Deleted scenes

There are many scenes that we have filmed. Overall we had had over 9 hours of footage of witch most we did not use for several reasons . For example the video above. We wanted to use if because its a strong shot framing wise and overall feel . IT also implies that she is leaving him behind as the camera stays still and the car moves on . However when we have filmed this we did not notice the shadow of the camera and stand on the car, it was not noticeable on the camera display screen .

Some of this unused footage is purely because we had taken the same scenes from different angle .

Others that are not faulty and are not the same thing from a different angel , couldn't be used because of the short space of time we have had.For example the video below , that is only one of many usable shots that went unused .

Director's commentary for evaluation question 4.

10 specific things that were done by the use of technology

We used the studio cameras for high definition shots during the recording of our performance scenes

We also used the crane and jib to give the hand cam balance and to improve the quality of the shots.

We used the DSLR cameras to improve the quality of the still shots that we used for the album cover.

We used the double screen computers to drag and drop our clips into the editing software; this made it easier to keep track of our work

We used Final cut pro for the main editing and layering the music over the video.

We used Final cut pro to speed up the tempo of the lip sync because at a point it was too slow

We used the final cut pro to make the performer look like he disappeared by using split screen and also layering

We used Final cut pro to change the saturation of the shot to black and white to make the scene sharper

We used a fig rig to keep the camera reasonably steady as it spun at the table

We also used Final cut pro for the cross fades to create a jump in time.

Story boards

Video opens by a close up of the main character playing the piano . This will be repeated throughout the video. Lighting will be lacking to symbolism the stunt of growth in their relationship .

sweeping up words to the face it zooms into a close up were she lip sinks "close enough to start a war "

mid-shot flashback to a time were they use to be happy together. symbolizing the previous lyrics.

camera sweeps down to her feet on the piano pedal into a close up lyrics being "all that i have is on the floor"

focus shifts from her to him banging down the door in a low lit close up in the past .

As the forces the door shot in a midshot ,she sings " i won't let you close enough to hurt me "

focus shifts back to present moment of her lip-singing lent on an unstable table , symbolizing her dependence and the unstable relationship.Low key lighting in a medium- long shot .

Focus shifts back to past , where she slides down the door out of the exsorst this relationship has inflicted on her and also to stop him from coming in .Long shot natural lighting as the song goes on as a metaphor that she is shedding some light on her past .

As he burst in a close up of the pain on her face as she is being attached .

focus goes back to present Via match cut as she starts crying in remembrance of her past .

BY MADALINA

Video

We were unable to upload the video straight to blogger for unknown reasons so here is a link to it on youtube .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5Ozc_utYc&list=LLpl6mDQ5L4xkbdaHF_jZOHg&feature=mh_lolz

Our apologies ,

many thanks Madalina

Background Story Analysis for Turning Tables

Our video has both factors of performance and narrative as i have spoken about this in previous

posts and compered this to where my inspiration has come from . However the Narrative is

the Establishing point of the video. Its supposed to be three time lines cut together to tell a story

these three time lines are when she composed the peace playing the piano,were it shows her initial reaction after her experience of her releasing her emotions and putting them towards something constructive like making this song :

Another is the studio work were she is preforming her song and showing her

emotion as she powers through her performance fully fueled on this emotion and energy she brings out in her work :

And last but not least the flash backs she has during her performance to both happy and sad times of their relationship as she states there was both of these elements present in their relationship in the title "turning tables " .

Some bad memories caused by him .......

and some caused by her !

Therefore showing the Tables turning .

None the less there was happy times too .

All of these flashbacks and additives to the story makes it a little harder to comprehend than most videos but it is linear , it does have a beginning a middle and an end .
The beginning starts with her not singing yet and playing the piano then as the lyrics flue in she shows the viewer what she is talking about with illustrations of her flashbacks .In the beginning



there is mostly bad times as the lyrics are resentful .
" i wont rescue you to just desert me "
















Then it shows her him for what had done and blocking him out , as that was the last straw of the turning tables and now she is truly gone out of his life for good .

Having said that he still tries to chase after her and get her back ...

many times .

Towords the end she has started reminiscing the happy times to as we have figured when someone or something is gone and we cannot have it back , we only remember the good things

about it or them .

In the end the time lines show that they are all coming to a close too .

