http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gte3BoXKwP0 Pocketful of Sunshine by Natasha Bedingfield. This video is 3:01 minutes long.
Music video starts out with a guy doing spray paint and a kid coloring at home while his parents are auguring. In the beginning the music video takes place in a corporate office setting. There are a few parts where they zoom up on the singer in the same outfit and setting singing the song. She jumps out of the office building with a parachute. When the singing is falling through the sky it looks fake. I think they could have made it a little bit more realistic. Between 50 and 52 seconds the singer changes outfit in the middle of the sky, but it doesn't actually show her changing outfits. After she lands on the roof a lot more people fall from the sky and land on the roof too. The extra people take off their parachute and start dancing. At 1:17 minutes the singer changes outfits again. They show the spray paint guy break through the wall on to the roof. The singer goes back and forth between multiple outfits. They show the little kid again covering his ears because his parents are arguing. The kid shows up on the rooftop with the singer and dancer. The singer starts floating up towards the sky in a giant pink flower. I'm not crazy about her dance moves in the flower. It ends with the singer in the flower looking down on the kid.
I really like the beginning of the story. I think a lot of people would feel the same way. That they want to get away from their office setting, work, or home, or go someplace else. I like how the singer opens up the office window and jumps out, but I wish her falling from the sky was more realistic. The timing of the song and the scenes went well together. I like the costuming of the singer, but I thought it was random that she changed her outfit in the middle of a piece. She went from professional to causal and fun outfit and that worked well with the song. Her acting was good in the beginning. I don't like music videos where the singers sing the whole time (you actually see them singing). I thought this music video had a good balance of singing parts and non singing parts. There is a part of the song where it says, "there's are only butterflies." When she sings that she releases a whole bunch of red butterflies, I like that part. There are some scenes where it matches the song's words, but the whole video isn't like that, which is good. I thought this was a pretty well done music video.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
Monday, November 18, 2013
Barbie Girl by Aqua
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A Barbie Girl by Aqua. This song is 3:22 minutes long. This is an iconic song (for most people).
I really like this music video. It fits with the song perfectly. I used to play with Barbies and Barbie houses, so the colors, props, clothing, car, and places fit well with the things that went with Barbie. This music video is supposed to be cheesy, fake, and playful.
The video starts out with their logo. The actual music starts at 8 seconds into the video. The first scene is "Ken" in a pink car waiting outside of "Barbie's" house, which is pink. Barbie, which is played my the woman singer is in her garden. The whole band is in the pink car driving towards the audience. At 17 seconds their logo pops up again in English and another language. The car scene is totally fake, but I think it is supposed to be that way. They introduce the characters one at a time. The camera zooms in on a member of the band and then their name pops up. They divide the scenes into three sections with three different outfits by the same character. It also has a pink border. At 48 seconds there is a video effect where water is bubbling and moving across the screen. At 1:16 minutes Barbie goes to give her dog water, which is a stuff animal and on the side of the pink water bowl says "Aqua." It shows the band's logo on the bowl is a discreet way. They also show their logo at the bottom of the pool. At 2:28 minutes starts the night party scene. All of the band members and some extra people are at Barbie's house. Towards the end Ken accidently pulls off Barbie's arm because they are all holding hands because they are making a train. You can hear a soft popping sound when her arm comes off. I think that's funny. Then Ken is moving her arm that he popped off and Barbie looks really sad that she doesn't have her other arm. It ends with Barbie and Ken kissing each other and then a pink heart surrounds the picture. It says "The End" in the same font as the rest of the titling. It is a silly, fun font and it has a white and black outline around the letters.
At 57 seconds they divide the screen again between Barbie and Ken and there is a pink phone cord that divides the two people. I like how they used a pink phone cord instead of just a pink line to divide the two people. All of the colors are bright and vibrant. There are a lot of different transitions. It looks like the transitions are from Microsoft PowerPoint. I wouldn't like those transitions in a typically music video, but I think it works okay for this one. This video is supposed to be fun and cheesy. I like the part where Ken is waiting for Barbie in the car and he is telling her to "come on Barbie let's go party" and Barbie is taking forever to go to the car. The facial expression on Ken is funny because he is getting annoyed and inpatient with Barbie.
There are some parts in the music video where they voices don't match up. I knew the people were lip syncing, but the editors could have matched up their voices better. I know almost everything is fake in this video, but it's supposed to be that way. It's a fun video to watch. There isn't much graphic design or good video editing shown in this piece. Not ever music video has to be "well-designed" and look realistic.
I really like this music video. It fits with the song perfectly. I used to play with Barbies and Barbie houses, so the colors, props, clothing, car, and places fit well with the things that went with Barbie. This music video is supposed to be cheesy, fake, and playful.
The video starts out with their logo. The actual music starts at 8 seconds into the video. The first scene is "Ken" in a pink car waiting outside of "Barbie's" house, which is pink. Barbie, which is played my the woman singer is in her garden. The whole band is in the pink car driving towards the audience. At 17 seconds their logo pops up again in English and another language. The car scene is totally fake, but I think it is supposed to be that way. They introduce the characters one at a time. The camera zooms in on a member of the band and then their name pops up. They divide the scenes into three sections with three different outfits by the same character. It also has a pink border. At 48 seconds there is a video effect where water is bubbling and moving across the screen. At 1:16 minutes Barbie goes to give her dog water, which is a stuff animal and on the side of the pink water bowl says "Aqua." It shows the band's logo on the bowl is a discreet way. They also show their logo at the bottom of the pool. At 2:28 minutes starts the night party scene. All of the band members and some extra people are at Barbie's house. Towards the end Ken accidently pulls off Barbie's arm because they are all holding hands because they are making a train. You can hear a soft popping sound when her arm comes off. I think that's funny. Then Ken is moving her arm that he popped off and Barbie looks really sad that she doesn't have her other arm. It ends with Barbie and Ken kissing each other and then a pink heart surrounds the picture. It says "The End" in the same font as the rest of the titling. It is a silly, fun font and it has a white and black outline around the letters.
At 57 seconds they divide the screen again between Barbie and Ken and there is a pink phone cord that divides the two people. I like how they used a pink phone cord instead of just a pink line to divide the two people. All of the colors are bright and vibrant. There are a lot of different transitions. It looks like the transitions are from Microsoft PowerPoint. I wouldn't like those transitions in a typically music video, but I think it works okay for this one. This video is supposed to be fun and cheesy. I like the part where Ken is waiting for Barbie in the car and he is telling her to "come on Barbie let's go party" and Barbie is taking forever to go to the car. The facial expression on Ken is funny because he is getting annoyed and inpatient with Barbie.
There are some parts in the music video where they voices don't match up. I knew the people were lip syncing, but the editors could have matched up their voices better. I know almost everything is fake in this video, but it's supposed to be that way. It's a fun video to watch. There isn't much graphic design or good video editing shown in this piece. Not ever music video has to be "well-designed" and look realistic.
Sunday, November 17, 2013
Upside Down (Bouncing Off the Ceiling) by A*Teens Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHbUuf1Ex7Y Upside Down (Bouncing Off the Ceiling) by A*Teens
I don't think many people have heard of The A*Teens. They were a Swedish pop group. The band was active from 1998-2004. They were an ABBA tribute band. This song came out in 2000.
This music video starts in a white room with blue poles. They show a zoomed in and zoomed out angle of each band member and the screen is asymmetrically divided between the two different pictures. They show the band members walking on the ceiling. They are all dressed in white. They show the band members in a different outfit in a more playful/bedroom room. The video flips from right side up to side ways to upside. This happens a lot during the video. The guys are in one car and the girls are in another car driving. Both people are singing their parts in the song (guy and girl part). They show all of the band members in white again walking down this hallway. The people slowly get closer to the screen and then it transitions to them walking in the same position, but with different clothes on. Around 2:18 minutes the one girl singer looks like she is floating towards the screen singing. I think that is a weird and awkward part. If she is going to be that close to the screen she shouldn't appear to be floating. There are a lot of extra people dancing around 2:24 minutes.
There are a lot of transitions and video effects through this piece including reflection, turning the video upside, flickering, dividing the screen, and flipping the screen. It is very annoying that the voices don't match at all with the people lip syncing in the video. I understand that this song is called "Upside Down," but that doesn't mean flip the screen upside or sideways every five seconds. This was one of my favorite songs when I was younger and that won't change, but the music video is not that good. I think there are some good concepts and parts, but I don't think it was executed well. I thought this video was amazing when I was a little kid, but not anymore. I do like the different zoomed in and zoomed out shots and the different angles of the people and the room. I thought the place was interesting too. The video quality was poor. It was blurry and fuzzy in some spots.
I don't think many people have heard of The A*Teens. They were a Swedish pop group. The band was active from 1998-2004. They were an ABBA tribute band. This song came out in 2000.
This music video starts in a white room with blue poles. They show a zoomed in and zoomed out angle of each band member and the screen is asymmetrically divided between the two different pictures. They show the band members walking on the ceiling. They are all dressed in white. They show the band members in a different outfit in a more playful/bedroom room. The video flips from right side up to side ways to upside. This happens a lot during the video. The guys are in one car and the girls are in another car driving. Both people are singing their parts in the song (guy and girl part). They show all of the band members in white again walking down this hallway. The people slowly get closer to the screen and then it transitions to them walking in the same position, but with different clothes on. Around 2:18 minutes the one girl singer looks like she is floating towards the screen singing. I think that is a weird and awkward part. If she is going to be that close to the screen she shouldn't appear to be floating. There are a lot of extra people dancing around 2:24 minutes.
There are a lot of transitions and video effects through this piece including reflection, turning the video upside, flickering, dividing the screen, and flipping the screen. It is very annoying that the voices don't match at all with the people lip syncing in the video. I understand that this song is called "Upside Down," but that doesn't mean flip the screen upside or sideways every five seconds. This was one of my favorite songs when I was younger and that won't change, but the music video is not that good. I think there are some good concepts and parts, but I don't think it was executed well. I thought this video was amazing when I was a little kid, but not anymore. I do like the different zoomed in and zoomed out shots and the different angles of the people and the room. I thought the place was interesting too. The video quality was poor. It was blurry and fuzzy in some spots.
Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0 Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters. This music video is 4: 36 minutes long.
This is a very funny music video. I have listen to this song many times and I have never seen the music video. Jack Black is in this music video. The band members play themselves as well as other roles including woman roles (all of the band members are guys).
I like that there is a introduction before the music video starts. The characters are really funny. The costume of each character makes it believable. It takes place on an airplane.
This music video didn't have any of the band members singing in it expect for when the passengers were watching a concert on the t.v.'s above the seat. I like when the "girl" taps on one of the band members shoulder while he is sleeping so she could get his autograph. The flight attendants are serving everybody coffee, but the coffee is actually "World Domination Erotic Sleeping Powder." They also show a few scenes outside of the airplane where the airplane is taking off. Some of the people are talking in the music video, but you can't hear them. The "coffee" is effective people and everybody is acting weird and crazy. The pilots are having a hard time flying the plane because the coffee made them not think straight and have hallucinations. The plane loses control and the pilots can't fly the plane anymore, so the band members step in. While the band members are trying to figure out how to land the plane the woman flight attended pulls out a instruction manual that says "Learn to Fly." That's the name of the song. I think that's a clever way to put the title of the song into the music video without it being that noticeable. The band members successfully land the plane and the people who put drugs in the coffee got arrested. Towards the end they had scenes from a Foo Fighter concert singing the song. I don't know if I like the music video going back and forth between the airplane and the concert. They only do it a few times, so it doesn't bother me that much.
This was a interesting and creative music video. It told a story in less than 5 minutes. I like how 90% of the music video was the story and not people actually singing the song in a music video. The actors and the costumes made this video come to life. I also like how they slipped the title of the song into the video by using a manual, I thought that was clever. I didn't notice that the first time, but I did the second time. The scenes flowed nicely together expect for the real concert scenes. I liked out they made the concert look like it was on the t.v. screen on the airplane.
This is a very funny music video. I have listen to this song many times and I have never seen the music video. Jack Black is in this music video. The band members play themselves as well as other roles including woman roles (all of the band members are guys).
I like that there is a introduction before the music video starts. The characters are really funny. The costume of each character makes it believable. It takes place on an airplane.
This music video didn't have any of the band members singing in it expect for when the passengers were watching a concert on the t.v.'s above the seat. I like when the "girl" taps on one of the band members shoulder while he is sleeping so she could get his autograph. The flight attendants are serving everybody coffee, but the coffee is actually "World Domination Erotic Sleeping Powder." They also show a few scenes outside of the airplane where the airplane is taking off. Some of the people are talking in the music video, but you can't hear them. The "coffee" is effective people and everybody is acting weird and crazy. The pilots are having a hard time flying the plane because the coffee made them not think straight and have hallucinations. The plane loses control and the pilots can't fly the plane anymore, so the band members step in. While the band members are trying to figure out how to land the plane the woman flight attended pulls out a instruction manual that says "Learn to Fly." That's the name of the song. I think that's a clever way to put the title of the song into the music video without it being that noticeable. The band members successfully land the plane and the people who put drugs in the coffee got arrested. Towards the end they had scenes from a Foo Fighter concert singing the song. I don't know if I like the music video going back and forth between the airplane and the concert. They only do it a few times, so it doesn't bother me that much.
This was a interesting and creative music video. It told a story in less than 5 minutes. I like how 90% of the music video was the story and not people actually singing the song in a music video. The actors and the costumes made this video come to life. I also like how they slipped the title of the song into the video by using a manual, I thought that was clever. I didn't notice that the first time, but I did the second time. The scenes flowed nicely together expect for the real concert scenes. I liked out they made the concert look like it was on the t.v. screen on the airplane.
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Cruise by Florida Georgia Line and Nelly (Remix) Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmZ9xRO7M9M Cruise by Florida Georgia Line and Nelly (Remix). This video is 3: 36 minutes long.
This video starts out with Nelly in his nice white car. They zoomed in on Nelly while he is talking on the phone then they zoom out. The song starts at 16 seconds. The band and nelly and some extra people are in a field with their trucks and its dark and smoky. Nelly is racing in his car and the band members are racing their Chevy trucks. They show some scenes of girls acting seductive on motorcycles and cars. They show girls dancing slow. The band members and nelly sing with the song while they are in they field. At the end they line a lot of cars up on the road and the people are walking in between the cars and in front of the cars. The last scene are the band members and Nelly walking towards the audience with smoke behind them.
I like how there is a small introduction in the beginning before the actual song starts. Nelly is talking to the band members in his car while "Cruise" is playing on his radio. The races scenes look very realistic. It looks like the filmed the race scenes in a desert looking place. I like how the camera goes back and forth between the three people in the 3 different cars. Sometimes they slow the speed of the video when the girls are dancing and other times they speed it up during the race scenes. It adds some interest to the video when they do that. They only do this a couple times. The music video fits well with the song. I imagined their music video to have some sort of racing, cars, and girls in it. The video quality is very good. None of the shots are blurry. The music matches with the people singing pretty well. Much better than other music videos.
This video starts out with Nelly in his nice white car. They zoomed in on Nelly while he is talking on the phone then they zoom out. The song starts at 16 seconds. The band and nelly and some extra people are in a field with their trucks and its dark and smoky. Nelly is racing in his car and the band members are racing their Chevy trucks. They show some scenes of girls acting seductive on motorcycles and cars. They show girls dancing slow. The band members and nelly sing with the song while they are in they field. At the end they line a lot of cars up on the road and the people are walking in between the cars and in front of the cars. The last scene are the band members and Nelly walking towards the audience with smoke behind them.
I like how there is a small introduction in the beginning before the actual song starts. Nelly is talking to the band members in his car while "Cruise" is playing on his radio. The races scenes look very realistic. It looks like the filmed the race scenes in a desert looking place. I like how the camera goes back and forth between the three people in the 3 different cars. Sometimes they slow the speed of the video when the girls are dancing and other times they speed it up during the race scenes. It adds some interest to the video when they do that. They only do this a couple times. The music video fits well with the song. I imagined their music video to have some sort of racing, cars, and girls in it. The video quality is very good. None of the shots are blurry. The music matches with the people singing pretty well. Much better than other music videos.
Friday, November 15, 2013
The Fighter by Gym Class Heroes Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxV-OOIamyk The Fighter by Gym Class Heroes. This music video is 3:55 minutes long.
It's starts out with a young guy looking into space. I don't think it's one of the band members. I think it's just an actor. He says his name, he is an Olympic gymnastic, from New York, and he's a fighter. When he says that he is a fighter the camera turns to a side shot of his face and he actually says the sentence. Then it shows the band member playing the piano then cuts to the other guy walking in black and white. They show the whole band playing their instruments in a gym in color then it goes back to the young guy doing his exercises, washing his face, or traveling in black and white. When the young guy is in the Olympic training center it goes back to color. It goes back and forth between the band members and the young guy training. At 2:45 minutes they show a black and white video of a young boy (I think it's the same guy in the video, but younger) doing a flip off of the rings. That video is a little blurry and low quality, so it looks like a home video for a long time ago. At 2:50 minutes they show the same guy in a uniform doing flips off of the mounting vault. It looks like the actual Olympic place or practice round. Towards the end they show some more clips of the black and white video of the young boy practicing. The last scene is where they zoomed in really close to the young guy's face and he sheds a tear.
I really like this video. It is well done. This video fits perfectly with the lyrics of the song. It's interested that the video went back and forth from black and white to color. I think it worked well. It was consistent during the whole video, so it worked. I like when they show the young guy taking a picture with 5 kids in a training room. It looks like the guy is now a trainer and these kids are student. They show that scene at 3:06 minutes. I also like how they showed a home video of a young boy practicing years ago. That's a nice touch. It also shows how far this guy has come. He has been training since he was a little kid and now he is in the Olympics. I'm assuming the boy in the home video was the same guy in this music video. This music video is very inspiring. The music matched the singing of the band members pretty well. They told an amazing story in lees than 4 minutes.
