Hello, Welcome. I hope you're having a good day.
Today, November 14th, marks the first day of the new project. We're going from the commercial to a music video. A quick summary of the commercial, It was pretty good. I filmed, edited and wrote about every thing myself, which was a nice challenge. You know, we got through it. I really hope this process will go better than the process of the commercial. I'm going into this project with two ideas and zero motivation.
The song I'm using for this project, is The Thrash Particle by Modern Baseball. Honestly, just choosing the song was a big challenge. I had maybe two songs in my head, then every couple minutes I'd say to myself, but that song would work too.. Pure chaos, I know. I picked this song because one, it's my favorite Modern Baseball songs, and two, because I felt it would be easier to film then the other song options I had. I'm quote, "good at looking sad" so that's a plus. Modern Baseball's genre includes many things, such as Emo, Indie rock, Pop punk, and Folk rock. A lot of their songs talk about falling in and out of love, friends, and mental health. Now to name the genre conventions. 1. Costumes in these genres include almost any clothing you could wear, as obvious as it sounds. In Modern Baseball music videos, the people wear just normal clothing, or that one where he is dressed up as a vampire. Other bands in those genres do this too, Such as Mom jeans (iconic), Sorority Noise, and The Front Bottoms. 2. Lighting in these genres usually are darker than other videos. Honestly, I can only guess why, Probably so that their songs seem more sad or dramatic than it actually is. 3. Acting, In this genre, the acting usually consists of awkward dancing, lip syncing(?), being weird with friends, or a live performance of the song. 4.Makeup. Makeup depends on the costume, yes, but there are other reasons why you would use makeup. Such as, covering up things on the face (zits, scars, etc), To make yourself look younger, or if you're like Brendan Lukens, dress up as a vampire and wear black lipstick for it. 5. Props. Props in this genre, could include things like alcohol, Musical instruments, (guitars, drums, microphones, etc), Party games, etc. 6.Setting. Setting can go with acting as well. in this genre, the setting is usually based inside a house, at a venue, or in a place like a backyard or a park.
There are many camera angles, shots, and movements used in music videos of this genre. First, The most common camera angles are close ups, and extreme close ups. These are used to show the person whose singing's lips moving. The most common shots in music videos of this genre are, long shots, and mid shots. A long shot to show whoever wherever they are, whether the place is relevant or not to the song. A mid shot, to show the person and the back round, but could also be used to show the person lip syncing. Common Movements are Dolly's, And Pans. Dollys are in this genre to smoothly/gradually go from showing someone's face to their body and the thongs around them. Pans are used to do almost the same, but usually they use pans to show going back or forward in time, or something else happening in another room. Think of it, in many music videos for example, they show the band, then they use the pan movement to show another room, maybe of a group of people dancing/a party or a scene where someone just woke up. Common sounds in this genre would include, (obviously) the song, you know, the guitars, drums, the vocalist.
In this music video, I honestly have almost no idea of what to do. I have one, but if I can't have people come and act in the video, then this is going to be interesting, but not in a good way. It's either, a friend of mine comes over and we film, I film by myself, or i walk around with a camera and the video mean nothing to the song.
That was a long one, sorry not sorry, I guess. Have a good day.
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