As my 'stoner' video unfortunately not my first idea, when I did finally give up on my Stereotypical Blues Train (the band who weren't available to film), I didn't have very long to reconduct all my research to a more relevant degree. I'm hoping that my earlier research (on my main blog) will still be okay to be graded, as I simply recorded opinions on my idea, as used the enthusiasm I recieved as a positive sign towards my video. I accept it may damage my mark as I've not done very much for my new idea, but I made the choice to focus on creating the actual video and ancillary tasks in favour of my overall mark rather than the process I would normally follow.
[audio research here! - cant upload from home]
Despite the scarce research, I was influenced also by a shot in the My Chemical Romance video for 'The Ghost Of You' that uses green screen. It is at 1:28 of the video:
It is directed by Marc Webb - a complete legend! He's a director/producer/editor. He's recently directed 'The Amazing Spider Man' which is currently in the post-production stage, awaiting release in 2012. He directed '(500) Days Of Summer'; and in television: 'The Office' (!!!), and 'Lone Star' as well as a lot of documentaries. He inspires me because of his work in various areas, as I want to experiment a lot too; however mainly for his music videos. Here are just some of the bands he's produced videos for:
- My Chemical Romance
- Green Day
- Good Charlotte (and their video with M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold)
- Weezer
- Santana
- Snow Patrol
- AFI
- The Used
- Evanescence
- Jimmy Eat World
- Maroon 5
- Hoobastank
- Daniel Powter
Webb's video for 'The Ghost Of You' (the one above - sorry got sidetracked by his genius) has a special green screen shot at 1:28 that I love. I always wondered how it was done, and puzzled over it for ages. I had a theory and wanted to try it out. What I was going to do was to place a glass or clear plastic tray on a flat surface on top of the green screen and pour water into the tray. Then I would add a background so the water would spread across the background, as the sea spreads across the ballroom. However I couldn't figure out how to keep the constant points of the couples in the ballroom, and the rock things at the warzone.
So I tried using a smoke machine instead of water, and similarly sized objects instead of the larger markers. My attempt obviously didn't work, but I think (i hope) I may have been going along the right lines.
[my attempt]
I have since been told that there are behind the scenes clips on the bonus DVD of the MCR (My Chemical Romance) album that show how it was done. I'm going to watch it and try film it from the TV screen to upload to here.
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Another director I admire is David Slade. He's directed some of my favourite music videos and many films and documentaries including The Twilight Saga: Eclipse! He's done these videos for my favourite band, Muse:
- Feeling Good
- Bliss
- Hyper Music
- New Born
- In the 'Feeling Good' video, its simply Muse in a red room, playing the song with some fans. Except the fans all have warped faces. Sounds odd but it looks really cool!
- In 'Bliss' it is purely Matt Bellamy falling down a massive tunnel singing as he falls. Slade chooses really simple ideas and works on perfecting every detail to make it visually awesome.
- In 'New Born' some of the shots are sideways, so it looks like the band are standing upright but horizontally on a normal wall with a crowd below them.
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Wayne Isham is another brilliant director, responsible for the likes of:
- Bon Jovi
- Avenged Sevenfold
- Muse
- Michael Jackson
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Jimi Hendrix
- Pink Floyd
- Deep Purple
- Metallica
- The Rolling Stones
- Motley Crue
- KISS
- Aerosmith
- Richie Sambora
- Journey
He has a way with his videos that tell the story and capture the essence of the song exactly. He shows that in the above video. I think it takes some serious talent to make a video that will keep the audience's attention for anything over 3 minutes really. This one is 5:39 minutes and amazing; its more realisticly shot that some of his other videos, and it definately plays to the audience's emotions.
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All 3 of these legendary directors are truly gifted and I can't quite explain it but I would absolutely love to one day be capable of making people feel the way their videos make me feel, to create the same kind of physiological response they create in me. I feel that music videos need to do this, to match the quality of the music, to bring out as much emotion as possible; be it love, sorrow, fury, guilt, humour, excitement etc. I'm going to keep working on more and more videos until I can make something even a fraction as good as they do. :)
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