It's starts out with a young guy looking into space. I don't think it's one of the band members. I think it's just an actor. He says his name, he is an Olympic gymnastic, from New York, and he's a fighter. When he says that he is a fighter the camera turns to a side shot of his face and he actually says the sentence. Then it shows the band member playing the piano then cuts to the other guy walking in black and white. They show the whole band playing their instruments in a gym in color then it goes back to the young guy doing his exercises, washing his face, or traveling in black and white. When the young guy is in the Olympic training center it goes back to color. It goes back and forth between the band members and the young guy training. At 2:45 minutes they show a black and white video of a young boy (I think it's the same guy in the video, but younger) doing a flip off of the rings. That video is a little blurry and low quality, so it looks like a home video for a long time ago. At 2:50 minutes they show the same guy in a uniform doing flips off of the mounting vault. It looks like the actual Olympic place or practice round. Towards the end they show some more clips of the black and white video of the young boy practicing. The last scene is where they zoomed in really close to the young guy's face and he sheds a tear.
I really like this video. It is well done. This video fits perfectly with the lyrics of the song. It's interested that the video went back and forth from black and white to color. I think it worked well. It was consistent during the whole video, so it worked. I like when they show the young guy taking a picture with 5 kids in a training room. It looks like the guy is now a trainer and these kids are student. They show that scene at 3:06 minutes. I also like how they showed a home video of a young boy practicing years ago. That's a nice touch. It also shows how far this guy has come. He has been training since he was a little kid and now he is in the Olympics. I'm assuming the boy in the home video was the same guy in this music video. This music video is very inspiring. The music matched the singing of the band members pretty well. They told an amazing story in lees than 4 minutes.
That's My Kind of Night by Luke Bryan Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crCqWK3SmRo That's My Kind of Night by Luke Bryan. This video is 3:51 minutes long.
This is the first time I have watched this music video. I'm not a big country fan, but there are a few country/country pop songs that I like. I haven't seen a music video edited like this before. It's interesting.
It's starts off with someone lighting an arrow on fire Then he shots the fiery arrow into the sky and it lands on a pile of wood and starts a huge bon fire. The music doesn't start till 32 seconds into the video. They show Luke Bryan singing and dancing on his truck. The scenes go with the beat of the song. They pause a clip for a second and it's in black and white. Then they show Luke Bryan on half of the screen divided by a diagonal black line with the bonfire on the other side of the screen. Then they show a close up of a young woman in the water then the screen is divided into three sections: the young woman in the water, a close-up of hands clapping by the bonfire, and a close up of people walking. The video continues with this pattern through the entire video. They show a scene of something or someone, it pauses the scene for a second then turns it into black and white then the screen is divided 2, 3, or 4 times with color scenes. It's hard to explain. The whole video pretty much takes places at night by a lake in a huge field with a bonfire and a lot of young people dancing.
This was the first scene I was talking about
I like the introduction in the beginning, but I think it's a little long. I'm not sure how I feel about this video. I kind of like how it's edited, but then again a don't. It's different. I like how some of the scenes pause and turn to black and white. I like the different cuts and angles in this video. They show a lot of different scenes in a short amount of time. The music video fits perfectly with the lyrics of the song. Maybe if they didn't do so many screen divides I would like it more. I think it's an interesting edit, but I think they over used it.
This is the first time I have watched this music video. I'm not a big country fan, but there are a few country/country pop songs that I like. I haven't seen a music video edited like this before. It's interesting.
It's starts off with someone lighting an arrow on fire Then he shots the fiery arrow into the sky and it lands on a pile of wood and starts a huge bon fire. The music doesn't start till 32 seconds into the video. They show Luke Bryan singing and dancing on his truck. The scenes go with the beat of the song. They pause a clip for a second and it's in black and white. Then they show Luke Bryan on half of the screen divided by a diagonal black line with the bonfire on the other side of the screen. Then they show a close up of a young woman in the water then the screen is divided into three sections: the young woman in the water, a close-up of hands clapping by the bonfire, and a close up of people walking. The video continues with this pattern through the entire video. They show a scene of something or someone, it pauses the scene for a second then turns it into black and white then the screen is divided 2, 3, or 4 times with color scenes. It's hard to explain. The whole video pretty much takes places at night by a lake in a huge field with a bonfire and a lot of young people dancing.
This was the first scene I was talking about
I like the introduction in the beginning, but I think it's a little long. I'm not sure how I feel about this video. I kind of like how it's edited, but then again a don't. It's different. I like how some of the scenes pause and turn to black and white. I like the different cuts and angles in this video. They show a lot of different scenes in a short amount of time. The music video fits perfectly with the lyrics of the song. Maybe if they didn't do so many screen divides I would like it more. I think it's an interesting edit, but I think they over used it.
Thursday, November 14, 2013
I'm Gonna Getcha Good by Shania Twain Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3Pb3EJY5Qg I'm Gonna Getcha Good! by Shania Twain This video is 4:19 minutes long.
I absolutely loved Shania Twain when I was younger. I was obsessed with this song and I watched the music video over and over again on MTV when MTV was strictly a music video show.
It starts out with Shania dressed in a all black skin tight suit and she is getting on this motorcycle that has blue and pink flames. The music starts at 8 seconds. They show a building where robots are walking around and Shania and the band are inside a glass room. She is in a different outfit while she is in the room with the band, but it's still a dark skin tight outfit. She sings with the song while she is in the room with the band. Sometimes she sings while she is driving the motorcycle. The whole music video takes place in this robot/ sci fi world. It goes back and forth between Shania singing with the band behind glass and driving the motorcycle trying to escape a giant bad robot. The end is surprising and interesting. I'm not quite sure what it means. The motorcycle and sci fi woman picks up the robot's eye and throws in at the glass where the singing realistic Shania is standing behind. It shows the glass breaking as the robot eye is flying through it. I like how you can hear the sound of the glass breaking. The realistic Shania looks lost and confused. She steps out from behind the glass and looks at this sci fi robotic world. I like how it ends. It doesn't end when the last note of the song ends. It continues the story.
I like the video effects when she is driving the motorcycle through this sci fi world. Some parts look fake, but others look realistic. The song came out in 2002, 11 years ago. I was 9 when this song came out. I think the effects are pretty good considering how much further technology and video effects have come along. They video did a good job going back and forth between the band and the motorcycle racing scene. I really like how they show the sci fi Shania racing through bridges and tunnels. I like the different scene cuts. They zoom in and out on Shania singing. The color choices are amazing in this video. All of the colors are in the same color family. The colors are dark and they are mainly black and blues. The robots are different colors, but they still stick with the same color family. I think the music matches well with Shania's singing.
I absolutely loved Shania Twain when I was younger. I was obsessed with this song and I watched the music video over and over again on MTV when MTV was strictly a music video show.
It starts out with Shania dressed in a all black skin tight suit and she is getting on this motorcycle that has blue and pink flames. The music starts at 8 seconds. They show a building where robots are walking around and Shania and the band are inside a glass room. She is in a different outfit while she is in the room with the band, but it's still a dark skin tight outfit. She sings with the song while she is in the room with the band. Sometimes she sings while she is driving the motorcycle. The whole music video takes place in this robot/ sci fi world. It goes back and forth between Shania singing with the band behind glass and driving the motorcycle trying to escape a giant bad robot. The end is surprising and interesting. I'm not quite sure what it means. The motorcycle and sci fi woman picks up the robot's eye and throws in at the glass where the singing realistic Shania is standing behind. It shows the glass breaking as the robot eye is flying through it. I like how you can hear the sound of the glass breaking. The realistic Shania looks lost and confused. She steps out from behind the glass and looks at this sci fi robotic world. I like how it ends. It doesn't end when the last note of the song ends. It continues the story.
I like the video effects when she is driving the motorcycle through this sci fi world. Some parts look fake, but others look realistic. The song came out in 2002, 11 years ago. I was 9 when this song came out. I think the effects are pretty good considering how much further technology and video effects have come along. They video did a good job going back and forth between the band and the motorcycle racing scene. I really like how they show the sci fi Shania racing through bridges and tunnels. I like the different scene cuts. They zoom in and out on Shania singing. The color choices are amazing in this video. All of the colors are in the same color family. The colors are dark and they are mainly black and blues. The robots are different colors, but they still stick with the same color family. I think the music matches well with Shania's singing.
People like Us by Kelly Clarkson- Music Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWbMz_aBlMU People like Us by Kelly Clarkson. This video is 3:46 minutes long.
It starts out with Kelly Clarkson singing and the camera is zoomed in on her lips. Then there is a white flash and it changes scenes to Kelly Clarkson dressed in a lab coat with 4 other doctors (or doctors of the sort) standing by her looking down at something with clipboards in hand, this part is in black and white. They show what they are looking at, which is a young girl in color. Then it cuts back to Kelly Clarkson singing in color in a empty room. It switches back and forth between Kelly Clarkson singing and the black and white doctors observing the young girl. At 1:46 minutes the black and white Kelly Clarkson doctor goes in the young girl (she is in color) room and she bends down and grabs the girls hand. She rubs the girl's hand on her face and some of the black and white Kelly Clarkson doctor's face is now in color. The doctor says "Let's Go" to the young girl, but you can't hear it. The doctor helps the girl break out of the building. There are people chasing them. The doctor and the girl drive away in a nice bright orange car around 2: 59 minutes. Everything else around them is black and white. The people are still chasing them. Then they drive through a tunnel. When they reach the end of the tunnel everything is in bright colors and there are about 20 other people surround the car, doctor, and young girl. The 2 guys that were chasing them get out of the car, but they don't change colors. They are still in black and white. Towards the end they show a zoomed out angle of a black and white city then they show the color sky it the camera quickly moves to show a colored Earth. The last scene is the doctor Kelly Clarkson now in color singing the last line of the song.
I really like this music video. It is very creative. It fits well with the lyrics of the song. I really like the story that this music video told. I thought it was creative and interesting how the doctor scenes were in black and white, but the young girl was in color. It showed that the young girl was different (people like us). I really liked the end. How everything was in color expect for the two guys chasing them. This is a well done music video. I like how it went back and forth between the doctor scenes and Kelly Clarkson singing in another room. Even though the doctor and the girl never actually talked I could tell what was going on by there facial expressions. At 1:02 the doctor Kelly Clarkson pulls out her phone that is bright yellow. That was a little foreshadowing of what was to come next. The editors did a great job of putting this video together and showing different cuts. I want to know how they make one person in color and the other people in black and white. The car chase seemed a little fake. That's the only part that I didn't like. The music fit well with her singing.
It starts out with Kelly Clarkson singing and the camera is zoomed in on her lips. Then there is a white flash and it changes scenes to Kelly Clarkson dressed in a lab coat with 4 other doctors (or doctors of the sort) standing by her looking down at something with clipboards in hand, this part is in black and white. They show what they are looking at, which is a young girl in color. Then it cuts back to Kelly Clarkson singing in color in a empty room. It switches back and forth between Kelly Clarkson singing and the black and white doctors observing the young girl. At 1:46 minutes the black and white Kelly Clarkson doctor goes in the young girl (she is in color) room and she bends down and grabs the girls hand. She rubs the girl's hand on her face and some of the black and white Kelly Clarkson doctor's face is now in color. The doctor says "Let's Go" to the young girl, but you can't hear it. The doctor helps the girl break out of the building. There are people chasing them. The doctor and the girl drive away in a nice bright orange car around 2: 59 minutes. Everything else around them is black and white. The people are still chasing them. Then they drive through a tunnel. When they reach the end of the tunnel everything is in bright colors and there are about 20 other people surround the car, doctor, and young girl. The 2 guys that were chasing them get out of the car, but they don't change colors. They are still in black and white. Towards the end they show a zoomed out angle of a black and white city then they show the color sky it the camera quickly moves to show a colored Earth. The last scene is the doctor Kelly Clarkson now in color singing the last line of the song.
I really like this music video. It is very creative. It fits well with the lyrics of the song. I really like the story that this music video told. I thought it was creative and interesting how the doctor scenes were in black and white, but the young girl was in color. It showed that the young girl was different (people like us). I really liked the end. How everything was in color expect for the two guys chasing them. This is a well done music video. I like how it went back and forth between the doctor scenes and Kelly Clarkson singing in another room. Even though the doctor and the girl never actually talked I could tell what was going on by there facial expressions. At 1:02 the doctor Kelly Clarkson pulls out her phone that is bright yellow. That was a little foreshadowing of what was to come next. The editors did a great job of putting this video together and showing different cuts. I want to know how they make one person in color and the other people in black and white. The car chase seemed a little fake. That's the only part that I didn't like. The music fit well with her singing.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) - Fallout Boy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIWmsP3c_s My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) by Fallout Boy
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Monday, November 11, 2013
On Top of the World- Imagine Dragons
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5tWYmIOWGk On Top of the World by Imagine Dragons. This video is 4:04 minutes long.
It starts out with a young boy riding his tricycle to a group of people watching T.V. outside. They are looking in the glass were the T.V. is and the people are outside. The young boy has a aluminum foil cap on.
The people are dressed from the 60's and 70's. The T.V. looks old (from that time period). They show each of the band members leaving their love ones and driving away. The four band members walk into this big white building. Then it shows them getting dressed in astronaut suits. The T.V. shows the rocket launching and the astronaut walking into the rocket. At 2:02 the music stops and you can hear and see the T.V. have technically difficulties. At 2:09 it cuts to the astronaut landing on the moon and then a giant microphone lands on his hand. The music resumes at 2:14 minutes and it shows someone holding a clapperboard over the astronaut. Then the camera zooms out and shows the studio where they are filming the moon landing. Right then, the audience knows that its fake, but the people in the music video don't know. They think it's real. The T.V. shows 2 people landing on the moon with the American flag. They show everybody happy that the Americans were the first to land on the moon. There is one guy that doesn't look happy and looks like he did something wrong.
I wasn't expected the music video to be this when I first listen to the song. It makes sense the more I think about it. The song is called "On top of the World" and the video is about being on top of the moon, so you can see the top of the world. I like how they didn't show the people landing on the moon was filmed in a studio until later in the video. Until they showed the microphone landing on the astronaut I thought it was real. I'm sure it will make some people think... did we land on the moon or was it all a scam? The music video showed that in a funny way. I like how towards the end the band members in the astronaut suits were playing golf, driving a car, playing instruments, and acting silly. The costumes help make this video look like it is from a few decades ago. The video quality is good and none of the shots are blurry. I really like how they showed a old TV with their film on it. It was in sepia and it looked like it could have been a TV from back in the 60's or 70's. I absolutely love this song. I am doing a music video for my next project and I chose "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons.
It starts out with a young boy riding his tricycle to a group of people watching T.V. outside. They are looking in the glass were the T.V. is and the people are outside. The young boy has a aluminum foil cap on.
The people are dressed from the 60's and 70's. The T.V. looks old (from that time period). They show each of the band members leaving their love ones and driving away. The four band members walk into this big white building. Then it shows them getting dressed in astronaut suits. The T.V. shows the rocket launching and the astronaut walking into the rocket. At 2:02 the music stops and you can hear and see the T.V. have technically difficulties. At 2:09 it cuts to the astronaut landing on the moon and then a giant microphone lands on his hand. The music resumes at 2:14 minutes and it shows someone holding a clapperboard over the astronaut. Then the camera zooms out and shows the studio where they are filming the moon landing. Right then, the audience knows that its fake, but the people in the music video don't know. They think it's real. The T.V. shows 2 people landing on the moon with the American flag. They show everybody happy that the Americans were the first to land on the moon. There is one guy that doesn't look happy and looks like he did something wrong.
I wasn't expected the music video to be this when I first listen to the song. It makes sense the more I think about it. The song is called "On top of the World" and the video is about being on top of the moon, so you can see the top of the world. I like how they didn't show the people landing on the moon was filmed in a studio until later in the video. Until they showed the microphone landing on the astronaut I thought it was real. I'm sure it will make some people think... did we land on the moon or was it all a scam? The music video showed that in a funny way. I like how towards the end the band members in the astronaut suits were playing golf, driving a car, playing instruments, and acting silly. The costumes help make this video look like it is from a few decades ago. The video quality is good and none of the shots are blurry. I really like how they showed a old TV with their film on it. It was in sepia and it looked like it could have been a TV from back in the 60's or 70's. I absolutely love this song. I am doing a music video for my next project and I chose "On Top of the World" by Imagine Dragons.
Saturday, November 9, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Saturday, November 2, 2013
A Short Story (a fairytale)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIoTR2AQSBk "A Short Story" (a fairytale). "Fanshawe College project. We had two weeks to do this, we wound up writing, shooting, editing, and scoring in 3 days." This video is 3:35 minutes long.
