s house for his van to do the driveing scenes and first parts of the film, we did having planing for filming a van an a diffrent day but that had to be cancaled due to the Van being used so we had to rearrange the day so all of us could be in college that day and we can use Adam’s van for the filming.

James was the one doing the editing of our film but he was not using a MAC and instaed using a PC with Sony Vegas, which ment rendering was going to take even longer than MAC rendering so editing did take a very long time it seems.

as part as a team we all did our own good bits but since he was partly the Project Manager James did the most in terms of contributions and he had the whole thing planned since Febuary meaning he did the most in the work terms plus he was doing the edits so it’s only natuaral he was the best in team.