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Project Log - 9th July

Since my last project log I've been working through my checklist. I have been trying to complete as many of the research tasks as I could, using the different softwares such as Prezi, video, text and powerpoint. I have struggled with the understanding of some of the tasks, but the ones I have a stronger understanding of, I have made to a high quality.

Throughout the rest of the summer, I plan to continue with this, and to make sure I am on top of all of the different areas which I need to research and plan into so that my video is ready to be shot when I return back to school. If I can do this successfully, I will save myself a lot of time, and can use my time more efficiently to get my work to the standard I want it to be.

Project log - 6th July

Over the Summer holidays I have made plans to be able to get into contact with my actress in my music video, and go through my initial plans and how I want my video to be produced. My expectations and my visions for my video will also be highlighted so that we both have the same idea of how the video will end up to be successful. As I cannot start to film, due to holidays clashing etc, I plan to clearly set out all of my ideas so that when I get back to school, I can start off from where I left off and not cause any confusion for myself.

Project log - 3rd July

Conventions of a music video

History or music video

Music video isn’t that new, in fact they’ve been around since before films could have sound. Some performers would project images onto a screen as they played live, these images would then reflect the themes and emotions of the music played. The earliest versions of what we think of as the music video were to come in the 1920s with the Vitaphone shorts and Spooney Melodies. From the 1930s to the early 1960s Musicals were one of the dominant genres in film and many set pieces were extracted to promote the films.

In 1894, sheet music publishers Edward B. Marks and Joe Stern hired electrician George Thomas and various performers to promote sales of their song "The Little Lost Child". Using a magic lantern, Thomas projected a series of still images on a screen simultaneous to live performances. This would become a popular form of entertainment known as the illustrated song, the first step toward music video.

The development of different music videos over the years is mainly due to the new technologies and money which is available. For example, Marilyn Monroe's music video for 'I wanna be loved by you'.

This video is a perfect example of how the new uses of technologies have been used in order to improve the look and success of music videos. In previous years the outcome of music videos havent been as powerful as ones that are more current as they havent got the different services and technologies to impact on the overall outcome of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eDHlgnRuaM

Project log - 2nd July

In our previous lesson, we presented our presentations in the style of Dragons Den. We basically had to pitch the different ideas which we had to do with our music video's to our teacher and the rest of the class. The presentation had to include the shots which you thought were effective in the chosen music videos of examples, and the two songs which mainly followed the conventions of the chosen genre. This presentation was filmed for each of us, allowing us to cut up the footage and put it onto our blogs to show the steps of improvement and feedback we have gotten from others who could be potential viewers.