It starts out with the title scenes. The is three different tilting scenes and combined they last 20 seconds. The music fades into the next scene. Then you see a close-up of a girls face looking down. The girl is telling a story to another person. I'm not sure where she is at, but I imagine that it is inside a house. The next scene is the same girl, but now she is walking through the woods with a renaissance looking outfit. They show a close-up of her face then the camera is pointing towards her back while she is walking towards something. It looks like a cold, slight windy, sunny day. There is music playing in the background. Then the camera shows her slowly turning around to look at a noise she heard. She continues walking. Then they show a little yellow speck flying around in the woods. She catches the little yellow speck floating around in her hands. The show a point of view shot of hands. She lets the little yellow speck go and the camera angle shows her looking up in the sky watching the yellow speck fly away. Then you hear a scary groaning sound. She probably added the sound in while editing the video. She turns around and sees a grim reaper looking creature. We can see the creature, but it is blurry. Then the grim reaper becomes in focus and the girl becomes blurry. She stares at the creature for awhile then they show a close-up of her arm and the creature in the background. They show the creature attacking her. It looks like the creature is running towards her and then she falls down (I doubt that the creature actually attacking her). Then they show someone lying on the ground with the little yellow speck flying around the body. During this time there is a voice over. They show the woods scenes and the main character is telling the story over the scenes. Then it cuts back to the girl telling the story to someone inside the house. She then looks up and it shows a guy siting across from her. The guy asks her a question then it shows a zoomed-out angle of the girl looking into the distance. The stops while the two people are talking the starts up again when they show the wood scenes again. It cuts back to the woods and it shows a close-up angle of the girl getting attacked by the creature on the ground. The girl stabs the creature (which is a human dressed up because you can see the hands) a few times then it shows a different scene. It shows a close-up of a woman's hand stabbing someone, but they are dressed up in normal clothes. Then it cuts back to the woods. The creature is laying on the ground and she pulls out the knife she used to kill him. It cuts to the girl sitting in the dark inside the house with sirens and lights on her face. Then it cuts back to the woods and then cuts back to a close-up of the girls face inside the dark house again. That's the end and it fades to black. Titling shows up for the last 40 seconds.
This was a pretty good story, but I got lost at the end. Towards the end was confusing and I didn't fully understand it. I liked the different camera angles. The music fit well with the story. Most of the scenes were dark, but I think it was supposed to be that way. The biggest problem I had with this video was the typography and tilting. The tilting was bad in my opinion. All of the tilting was the same. The font choice looked like a script font, which was hard to read. It was yellow text on a black background. The size was so small that I could barely read it. The words would flicker then slowly fade to black. The flicker was very annoying. I think the tilting was up for too long, it was too drawn out. I think the last scene should have slowly faded to black instead of just cutting to a black screen. I think some of the scenes need transitions.
It starts out with the title scenes. The is three different tilting scenes and combined they last 20 seconds. The music fades into the next scene. Then you see a close-up of a girls face looking down. The girl is telling a story to another person. I'm not sure where she is at, but I imagine that it is inside a house. The next scene is the same girl, but now she is walking through the woods with a renaissance looking outfit. They show a close-up of her face then the camera is pointing towards her back while she is walking towards something. It looks like a cold, slight windy, sunny day. There is music playing in the background. Then the camera shows her slowly turning around to look at a noise she heard. She continues walking. Then they show a little yellow speck flying around in the woods. She catches the little yellow speck floating around in her hands. The show a point of view shot of hands. She lets the little yellow speck go and the camera angle shows her looking up in the sky watching the yellow speck fly away. Then you hear a scary groaning sound. She probably added the sound in while editing the video. She turns around and sees a grim reaper looking creature. We can see the creature, but it is blurry. Then the grim reaper becomes in focus and the girl becomes blurry. She stares at the creature for awhile then they show a close-up of her arm and the creature in the background. They show the creature attacking her. It looks like the creature is running towards her and then she falls down (I doubt that the creature actually attacking her). Then they show someone lying on the ground with the little yellow speck flying around the body. During this time there is a voice over. They show the woods scenes and the main character is telling the story over the scenes. Then it cuts back to the girl telling the story to someone inside the house. She then looks up and it shows a guy siting across from her. The guy asks her a question then it shows a zoomed-out angle of the girl looking into the distance. The stops while the two people are talking the starts up again when they show the wood scenes again. It cuts back to the woods and it shows a close-up angle of the girl getting attacked by the creature on the ground. The girl stabs the creature (which is a human dressed up because you can see the hands) a few times then it shows a different scene. It shows a close-up of a woman's hand stabbing someone, but they are dressed up in normal clothes. Then it cuts back to the woods. The creature is laying on the ground and she pulls out the knife she used to kill him. It cuts to the girl sitting in the dark inside the house with sirens and lights on her face. Then it cuts back to the woods and then cuts back to a close-up of the girls face inside the dark house again. That's the end and it fades to black. Titling shows up for the last 40 seconds.
This was a pretty good story, but I got lost at the end. Towards the end was confusing and I didn't fully understand it. I liked the different camera angles. The music fit well with the story. Most of the scenes were dark, but I think it was supposed to be that way. The biggest problem I had with this video was the typography and tilting. The tilting was bad in my opinion. All of the tilting was the same. The font choice looked like a script font, which was hard to read. It was yellow text on a black background. The size was so small that I could barely read it. The words would flicker then slowly fade to black. The flicker was very annoying. I think the tilting was up for too long, it was too drawn out. I think the last scene should have slowly faded to black instead of just cutting to a black screen. I think some of the scenes need transitions.
Monday, October 28, 2013
A Short Story of Marriage
http://vimeo.com/36091209 This video is called, "A Short Story of Marriage." It is 2:34 minutes long.
Credits:
Production: EPICMAN Production
Director: Christian Pfeil
DoP: Frederic Doss
Pilot: Stefan Müller
Editing/Grading: Max Duwe
Actiondesign: Reel Deal, Movie-Do
Stunt Coordinater: Ralf Haeger
Stuntteam: Reel Deal, Movie-Do
Camera: RED Epic X
I don't understand this story. When the title says story of marriage I thought that meant a story about marriage. What I watch was completely different from what I thought it was going to be. Maybe the director showed marriage in an abstract form.
It starts out with a ninja jumping from something and landing on the ground. The person ( I can't tell if it's a guy or girl, but I'm assuming it's a guy) is dressed in all black with a face mask and a sword. The colors are dull and mostly browns and blues. They definitely changed the colors when they were editing this video. The ninja slowly approaches a building where he encounters another ninja. The two ninjas fight and the ninja who attacked the other ninja defeated him and he moved on. The second ninja runs on a big sidewalk next to this old building and then he starts fighting another ninja. The third ninja moves on and defeats the second ninja. The third ninja runs up a flight of stairs until he encounters another ninja (this is the 4th ninja that appears during the film). The fourth ninja beats the third ninja and then the fourth ninja moves on and he then he runs up a series of stairs and runs across a tunnel and a roof. He then encounters a fifth ninja on the rooftop. He slowly approaches the fifth ninja and he is ready to fight, but he doesn't. The fifth ninja looks like a woman because of the long black hair and she isn't wearing a face mask. She gets out her sword and raises it above her head. The other ninja bows down to her. The camera then zooms out and shows the dense fog over top of the building then it ends.
It appears that the four ninjas in the beginning were guys that were fighting to get to the woman. The fourth guy ninja waited patiently to defeat the third ninja and then he got his chance with the woman ninja.
There wasn't any dialogue in this piece. The camera shots are amazing though and I have no clue how they got them. The camera would run with the ninjas and the cameras looked like they were high up because of the angles. They showed on ninja running across the sidewalk through a birds eye view. The camera also followed the ninja up the stairs. This old and run-down building is big and tall. This looked like it was shot from a crane or some kind of moving vehicle. Some of the shots were shaky, but that's because the people were running or climbing up the stairs, so the camera had to quickly follow them.
The people who edited this video did a good job of making the colors look muted. Some of the fighting could have been more realistic. There were some fighting scenes were it looked too fake and I could tell the other guy didn't really punch him and the guy would just fall down. The camera shots were amazing though. They chose a great place to shoot this video. I wish there was some time of dialogue.
Credits:
Production: EPICMAN Production
Director: Christian Pfeil
DoP: Frederic Doss
Pilot: Stefan Müller
Editing/Grading: Max Duwe
Actiondesign: Reel Deal, Movie-Do
Stunt Coordinater: Ralf Haeger
Stuntteam: Reel Deal, Movie-Do
Camera: RED Epic X
I don't understand this story. When the title says story of marriage I thought that meant a story about marriage. What I watch was completely different from what I thought it was going to be. Maybe the director showed marriage in an abstract form.
It starts out with a ninja jumping from something and landing on the ground. The person ( I can't tell if it's a guy or girl, but I'm assuming it's a guy) is dressed in all black with a face mask and a sword. The colors are dull and mostly browns and blues. They definitely changed the colors when they were editing this video. The ninja slowly approaches a building where he encounters another ninja. The two ninjas fight and the ninja who attacked the other ninja defeated him and he moved on. The second ninja runs on a big sidewalk next to this old building and then he starts fighting another ninja. The third ninja moves on and defeats the second ninja. The third ninja runs up a flight of stairs until he encounters another ninja (this is the 4th ninja that appears during the film). The fourth ninja beats the third ninja and then the fourth ninja moves on and he then he runs up a series of stairs and runs across a tunnel and a roof. He then encounters a fifth ninja on the rooftop. He slowly approaches the fifth ninja and he is ready to fight, but he doesn't. The fifth ninja looks like a woman because of the long black hair and she isn't wearing a face mask. She gets out her sword and raises it above her head. The other ninja bows down to her. The camera then zooms out and shows the dense fog over top of the building then it ends.
It appears that the four ninjas in the beginning were guys that were fighting to get to the woman. The fourth guy ninja waited patiently to defeat the third ninja and then he got his chance with the woman ninja.
There wasn't any dialogue in this piece. The camera shots are amazing though and I have no clue how they got them. The camera would run with the ninjas and the cameras looked like they were high up because of the angles. They showed on ninja running across the sidewalk through a birds eye view. The camera also followed the ninja up the stairs. This old and run-down building is big and tall. This looked like it was shot from a crane or some kind of moving vehicle. Some of the shots were shaky, but that's because the people were running or climbing up the stairs, so the camera had to quickly follow them.
The people who edited this video did a good job of making the colors look muted. Some of the fighting could have been more realistic. There were some fighting scenes were it looked too fake and I could tell the other guy didn't really punch him and the guy would just fall down. The camera shots were amazing though. They chose a great place to shoot this video. I wish there was some time of dialogue.
Friday, October 25, 2013
Framed- an iphone 4S short story
http://vimeo.com/31013938 Framed- an iphone 4S short story. The story is about a photographer who walks around the woods to take some pictures, when something unexpected happens. It says in the description that it this video was shot entirely on iPhone 4S. The editing was done on Final Cut Pro 7.
Photography: Thomas Buthod, Music by Jonathan Helme - Niorgen, Actor: Franck Descombes. The video is 3:18 minutes long.
The first scene is a guy walking through the woods with his camera and tripod. It looks like he is dressed up in clothes that was worn by people 100+ years ago. Then they show the guy walking on a hill covered with grass and trees. The guy then sets up his tripod and gets his old camera out near a stone wall looking over a beautiful landscape. He looks through the view finder and he sees this young lady sitting on the stone wall reading her book. When he looks at the stonewall without the view finder, he doesn't see the lady anymore. He then walks closer to the lady while he is looking through the viewfinder of his camera. He touches the lady, but she isn't actually there. The lady never looks at him directly. The lady eventually leaves and then she drops her book. Inside the book it says Property of Lise Grenier." Then the guy opens up the inside of his camera case and it says the same thing. At the end, the guy smiles and looks over at the landscape. The scene starts to fade at 2:56 minutes. It complete fades to black and then the credits roll the rest of the time.
I thought this was a wonderful story and it was well told it a short amount of time. It's hard to believe that this was entirely shot on a iPhone 4S. Most of the shots were pretty clear and not shaky. The editors did a great job of editing this piece. When the guy was looking through the viewfinder of the camera at the lady the scene had a black grid with a large white circle to make it seem like he was looking through the camera. It also had a old time look to it. I like the different angles throughout the film.
The title comes up 20 seconds into the video. The title is in all capital letters, white, and is over top of another scene. It last about 6 seconds. I like the position and color of the title. I also think the title has appropriate tracking between the letters.
Photography: Thomas Buthod, Music by Jonathan Helme - Niorgen, Actor: Franck Descombes. The video is 3:18 minutes long.
The first scene is a guy walking through the woods with his camera and tripod. It looks like he is dressed up in clothes that was worn by people 100+ years ago. Then they show the guy walking on a hill covered with grass and trees. The guy then sets up his tripod and gets his old camera out near a stone wall looking over a beautiful landscape. He looks through the view finder and he sees this young lady sitting on the stone wall reading her book. When he looks at the stonewall without the view finder, he doesn't see the lady anymore. He then walks closer to the lady while he is looking through the viewfinder of his camera. He touches the lady, but she isn't actually there. The lady never looks at him directly. The lady eventually leaves and then she drops her book. Inside the book it says Property of Lise Grenier." Then the guy opens up the inside of his camera case and it says the same thing. At the end, the guy smiles and looks over at the landscape. The scene starts to fade at 2:56 minutes. It complete fades to black and then the credits roll the rest of the time.
I thought this was a wonderful story and it was well told it a short amount of time. It's hard to believe that this was entirely shot on a iPhone 4S. Most of the shots were pretty clear and not shaky. The editors did a great job of editing this piece. When the guy was looking through the viewfinder of the camera at the lady the scene had a black grid with a large white circle to make it seem like he was looking through the camera. It also had a old time look to it. I like the different angles throughout the film.
The title comes up 20 seconds into the video. The title is in all capital letters, white, and is over top of another scene. It last about 6 seconds. I like the position and color of the title. I also think the title has appropriate tracking between the letters.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Who Sees The Real You?- Man On The Street
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsUKjlOx5Zk "Who Sees The Real You?- Man On The Street" This is another video by Soul Pancake. This video is 2:40 minutes long.
This video has the same style has the last Soul Pancake video. I can tell it was made by the same person. At the beginning of the video there is text at the bottom of the screen that says "Who sees the real me?" It is in the same font as the previous video (handwritten font). It starts out with a man in the center of the screen standing in front a body of water and some buildings. The guy says "Who sees the real me? very slowing. Then it shows 8 different people standing there and thinking about the question. Around 13 seconds is when the first person answers the question. He shows a zoomed-out and a zoomed-in angle of the couple. He shows 12 more people. They are a mix of women and men of different age groups. They are all answering the same question, some have the same answers and other have different answers. The people who talk longer than others will have a zoomed in shot of their face and a zoomed-out shot from the waist up. The people who are talking are in focus and the background, which includes the landscape and a few people walking by are out of focus. The very last guy that they interview has a completely different answer than everyone else. His answer is that everyone sees the real him. The it cuts to a black screen that says "Who sees the real you?" in white text. The words are up for about 5 seconds then it fades to black. The last 30 seconds are the same Soul Pancake logo and videos and it says subscribe.
I really like this video. The camera is very steady and the shots are very clear. I noticed that all of the people have a small black microphone attached to the top of their shirts. I am guessing that these people are completely random and they are pulled off the street. There were probably asked if they wanted to be apart of this film. I like the different camera angles. They isn't any point of view angles, but I don't think there needs to be. Having a close-up and far away shot of the people are enough camera angles for the purpose of this short story. I think it's funny how they saved the one guy for the last scene. I am sure they did that one purpose. There is music playing the whole time, but it is low. I think the choice of music fits the piece. The video would have a different feeling if there wasn't music playing.
This video has the same style has the last Soul Pancake video. I can tell it was made by the same person. At the beginning of the video there is text at the bottom of the screen that says "Who sees the real me?" It is in the same font as the previous video (handwritten font). It starts out with a man in the center of the screen standing in front a body of water and some buildings. The guy says "Who sees the real me? very slowing. Then it shows 8 different people standing there and thinking about the question. Around 13 seconds is when the first person answers the question. He shows a zoomed-out and a zoomed-in angle of the couple. He shows 12 more people. They are a mix of women and men of different age groups. They are all answering the same question, some have the same answers and other have different answers. The people who talk longer than others will have a zoomed in shot of their face and a zoomed-out shot from the waist up. The people who are talking are in focus and the background, which includes the landscape and a few people walking by are out of focus. The very last guy that they interview has a completely different answer than everyone else. His answer is that everyone sees the real him. The it cuts to a black screen that says "Who sees the real you?" in white text. The words are up for about 5 seconds then it fades to black. The last 30 seconds are the same Soul Pancake logo and videos and it says subscribe.
I really like this video. The camera is very steady and the shots are very clear. I noticed that all of the people have a small black microphone attached to the top of their shirts. I am guessing that these people are completely random and they are pulled off the street. There were probably asked if they wanted to be apart of this film. I like the different camera angles. They isn't any point of view angles, but I don't think there needs to be. Having a close-up and far away shot of the people are enough camera angles for the purpose of this short story. I think it's funny how they saved the one guy for the last scene. I am sure they did that one purpose. There is music playing the whole time, but it is low. I think the choice of music fits the piece. The video would have a different feeling if there wasn't music playing.
Monday, October 21, 2013
A Short Story About Coffee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHA1MiRieLQ "A Short Story About Coffee."" How is a person supposed to know what they want in life? From writer/director Casey Donahue, is a short story about coffee."
This is a 3:25 minute video. The title scene is up for about 3 seconds. I think it should be up for a little bit longer. The white text is centered on a black scene and it looks like a hand written font. I like how he starts off the story. The main character is standing in a field of grass/tress and there is a voice over, which is the main character's voice. Then the music starts. He shows a girl standing in the same spot he was. He does another voice over and introduces the girl. Then he shows a close up of her face and she says, "What do you want?" Then the main character does a voice over and responds with "I dunno." He does the same thing 4 more times, but with different girls. On the last three girls (close-ups) he has text at the bottom of the screen that says what they hate. It's in the same font as the movie title but it's in yellow this time. He shows a picture of the Earth, his house, and a bakery next. Then the camera angle switches and he shows a close-up of his face. The camera is slowly zooming in on his face. Then it shows a zoom-in shot of an iced coffee. The first 40 seconds are basically him introducing himself and the video. The next scenes are the main character and the worker in the coffee shop talking. They mainly show close-ups of the main character and the worker. They have a few waist-up shots of the characters. Both characters are in the scene, but sometimes you only see the back of the other character's head. They have a few point of view shots. They show the worker leaving the store and the main character is drinking the iced coffee that he gave him. Worker is walking down the street and throws his apron in the air. The camera follows the apron from the sky to the ground as it's falling. Camera is now looking at the main character drinking the iced coffee as he is watching the worker walk away. Then it ends.
