Friday 6 December 2013

Evaluation Question 1 Information.


Saw

Take that

Andrew WK

Bring Me The Horizon

NCIS (Slap)






Courtney Love

Silas From Hollyoaks

Sienna from Hollyoaks
 

Wednesday 4 December 2013

Sharing the link for Survey Monkey.

I tweeted Mike Duce, the vocalist of Lower Than Atlantis asking if he could Retweet the link for my survey and he did. He is within the Rock genre with his band so hopefully his followers will fill in the survey and will enable me to get more detailed feedback.

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Thursday 21 November 2013

Planning for the weekend.

I am planning to create small written story boards on the lyrics of the song so that filming goes to plan. I am also going to finalise all of the details with the people who will be performing in the video.

Props.

I shall be buying fake blood, purple / green / black eye shadow and white powder over the weekend ready to film on Monday.
I shall be using chairs from the location to take down into the cellar.
I have contacted the drama department at school and they are more than happy to give me some rope on Monday for me to use whilst filming.

They are the only props that I shall need.

The group of people.

The people who are involved:
  • One Girl
  • Two confirmed band members
  • One vocalist
  • Potentially two more band members
This is the way that it is planning out at the moment. I have emailed all of the confirmed people the information and here is the email:

 
I have also sent a copy of the email to one of the people who could potentially be in it just so that he knows what will be going on.
 
 
I unfortunately had to change the girl that I was using as the other became unavailable, however I had already confirmed with someone that if the original girl couldn't do it, then she would fill in. She is still the same thing that I was looking for, so she will fit in fine. I have asked her to wear a black evening gown, with her hair straight and elegant high heels. I shall be doing her make up on the night. This shall include dark purple lip stick and dark eye make up, as well as false eyelashes.
 
I shall also be asking the guys to wear pretty much plain dark / black tops except for the vocalist who I am going to ask to wear a grey top.

Location and lighting.

I went to view the location last night and this is what I shall be using:








 
I have also booked out lighting from school as there are only very dim lights in the Cellar.

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Location

Tonight I shall be visiting Catthorpe Manor to look at their Cellar to see if it would be suitable for my to film there, I shall be posting photos of it later.

The girl in the video




This is the girl that I shall be using in the video. I am going to experiment with her make up within the next few days to see what would look best to fit her character.
I chose her as I think that she fits in with the "Stereotypical" person who would be obsessed with the band such as the girl will be in the video.
I am going to dress her in a formal dress so that it connotes her trying to impress the band with her clothing and to show that she is elegant. Also, it could connote that she is thinking of the capturing of the band as an evening out and that she has got to impress them. Which also shows how insane she is.

Tuesday 19 November 2013

Inspiration for Make Up for the next video


Due to the video being about kidnapping and torture I am going to do some research into make up and how to make it look convincing. I have posted the first images of my research so far.

Disaster with the band again.

Unfortunately the band that I was supposed to shoot had to cancel. Meaning I was left with no band. However,
I have been shown this video:



This video is exactly the type that if I were to do a narrative then it would be exactly like this. Therefore instead of having a performance video I am going to have a narrative video like this.

Friday 15 November 2013

Filming with no storyboard.

As I have no proper control over what the band does whilst they are performing, I am going to research into filming with no storyboard.

Inspiration for Digipak and Poster.


This video is an example of what has been done previously which is similar to my poster and digipak. The use of the single line drawings make the video stand out to an extent. It also highlights the video as it is wire framed, so that it looks quirky, retro and different.
Due to these albums (H.I.M and Architects) having plain backgrounds and line logos onthem, they influenced me into what I would use for my digipak as they are all from the same genre of music and they have all been well recieved. The logos are seen as a symbol of their music and are linked in with the music that they perform, this is the same in my digipak as I used the cross to link in with the name of the album "There is a hell" aswell as the buildings/shapes coming up from the bottom of the digipak and poster, this connotes hell and everything that might be coming up from it.These three albums focus on a main image in the middle which are quite simple but still really effective due to the plain background and mainly plain colouring of the cover.
Overall, all of these contributed to my ideas as I really liked the idea of just something really plain, yet it is easy to see that it has been made for a metal band. I am glad that I chose the plain style as it is easily identifiable that it is a metal album and a lot of the target audience will like it. As I am technically a part of the target audience I would say that if I saw a band with that album cover on I would definitely know that it came from this genre and that I wouldn't have a problem with it, and the artwork would probably encourage me slightly to buy the album.

Thursday 14 November 2013

Video Planning. Band, Storyboarding, etc.

After realising how unreliable my first band was, I contacted In Her Dying Memory (video below) to see if they would be intersted in filming for me. I was able to do this because I work for Mutiny Press (An online magazine) and I have interviewed bands such as Bowling For Soup, HIM, The Blackout and Chiodos, so fortunately I am in the position of being able to contact PR companies after I have previously worked with them. However, I would have to change the song as it would be better if they were performing their own song as they would be more comfortable and the outcome would be much better.



