Amanda Kaletsky Music video

This is Amanda Kalestsky on  the show "Alive with Clive". This was very helpful as we were able to watch her body language during the video, and come up with more ideas of what our video should look like.

Artist Profile

The name of are artist is Amanda Kaletsky, who is from Bethany,CT, Uniteted States and the music she sings is pop,soul and indie.

Here is a brief profile about are artist:

Amanda songs are tastfully built around passion and melody. She was influenced by people like Joni Mitchell and Carole King, her introspective music ranges from sultry blues inspired red love songs to power- driven pop hits, all carried by her emotional vocal preformaces. Amanda has solded over 2,000 copies and is in radio rotation from Northest to Hawaii. Surrounded by love of music at an early age, Amanda trained as a classsical violinist from the age of four. At the age of 13, she broadened  her focus by learning guitar and  piano, and began developing her vocal skills with nationally recognized Elm City Girls Choir.  

 

Music video lyrics/what song is about

 The song is about that delicate time at the beginning of a
relationship, when you're unsure if you want to move forward, and is
about asking the other person to wait for you to figure it out. The
beginning is always scary, having to take down walls you've built up
over years to let the other person in, and you hope they'll give you
the time you need.

If I had to climb
The highest mountain
Alone, across the sea
Would you way for me
With no word, no answer
Tell me would you wait for me

Cuz I have broken down my barriers
Taken down my walls
Let down my fortress for you

You can't find yourself in somebody else
But they can help you see
All your true emotions shining through
To the heart of me

Cuz I have to go now, for a time
And I don't know how or when
But if you tell me to, I'll come back for you
Just tell me you will wait for me

Cuz I have broken down my barriers
Taken down my walls
Let down my fortress for you

You can't find yourself in somebody else
But they can help you see
All your true emotions shining through
To the heart of me

Cuz I have broken down my barriers
Taken down my walls
Let down my fortress for you

You can't find yourself in somebody else
But they can help you see
All your true emotions shining through
To the heart of me

And you can break my heart in a million ways
But please not tonight
You can be who you want to be
But be it with me
Be you with me

Music Video

Below is the email I sent to Amanda Kaletsky asking her if we could use her music for our music video. Below is the conformation and the email Miss Thompson sent to her telling her what we was going to be making a video and we are waiting now for the lyrics to her song.

Editing to the beat

Today we had to create a video and edit it to the beat. I found this very difficult and i did get close to the beat and I think I was on the beat once or twice. I Learned that it takes a lot of time and effort to edit to the beat and this has influenced our choice of song for our music video.

Above is a screen grab of how I edited it.

100 greatest music video's

In the 100 greatest music videos number 24 is the song "No Surprises" by Radiohead in 1998. The music video features the lead singer of the band Tom York. The whole video is filmed in an extream close up of his face in a tank and the water slowly rises it took a long time to film this video as he had to hold is breath and unable to at first. In the end he was able to. 

100 greatest music videos

In the 100 greatest music videos number 73 was the song "Wheres your head at".  The video consists of real monkeys in the video and the bands face is edited in and they play a varity of intruments. The music video was actually shot in a Mental Hospital with actual monkeys it was very hard to film the video as the monkeys got angry and fustrated.

100 greatest music video's

In the 100 greatest music videos number 44 is the song "Cant get you out of my head" by Kylie Minogue. The Video is about how kylie has mattured into a young women and it talks about how she is obsessed and shows her being in control..

100 Greatest music video's

 Today we watched Elton Johns video "I want love" which came in at number 88 in the 100 greatest music video's created by channel 4 and was released in 2001 however it was not sung by Elton John. This song was lip sung by Robert Downey Jr as Elton John hated making music video's. Robert Downey Jr has to come out of rehabilitation to make the video then he went back in when it was finished.

100 Greatest music video's

Today we carried on watching the 100 greatest music video's number 87 by Talking heads with "one in a life time" which was released in 1981. This has abstract movement in the video. The man in the video all dances in all different directions it shows us that we are coasting through like and go from one thing to another and later in life we will look back and wonder what happened, and this is what talking heads is trying to get across in his video.

100 Greatest Music Videos by Channel 4

Part of our research for our music video's is to watch the 100 greatest music video's . Below is the list of the 100 music video's we will look at over the next few weeks . This list was created by Channel 4.

