The song and lyrics

Your words are,
cutting through me,
like scissors though a sheet of silk,
and I ask why you’re leaving,
but boy you willing to fail,
but boy you willing to fail,

Maybe I’ll find you there,
under the sky,
maybe I’ll find a tear,
but never a why,
never a why,
never a why,
never a why,
never a why.

Now your,
Pulling me hard,
Like a train,
Holding on to me,
Like the strongest strong man,
But you’re not,
Not strong,
No you’re not,
Not strong.

Maybe I’ll find you there,
under the sky,
maybe I’ll find a tear,
but never a why.

I don’t wanna be here,
Not where you don’t care,
You’re hurting me daily,
You haven’t even touched me lately,
It’s time to leave,
Time to leave,
Time to leave.

Maybe I’ll find you there,
under the sky,
maybe I’ll find a tear,
but never a why,
Maybe I’ll find you there,
under the sky,
maybe I’ll find a tear,
but never a why,
never a why,
never a why,
never a why.

Preliminary Task- Was it successful?

I think the preliminary exercise went well.

I think even though the lip syncing is slightly off nearer to the end, it was a good first attempt at editing in this way. However, I think the way that there are three images at once, in that positioning, doesn't look the best. It may have been better to have one large image of the singing together with the single singers in opposite corners much smaller, and maybe with the single singers fading in and out leaving the double image there throughout. Also, the random effects that act on one of the images making it bigger and smaller throughout for no reason didn't work either.

Despite this, it was our first attempt at editing in a completely different way than what we are use to, and so why it isn't very professional, it helped us greatly to do it.

Sending another email

After not hearing from the artist, I decided to see if their site had been updated recently to see if they hadn't replied because they didn't want to, or inactivity. When I google the artist, Sarah Bird, I found that since I emailed her band's site, she had set up a new site of her own, and had was no longer with the band.

http://www.sarahbird.org.uk/

Here is the email I sent:





A few days later, I got a reply from her:

Preliminary Task- Video

100 greatest music videos 19-1

19. Madonna 'Material girl' 1985

18. Beyonce 'Crazy in love' 2003

17. Blur 'Coffee and TV' 1999

About a milk carton which tries to find the person shown as missing on it.

16. Outkast 'Hey ya' 2003

15. R.E.M 'Everybody Hurts' 1993

14. Christina Aguilera'Dirrty' 2002

13. Pink Floyd 'Another Brick in the wall' 1979

Based on one of the member's experiences at school

12. Michael and Janet Jackson 'Scream' 1995

Most expensive music video ever made at $7 million

11. Coldplay 'The scientist' 2003

10. Nivarna 'Smells like Tenn spirt' 1991

9. Madonna 'Vouge' 1990

8. The Verve 'Bittersweet Symphony' 1997

7. Michael Jackson 'Billie Jean' 1983

6. Robbie Williams 'Rock DJ' 2000

5. Madonna 'Like a Prayer' 1989

Very controversial video as many thought it was blasphemous

4. Queen 'Bohemian Rhapsody' 1975

Was shot in 3 and a half houses in a warehouse.

3. A-Ha 'Take on me' 1985

When the song was first released, without a video, it did very badly on the charts and just disappeared. When re-released with the video, it got to number one and sold millions of copies.

2. Peter Gabriel 'Sledgehammer' 1986

Used stop motion animation

1. Michael Jackson 'Thriller' 1983

The video was banned on prime time Tv as it was considered 'Too scary'. It cost $700,000 to make it.

Preliminary Task - How we made it and what we learnt

For our preliminary task we had to film two people singing, and then edit the footage to make the people lip sync with the song, like we will have to do for our music videos. It also helps us to understand how to edit the footage, as it was different from how we have edited before.

We had to get two people to lip sync to 'Don't go breaking my heart' by Elton John. We then filmed both the people singing together, and then separately, each time in one take.

By filming the whole take in one go, when it comes to editing it, rather than trying to match the footage and song to make them lip sync several times, we can just line up all the footage and music at the same time. We can then cut between the different takes as we want on the different layers.

When editing our AS coursework thriller opening, we just used one line and edited it along this. This time, we have all the different layers lip synced on top of each other, can can just change between each take as we wish.

Getting permission for the song

After looking for songs on sites such as unsigned.com, I have found a song that I wish to use.

The song ans the artist's page can be found here:

http://www.unsigned.com/000sarahbird

I chose the song 'Under the sky'

Now I have found the song, I need to get permission to use it. To do this, I will email the artist. Unfortunately, there was no contact information on Sarah's unsigned.com page, so using Google I searched for her name. By doing this, I found out that since she had joined a band called Sugabeat, who's site I found. Here I found an email address, and so tried to contact her via this email.