The in the performance timeline she stops singing and looks away ,

The pianist gets up from the piano .....

And in the final shot the use to be couple let go of each others hands.

BY MADALINA

Video Analysis

In this shot you can see the main actress in a longshot looking over a damaged unstable table looking into the light . Symbolizing her seeing clearly now as the table is a metaphor for the relationship as the title is turning tables.This shot is a studio shot where she sings about this damaged relationship and as she sees the table in this clear light , that is the way she sees the relationship and therefore is able to sing about it .The lighting is harsh and dramatic just like their relationship.She is placed in the darker side of the photo implying that she was in the dark about something but she is now looking towards the light. She is framed in the center of the shot to show this video is about her .I would call this an establishing shot because she is singing here in the studio and all the other locations are flashbacks to good and bad times that they have sheered together .Usually in videos the past are shown in black and white for example Beyonce's Listen .But in my video i have decided this is unnecessary as her memories are so

clear and vivid they are stronger and matter more than the present .The present actually has a colour saturation on it to show her present is color less and colder without him even though she is singing about being better off in the long run . There is no motion to the camera at this point to represent that still single moment in time were it was all still and the memories came flooding back .

This is a two shot of the two main characters arguing.The lighting is fairly natural as natural and the arguing in their relationship is recurring, indicating things are running hair true course.The lights in the room are off to symbolical that she was in the dark about something .And as he is keeping his hood up that shows that he is hiding something as well as him looking down expressing the body language of shame .His hand is extended in a nature of consolation , but hers is extended to black him out as she turns her face away and she cannot even look him in the eye , her other hand is placed on her head to imply pain , or make the pain is a reaction to what she has just been told .As part of the mise on scene behind her is a very happy and colorful Climpt painting suggesting behind her is a happy and colorful beginning of their relationship, and the towel symbolized the mess that their relationship is that needs cleaning up . The door is Open symbolizing his invitation to leave Along with her expression and ignorance towords his extended arms .

In this two shot she is taking control! She has thrown his cloths in his arms as carelessly as she is trowing him out shown by her body language of her pointing to the door witch is already open! Even though it was open before implying this she is now reinforcing it and will not take no for an answer! She is closer to the camera making her appear bigger , showing the audience who the strong one in the shot really is .Further into the distance he looks small powerless and guilty holding his cloths as he tried to explain himself, subverting the stereotype that men are big and strong just as she is subverting the stereotype that women are week .On the wall directly behind him there is a painting of other women representing that that is in his past and this may we the problem and reason why she is singing him back in that direction as she does not want him anymore .

In this two shot The roles have reverse .He is not closest to the camera and therefore looks bigger representing his strength over her as she is pinned to the wall. For the title is turning tables to instead of her being the strong one he is not dominant and she is week and venerable.This Shot does up hold the stereotype that men are strong and women are week ,But not for long before it cuts away to studio . Later on in the clip she regains her strength and pushes him off as the clip gets played for longer and the audience gets to see what happens next as she stands up for herself and regains her power , symbolization she will always get back up and she takes no non seance from him as she makes him disappears in the next shot .The light is on at the opposite end of the room , creating the effect that the light is not shed on hi violet matters yet , and the violence is not centered to represent that none knows about it and its not noticeable to anyone else . In the next studio shot she looks in that direction were it has happened and sings " i wont let you close enough to hurt me " implying that she will never let her guard down around him again because of the way she has been treated .

Here in this two shot they are out in the wilderness creating the illusion of possible danger.They are both resting on broken damaged trees, that represent their relationship that they were both dependent on.The fact that they are both on two different trees represents reparation and distances between them .They are both looking in different directions showing that moving forwards for them both it means moving in separate directions .Shortly after this he disappears from this two short making it an extreme long shot of her .

The dead leafs of the floor that the trees have shed represent all the tears that she has shed that have make her feelings for him dryer and lifeless than these leafs .The puddles help represent that .And the fact that he is wearing his hud up represent the storm that there relationship is about to take .In the background are two live trees standing tall and growing next to each other . The fact that its in the background says that that is how they use to be instead of the current dead trees they are on .

