Assignment 2: Task 3 – Disconnected Brief

(Disconnected – Jazz Morley)

Firstly, I would shoot video footage of Jazz Morley singing the song, from different angles so that I could edit it in the most effective way. Then I would need to get some video of the soldiers in their uniforms. Firstly I would go to a training camp somewhere in England, for video of them before they leave. I would get lots of video of the soldiers saying goodbye because that is what Jazz Morley is singing about ‘saying goodbye’ to her brother. This would fit nicely with the song because Jazz Morley doesn’t sing about the fighting side of things she just sings about how her brother isn’t around. I will make sure I have enough footage of everything they do, so that I can make sure I have enough to edit it alongside the song and in between the video of Jazz Morley singing the song.
After doing my story board I have a clear plan as to how I am going to make the music video. The first shot will be a long shot of Jazz Morley singing the song. The second shot will be a long shot of the soldiers standing on guard and waiting to leave. The third shot will be a close up of Jazz singing the song. The fourth shot will be a mid shot of the soldiers saying goodbye to friend s and family. The fifth shot will be split in two, one half will be of Jazz singing the song and a mid shot and the other half will be the soldiers boarding the plane, the split down the middle will blend the two scenes together. The sixth shot will also be split and blended in the middle, one half will be a long shot of Jazz singing and the other shot will be of the plane flying away and the friends and family waving goodbye. Each shot will flow into each other, so that there is no start and stopping. I will use pans, fade to blacks and dissolves. I think it will work very well because, similar music videos use all these things and they work really well together. 

Assignment 2: Task 2 – Visualisation

(Disconnected – Jazz Morley)

Thinking about making a music video for this song, I think I would use footage of people in Afghanistan in their uniforms. Not necessarily of them fighting, just them being out there. I think if I used footage of them fighting it would make the whole song and video too sad. I would also use footage of Jazz Morley singing the song because then we could see her emotions and reactions to the words she is singing. I think this would make the video more effective and make people understand that there are a lot of soldiers fighting, meaning there are a lot of family’s suffering. For the music video I don’t think I will tell a story because the song doesn’t need it. It tells a story on its own so I think I will just use pictures to back up the song. 

Assignment 2: Task 1 – The initial listen

(Disconnected - Jazz Morley)

The song sounds really sad and the lyrics also prove this is a sad song because its about someone leaving. After viewing a live version of the song I now know that Jazz Morley wrote this song about her brother, who is fighting in Afghanistan. The mood and tone that is conveyed through the song is very downbeat, when she wrote the song, she obviously was thinking about her brother and her feelings and mood is portrayed through the words of the song and the overall tone. This song sounds very similar to some of Adele’s songs; it has the same tone to it and the same moods. Adele’s music is very deep and she usually sings about the bad things that happen. Jazz Morley’s song has the same mood and tones as Adele. The genre of the track is more soul than anything else because it has meaning and is heartfelt rather than it just being a song about something completely random. 

Evaluation of PowerPoint on Thor!

On the day of the presentation I was off ill, so I wasn’t able to do it. However, I did contribute a lot towards the overall PowerPoint. Scala and I worked very well together on the sound analysis task. We had two films to choose from they were Pirates of the Caribbean 4 and Thor. We reviewed a five-minute scene from each to choose the section with the most sound. We decided that Thor was the best one to use because there was a lot of non-diegetic sound that we could analyse easily.

The information we gathered on the sound was mostly through listening very carefully and watching the track repeatedly, but we also got some of the information on the sound from the information.

When creating the PowerPoint we had to keep referring back to our glossaries so we could properly understand the different types of sound we had to analyse. I found it very helpful to have it there because we kept forgetting some of the meanings.

If we could do the PowerPoint again I would probably use Pirates of the Caribbean because although Thor had a lot of good and different types of sound effects it became a bit repetitive throughout the presentation. Pirates of the Caribbean would have been different sounds throughout the presentation. Also I haven’t actually watched Thor whereas I have watched Pirates of the Caribbean.

From this sound analysis task I have learned a lot about all the different types of sound that film producers and editors have to think about. It would take a long time to get all of the sound together and then edit it into the right place on the film.