Tazmin Lucas A2 Media Blog

We were set the task of researching into an existing music video director and producing a profile of them independently. We were given a choice of directors on which we could complete this task: Spike Jonze Hannah Lux- Davis David Fincher Warren Fu Michel Gondry David Wilson After doing some research into each of these directors, I have decided to do my documentary on David Wilson as he seemed to be the most interesting and fun to research after an initial look. I like how he incorporates animation and am interested to see how he creates this when I research further into him and his style. Here is a link to his website, which has all of his work and some information about him, listing the amount of awards he has been awarded. David Wilson This is the first video I came across about him and his career, and it depicts how he didn't even intend to be a music director, he just started making videos for fun during his degree. It was only when these started to reco

We were set with the task of making a video in one take. We were told it had to be upbeat and we were given a choice of songs, and the one that we decided to use is Grace kelly by MIKA. The video had to have at least 4 people in and at 10 seconds of lip syncing as a minimum. The inspiration behind this task was the Okay go videos that are all really fun, and one take. They often have a variation of activities and the band singing there songs which creates a happy, care free vibe to the music video.  Here is an example: We decided to go with the idea of having one person walk, and different people join in while dancing as we thought this would create the happy feel we were going for. It was also the simplest idea to create as we only had 2 hours to complete the task, and we had to do it in school time and this idea enables us to make an effective video in the location of our school. It also meant that we had the rest of our pupils to help cast the video. Here is the finished vide