Here you can see a close up of her feet as she is walking away from him and away from the relationship.The rough carpet represents the rough journey she has had with him and the pattern is metaphoric for repeated situations. Her feet are beare to represent her venerability and her exposed feelings . The fact that she is wherein black down to her feet represents the fact that she is covered in negative feelings and possibly even regret . The broken peaces of dishes they broke in their previous fights represents them breaking up and their broken relationship. But in the background you can see a rug , nothing like the one she is walking on this one is colorful , yet still patterned but bright and cheerful , this representing their old patterns that were nice but they are behind her suggesting that those good days are far behind them .

In this shot the tables have turned yet again.In Many shots she has asked him to leave and thrown him out but this time he is walking out willingly with no thoughts of looking back . This long shot is taken at a long angel as the audience are still to presume is a bad guy as the song is about him in a negative light . Also this angel is suggesting that he was doing wrong by doing this .At the same time This can be looked at in a positive manor .

Because he is dressed in black , he could be representing all the bad memories and pain that was caused and him waling out could represent all of these bad things leaving her life for good and this would be a positive thing in this case .

At the same time he is leaving light and color behind him meaning that his roads ahead may not be too pleasant .

BY MADALINA

The ideas of Andrew Goodwin (1992)

Andrew Goodwin had six key characteristics of the music video and we are going to identify these within our music video of Adele - Turning Tables.

Here are those six key characteristics:
1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body
6. There is often intertextual reference

Here is how we feel we adhere to the six key characteristics:
1. Adele's songs whilst sounding similar are very hard to identify as a specific genre. But Adele herself classifies her music as Pop Soul - so that is how we have decided to handle the content of the video. To handle the activities of a pop music video - we stuck to strong eye focus on the camera in single shots where Maddie is singing on her own and a strong focus on activity and events taking place - the pop aspect occurs within the narrative aspect of the music video - lots of short shots interlinked with each other to create a dramatic sequence of events within the music video. Following Soul conventions - one word was focussed on - energy. Soul is all about the energy that is portrayed and that energy is a result of passion for the music and that's what we've tried to achieve by use of energetic movements in the studio shots and energy coming from the mouth movements whilst miming the song.

2. We have tried very hard to accomplish a connection between the lyrics and the visuals of this song. This is clearly evidenced in the three situations of the lyric "it's time to say goodbye" - on the "goodbye" - we have three different events of closing the other actor out of the singers life - a true "goodbye".
The first place this takes place is once the singer has thrown the clothes at the actor and kicked him out and he is storming out the front gate carrying (then throwing) his clothes away. It then happens later in the song when the door is slammed shut as he leaves and a third time during the lift scene when the lift doors close and there is a shaddow of Maddie singing over the door closure.

We also stick by this when there is a lyric near the start of the song that goes "All that I have is on the floor" - we think that the scene we used here is cleverly used by the fact she is walking on a broken plate on the floor - what she has on the floor is broken dreams, broken heart and her head is all over.

3. We have made every effort to match tone of music to the visuals on the screen as you watch it. Shots change at change of beat or lyrics sentence and we have made every effort to match the tempo of the music to that of the pace of the footage in front of you as you watch it. For example, when Maddie is playing the piano during the points of the song where there are no lyrics - this is done especially at the introducing 10 seconds of the song where it fades in and out of the piano and studio shot. We also attempted to match the beat near the end of the video when it fades between Maddie and the actor walking down the stairs of the statue.

4. As has been evidenced in previous posts - we have made every effort to adopt conventions of Adele and the types of shots she would usually be seen in. We have attempted to meet that convention without 'copying' the methods use in her other videos. This is done with the variety of shots we did in the studio. These vary from shots showing her full body and fatigue beside the table and close up of her face and upper chest - which is the same variety as used in Adele's other songs. The key demand which is clear from her other videos is her engagement with the piano which we have portrayed her being with the piano in this video.

5. We have made every effort to portray Maddie in Adele's methods which match Goodwin's fifth characteristic. This is done in the two methods demonstrated by Goodwin. We have tried to engage lots of eye contact from Maddie in this video - especially in the studio shots. But in the majority of shots involve a closer shot of either herself of both together - we have ensured there is either constant eye contact or a flow from no contact in to firm contact.
As Adele typically does - we have focussed on the aspects of the female body. Instead of firm close-ups of the neck upwards in the video, we have included the upper-body of Maddie and during the shots with Maddie and our actor being together, we have focussed on the chemistry and sexual relationship once shared in the couple and their past which is now exactly that, the past. From focussing on where the actors hands were placed i.e. on the hip/waste in the roof shots to the chemistry being shown during any kissing during the video - we have tried to seriously portray the female body in a voyeuristic manner.

