Shooting schedule

This is that dates and time that my group and I have planned for the days that we want to shoot.

Talent release Forms

This is that talent release form that we have given to everybody that is going tot be in the video. This letter basically states that the person signing it gives us permission to use any video tapes or pictures in the production of our music video.

Teacher Assessment

This is the assessment that I was given from my teacher. It basically states that I am at an overall high level three at the moment, how ever with a few adjustments to my blog I know I should be able to get it up to a level high level 4 easily.

Track permissions letter

This is the letter that we sent to Sumerian Records asking for permission to use a song from one of the band that are signed to their record label. The song that we are using is called 'Breathless' by an English group group called 'Asking Alexandra'. We chose this songs because we thought that the concept of the song would enable us to integrate a story line within the video.

Location permission letter

I went on to the Merton website and filled out a form online to get permission to shoot in Wimbledon common. here are some picture of the form itself:

We are now awaiting their reply. however since we are student and won't be needing anything apart from the location we have chose to shoot I would be surprised if we are not allowed to shoot.

Roles

Elenya's role in our group is mainly being the photographer, this is due to the fact that she takes photography as an A level so she is experienced with a camera and also because she has a great passion for anything under the photography umbrella. Even though Elenya is doing most of the film the group as a whole planned when are where we are going to be doing the filming. This is becuase we all believe that we should have a fair look part in the production of the music video. We are also likely to use Elenya's camera for the film as she has a much higher standard camera than the school would be able to provide so the video will come out looking nicer thank to this. Elenya also has a part in the narrative with daniel as her lover but they have their differences. 

I will be mostly working on the editing, This is due to the fact that I have a passion for filming and editing video's. Also last year I edited The opening sequence that my group done and we got an 'A' for the practical. This shows that I have previous knowledge of the editing program we may be using such as Final cut Express, I movie, live type and various other program tat we may have to use.

Daniel's role is mainly in the performance shots. This is because he makes up part of the band as he knows how to play the drums and has quiet a rock look, which would help us to add authenticity to the video even though he is going to be our vocalist. Daniel also has a part in the narrative that we using throughout the video. Daniel and Elenya are both going to be acting together.

Technical tutorial

In this video I am just showing people how to cut up clips and get them in the order that they want it to come up on the screen. In the clip is from my practice on how to edit green screen,  was half way through the process of cutting the shots so I thought it would be good to show how it is done with various short cuts shown through out the video.

Lists of Props, Costumes, make-up and equipment.

The lists of props, costumes, make-up and equipment is not a very long list because we no not need much for this and also we have a low budget to make the video. We are going to need some the conventional things in the video such as:

Drum Kit

Electric Guitar

Bass Guitar

Microphone wired













Theses are all the conventional things that are found in most rock music video's. This is to give them impression that they are in the woods, factory or where ever they are shooting the video. This is also used for performance purposes to add to the Mise En Scene and make the band look more like a band through the instruments.

The band themselves are going to be dressed in black as this is a colour that appeals most to the audience that watch rock music video's. We are trying to make our video as conventional as possible so the band are likely to be dressed like this:

As you can see both the people in the pictures are dressed in very dark clothes and both have the instruments that they play or sing in front of them, again sticking to conventions. The actors that we have for our narrative in our video are going to be wearing similar clothes. The main character in our narrative is our vocalist so he is going to be wearing the same clothes in that he wears in the performance shots in the narrative to add to the story. However he female may be wearing the a red dress to make her look innocent and a black dress to make her look distressed and upset.


 Looks innocent                                                     Looks hurt
                                                                              (Use of mascara add to the Mise En Scene) 

These two women are what we are going to try and re-create because in the narrative that we are using we are trying portray the women as desired although emotional women and we are trying to portray this through the lyrics and also the costumes.

Other props that we will be using is flour and a glass vase. This is mainly for the entertainment purposes and also it has a great Mise en scene and ,makes good cut away's. We are going going to put the flour on the drums so that when the drummer hits them it will explode off of the instrument and make a brilliant shot especially when played in slow motion. The vase we are going to just smash as we think it also would be a good cut away that we could use and manipulate throughout the video.

