Luke's dos and dont's
September 14, 2017Luke came into our class today to tell us the dos and don'ts of music videos. He showed us some treatments for some real music videos, and how they look going from from paper to the screen.
Do:
- include a performance element because you can get a lot of shots from it, and the viewers can see who the artist is (and who plays what instrument)
- try to do it on location because you can get a lot more out of it than a studio
- remember that we're promoting a new band and it's their first single
- make the studio set look stylised because it's hard to make a set look realistic
- get people who know how to play instruments if we do a band because it'll take far too long to teach them how to look like they're playing
- make the elements look similar so they fit well eg. colour palette, theme, visual style
- make it memorable and distinct
- try to have an arc
Don't:
- have too many sets in the studio because we're only in there from 9am to 3pm, and since changeover could take an hour, it'll waste a lot of time
- try to recreate a realistic setting in the studio because the slats have seams and can look fake
- waste time
- only have one element, because it'll get very boring very quickly
1 comments
Hi Ellis
ReplyDeleteGood work on the blog this week. I think the way in which you have sorted Luke's advice in to Dos and Don'ts is really useful helps to show that you analysed what he said rather than just copying it down! It would be great if you could start to tie in research like this into your own planning. Which of those Dos and Don'ts are important to your production and how are you going to account for that? I notice as well that a few bits and bobs that I know your group were looking at, casting, locations etc didn't make it up to the blog, but I think that might be because they are going into a treatment to be shortly unveiled...?! Well done Phil