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Changed Music Video Director Essay

The Music Video Director I have chosen first is Emil Nava and the Music Video I have picked is one of his many Jessie J’s videos her 2011 hit single Nobody’s Perfect, I selected him to write about out of 3 directors because his music videos appeal to me and are always very interesting, imaginative and attention grabbing, He has been making Music Videos for many years and for numerous worldwide stars such as Ed Sheeran, Paloma Faith, Rita Ora, Calvin Harris, Tinie Tempah, The Vamps and even Ne - Yo which all started of when he made one of his first ever Music Videos Jessie J’s Do it like a dude which started of her career and his. Nobody’s Perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSZVYZTze74 Which has a immense 52 Million views on YouTube was written by Claude Kelly and Jessie J and released as the 3rd single of the biggest selling album of the year Who You Are, Was shot on set at Nu Boyana Film studies on the 24th March 2011 by my chosen director Emil Nava, Inspired by the classic book and film Alice In Wonderland Nobody’s Perfect Music Video is very much a story tale with a dark side. I would say that Nobody’s Perfect is a Narrative video with a hint of Performance as Jessie J the talent is performing to camera and the audience throughout the whole Music Video but it is also based on a story that relates to the lyrics and the Alice In Wonderland theme. Since the theme allows the director and talent to go where ever they like with the Music Video it has so much creativity, feeling, visionary and eye-catching scenes that is rarely seen in Music Videos which is one of the main reasons why I picked this Music Video and Director.

The way he uses his tracking shots, his pull focus’s, neon colors, voiceovers, special effects and fast-pasted cuts make it very effective and interesting for the audience to watch. Every frame is beautifully thought out, with all the right lighting, locations and shots from a short tracking shot from the end of the table towards the talent to a simple wide shot of the talent at the end of the corridor.

All the tracking and moving shots going between each character in the Music Video feel like you are watching it from the main character/talents point of view which therefor again relate to the lyrics of the song. The amount of different shots, in different locations with different costume’s keep the audience captivated from the close ups of clocks smashing to the mid shots of the talents lip syncing with feeling to the song to the slow motion corridor shots.

What I think is one of the best parts and shots is towards the end when the talent is walking down the corridor using a slow motion still wide angel shot when everything is blowing up behind her it’s simple yet very effective.

How Emil used all different themes from Alice in Wonderland to the Statue of Liberty and that they all work so well together just goes to show how imaginative and talented he is.

From the narrated mysterious eerie start to the video, to the artistic and vibrant shots, to the fascinating and perfectly fast pasted editing and the directors ability to work to with talent to get the best out of her. All through the Music Video the story combined with all the captivating shots and Jessie J’s performance the song literally jumps off the screen to the audience. I would love to use the vibrant, unique and arty creative shots used in this Music Video in mine as is automatically grabs the audience attention and hopefully will keep them hooked enough to watch the video over and over and go out to buy the song.

Emil Nava seems to make this apparent in all of his videos from Jessie J’s Do it like a dude, To Ed Sheeran’s number one song Thinking out loud and To his latest Music Video Calvin Harris’s and Ellie Golding’s Outside, His inventiveness,ENERGY , enthusiasm and imaginative thinking has found him working with some one the biggest names in the music industry. Here are some examples of him working of the Music Video in relation and Emil Nava working on other Music Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuVEEnqdclQ & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGOiGpOIqc & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc-CzXQJg8Y&spfreload=10

The second Music Video and Director I have chosen from Ellie Goulding’s Number one album Halcyon Day’s is Goodness Gracious which couldn’t be more different from my first one Jessie J’s Nobody’s Perfect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekPBOVgGRSA Directed by Kinga Burza, The 2013 song written by Goulding, Greg Kurstin and Fun’s Nate Ruess, shot on location in Los Angeles premiered on 5th January 2014 has over 20 Million YouTube hits and was Ellie Goulding’s tenth top twenty hit. I chose this Music Video and Director because it stands out from others because of it’s catchy Synthpop sound and Edgy, Vibrant and Neon Colored Music Video, Directed by Polish-Australian Music Video Director Kinga Burza known for highly loved videos such as Kate Nash Foundations, Marina and The Diamonds Hollywood, La Roux In For The Kill and even Katy Perry first Number One Single I Kissed a Girl which has a over a massive 63 Million YouTube hit’s.

