Music Video Research // The Use of Media Language in 'LCD Soundsystem-Daft Punk Is Playing At My House'

Before I continue to plan my music video proper (planning is already underway), I will have a little look at how generic conventions and media language are used, abused and explored in a real life media text.

LCD Soundsystem-'Daft Punk Is Playing At 

My House' (Director: Chris Cairns)

Music Video Planning // Completed Storyboard

Suede Storyboard by LarsosMedia

This is the completed storyboard I have produced for the music video I am making for the song 'Suede' by Vanilla as part of my A2 course. It has and will continue to be useful for my planning as it allows me to see exactly what kind of shots I am going to get, as well as any actors, locations, props etc. that I'll need to arrange for the shoot to be of highest quality. It also proves useful on set, removing the need to come up with shots on the spot, making the shoot more efficient, but also allowing you to put more thought into the shots themselves which improves greatly the overall quality of the video.

Extra-Curricular Work // World Service

As part of a recent project, I helped produce this short film, concerning the ways in which my home town of Norwich and the lives of its citizens are intrinsically linked with the rest of the world. This project was a smaller, personal project that arose from a participant in the BBC's World Service, where journalists from across the world spend a week with the BBC, and learn a little more about their style of journalism. One of the visiting journalists, a Jordanian man named Samer Sadoon had the basic idea for the film after hearing stories of Norwich's once mighty wool trade, which spanned the world, and was inspired to make the film. He spoke to me about his ideas and we came up with a plan of action. I shot the whole film, which was mainly shot in Norwich Cathedral, where the group was mainly based for the day. I got as many shots as I could, as aesthetically pleasing as I could and as relevant as I could. I feel that the shots were pretty good for the most part, although I was dissapointed with the instability of the shots. There was an issue with the stabiliser on the camera, meaning that many of the shots, had a shake that was either accentuated, or present when it shouldn't have been. Unfortunately, I was only with them fro one day, so was unable to get any more shots, or to edit or write the film, so these were done by other members of BBC Voices. Overall though I was impressed by the editors skill at managing to create a story with the shots I'd got that at least resembled the film Mr. Sadoon wanted to make.

Extra-Curricular Work // Introduction + BBC Voices

For the past 7-8 months, I have been working in BBC Voices, a local outreach division of BBC East, based in Norwich, itself a division of the World renowned BBC corporation. Whilst there, I have helped in the production of many films, taking part in the writing, directing, editing, shooting and distributing stages of their production. I will be posting the highlights of my continued work, quickly explaining the basic ideas and context surrounding them, how I have contributed to them and my thoughts and feelings on what I have created.