Final

 

Image is having a huge impact on our minds; it is easy to understand and is a way to fast transmit its message. That’s why during the history, the political views of some radical rulers were also sent out through paintings, photos and TV screens.
Nowadays, the images are still used mostly to transmit a message. If talking about the whole industry of making movies, it’s interesting to notice that in a five minutes video, you can actually learn more about today’s life than from a whole book. And this is also regarding Music Videos. Usually their duration is a couple of minutes, but the impression can be of a long time astonishment.
It was a great experience having a “Music Video Production” class, as we dived deeper in this field and learned a lot of secrets concerning the creation of a successful music video. More than that, we even tried to make our owns, looking for a balance between the given theoretical standards and practical experience.
We analyzed a lot of videos during the semester and focused on different aspects of video making: performance, movement, dance, beat, shots, zooms or close ups, setting, music, camera placement, lighting effects and so on.
Talking about the visual changes from a traditional Music Video, we mentioned the revolution that took place in all the aspects mentioned above. The early videos are now often called documentaries, as they totally differ from nowadays explosion of creativity. They were showing the whole action without any “cut-aways”, seeing only the performer.
What we see now, is a lot of emotion and movement, expression, energy and action. Today’s performers try to show something exclusive, unique, never done before, in order to impress and label their own style.
Another important issue is Genre and Diegesis. Genre, as Thompson describes it, is the various types of films which have a recognizable and familiar narrative form.
For example: Gangster, Western, Musical, etc. We can more or less predict what it would be about and how it will end, expect certain shots, music and "over acting".
In Music Videos we also have different styles, like Goth, Hip Hop, R&B, Classical, Rock and so on.
According to Metz, Diegesis represents the narrative's voice we search for series of codes and conventions that give the text its meaning. When the sound becomes part of the narrative or is integrated into it - we can certainly say it is a diegetic song. The diegetic communication takes place in movement, symbols, beat style, fashion, lighting, special effects (like speed for ex.) and others.
Taking this information into consideration, the question is whether is it important to have a video related to sound and lyrics or not, because we have plenty of successful Music Videos which are not correlated to the lyrics of the song. My answer would be a positive one, since it makes one single product of creation, a harmony between the text and motion.
An important key factor in the whole Music Video industry is also MTV, as it is able to control and determine some social behavior, creates fashion, stereotypes and imposes its pervasiveness, appealing to our commercial sense.
All the theoretical beliefs we had passed through, had to be linked to a practical experience, which represented our own Music Videos.
The first task was to do a Music Video to any song we like. We choose “Beautiful Day” song by Trentmoller. The idea was to show our everyday life, with funny and sad moments, but finally having a Beautiful Day at the end of the video.
The main character was to be an ordinary person that actually represented any human being. The trick was that this person equals the camera itself, so that what he sees is the camera that shows the viewer images while he walks.
So, the main character (= the viewer) is walking, and different life moments he sees; then other shoes, other legs (=other persons) see other every day moments: kids playing, old people, students, beggars, etc.
Periodically we inserted some dancing movement of different style: ballet, flamenco; and the funniest parts were meant to be the play with different parts of faces (lips, eyes, nose). We did a lot of close ups of different eye color: blue, green, black, as well as different smiles.
The song is a very optimistic one, showing how different we are but how beautiful life is!
The first shot we made you can see in the image attached. It was the stairs of a dancing school we were climbing. Suddenly, we noticed the nice shadow of it on the wall and started experimenting.
It was at Oktogon and so we started…
Finally, the project was done in a couple of weeks. It gave us a lot of experience and I would like to mention what I learned:


1. Weather can spoil all your wonderful plans and suddenly you may have to change everything in just a moment.

2. The ideas come and come and at the end you have so many shots in your hot camera, the memory of your computer is booming, you are full of enthusiasm and you think: "Great! Now what remains is just a couple of hours of working and it s done. "
NO! Suddenly you realize that editing will take you 5 times more than all the process of shooting. You get a bit nervous, but you have to stand it.

3. I realized for myself (not for the first time) that I prefer to generate ideas, I can see them in front of my eyes, even the smallest details, but I would rather be the manager and find people that do the technical work, which means I like shooting more than editing.

4. I hate when there is no communication in the group and I think if something happens (anything may happen anytime with anyone and it is very understandable) - you should inform your mates. Your team should know that you cannot come to the meeting, for instance. And another point is that if you promise something- DO it, or at least prevent the others that you cannot handle it, but don't leave it for the last moment. (Yes, there were some misunderstandings in our team but finally everything was all right)

5. GET permissions all the time you shot in a private place, even if it seems a public one. E.g.: markets, railway station, etc.