The following is things that we are gong to try with the flour in our video create except I will be using a whole drum kit. I have cut to the main parts of the drums:

Photo shoot

This is Our shooting schedule. We are going to be using both the pictures of the band and also of a model. We have chosen to use two because a lot of rock bands aren't actually on the front cover of their album ECT, and also we are going to be able to create a very demonic look with the female that we would not have been able to do with the band.

We are going to take some inspiration from other pictures and they should end up looking like this some what like the following:

As you can see all the photo I have chosen have certain elements in common. One of the things that they all have in common that is a very dark, simple yet scary photos; this is what my group are trying to create with the blood coming from the mouth and the eyes and also abnormally coloured eyes are all things we are looking to incorperate in our picture.

Album cover designs

This is just a video that we have made showing us working on the digi packs that we have to create for our work. In this video it shows us making some of the planning ideas for album covers,and the magazine advert.

This is one of the ideas that we had for our magazine advert, this going to be the general layout of the actual advert.
as you can see there is one person sitting down, I done this in order for him to stand out and so people would know that he is the main attraction of the band, the main singer. I have also included general information about the album like the bands name (Aftermath of ignorance), and also The album name (Bonded By Blood) and have included other information like price of album ECT.

The last part is the album covers themselves , we have had various ideas and the album covers reflect the names of album name 'Bonded By Blood'. For the one at the top it is mainly based around a women and she is covered by blood in the whole cover. We have chosen to show blood because it is a convention of the rock genre and the colour red represents love and pain also which is what the albums contents possess as well.

The second one along is one which includes the band so people know who's album it is. As you can see it has the name of the band on there and also interesting imagery. This cover also has dark imagery as darkness is also a convention of rock therefore it fits and appeals to the people hat listen to this genre of music.

The last one is just one panel of the album cover but as you can see the imagery of the panel is again exceptional. In this one we have chosen not to include the man whole face as we thought it adds more of a mysterious, demonic looks because the main focus is on his jagged teeth and the blood dripping out of his mouth. Again we chosen to use blood in this one because it connotates with the name of the album cover.

Locations

Box hill

Morden Hall park

Wimbledon common

These are three of the wooded locations that me and my group looked at, and thought it would be some  ideal places to record part of the music video. The three places are Morden hall park, Box hill and Wimbledon common. They are very conventional places that music rock genre music video are shot so we could get some shots here that do appeal to the rock audience. The place that we chose to shoot however was Wimbledon common, the other locations were good however wimbledon common is easy to get to and also the mise en scene of it was what we were ideally looking for.



Other places that we are going to use is a car park we are going to cut in between shot during the video to portray the main characters state of mind in the song and as a person. We are going to integrate shots of the car park when it is empty and cut them between shots of him walking through the woods. There is going to to be another actress in these parts as well to show what he is thinking about.

concept

The concept of this video is the lead vocalist playing a character in a narrative of someone who doesn't want a female companion because of the fact that he thinks that he is too dangerous for her but he can't get her out of his head. The lyrics would suggest that he has dumped him and through anger wants her to go away but deep inside really wanting her back, but between the lines another narrative begins to arise. This narrative is one that involves a disturbed male who believes that he is not stable or good enough for the female that we believe, as a group, is after him. He is doing this because he does not want to hurt her and is not willing to harm her because of his actions and instability.

Another slight variation to this narrative could be that the female does not want this male but he wants her and because of this she is stuck within his thoughts. He keeps telling her to get our of his mind because he knows he can not have her due to his instability and that because his mind is set on her he is outside his original mind and looking back at himself. These lyrics support this suggestion; 'I Need To Find, A Way Back Inside My Mind'. We have some suggestions on what we may do in term of cinematography and mise en-scene to support these narrative ideas. Both of these ideas fit our genre perfectly as the mood is very dark and portrays the severe depressive mood intensively.

Image annotations

When listening to this song I got a few visual ideas. Because the the narrative is based around this one girl which he doesn't want to hurt, I thought we should portray what is going on in his mind through quick shots and flashes. We could show memories of his time spent with her, to help us understand their relationship and what she looks like. Different short lengthed shots can be shown now and again throughout the video to support the meaning of the lyrics.
I tried to find a music video which interpretates the idea I am trying to explain. I remembered the music video for 'Breakeven' by 'The Script' done something exactly like I'm picturing for this video. Even though the genre of music is alot different and calmer, it can still be used in ours for quick cut aways. Here is a sample from the Breakeven video, you can see shots of the girl comes up various times:

This would depict what is going on in his head, we could also include short length and fast paced shots which create a manic busy feel that relates to the mood of the song, being quite angry and agressive. Having alot of built up fustration because he is trying to find himself and by having her in the picture, it is aggravating him. There could be a particular part in the song which is building up and suited to fast paced shots on a faster beat.

