Final Cut Pro is a professional non-linear editing software application developed by Macromedia Inc. and then Apple Inc. Final Cut Pro 7 runs on Mac personal computers powered by Mac OS X version 10.5.6 or later and using Intel processors. It is a module of the Final Cut Studio product. The software allows users to log and capture video onto a hard drive (internal or external), where it can be edited, processed, and output to a wide variety of formats.
From the early 2000s, Final Cut Pro began to develop a large and expanding user base, mainly comprised of video hobbyists and independent filmmakers. It has, in latter years especially, made inroads with film and television editors who have traditionally used Avid Technology's Media Composer. According to a 2007 SCRI study, Final Cut made up 49% of the US professional editing market, with Avid at 22%.[1] A published Survey in 2008 by the American Cinema Editors Guild placed their users at 21% FCP (and growing from previous surveys of this group), while all others are still on an Avid system of some kind.5 Oct 2010
The start of music television in different countries
Australia
The Australian TV shows Countdown and Sounds, both of which premiered in 1974, were significant in developing and popularizing the music video genre in Australia and other countries, and in establishing the importance of music video clips as a means of promoting both emerging acts and new releases by established acts. In early 1974, former radio DJ Graham Webb launched a weekly teen-oriented TV music show which screened on Sydney's ATN-7 on Saturday mornings; this was renamed Sounds Unlimited in 1975 and later shortened simply to Sounds. In need of material for the show, Webb approached Seven newsroom staffer Russell Mulcahy and asked him to shoot film footage to accompany popular songs for which there were no purpose-made clips (e.g. Harry Nilsson's "Everybody's Talking"). Using this method, Webb and Mulcahy assembled a collection of about 25 clips for the show. The success of his early efforts encouraged Mulcahy to quit his TV job and become a full-time director, and he made clips for several popular Australian acts including Stylus, Marcia Hines, Hush and AC/DC.[20]
After relocating to the UK in the mid-1970s, Mulcahy made successful music videos for several noted British pop acts—his early UK credits included XTC's "Making Plans For Nigel" (1979) and his landmark video for The Buggles' "Video Killed The Radio Star" (1979) which became the first music video played on MTV in 1981. Countdown was partly based on the 1960s Australian pop show Kommotion and on the BBC's Top of the Pops but unlike its British counterpart, Countdown was not restricted in its use of music videos. The program was launched in late 1974, a few months after Sounds, and initially screened in a late Saturday afternoon timeslot, but in January 1975, only a few weeks before color TV was officially launched in Australia, it moved to the prime 6 pm Sunday timeslot; thanks to the ABC's nationwide reach, it rapidly became one of the highest-rating shows on Australian TV.
As it gained popularity, Countdown talent coordinator Ian "Molly" Meldrum and producer Michael Shrimpton quickly realized that "film clips" were becoming an important new commodity in music marketing. Despite the show's minuscule budget, Countdown's original director Paul Drane was able to create several memorable music videos especially for the show, including the classic film-clips for the AC/DC hits "It's A Long Way To The Top" and "Jailbreak".[20] Countdown became successful in Australia and other countries picked up on the format. At its highpoint during most of the 1980s it was to be aired in 22 countries including TV Europe. In 1978, the Dutch TV-broadcasting company Veronica started its own version of Countdown, which during the 1980s featured Adam Curry as its best known presenter. Although the ABC's facilities and expertise enabled Countdown to present regular studio 'performances' by local and visiting acts, rival shows like Sounds lacked the resources to present such segments, so they at first used music videos almost exclusively.
United Kingdom
The long-running British TV show Top of the Pops began playing music videos in the late 1970s, although the BBC placed strict limits on the number of 'outsourced' videos TOTP could use. Therefore a good video would increase a song's sales as viewers hoped to see it again the following week. In 1980, David Bowie scored his first UK number one in nearly a decade thanks to director David Mallet's eye catching promo for "Ashes to Ashes". Another act to succeed with this tactic was Madness, who shot on 16 mm and 35 mm, constructing their clips as "micro-comedic" short films.