I really liked this short story. It flowed well and I understood it. 3 minutes is not a lot of time to create a story. The camera was very steady the whole time. They probably used a tripod. All of the shoots were clear, so he probably had a high resolution camera. I liked the different camera angles. He would always show a zoomed-out and zoomed-in angle of the person. He even showed a few point of view shots like him opening the door, the iced coffee, and the apron falling. The music is simple, but it adds to the video. The music changes around 40 seconds. A conversation starts between the main character and the coffee worker, and there is still music playing very low. Around 2:36 minutes the music changes again when the coffee worker leaves the building. At 2:58 minutes the video ends with a black screen. I think he should have faded the black screen between the last scene. For the next 25 seconds it shows Soul Pancake's logo and a few videos that have links to them. I am not a fan of the typography in this video. It looks like it was hand written. He had two still shots, one of his house and the other of Earth. That doesn't bothering me too much that it's not moving, but I think the piece would have flowed better if he could have showed a video of his house and Earth. A video would be hard to do of Earth unless you found some satellite footage, which would be hard to do. Overall, I think this short story was very well done.
This is a 3:25 minute video. The title scene is up for about 3 seconds. I think it should be up for a little bit longer. The white text is centered on a black scene and it looks like a hand written font. I like how he starts off the story. The main character is standing in a field of grass/tress and there is a voice over, which is the main character's voice. Then the music starts. He shows a girl standing in the same spot he was. He does another voice over and introduces the girl. Then he shows a close up of her face and she says, "What do you want?" Then the main character does a voice over and responds with "I dunno." He does the same thing 4 more times, but with different girls. On the last three girls (close-ups) he has text at the bottom of the screen that says what they hate. It's in the same font as the movie title but it's in yellow this time. He shows a picture of the Earth, his house, and a bakery next. Then the camera angle switches and he shows a close-up of his face. The camera is slowly zooming in on his face. Then it shows a zoom-in shot of an iced coffee. The first 40 seconds are basically him introducing himself and the video. The next scenes are the main character and the worker in the coffee shop talking. They mainly show close-ups of the main character and the worker. They have a few waist-up shots of the characters. Both characters are in the scene, but sometimes you only see the back of the other character's head. They have a few point of view shots. They show the worker leaving the store and the main character is drinking the iced coffee that he gave him. Worker is walking down the street and throws his apron in the air. The camera follows the apron from the sky to the ground as it's falling. Camera is now looking at the main character drinking the iced coffee as he is watching the worker walk away. Then it ends.
I really liked this short story. It flowed well and I understood it. 3 minutes is not a lot of time to create a story. The camera was very steady the whole time. They probably used a tripod. All of the shoots were clear, so he probably had a high resolution camera. I liked the different camera angles. He would always show a zoomed-out and zoomed-in angle of the person. He even showed a few point of view shots like him opening the door, the iced coffee, and the apron falling. The music is simple, but it adds to the video. The music changes around 40 seconds. A conversation starts between the main character and the coffee worker, and there is still music playing very low. Around 2:36 minutes the music changes again when the coffee worker leaves the building. At 2:58 minutes the video ends with a black screen. I think he should have faded the black screen between the last scene. For the next 25 seconds it shows Soul Pancake's logo and a few videos that have links to them. I am not a fan of the typography in this video. It looks like it was hand written. He had two still shots, one of his house and the other of Earth. That doesn't bothering me too much that it's not moving, but I think the piece would have flowed better if he could have showed a video of his house and Earth. A video would be hard to do of Earth unless you found some satellite footage, which would be hard to do. Overall, I think this short story was very well done.
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Job Interview Fail (FUNNY, Yet Serious)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9PZQn3mojw Job Interview Fail (FUNNY, Yet Serious). This video was made by MyCareerSorter. I am hoping this was scripted and not real. This video would be very sad and embarrassing if it was real.
This video is about a interview gone terribly wrong. It shows you what NOT to do during an interview. The first tip says that you aren't supposed to open the door without someone opening for you or someone saying that you can come in. The second tip says that you should dress appropriately and not carry personal items like a soda in your hand. The applicant is dress poorly with ripped clothes and is not dressed professionally at all. When the interviewer went to go shake hands with her, she said that her hands seemed like flippers and the applicant didn't shake her hand firmly. The video also said don't bring another person with you to the interview. Do not use your cell phone for any reason during an interview and do not put your personally belongings on the table. She is texting during her interview. The applicant keeps telling the interviewer to hold on and she forgot her list of recommendations. The interviewer asks the applicant to tell her about herself: she says that she is 28, lives with her parents, what kinds of music she listens to, and that she just started dating her boyfriend who she brought with her to the interview on Wednesday. The applicant gives all of the wrong answers and the answers are not intelligent at all. The applicant tells the interviewer that she needs to hurry up. The applicant told the interviewer that she was always about 15 minutes late to her job, she got fired from it, and she didn't handle money well. There are a couple other things that the applicant does wrong.
The applicant is doing everything wrong you can do in a interview. I'm pretty sure this is scripted. The applicant has fake tattoos and during the video it said that even though her tattoos are fake, if someone had real tattoos on their arm they should cover it up. This is a funny and annoying interview because of how bad it is. The actually video was very annoying. I don't like how it was edited. There were many points during the video where the video would pause and a pop up would show up that said what not to do. I don't mind the little notes popping up, but it is very annoying that the video would pause. They video quality seemed low. It wasn't that clear. The camera seemed steady like it was on a tripod, which is good. I like the different camera angles. The camera zoomed in and zoomed out on the interviewer and the applicant. At the beginning and end of the video it shows a zoomed out shot of the room. It is a big conference room.
This video is about a interview gone terribly wrong. It shows you what NOT to do during an interview. The first tip says that you aren't supposed to open the door without someone opening for you or someone saying that you can come in. The second tip says that you should dress appropriately and not carry personal items like a soda in your hand. The applicant is dress poorly with ripped clothes and is not dressed professionally at all. When the interviewer went to go shake hands with her, she said that her hands seemed like flippers and the applicant didn't shake her hand firmly. The video also said don't bring another person with you to the interview. Do not use your cell phone for any reason during an interview and do not put your personally belongings on the table. She is texting during her interview. The applicant keeps telling the interviewer to hold on and she forgot her list of recommendations. The interviewer asks the applicant to tell her about herself: she says that she is 28, lives with her parents, what kinds of music she listens to, and that she just started dating her boyfriend who she brought with her to the interview on Wednesday. The applicant gives all of the wrong answers and the answers are not intelligent at all. The applicant tells the interviewer that she needs to hurry up. The applicant told the interviewer that she was always about 15 minutes late to her job, she got fired from it, and she didn't handle money well. There are a couple other things that the applicant does wrong.
The applicant is doing everything wrong you can do in a interview. I'm pretty sure this is scripted. The applicant has fake tattoos and during the video it said that even though her tattoos are fake, if someone had real tattoos on their arm they should cover it up. This is a funny and annoying interview because of how bad it is. The actually video was very annoying. I don't like how it was edited. There were many points during the video where the video would pause and a pop up would show up that said what not to do. I don't mind the little notes popping up, but it is very annoying that the video would pause. They video quality seemed low. It wasn't that clear. The camera seemed steady like it was on a tripod, which is good. I like the different camera angles. The camera zoomed in and zoomed out on the interviewer and the applicant. At the beginning and end of the video it shows a zoomed out shot of the room. It is a big conference room.
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Funny Job Interview Video Comedy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KV2rxpQ_Js Funny Job Interview Video Comedy
This video is 2:13 minutes long. I'm not sure who created it since there aren't any credits. The person who uploaded the video username is Teamwork and Leadership. This video looks like it would be apart of some sort of comedy bit or late night show skit.
It starts out with people laughing. The camera comes in from an angle and slowly zooms in on the two people. They are sitting in an office setting. The interviewer is at the desk looking at his papers and the applicant is sitting across from him with his briefcase. Both actors are dressed very professionally. There are various camera angles. The camera zooms in on the applicant and the interviewer. It also shows the back of the applicant and the front of the interviewer zoomed out and it also shows a slight angled shot of the room and both people. Then it shows the applicant walking out of the room and shows the hallway. I like the different camera angles. They went back and forth welled and it followed nicely.
I liked the script. The whole interview was about the applicant passing these "test," but the applicant didn't know if he actually passed the test or not. The interviewer would say he would pass the test and he got the job and then the applicant would be happy and excited that he got the job. Then the interviewer would say that was the real test and he failed. This went on about 4 or 5 different times.
The camera was very steady and the shots weren't shaky. I'm pretty sure the camera was on a tripod the whole time. The video just ends without any transitions or credits. I don't like how the video ends. That is not a way to end a video. This video didn't have any titling either. All videos need to have titles and possibly credits if they are necessary. The only reason I can think of why this video doesn't have any titling is because it was cut short from a longer piece or it was taken off from a comedy skit that was aired on T.V.
This video is 2:13 minutes long. I'm not sure who created it since there aren't any credits. The person who uploaded the video username is Teamwork and Leadership. This video looks like it would be apart of some sort of comedy bit or late night show skit.
It starts out with people laughing. The camera comes in from an angle and slowly zooms in on the two people. They are sitting in an office setting. The interviewer is at the desk looking at his papers and the applicant is sitting across from him with his briefcase. Both actors are dressed very professionally. There are various camera angles. The camera zooms in on the applicant and the interviewer. It also shows the back of the applicant and the front of the interviewer zoomed out and it also shows a slight angled shot of the room and both people. Then it shows the applicant walking out of the room and shows the hallway. I like the different camera angles. They went back and forth welled and it followed nicely.
I liked the script. The whole interview was about the applicant passing these "test," but the applicant didn't know if he actually passed the test or not. The interviewer would say he would pass the test and he got the job and then the applicant would be happy and excited that he got the job. Then the interviewer would say that was the real test and he failed. This went on about 4 or 5 different times.
The camera was very steady and the shots weren't shaky. I'm pretty sure the camera was on a tripod the whole time. The video just ends without any transitions or credits. I don't like how the video ends. That is not a way to end a video. This video didn't have any titling either. All videos need to have titles and possibly credits if they are necessary. The only reason I can think of why this video doesn't have any titling is because it was cut short from a longer piece or it was taken off from a comedy skit that was aired on T.V.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Awesome and Funny - Job Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWnVNJCQZIg This looks like a interview done by a student. It is called "Awesome and Funny - Job Interview." The person who uploaded this video is called "joalexnillo." It is 3:54 minutes long. It was directed by Paul Del Vecchio, written by Marty Hill, produced by David R. Doumeng, starring Jill Butterfield as the applicant, and Melisa Breiner-Sanders as the interviewer. It was edited, photographed, sound mix and color by Paul Del Vecchio for Triple E Productions. It was shot at Triple E productions.
The title shows up at the very beginning. It says "INTERVIEW WITH AN APPLICANT" in white letters across a black background it a sans serif font. It lasts for about 5 seconds and then it fades. It shows the applicant walking into the room then the applicant and interviewer shake hands and sit down. The camera goes back and forth between the interviewer and the applicant talking. It is a funny interview. The interviewer says that the applicant is over qualified for the job and the applicant says well that's okay I don't intend to work very hard. They continue talking and then the applicant said that she quits and the interviewer says you can't quit because you don't work here. The applicant said she would never work here anyways and the interviewer says that she would never hire her. Then the interviewer says that she would fire her before she would quit. They go back and forth role playing that the applicant got the job and then quits or gets fired. The interviewer says that she is the junior vice president. The interviewer can't fire her because the applicant is now the junior vice president and is now the interviewer's boss. The applicant now fired the interviewer. It ends at 3:31 minutes and cuts straight to black screen. Then the credits show until the end of the video. When the credits are being shown there is music playing in the background. I think the music fits well with the story.
I like the typography in the tilting. It was clean and easy to use. Nothing fancy was needed. The story was funny and well done. Both actors were good. The camera seemed shaky. I'm not sure if it was on a tripod or not. I like how the camera goes back and forth between the two people. The lightning isn't bad, but it could be a little brighter. The interview takes place in a small room. I think they took full advantage of the small space. The ladies' heads get cut off. I think they should zoom out a little and let the people have more head head room. The script was great.
The title shows up at the very beginning. It says "INTERVIEW WITH AN APPLICANT" in white letters across a black background it a sans serif font. It lasts for about 5 seconds and then it fades. It shows the applicant walking into the room then the applicant and interviewer shake hands and sit down. The camera goes back and forth between the interviewer and the applicant talking. It is a funny interview. The interviewer says that the applicant is over qualified for the job and the applicant says well that's okay I don't intend to work very hard. They continue talking and then the applicant said that she quits and the interviewer says you can't quit because you don't work here. The applicant said she would never work here anyways and the interviewer says that she would never hire her. Then the interviewer says that she would fire her before she would quit. They go back and forth role playing that the applicant got the job and then quits or gets fired. The interviewer says that she is the junior vice president. The interviewer can't fire her because the applicant is now the junior vice president and is now the interviewer's boss. The applicant now fired the interviewer. It ends at 3:31 minutes and cuts straight to black screen. Then the credits show until the end of the video. When the credits are being shown there is music playing in the background. I think the music fits well with the story.
I like the typography in the tilting. It was clean and easy to use. Nothing fancy was needed. The story was funny and well done. Both actors were good. The camera seemed shaky. I'm not sure if it was on a tripod or not. I like how the camera goes back and forth between the two people. The lightning isn't bad, but it could be a little brighter. The interview takes place in a small room. I think they took full advantage of the small space. The ladies' heads get cut off. I think they should zoom out a little and let the people have more head head room. The script was great.
Sunday, October 6, 2013
The Talk- Jeff Probst on Suvivor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oteJdKanyKU This is The Talk Jeff Probst on 'Survivor' New Season. This video is 3:16 minutes long. The Talk made and produced this video. It says that this video was published on September 25th, 2013.
It starts off with a close-up of Jeff Probst and the audience clapping. Then the camera cuts to a zoomed-out shot of the studio with all 5 ladies and Jeff gathered around the table sitting down. Jeff is sitting in the middle. The Talk logo/icon shows up in the top right hand corner and the left- hand corner the entire time. Jeff is the first person to talk. He talks about the 27th season of survivor and talks about the new season- Blood vs Water. At 12 seconds they show a picture of the survivor cast and at 30 seconds they show another picture of Rupert, Tina, and Colton (which have been on the show before). Jeff continues talking about some of the cast members. They show another picture of Hayden Moss who won Big Brother which is Julie Chen's show. The camera then zooms in on her to show her reaction. At 1:09 minutes a red and white banner pops up across the screen the says "Top Talker, Jeff Probst, Suvivor." At 1:20 Sheryl starts talking. It shows all of the people around the table then it cuts to a close-up of Sheryl talking. They have another camera angle that is at a diagonal angle that shows Jeff, Sharon, and Aisha. They go back and forth between the different camera angles. At 3:08 minutes Julie says, "And there you have you answers, Jeff Probst everyone." The audience is clapping and then it zooms in on Jeff's face while he is laughing and smiling. The it fades into black and shows the ladies of The Talk and that ends the video.
I thought it was interesting that Jeff Probst was more of the interviewer and the ladies were the interviewee. Jeff talked a lot more than the other people. He was more telling everyone about survivor and then he asked all of the ladies what they would do if they were on the show. The ladies did ask a couple of questions but not much. I like all of the different camera angles. The camera was very steady. There wasn't any music in the video, but there was some clapping from the audience. I'm not sure why "The Talk" logo had to appear twice in the video. The bottom left logo was annoying. They should get rid of that logo and keep the top one. The top logo had a low opacity and the bottom one had full opacity. This was a interesting and funny interview. I like hearing the different opinions of the ladies. Julie signed off nicely.
It starts off with a close-up of Jeff Probst and the audience clapping. Then the camera cuts to a zoomed-out shot of the studio with all 5 ladies and Jeff gathered around the table sitting down. Jeff is sitting in the middle. The Talk logo/icon shows up in the top right hand corner and the left- hand corner the entire time. Jeff is the first person to talk. He talks about the 27th season of survivor and talks about the new season- Blood vs Water. At 12 seconds they show a picture of the survivor cast and at 30 seconds they show another picture of Rupert, Tina, and Colton (which have been on the show before). Jeff continues talking about some of the cast members. They show another picture of Hayden Moss who won Big Brother which is Julie Chen's show. The camera then zooms in on her to show her reaction. At 1:09 minutes a red and white banner pops up across the screen the says "Top Talker, Jeff Probst, Suvivor." At 1:20 Sheryl starts talking. It shows all of the people around the table then it cuts to a close-up of Sheryl talking. They have another camera angle that is at a diagonal angle that shows Jeff, Sharon, and Aisha. They go back and forth between the different camera angles. At 3:08 minutes Julie says, "And there you have you answers, Jeff Probst everyone." The audience is clapping and then it zooms in on Jeff's face while he is laughing and smiling. The it fades into black and shows the ladies of The Talk and that ends the video.
