Inspirations

After deciding to do a Dubstep genre of music we looked into many Dubstep videos that gave us some inspiration and ideas. Our main theme came from the song we used ‘Misshin – Wabbit’, it had a few seconds of narrative which were “be very very quiet, I’m hunting Wabbits” therefore we decided to base the video around hunting a rabbit that no one can find. There was also a cartoon video from ‘Looney Tunes’, which showed the hunting of the cartoon character ‘Bugz Bunny’. This interested us more so we used an image of bugz bunny on the CD cover, however in our video there is no actual image of a rabbit this is because we wanted to keep it mysterious and to show that the two hunters are slightly fooled around.

We also gained some inspirations for our video from a Dubstep video on Youtube called; Mt Eden - Sierra Leone. The video has many effects which we thought would go well in our video for example we changed the speed of some scenes to make it look faster which would also go with the beat. we also used fast cuts which were cut to the beat of the music. we gained these editing inpirtions for our video from various dubstep videos.

Final Shot List

1) Medium close up – Hamza and Jeremy looking left to right.

2) Long shot – (Hamza and Jeremy) – camera positioned on the ground, behind the car.

3) Insert shot- (DANGER)

4) Handheld - going up the escalators

5) Establishing shot – Inside Andale (Text)

6) Tracking Shot – On the ground.

7) Long shot – Jeremy getting closer

8) Close up - Jeremy looking towards the camera.

9) Insert Shot – Lights on the bus.

10) Close up - Jeremy looking towards the camera.

11) Establishing shot – The spinning wheel

12) Establishing shot – Traffic flowing (fast pace)

13) Insert shot – Lighting changing colours.

14) High angle – Jeremy and Hamza running forwards and back.

15) Medium long shot – Hamza looking for the wabbit.

16) Birds eye view – Jeremy frustrated that he can’t find the wabbit.

17) Point of view – Looking out the window.

18) Long shot – Hamza sitting.

19)Very long shot – Jeremy running on the wall and then jumps off

20)Long shot – Jeremy and Hamza standing on the wall, text at the end.

21) Handheld – water fountain and birds flying.

22) Handheld – Jeremy running, camera positioned on his feet.

23) Long shot – Jeremy running through the wall

24) Long shot- Hamza running through the wall

25) Handheld – Camera spinning on the floor of the bus.

26) Long shot – Jeremy and Hamza running.

27)Medium close up – Hamza and Jeremy looking left to right.

28) Medium close up – Jeremy looking towards the camera.

Comparing the challenges of AS production work and A2 production work

The challenges of AS production work were similar to the A2 production work our group had to do, this is due to things such as the editing we had to do and also the types of shots and the amount of work we had to put into making it a good project. The challenges we were faced were dead lines had to be met to make sure we were on target and this meant we had to use time consistantly and put alot of work and ideas into our production. The differences between AS and A2 is that the AS work didn't consist of the same editing style as last year my group didn't use fast cuts and also alot of special effects, whereas doing a dub-step video needed to have special effects to meet the criteria of the modern age type of music. The challenges we were faced was the editing as we had to use many fast cuts, as we linked this to the beat and also when shooting the music video we had to find the right places to film it as we needed a urban scene to match our music choice.

The nature of the task was different as the AS production work consisted of more of a story line as it was a mini film, whereas our music video needed more ideas as the fast cuts and montage in our video needed to be creative and imaginative and link the music itself which was dub-step and dub-step is a modern type of music which could end up being anything within its videos, which made it more difficult then the AS work as the AS work could be planned out carefully and the locations it was shot were known instantly due to what type of film it would be E.G. Crime, Drama or action. This is different to the music video as we had to link it to the type of music used. Also the amount of work put into the A2 music production was much more as the blog needed to be in more depth and also the amount of editing was much more then AS, but overall both AS and A2 needed many ideas and both were difficult in there own ways. And the style of filming was different as hand-held was often used in the music video to build tension and more action.

The challenges of AS production work and A2 production work are many, as there were many small challenges we as a group had to face and big challenges. But working as a team is key and communication had to be used, and each individuals talents needed to be used at full potential such as editing, camera filming and performing.

Dubstep video: Mt Eden - Sierra Leone / Freshlyground - I'd Like REMIX

This is another Dubstep video we looked into which we believe in some ways is similar to our video as it contains alot of fast paced cuts and alot of editing, most scenes are cut to the beat. we also tried to make our cuts and effects parrellel with the beat. There are some scenes where the image of moving boats and the ripple of water has been speeded up. similiarly we used this in our video to speed up the image of moving traffic.