This was Goulding’s first time working with Kinga and in her own words “She’s Young and really clever and it’s really important to know you’re going to connect with someone” and Ellie wanted the Music Video to showcase young people having a good time and Kinga helped do this by making it as positive, futurist and happy as possible. Kinga Burza who is now based in London, also works on Fashion videos for companies such as River Island and also short films such as Candy which was shown on BBC in June 2014. Kinga has won awards for her Music Videos for example Best Pop Video at the UK Video Music Awards For Kate Nash’s Foundations and was also nominated for Best New Director at the CAD awards and has been said to be among ‘The next wave of up and coming directors’.

Kinga using the Hue effect straight away creates something that will stand out from the rest joint that together with the different shots used makes for a good Music Video.

The slow motion brightly colored with bokeh shots instantly catch your attention and then the what seems to be handheld or shoulder rigged mid shots of the talent lip syncing along to the song which are always kept moving so the audiences don’t get distracted and stop watching.

Some of my favorite parts and shots of the Music Video are not the hue scenes but the shots of the talent with in focus and the city skyline in the background creating a beautiful colorful bokeh effect and also another favorite is the slow motion scenes of what seems to be petals the characters are throwing into the air falling but in a glow in the dark neon blue which looks very cinematic on scene.

The use of mainly handheld shots which can seem homemade but this is done in a professional way that works, makes it the same as Nobody’s Perfect as if the audiences are following the characters on there adventures during the time of the Music Video which makes them more inclined to like and buy the artist’s song.

The mixture of both lip syncing shots of the artist having fun with the other characters and cover shots of them work very well together with the use of hue nature/ beach shots which Kinga added in perfectly.

Some concepts of this music video I like are the striking and eye-catching shots combined with the story of just a group of young people enjoying themselves and having the time of their lives while Ellie tells the story of the song through her singing and also the whole atmosphere of the talent and the marvelous shades and tints of the neon colors with the backdrop of the stunning landscape’s of Los Angeles. Here is an example of Kinga Burza directing the Music Video Goodness Gracioushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7994zKsybk and also Kinga working on another one of her many Music Video’s this one being Marina and The Diamonds Oh No https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAG9xKcCm24

The last but not the least Music Video and Director I have picked is Say Something https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2U0Ivkn2Ds by A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera, The powerful, moving, simple yet inspirational 2013 Oscar worthy Ballad was Directed by Christopher Sims shot on November 8th 2013 and released on the 19th and which now has over a enormous 161 Million views on YouTube, Christopher known for his work on Music Videos such as Ne-Yo Let Me Love You, Ludacris FT. Usher and David Guetta Rest Of My Life, Keane Silenced By The Night, Nicole Scherzinger Run and Usher Good Kisser. The difference between this Music Video and the others I have picked is that this one is all about the message it’s not just about the artists or trying to sell the song but trying to promote the message through the song and artists performances. It’s very much all about the 3 main storylines, The young girl and her quarrelling parents, the old man and his dying wife and the couple fallen out of love. A Great Big World and Christina Aguilera are very much at the sideline of the story of this astounding Music Video they are just there to help pass on the emotion and carry on the meaning of Say Something, which ultimately is about letting go off the unstoppable and forgiving yourself for doing so.

This video and the ways it’s Directed couldn’t be more different from the other two and there bright colors and happy upbeat message this yet it does tell a message in a similar way tells it in a more deep emotional that would pull at any ones heartstrings. With Christopher’s Directed there’s no special effects no dramatic shots just simplicity which I actually ended up using in my own Music Video instead of something like Nobodys Perfect which is all about clever and interesting shots. With Say Something it’s simple but beautiful. Using a blend of slow tracking shots towards, down on, and away from and to to first introduce the artist’s and the characters.

With once again simple but effective lighting all around the black studio already creating sad emotions in the audience even thought nothing has really happened yet. Some of my favorite scenes/shots in Say Something are the slow motion water shots shot with a black background mid shot with a white ordinary water droplet.

All of the colors even on both of the talents are dark and lifeless apart from the young girl and the water drops in the videos that are white colors.

There is not one hand held shot in the whole video as I suspect that Christopher would have wanted it all very clear shots, nothing to clever and over the top to just keep the emotion feel because the whole idea of the video is to show what happens in every day life.

Every is keep to a pare minimal from the old bed with no mattress to the old piano A Great Big World are playing on to the one toy that the little girl has to once again show though the art of stunning shots and great directing what and how hard life can be and the challenges that people go through that nobody knows that relate to the lyrics of the Say Something.