The following task was to do a Music Video for a given song. (Queen- The bohemian rhapsody). Our idea was to tell a story about a homosexual guy that killed his friend giving him drugs. He realizes his fault and can't stand the internal pain that he feels, he's trying to get out from pain but can't. He fights with hallucinations, the real and the fake life, but finally he escapes through death or through faith.
But here is the funny story: a couple of days before shooting the video, as we thought of it (we wrote even the scenario), we decided to change EVERYTHING.
Why? Because we understood that there is no way to shoot it like we thought of doing it. No necessary time and what was the worse - no necessary number of people that would be involved (actors). So, we had the idea to shoot dolls, plastic soldiers, anything we could find in Nora's brother’s room. It turned into a real adventure. Very funny experience! At the end, we had a clip with a very stable, strong, powerful statement:
A kid is playing the war. He does the same what he sees that is going on round him, in news especially. He sees what is going on in the World: war, crashes, bombs, politics and he feels lost in this War Space.
I think it shows also that sometimes adults forget that the next generation is coming and it has to be pure, happy and strong; but in an environment like that, it is difficult to grow up healthy (meaning - coming from a healthy environment)
It was not a very funny story, because once we did the movie and wanted to save it, it disappeared, was automatically deleted. Nobody understood why, so we had to start everything from the very beginning. Suddenly it happened to us again; I think there is no need to write down what we felt, staring at this wonderful human innovation. We felt desperate. Finally we did it, and I think it was good enough to make people think.

In conclusion, after having some theoretical background and a great experience from the practical part of the course, I would say that I feel ready to improve even more my movie making skills. The course had a very positive impact on all of us, starting with typical knowledge set and ending with getting to know better each other and our own reactions. Now, I know even better what I would like my place in a team to be and I have even more stable opinions about what a good Music Video is.

Eye BeSt exhibition FINAL

Eye BeSt exhibition

IDEA:
Exhibition’s name: EyeBeSt

Type of exhibition: Photography exhibition

Logo: See the image 

The best Eye of IBS means the selection of the best works of the IBS students. They will show their best pictures they had ever made in the IBS lobby.

CONCEPT:

Any IBS Student who desires to show his BEST pictures he ever made will send his works to the given email.
The visitors will do a round trip in the exhibition area; the pictures will have a number under it. The list of the participants will be ‘hided’ in a corner of the area, so that the influence on the selection will be avoided. At the entrance, the visitors will get a paper on which they will vote the top 5 pictures.
At the end of the event – the top 5 pictures will be announced and prices given. (Ending ceremony)
The voting process will start one day before, so that the students and staff could see the images in day light.
The pictures will be presented in different forms, dimensions and formats:
- hanged on the wall
- printed on film slides on the windows
- hanged on hula-hoops
- projected on the wall
The general atmosphere is like you enter a “photography planetarium” (just during the ‘ending ceremony’). It will be a dark space; the only light will come from:
- Projectors (that will project in space, so that the images could be seen even on the body of the walking people)
- Windows (covered with dark Blue paper and only cuts of pictures printed on film allow some filtered light through the pictures)
- Lamps (which are hanged under the printed pictures from the walls, light around the columns)
- The ‘white’ reflection (white blankets)










CONDITIONS:
Students will send digital copies of 2 Photos to photoeyebest@gmail.com and deliver one A4 Hardcopy of another Photo to Alan Godsave in Room 222, or put it in the box in front of his office. They will also attach their name and the title chosen for each picture.

TOUR:
Between the first “logo “wall and the long wall on the left (which goes to the elevator part), we see the first hula-hoop, with hanged pictures on it. It looks like a big abjure.

From the right side:
From the entrance, you take right to enter the exhibition area.
There are white blankets on the armchairs, film pictures on the 3 windows (93, 5 cm long and 1, 78 m high), images projected on the wall above the ‘computer table’ and 3 hula-hoops hanged above the ventilation parts on the ceiling.
HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT IS WITH THE ‘CANTINE’ ENTRANCE AREA. (Is the scene+ microphones and Dj table there?)

From the left side:
There are 2 thin columns, on which two yes are hanged. (Collage, similar to the logo one, but smaller).
There are 3 more columns which are taller and bigger (75-1,54m; the second one is 79, 5- 1,55m; and the third one is 76cm- 1,53m) – we hang 7 pictures on the horizontal part and 4 on vertical; 22 pictures for one column; for 3 columns= 66pictures.
There is also an LG screen. We can use it for a slide show and every 15 min – we show pictures from the event (same time, same day, so that people can enjoy seeing themselves on the screen at the same moment while the exhibition is held. Another BIG wall is the one from the very left side of the main entrance. It is 4, 55 m long. = up to 20 pictures
Then, comes 4 other walls (1,80m long), =8x4=32 pictures interrupted by 4 big, longue windows which are divided in 3 parts (dimensions? Gabor). The door from the middle will be also covered with dark blue paper.