I thought it was interesting that Jeff Probst was more of the interviewer and the ladies were the interviewee. Jeff talked a lot more than the other people. He was more telling everyone about survivor and then he asked all of the ladies what they would do if they were on the show. The ladies did ask a couple of questions but not much. I like all of the different camera angles. The camera was very steady. There wasn't any music in the video, but there was some clapping from the audience. I'm not sure why "The Talk" logo had to appear twice in the video. The bottom left logo was annoying. They should get rid of that logo and keep the top one. The top logo had a low opacity and the bottom one had full opacity. This was a interesting and funny interview. I like hearing the different opinions of the ladies. Julie signed off nicely.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Adam Levine Interview- Big Star in a Small Car- Top Gear
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmBTytmBBy0 This is Adam Levine interview & lap- Big Star in a Small Care- Top Gear USA Series 2. It is 5:59 minutes long. I'm assuming that Top Gear made this video.
This video starts off by the interviewer saying, "Our celebrity today is Adam Levine." Everyone is outside around the race track. Adam and the interviewer talk for a little bit then Adam gets in the car (red Suzuki). At 30 seconds they show a quick black screen with the Top Gear logo then it cuts to Adam inside of the car. He starts racing at 36 seconds and ends at 1:30 minutes. It cusses a lot in the car because he's mad, so there are a lot of beeping noises (I think it's funny). The interviewer is talking while Adam is driving. Once Adam gets into the studio, he walks to the chair shakes hands with the interviewer and sits down. The first questions the interviewer ask is, "I wanna know how you got into cars" since he is a musician and on the voice. My favorite part is at 2:22 minutes when the interviewer asks, "Your first car was what?" And Adam responds with, "My first car was a 1971 Mach 1 Mustang." They show various camera angles in this video. The show a far away shot of the studio and all of the people in the studio, a close-up shot of Adam, a close-up shot of the interviewer, high angle shot of the studio and low angle shot of the 2 people talking. Adam and the interviewer go back and forth asking questions and responding. They show the audience reactions. Sometimes they laugh and sometimes they clap. They also show reactions of the interviewer and Adam. At 5:41 minutes the interviewer says, "You guys let's give Adam a hand, come on." It ends with a high angle shot of the studio with people clapping and then a close-up shot of Adam smiling. Then it shows a black screen that shows the BBC Worldwide logo.
I really liked this interview. I like how the interviewer introduce Adam in the beginning and how he told people to give him a hand at the end. They showed Adam racing the car in the beginning, but they didn't reveal his race time until the end of the interview. They used various camera angles, which made this video look good and it kept my interest. I liked how the showed different angles and zoom of the people and of the studio. The camera was steady the whole time. The interviewer asked some good questions too. Adam seemed to answer honestly and he was funny. It was good that the interviewer was talking while Adam was driving so the audience wasn't just watching Adam drive and cuss for a minute. Both Adam and the interviewer had good facial expressions and used their hands to talk. This was a very interesting and entertaining interview.
This video starts off by the interviewer saying, "Our celebrity today is Adam Levine." Everyone is outside around the race track. Adam and the interviewer talk for a little bit then Adam gets in the car (red Suzuki). At 30 seconds they show a quick black screen with the Top Gear logo then it cuts to Adam inside of the car. He starts racing at 36 seconds and ends at 1:30 minutes. It cusses a lot in the car because he's mad, so there are a lot of beeping noises (I think it's funny). The interviewer is talking while Adam is driving. Once Adam gets into the studio, he walks to the chair shakes hands with the interviewer and sits down. The first questions the interviewer ask is, "I wanna know how you got into cars" since he is a musician and on the voice. My favorite part is at 2:22 minutes when the interviewer asks, "Your first car was what?" And Adam responds with, "My first car was a 1971 Mach 1 Mustang." They show various camera angles in this video. The show a far away shot of the studio and all of the people in the studio, a close-up shot of Adam, a close-up shot of the interviewer, high angle shot of the studio and low angle shot of the 2 people talking. Adam and the interviewer go back and forth asking questions and responding. They show the audience reactions. Sometimes they laugh and sometimes they clap. They also show reactions of the interviewer and Adam. At 5:41 minutes the interviewer says, "You guys let's give Adam a hand, come on." It ends with a high angle shot of the studio with people clapping and then a close-up shot of Adam smiling. Then it shows a black screen that shows the BBC Worldwide logo.
I really liked this interview. I like how the interviewer introduce Adam in the beginning and how he told people to give him a hand at the end. They showed Adam racing the car in the beginning, but they didn't reveal his race time until the end of the interview. They used various camera angles, which made this video look good and it kept my interest. I liked how the showed different angles and zoom of the people and of the studio. The camera was steady the whole time. The interviewer asked some good questions too. Adam seemed to answer honestly and he was funny. It was good that the interviewer was talking while Adam was driving so the audience wasn't just watching Adam drive and cuss for a minute. Both Adam and the interviewer had good facial expressions and used their hands to talk. This was a very interesting and entertaining interview.
Friday, October 4, 2013
Good Morning America Interview with Lady Gaga
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/lady-gaga-interview-featured-paper-dress-singer-premiered-20009950 This is a Good Morning Interview with Lady Gaga. It's 3:10 minutes long. Good Morning America or abc news made this video.
They first scene is 4 people sitting down at a desk inside a studio. The one lady starts talking about Lady Gaga and then it shows B-roll while the lady is still talking. Then it shows Lady Gaga walking and greeting her fans in he new dress. They show more B-roll of Lady Gaga driving in her car. signing autographs, and some of her music video. Then they show the designer working in his studio who made Lady Gaga's white paper dress. He is a 22 year old and one of the fashion's world youngest and brightest stars. They show a close up of the designer's face and a shot of his studio. They show more of Lady Gaga's music videos.
This video includes titling. There is a yellow and red banner that comes across the screen from the left side and ends off-centered. It says GMA Heat Index, How Gaga Pulled It Off in the yellow part (black lettering) and says The Dress Made of Paper in the red part (white lettering). This banner stays up the whole time. It also says abs News.com in the lower right hand corner. They play Lady Gaga's new song, "Applause" has background music. When people were talking the music was turned down or turned off. At 2:13 minutes, one of the lady says, "For Good Morning America Lindsey Janice, ABC News, New York," then it cuts back to inside the studio. They didn't actually interview Lady Gaga in this video. They just talked about her new dress, the VMA'S, and the designer who made it. Then the people in the studio laugh and the video is over. The people in the studio were dressed up in dresses and suits.
I liked that they showed a lot of B-roll, but I thought I was going to see the people actually interview Lady Gaga. I guess that's another video. I did get to see the fashion designer being interviewed. The titling worked well, but I don't think it needs to be up the entire time. At 2:02 minutes the banner text changes and now says Mathieu Mirano in the red part and Fashion Designer in the yellow part. Then it goes back to the previous text. When the fashion designer was talking they showed a smaller video screen off to the right of the screen to show to the audience (viewers at home) what he is talking about. I like that they do a spilt screen. It would be annoying if they did in the whole time, but they didn't. I like how they lady signed off, but the video continued after she signed off, which doesn't make sense.
They first scene is 4 people sitting down at a desk inside a studio. The one lady starts talking about Lady Gaga and then it shows B-roll while the lady is still talking. Then it shows Lady Gaga walking and greeting her fans in he new dress. They show more B-roll of Lady Gaga driving in her car. signing autographs, and some of her music video. Then they show the designer working in his studio who made Lady Gaga's white paper dress. He is a 22 year old and one of the fashion's world youngest and brightest stars. They show a close up of the designer's face and a shot of his studio. They show more of Lady Gaga's music videos.
This video includes titling. There is a yellow and red banner that comes across the screen from the left side and ends off-centered. It says GMA Heat Index, How Gaga Pulled It Off in the yellow part (black lettering) and says The Dress Made of Paper in the red part (white lettering). This banner stays up the whole time. It also says abs News.com in the lower right hand corner. They play Lady Gaga's new song, "Applause" has background music. When people were talking the music was turned down or turned off. At 2:13 minutes, one of the lady says, "For Good Morning America Lindsey Janice, ABC News, New York," then it cuts back to inside the studio. They didn't actually interview Lady Gaga in this video. They just talked about her new dress, the VMA'S, and the designer who made it. Then the people in the studio laugh and the video is over. The people in the studio were dressed up in dresses and suits.
I liked that they showed a lot of B-roll, but I thought I was going to see the people actually interview Lady Gaga. I guess that's another video. I did get to see the fashion designer being interviewed. The titling worked well, but I don't think it needs to be up the entire time. At 2:02 minutes the banner text changes and now says Mathieu Mirano in the red part and Fashion Designer in the yellow part. Then it goes back to the previous text. When the fashion designer was talking they showed a smaller video screen off to the right of the screen to show to the audience (viewers at home) what he is talking about. I like that they do a spilt screen. It would be annoying if they did in the whole time, but they didn't. I like how they lady signed off, but the video continued after she signed off, which doesn't make sense.
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Hello On Two Morning Talk Show
http://vimeo.com/71364290 Part 1: TV2 "Hello On Two" Morning Talk Show Interview. This interview is 15 minutes long. This is RTM's only English talk show. I'm not sure where the studio is located at. I am researching talk show interviews because I am doing a self-interview video project. I want to know how the interview starts and end. I also want to see the different camera angles and timing. I'm not sure who made this video.
This interview starts out by the guy interviewer saying "Welcome back on this wonderful Tuesday afternoon." The guy and woman are sitting on a couch and they are both holding some papers. The woman interviewer reference her paper when she introduces their guest. She says, "So we are going to welcome... (and the name)." The camera shows the two interviewers from the waist up then the camera zooms out and shows the whole studio with all 3 people sitting down. Then they show the interviewee (the guest) from the waist up. At 57 seconds a banner pops up towards the bottom of the screen that says, "Underwater Photography" for about 7 seconds. Another banner pops up at 1:19 minutes and this time it says, "Mohd Halimi Abdullah, Director PADi Scuba Instructor, Ocean Element, "and that lasts for about 8 seconds. The camera goes back and forth from the interviewee, interviews, and the studio. It also shows the interviewees underwater photography cameras and a video clip of him diving. They show a close-up of them. The interviewers moves their hands frequently while talking, but nothing too distracting. They also show some point of view shots of the interviewee holding his camera. They don't show the reactions of people. Sometimes while the camera is on the interviewee the interviewers will react, but we only hear their reactions (mmh, yeah, right, oh, etc.). We don't actually see it. The interview just ends at 15 minutes. This is only part 1 of the interview, so I'm amusing that there is a part 2.
I didn't watch the entire interview. I watched up to 5 minutes then I skimmed though the rest. This video has 3 basic camera angles: close-up of the interviewee, close-up of the interviewers, and far away shot of the studio with the people sitting on the couch. They is a good amount of B-roll in this video. They show pictures and videos of the underwater photography in the water. They show some of the pictures for too long. The timing of the different cuts are pretty slow. I get a slow and calm feeling from this interview. I like that we hear the reactions as well as see them. I see the interviewers reactions a few times, but I hear them more. The point of view shots of the hands helped this video out a lot, so I' not constantly watching the people talk. This isn't the most exciting interview I have watched.
This interview starts out by the guy interviewer saying "Welcome back on this wonderful Tuesday afternoon." The guy and woman are sitting on a couch and they are both holding some papers. The woman interviewer reference her paper when she introduces their guest. She says, "So we are going to welcome... (and the name)." The camera shows the two interviewers from the waist up then the camera zooms out and shows the whole studio with all 3 people sitting down. Then they show the interviewee (the guest) from the waist up. At 57 seconds a banner pops up towards the bottom of the screen that says, "Underwater Photography" for about 7 seconds. Another banner pops up at 1:19 minutes and this time it says, "Mohd Halimi Abdullah, Director PADi Scuba Instructor, Ocean Element, "and that lasts for about 8 seconds. The camera goes back and forth from the interviewee, interviews, and the studio. It also shows the interviewees underwater photography cameras and a video clip of him diving. They show a close-up of them. The interviewers moves their hands frequently while talking, but nothing too distracting. They also show some point of view shots of the interviewee holding his camera. They don't show the reactions of people. Sometimes while the camera is on the interviewee the interviewers will react, but we only hear their reactions (mmh, yeah, right, oh, etc.). We don't actually see it. The interview just ends at 15 minutes. This is only part 1 of the interview, so I'm amusing that there is a part 2.
I didn't watch the entire interview. I watched up to 5 minutes then I skimmed though the rest. This video has 3 basic camera angles: close-up of the interviewee, close-up of the interviewers, and far away shot of the studio with the people sitting on the couch. They is a good amount of B-roll in this video. They show pictures and videos of the underwater photography in the water. They show some of the pictures for too long. The timing of the different cuts are pretty slow. I get a slow and calm feeling from this interview. I like that we hear the reactions as well as see them. I see the interviewers reactions a few times, but I hear them more. The point of view shots of the hands helped this video out a lot, so I' not constantly watching the people talk. This isn't the most exciting interview I have watched.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Good Morning America Interview with Katy Perry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw-N2nX9z7I This is Good Morning America Interview with Kay Perry. This interview is 14:58 minutes long. I am doing a self-interview with myself about my job at the horse barn. I am having trouble starting and ending my interview. I think I am going to pretend I am doing my self-interview for a morning talk show. So I am researching morning talk show interviews. Good Morning America made this video (or people working for them).
This interview starts out with Kay Perry walking into the studio greeting all of her fans. She hugs a guy and then walks to the desk. They people in the studio don't even give her a chair. She has to stand and pretend there is a chair there, which I think is rude. How do you invite a celebrity into a studio to interviewer her and not give her a chair? One of the woman interviewer says, "Live in our studio for the first time Kay Perry." They talk about her new album Prism and her music video "Roar." All of the people in the studio are dressed up. I would call that business casual. There are 5 interviewers and one interviewee, which is Katy Perry. They show different camera angles. They show the whole inside of the studio with all 6 people, they show a close-up of Katy Perry from the waist up, and a close up of the other interviewers. They also show a lot of B-roll. They show outside of the studio and some parts of her music videos. They camera goes back her forth from Katy Perry, to the other interviewers, and the whole inside of the studio. At 3:00 minutes someone says, "We are going to get some news from Josh," then it cut to a different scene. They probably showed a commercial during that break. The next scene is completely different from the first one. Everybody moved to a different room and Katy Perry finally has a chair! They continue talking about her new song. The interviewers asks her questions and Katy Perry responds. Around 11 minutes everybody moves outside the studio. Everybody is now standing and talking. They show close-ups of the people and far away shots. Katy Perry is the only one without a microphone. Most of the people are standing straight up. Kay Perry uses her hands sometimes while she is talking. She moves around a little bit too. The interview ends or the video ends when one of the guys says, "Let's get to the boards (he is talking about the weather).
One of the woman interviewer says at the end, "Nice to meet you I have been looking forward to it."
This interview started out by the interviewers saying "Live in our studio." I didn't hear them say the name of the studio, but I didn't watch every minute of this video either. The interview kind of just ended. They didn't really say thank you or goodbye. They where in a typical morning talk show studio. I think it's rude to not give a chair to Katy Perry or whoever their guest may be when everyone else is sitting down. I like the different camera angles. The camera was steady inside the studio, but when the people went outside to talk the camera was a little shaky. They showed a good bit of B-roll, which is good especially for a morning talk show. People don't want to watch the interviewers and interviewee talk the entire time. In the beginning of the interview they had her song "Roar" playing low in the background while the people were talking. They even showed some reactions. I think this is a good video of the live interview.
This interview starts out with Kay Perry walking into the studio greeting all of her fans. She hugs a guy and then walks to the desk. They people in the studio don't even give her a chair. She has to stand and pretend there is a chair there, which I think is rude. How do you invite a celebrity into a studio to interviewer her and not give her a chair? One of the woman interviewer says, "Live in our studio for the first time Kay Perry." They talk about her new album Prism and her music video "Roar." All of the people in the studio are dressed up. I would call that business casual. There are 5 interviewers and one interviewee, which is Katy Perry. They show different camera angles. They show the whole inside of the studio with all 6 people, they show a close-up of Katy Perry from the waist up, and a close up of the other interviewers. They also show a lot of B-roll. They show outside of the studio and some parts of her music videos. They camera goes back her forth from Katy Perry, to the other interviewers, and the whole inside of the studio. At 3:00 minutes someone says, "We are going to get some news from Josh," then it cut to a different scene. They probably showed a commercial during that break. The next scene is completely different from the first one. Everybody moved to a different room and Katy Perry finally has a chair! They continue talking about her new song. The interviewers asks her questions and Katy Perry responds. Around 11 minutes everybody moves outside the studio. Everybody is now standing and talking. They show close-ups of the people and far away shots. Katy Perry is the only one without a microphone. Most of the people are standing straight up. Kay Perry uses her hands sometimes while she is talking. She moves around a little bit too. The interview ends or the video ends when one of the guys says, "Let's get to the boards (he is talking about the weather).
One of the woman interviewer says at the end, "Nice to meet you I have been looking forward to it."
This interview started out by the interviewers saying "Live in our studio." I didn't hear them say the name of the studio, but I didn't watch every minute of this video either. The interview kind of just ended. They didn't really say thank you or goodbye. They where in a typical morning talk show studio. I think it's rude to not give a chair to Katy Perry or whoever their guest may be when everyone else is sitting down. I like the different camera angles. The camera was steady inside the studio, but when the people went outside to talk the camera was a little shaky. They showed a good bit of B-roll, which is good especially for a morning talk show. People don't want to watch the interviewers and interviewee talk the entire time. In the beginning of the interview they had her song "Roar" playing low in the background while the people were talking. They even showed some reactions. I think this is a good video of the live interview.
Monday, September 30, 2013
Full Jennifer Lawrence Interview- Late Show with David Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4x-8qaPJtg
This is a 13:54 minutes interview between David Letterman and Jennifer Lawrence. This is the full interview. I'm assuming that the editors of Late Show with David Letterman made this video.
