Themes

We studied the song and themes which could be linked in with it to try and fuel some ideas for our video.

We've listened to the sound of the song and how the emotion fluxes with the tone, it follows a narrative, rising from a calmness, to stress and an extremely emotive sound, and then slows again. Considering this progression in the song, we thought we could follow it with our music video. We just have to make sure that we don't make the video too much like a short film, rather than a music video.

To make sure we do this, we need to create a flow in sync with the music, as is common with music videos. Otherwise, it will not work.

Potential Issues

There are a few issues which we could potentially encounter, hopefully considering them now could help avoid them, although some are inevitable. One issue, for example, is the magnitude of the band Pink Floyd, and the copyright problems we could encounter. We will have to make sure appropriate efforts are made to contact them. Another problem is in the video itself, and ensuring that the visual story follows the music. The song does not have lyrics, and the emotion is put across through the sound itself, there is a womans voice providing an emotive shout/sing but with no lyrics. This gives us a lot of freedom as we are not bound by the lyrical narrative, however, we have to make sure that the video follows the emotion of the song at the right times and to the right levels.

Song

Song Choice

After a lot of discussion we finally made a descision on which song to make a video to. Seeing as we wanted to have psychedelic influence in the video we made, we decided to do the song 'Great Gig in the Sky' by Pink Floyd. This song has a powerful sound and has sufficient psychedelic features in the song, this means we will be able to include the intricate cinematography which we originally wanted to, as it fits in with the genre. There is not currently a music video which accompanies the song, therefore it will be relatively easy to avoid any preconceptions people may have when they listen to the song. I'm looking forward to seeing the finished piece.

The start

I am Edward Chambers and this is my A2 media blog. This will be following the creative process which my group (Tom and Alec) will take in making a music video. We've had a few ideas on what to do but aren't fully decided. We are currently discussing what to do for the music video, we are planning on doing something with psychedelic influence, this'll mean we can introduce some interesting camera angles and shots.