Proof of permission from my chosen band.

Emails to a band member about use of their tracks.

ABC task

ABC task from Bianca Gotts on Vimeo.

My ABC task was made on Premier, I managed to handle this task fairly quickly, I went out of class and recorded all of my footage and managed to edit it and finish it in the same lesson. I edited quite a lot of the song so there was no introduction music and no music after the alphabet had finished.
Some problems with this occurred in some of my clips not being quite clear enough, another issue was where the song speeds up the audience may not be able to process the image they see with the letter given, for example the letters L through to P are only very short clips. Another problem I had was with the letter D, the door wouldn't rotate and save, I have no solved this problem though and so it shouldn't appear like this in any of my other projects.

Cutting to time task

Cutting to time task. from Bianca Gotts on Vimeo.

This is the cutting to time task in which i had to film clips and edit them to conform with the song, parts I think work really well are 0:22 where the walking of the boys speeds up in time with the music, 0:26 the bicycle riding along at the same time as the bells, and all of the screams following from 0:43, and the clip of the bicycle on the crossing at 0:58 where the music slows down.
I think this is one of my better pieces of work because it all flows fairly well and there is a clear understanding of what is going on.

Youth subculture

Youth Subculture on Prezi
Brief prezi about my chosen band for my music video.

Looking at editing in music videos and film trailers.

The editing techniques used in this trailer foreshadow the events which will take place in the film, a lot of the clips are reversed and we see from text that that's the concept of the film, 'going back in time'. The non-diegetic sound is a good representation of what is to come and what we should expect when we watch the film.




The video cuts from the studio version for a radio station to a series of shots taken in a car, it looks as though it's been filmed on a handicam the band are effectively mimicking the song and drumming actions.
They then exit the car and it changes to a woman driving, then the camera man and woman exit the car and we see the band have a set up and they're playing to the rear of the car, the whole thing is filmed with a black and white filter.

Analysing three music videos.

The first video I have chosen is Nicki Minaj -Starships, I strongly dislike this video, simply because it really has nothing to do with the actual song, although the dancing and cuts go well with the song and it's not been badly edited i'm left baffled as to why there's a futuristic dance party on the set of Lost. One part of the editing  I do enjoy is the kaleidoscope effect of Nicki dancing at 2:04, this effect is one of the only parts which are at all alien like or could have anything to do with a Starship.
When Nicki moves to a hill top I think the fog/mist which is added to the background is a good effect in making the place look eerie but then again this really doesn't fit with the upbeat tempo of the song, nor the outfit which she is wearing. Around 2:50 there is a flicker of sky lights where there is good use of colouring to imitate some form of sunset, but i'm not really keen on the inverted colouring which follows, there's lots of neon paint and extra layers of dancers are added, giving you the effect of seeing double. The fake lava which spurts from behind Nicki Minaj is poorly edited and just adds to the tackiness of the whole video.



M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

My second video is M.I.A -Born Free, it depicts a genocide against red haired people. The videos portrayal of military force violence met a positive reception but caused controversy worldwide, it received a ban from Youtube in the US and UK With some critics praising the representation of oppression and others criticising the explicit material. I personally really enjoy the narrative of this video, because even though we are "born free" it's questionable how much freedom we have to be ourselves, I think this video is a good representation of a lot of the things which are taking place in the world which are being overlooked. Although this video is rather gruesome I find the whole idea of it rather fascinating. I also really enjoy Romain Gavras' work on M.I.A's song 'Bad Girls' a lot of M.I.A's music has a very political unheard voice to it.



My third video by Bombay Bicycle Club is quite different, when I first watched this I wondered if my computer was failing, but it's just the impression that the video gives off, in a way i'd say this video blurs the line between what's reality and what's not, but I think it's just because it makes you feel slightly uneasy. I have to say this is the only video without a narrative that i've ever been actually interested in watching, i'd say it's because there's quite a lot going on on the screen at the same time. And it's very dissimilar to normal music videos. I like that it's all continually lit the same, and the way they have short clips of random places people don't go often, looking fairly abandoned.

Music video analysis

I like 'The Suburbs' by Arcade Fire because the video tells a story, although the video is actually incredibly confusing you get a vague idea of what is happening, from watching this video it's made me incredibly interested in the short film 'Scenes from the Suburbs'.
I like the way it was filmed, there's a lot of tracking and I like the way it's based around a young boys memories of summer and the innocent fun he had. I like the shots of the houses especially because normally when a person is shown looking distant or deep in thought they look in to the sky, this is just different and i like that it's not so cliché.

You can watch 'Scenes From the Suburbs' on Vimeo here




There's a lot I like about Lana Del Rey's video for Born to Die, firstly i like that half of it is filmed with a filter which kind of distorts the image a little, I think this adds to the controlling relationship shown in the video effectively. As I am a fan of Lana Del Rey I like her clothes and make up used throughout, they're very different to what seems to be used in the majority of music videos, for example her make up is very 50's looking and a lot of her clothes are certainly not styled from this era.
I like the lighting used from 2:00-2:18, I find the whole of this section is very moving, it shows both sides of dark and light.