Here is a sample of the Director of Say Something Christopher Sims at work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6lkTKf-Ums & https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plV1IV71POE&spfreload=10 To end my view on these Music Video and there Directors I have picked two and have tried to compare them, I think Both the Music Video for Say Something and Nobody’s Perfect try to convey a strong message to the audience. The Music Video for Say Something does this by using actors to create sentiment and make the audience feel empathy with the character’s so therefor they understand the meaning. We can see this when the old man is crying over his fading wife and has to say goodbye. However both music videos shows this in different ways. The Music Video for Nobody’s Perfect does through the talent (Jessie J) Performance we can see this when she storms through a vacant timeworn corridor and because of her now superior presence it slowly falls apart. The effect of this on the audience is that they see the change in her character and the true meaning of the Music Video and song, which is Nobody’s Perfect. The music video I prefer personally is Nobody’s Perfect Even thought I love the meaning between both Songs I prefer the Music Video of Nobody’s Perfect This is because of the way it is created with the shots used and how the story is told through the talent, location, props, costume and musicality. “I was never interested in BECOMING AN ACTOR

. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I’ve only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.”

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Amended Music Video

What happened with Amended Music Video?

When I first came up with an idea as to what my music video would be, I had a artist and locations in mind, I just had to set them in to motion, once the singer Joy Melody agreed to doing a music video I told her the original idea which was a hyper lapse of her traveling around the city. Once I had given her my idea of both the song and the music video she got to work on creating an original song. Sadly after her near finishing the lyrics for the song, She decided she could no longer do it. As deadlines were raptly approaching I had to find a new singer to sing Joy’s lyrics. Luckily I had a friend who knew of a brilliant singer Vicky Kot. After contacting her and talking with her for many hours, I decided that the music video would have to be very different to my very first idea. As it was for Rob Knox Film Festival I wanted both the song and music video to be very inspiring, thought provoking and moving.

After speaking with many other people I decided to change it to tell the story of a young women’s past looking in to the future. It was meant to be a Narrative video telling a dramatic but inspirational story. It was also meant to feature parts of the artist playing the song in a bar while an audience watches her and a ballet dancer moving to the lyrics of the song. After many tries of shooting in a black room

at my college with three actors and the dancer and because I was shooting every thing on my own most of the shots looked nothing like I would have liked. Even though the song, which I had found musicians for, was coming along amazingly, the video was nowhere near matching up to it.

After many hours of editing together a rough cut and showing some of my peers and tutors, I decided again that it needed Amending and to be simplified. Every one I had shown had said to do what the words in the song said to show different faces and I agreed with this myself, so after booking the same equipment, The Canon 7D and Flo lights, I talked with the actors about when they were available to film again and they could all do it the same day so, I filmed all of the three main actors lip syncing to the lyrics of the song in my house all in just one day also getting cover shots to add in if they were needed. The other faces of ordinary people were all done at a church in Sidcup on two different Sunday nights. I was lucky to get a variety of ages with different emotions to go with the lyrics of Amended. Once I had all the footage I started from starch with the edit first syncing all the lip-syncing then adding in different faces where they fitted best with the lyrics. Even though all the shots were nice in color I decided to make it all black and white as it makes it more cinematic and filmic, it just adds that something extra to the Music Video.

Heart Z Film Directed, Produced and Filmed by Hannah Waller Starring Nenda Imperator & Piotr Sedkowski Written by Annie Amelia Kane

The Definition of Great Editing

“The film is made in the editing room. The shooting of the film is about shopping, almost. It’s like going to get all the ingredient’s together and you’ve got to make sure before you leave the story that you got all the ingredient’s and then you take them ingredient’s and you can make a good cake or not”. Philip Seymour Hoffman

What is the definition of great editing?

Starting with a brief history, known as the art everyone see’s but never really thinks about. As soon as film was discovered with the first motion picture in 1872 by a man called Eadweard Muybridge then on to two men in 1885 named George Eastman and William H. Walker creating the first reel of film and following on to the uses of editing in the early 1900s as editors had to gather all the film reels and place them together for an audience to be shown for example in one of the most recognizably films from that era The Great Train Robbery. Over the years Editing as an art form has got incredibly easier because of new and exciting technological equipment and programs but I could also argue that it makes an editor job harder as they have much more to create and do and a much harder standard to reach with there pieces of work as the audiences of film and videos get bigger and better and more people are learning to edit and generate there own pieces of work so it’s an editors job to come up with something that can over shine everyone else’s in there industry and to always develop, improve and advance.