This is a typical talk show interview between the host and a celebrity. Jennifer Lawrence is so honest and she is talking like a regular person. Jennifer is not reading a script and you can tell. It seems like she is having a casual conversation with someone. It doesn't even seem like she is on t.v. the way she is talking.
They show David Letterman talking behind his desk and he introduces her. Then they show Jennifer Lawrence walking towards the chairs. They shake hands and then they both sit down. The camera is straight on both people. David and Jennifer are sitting at a angle on the chair so it doesn't look straight on. They show a close-up on Jennifer's face and then they cut back to both people several times. Jennifer Lawrence is just being herself. Both characters especially Jennifer have different tones of voice, use their hands to talk, and have different facial expressions. They show a few B-roll shots like the band playing and outside of the studio. They show some close-ups of mounted pictures of Jennifer. They show bad and good pictures of her.
I know this is a typical late show interview, but the thing that makes it great is Jennifer Lawrence. I like watching her talk and the things that comes out of her mouth are honest, funny, and random. She really makes the interview. I like that they show close-ups of Jennifer's face and show some B-roll. It would be too boring if they just showed on camera angle the whole time. I like the questions and responses in this interview. I will reference back to this interview for tones of voice, facial expression, and hand movements.
This is a 13:54 minutes interview between David Letterman and Jennifer Lawrence. This is the full interview. I'm assuming that the editors of Late Show with David Letterman made this video.
This is a typical talk show interview between the host and a celebrity. Jennifer Lawrence is so honest and she is talking like a regular person. Jennifer is not reading a script and you can tell. It seems like she is having a casual conversation with someone. It doesn't even seem like she is on t.v. the way she is talking.
They show David Letterman talking behind his desk and he introduces her. Then they show Jennifer Lawrence walking towards the chairs. They shake hands and then they both sit down. The camera is straight on both people. David and Jennifer are sitting at a angle on the chair so it doesn't look straight on. They show a close-up on Jennifer's face and then they cut back to both people several times. Jennifer Lawrence is just being herself. Both characters especially Jennifer have different tones of voice, use their hands to talk, and have different facial expressions. They show a few B-roll shots like the band playing and outside of the studio. They show some close-ups of mounted pictures of Jennifer. They show bad and good pictures of her.
I know this is a typical late show interview, but the thing that makes it great is Jennifer Lawrence. I like watching her talk and the things that comes out of her mouth are honest, funny, and random. She really makes the interview. I like that they show close-ups of Jennifer's face and show some B-roll. It would be too boring if they just showed on camera angle the whole time. I like the questions and responses in this interview. I will reference back to this interview for tones of voice, facial expression, and hand movements.
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Funny Cute Friendly Horse Crashes TV Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuQmCcZUzb4
This is a 37 second interview about a guy and his horse winning the Classic final. This is an interview between a reporter and a trainer. This takes places inside and you can see where the horses are tied up (temporary stalls). Both people are standing up. It shows the two people and the horse in the background.
The interviewer starts out asking a question, but she gets interrupted by the horse. She starts laughing and then she pets the horse. She repeats her question and then the interviewee responds. While the interviewee is responding the camera slowly zooms in on him. A white banner pops up at the bottom of the screen that says, www.HarnessWeek.com visit us online for harness racing fun, features & news. The tiling starts at 9 seconds and stays up till 24 seconds. The interviewer asks another question and he responds. She is holding a microphone. When the reporter is talking she holds the microphone close to her mouth then she holds towards the trainer's mouth. Towards the end the reporter is petting the horse's nose and then the horse starts playing with his trainer's hat. The reporter laughs again. The last part quickly fades into black and that's the end.
This interview was probably edited down to the 37 seconds. I'm assuming that Harness Week is the one who made the video. I liked the questions that the reporter asks. I think the reporter and trainer did a good job of talking back and forth. It was funny that the horse wanted some attention too. There was only two camera angles, which was the main one (waist up and the background) and then a close up on the people and horse. This is a continuous video and there are no cuts. Most news reports are usually just one continues video since it's usually live. The camera showed more of the trainer's face instead of the reporters. The camera was at a slight diagonal angle. I liked that the camera wasn't straight one. That would have been too boring.
This is a 37 second interview about a guy and his horse winning the Classic final. This is an interview between a reporter and a trainer. This takes places inside and you can see where the horses are tied up (temporary stalls). Both people are standing up. It shows the two people and the horse in the background.
The interviewer starts out asking a question, but she gets interrupted by the horse. She starts laughing and then she pets the horse. She repeats her question and then the interviewee responds. While the interviewee is responding the camera slowly zooms in on him. A white banner pops up at the bottom of the screen that says, www.HarnessWeek.com visit us online for harness racing fun, features & news. The tiling starts at 9 seconds and stays up till 24 seconds. The interviewer asks another question and he responds. She is holding a microphone. When the reporter is talking she holds the microphone close to her mouth then she holds towards the trainer's mouth. Towards the end the reporter is petting the horse's nose and then the horse starts playing with his trainer's hat. The reporter laughs again. The last part quickly fades into black and that's the end.
This interview was probably edited down to the 37 seconds. I'm assuming that Harness Week is the one who made the video. I liked the questions that the reporter asks. I think the reporter and trainer did a good job of talking back and forth. It was funny that the horse wanted some attention too. There was only two camera angles, which was the main one (waist up and the background) and then a close up on the people and horse. This is a continuous video and there are no cuts. Most news reports are usually just one continues video since it's usually live. The camera showed more of the trainer's face instead of the reporters. The camera was at a slight diagonal angle. I liked that the camera wasn't straight one. That would have been too boring.
Monday, September 23, 2013
Jimmy Interviews Kentucky Derby Horse Orb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOQ7k4sAFpE
This is a skit by Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. This video is 2:58 minutes long. The editors and producers of Late night with Jimmy Fallon made this video. I am doing a self-interview about my work at the horse barn. This is a great video to look back on.
It starts out with Jimmy Fallon behind his studio desk talking about the Kentucky Derby. The camera is looking at Jimmy straight on. At 27 seconds it cuts to a establishing shot of the horse farm and there is soft/relaxing music playing. It is a tilt shot of the pasture and horses grazing. Then it cuts to a close up of a horse eating grass. Then it cuts to a horse trotting around the field. At 35 seconds it shows Jimmy with a big pink hat on walking towards a table. Then it fades to the next scene. At 58 seconds it shows that Jimmy is in the barn talking to the horse. It shows Jimmy sitting on a chair at a slight angle. The next cut is the horse "Orb" in his stall. It is a close up of the horse's face and you can see some parts of his stall. A yellow rectangle pops up at the right hand corner of the screen that says, "Orb the horse." Another camera angle shows a wide view of the barn. You can see where Jimmy is sitting at and the horse's stall. It cuts back and forth between Jimmy and Orb about 13 times. They show the wide view of the barn about 3 or 4 times. At 2:28 minutes it cuts to Jimmy ridding the horse, but you only see him from the waist up. I doubt that he is actually riding the horse. I think they just made it look like he was. Then it shows the horse running with a dummy on his back that is supposed to look like Jimmy. Then it fades in black and cuts back to Jimmy in his studio at 2:38 minutes. Jimmy says his thanks and then it's over. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon shows up at the top right hand corner the whole time the video is playing.
I really liked this interview. Even though it was a skit the editors and producers did a good job of filming. They showed establishing shots, walking shots, wide angles shots, close-up shots, and B-roll. The camera was very steady the whole time. I liked that they had music in the very beginning when they were showing B-roll. When Jimmy was interviewing the horse they cut back and forth between them. That's what I need to do with my interview. I know they must have edited a lot out. To get the horse to do the things he did (snort, shake his head, stick his tongue, etc.) took more than one shot to get. I know horses don't do that on command. It's timing and luck. No matter how much they had to cut out the final video was very good.
This is a skit by Jimmy Fallon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. This video is 2:58 minutes long. The editors and producers of Late night with Jimmy Fallon made this video. I am doing a self-interview about my work at the horse barn. This is a great video to look back on.
It starts out with Jimmy Fallon behind his studio desk talking about the Kentucky Derby. The camera is looking at Jimmy straight on. At 27 seconds it cuts to a establishing shot of the horse farm and there is soft/relaxing music playing. It is a tilt shot of the pasture and horses grazing. Then it cuts to a close up of a horse eating grass. Then it cuts to a horse trotting around the field. At 35 seconds it shows Jimmy with a big pink hat on walking towards a table. Then it fades to the next scene. At 58 seconds it shows that Jimmy is in the barn talking to the horse. It shows Jimmy sitting on a chair at a slight angle. The next cut is the horse "Orb" in his stall. It is a close up of the horse's face and you can see some parts of his stall. A yellow rectangle pops up at the right hand corner of the screen that says, "Orb the horse." Another camera angle shows a wide view of the barn. You can see where Jimmy is sitting at and the horse's stall. It cuts back and forth between Jimmy and Orb about 13 times. They show the wide view of the barn about 3 or 4 times. At 2:28 minutes it cuts to Jimmy ridding the horse, but you only see him from the waist up. I doubt that he is actually riding the horse. I think they just made it look like he was. Then it shows the horse running with a dummy on his back that is supposed to look like Jimmy. Then it fades in black and cuts back to Jimmy in his studio at 2:38 minutes. Jimmy says his thanks and then it's over. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon shows up at the top right hand corner the whole time the video is playing.
I really liked this interview. Even though it was a skit the editors and producers did a good job of filming. They showed establishing shots, walking shots, wide angles shots, close-up shots, and B-roll. The camera was very steady the whole time. I liked that they had music in the very beginning when they were showing B-roll. When Jimmy was interviewing the horse they cut back and forth between them. That's what I need to do with my interview. I know they must have edited a lot out. To get the horse to do the things he did (snort, shake his head, stick his tongue, etc.) took more than one shot to get. I know horses don't do that on command. It's timing and luck. No matter how much they had to cut out the final video was very good.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Funny Cute Friendly Horse Crashes TV Interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuQmCcZUzb4
This is a 37 second interview about a guy and his horse winning the Classic final. This is an interview between a reporter and a trainer. This takes places inside and you can see where the horses are tied up (temporary stalls). Both people are standing up. It shows the two people and the horse in the background.
The interviewer starts out asking a question, but she gets interrupted by the horse. She starts laughing and then she pets the horse. She repeats her question and then the interviewee responds. While the interviewee is responding the camera slowly zooms in on him. A white banner pops up at the bottom of the screen that says, www.HarnessWeek.com visit us online for harness racing fun, features & news. The tiling starts at 9 seconds and stays up till 24 seconds. The interviewer asks another question and he responds. She is holding a microphone. When the reporter is talking she holds the microphone close to her mouth then she holds towards the trainer's mouth. Towards the end the reporter is petting the horse's nose and then the horse starts playing with his trainer's hat. The reporter laughs again. The last part quickly fades into black and that's the end.
This interview was probably edited down to the 37 seconds. I'm assuming that Harness Week is the one who made the video. I liked the questions that the reporter asks. I think the reporter and trainer did a good job of talking back and forth. It was funny that the horse wanted some attention too. There was only two camera angles, which was the main one (waist up and the background) and then a close up on the people and horse. This is a continuous video and there are no cuts. Most news reports are usually just one continues video since it's usually live. The camera showed more of the trainer's face instead of the reporters. The camera was at a slight diagonal angle. I liked that the camera wasn't straight one. That would have been too boring.
This is a 37 second interview about a guy and his horse winning the Classic final. This is an interview between a reporter and a trainer. This takes places inside and you can see where the horses are tied up (temporary stalls). Both people are standing up. It shows the two people and the horse in the background.
The interviewer starts out asking a question, but she gets interrupted by the horse. She starts laughing and then she pets the horse. She repeats her question and then the interviewee responds. While the interviewee is responding the camera slowly zooms in on him. A white banner pops up at the bottom of the screen that says, www.HarnessWeek.com visit us online for harness racing fun, features & news. The tiling starts at 9 seconds and stays up till 24 seconds. The interviewer asks another question and he responds. She is holding a microphone. When the reporter is talking she holds the microphone close to her mouth then she holds towards the trainer's mouth. Towards the end the reporter is petting the horse's nose and then the horse starts playing with his trainer's hat. The reporter laughs again. The last part quickly fades into black and that's the end.
This interview was probably edited down to the 37 seconds. I'm assuming that Harness Week is the one who made the video. I liked the questions that the reporter asks. I think the reporter and trainer did a good job of talking back and forth. It was funny that the horse wanted some attention too. There was only two camera angles, which was the main one (waist up and the background) and then a close up on the people and horse. This is a continuous video and there are no cuts. Most news reports are usually just one continues video since it's usually live. The camera showed more of the trainer's face instead of the reporters. The camera was at a slight diagonal angle. I liked that the camera wasn't straight one. That would have been too boring.
Friday, September 20, 2013
Horses Insdie Out Interview with Liza Tarbuck
This is a interview about a lady who paints skeletons, muscles, and other anatomical designs of a horse on horses. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFhkhcBvbEU I can't find out who made this video.
I am making a self-interview video with me as the interviewer and interviewee. My interview is about my work with horses. I am looking up interviews that are horse related so I can get an idea of the timing, cuts, angles, questions, and how the people act, talk, and move.
They start out with titling that says "Horses Inside Out interview on Pet Nation- Sky 1 May 2010." That last for about three seconds. They show a high angle shot of the studio where the interview is going to take place at that lasts about 3 seconds. Then they cut to the 2 interviewers. The lady talks for about 9 seconds then it cuts to the interviewee. The cut lasts about 5 seconds and during the cut she is walking to the stage. The camera zooms in on her than out and the camera also moves with her while she is walking. The next cut is a close up of the interviewee shaking hands with all of the interviewers (3 interviewers). The next cut is them sitting down and getting settled. The lady interviewer talks for 7 seconds (close up shot) and then it cuts to the lady interviewee(close up shot). She talks for 20 seconds, but the camera is not on her the whole time. She starts to talk at 37 seconds. At 43 seconds the camera cuts to the woman and man interviewers for 2 seconds- they are showing the 2 people listening and reacting to the interviewee talking. Then it cuts back to a close up shot of the interviewee still talking. At 50-53 seconds the camera cuts to the 3rd interviewer (the other man) to show him listening and reacting to the interviewee talking. After she is done talking is cuts to the 2 interviewers (woman and man) and they begin to ask the interviewee a question. At 57 seconds everybody takes a look at a clip of the painted horse cantering over jumps. It shows the video of the horse behind a blue background with swirls. The video clip last 17 seconds. The show the same video twice: one at regular speed and the other one in slow-motion. Then it cuts back to the 2 interviewers (woman and man). They camera angle shows the people from the waist up sitting on the couch. The lady asks the interviewee another question and when the interviewee responds to the question the camera cuts back to her talking. The camera angle shows the interviewee from the chest up and you can't see the couch. The camera cuts back between the interviewee and the interviewer 4 times before the camera (and people) go into a completely different scene/cut.
At 1:30 minutes the camera cuts to another part of the studio that shows her painted horse and a painted guy. The woman interviewee walks up to her horse and she explains what she does and what the paintings mean. At 2:38 minutes the camera is on the interviewee and her horse, but the woman interviewer is asking her another question. Then the camera cuts to the woman and man interviewer for a few seconds then cuts back to the interviewee and her horse. They do that a few more times. At 5:00 minutes the woman interviewer says "Thank you very much Freddie folks, Jillian." Then the camera cuts to the interviewee and her horse and in the background people are clapping then it ends with a tilting screen that says, "With thanks to twofour studios."
I really like this interview. I think it is well put together. They showed people walking towards a place.They showed various camera angles of the studio and of people, and they also showed reactions of people while someone else is talking. They even had music in the beginning. Everything they showed in this video is what we talked about in my digital video class in college. I am going to reference back to this video while I am making my self-interview video.
I am making a self-interview video with me as the interviewer and interviewee. My interview is about my work with horses. I am looking up interviews that are horse related so I can get an idea of the timing, cuts, angles, questions, and how the people act, talk, and move.
They start out with titling that says "Horses Inside Out interview on Pet Nation- Sky 1 May 2010." That last for about three seconds. They show a high angle shot of the studio where the interview is going to take place at that lasts about 3 seconds. Then they cut to the 2 interviewers. The lady talks for about 9 seconds then it cuts to the interviewee. The cut lasts about 5 seconds and during the cut she is walking to the stage. The camera zooms in on her than out and the camera also moves with her while she is walking. The next cut is a close up of the interviewee shaking hands with all of the interviewers (3 interviewers). The next cut is them sitting down and getting settled. The lady interviewer talks for 7 seconds (close up shot) and then it cuts to the lady interviewee(close up shot). She talks for 20 seconds, but the camera is not on her the whole time. She starts to talk at 37 seconds. At 43 seconds the camera cuts to the woman and man interviewers for 2 seconds- they are showing the 2 people listening and reacting to the interviewee talking. Then it cuts back to a close up shot of the interviewee still talking. At 50-53 seconds the camera cuts to the 3rd interviewer (the other man) to show him listening and reacting to the interviewee talking. After she is done talking is cuts to the 2 interviewers (woman and man) and they begin to ask the interviewee a question. At 57 seconds everybody takes a look at a clip of the painted horse cantering over jumps. It shows the video of the horse behind a blue background with swirls. The video clip last 17 seconds. The show the same video twice: one at regular speed and the other one in slow-motion. Then it cuts back to the 2 interviewers (woman and man). They camera angle shows the people from the waist up sitting on the couch. The lady asks the interviewee another question and when the interviewee responds to the question the camera cuts back to her talking. The camera angle shows the interviewee from the chest up and you can't see the couch. The camera cuts back between the interviewee and the interviewer 4 times before the camera (and people) go into a completely different scene/cut.
