A2 Rush Subdivisions

A2 - Rush ‘Subdivisions’ School Montage from Luke Darling on Vimeo.

Task: Construct a music video that uses a montage of images that relate to the theme of school. Additionally, because the band is not available to be in the music video, clips of band performing in the original ‘Subdivisions’ music video must be used.

This task was more difficult than it seemed, as I couldn't 'hear' a montage song, but after I watched the original footage of the music video it gave me a clearer idea.  To begin we wrote down everything we could think of that reminded us of school. I had the usual things such as; desk, table, teacher, but I also had emotions such as boredom and stress. After this we were randomly choosing shot types out of a bag. We then had to write the shot type next to a related thought of school. From this we had our idea and then had to film it. We were all given a camera and had to go and film out thoughts.
Editing the footage didn't take too long as it was mainly syncing and very little effects. I tried to use a specific clip that related to the song e.g. when you see the CCTV camera the pitch drops, this is the represent the deep sounds as safety and security etc. There was lots of cutting involved which is what we were told to do for our music video.
This helped my editing skills and my syncing skills, it also helped me with using others footage and how to interpret a video.

Milli Vanilli Girl You Know its True Remake

Milli Vanilli Girl You Know its True Remake from Luke Darling on Vimeo.

The task was to recreate a Milli Vanilli music video in the next lesson. We soon learnt that this would be more difficult than we thought.
To begin we all had to story board 10 seconds of footage each, as we had to film the first 60 seconds of the original music video. After this we then had a rough idea of how we were going to film and where. We had a discussion and props and appropriate 'dress' to wear, and after that we had to film it the next lesson.
The next lesson we arranged to meet upstairs in the music block as that seemed the perfect place to film using the instruments and it was a place that looked most unlike a school. At this point we had our first problem. The music room had been double booked and we had to find another place to film. We then went to a music classroom and filmed there. The filming went well and we had a variety of shots similar to the original music video. However without a plan it all seemed a little 'relaxed' and we only filmed the first 40 seconds.
After finishing the filming our task was to edit it. The editing was going well and I finished it, then Sony Vegas decided to crash and loose my work. This was my second problem. I began to re-edit the video and it was quite easy second time round. I tried to use similar colours to the original video, e.g. using a white colour and certain points. I found the editing easy as it was primarily cuts and syncing.
This experience helped me expect the worst when filiming and expect problems and mishaps with anything.