This music video has a very similar theme to ours in terms of lyrics, but is only performance based. We'd like to have a lot of performance in ours, but we also want the other element to stop it from getting boring. It's also more of a live performance whereas we want a studio performance. The lighting kind of fits what we aim...
We proposed our water ideas to Matt, and he said that it could work, but would only take up a few seconds every now and then in our video. Our other plan was to include a beautiful 'siren' who 'lures' in the singer. Matt suggested using this kind of idea with TV monitors facing each other at a slight angle. They'd be interacting...
A prototype is a scale version of the project being worked on, from which the final product is developed. Phil showed us a video of how the Williams racing team create their prototype: Prototypes are very useful because you can see if the final product would work without spending the full amount of money or time on it. It means things can be...
We showed out test shoot to the class again and got some more feedback. I've made a table on the key points that were said and what we'll change to improve it: ...
To test some water techniques I got a glass, flat bottomed lasagna dish and filled it with some water. I attempted to light it but I don't have my own professional equipment. using the slo-mo setting on my phone, I moved the dish to get waves in the water. I then made some bubbles in the water and used a macro lens to...
Our shoot day at the moment is 7th November, so we need to get all of our planning done by then. Our shoot day at the moment is 7th November, so we need to get all of our planning done by then. ...
Phil Tidy is from Squire Production Company. He's a music video producer / director and has worked on videos for: Spice Girls, Mcfly, Bastille, Sugababes, Jamiroquai, Oasis, Muse, Shakira, and many, many more. He is also also a co-curator and producer of the BUG at the BFI on Southbank. It's reaching its 10 year anniversary, and is an event 'celebrating creativity in music...
This is a video previously done by the school. They use one technique from 1:12 to 1:20, but we don't want to use anything like it because the colours don't work for ours, and the effect in general is not what we're after. The same goes for the bath scene - it's a bit too sad for our theme. ...
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For our test shoot we asked the band to come in costume (mostly black, well styled). Gareth (the drummer) will be wearing a different shirt on the actual shoot, but the rest of the band will be wearing the same or similar. ...
Today we presented to 2 industry professionals who are art directors and set designers. We hadn't progressed much since scrapping the police processing idea on Friday, but we showed them the research from over the weekend (my previous blog post), and the test shoot we did last week. They thought that the song fit with what we had so far, and could work...
After realising that the cutaways / narrative wasn't going to work having looked at the test shoot, we've decided to change our idea to something more conceptual. In mythology, sirens are creatures with who use their beautiful voices to lure men in and then kill them. They're beautiful on the outside but ugly on they inside, so we want to play with this...
We showed our class the test shoot, and they made the following points: The police processing cutaways don't fit with the genre and feel of the song to fix this, we are taking out the police processing elements in favour of something more conceptual that may relate to sirens (eg. water) The band looks good together we'll keep the cast and costumes as...
We shot our test shoot today in the studio, starting with the cutaway elements: fingerprints, mugshots, line up, and pocket emptying. Philipp edited it all afterwards with Premiere Pro. Harriet, Philipp and I were the 'actors' in these because we did them during the lesson to save time and to see if it works. We used Philipp's Black Magic camera to make it...
We re-pitched our developed idea to Phil and Luke in class today. Luke thought that we didn't need a reason as to why they're arrested, but make it 'authority is against them' in a way. He and Phil suggested having them play in the back of a van again, however we don't think this will be easy to film or look good, so...
This is our final cast list which will be sent to teachers so they know who will be out of class on our shoot day. ...
Phil sent a copyright request to the record label who's song we want to use for our video: This was their reply: ...
I made a fake Instagram page of someone who would be in our target audience: He is: outgoing in the age bracket of 15-25 into music (plays guitar and goes to concerts) cool / rebellious ...
We told Phil our idea again and he gave us some feedback: He thinks that if we do it the way we were planing to, the band might look like they're taking themselves too seriously, so to change this slightly, we're adding the reason that they're being arrested to the mug shot boards (as shown in the picture) with things like 'instrument theft'...
My group and I researched 3 similar bands to ours: Royal Blood, Arctic Monkeys, and Rival Sons. I did Royal Blood, Phil did Rival Sons, and H did Arctic Monkeys. I chose 3 of their videos, and looked at each one to see what conventions each of them had with a number of categories (eg camera, editing etc.). We then looked at all...
Phil sent an email to our cast to try and get them together to see if they have chemistry and will look good as a band together. Vocals - Sam Drums - Gareth Bass - Eddie Guitar - Jojo ...