The Brief History Of Dubstep

Dubstep is a modern genre of electronic sounds, with alot of bass lines and a mix of Drum and Bass that was originated in South London (Croyden) in 2002. There is no direct merge of Dubstep as it is a mixture of different styles of music. It is thought to have evolved from Jamaican Dub Music before the 1999's and further grew from other more British genres such as Garage and Grime. This was around ten years ago through the growth of major Dubstep artists like Magnetic Man, Mystikz (DMZ) and Coki, who further publicised the sound of Dubstep, through a London club night called FWD which brought Dubstep to life.

how our video, advert and costumes complemented each other

We used our missing rabbit as the link between the video, advert and the costumes’ this we felt was right as they all had to go with each other. the video we had two characters hunting a missing rabbit that was said to worth a lot of money and they went around town in search of this rabbit this we used a lot of different editing and camera angles to make our video fit and then we had to use more equipment in the studio to help us with our end product, as for the advert we wanted to make a CD with the words missing rabbit which is pronounced with an accent of the character from our video and the we made the costumes consisting of the jeans or track suit bottoms and a jacket to help with our dupstep image, furthermore the use of editing made our video more attractive to the target audiences. Also, the idea of advert was to catch the people’s attention so the colouring was very eye catching and really good bright colours to make easy to see. Also the use of colour effects and the use of colouring in our video editing and the colouring of our advert were similarly in the way that they were all rather bright and eye catching making our video and advert good for our target audiences of young and older children

CD front cover feedback missing rabbit

we were really pleased with the way that our CD front cover looked as it attracted a lot of people because it wasn't something that you see everyday and it was very eye catching and the people thought that it was really good because it was very easy to see and also it attracted families as young children were our audience and this attracted parents as a way of spending time with their children, the really enough the experience and they said that would look forward to future releases. the use of technology allowed us to be able to use different part of the video to crate a CD front cover.

front CD Cover -missing rabbit

After analyzing three CD covers’ we decided to create our piece for our chosen song. All three CD covers’ I looked at were quite simple covers, but they were all very effective. Through a small-added feature made the CD cover's attractable. We tried to pursue these aspects in our CD cover, we made our advert poster quite colourful to attract our target audiences of teenagers this we felt would be a good poster as there is good use of colour and the fact that we were using the rabbit as our main attraction to the audiences also the fact that we wanted kind of young and older teenagers audience we decided that we had to make the poster friendly and welcoming, furthermore we used lots of colour to make it eye catching image with the background of the city and our rabbit with a bandana to emphasize our video, the way we structured the CD cover was quiet impressive as we used a photo shop to make different parts of our video to come together to create the front cover of our CD, this meant that we had to use technological skills to make the front CD cover. By using the rabbit to have a bandanna, we made the cover more adult and more centered on the aspect of dup-step, we then made use of variety of bright colours we changed to make rather easy to see.

Footage/Editing

For our project, we had to find the right places to film our music video, by the use of Google Maps this helped us find the best locations in Manchester and also the use of calling places and having permission to film on certain days.

The use of Final Cut Pro and the use of special effects makes our scenes look more odd and crazy due to our song choice, which is a dub-step song. Dub-step songs are known to be weird so the use of effects in Final Cut Pro helped us make the scenes have different colours and fast transactions and also montage makes the music video fast as it is cut to the point and this makes the video more random and crazy.

We had to find the right locations to match the music video as it is a modern type of music the use of underground locations helped us do what we want, and we had to use alot of time to find these places and the use of communication within the team helped us achieve this.

Using technology to make our video

We used technology in our project by using the Internet to search for our locations by using Google maps. Once we decided on the location we went out to take pictures of the locations to help us to show that we did research before we started filming. Then the next lesson we decided we wanted to start filming and we used the digital cameras with tripods to make our scenes still to do our video. But also we used handled to create the scenes to show the effect of chase as our video is centred on two men hunting a rabbit and we wanted to the audience to feel the effect of the chase. Also we wanted to show tracking shots of the men jumping through walls and we felt that we could get the same effect while using the tripod as this limited the speed at which we could follow the two performances’. Also; the digital cameras allowed us to see our footage so we could re-film if we didn’t get the effect we would have expected this I thought was a great help to us as we didn’t have to wait long to see how each shot went so we could instantly re-shoot and get the right effect that we wanted.

However, because of the fact that we were filming out in town we didn’t have as much technology as we could have if were performing in the studio, which we would have more equipment and the ability to change, the lighting so we also had to decided the day and time we wanted to perform and we had to decide if the area that we were filming was suited for the video that we would be filming. Also because of the fact that the cameras that we were using weren’t expensive we had make sure that had re-shoot each scene to make sure that we had good quality video.