In order to see what visual style or aesthetic my final film will take shape as I need to research and analyse multiple other live sessions music videos. A video I found on youtube produced by Hollow Coves has a very similar visual style compared to what I had written within my proposal.
The setting of this location, next to a lake in the outdoors, is a space I wanted to capture Tim playing his music within as I liked the raw and natural look playing the guitar and singing outside looked. A shallow depth of field has also been achieved in this live session, creating a sharp focus on the subject, separating the background from him and therefore making a visually pleasing video.
The teal / green colour grade of the video and the simplicity the location create a very minimalistic look which is something I would like to emulate for my FMP. The reason I want this specific colour grade is because blue/teal colours are usually connoted with calm or sad scenes in movies. Films use colour to manipulate the viewers emotions and therefore my deliberate decision to use this colour will subconsciously effect the viewer in a way their brain has almost been trained to do. The song Tim has written and produced is supposed to invoke a sad and strong emotional response as it is a story about the misuse of drugs and sad death of his friend.
Another aspect of this video I want to apply to my emulation is a constantly changing camera perspective. I felt that a static camera position for the duration of the live session would bore the viewer as there is no new information for the brain to focus on and therefore the overall success of the video would fail. Therefore a dynamically changing camera position would suit the live session edit much better.
This entire video shoot is filmed whilst Mac DeMarco is walking around with his guitar. DeMarco has inspired me to create a similar one shot style music video for one of Tim’s songs “A better cry”. I felt that because this would be a guitar instrumental it would be way easier to walk and play this song rather than having to sing at the same time as well.
However this entire video is shot in a more comical way as he is shown walking around carelessly and talking in a character with a seperate personality to his own. This style chosen by Mac is not similar to the live session video I want to create as Tim’s songs are more intimate and personal.
Here is another live session video filmed on the streets of Brighton starring the singer-song writers Ren and Sam. I personally love both of these artists and was shown this live session video by a friend in college. I love how live acts capture the raw emotion of someone and how the entire story sounds much more authentic when performed in real life.
You can see in this video the camera man has used a gimbal similar to how I want to shoot my video. He is also using a constantly changing camera angle and perspective to see more of the background and keep the shots more interesting/diverse.
The paintings of Caspar David Friedrich
Friedrich is a 19th century german landscape artist who produces stunningly beautiful paintings of the world.
His art has often been described as a drug and when a person views his images they “intended to produce an expanding state of consciousness in which the pain of immediate troubles is lessoned by a euphoric recognition of the immensity of nature and the cosmos.
Looking into the use of the outside world and how it effects our brains and feelings on the inside is something I am really interested in . The reason for shooting the live session video outside with Tim was that I wanted to replicate the same feelings Friedrich’s paintings invokes on people when they see his art.
References:
Coves, H. (2017). Hollow Coves – Coastline (Lakeside Acoustic Session). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RSQaF0I2o [Accessed 30 May 2019].
La Blogotheque (2017). Mac DeMarco – Still Beating & This Old Dog | A Take Away Show. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5RSQaF0I2o [Accessed 30 May 2019].
Ren and Sam Tompkins – Blind Eyed (live). (2018). [image] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W-MXP8B5zk [Accessed 30 May 2019].
How to Use Drugs. (2016). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeLGP2dsjME [Accessed 3 Jun. 2019].
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