Rough Cuts & Grades

Rough cuts for all music videos will be due on Tuesday April 14, 2009.
Up to this point, music videos must include at least two of the following:

+ Original music
+ Green Screening
+ Animation
+ Original Footage

If you are shooting footage for your video all footage must be shot by Tuesday, April 14.

Storyboarding the music video

This is where it all begins. The first step is to understand what you are trying to communicate and what your intended message is. If you don't understand your message, no one will. Creating a script or storyboard will help ensure that you and your audience understands your intent.(http://www.sotherden.com/video101/storyboard.htm)

Why storyboard?

Who are storyboard artist?




Another video tutorial: Expert Village

Example Music Video Storyboards:
Midlake: Young Bride (Video)
Midlake: Young Bride ( Storyboard)

Step 1
Have your lyrics of the song to understand what is being said.
Step2
Listen to the music to determine the tempo, beats and rhythm.
Step3
Sketch a scene on the storyboard according to a change in the music.
Step4
Review the storyboard with the music to ensure the visuals and music relay the intended message.
Step5
Draw arrows from one scene to the next and write the type of transition you will use between each scene.
Step6
Present the storyboard to a third party for feedback

THE PITCH

History of Music Videos: Part II 1910s-1950's

Max Fleischer's sing-along short cartoons Screen Songs, invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by "following the bouncing ball".
TWILIGHT ON THE TRAIL (1937)

Walt Disney: Silly Symphonies:
" THE SKELETON DANCE"
Animations were built around music

The Warner Brothers cartoons were made to feature specific songs from upcoming Warner Films. They are today still called Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies.
LOONEY TUNES: CONGO JAZZ

Another early form of music video were one-song films called "Promotional Clips" made in the 1940s for the Panoram visual jukebox. These were short films of musical selections, usually just a band on a movie-set bandstand, made for playing. Thousands of soundies were made, mostly of jazz musicians, but also of "torch singers," comedians, and dancers (wikipedia: music video).
SOUNDIES CHIQUITA BANANA SONG 1940s

History of Music Videos: Part I

Early History:
First films ever made by Lumiere brothers were set to music:
Lumiere Films

Initially all film was set to music, silent films were accompanied by either live or pre-recorded music and audience members read text on the screen:

Charlie Chaplin: Table Ballet
Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times

But the art of "music video" evolved with these early pioneers:

Russian Dziga Vertov Man With a Movie Camera

Oskar Fischinger Animations ( "visual music"), Fischinger also made short animated films to advertise Electrola Records' new release

Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, used extended scenes of battles choreographed to a score that had already been composed before shooting began, so that the scene could be edited in accordance with the music (wikipedia: music video).

Making the Music Video Time Line: March 9-13

March 9: All songs due. History of Music Video. Overview of some film terminology, discussion of applied terminology regarding sample music videos.
March 10: History. Review of terminology. Intro into storyboarding & pitching
March 12: History. Continued work on storyboarding & Pitching
March 13: History. Storyboard & Pitch due, along with final version of song.
Grade breakdown:
Final Song: 60%
Pitch & Storyboard: 40%

Making the video #1

So far, what has been the most difficult part of this process of making an original song?
Do you think your song has been developed enough? Why or why not?

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