Tuesday 30 December 2014

AP: Bad Romance Second Life: Cyberspace Impact





Somme Publishing - Women's Sufferage




Horrible Histories - French Revolution

Monday 15 December 2014

Podcast 11

In our 11th podcast, we talk about the outcome of our most recent filming sessions and discuss some of our issues we have

You can listen to it here:


This shall be our last update before christmas, look forward to our updates continuing in the new year!

Sunday 14 December 2014

Summary of Week 8/12

This Week has been so hectic!

We'll be talking about it all in Podcast 11, but long story short, we had some successes and some failures!

Our first session, we filmed at Mrs Pianforini's store. This worked well and we think that the shots are incredibly good, good enough to be involved in the final cut!

However, Charlie unfortunately could not be in Friday, when we were filming her sections of the home scenes, this has caused us to hit a huge block, and we are desperately reorganizing these shoots to compensate for this problem.

Our filming, yesterday, went well, and we are particularly happy with the shots, especially with my Cameo!

Hopefully we can edit these in tomorrow and it will become the product we want.

Friday 12 December 2014

Performance Idea #1 (Update)

Having talked to the year 10s, we have decided to swap the idea, to make it feel more Gaga.

Now, we intend on having 3 sections of gaga
  1. The Leader Gaga (LG), this will be the gaga sat in a chair, somewhat like the pimp in the original video. Where the original presented a make ruled world, we intend to subvert this message and present gaga as being the one in control of her actions. LG will sit on her throne, over looking the other gagas. In order to make it easier to film, we shall be using 3 different shots for this, a CU, a MLS HA and a MLS MA. This will mean that we can have 2 tripods set up to film her and her minion people, as well as having a CU to cut to if we want

  2. The Minion Gaga (MG), this will be a group of 5 gagas sat around LGs throne. Some shots will be done as LG then MGs straight after in order to keep the angles the same. However, others will be CUs of the MGs

  3. The 3rd group are the Newspaper Dancing Gagas (DG), there will be around 5 of them, but with scope to include more if needed, these will be singing and dancing to LG.
The costume the DGs will wear can be seen in the images in this powerpoint:


With the wings being worn either by LG or by DG


Upon considering this idea over night, I think having the wings worn by LG would be best, with the large dress worn by either the MGs (most likely) or DGs. The other would 

Moor's Filming

Today we planned to film on the moors, but the weather is horrible!

This means we will either have to rethink the Moors idea or reschedule the shoot.

We have also heard that Charlie is not in today, we're not sure why, but hopefully she will be able to make it to Amber's house in order to film her fighting with Brodie!

Wednesday 10 December 2014

Filming at Mrs Pianforini's

We're very happy with the session we just completed, the shots look good and we made sure to get a superflous amount with multiple angles, to ensure we have what we need in order to edit together a good looking scene.

One thing we did note however, was that Gaga may have the wrong hairstyle when leaving.

Charlie has black hair and when leaving, Gaga has blonde! We're hoping people might think she will go to a salon, as she appears later with the black hair, but this may be relying too much on the audience reading.

Tuesday 9 December 2014

AP: Inspirational Videos From Other Schools





















































Performance Idea #1

We want to have a performance done in a completely white room, somewhat similar to the main video.

The current plan is to use dresses from the Creative Arts Evening that the year 10s made, perhaps dressing the year 10s up in the dresses, and then filming everyone on a green screen in order to pose them and synchronise the dancing.

The White Room

The dresses can be seen in this section of the Creative Arts Evening video:


Monday 8 December 2014

Podcast 10

In this new and exciting podcast, we talk about the success that was Creative Arts Evening, where we created #GlobalGaga!

You can listen to it here:


If you want to watch the #GlobalGaga video, you can watch it here:

Friday 5 December 2014

#GlobalGaga

Filmed entirely on Creative Arts Evening, here is the finished #GlobalGaga video!



Containing some teachers you might recognise including Mr Clarke, Mr Burrowes and even Mr Rignall! If you watch 'till the very end you'll even see some Behind the Scenes footage.

Wednesday 3 December 2014

Video list for Creative Arts Evening

These are all the videos we plan on having played while we run our session.

Lyrics:


Greenscreen, Amber:


Greenscreen, Conal:


IGS Media Movie Trailer:


IGS Media Movie; Queens, Kittens and QR Codes:


Past Example Remix:


Monday 1 December 2014

Podcast 9

This is the 9th podcast for our production. In this podcast we talk about the preparation we are doing for Creative arts evening!

You can listen to it here:

Monday 24 November 2014

Podcast 8

This is the 8th podcast we have to update you on all our fantastic progress!

