Happy Music Video Practice

Hello again,

So as a preliminary task we had to group together and replicate a section of the 'Happy' music video which can be found here:

Our group, which was made up of Alex & Amy from my year 12 project, were tasked with the segment that started at 1:00 and ended at 1:30. First we created a storyboard, which included a variety of shots, as the original music video does. As the original had a sort of random feel to its characters and scenes, we felt that having our shots in peculiar places would help replicate the 'randomness' the original video creates.

These shots compromised of scenes from the library, the toilet, the field and several others. They were so various as like I said before, we wanted to replicated the diverse range of settings that the original video incorporates. Like in our final year 12 project, there are some things that are likely to change with inpisration in the day of filming and adaptations that we may be forced to make. In our music video segment, we did change one or two shots, but many of the shots seen here made it into the final 30 seconds which you'll see in a later post.

 

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Blind Music Video Task

Hey,

So as a warm-up task were given roughly, the first 30 seconds of George Michael's "A Different Corner" without the music video. Our task was to come up with some characters and setting for what we thought would fit the lyrics best.

I had chosen a space setting, with a woman from Earth looking out towards the sky. the camera follows to the sky all the way out the space. We find a man in a space station, looking back down to Earth. Who starts singing the lyrics.

I chose space as the setting as I felt the soft slow towards the beginning of the song was reminiscent of space. Then the exchange in the lyrics felt like it was between a man towards his lover. Therefore the woman on earth is his girlfriend/wife who he dearly misses.

Here's the original song with music video:

Introduction

Hello!


I am back and raring to go. Just thought I'd open up with a short introduction - hello again, I'm Dan. After the success of year 12 Media Studies I hope to continue studying in the subject as I have found the past year very interesting.


I hope I can maintain a positive attitude and continue to work my hardest throughout this next year. Our final project was great, but let's make this year's even greater!