Prelim Task

Prelim Task


This is our prelim task, we was given a track called "Dancing in the Street" the David Bowie and Mick Jagger Version which is a remake of the original motown song by Martha and the Vandellas recorded in 1964.

Our task was to produce a video to understand the difficulties in lip syncing and personally for myself and matt to get a chance to practice with a green screen before our main task.

we used the green screen to give us the experience in lighting the screen correctly for editing, our first experience left us stuck in editing as a light spot effected the edit, but we now have the relevant experience and have learnt from mistakes which gives us the option of using a green screen in our main task.

Director Research

Director Research

Julien Christian Lutz

Julien Christian Lutz or better known to the public as director x is a Canadian music video director, born 1975 in Toronto, Ontario.

His trademark is tweaking the letterbox format; instead of just using black bars on the top and bottom of the frame to frame the image, many videos by X actually feature the bars opening vertically to reveal the video and closing vertically at the end, like a letter box.

Director X has been noted for his high-budget, visually distinctive music videos for popular music singles, including videos for R. Kelly, Usher, Kanye West, Nelly Furtado, Sean Paul, Justin Bieber, Drake and The Wanted. 

What Director X thinks.

Music videos give the most freedom to the director of all the motion picture arts. The director of left to work freely.they create the concept and see it through to the end. I take that freedom and run. I am very with art direction, lighting, wardrobe, makeup, hair, preproduction, and past production. I let my team work and guide the process. All the while correcting to my vision and pushing for excellence.

What i think

I think director x capures the mood of the songs he produces videos for very well, his videos are very up beat and everyone in the video looks to be enjoying the experiance which i feel is an important part of the video.

Here is an example of Director X’s work

Chasing the sun by the Wanted

Dennis White

Dennis White better known as Static Revenger,  is an American record producer, video director, and DJ based in Los Angeles. From an early start in dance music as the music director for the Detroit techno group, Inner City, he went on to form the marginally successful Detroit alternative dance rock band, Charm Farm, best known for the song "Superstar". As part of their range of idents from 1998 to 2002, the song "Happy People" was used on various idents for Sky One.

What i think

I think this director is good at capturing the mood of dance tracks as he was a dj and has had experiance with this genre of music, the videos he produces like for an angel dont have much relevece to the tack but he as made a feel good video which features the dj and gets the track out there to the customers. 

Here is an example of Dennis Whites work.

For an Angel by paul van dyk

Shot Count Analysis

Shot Count Analysis

Louder By DJ Fresh

Number of shots in 30 seconds – 21 shots

Number of close ups -2

Number of extreme close ups - 0

Number of long shots -10

Number of medium shots -7

Number of panning shots -3

Number of tilts - 0

Other shots – Panning shot -1

Track - Louder

Director - Ben Newman

Release date - 23^rd May 2011

Length of video - 3:00 minuets

Number of shots in the video - 136 shot in total

Average shot length - 0.7 seconds

Shot Number	Shot Type	Shot Length	Description	Edit to next shot
1	Panning Shot	4 Seconds	Sun rise shot	Strait Cut
2	Medium Shot	2 Seconds	Medium shot of rollerblader	Strait Cut
3	Long Shot	2 seconds	Rear View	Strait Cut
4	Long shot	0.5 seconds	Pigeons on bar	Strait Cut
5	Close up	3 Seconds	Roller blades	Strait Cut
6	Medium Shot	2 Seconds	Rollerblader	Strait Cut
7	Medium shot	1 second	Head/medium shot of rollerblader	Strait Cut
8	Medium Shot	3 seconds	Rear shot	Strait Cut
9	Long Shot	2 seconds	Both Roller bladders	Strait Cut
10	Medium Shot	2 seconds	2nd rollerblader	Strait Cut
11	Medium tracking shot	3 seconds	Following rollerblader 1 meeting rollerblader 2	Strait Cut
12	Long Shot	2 Seconds	Shows both roller blades in the distance	Strait Cut
13	Tracking Shot	1 Second	Tracking shot on palm trees	Strait Cut
14	Long Shot	3 Seconds	Showing both roller bladders	Strait Cut
15	Long shot	1 second	Tracking palm trees	Strait Cut
16	Close Up	2 Seconds	On roller blades	Strait Cut
17	LongShot	2 Seconds	From high looking over roller bladders	Strait Cut
18	Long Shot	2 seconds	Both roller bladders	Strait Cut
19	Medium Shot	1 second	Of one rollerblader	Strait Cut
20	Long Shot	1 Second	Palm trees	Strait Cut
21	Long Shot	3 seconds	One rollerblader going backward	Strait Cut