Rough cut feedback

After presenting my rough cut to my class, I got some feedback on my video. To begin with, our video had some obvious black frames and this needs to be filled up. It also lacks lyp synching and we have manage to record some footage of lip synches. There were also some clips that were on for too long which I will be correcting and adding maybe another clip in between to make it more catchy and create fast edits. My class also said our that it was humorous and it did make them laugh, which was great to hear.

Post Production

Below is a screengrab of the editing on final cut express.

Animatic

Me and my partnership created this animatic of our music video. We are planning on having some spontaneous clips that would add to the humour of our music video. The main shots were drawn on post-stick notes and we added the song to create this animatic.

Shotlist

Me and my partner Rahul created this shotlist however we want our video to be spontaneous and random to help with the comedy theme so we felt these would be our main shot and the other shots to be random and creative.

Shot 1 - Long shot of artis
Shot 2 - Shot of bongo
Shot 3 - Close up shot of artist
Shot 4 - Shots of Soury Nasri (Another member of band and the camera man and director)
Shot 5 - Long establishing shots of London (linked with the theme of being a concrete jungle)
Shot 6 - Shot of train
Shot 7 - Stop start frames of main artist (Phillipe Miami Cortez)
Shot 8 - POV shot of artist walking
Shot 9 - medium shot of lip sync of Phillipe wearing the bongo's
Shot 10 - Close up of the bongo
Shot 11 - Shot of Sophia Romina (Featured singer)
Shot 12 - Random Londoners
Shot 13 - Stop start shots of artist infront of colourful wall
Shot 14 - Shots of Maloy The Saveloy (The producer of the band and a member of band)
Shot 15 - Old London bu
Shot 16 - Close up of the bongo
Shot 17 - London Bridge
Shot 18 - 360 degrees shot of artist
Shot 19 - Shots of students for Lip sync
Shot 20 - Close up of the bongo
Shot 21 - Shot of artist of Barclays Bike, a symbol of London (concrete jungle)
Shot 22 - Many shots of artist just to establish the main singer in the bang
Shot 23 - POV of artist

Storyboard

Change of plan!

Me and my partner have chosen to change our project as we feel as though our song choice and the clips we have filmed so far does not catch the audiences attention and wont be an effect video shoot. Our song choice now is bongo bong by Manu Chao:

Mama was queen of the mambo
Papa was king of the Congo
Deep down in the jungle
I start bangin' my first bongo
Every monkey'd like to be
In my place instead of me
Cause I'm the king of bongo, baby
I'm the king of bongo bong

I went to the big town
Where there is a lot of sound
From the jungle to the city
Looking for a bigger crown
So I play my boogie
For the people of big city
But they don't go crazy
When I'm bangin' in my boogie

I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
But I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby,
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)


They say that I'm a clown
Making too much dirty sound
They say there is no place for little monkey in this town
Nobody'd like to be in my place instead of me
Cause nobody go crazy when I'm bangin' on my boogie

I'm the (king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come

Bangin' on my bongo all that swing belongs to me
I'm so happy there's nobody in my place instead of me
I'm a king without a crown hanging loose in a big town
I'm the king of bongo baby I'm the king of bongo bong
(King of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)
Hear me when I come, baby
(king of the bongo, king of the bongo bong)

Music video conventions - Latin alternative

Latin alternative is the genre that my artist fits in with. Phillipe Miami cortez et al is similar to current band 'Los Fabulosos Cadillacs'. Rock music has been produced in Latin America since the late 1950s. Some Rock bands started to use unusual instruments such as Maracas and Quenas. In the late 1960s, artists like Santana started using a different technique to make Rock music; by incorporating influences of Latin Jazz. Its sound was incorporated by young Latino-players on the US, as an answer to the Rock en Español movement in Latin America, led by bands like Soda Stereo, Caifanes or Los prisioneros. The most known event of Latin Alternative is the LAMC ( Latin Alternative Music Conference)  that every year gathers a large number of bands from all over the Americas and Spain.

Artist's website analysis

Here is a screengrab of Manu Chao's website and as you can see it is very cartoon like and has a lot of animations. His theme consists of these animations as does the video of 'Mr bobby' (video below). His site has a playlist of his songs and also videos of himself in places around the world he has been to. His website's presentation seems care free as it is very busy and there are a lot of random animated images such as a bird or a flying dog. His links are also squeezed together at the top of the page and are placed without any order.

Copyright Email

The song 'bongo bong' by Manu Chao requires permission to be used due to copyright issues. So below is a letter that I sent to acquire permission from Virgin Records to use this track strictly for educational purposes.



Dear Copyright Holder

I am an A Level student writing to ask for your permission to use Manu Chao's track 'Bongo Bong'.

With your permission, this track would be used in our current A-level Media Studies project, which involves creating a music video, as well as producing an album cover and a magazine advert for the artist. The artist featured in my video will not be using Manu Chao's name, as I will be creating a new marketing strategy for an up and coming artist.If I receive your permission, this track would ONLY be used in an educational context and will be viewed by my media class, my teacher and the OCR exam board moderator. It would NOT be used for any financial purposes or gain, nor the school or I intend to make any profit out of using your artist’s track.

The artist and your company would of course be fully recognised throughout pre-production and the final video itself. A copyright notice, with wording supplied by you can be included in the records of the project. If this is required, please send full details.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Samir Sarwari
Park High School, UK