6. For inter-textual reference, we have achieved this in a variety of methods. This is heavily evidenced in our task evaluation which can be found at http://loretomedia-c1-11-group4.blogspot.com/2011/12/1in-what-ways-does-your-media-product.html - we have taken strong inspiration from other music videos - speicifically that from Robbie Williams and Beyonce and of course, Adele's own videos.

1.In what ways does your media product use , develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products ?

The videos we have gotten most of our inspiration from is: Adele
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0&ob=av3e
Robbie Williams - Feel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc06ZOJCqIA&feature=fvst

and Beyonce - Listen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc1R1JMTMKQ

Adele is almost exclusively doing pop ballads for this type of songs and she preforms very
emotional songs. Therefore we thought bringing that emotion out would be a great feature and
aim for our music video . A more famous peice that she has gotten around to creating a video
for .This video is" someone like you ".In the video you can see Adele's lip synched performance of her song in a beautiful yet ill weathered location . this is very effective as you can directly see her expressions and her emotions clearly . Therefore we have decided we are going to use some lip synching in our video. Her video is also this effective because of the black and white effect applied to this video .We are going to use this in our video not only for the impact but to keep in house-style with Adele way of working . This house-style of hers is carried out through her album cover as well and we have decided to do that as well apart from the video element were we have decided to be a little bit more creative .

Even though Adele's video, 'someone like you' is a good video, we will try do a lot more various locations , we like the black and white effect however to fit together with the colour scenes we have gotten we have decided black and white is too much of an overpowering juxtaposition , so instead we will take that less colour feel she gives out and turn the effect into a saturated layer to compliment our video yet still look relevant to her work .Id like to think of the reduced saturation as the mixture of mixing the black and white effect of Adele's with our full blown color effect .I think its a nice bridge between the two .For example ;


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With this bridge created i believe using black and white is acceptable as you can see the gradual change as black and white is only used towards the end and full color near the beginning with saturated in the middle almost like the video is loosing its color as time goes by .

Our inspiration for having many two shots rather than going Adele's way and only having one actor was from Beoncey's video for Listen .Her and the male lead appear trough out the video in
several shots in dark situations and locations .We were inspired by this but
we decided to do a more different and more interesting point of view .
Maybe like an over the shoulder shot that proved to be interesting in Robbie Williams's video for feel .

Those two scenes are responsible for the creation of this one .

The way Robbie Williams and Byonce's mixed performance and narrative and sows some emotional performances with effective flashbacks .This has inspired me to mix performance and narrative as I can clearly see that they do combine very well when it comes to pop ballads , especially when a song like Turning tables has such a strong complex and pictorial story-line .Just like the song Listen Adele's song has various bits where her voice is much stronger and emphasis as the emotion is getting across allot
cleared therefore we will also use her video inspiration for her statement making moments.


but instead i have decided to use more variety of shots such as a long shot along with the close ups.


What also inspired me by his video is a rotational movement in the camera along with some panning and tracking shots .Since the tile of my video is " Turning tables " i thought this same movement would be beneficial and relevant to my video exept that we will make it far more elaborate and longer swinging motions .

Two shots are also very common in Beoncey's and Robbie Williams's video .So the idea of using an extra actor to act out the narrative of the story line could work quite well in subtle however ways .However at the same time i will try not to capture the second characters face as not as obvius as in Robbie Williams's video as i believe its too much , because i believe it draw too much scene of importance to the other character and this is not about her its about his own
experience and spin on the situation and who he is is irrelevant . So I have decided to try to keep his face out as much as possible , keeping his hood on and over his shoulder shots are a must I
would like to leave the face placement to whoever the audience presume him to be as her fans may be able to relate to it a little bit better .

As far a challenging music video conventions i believe that most videos only use two time lines at the most to merge , we have however used three time lines merged together to create our video witch can get quite confusing but does not disturb the linear quality of our video .
Another feature that we have added if the full color at the beginning slowly reducing until near the end it fades to black and white bit then it is restored to full image quality in full color at the end to show the motion of cycle and yet again imply thee title of turning tables .