As Walter Murch said “ Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does”.

The main job of any editor is to create a piece of work using the elements they have been given to a good enough level to been shown to audiences all over the globe. To use there knowledge of how to place raw footage, music, audio dialogue, special effects and titles together to tell a story to envelope all the right feelings and emotions inside the audience when they watch the film or video that the editor has put together with care, perseverance, creativity, vision, intelligence and devotion. People would think that you could just put together raw footage and that’s it there’s a film but no it’s not as easy as that. An editor would have to be able to know an extreme amount of information about all the elements that go in to a film to create the final piece for example, They would have to know how the Dialogue/Sound works, how the camera works and what makes a great shot, what makes good acting, what makes good music to fit a scene, what is the psychology behind the shots and script and all other elements that go in to making a worthwhile film as they are the storyteller of the story that’s trying to be told.

Using there many skills and endless hours of practice they have to form the right shots out of what could be thousands, they have to pick the right parts of dialogue and time it perfectly so that the story makes sense and never drags on and therefor bores the audiences, they have to use there instincts and imagination to compose everything together in the best way possible. My view on what makes a great editor is when it looks effortless on the scene when you can’t see the weeks, days and hours that have gone into what is being shown in front of you, you just enjoy it for what it is therefor if the editing is not so good you will quickly notice and it will dramatically distract you from what you are meant to be experiencing.

It’s strange to think that you can have the best directors, cinematographers, actors, sound men, soundtrack composer’s, producers, locations, script writers and scripts in the world but when it comes down to it with out the editors placing all the pieces of the puzzle together there would never be the amazing films and videos that we see all around today. Such as these films that have one awards for best editing over the years for example by MacVx"> Saving

Private Ryan edited by Michael Kahn, Raging Bull edited by Thelma Schoonmaker, Forrest Gump edited by Athur Schmidt, American Beauty edited by Tariq Anwar, Slum dog Millionaire edited by Chris Dickens, Black Swan edited by Andrew Weisblum, Life of Pi edited by Tim Squyres, Gravity edited by Alfonso Cuaron and Mark Sanger and most recently Whiplash

edited by Tom Cross, Where would all these films be with out the editors? With one their storytellers to put all the pieces together they wouldn’t have won all these awards that’s a certain. Editors may be the silent partners of film and films but they play one of the most important roles that no one can deny. That is the magic of an editor.

“In a way, editing is not unlike the movies. The best books, just like the best movies, are collaboration. They’re only as good as the compromise made between the artists involved” Viggo Mortensen.

Director of Photography Essay

“To be a good cinematographer you have to understand the métier of the director and the best way to do that is to work with the best directors” Philippe Rousselot

My chosen Director of Photography is Oscar, BAFTA and César Award Winning Cinematographer Philippe Rousselot, ASC, AFC. Born and raised in Meurthe-et-Moselle France. When he was 5 years old he saw a black and white by save keep"> disney

film that he very much disliked but later he saw a French version of Beauty and the Beast By Jean Cocteau which has inspired him ever since He thought was so visually and intellectually amazing. When he began to pick up a camera he felt influenced by the people he worked with and that inspired him more. Having studied Cinema at I’Ecole Louis Lumiére in 1966 Philippe meet a young director called Guy Gilles and helped him on a short and then on to his following features then Rapidly becoming an assistant to Nestor Almendros then onto a chief operator, which started his journey in to the world of film and cinematography. Rousselot having worked on over an incredible 70 films including, 1994 Interview with the Vampire, 1992 A River Runs Through It, 2001 Planet of the Apes, 2003 Big Fish, 2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factor and more recently both of the Sherlock Holmes films and is in mist of filming the new Harry Potter Film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Phillippe from all these years of experiences of all genres, directors and films definitely has the awards and knowledge behind him for me to right an essay about his work over his time as a Director of Photography.

Philippe a lover of all things film including film cameras themselves nearly always uses the Panavision cameras even though he is happy to new pieces of equipment as technology grows and devolves but he prefers to stick to what he knows and likes. In Sherlock Holmes 2 he has to use the Digital Phantom Flex Camera to creative the mind blowing slow motion action scenes but he would much rather prefer to always film in film as he believes even when Cinematographer’s film in digital they go out there way to make it look similar to film. Thought he favors film over digital camera wise he does work digital when it comes to post – production after working on The Planet of the Apes with Tim Burton he has never gone back to Non Digital Post – Production.

