Wednesday 13 October 2010

Storyboard & Shot list for Music video

Shot 1 - (Long Shot) To start off with I decided to film Martin down in the recoding studio miming along to the lyrics pretending to be the rapper.

Shot 2 - For the next section of lyrics I am going to cut in some images that I find on the Internet using final cut pro, which relate well to the lyrics of the song.

Shot 3 - (Close Up) Back down in the recording studio still miming along with the song and also playing around with the mixing table (Long Shot).

Shot 4 - As I did before with cutting in the images, for this section I am going to cut in clips from the film 'Juice' because the song is on the soundtrack for the film.

Shot 5 - Me & Martin had an idea to have him dancing in different places within the college, as well as just miming, so this next shot is of him in the recording starting to dance. (Long shot & Close Up).

Shot 6 - This next section is going to be a mix of different images that relate to the lyrics and different clips from Juice. 


Shot 7 - This shot I decided to get Martin dancing down in the lecture theatre through all the seats, and make his way to the bottom then back up again (Long shot & Medium Shot).


Shot 8 - This is the last section where I am going to cut in clips from Juice.


Shot 9 - To end my music video I got Martin to dance through the college entrance and then walk out of the shot ( Long shot).

Friday 1 October 2010

Microphone Research

In the music lesson that I had this morning I had to do some research on microphones:

Different types of mics: Condenser or Dynamic
Polar Pattern
Uses (What Instruments)

Dynamic Microphones

Shure SM57 -  This Microphone is used for clean reproduction of amplified and acoustic instruments. The insturments that this microphone would be used for are snare drums and guitar amps. The polar pattern that the Shure SM57 uses is carioid.
                                   












Beyer Dynamic M201 -  This microphone can be used for a wide variety of applications, but drums have become the favourite instrument to record pick up pattern enables the recording engineer to easily isolate individual components of the kit and it's a particular favourite on the hi-hat. The Beyer Dynamic M201 mic uses a hypercardioid polar pattern. 


AKG D112- The AKG D112 mic has become known worldwide as the best kick drum microphone ever made. This is because heavy-footed drummers won’t faze it, because the D112 handles up to 160 dB SPL with no audible distortion. This microphone uses the cardioid polar pattern.











Electro Voice RE20 - This microphone uses a carioid polar pattern. The electro voice mic is mainly used for broadcasting like on a radio station.

 


Condenser Microphones

AKG C1000 - The AKG C1000 is a very popular microphone which is ideally suited to recording any kinds of instruments and live sound applications. This mic is also battery powered so it makes it a good mic to use mobile. The AKG C1000 has a PPC which allows the mic to be switched from cardioid to hypercardioid polar pattern. 
C 1000 S

























M Audio Solaris - The M Audio Solaris is a large diaphragm condenser mic which is designed for professional studio recording applications. This microphone uses two different polar patterns and they are cardioid and omnidirectional. 

 M-Audio Solaris Condenser Microphone