DATES:
April 30, Friday – deadline for sending pictures
1 week to select and count the pictures = till 7 April, Friday
3 days to prepaire the lobby (Saturday, Sunday, Monday)
MAY11, Tuesday –we exhibit and vote
MAY14, Thursday – ceremony/ prices

CALCULATIONS:
1. Projectors (how many can we have) Nr3 at least
2. Polystyrene (HOW MUCH?) – For the pictures on the hula-hoop + for the 3 logo eyes+ pictures hanged ZSI
3. Carton (how much?) – decoration of the 3 eyes+ BeSt letters under the logo eye NORA + for the frame
70x100 = 500ft
305 ft = simple white paper
340 ft = dark blue foto karton
85 ft = simple black paper 50x70
Or 175 ft a bit thinker
4. Colors, brushes – for the decoration of the 3 logo eyes REKA FELLEGI has it
If not - 1000huf, more or less...1000 x 3 = 3000 huf(brushes) + colors (2-3000)
5. Glue, scotch, double sized scotch REKA Glue:
Technokol - 60gr -350 huf or the "Pritt Sulifix" - 240 huf, Blutack, is just 50 huf
6. Wire/ thread band on which the pictures on the hula-hoops are tied (???black) REKA
Wire: 100m (0,1mm) 190huf, or the same lenght but 0,7 mm 660 huf...
Double size scotch: invisible one: 50mmx50m - 3200huf
Normal one: 7mmx50m - 460 huf.
7. Hula-hoops (NR4) DAVID, already have them.
8. White blankets for the armchairs
9. Dark blue paper for covering the windows (how much????) ANNA
10. Lamps for the pictures hanged on the wall/ David dj
11. Printing pictures on photo paper/ film


THE PICTURES ON THE WALLS -> Carton frame plus picture on it +Blue tack
MUSIC - DAVE RICE
SPEECH? V+N
GIFTS? PRICES? Ibs stuff + video frame
FOOD and DRINKS? Champagne?
WHO IS GOING TO MAKE PICTURES= PHOTOGRAP HER? (Who?)
How many voting papers do we need? BOX for voting! 1 day before- nr 100
Reminding emails! Very important!

Email
Dear IBS Students,

BAAM2 is planning a Photo Exhibition called EYE BeSt to showcase the very best of IBS Student photography.

Please send digital copies of 2 Photos to photoeyebest@gmail.com and deliver one A4 Hardcopy of another Photo to Alan Godsave in Room 222, or put it in the box in front of his office. Be sure to don't forget to attach your name and the title chosen for each picture. The deadline for submission is Midday on April 30.

The Exhibition will take place in the Lobby of the IBS Residence Hall, from Tuesday May 11 to Friday May 14. The Jury for EYE BeSt will be your fellow students and prizes will be awarded for the best five entries.

Send us your very BEST photos and let's have a great exhibition.

Yours,

BAAM2
p.s.: for additional information write to photoeyebest@gmail.com

POSTER:

Queen

Mamaaaaaaaa,
Just killed a Video

here is the funny, but not very funny for us story:

A couple of days before shooting the video, as we thought of it (we wrote even the scenario), we decided to change EVERYTHING.
Why? --> because we understood that there is no way to shoot it like we thought of doing it. No necessary time and what was the worse - no necessary Nr. of ppl that would be involved (actors)

So, we had the idea to shoot dolls, plastic soldiers, anything we could find in Nora's brother room. And you know, it turned to a real adventure. Very funny experience!

At the end, we had a clip with a very stable, strong/powerful statement.
A kid is playing the war. He does the same what he sees is going on round him - in news especially. He sees what is going on in the World = War, crashes, bombs, politics and feels lost in this War Space.
I think it shows also that sometimes adults forget that the next generation is coming and it has to be pure, happy and strong; but in an environment like that, it is difficult to grow up healthy (i mean - coming from a healthy environment)

I mentioned it s not a very funny story, because once we did the movie and wanted to save it in the computer, it disappeared, was automatically deleted. Nobody understood why; so we had to start everything from the very beginning.
Suddenly it happened to us again; i think there is no need to write down now what we felt, staring at this wonderful human innovation, but believe me, we felt desperate.

Finally we did it, and for sure - was enough! :)