At 1:30 minutes the camera cuts to another part of the studio that shows her painted horse and a painted guy. The woman interviewee walks up to her horse and she explains what she does and what the paintings mean. At 2:38 minutes the camera is on the interviewee and her horse, but the woman interviewer is asking her another question. Then the camera cuts to the woman and man interviewer for a few seconds then cuts back to the interviewee and her horse. They do that a few more times. At 5:00 minutes the woman interviewer says "Thank you very much Freddie folks, Jillian." Then the camera cuts to the interviewee and her horse and in the background people are clapping then it ends with a tilting screen that says, "With thanks to twofour studios."
I really like this interview. I think it is well put together. They showed people walking towards a place.They showed various camera angles of the studio and of people, and they also showed reactions of people while someone else is talking. They even had music in the beginning. Everything they showed in this video is what we talked about in my digital video class in college. I am going to reference back to this video while I am making my self-interview video.
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
Hungry Games T.V. Spot
Most of the movie trailers I see are the ones on t.v. They usually air for about 30 seconds. That's how I find out about new movies. It's hard to find the movie trailers online that are only 30 seconds long. I did find the Hunger Games 31 second movie trailer on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr-ei1EJjns I am making a 30 second original movie trailer, so I am researching other movie trailers to get inspiration.
The longest scene was the very first one that was about 3 seconds long. Most of the other scenes are about 1 second long and there was a few that were 2 seconds long. This is a fast paced movie trailer. At 8 seconds a tilting scene comes up that say "From the Best-Selling Epic Novels" and that shows for under 2 seconds. At 11 second there is a voice over that lasts till 17 seconds. There are 12 different cuts/scenes during that time. They show the actual guy talking at 12 seconds for about 1 second. The Hunger Games titling and logo appears at 25 seconds and lasts till 27 second. The fire in the logo is burning during that time so it's not a still shot. The release date, March 23rd shows up after the title for 3 seconds then there is a black screen and that's the end of the trailer.
The music fit well with this trailer. At 4 and 6 seconds there was a quick and dark sound that fit well with the scene. Music was playing during the rest of the movie and when someone was talking the music was turned down and when no one was talking the music was turned backed up. The transitions include none and a quick black flash. I saw the quick black flash transition used twice. The rest of the scenes didn't have any kind of transition. This movie trailer went a little quick for me. They should take out a few cuts and make other cuts a little longer. It included many different scenes and some of the scenes got lost because they weren't even up for a second. I think there are a couple of t.v. spot movie trailers for The Hunger Games. If I was seeing this trailer for the first time I don't think I would fully understand the movie. There are better 30 second movie trailers out there.
The longest scene was the very first one that was about 3 seconds long. Most of the other scenes are about 1 second long and there was a few that were 2 seconds long. This is a fast paced movie trailer. At 8 seconds a tilting scene comes up that say "From the Best-Selling Epic Novels" and that shows for under 2 seconds. At 11 second there is a voice over that lasts till 17 seconds. There are 12 different cuts/scenes during that time. They show the actual guy talking at 12 seconds for about 1 second. The Hunger Games titling and logo appears at 25 seconds and lasts till 27 second. The fire in the logo is burning during that time so it's not a still shot. The release date, March 23rd shows up after the title for 3 seconds then there is a black screen and that's the end of the trailer.
The music fit well with this trailer. At 4 and 6 seconds there was a quick and dark sound that fit well with the scene. Music was playing during the rest of the movie and when someone was talking the music was turned down and when no one was talking the music was turned backed up. The transitions include none and a quick black flash. I saw the quick black flash transition used twice. The rest of the scenes didn't have any kind of transition. This movie trailer went a little quick for me. They should take out a few cuts and make other cuts a little longer. It included many different scenes and some of the scenes got lost because they weren't even up for a second. I think there are a couple of t.v. spot movie trailers for The Hunger Games. If I was seeing this trailer for the first time I don't think I would fully understand the movie. There are better 30 second movie trailers out there.
Sunday, September 15, 2013
Evil Dead Movie Trailer (2013)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKFDkpHCQz4 This is the Evil Dead movie trailer. This is the remake of the 1981 Evil Dead movie. This trailer is 2:05 minutes long. I'm not sure who made this movie trailer, but I know that TriStar, Film District, and Ghost House Pictures produced this film.
The beginning of the trailer shows the green screen and then it shows three small logos of TriStar, Film District, and Ghost House Pictures. The beginning of the trailer starts out slow with creepy music in the background. At 23 seconds it says" From the produces of the horror classic," at 31 seconds it says "Comes a new vision," at 40 seconds it says "Once you unleash evil," at 46 seconds it says "It will consume you," at 1:00 minute it says "This April," at 1:09 minutes it says "Fear," at 1:15 minutes it says "What," at 1:19 minutes it says "You will become," and at 1:44 minutes it says "Evil Dead." Then it shows a few more scenes then it cuts to a black screen then it cuts back into a action scene. The release date shows up at 1:59 minutes and lasts for about 3 seconds.
The scene that is really creepy is at 56 seconds where the girl is possessed and she is covered in black slime in the woods. There are a lot of scary scenes throughout this trailer.
The transitions they used in this trailer are a slow black flash, a long black pause, going straight to the next scene, and a very quick horizontal black flash. The show some dialogue. There is some background music, but it doesn't play the entire time. The music fits with the various scenes well. I really like how they did the tilting. Each word popped up on it's own and there was sound that followed the words popping up. The words are in white against a black background with a sans-serif font. The font isn't creepy, but how the words pop up on the screen is. The scenes are a little slow in the beginning and then they get faster and show a lot of action scenes. I like that the show another scene after the title of the movie. I don't like movie trailers that just end. I think this is a good movie trailer. It made me want to go see the movie. If I movie trailer gives me goose bumps and makes me scared then I think it did it's job.
This movie trailer creeps me out and I have Goosebumps just watching it. I love that I have Goosebumps watching it because that means that it did it's job. The scary and freakier the movie trailer the more I want to see it. I love horror movies and if I am going to see a horror movie I want to be scared.
The beginning of the trailer shows the green screen and then it shows three small logos of TriStar, Film District, and Ghost House Pictures. The beginning of the trailer starts out slow with creepy music in the background. At 23 seconds it says" From the produces of the horror classic," at 31 seconds it says "Comes a new vision," at 40 seconds it says "Once you unleash evil," at 46 seconds it says "It will consume you," at 1:00 minute it says "This April," at 1:09 minutes it says "Fear," at 1:15 minutes it says "What," at 1:19 minutes it says "You will become," and at 1:44 minutes it says "Evil Dead." Then it shows a few more scenes then it cuts to a black screen then it cuts back into a action scene. The release date shows up at 1:59 minutes and lasts for about 3 seconds.
The scene that is really creepy is at 56 seconds where the girl is possessed and she is covered in black slime in the woods. There are a lot of scary scenes throughout this trailer.
The transitions they used in this trailer are a slow black flash, a long black pause, going straight to the next scene, and a very quick horizontal black flash. The show some dialogue. There is some background music, but it doesn't play the entire time. The music fits with the various scenes well. I really like how they did the tilting. Each word popped up on it's own and there was sound that followed the words popping up. The words are in white against a black background with a sans-serif font. The font isn't creepy, but how the words pop up on the screen is. The scenes are a little slow in the beginning and then they get faster and show a lot of action scenes. I like that the show another scene after the title of the movie. I don't like movie trailers that just end. I think this is a good movie trailer. It made me want to go see the movie. If I movie trailer gives me goose bumps and makes me scared then I think it did it's job.
This movie trailer creeps me out and I have Goosebumps just watching it. I love that I have Goosebumps watching it because that means that it did it's job. The scary and freakier the movie trailer the more I want to see it. I love horror movies and if I am going to see a horror movie I want to be scared.
Saturday, September 14, 2013
Warm Bodies Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNytA-KumTE This is the Warm Bodies (2013) movie trailer. It's 2:32 minutes long. Summit Entertainment made this trailer.
Like most movie trailers this starts out with the usual green screen with white lettering. It shows three 2 second scenes of the zombie walking then it cuts to a long black screen then it cuts back to the zombie walking. At 14 seconds it shows the Summit Entertainment logo then another black screen It shows a lot of clips from the beginning of the movie. Then around 44 seconds they show action scenes. Some of the scenes are faster and others are slower. At 1:22 minutes it says "From Summit Entertainment" in a large font size against a red background. At 1:56 minutes it says "This February" in the same font and style has the last tiling scene. At 2:02 minutes it says" Love" in black against a red background. I was always told the black against red or vice versus was hard to read. The black doesn't stand out as much as the white, but it's still readable because of the size and font choice.At 2:07 it says "Makes Us Human." At 2:17 it says" Warm Bodies" in a bigger font than the previous tilting. Then it shows another scene it then cuts back to the release date tilting at 2:28 minutes.
I know that this movie trailer shows scenes from the very beginning, the middle, and the end. I think the timing of all of the clips are good. This movie trailer has slow and fast clips. This is a well-put together movie trailer. It has dialogue and background music. The background music changes according to the scene. This movie trailer uses various transitions like a long black pause, going to the next scene, and a quick black flash. I like that the don't over use the long black pauses. They used that only a few times. The tilting font, size, and color, fits perfectly with the theme of this movie. I saw this movie in theaters and on DVD and I love it.
Like most movie trailers this starts out with the usual green screen with white lettering. It shows three 2 second scenes of the zombie walking then it cuts to a long black screen then it cuts back to the zombie walking. At 14 seconds it shows the Summit Entertainment logo then another black screen It shows a lot of clips from the beginning of the movie. Then around 44 seconds they show action scenes. Some of the scenes are faster and others are slower. At 1:22 minutes it says "From Summit Entertainment" in a large font size against a red background. At 1:56 minutes it says "This February" in the same font and style has the last tiling scene. At 2:02 minutes it says" Love" in black against a red background. I was always told the black against red or vice versus was hard to read. The black doesn't stand out as much as the white, but it's still readable because of the size and font choice.At 2:07 it says "Makes Us Human." At 2:17 it says" Warm Bodies" in a bigger font than the previous tilting. Then it shows another scene it then cuts back to the release date tilting at 2:28 minutes.
I know that this movie trailer shows scenes from the very beginning, the middle, and the end. I think the timing of all of the clips are good. This movie trailer has slow and fast clips. This is a well-put together movie trailer. It has dialogue and background music. The background music changes according to the scene. This movie trailer uses various transitions like a long black pause, going to the next scene, and a quick black flash. I like that the don't over use the long black pauses. They used that only a few times. The tilting font, size, and color, fits perfectly with the theme of this movie. I saw this movie in theaters and on DVD and I love it.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Grown Ups 2 Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhOWtVElqfw This is the Grown Ups 2 movie trailer (2013). It is 2:19 minutes long. I can't find the exact makers of this movie trailer, but I think people associated with Columbia pictures and Happy Madison Productions helped make it.
This trailer starts off with the typical green screen with white lettering. Then it shows the Columbia Pictures logo and the Happy Madison logo. The actual trailer starts at 9 seconds with a titling that says "A Few Years Ago." Then it says "Some Old Friends" and the words are surrounded by old pictures of the characters in the movie. At 12 seconds it says "Shared One Unforgettable Weekend." Then it shows clips from the movie. They show a few more tilting throughout the movie. Starting at 1:35 minutes and ending at 1:42 minutes they show each of the 4 main characters up-close with their name next to them. I like that part because they showed the actors names in a creative way.
They show some scenes from the first movie in the beginning and at 28 seconds it starts showing scenes from the new movie.Some of the scenes are long and others are short. At 1:52 minutes it shows the Grown Ups 2 logo for about 4 seconds. They show a few more scenes after the movie tiling. Then at 2:16 minutes it shows the release date of the movie. The main transitions I saw were fading out/in and then going to the next scene. This trailer had dialogue between the characters and background music. The background music was playing the whole time except for a few times. I think the music fit the trailer well. The position of the tilting bugged me a little. The tilting was looked like it was a little off centered and more towards the bottom, but I think it was just an illusion. I think the black and white lines in the background is what is throwing me off. They might wanted to get rid of that background. It should be in the centered or off-centered more. I liked the timing of the scenes. It didn't go too fast or slow for me. They showed the right amount of short of long clips. I never actually saw this movie, but I heard that it wasn't good. This seemed like a decent trailer, but it didn't make me want to go see this movie right away in theaters.
This trailer starts off with the typical green screen with white lettering. Then it shows the Columbia Pictures logo and the Happy Madison logo. The actual trailer starts at 9 seconds with a titling that says "A Few Years Ago." Then it says "Some Old Friends" and the words are surrounded by old pictures of the characters in the movie. At 12 seconds it says "Shared One Unforgettable Weekend." Then it shows clips from the movie. They show a few more tilting throughout the movie. Starting at 1:35 minutes and ending at 1:42 minutes they show each of the 4 main characters up-close with their name next to them. I like that part because they showed the actors names in a creative way.
They show some scenes from the first movie in the beginning and at 28 seconds it starts showing scenes from the new movie.Some of the scenes are long and others are short. At 1:52 minutes it shows the Grown Ups 2 logo for about 4 seconds. They show a few more scenes after the movie tiling. Then at 2:16 minutes it shows the release date of the movie. The main transitions I saw were fading out/in and then going to the next scene. This trailer had dialogue between the characters and background music. The background music was playing the whole time except for a few times. I think the music fit the trailer well. The position of the tilting bugged me a little. The tilting was looked like it was a little off centered and more towards the bottom, but I think it was just an illusion. I think the black and white lines in the background is what is throwing me off. They might wanted to get rid of that background. It should be in the centered or off-centered more. I liked the timing of the scenes. It didn't go too fast or slow for me. They showed the right amount of short of long clips. I never actually saw this movie, but I heard that it wasn't good. This seemed like a decent trailer, but it didn't make me want to go see this movie right away in theaters.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Monster University Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBzPioph8CI This is Monsters University Final Trailer. This video was uploaded or made by Disney Pixar. It is 2:31 minutes long.
It starts out with a green screen that has some information and rating (about 5 seconds). Then it shows the Disney pictures logo then the Pixar animation studios logo. At 8 seconds it shows the first scene from the movie. At 10 seconds it says "Every Dream," at 16 seconds it says "Begins Somewhere," at 28 seconds it says "From Disney Pixar," at 43 seconds it says "Some Are Born To Greatness," at 49 seconds it says "And Some...," at 58 seconds it says "Find Greatness on Their Own," at 1:35 minutes it says "This Summer," at 1:39 minutes it says "They'll Become The Team," at 1:46 minutes it says "That Opened Doors Everywhere," at 2:28 minutes is says "Monsters University Disney Pixar" and shows the date and website. All of the tilting has the same font, size, and background. It shows continuity.
In the beginning of the trailer they have some slow scenes and the music is inspiring. At 17 seconds they show titling that slowly fades into the next scene. The titling starts out on a black background then fades onto a scene. I really like how they did that part. At 28 seconds another titling shows up and the music changes into a faster and more up-beat tempo. Some of the scenes get faster. They show more action scenes after the music changes. At 49 seconds the music changes again into a slower tempo and more sad music. They show some slow and sad scenes during that part. The music slowly gets a little faster and they show happy, sad, action, and non action scenes. At 1:35 minutes they show tilting and the music changes again into a faster beat and happier music. At 2:00 minutes they play an actual song. Even though the music changed tempos and beats a few times throughout the trailer it was still the same original sound. I liked the changes in music. They matched the music with the different scenes very well. I felt inspired, sad, happy, and excited watching this trailer.
The transitions they used in this trailer were going to the next scene, fade out, slow black fade, and quick black flash. This movie trailer is well put together. The timing of the scenes varied, but they all fit together well. This trailer had a lot of tilting and I think it worked because the tilting was spaced out. They had dialogue and music in this trailer, but not a narrator. I don't think there is any reason to have a narrator. The dialogue of the characters and the music say a lot.
It starts out with a green screen that has some information and rating (about 5 seconds). Then it shows the Disney pictures logo then the Pixar animation studios logo. At 8 seconds it shows the first scene from the movie. At 10 seconds it says "Every Dream," at 16 seconds it says "Begins Somewhere," at 28 seconds it says "From Disney Pixar," at 43 seconds it says "Some Are Born To Greatness," at 49 seconds it says "And Some...," at 58 seconds it says "Find Greatness on Their Own," at 1:35 minutes it says "This Summer," at 1:39 minutes it says "They'll Become The Team," at 1:46 minutes it says "That Opened Doors Everywhere," at 2:28 minutes is says "Monsters University Disney Pixar" and shows the date and website. All of the tilting has the same font, size, and background. It shows continuity.
In the beginning of the trailer they have some slow scenes and the music is inspiring. At 17 seconds they show titling that slowly fades into the next scene. The titling starts out on a black background then fades onto a scene. I really like how they did that part. At 28 seconds another titling shows up and the music changes into a faster and more up-beat tempo. Some of the scenes get faster. They show more action scenes after the music changes. At 49 seconds the music changes again into a slower tempo and more sad music. They show some slow and sad scenes during that part. The music slowly gets a little faster and they show happy, sad, action, and non action scenes. At 1:35 minutes they show tilting and the music changes again into a faster beat and happier music. At 2:00 minutes they play an actual song. Even though the music changed tempos and beats a few times throughout the trailer it was still the same original sound. I liked the changes in music. They matched the music with the different scenes very well. I felt inspired, sad, happy, and excited watching this trailer.
The transitions they used in this trailer were going to the next scene, fade out, slow black fade, and quick black flash. This movie trailer is well put together. The timing of the scenes varied, but they all fit together well. This trailer had a lot of tilting and I think it worked because the tilting was spaced out. They had dialogue and music in this trailer, but not a narrator. I don't think there is any reason to have a narrator. The dialogue of the characters and the music say a lot.