I cropped the part of the song that I thought was most suited to a build up of shots. Previously, when analysing one of Asking Alexandrias songs 'To The Stage', I really liked this fast sequance of shots near the end and from then I really wanted to use it for the video I would be making. Now that we have chosen the song I felt that this type of shot sequance suits the narrative as well as the sound.

Both of these videos that I have used as examples depict two diffferent narratives, in the 'Breakeven' video it shows shot of the women looking innocent and natural where as aa's video, 'To The Stage', it shows quite a dirty, sinful character. I think it would be quite good to put both of these extremely opposite personalities together in our video to represent this one girl. The cut away shots of the girl could start off quite innocent and beautiful, but then as the song goes on the personality could switch - suggesting that the longer she is around, the more trouble he will cause her, turning her into a different person, being evil and dominating. Or if we followed the different interpretation of the narrative, it could depict her driving him mad, constantly being in his mind and taking over. Appearing as if she is teasing the camera and acting manipulative, sneering and laughing at the camera as if she is laughing at the fact that she is causing this insanity to him.

As this song is aggresive and brings out a sense of fustration, I think it would be relevent to include some distructive kind of shots in the video. We could possibly show the guy being worked up and letting out his anger around him. This impact of violance and anger could be portrayed in a shot of breaking object. If we was to capture something like glass smashing on the ground, making sure every piece was captured, it would look really dramatic. If we were to do this I also think it would emphasise and show off the shot more by adding a slow motion effect. Here is an example of this type of shot in one of Asking Alexandrias previous music videos for 'The Final Episode', although the object would be purposly broken rather than accidently like in this video:

Storyboard

This is the story boards that my group and I made as a template for what we are going to do for the actual music video that we are going to make.






These are just videos of us doing some work on our story board for our music video and we have just being creating the shots that we think would have been the best at that point.

The second video is the animatic that my group have created using the story board. We have used the pictures in the story board in order to create a mini music video. We have edited the shots in a way that we would be able to depict what the actual music video is going to turn out like.

Lyrics Analysis

Lyrics | Breathless lyrics

The lyrics in this songs is based around the concept of love. A man does not think that he is good enough for a girl so he tells her to leave him and find someone better.

Our chosen song

This is the song that I have chosen to make a music video for. The genre of this video is rock. We have chosen to do this song because of the the lyrical content of the song in our opinion it would make a great music video, because it mixes good lyrics and has the opportunity for us to comfortably put narrative in the video.

Teacher assessment

This is just a basic video of the over view of my blog at this point, I am reaching my target grade which is a 'B' and getting even better by the blog at this point 'A-' which is good and I could still get better.

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initial Ideas

photoshop tutorial

This is the front cover that we come up with in the short time that we had to use photoshop. As you can see we have made the back ground black as darkness is a very conventional element that a lot of rock band have in their album. We also chose to do the writing in red because red is also another conventional colour of rock because it can represent blood, hate and love in some cases which a lot of rock songs are based around. We still need a bit more practice because some of the drum stick in both of his hand has been in correctly edited, but this is something that we should look to improve on in our real album cover.

The second picture you see here is the back cover. As you can see we have made the two covers match again with the black back ground and the red writing again. The font of the writing is one that we thought to be suitable for the genre of music we are making the video for. As you can see the writing has a ghostly look and feel to it and the is emphasized through the colour of the writing and also how the font is very thin get long kind of like a skeleton.





This s just a simple video that my group and i made of us taking some of the practise photo so so we can mess about with them on photoshop. As you can see we had some props with us to make the photo's look somewhat authentic, and also because we are likely to have instruments in our real photo's so it is good to be able to know how to edit around instruments.

Peer Assessment

This is the peer assessment that people in my class done about my blog so far. in both of the picture I have been given a level 4 from Both of my peers. This is done to what i one well in my post and that is 'lots of detail in each post with a clear layout which makes it easier to understand each post', and the other was that I used great imagery in my posts.