Multiple-camera setup

Multiple-camera setup

For our latest college project for Steve, we had to look at how single Camera and Multi camera works. Multi Camera is used for a lot of shows. I found some research about single camera and a lot of shows still use it today. Some of the shows that use it today are; Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, The Office, Glee, Modern Family, Community, Louie, Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang Theory. We have used Multi camera for our media show. Our show is a dating quiz show and a lot of comedy has been thrown in there. For our show we set three cameras in the middle of the set; one on the far left, one in the middle and one on the far right. In the studio we had a room on the far left with multiple TV screens for the vision mixer. The information I have learned about Multi Camera, which used three cameras was the Queen’s Messenger which was broadcasted in the year 1928. hen it comes to using Multi camera for big budget Hollywood films, sometimes they use two to three cameras to film a scene but most films film using a single camera. One of the first ever sitcoms that used multi camera was the long running series called I Love Lucy. The show in 2007 was voted by Time Magazine 100, the best show of all time. The show became so popular that they made a few spin off films. Amos 'n' Andy was a comedy show for the black community. The show ran from 1943 to 1955. With college we went to see a Multi camera show called Pointless. The show is presented by Alexander Armstrong, and co hosted by Richard Osman. The show is a quiz show, where one of the contestants has to aim to get a pointless answer. On the right hand side of the set they have a score board with a line that starts from the top, it starts from 100 and can stop anywhere. To get the questions they go around asking the general public a lot of questions and the show just flows from there. A record jackpot was won on the show on Wednesday the 21st of November. Even when you dont win on Pointless, you still win a Pointless trophy which people will love forever. After watching the show Pointless, it gave us ideas for our second Multi camera show. Our second Multi camera show was about facing your fears. For example someone who is scared of spiders, snakes, dogs and heights with people who are scared of certain foods. I feel like the second show flowed a lot better than the first one. I thought everything was a lot better prepared. I thought Abi was an excellent director. She had a clear mind on what she wanted to do and she was very serious when she needed to be, which helped us crack on with work. If you compare our second show to our first show, everything with the first show was left to the last minute and was very rushed but we managed to pull it off and people enjoyed it. For our second show I was asked to find questions on films. The questions about film could have been about anything; for example, which film in 1976 won best film or which is the best selling film of all time. That would be the film Avatar. For our fear show we looked at the show Fear Factor for some inspiration. We wanted to create our opening title squence like the Fear Factor one but that proved to be too hard, so we used our teacher Steve for the opening sequence. One thing with Multi camera, is it gives the director less control of shots but the process is a lot faster and less expensive than a single camera setup. In many Hollywood movies they use the single camera technique. In more recent times many big hollywood films use more than one camera.     

       

Kanye West “Can’t Tell Me Nothing

                                             Kanye West “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”

Two separate music videos accompanied "Can't Tell Me Nothing", with the first aired on television and the second made available solely online. The first music video was directed by Hype Williams and released on West's official website on May 25, 2007.

To visually complement the thematically distanced, alienated feel of the track, the video was filmed in a desert. It carries a minimal aesthetic, with scenes shot in a barren, wide-open desert landscape. For a limited time, the music video was available as a free download on the U.S. iTunes Store.

On July 25, 2007, West premiered an alternate music video for "Can't Tell Me Nothing" on his website. This version was directed by Michael Blieden and featured comedian Zach Galifianakis and folk singer-songwriter Will Oldham. West had been introduced to Galifianakis' work through his personal trainer, and eventually asked him to perform in his second video after attending one of Galifianakis' stand-up shows in Los Angeles. The unscripted, low-budget music video was filmed at Galifianakis' farm in North Carolina and features him and Oldham lip-synching to the song. The alternate video was selected by Rolling Stone as the third best music video of 2007 while Pitchfork Media cited the version as the thirtieth best music video of the decade.

With this music video it was set in the desert so when you watch the music video to this nothing really changes until the night time where you see Kanye West, rapping away with smoke appearing from the background then you see some lights in the background like stage lights for a play or a nightclub. Now to me this made no sense because if you are in the middle of the desert, stage lights aren’t going to appear out of nowhere. That is the only thing in the video to me that didn’t make sense.

The other thing I noticed about the video was Kanye West being very cocky which he is very famous for. Most of the time you have him frowning in the video with a very serious look on his face. The lyrics in the song are saying that all the bad things that are being said about him he already knows and he doesn’t really care so that is why he is saying you can’t tell him nothing because it is his life and that’s how he wants to live it.

A famous example was at the VMA awards and Taylor Swift won an award and he ran on stage telling everyone saying that Beyoncé should have won an award for the best video. That video was Single Ladies. Kanye West’s outburst caused a bit of a riot at the awards and he had to be evacuated from the building. After the incident he went quiet for 6 months and went on TV to say sorry to Taylor Swift. That is just one of the many examples that Kanye West, doesn’t care about what people think and he will do what he wants.

The song charted number 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 in America which is an average entry into the chart. The single didn’t do so well in the UK charting in at 107 which is his lowest charting single in the UK to date. The song did go platinum in the USA a year later.

