Wednesday, 11 May 2011
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Friday, 25 March 2011
Making Of Short
When we shot the video we also took some "behind the scenes" footage to show how the video was made. It's also a good promotional tool as a "sneak preview" of the video as well as allowing fans to see the band as themselves. I can use it in the digipak too as a "making of" short.
Friday, 21 January 2011
Proposal
I will be working alone to produce a music video for Blind Tiger's "We Got the Fire" (http://www.myspace.com/blindtigerband). The music video will feature only the band performing their song in front of a white backdrop and green screen. I will then layer brushes, graphics and text over, under and with the band to create a very visual video in the style of PR Brown who has greatly influenced me with his work on Sixx: A.M's "Life is Beautiful". I will be using a black, white and red colour scheme which is in keeping with their band logo.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Music Video Director
PR Brown
PR Brown is a photographer, director and graphic designer and has directed many music videos covering many genres, but mainly rock. His recent work includes Murderdolls' "My Dark Place Alone" and Stone Sour's "Say You'll Haunt Me". His style is extremely individualistic and arty incoporating the use of graphics in his work. A lot of it is underground videos only featuring on very specific music channels but he has also done more commercial work such as the latest Bond Theme for Jack White and Alicia Keys in which he used the iconic Bond image to advertise the film and then manipulating it for his own use.
A common technique he uses is green screens:
Jack White and Alicia Keys
Murderdolls
Prince
Audioslave
These are all completely green screen without the use of any other setting. However, another one of my favourite techniques he has used was in Stone Sour's "Say You'll Haunt Me". There is a running narrative in the video which follows the theme of the song. In one section he places the various band members standing around in black suits, guarding the vocalist who is forced to sit in a chair. Over them is projected the band members playing their instruments in grainy flickering film.
His style of dark settings, graphics and green screen is very unique in music videos.
There is some deviation from this norm in videos such as John Mayer's "Half My Heart" which follows a strong narrative with no special effects and Slipknot's "Sulfur" which is mainly the band playing with some artistic camera shots. However, they still follow a fairly dark theme with the music and masks of Slipknot themselves creating an atmosphere whereas "Half My Heart" is set in a dingy bar and a church with dull colours and a generally grey colour scheme including the singer's skin which is very pallid and white.
Even the videos he has created using only the band playing live have his own unique talent incorporated. He mixes backstage footage and live footage to create a sense of the band and who they are which usually amounts to something fun and frisky, whether using effects in Motley Crue's "Sick Love Song" or just documenting the Sixx A.M: project with dates and places of their shows in "Tomorrow".
PR Brown is a photographer, director and graphic designer and has directed many music videos covering many genres, but mainly rock. His recent work includes Murderdolls' "My Dark Place Alone" and Stone Sour's "Say You'll Haunt Me". His style is extremely individualistic and arty incoporating the use of graphics in his work. A lot of it is underground videos only featuring on very specific music channels but he has also done more commercial work such as the latest Bond Theme for Jack White and Alicia Keys in which he used the iconic Bond image to advertise the film and then manipulating it for his own use.
A common technique he uses is green screens:
Jack White and Alicia Keys 
Murderdolls 
Prince 
AudioslaveThese are all completely green screen without the use of any other setting. However, another one of my favourite techniques he has used was in Stone Sour's "Say You'll Haunt Me". There is a running narrative in the video which follows the theme of the song. In one section he places the various band members standing around in black suits, guarding the vocalist who is forced to sit in a chair. Over them is projected the band members playing their instruments in grainy flickering film.
His style of dark settings, graphics and green screen is very unique in music videos.
There is some deviation from this norm in videos such as John Mayer's "Half My Heart" which follows a strong narrative with no special effects and Slipknot's "Sulfur" which is mainly the band playing with some artistic camera shots. However, they still follow a fairly dark theme with the music and masks of Slipknot themselves creating an atmosphere whereas "Half My Heart" is set in a dingy bar and a church with dull colours and a generally grey colour scheme including the singer's skin which is very pallid and white.
Even the videos he has created using only the band playing live have his own unique talent incorporated. He mixes backstage footage and live footage to create a sense of the band and who they are which usually amounts to something fun and frisky, whether using effects in Motley Crue's "Sick Love Song" or just documenting the Sixx A.M: project with dates and places of their shows in "Tomorrow".
Music Video Analysis - "One" Metallica
"One" - Metallica
This is heavy rock band, Metallica's "One". The song is based on the anti-war book "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. The video is simply footage of the band playing in a warehouse featuring typical rockband close-ups and low angle shots interspersed and layered with clips, including audio, from the movie.
This forms strong links between the audio and visuals and is very iconic of a heavy metal band. There are also a lot of close-ups of their hands playing their instruments which is usual for this type of music video. It follows a lot of the forms and conventions of a video of its type with the added movie clips included to give the song its full meaning.
The movie clips are sometimes colour and sometimes in black and white when focusing on the man in the hospital bed. To compliment this the band playing are also filmed in black and white to tie it all nicely together.
This is heavy rock band, Metallica's "One". The song is based on the anti-war book "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. The video is simply footage of the band playing in a warehouse featuring typical rockband close-ups and low angle shots interspersed and layered with clips, including audio, from the movie.
This forms strong links between the audio and visuals and is very iconic of a heavy metal band. There are also a lot of close-ups of their hands playing their instruments which is usual for this type of music video. It follows a lot of the forms and conventions of a video of its type with the added movie clips included to give the song its full meaning.
The movie clips are sometimes colour and sometimes in black and white when focusing on the man in the hospital bed. To compliment this the band playing are also filmed in black and white to tie it all nicely together.
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