Today’s first class proved that I’d definitely made the right choice in picking this summer studio. Making music videos is the perfect combination of two things that I love and adore: music and film and this course is going to teach us how to go about doing that.

In the second session we watched a few music videos made by Anton Corbijn. I hadn’t heard of him before now but I really should have. He’s the guy behind the clips for bands like Depeche Mode, Joy Division, U2 and many more famous bands of that era. His work is cinematically beautiful and aesthetically pleasing. It was also interesting to see how his video clips; which were made many years ago with older technology can still be praised and highly appreciated by the masses. I went home to watch the rest of the video clips that he did for Depeche Mode because they’re one of my favourite bands.

I didn’t realise that we’d be making a video clip for an actual band that could potentially be accepted by Rage. When I realised this my excitement doubled. that’s definitely going to a goal of mine within this course. We spent the end of the afternoon session sorting ourselves into groups and figuring out which band/artist we were going to email. I could’ve put myself with a larger group but I chose to just have a team consisting of Jac and myself because we have worked together on music media things before and plan to in the future. It’s also extremely rare for us to disagree on creative concepts which is a hard thing to find. We emailed an artist called Fontine who I’ve done an interview with before, asking if he would be open to us filming a clip for his song ‘New’. His manager replied sounding keen but we’re just waiting to hear from Fontine himself. If he says no then we have my friend’s band ‘Leisure Suite’ as a back up hopefully.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVr4Ys8zKM