In 1974 the band Sparks filmed a promo video for their single "This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us" from the album Kimono My House
In 1975, The Who released their all-music feature film Tommy, directed by Ken Russell, based upon their 1969 rock opera of the same name. Also in 1975, the band Queen ordered Bruce Gowers to make a promo video for their new single "Bohemian Rhapsody" to show it in Top Of The Pops; this is also notable for being entirely shot and edited on videotape.
The Alan Parker film adaptation of Pink Floyd The Wall transformed the group's 1979 concept double-LP of the same title into a confrontational and apocalyptic audio-visual labyrinth of stylized, expressionistic images, sounds, melodies and lyrics.
United States
American alternative rock group Devo created many self-produced music videos, which were included in the pioneering compilation "The Truth About Devolution", directed by Chuck Statler and Devo's video cassette releases were arguably among the first true long-form video productions.Also,one of their music videos "The Day My Baby gave me a Surprise" was the first to use Computer and traditional animation. Shock-rocker Alice Cooper took a video of his Welcome to My Nightmare concert showcasing the intense visual performance it gave. Alice Cooper himself makes reference to making one of the first music videos on the promotional videos for his album Along Came A Spider.[citation needed]
Video Concert Hall, created by Jerry Crowe and Charles Henderson, was the first nationwide video music programming on American television, predating MTV by almost three years. The USA Cable Network program Night Flight was one of the first American programs to showcase these videos as an artform. Premiering in June 1981, Night Flight predated MTV's launch by two months.
Two feature-length films released on the cusp of MTV's first appearance on the dial contributed enormously to the development of the form. The first was 1981's Shock Treatment, a pseudo-sequel/spinoff of The Rocky Horror Picture Show principally written and scored by RHPS creator Richard O'Brien. Although it was a commercial flop, the film broke stylistic ground by being more focused and less visually ambitious – and thus easier to emulate on a tight budget – than either RHPS or Ken Russell's 1975 adaptation of The Who's music and storyline from the album Tommy, or even a lower-budget affair like The Ramones' Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979).
In 1980, New Zealand group Split Enz had major success with the single "I Got You" and the album True Colours, and later that year they joined Blondie in becoming one of the first bands in the world to produce a complete set of promo clips for each song on the album (directed by their percussionist, Noel Crombie) and to market these on video cassette. This was followed a year later by the first American video album, The Completion Backward Principle by The Tubes, directed by the group's keyboard player Michael Cotten, which included two videos directed by Russell Mulcahy ("Talk To Ya Later" and "Don't Want To Wait Anymore").[22]
Among the first music videos were clips produced by ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith who started making short musical films for Saturday Night Live. In 1981, he released Elephant Parts, the first winner of a Grammy for music video, directed by William Dear. A further experiment on NBC television called Television Parts was not successful, due to network meddling (notably an intrusive laugh track and corny gags).Billboard credits the independently-produced Video Concert Hall as being the first with nationwide video music programming on American television.
History of Musicvideos
In 1926, with the arrival of "talkies" many musical short films were produced. Vitaphone shorts (1926–30), which were produced by Warner Bros, featured many bands, vocalists and dancers. The series entitled Spooney Melodies was the first true musical video series. The shorts were typically about six minutes in duration, and featured art deco style animations and backgrounds combined with film of the performer singing the song. This series of shorts can also arguably be considered to be the earliest music videos.[2]
Animation artist Max Fleischer introduced a series of sing-along short cartoons called Screen Songs, which invited audiences to sing along to popular songs by "following the bouncing ball". Early 1930s cartoons featured popular musicians performing their hit songs on-camera in live-action segments during the cartoons. The early animated films by Walt Disney, such as the Silly Symphonies shorts and especially Fantasia, which featured several interpretations of classical pieces, were built around music. The Warner Brothers cartoons, even today billed as Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies, were initially fashioned around specific songs from upcoming Warner Brothers musical films. Warner Brothers also produced the cartoon "Three Pigs in a Polka", set to Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dances. Live action musical shorts, featuring such popular performers as Cab Calloway, were also distributed to theatres.
