Planning for my music video.

Using stop motion can be very time consuming but I think it can be very effective if it's done well. At the start of my video I want there to be a sequence of images in which the sun is coming up, this will mean having to take a picture of the sky every so often from when it is dark to when it is light. The end will be similar apart from i want a person walking away from the camera in to the darkness.

Changes to my music video

I have made a lot of changes to how I want to film my music video I will now be using stop motion instead of filming footage and piecing it together so the post I made referring to the planning of my music video is mostly irrelevant now, I may still use a super 8 filter to brighten the pictures but seeing as there wont be any actual footage this will be less prominent. I have also made changes to the song which I will be using, this doesn't cause any problems though as when I asked the band leader if I could use 'Impress this mistress' he said I was welcome to use any of the songs. The reason I have chosen to change the song to 'Let it out' is because it's more up beat which i think will be better when using stop motion.

Test Footage

I filmed some test footage using the green screen, but this is only for one of the effects I want to use, I need to film test footage for my other effects so I can see if what I want in my music video will work.

Planning for my music video

I want my music video to have a super 8 filter shown through the majority of it, this will be less likely in the band shots. Some music influences of how I want my video to look are Wavves, Best Coast and Lana Del Rey, I like a lot of the effects used in Wavves Video -Post Acid, it doesn't look like they had a high budget, but I think the fact it looks kind of cheap makes it more quirky and fit with their stylistic vision.

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Research on Jonas Akerlund

Jonas Akerlund's work tends to feature a strong narrative, he also tends to make very controversial material, firstly coming in to the public eye with The Prodigy's "Smack my bitch up" which showed drug use, violence and nudity, this was consequently banned from the majority of music channels however massive demand from the public forced MTV to show the music video only after midnight with a news warning. This then led him on to work with other artists such as Madonna, Maroon 5, Rihanna and Lady GaGa.
Many of his videos form something like a short film, he has a strong individual style, and uses a lot of taboo subjects: lesbianism, drug use, murder, and sexual explicitness.
Mostly Akerlunds work seems to be mainstream pop, he uses a lot of fast cuts which gives the video a fast pace making it more interesting for the audience, i like his work because of the indepth narrative and the way he can make awful things look beautiful, i've included some examples of screen shots for two different videos below.

Lady gaga telephone video by Jonas Akerlund

Here Akerlund makes prison seem glamorous and fun, when it is as we know quite the opposite.


Lady GaGa Paparazzi video by Jonas Akerlund

 Here GaGa makes even disability look glamorous this is a very typical warped image of reality from both GaGa and Akerlund to make something so awful look beautiful.

And again with the prison scene, you wouldn't pose for the camera but GaGa does everything differently.