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Posted by: Ceciliastar1 16-Sep-2004, 11:52 AM |
Hey everyone. I just wanted to let you all know that my advisor loves the idea of my final thesis project. Here's what my thesis proposal is that I sent him: My Senior Thesis is going to be mainly focused on the technique and work involved in making a music video. I have always enjoyed watching music videos and I have always been interested in the making of these videos. Recently I've noticed that a lot of Blockbuster Movie Themes have been pop songs. The band who sings the theme song have a music video. What I find so fascinating about this is that rather than just have a video that contains the band and maybe actors playing out a mini-movie, the music video contains the band and clips from the movie. A prime example of this would be ?Vindicated? by Dashboard Confessional from SpiderMan 2 and ?May it Be? by Enya from Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. I find it interesting that this form of music video has become so ?fashionable?. I am also interested in the marketing value of the video. My project is going to be titled ?The Fields of Athenry: A Music Video Revolution.? I intend to research the reasons and motivation behind this new kind of music video that has caught on so quickly. In order to do this I will research the ?how to? of making music videos and why they choose to do what they do and I will compile my findings in a 2-3 page paper. My actual project will further illustrate the technique as I intend to film a music video, syncing the images of the band and movie clips to the song ?The Fields of Athenry?. I decided on this song because I am in the midst of writing a screenplay based on the song mentioned above. I wanted to make my video from scratch. I will be recording the song, film the lead singer and I will also film selected scenes from my screenplay to add to the video. A deeper look inside the making of this video will come from a complete director's log. I feel that by doing this particular project that it will pull together all that I have learned in the Communication Arts Department. The music video will contain filming, directing, editing, marketing, research, and audio. I hope to go into directing after graduation. I would love to go into music videos. I find them fascinating. The fact that a director can take a song and turn it into a mini-movie is something that I would love to get my hands on. I feel that this project is a good way to start. He replied in an email that said he thinks it's an excellent idea. I am so glad cause I was really nervous. I didn't think he was going to like it. I am going to produce my own version of the song Fields of Athenry, maybey I can talk Macfive into playing it on Highlander Radio (I mail him a copy), and maybe I can try and work something out where I will be able to put the video on the web so ya'll can see my final project! Woo hoo! I am so excited! |
Posted by: ANNHAM 16-Sep-2004, 09:07 PM |
Nice work Celiastar, Sounds great, I hope we can listen & see your movie. Anne |
Posted by: scotelass 16-Sep-2004, 11:54 PM |
You go girl, rock on! can't wait to hear and see!!! |
Posted by: Aaediwen 17-Sep-2004, 04:33 AM |
Rock on! And now the fun begins! Good luck to you, and looking forward to seeing the end product |