Blues singer Bessie Smith appeared in a two-reel short film called St. Louis Blues (1929) featuring a dramatized performance of the hit song. It was shown in theatres until 1932. Numerous other musicians appeared in short musical subjects during this period. Later, in the mid-1940s, musician Louis Jordan made short films for his songs, some of which were spliced together into a feature film Lookout Sister; these films were, according to music historian Donald Clarke, the ancestors of music videos.
Another early form of music video were one-song films called "Promotional Clips" made in the 1940s for the Panoram visual jukebox. These were short films of musical selections, usually just a band on a movie-set bandstand, made for playing. Thousands of soundies were made, mostly of jazz musicians, but also of "torch singers," comedians, and dancers. Before the Soundie, even dramatic movies typically had a musical interval, but the Soundie made the music the star and virtually all the name jazz performers appeared in Soundie shorts. The Panoram jukebox with eight three-minute Soundies were popular in taverns and night spots, but the fad faded during World War II.
Musical films were another important precursor to music video, and several well-known music videos have imitated the style of classic Hollywood musicals from the 1930s to the 1950s. One of the best-known examples is Madonna's 1985 video for "Material Girl" (directed by Mary Lambert) which was closely modelled on Jack Cole's staging of "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" from the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Several of Michael Jackson's videos show the unmistakable influence of the dance sequences in classic Hollywood musicals, including the landmark John Landis clip for "Thriller" (at the time, the most expensive music video ever made) and the Martin Scorsese-directed "Bad" which was influenced by the stylised dance "fights" in the film version of West Side Story.
In 1956, Petrushka, directed by John David Wilson for Fine Arts Films aired as a segment of the Sol Hurok Music Hour on NBC. Igor Stravinsky conducted a live orchestra for the recording of the event. In 1957, Tony Bennett was filmed walking along The Serpentine in Hyde Park, London as his recording of "Stranger in Paradise" played; this film was distributed to and played by UK and US television stations. According to the Internet Accuracy Project, disk jockey-singer J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson was the first to coin the phrase "music video", in 1959. It is no coincidence that the rise of popular music was tied with the rise of television, as the format allowed for many new stars to be exposed that previously would have been passed over by Hollywood, which normally required proven acts in order to attract an audience to the box office.
Things which need to be sorted to start filming (to do list)
I also need equipment for the film. The equipment includes: A guitar, a microphone, a table and a candle.
I need to finish the storyboard.
The Digipack as well as the advert has to be done.
1 Oct 2010
Locations
The Drama hall
The drama hall will be used to film the parts for the chorus.
The Medical center
I'll use the Medical center to film the first verse and the third verse there.
McGill's house ( My Boarding house)
The second verse is going to be filmed here.
Adobe InDesign
28 Sept 2010
"Cast A Light" Plot
27 Sept 2010
24 Sept 2010
20 Sept 2010
Album Covers that I like
Tales From The Crypt by Devlin. Devlin is one of the few white UK rapper.
LAX is the third studio album by rapper The Game, released on August 22, 2008. While recording the album, he frequently stated that he will retire after releasing the album.
Tha Carter III
Tha Carter III is the sixth studio album by American rapper Lil Wayne, released June 10, 2008 on Cash Money Records. It follows his period of mixtape releases and guest appearances on other hip hop and R&B artists, which helped increase mainstream notice of him.[1] The album's cover art features a baby picture of Wayne and is similar to covers of hip hop albums such as Illmatic (1994) and Ready to Die (1994).[2] Amid release delays and leaks,[1] Tha Carter III became one of the most anticipated releases of 2008.[3][4][5]
The album debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 1,005,545 copies in its first week. It reached sales of 2.88 million copies by the end of 2008 and produced four singles that achieved chart success, including the international hit "Lollipop" and Billboard hits "A Milli", "Got Money", and "Mrs. Officer". Upon its release, Tha Carter III received general acclaim from most music critics and earned Lil Wayne several accolades, including a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album at the 51st Grammy Awards. It has been certified triple platinum by the RIAA and has sold over 3.5 million copies in the United States.