Rousselot regarding lenses likes to use the Angénieux brand like the Optimo 28- 78 he received at Cannes Film Festival, for the first Sherlock A Game of Shadows Philippe filmed on both the Arriflex 235 and Panavision with a Primo Lenses ranging from 14 to 150mm. On another film Philippe was Director of Photography 2013 Beautiful Creatures used the Panavision Paraflex Platinum Millennium XL2 and the Panavision C – and E Series Lenses. Philippe has himself said that his style if any one can call it a style varies from film to film because style he thinks it can be quite limiting. Rousselot very much known for his unique style of lighting, In the film Hope and Glory it was always filmed in small locations so the lighting was very limited, He was already using 2kW omnidirectional lamps but they would not fit in the small locations, One of the crew on the set suggested that he should use Chinese lanterns as they looked extremely similar but was the perfect size and ever since this has been his signature piece of lighting even though he can have use of any equipment a Director of Photography can get there hands on he choses to use unique pieces that add to his visual art for example he has even used theater lighting boards, when he arrives on set he calls himself the cleaning lady for the light because he try’s to remove everything that he dislikes.

On the set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory it took over three weeks just to set up for lighting with over one thousand projectors and everything had to be numbered and each shot had it’s own photograph as you can never leave anything unorganized or too chance. Especially when you do not get to operate the equipment yourself, The Director of Photography has to put all his trust in crew to creative a piece of work that is as good as if he had done it all himself. As Philippe has said you have to get special permission to operate the camera yourself as you’re job should just to director the cameramen and women but it can all depend on the film and director. One of his favorite cameramen is Neal by save keep"> norton

who has worked on many of same films as Rousselot. Tim Burton on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory wanted everything to be as colorful as possible so it was produced in a super 1.85 format using the full aperture. Rousselot did use both the Chinese lanterns and a mixture of small lights on fisher booms to give him more movement to create better camera angles. On Charlie and the Chocolate Factory he used mainly Kodak Vision2 500T 5218 color negative for all the day time shots and Kodak Vision2 200T 5217 for all the green screen shots. Having shot in 4K 35mm color intermediate film. To conclude my main reason for picking Philippe Rousselot is merely because he can make a unassuming simple scene look incredibly beautiful, through his use of shots, his view of colors, his position of cameras to make the actors look at there best potential, his use of lighting and equipment to create a piece of visual cinematic art that would catch and simulate any ones eyes.

“Taking pictures gets easier every year, any amateur can do photography and sharp colors and perfect focus but the art of it is better left to our cinematographers for those artists film is there canvas, cameras there brushes and lenses there eyes” - Gene Hackman & Morgan Freeman 1993 Academy Awards Ceremony.

Here are some screenshots of Philippe Rousselot shooting on a variety of films and the screenshots of some of my favorite scenes from the films themselves.

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Location Recce for location of filming ‘Heart Z’ This location is actually my parents house. This is located nearest to dartford station, if directions are needed for filming then i can happily get them for member of the group.

We Have already done a risk assessment for this location so we k now what issues we will have to over come on the day.

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List of things needed for creating ‘Heart Z’

· Location, We would need to find a rather large house to shoot this in. would need to speak to other students about this.

· Make-up Artist for creating the zombie effect on the woman’s skin. We could possibly find one within the college.

· Actors would…

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Location Reece

IF we cannot find any other locations we can use my house for it, we are having works done in the living room so it might add abit of a apocalyptic feel to it.

Photos can be taken soon if other location is not found soon.

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If filming at my house their isn’t going to be many issues. The works being done are only on the walls so their isn’t tons of tools and mess on the floor.

Risks.

1, Wires from equipment within corridors, This is easily resolved by minding where you tread.

2, if my family are in then i will have to…

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This is the Budget for our Short Film project.

Props and Equipment i was originally going to use for My Music Video Amended

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The original Proposal for My Music Video Amended

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The Shooting Schedule for My Music Video Amended

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Here is the Location Reeces for My Music Video Amended.

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Here is a rough written version of an old version of what i wanted to do with the Music Video Amended.

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Here is the first few pages of a computer version of the changed storyboard for Amended, As the story changed a lot from this version i did not continue with this incorrect storyboard.

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