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
101 Dalmatians (One Hundred and One Dalmatians) 1961 Movie Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055254/ This is the 101 Dalmatians movie trailer. It's original title was One Hundred and One Dalmatians in 1961. I'm not sure if this is the original movie trailer or not. Bueno Vista which is a brand name frequently used for divisions of The Walt Disney Company.
This movie trailer is 1:51 minutes long. I counted the different timing of cuts/scenes as follows (this may not be exact timing) 6, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2. It starts out with a long scene of the human parents playing the piano with all of the puppies and dog parents in the room gathered around the piano. "101 Dalmatians" shows on the screen for about 3 seconds. The color of the word is red with a white outline and it's a sans serif font. This trailer doesn't use any transitions. All of the scenes go to the next scene without a transition. There is some dialogue, a narrator, and background music. There is background music playing throughout the trailer. The music is turned down when a character is speaking. This trailer shows scenes from all parts of the movie. At 1:39 minutes it says "Two Thumbs Up! -Siskel and Ebert" in yellow over top of the scenes. At 1:42 minutes it says "Wonderful... On a Scale of 10 This Film Gets 101! - Good Morning America." in the same font and color as the last quote. The tilting is aligned left and takes up a good portion of the bottom part of the scene. The ending clip last about 3 seconds and it's the exact clip from the very beginning of the trailer. It also shows the tilting of the movie again then it fades to black.
This is a very old film so the producers and editors didn't have the technology that we do today. Back then it was probably amazing how far motion pictures had come. 101 Dalmatians will always be a classic, so I can't critique this trailer too much because it was made in 1961. Our movies have come a long way since then. The tilting is very weak in this movie trailer. The beginning and ending titling isn't bad for 1961, but the rest of the tilting is weak. I liked the timing of the different scenes. This trailer had slow and fast scenes. I thought the narrator and music helped this movie trailer. Most of the newer movie trailers don't have narrators. The music fit this trailer well. Other than the titling, I think this is a well put together movie trailer.
This movie trailer is 1:51 minutes long. I counted the different timing of cuts/scenes as follows (this may not be exact timing) 6, 3, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 4, 3, 2. It starts out with a long scene of the human parents playing the piano with all of the puppies and dog parents in the room gathered around the piano. "101 Dalmatians" shows on the screen for about 3 seconds. The color of the word is red with a white outline and it's a sans serif font. This trailer doesn't use any transitions. All of the scenes go to the next scene without a transition. There is some dialogue, a narrator, and background music. There is background music playing throughout the trailer. The music is turned down when a character is speaking. This trailer shows scenes from all parts of the movie. At 1:39 minutes it says "Two Thumbs Up! -Siskel and Ebert" in yellow over top of the scenes. At 1:42 minutes it says "Wonderful... On a Scale of 10 This Film Gets 101! - Good Morning America." in the same font and color as the last quote. The tilting is aligned left and takes up a good portion of the bottom part of the scene. The ending clip last about 3 seconds and it's the exact clip from the very beginning of the trailer. It also shows the tilting of the movie again then it fades to black.
This is a very old film so the producers and editors didn't have the technology that we do today. Back then it was probably amazing how far motion pictures had come. 101 Dalmatians will always be a classic, so I can't critique this trailer too much because it was made in 1961. Our movies have come a long way since then. The tilting is very weak in this movie trailer. The beginning and ending titling isn't bad for 1961, but the rest of the tilting is weak. I liked the timing of the different scenes. This trailer had slow and fast scenes. I thought the narrator and music helped this movie trailer. Most of the newer movie trailers don't have narrators. The music fit this trailer well. Other than the titling, I think this is a well put together movie trailer.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Ghost Rider Movie Trailer
http://marvel.com/videos/watch/92/ghost_rider_tv_spot_trailer_5 This is the first Ghost Rider movie trailer. It says it's T.V. Spot trailer 5, so they probably had a few different trailers air on t.v. It is 32 seconds long. This was probably a T.V. spot movie trailer, like the movie trailers you see during commercial breaks. I can't find the person who made this video, but I'm assuming the Columbia pictures and marvel put this video together.
The timing of the scenes in this trailer are very fast. I counted the scenes like this: 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,1,1, 1, 4. Most of the 1 second scenes are about half of a second. The transitions either go to the next scene or have a quick white flash. At 3 seconds it shows the Columbia Pictures logo for half of a second. They have a scene at 11-12 seconds where the Johnny turns into the ghost rider and he wipes a fiery chain across the screen. The next slip shows the close-up of the fiery chains and it says "On February 16th" in fire. At 25 seconds it says "Ghost Rider" in white letters and with flames behind the words against a black background for about 2 seconds. At 29 seconds it shows the release date close to the top of the screen, the website, producers logo, and rating on top of a scene. That lasts for about 4 seconds. This movie trailer was dialogue, a narrator, and background music.
I like this movie a lot, but I don't like this particular movie trailer. The scenes go way to fast and a lot of them get lost because they are only shown for about half of a second or one second. They need to take some of the clips out and make other ones longer. The longest clip they had was about 3-4 seconds and that was the last clip at the end where Johnny and the Caretaker are talking. I like the different scenes they showed, but they need to last longer. I like the mix of dialogue between the characters, a narrator, and background music. I also like how they used a quick white flash instead of a black flash to transition to the next scene. The first titling was only shown for about 1 second. I could barley read what it said. I had to watch the trailer again and pause it so I could see what it said. The ending titling was up longer than the first one, which is good, but all tilting should be up long enough for the audience to read it. This isn't the best movie trailer I've seen.
The timing of the scenes in this trailer are very fast. I counted the scenes like this: 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1,1,1, 1, 4. Most of the 1 second scenes are about half of a second. The transitions either go to the next scene or have a quick white flash. At 3 seconds it shows the Columbia Pictures logo for half of a second. They have a scene at 11-12 seconds where the Johnny turns into the ghost rider and he wipes a fiery chain across the screen. The next slip shows the close-up of the fiery chains and it says "On February 16th" in fire. At 25 seconds it says "Ghost Rider" in white letters and with flames behind the words against a black background for about 2 seconds. At 29 seconds it shows the release date close to the top of the screen, the website, producers logo, and rating on top of a scene. That lasts for about 4 seconds. This movie trailer was dialogue, a narrator, and background music.
I like this movie a lot, but I don't like this particular movie trailer. The scenes go way to fast and a lot of them get lost because they are only shown for about half of a second or one second. They need to take some of the clips out and make other ones longer. The longest clip they had was about 3-4 seconds and that was the last clip at the end where Johnny and the Caretaker are talking. I like the different scenes they showed, but they need to last longer. I like the mix of dialogue between the characters, a narrator, and background music. I also like how they used a quick white flash instead of a black flash to transition to the next scene. The first titling was only shown for about 1 second. I could barley read what it said. I had to watch the trailer again and pause it so I could see what it said. The ending titling was up longer than the first one, which is good, but all tilting should be up long enough for the audience to read it. This isn't the best movie trailer I've seen.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Transformers 3 Full Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHRf01Gjosk
This is the Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon Trailer. It is 2:31 minutes long, so it's a full length trailer. It is slow in the beginning and has long black pauses between each scene. From the start of the trailer to about 57 seconds the scenes are 2-3 seconds long. At 30 seconds they show a scene from inside a giant under ground building and they have a voice over during that scene. The next scene at 33 seconds actually shows the lady talking to the guy. There is some tilting in this trailer. At 36 seconds they show the Paramount logo for about 2 seconds. The beginning of the trailer shows scenes that doesn't have action in them, but show more of the places.
"From Director Michael Bay" pops up against a black background for about 1-2 seconds at 56 seconds. Then there is a 5 second long clip and another title comes up that says "And Executive Producer Steven Spielberg" Both of the titling has the same color and font.
At 1:10 minutes the scenes get faster and most of them are action/fighting scenes. These scenes do not have any transition between them. At 1:17 minutes a titling scene comes up the says "On 7.1.11" It has the same font and color as the previous titling scenes, but the font size is bigger. They have a scenes that show from 1-4 seconds. Most of the scenes are action scenes and some show people talking or a place. These scenes either have a quick black flash or no transition. Starting at 2:22 minutes and ending at 2:24 minutes they show the name of the movie, which is Transformers slowing transforming into the movie name. It also has the full name of the movie and the director's name. They show the release date of the movie next, which is 7.1.11. Then they show 4 titling scenes in a row that say the production names, visual effects and animation, music by, executive producers, based on, written by, and directed by. These titling scenes are about 1 second long. It's not enough time to read the words, but they never give people enough time to read it because it's not that important to the audience.
I liked the timing and transitions in this movie trailer. This trailer has a good balance of fast and slow scenes. The beginning of the trailer had a slow and calm feel compared to the action packed and fast feel towards the end of the trailer. The makers of this trailer did a good job of transitioning the beginning and end of the trailer to make the audience have that different feelings. The long black transitions worked well in the beginning of the trailer and the scenes without a transition worked well towards the middle/end. Starting around 1:05 minutes till the end of the trailer I felt a lot of suspense, which is a good thing. All of the titling had the same design language. If someone sees the same tilting used somewhere else (like a poster, cut-out, internet, etc.) they would probably put 2 and 2 together and figure out that the titling belongs the movie Transformer 3. That's called a design language and every movie trailer usually has it's own. This movie trailer definitely makes me want to go see it in theaters.
This is the Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon Trailer. It is 2:31 minutes long, so it's a full length trailer. It is slow in the beginning and has long black pauses between each scene. From the start of the trailer to about 57 seconds the scenes are 2-3 seconds long. At 30 seconds they show a scene from inside a giant under ground building and they have a voice over during that scene. The next scene at 33 seconds actually shows the lady talking to the guy. There is some tilting in this trailer. At 36 seconds they show the Paramount logo for about 2 seconds. The beginning of the trailer shows scenes that doesn't have action in them, but show more of the places.
"From Director Michael Bay" pops up against a black background for about 1-2 seconds at 56 seconds. Then there is a 5 second long clip and another title comes up that says "And Executive Producer Steven Spielberg" Both of the titling has the same color and font.
At 1:10 minutes the scenes get faster and most of them are action/fighting scenes. These scenes do not have any transition between them. At 1:17 minutes a titling scene comes up the says "On 7.1.11" It has the same font and color as the previous titling scenes, but the font size is bigger. They have a scenes that show from 1-4 seconds. Most of the scenes are action scenes and some show people talking or a place. These scenes either have a quick black flash or no transition. Starting at 2:22 minutes and ending at 2:24 minutes they show the name of the movie, which is Transformers slowing transforming into the movie name. It also has the full name of the movie and the director's name. They show the release date of the movie next, which is 7.1.11. Then they show 4 titling scenes in a row that say the production names, visual effects and animation, music by, executive producers, based on, written by, and directed by. These titling scenes are about 1 second long. It's not enough time to read the words, but they never give people enough time to read it because it's not that important to the audience.
I liked the timing and transitions in this movie trailer. This trailer has a good balance of fast and slow scenes. The beginning of the trailer had a slow and calm feel compared to the action packed and fast feel towards the end of the trailer. The makers of this trailer did a good job of transitioning the beginning and end of the trailer to make the audience have that different feelings. The long black transitions worked well in the beginning of the trailer and the scenes without a transition worked well towards the middle/end. Starting around 1:05 minutes till the end of the trailer I felt a lot of suspense, which is a good thing. All of the titling had the same design language. If someone sees the same tilting used somewhere else (like a poster, cut-out, internet, etc.) they would probably put 2 and 2 together and figure out that the titling belongs the movie Transformer 3. That's called a design language and every movie trailer usually has it's own. This movie trailer definitely makes me want to go see it in theaters.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Men In Black 3 Movie Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyaFEBI_L24 I don't know the exact person(s) who made this trailer, but I know it came from Columbia Pictures.
This is the Men in Black 3 movie trailer. It is a 1:58 minutes long. It is a little longer than the first one. It starts out a little differently. They have a green screen with information on it for 5 seconds then a black screen then 2 clips from the movie then it shows the Columbia Pictures logo, but the lady is holding a the memory eraser stick and she is wearing the men in black sunglasses. They modified the logo slightly to fit in with the movie. That usually doesn't happen that often. I think it's very creative and helps the beginning of the trailer. The scenes go a little fast in the beginning and between each scene there is a long black flash. They probably have the black flash as a transition between the scenes that do go together in the trailer. The scenes are from different parts of the movie. I like when they use the black flash for a short period of time during the trailer. It creates anticipation. It would get annoying if they did that for every transition. They have a long scene that starts at 21 seconds and ends at 37 seconds, but it's broken up into 5 small clips or different camera angles. There is one clip that is 7 seconds long. That is pretty long for one clip, but it fits well in the trailer. At 37 seconds they show a black screen that says "From Columbia Pictures." Between 42 seconds and 49 seconds each scene has a black flash transition. The flashes can be a little distracting, so they should be used sparingly. They have another 5 second long clip. The timing of the scenes slows down in the middle and then gets faster. At 58 seconds it says "This Summer" that is up for 1 ½ - 2 seconds. There is another title clip at 1:12 minutes that says "He'll have to find the answer" and that is up for 3 seconds. At 1:19 it says "In Time" for 2 seconds. At 1:38 it starts to show the Men in Black logo for 4 seconds. After the title of the movie shows, it shows another scene for 8 seconds. Then it says, "Memorial Day," and right after that it says, "In 3D and IMAX 3D."
This movie also has it's own design language. All of the titling font, size, colors, and transitions were the same. After the words popped up it showed a blue flash in the background, like the words were time jumping. This trailer has continuity with it's design language. If I saw the same words in a different place I would know that it is from MIB. It's smart to keep all of the titling the same.
The transitions I saw get used the most was a quick black flash, a slow black flash, and going straight to the next scene (no transition). I think the black flashes were over used. I liked the timing of this trailer. They had a good amount of fast and slow scenes and they spread it out throughout the trailer. This trailer seemed like it was longer than it actually was. They showed the right amount of titling too. Not too much, but enough to get straight to the point.
All 3 Men in Black movie trailers are slightly different. The first and second movie trailer shows the 2 men coming out of the logo and the last movie trailer only shows the logo. All of the trailers start in a very similar way. The design language has improved in a good way and I can tell that by seeing the titling in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, movie trailer. The first movie trailer shows a black screen with san-serif font and white lettering. The second trailer shows the same thing, but the font is slightly different (seems more stretched out) and it has a quick blue circle that flashes when the words comes up. The final trailer is similar to the second one, but the font is slightly different again (looks sharp and clean) and it also has a bigger and longer blue flash in the background. My favorite one is the last one.
Overall, I liked this movie trailer, but I think the quick black flashes got overused a little. They were a little distracting and repetitive.
This is the Men in Black 3 movie trailer. It is a 1:58 minutes long. It is a little longer than the first one. It starts out a little differently. They have a green screen with information on it for 5 seconds then a black screen then 2 clips from the movie then it shows the Columbia Pictures logo, but the lady is holding a the memory eraser stick and she is wearing the men in black sunglasses. They modified the logo slightly to fit in with the movie. That usually doesn't happen that often. I think it's very creative and helps the beginning of the trailer. The scenes go a little fast in the beginning and between each scene there is a long black flash. They probably have the black flash as a transition between the scenes that do go together in the trailer. The scenes are from different parts of the movie. I like when they use the black flash for a short period of time during the trailer. It creates anticipation. It would get annoying if they did that for every transition. They have a long scene that starts at 21 seconds and ends at 37 seconds, but it's broken up into 5 small clips or different camera angles. There is one clip that is 7 seconds long. That is pretty long for one clip, but it fits well in the trailer. At 37 seconds they show a black screen that says "From Columbia Pictures." Between 42 seconds and 49 seconds each scene has a black flash transition. The flashes can be a little distracting, so they should be used sparingly. They have another 5 second long clip. The timing of the scenes slows down in the middle and then gets faster. At 58 seconds it says "This Summer" that is up for 1 ½ - 2 seconds. There is another title clip at 1:12 minutes that says "He'll have to find the answer" and that is up for 3 seconds. At 1:19 it says "In Time" for 2 seconds. At 1:38 it starts to show the Men in Black logo for 4 seconds. After the title of the movie shows, it shows another scene for 8 seconds. Then it says, "Memorial Day," and right after that it says, "In 3D and IMAX 3D."
This movie also has it's own design language. All of the titling font, size, colors, and transitions were the same. After the words popped up it showed a blue flash in the background, like the words were time jumping. This trailer has continuity with it's design language. If I saw the same words in a different place I would know that it is from MIB. It's smart to keep all of the titling the same.
The transitions I saw get used the most was a quick black flash, a slow black flash, and going straight to the next scene (no transition). I think the black flashes were over used. I liked the timing of this trailer. They had a good amount of fast and slow scenes and they spread it out throughout the trailer. This trailer seemed like it was longer than it actually was. They showed the right amount of titling too. Not too much, but enough to get straight to the point.
All 3 Men in Black movie trailers are slightly different. The first and second movie trailer shows the 2 men coming out of the logo and the last movie trailer only shows the logo. All of the trailers start in a very similar way. The design language has improved in a good way and I can tell that by seeing the titling in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd, movie trailer. The first movie trailer shows a black screen with san-serif font and white lettering. The second trailer shows the same thing, but the font is slightly different (seems more stretched out) and it has a quick blue circle that flashes when the words comes up. The final trailer is similar to the second one, but the font is slightly different again (looks sharp and clean) and it also has a bigger and longer blue flash in the background. My favorite one is the last one.
Overall, I liked this movie trailer, but I think the quick black flashes got overused a little. They were a little distracting and repetitive.
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