Production Progress Update - #4 - AS VS A2?

AS vs A2 - an interesting comparison.

In AS Production work, creating the final task was to a certain extent, easier than this task of creating a music video. The film introduction had lots of long scenes in it, with not many locations required to make the two minutes work. This A2 task is a complete different ball game! We have a total of 138 different pieces of video footage in a variety of locations. For the AS task, I can remember having a very small pallet to work from and it working fine - despite this big pallet, the task was still hard to fill it with footage that worked with the songs lyrics. Films have their own set of conventions, as do music videos. The two tasks are both of a very different media nature.

Filming in the AS task was steady and continuous. Filming for this A2 music video task was completely different - lots of short shots and movement in far more settings. We found the overall time taken to achieve the number of different shots required for the music video was far greater than that of the film introduction last year.

Even in the post-production/editing work - we were cautious about falling in to the film-trap by following the same style we had adopted last year in AS. The variety had to be far greater in the music video than in the film we had created last year.

The overall amount of work undertaken definitely seems to be a heck of a lot more for this task than the AS task. At the start of the task, we didn't quite adopt that understanding, which led to us having a slow start on what we should be doing and coming to agreements as a group. However, despite that delay in getting to grips with the demands of task, we pulled together in good time as a group and ultimately led to us working on schedule to the task and with the long amounts of extra time put in outside of the lessons, we have managed to complete the task. There were definitely moments of worry and hesitation as to whether we'd get to this stage in the time we did very early in the process of the task, but here we are with the task done and we're proud of the work we've accomplished.

Technology in creating the music video

Technology played a very big part in the creation of this music video - there was no cutting and gluing of film - that much I can tell you!

One of the big advantages we had was access to the filming studio that we have here in college. This facility we have been told has the same specifications as a BBC Training Studio - which we feel quite proud and very privileged to have access to. The studio contains three HD Camera's with green screen technology and state of the art computer equipment to back it up as can be seen from the piture below. This facility aided the creation of our black background shots of Maddie singing on her own and allowed us to provide the lighting we required with the various lighting equipment in the facility. The camera's also have monitors mounted on them which is for the autocue which allowed Maddie to refer to them in perfect sync with the music if she needed to and aided our video and the lip syncing we have aimed to perfect.

For filming which took place outside of the studio at our outside locations we used a handheld camcorder / digital camera to film our footage. This in itself presented us with some issues. The camera itself wasn't too good at filming in the dark/night despite using the light on the front of it. So we had to compromise by using a handheld LED torch strip (rectangular torch) to provide different strenghts of light depending on the shot we were going for. However for the most part, these cameras were great in providing the material we needed in natural light and weather conditions.

We found ourselves using a variety of equipment to aid the filming with the handheld camera. The primary piece used was the handheld camera jib - which you can see being demonstrated by the chap in the promotional picture below.

This allowed us to get shots which involved moment but also provided accuracy and was used in various shots, especially at night time. In the night shots where you can see the singer and the actor walking down the steps at the end and also when they're kissing and the camera goes from out of focus to in-focus on close-up - the jib proved to be a vital piece of equipment in providing accuracy during these shots.

We also used a small steadycam frame which is a rectangular frame which the camera screwed securely on to and allowed steady shots to be filmed. This was used mostly in the filming of the shots at Manchester Science Park of the lift and running up stairs scenes. It also proved useful in nightshots involving both singer and actor walking past each other along with a variety of other shots we have done.

We found ourselves carrying a tripod to mount the camera but only using it once. We found the accuracy of the jib and the handheld frame to be perfectly fine and they also provided more flexibility than the tripod could provide us. The one time we used the tripod was also with a tri-dolly (wheel mount) for filming the short clip where Maddie is entering the lift.

On to the software side of the production, we did the post-production work in Final Cut Pro on the dual-screen Mac editing suites we have here in College. Final Cut Pro proved invaluable to the creation of this video. Down to the editing, shot filters and attention to accuracy - it would have been very hard to create without it. Final Cut Pro is a general piece of editing software used by the industry and having the ability to use it in college was not something we took foregranted and used the software to it's maximum potential to achieve our music video.

In all, technology played a very big part in the creation of the music video, it's quite hard to image the filming world of the past where many hours were spent with long strands of film and manually piecing them together.