The Eminem Show is the fourth studio album by American rapper Eminem, released in 2002.
The Eminem Show was the best-selling album of 2002. At the Grammy Awards of 2003 it was nominated for Album of the Year and became Eminem's third LP in four years to win the award for Best Rap Album. It has been certified 8x Platinum by the RIAA, and has sold over 9.8 million copies in the U.S.[1] and over 19 million albums worldwide.[2] In 2003, the album was ranked number 317 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. It was ranked 84 on Rolling stone magazines best albums of the 2000s list. The album received critical praise by most music critics and is often debated as Eminem's most personal and best work. The Eminem Show was Eminem's first album to be mainly self-produced, and was the first Eminem album to be released under Shady Records.
Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by English rock band The Beatles. Though Let It Be was the last album released before The Beatles' dissolution in 1970, work on Abbey Road began in April 1969, making it the final album recorded by the band. Abbey Road was released on 26 September 1969 in the United Kingdom, and 1 October 1969 in the United States. It was produced and orchestrated by George Martin for Apple Records. Geoff Emerick was engineer, Alan Parsons was assistant engineer, and Tony Banks was tape operator.
Abbey Road is regarded as one of The Beatles' most tightly constructed albums, although the band was barely operating as a functioning unit at the time. Rolling Stone magazine named it the 14th greatest album of all time.ROLLING STONES The Promotional Album '69 (This is by far the most famous and legendary Rolling Stones official promotional album available to date! Compiled by London Records in 1969, housed in a stunning, unique picture sleeve, and distributed exclusively to influential rock radio programmers prior to the release of Let It Bleed, it's a funky sample of tracks from the band's back catalogue. Not concentrating on just the hits, it features more obscure album tracks, and includes an 'arguably alternate' take of Love In Vain)
London Calling by The Clash
Nevermind by Nirvana
American Gangster by Jay-Z
The Black Album by Jay-Z
What is a digipak?
17 Sept 2010
Letter for permission
I'm writing to you, to ask you for permission to use Plan B's song Cast A Light feat. Jose Gonzales. I want to use it for my A2 Media Studies Course Work. This means I'm going to do to a music video for the son. I will not distribute it or make money of it. However, you are welcome to use it as your official music video.
Many Thanks,
Alexander Breuning
Aldenham School
BreuningA@aldenham.com
About Plan B's Cast a light feat. Jose Gonzales (including Cast A Light summary)
Summary of Cast A Light:
The song is about relationship between Plan B and his son. The song contain three verses. In the first verse the son is just born. Plan B is swearing him that he is going to take care of him and his mother. He is also saying he is going to stay with his mother.
In the second verse it's the sons 14th birthday. The son locked him in his room. Plan B is standing in front of it and tells him how he is sorry for spoiling his boy, by saying something very inappropriate. Then he tells him how he should have stayed together with the sons mother. The second verse shows that he couldn't keep any promises he made in the first verse. In the end of the first and second song he is saying how he is going for a cigarette.
In the third verse, Pan B is dying, due to lung cancer. He is telling his son that he sorry for being on tour most of the time, instead of taking care of him. Then he sees a light and tells the son that he'll be watching him from heaven.
14 Sept 2010
Digipaks of Plan B and simmilar Artists
This one of the albums of Jose Gonzales. He is featuring Plan B on the track, Cast A Light.
This is Plan B's newest album. It is not difficult tell that this cover looks completely different. The CD is a bit more commercial than his previous Albums. It's also his most successful album.
This is the cover of Paint It Blacker by Plan B. This mixtape also includes the song "Cast A Light".