I found the video on YouTube, Vevo, MySpace and Kanye West.com. I think the reason the song charted so low on the chart is because it is not a club banger. It hasn’t got any cheesy lyrics about how much money he has earned or who he shot. The lyrics have a story behind them and a lot of people these days don’t like that they would rather hear about sex, drugs, money and cars which are everyday things but are talked about too much within rap music. That is why I like Kanye West, he raps about what is going on in the world. It is not just all about money. When you listen to his raps you can tell he does it from the heart. The other thing I love about him is that he doesn’t care what he says in his music and I respect him for that.                  

Kanye West Good Life

The music video for "Good Life" was directed by Jonas & François with animation by So-Me. The video premiered on September 11, 2007 as MTV Jams' "Jam of the Week". It features West and T-Pain performing with animated backdrops and often mouthing the words of the song lyrics, which appear in large letters. The version of the song used in the video contains an additional twenty-three second intro that the album version does not have. The video also features rapper/model LoLa Monroe.

The video has reached #4 so far on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown. It ranked #40 on VH1's "Top 40 Videos of 2007." The video was the recipient of several awards nominations, winning "Best Hip-Hop Video" at the BET Hip Hop Awards and "Best Special Effects in a Video" at the MTV Video Music Awards.

The music video for this song once again is very well done but you wouldn’t expect anything less when it comes to Kanye West. He is a master when it comes to art and how things look in his music videos. Throughout the song Kanye West and T Pain remain two black and white figures and the models that also appear in the video remain black and white figures. All the way through the video little moments happen and when these moments seem to happen they appear in colour with whoever is rapping or singing remaining in black and white. Most of the time the song changes from a white back ground to a black background. The white background is used for most of the video but towards the end of the video a black background appears and is used until the video ends. When some of the colours came into the video they were very bright. I found colours were used a lot when they had a subtitled sequence. The five colours I noticed throughout the video were red, pink, green, yellow, light blue and dark blue.

Another key thing I noticed in the video is that there is a CD that Kanye West has in his hands and on the front cover there is a picture of a teddy bear that has passed his graduation. Now any true Kanye West fan knows that the bear in the video is the one used on the front cover of his album titled Graduation. He also used teddy bears on his first two albums titled The College Dropout, Late Registration, There for Graduation being the final in the series.

The only thing that puts me off about the song is T Pain. I am not a big fan of him at all. He uses auto tune all the time so I don’t know when I listen to him if he has talent or not because he has never done a song without auto tune. This makes me wonder what is so special about him and why do rappers use him on hooks on their songs.

The song was very popular in America and on the Billboard Hot 100 it came in on number 7. The song sold 1 million copies in America and went platinum. The song didn’t do so well in the UK and charted at number 23.

The song on YouTube has been watched 29,880,114 times which is pretty good seeing as the song came out in 2007. The song on YouTube also has 36,835 likes and  914 dislikes which is very good seeing as the video has been out for 5 years. I found the video on YouTube, Daily Motion, Vevo, MySpace and Kanye West.com.

If there was one thing I could change about the video I would get rid of T Pain and actually use someone who has a better voice and can actually sing. Probably someone like Ne Yo, because in 2007 Ne Yo was at the height of his popularity or maybe even Rihanna she has a good voice. But then I ask myself if it would have worked if a female singer worked on the hook of the song. It would have been interesting to see because Rihanna is getting more and more popular and at that time she was just about to become really famous with the song Umbrella.     

Kanye West Niggas in Paris

On December 13, 2011, after their last Los Angeles stop at Staples Centre on their Watch the Throne Tour, Jay-Z announced that the live performance would be used for the song's music video.

The video was released on February 9, 2012 through VEVO and was directed by Kanye West himself, who produced strobe light effects. The video takes place live and also there are shapes of flashing lights, signs from the songs, lions, panthers and a church (the Notre Dame in Paris). After West raps "Got my niggas in Paris, and they going gorillas", the crowd gets on their feet while West stops and shows the scene of Will Ferrell walking on the treadmill in the film Blades of Glory.

The music video for Niggas in Paris is very controversial with certain people because the video goes over the limit of how many strobe lights can be used in a music video. This caused many people to complain. The music video is very rarely shown on television due to the effect of what might happen as some people could have a seizure and die. The video is very fancy there is never one fixed shot. It is moving every second. One minute you see Jay z and Kanye West rap then the camera moves to someone in the crowd then random images start popping up in the video, including Will Ferrell from the film Blades of Glory.

 The video has been watched on YouTube’s VEVO 39,129,287 times. The video has 174,051 likes and 12,858 dislikes. The song charted on the American billboard top 100 at number 5, which is very good for a rap single these days. On the UK singles chart it charted in at number 10. The song in the USA has sold over 2 million copies and in Canada the song sold over 1 million copies. The single also did very well overseas. I found the video on YouTube, VEVO, Kanye West fan site and Daily Motion. You can find the song on his album Watch The Throne.