The list OF 100 greatest music video's:

1) Michael Jackson: Thriller
2) Peter Gabriel: Sledgehammer
3) A-ha: Take on Me
4) Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
5) Madonna: Like a Prayer
6) Robbie Williams: Rock DJ
7) Michael Jackson: Billie Jean
8) The Verve: Bittersweet Symphony
9) Madonna: Vogue
10) Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit
11) Coldplay: The Scientist
12) Michael & Janet Jackson: Scream
13) Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall
14) Christina Aguilera: Dirrty
15) REM: Everybody Hurts
16) OutKast: Hey Ya
17) Blur: Coffee & TV
18) Beyonce: Crazy in Love
19) Madonna: Material Girl
20) Gorillaz: Clint Eastwood
21) Queen: I Want to Break Free
22) Justin Timberlake: Cry Me a River
23) Britney Spears: ...Baby One More Time
24) Radiohead: No Surprises
25) Madness: Baggy Trousers
26) TLC: Waterfalls
27) David Bowie: Ashes to Ashes
28) Foo Fighters: Learn to Fly
29) Electric Six: Gay Bar
30) Weezer: Buddy Holly
31) Eminem: Stan
32) Chris Isaak: Wicked Game
33) U2: The Sweetest Thing
34) The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl
35) Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2U
36) Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give It Away
37) Guns N Roses: November Rain
38) Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice
39) Pulp: Common People
40) Missy Elliot: Get Ur Freak On
41) The Spice Girls: Wannabe
42) Bjork: It's Oh So Quiet
43) Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
44) Kylie Minogue: Can't Get You Out of My Head
45) Aerosmith: Crazy
46) Adam & the Ants: Prince Charming
47) The Prodigy: Firestarter
48) Johnny Cash: Hurt
49) Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity
50) Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al
51) Run DMC & Aerosmith: Walk This Way
52) Massive Attack: Teardrop
53) Wham: Club Tropicana
54) Daft Punk: Around the World
55) Fatboy Slim: Praise You
56) Eminem: Without Me
57) Meatloaf: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)
58) The Cure: Close to Me
59) Abba: Knowing Me, Knowing You
60) Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
61) The Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up
62) Blur: Parklife
63) George Michael: Outside
64) Bjork: Human Behaviour
65) Aphex Twin: Windowlicker
66) Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
67) The Beastie Boys: Sabotage
68) Madonna: Ray of Light
69) Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two Tribes
70) The Police: Every Breath You Take
71) Bjork: All Is Full of Love
72) Robert Palmer: Addicted to Love
73) Basement Jaxx: Where's Your Head At?
74) Wu-Tang Clan: Gravel Pit
75) Duran Duran: Rio
76) The Beatles: Strawberry Fields
77) MC Hammer:  Can't Touch This
78) Godley and Creme: Cry
79) New Order: True Faith
80) Radiohead: Just
81) Ultravox: Vienna
82) 50 Cent: In Da Club
83) Shakespear's Sister: Stay
84) The Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays
85) Sid Vicious: My Way
56) The Streets: Fit But You Know It
87) Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
88) Elton John: I Want Love
89) Smashing Pumpkins: Tonight Tonight
90) The Pet Shop Boys: Go West
91) The Specials: Ghost Town
92) Herbie Hancock: Rockit
93) The Rolling Stones: We Love You
94) Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart
95) The Cardigans: My Favourite Game
96) So Solid Crew: 21 Seconds
97) Cornershop: Brimful of Asha
98) Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy
99) Supergrass: Pumping on Your Stereo
100) Musical Youth: Pass the Dutchie

Our artist

I have a friend who is a singer and we asked her  if she would like to be the singer in are music video and she said yes. Over the summer we have been looking at music from different sits eg. unsigned.com   We will have to email artist and get permission to use the music then we will contact them and get the stuff we need for the vedio.

Finding the right music

For our project we will find music non-copy right music from websites such as www.unsigned.com or www.youtube.com. We will look on these websites for idea's and non-copy right music which we would email the artist manger and write an email asking if we would be able to use there music for are video. We would need to tell them what school we are from, what year we are in ,names, what are idea is for the video.

NON-copy right music

Copy right is a legal concept which gives the person who made the music or work the exclusive rigths. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights.
This is important becuase it means that people can just take other peoples work and take credit for it they haev to have permission from the original persons whose work it was.
The problems that we might have with this in the project we do is that it might take alot of time to contact artist about there music to find out if we can use it or not.

some of the information used was from www.wikipedia.com

My favourite music video

My favourite music video is Cascade "summer of love", this is my favourite video becuase its about summer and going on holiday with friends and meet new people and having a good time and partying all night and having a good time and when summer comes around I love this video becuase its energetic and gets me in the mood for summer.

The Brief

My task this year is to make a music video which is going to last up to 5 minutes. Also part of my coursework I will need to create a 'digipak' which is a cover for a CD and also a magazine 'digipak'.

Welcome

Welcome to my A2 music video coursework blog,this blog will chart my progress of my portfolio as i start my coursework.