I then got a contact for a Metal band called Blessthefall (video below) and requested if I could film them for my media and do some back stage footage, aswell as filming them when they are on stage. They accepted. This shall mean that I will have a legit band, playing their own song, on stage whilst performing.



I shall have to be cautious when doing back stage footage of the band as some bands find it difficult to produce the right material such as Kings of Leon. They filmed the shots personally but they were useless and boring so all back stage shots in the video below are staged.


I am going to have to take this into consideration when filming that I might have to ask the band to do certain things for my video that they may not have done when filming previously.

However, a problem that may occur is that I will only be able to film the song once so I am going to have several cameras filming and film the whole of the set so that I can use the extra footage and fit it into the song that is playing.

Tuesday 12 November 2013

Draft Music Video

Due to this being my draft I have not blurred out the offensive language as I am going to film everything again in a better location. Tonight I will start looking for another, more dedicated band and also a studio to perform in as I think that it will make my music video much better for the suggested audience.
 

Monday 11 November 2013

Daniel Broadley (2)

Due to the change in my video I decided to email the director again for some more tips. This was his response:

The Hat.

This is a still image from my video that i have just screen shotted.
I am going to have to blur out his hat when I edit my video as this would not be appropriate to be shown on any music channels.
Although this is part of what would be expected from a metal genre 'costume' it is still not appropriate for me to have it shown through the video.

Filming.

I filmed yesterday (10/11/13) in a woods near to my village. We moved around the wood to try different locations.
I shall start editing tomorrow as the file type that my video is on is not compatible on the computer so I shall convert the file type tonight.

Friday 8 November 2013

The development of my completely new style for my Digipak and Poster.





Update on Filming.

Unfortunately my filming didn't go ahead on both occassions due to more circumstances beyond my control. Sunday the 10th of November will be the day that I film with the origional vocalist. I am 100% certain that this will go ahead as planned as it is all 100% set in stone.

Final Digipak and Poster




Tuesday 5 November 2013

Filming take 4

Tonight (05/11/2013) I shall be filming. If for some unexpected reason I do not film tonight then I have a back up of tomorrow night with a different 'singer'.

Hopefully this will mean that I will definitely get to film either tonight or tomorrow.

Friday 1 November 2013

Plan of Action.

I am either going to film tonight 01/11/2013, 3/11/2013 or 05/11/2013. Those are my three dates that I absolutely have to film on. Preferably tonight, but the other two are my back ups just incase.

I shall then aim to have edited it all by Friday the 8th November, if not before.

I am hopeful that this will work out 4th time of filming.

Draft Deadline and Filming Take 3.

Due to circumstances beyond my control filming did not go ahead on 31/10/2013. I am planning on filming within the next few days but this therefore means that I shall not complete the deadline for 01/11/2013.

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Filming.

Filming Take 1

I filmed last week and a few problems occured.
  • One of the band members didn't show
  • The man who was supposed to open the venue didn't show (Meaning no location / lighting etc)
  • The memory cards filled ridiculously fast and couldn't film much more
  • The camera went flat and broke for no reason even though it was fully charged
This therefore meant that I had to adjust to what had happened. Luckily it was no problem for me to manage with one of the guitarists missing, so that was easily fixed.
My Parents used to be on the Church Committee meaning that it was easy for me to think of a different location - The Church.
We went and filmed in the church and the shots went surprisingly well, I did the whole song twice before the camera died. This therefore meant that I only had shots of the drummer from different angles.

Over the next few weeks

The band then became unavailable to film as they did not respond to my messages so I had to find a replacement. Unfortunately I could only find one person so I planned to have just a single vocalist performance video in a wooded area with two car headlights and some flood lights lighting up the area.

Filming Take 2

Everything was set up to film, lighting, cameras, music etc. but then I realised that I had misplaced my memory card. This therefore means that I have got to film Thursday the 31st October and edit my film on the 1st of November ready for the deadline.

Things to make sure that it works the third time

I shall make sure this evening that I have got everything is ready and that the person that is going to be in it is 100% going to do it.

Monday 28 October 2013

Change of Band Members and His Outfit.


My previous band members have decided that they are no longer available for filming. This therefore meant that I had to ask someone else to be in it. My video will now be a one person performance video, still at The Vault, with possibly some narrative shots of the vocalist walking around singing. Depending on lighting. Unfortunately due to deadlines and the unfortunate cancellation of the band, I have not had any time to plan what I shall be filming. However, some thought has gone into it and I shall film the song around 10-12 times at different camera angles and then again outside whilst he is singing.