Storyboards for Don't video

Why have I chose the genre Alternative?

I have chosen the genre Alternative Indie Rock because it allows me to explore a wide variety of artists within the genre. It includes a lot of different genres within it such as indie, rock, dance ect. and I feel it is a solid base to begin and focus on. It also gives a much easier choice of what song my final piece includes.

Relevant Genre Studies

Here I have made a introduction to my task on word and copied it into my blog post...

Challenging the style of The Neighbourhood

I went out and videoed a clip of a song called 'Sweater Weather'. Here are some screenshots of how I tried to use the style of their video.

At the beginning a title comes up with simple black text and a white background and I particularly took a liking to this so I included it in my video.

The lead singer fiddles with his hair in a shot and I un-intentionally filmed a shot extremely similar so I added it into the video.

As you can see I took inspiration in the white cinematic border for a nice effect that I really like and thought complimented the black and white effect on the video which was also taken from

the original video. I used close ups of the lead singer as they appeared in The Neighbourhoods video.

Ideas

I have juggled about with many different ideas for some time on what genre and kind of music video I really want to create. I have found great difficulty in this as I have a love for so many different genres and artists in the music industry and have a particular liking for many various styles of music video, such a following a story line ect. or simply creating a random video with no actual relation to the song it is for. I have been watching so many different videos and picking out certain aspects that I find interesting and effective that I may be able to take inspiration from or directly use in my own work.

Rough edit of Sweater Weather

Here is my rough edit of my preliminary task of filming to music. I have tried out different effects to make it similar to the artist and there videos that inspired me. Matching the actors miming to the song was easy in some parts but others were more difficult and I have struggled. This is particularly badly in sync at the beginning. I have even tried slowing and speeding up the pace of the certain clip to match but still it was hard. This is something that I need to improve and practice doing for my next task.


Sweater Weather from Charlotte Greaves on Vimeo.

Filming first task

Today I went shooting my task to film a short clip to music. I used my friend callum to star in it and I chose a song that suited both our preferences. I chose a song called 'Sweater Weather' by a band The Neighbourhood. Their style and genre is indie rock. I particularly liked their video for this song they did themselves. I liked the cinematic look to it and how it was edited to black and white with a white cinematic border. I decided to mimic the look of the lead singer a little with the choice of clothing and the use of sunglasses and the hairstyle. I filmed near the train lines near my housing estate and the back roads where there is fields etc. The idea was that it would be edited using different effects and filters to give it a certain look and make it appear effective. I filmed certain parts with the actor miming the words and other shots of him doing various stuff such as skating and shot parts of the sky and scenery. I imagined this to be edited to the beat and quick paced to run the footage smoothly together and match the miming parts to the lines of the song. I used the praktica camera to film but I was contemplating on using my iphone for the clearer quality on the camera, however my dog annoyingly knocked a glass of water over it so I was unable to use it for filming later on in the day and had to make use of the camera I had which turned out fine as I wasn't planning on using the sound from the camera and was playing a track over the top, and the image was rather good quality.