A Montage of Second Life Concerts

So I searched Second Life live concerts and found a pretty good amount on YouTube. I felt like most I found weren't quite as good as the U2 one we watched in class. However, they each had something I liked or didn't like about it. I decided I would just mention the things I learned from each of them.

First was the 16Down live in concert, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbiRoupnmmQ. This one someone had taken 16Down's live concert in real life and mixed it with the video of their Second Life performance. In the Second Life concert, what I thought was really neat and pretty smart on their part was they had a recording of the band during a live concert in real life playing in the background of the stage on a huge tv screen. This way, the audience could see what they really look like too. It had some pretty cool establishing shots of the stage too - it looked like they might have worked pretty hard on the stage because it was pretty neat looking. The only problem I really had was that they didn't do much on the stage besides move their bodies to the front and back, so it was a little boring.

The second one i looked at was of Suzanne Vega, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGeRgkOUCE. This one had an interview and everything in the beginning which is what I thought was cool. What I wanted to mention in this one was how boring they made the actual concert/ singing part. They never changed the views or really the shots they were taking. This video illustrated to me how important it is to be creative and think of different ways to shoot the concert.

The last one was of Clint Live, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88yZZBlqlrg. I really liked this one. The performers moved around the stage and really looked like they would be performing in real life. The camera person got a lot of different angles too. However, the movements of the camera were very choppy and all over the place, which kind of distracted me. Also, they obviously weren't taping in Second Life like they should be because you could see the screen around the sides with all the Second Life buttons; for example, all the chatting that was going on in the crowd was popping up on the bottom of the screen and a notecard showed up in the corner of the screen at one point so the camera person had to delete that. It was a good show though. It made me like and want to listen to their music, even though I couldn't hear it clearly - which was an additional problem this video had.

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Music Video Breakdown

I chose John Mayer's song called Clarity: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTemo3n61YE It was not a very easy video for me because there were many different shots; However, i love John so it made it more fun to listen to his song while working on homework.

So there were cuts to 50 different shots within the first 2 minutes and here they are:

Shot 1: Transition from black, Close up, Slow zoom in
Shot 2: Extreme close up
Shot 3: Close up
Shot 4: Extreme close up, Tilt up
Shot 5: Close up, tilt down
Shot 6: Establishing shot
Shot 7: Establishing shot, Tilt down
Shot 8: Establishing shot
Shot 9: Establishing shot
Shot 10: Medium shot, Tilt up
Shot 11: Establishing shot
shot 12: Close up, Pan left
Shot 13: Establishing shot
Shot 14: Medium shot
Shot 15: Medium shot, Pan left
Shot 16: Close up
Shot 17: Medium shot, Slow zoom out, Small pan right
Shot 18: Medium shot
Shot 19: Establishing shot
Shot 20: Extreme close up, Tilt up, Pan left
Shot 21: Establishing shot
Shot 22: Close up
Shot 23: Establishing shot
Shot 24: Close up
Shot 25: Extreme close up
Shot 26: Medium shot, Slow zoom in
Shot 27: Medium shot, Camera man moving backwards (no zoom) looking at John from front
Shot 28: Medium shot, Camera man moving to his left with side view of John
shot 29: Medium shot, Moving backwards looking at John from front
Shot 30: Close up, Moving backwards
Shot 31: Medium shot, Moving backwards for a second, Then Zoom out to establishing shot
Shot 32: Medium shot, Side View of John, Small pan left
Shot 33: Close up
Shot 34: Establishing shot, Zoom in to medium shot, Pan right
Shot 35: Medium shot, Crane view from above, Moving backwards
Shot 36: Establishing shot, Zoom in
Shot 37: Medium shot, Zoom in
Shot 38: Close up shot, Zoom out to medium shot
Shot 39: Medium shot
Shot 40: Medium shot, Zoom in to extreme close up, Small tilt down
Shot 41: Extreme close up
Shot 42: Establishing shot, Zoom out
Shot 43: Medium shot, Zoom in
Shot 44: Medium shot, Zoom out
Shot 45: Medium shot, Zoom in
Shot 46: Establishing shot
Shot 47: Establishing shot
Shot 48: Establishing shot, Pan right
Shot 49: Establishing shot, Tilt up
Shot 50: Close up, Zoom in to extreme close up, Crane up, Tilt down

My Snapshots

Well, I had a hard time (there is always something that gives me a hard time...) with finding good shots when it came to thinking about a grid being on the picture. So I finally just decided to pick something that I thought would be good to gradually zoom in on with different shots and then focus on my angle. So, this was my establishing shot, which turned out to be more of an ultra establishing shot, and I took the picture to the right and above the pavillion that I eventually zoom into.

Therefore, as I zoomed in I tried to make sure to stay above and to the right of the pavillion in each picture.

This was my close up shot.

Now this picture was one of my first ones that I took when I was really looking for something that had important parts at the specific areas of the grid that we talked about in class. My idea with this one was first that it definitely creates depth in the picture with all the different trees and the river running through the middle. And then, I was trying to make the line of the leaves/ branches hanging super close to the "lens" (if there was a lens) be in the right line of the imaginary grid and then the tree on the left hits the other line of the grid. Those were my thoughts - I'm not sure it works but it was my best and favorite of all my pictures.