Friday 21 November 2014

Gaga EG 5 - Just Dance



About the Video
Directed by: Melina Matsoukas

Track: Just Dance
Genre: Dance-Pop

Lyrics

Summary
This video focuses on gaga and her visit to a party. she arrives in a limousine, and starts music playing on a boom box.

Costumes
Costumes were my main concern for this video, I felt like lady gaga would average around 10 costumes a video and, based on research up to this point, the average is 10, but I feel like this may be slightly inflated by GUY - An ARTPOP Film.

The video features the following costumes:
A Black Wig/Suitish outfit

Pink Jacket

Zebra

High Key outfit

Dungaree outfit

Swimming pool outfits

So, as you can see, the number of outfits here is significantly lower, just 6. This may be because Gaga was not as well known when this was produced and so she may not have had as big a budget behind her.

This brings the average to 8 outfits, well within what we can do, however, I believe we should add one outfit to this total, in order to compensate for the above point.




Making a Google Calendar



I made a google calendar to use as a production schedule, and this is a video explaining how i made it.

The example google calendar can be found here: (has been halved in size)


And our Production schedule can be found here:

Copyright Request

In order use the track 'Bad Romance', we needed to request the use of the track. We did so by emailing Universal Music Publishing Group, The email is below:
Our Email requesting use of the track.

Hello, We are A2 Media Studies students at Ilkley Grammar School. We are working on a music video for Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" for our coursework assignment. This is for the purposes of our coursework, not for any commercial use or gain. We would like your permission to use the audio track for "Bad Romance". We will upload rough and final cuts of our video to YouTube, always acknowledging the third party copyright ownership that YouTube generates. We'd be delighted to discuss the concept we have for this video if you are interested, or to simply answer any further questions you might have. You can also address any queries to Mr Burrowes, Head of Media Studies at the school, whose email is david.burrowes@ilkleygs.ngfl.ac.uk. The coursework itself is the production of a digipak, magazine advert and a music video for Lady Gaga.  Many thanks, Conal Walsh (cw136902@ilkleygrammarschool.com)Amber Pianforini (pa075401@ilkleygrammarschool.com) You can find a blog showcasing our work at amvid.blogspot.com Ilkley Grammar School, Ilkley LS29 8TR.
Their response is below:
UMPGs response
We were very pleased by the positivity shown in this email. And we shall be seeking further contact with Sony/ATV.

Thursday 20 November 2014

Pre Production Vodcast



Our vodcast on pre production and our influences

Audience and Technology Vodcast



This is the vodcast on audience and technologies, and how we have used technologies to help with our audience research

Wednesday 19 November 2014

Bad Romance - Recording Studio Test Footage



We edited together the filming we did in the recording studio, and we're pretty happy with how it turned out, obviously a lot of the song has not been edited and there are a few points where we could do with more footage to insert, but for now, we are very happy with it. We will be using this to get some feedback on how charlie performed as Gaga.

Gaga EG 4 - Paparazzi


About the Video
Directed by: Jonas Ã…kerlund

Track: Paparazzi
Genre: Dance-Pop

Lyrics

Summary
Jonas Ã…kerlund presents a very filmic video, taking heavy inspiration from classic french silent films, particularly in the style of the titles. This video presents a clear storyline, though is something of a concept video, as the story bears little resemblance to the lyrics

Video Synopsis
The video starts with various artistic shots of a seaside mansion, which leads to gaga and her boyfriend, kissing in bed. They head outside, and kiss on a balcony, there are shots that look to be from a camera, and gaga is pushed from the balcony and is shown falling on a spinning spiral background. there are multiple photographers around her when she has fallen, we then see gaga getting out of a car, she is wearing a costume with what looks like a neck brace on it. she is lifted into a wheelchair and then starts to change clothes. She changes into a gold robotic costumes, and gets up with the help of crutches. the next verse focuses on gaga cavorting on a sofa while singing the song, this is interspersed with images of dead women. She then enters a room with various similarly dressed dancers and dances through this chorus with them. The bridge is made up of shots of gaga in an elevator with flashing lights and one of her great danes. She is back with her boyfriend and starts preparing drinks, putting poison in his. He dies and she calls the police. The final part of the video shows gaga, still hounded by photographers being escorted away by police.

Costumes
A total of 9 costumes from Gaga in this video. Which appears to be just above average for her.
Costume number 1

Neck brace costume

Metropolis costume

Sofa costume

Cirque du soleil

Elevator costume

Micky-Mouse Costume

Arrested costume

Jail costume


Intertextuality
I personally, immediately felt the titles were references to silent films it felt, to me, that it was specifically french silent films, even though i had not seen any film with titles like it.
There are a few intertextualreferences that I did not notice, but were drawn to my attention through my research.
these include a reference to vertigo, a classic by Alfred Hitchcock, with the spirals and the way in which gaga falls and is rushed to.
There is also a reference to Metropolis, in the metal outfit.