Our group needed to get permission to use the instruments from our music department, so I typed up this permissions slip. It is important that we had permission because we want to share our video on the internet, and without permission this wouldn't be possible.
As a group, we each picked a selection of songs that we thought would work well for our music video.
These are the songs that we chose:
Kyle:
Bohemian like you - The Dandy Warhols
I feel so - Box Car Racer
Going away to college - Blink-182
Rhya:
Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
The Mixed Tape - Jack's Mannequin
Concrete Bed - Nada surf
Max:
Oceans - Mallory Knox
Kathleen - Catfish and The Bottlemen
Ghost in the mirror - Mallory Knox
We listened to each of these songs, discussing what we did and didn't like about them.
We then stripped our choices down to one song each.
Going away to college
Dark Blue
Oceans
We decided that we would use the song Dark Blue in our music video because we liked the upbeat rhythm, and we also thought we could use lots of dark blue colours and objects in our video.
Now we are decided on our brief being a music video, we researched a variety of different videos spanning multiple genres and looked at the camera angles they used.
Our group is interested in filming the music video with two parts.
A story featuring extras, other actors and different locations
A performance from a band who are playing the song on their respective instruments
We look first at the band shots, paying close attention to the angles and effects used.
In this video from bar car racer's video for their song "I feel so", we liked this angle.
This shot of the drummer is really interesting because it shows him surrounded by the drums, and he is also in front of the band's logo. We will use this shot in our video.
This lowshot of the guitarist is also interesting because it does not include his head, drawing attention to the guitar itself.
This close up of the singer brings intensity to the video. He is singing very emotionally, and it gives the video attitude and edge.
This close up of the snare drum is excellent because it fills the screen with the snare drum, creating an interesting unique shot. It also allows the crack of the snare to break through the music because the viewer is focused on this instrument.
We really liked this shot because of the atmosphere created by the lighting. We will utilise a mixture of dim and bright lights to create a contrast between the band.
This shot of the bass guitarist with the drummer in the background is interesting because it allows the viewer to focus on the rarely seen bassist, whilst also having the visual stimulus of the drummer.
We will use all of these shots in our music video, and will be especially careful with regards to our lighting.
As a Group we have decided to create a Music Video, Digipak and Magazine advertisement. We felt that this brief would best showcase our skills, and we had a lot of ideas and plans that we wanted to implement.
The brief we agreed upon was the promotion package for an album, with a music video, a website homepage and a digipak for the album's release.
We looked at various music videos spanning multiple genres.
The music video for Nickleback's Rockstar is very simplistic.The video consists of different people singing different lines of the song and dancing. The challenging thing about this video is the sheer number of people involved.
We decided that we wanted the music video to follow two parts: The video will feature the band performing their song, and then a seperate story that will be edited in.
The second brief our group researched was the product advertisement brief.
We watched various videos by JML on youtube, and discussed their suitability. The JML videos are very simple, as they showcase the product in an easy to view format. This would be good for our group to recreate, but we decided that it would be hard to showcase our talent with such a simple video.
For example, this video from JML only uses two actors, a voice actor and a silent actor. Most of JML's videos are in this format, meaning that this would work with our group of 3, but we decided against it as we preferred the music video task.
When deciding what brief we could be completing, we decided to research the different briefs that we had shortlisted.
The first thing we did was look at suitable film trailers.
We thought the Inbetweeners trailer would be the most suitable, as it follows four teenaged lads on their holiday abroad. The trailer is quite simplistic in nature, the only thing that would be hard to mimic would be the locations. The trailer does not feature any impossible to obtain props, or any high budget action scenes.
We decided against filming a trailer as we thought as a group we would achieve a higher mark by creating a music video.