This is the cover of Plan B's debut album: "WHO NEEDS ACTIONS WHEN YOU GOT WORDS"
Plot for "Cast A Light"
For the chorus, I’m going to use a person on a stage singing and playing on an acoustic guitar. Next to the person singing is a table with a candle on it. This will match the song very well, because the song is called cast a light. In the next scene Plan B's part starts and "Plan B" is holding a baby and is rapping to it. This will be seen from the point of view of the Baby. Then it t goes back to the chorus, where the person on the stage is seen again. In the second scene, there will be "Plan B" standing in front of a closed door and rap towards it. After this scene, the chorus comes back and again the person on the stage is scene again. In the last scene "Plan B" is lying in a hospital bed. At the end of the verse, there will be a point of view shot from the point of view of "Plan B", showing the light. Then it fades out of the light and shows the candle light on the table. Then the song ends with the chorus.
10 Sept 2010
Plan B - Cast A Light feat. Jos'e Gonz'ales
Here are the lyrics of the song:
1.
wow look what ive done made my girl a mum and a brand new son
how you doing little fella my names dad, no need to cry now dont be sad
im gonna take good care of you starting today i swear to you,your never go without
might not always get what you want but anything you need youll get no doubt
all you gotta do is shout and ill be right there or there abouts cos i really
care about you and i dont ever want you to go through when i was a little you
no father figure to look up to just one woman who provides to food but cant afford to buy
you shoes, nah not like that boy im here for life and i want your one to be nice so
im gonna stick by your mums side and stay right there till the day that i die
ill provide everything you need to succeed aint gotta worry bout a thing
cos your daddy raps and sings and we he makes tracks it brings money and expensive things
to the table cos hes big and hes signed to a label likes to take everything.... playble?
anyway little man you look tired and my parking ticket's expired so im going outside to sort it out
smoke a snout be back in a while
chorus
Don't you know that I'll be around to guide you
Through your weakest moments to leave them behind you
Returning nightmares only shadows
We'll cast some light and you'll be alright for now
2.
hey comeon now open the door your 14 years old not 4 i dont wanna hear you cry no more
i know its your birthday, errgh thats right i spoiled, you know i didnt mean it when i should
have wanked you down the toilet its just sometimes you make me see red and i get a screw lose
in my head plus i was already angry you know i just sacked my bass player andy cos he fucked my
girlfriend called candy on the launch night of the best of plan b i should have known this day
would come i shudda stayed with your mum, made things work im so dumb worse than that im a cunt
fuck me i need a fag oh come on son dont be like that all i needs a drag i know i said id quit
but i feel like shit and i need it bad, ok come out your room now its your day go back downstairs
with your mates and blow out the candles on your cake
chorus
Don't you know that I'll be around to guide you
Through your weakest moments to leave them behind you
Returning nightmares only shadows
We'll cast some light and you'll be alright for now
3.
hey son dont cry i know its hard but you have to try hold it together and accept that i have lived my live
and now im gonna die of course i wish i could turn back time before my lungs became cancerous, if i knew then
what i know now i woulda put up with the anxiousness that you feel when you need a snout but shudda wudda cudda
cant help us now so lets not waste the time i have left especially when ive got alot to get off my chest
need to tell you this now, when you was born i made a vow crossed my heart and hoped to die looked to the sky
and swore that i would never let you down, so sorry that i did when you was a kid and i spent months being on tour
no son it aint alright i really should have been there more been there for you when you needed me instead of going
out and cheating repeatedly on your poor old mother yeah i really do love her its a shame i only realise now
that theres a tube in my arm that a drip goes sitting here waiting till this shit to go down who would have thought
out of cassel and me that old mother fucker would outlive though i never went deaf like jamie G or fucked my liver
with henry C im still gonna die before i get to see my grandkids grow up to be old enough to have a drink with me but hey thats life
whats that thats nice cant you see it that light coming from the ceiling shining bright son i think im about
to die i feel like im going up up to the sky i thought id be afraid but i feel alright my lungs feel good they
dont feel tight son i love you please dont cry going to heaven dont mean that ill die im gonna live forever down
deep inside your heart until it stops and they send you up here but until that time your gonna be fine ill watch
over you from here.
chorus
Don't you know that I'll be around to guide you
Through your weakest moments to leave them behind you
Returning nightmares only shadows
We'll cast some light and you'll be alright for now