One Take and Wes Anderson style Videos ( Post 20 )

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 video we created:

This was different from any task we have done before as you did not have the safety net of editing and just cutting out any footage that wasn't how you wanted to be, as the video had to be all in one take. Due to this you had to plan a lot in advance as it all had to go perfectly as otherwise you just had to start again. It was interesting to do as we didn't realise how much planning would have to go into something like this, even though it is such a simple concept. It was also a lot of fun to make and showed us that our final music video doesn't have to be serious to look good, you can make simple and entertaining ideas that create just as an effective video.

Another task set by my teacher was to plan, organise, film, and edit a Wes Anderson's style music video in under two hours. We got into groups that ended up as Lily, Daisy, Tazmin and I in one team. We did lots of research into how Wes Anderson usually directs his work..

Here is some of the research we used..

Just as with the tracking shot, Anderson’s deep-rooted love of symmetry in all of his shot compositions has taken shape over time. Traces of this trait can be seen in all of his early movies, of course, but cut to present, and his initial obsession has bloomed into full-blown mania.

The man simply cannot resist the draw of reciprocal arrangement of props and characters in front of his camera. This attribute pops up in Bottle Rocket and Rushmore, but check out everything from The Royal Tenenbaums onward, and it becomes more and more prevalent.

the song we chose...



our final video...