Research and Planning- Chosen Artist for Music Video.

Our group this week sat down and discussed which artist to use for our music video. From the research we had done we narrowed the list down to the following artists:-

• Fake The Attack-    

Genre: Alternative/Pop/Rock.
Formed November 2009 from Hampshire, South England.
We thought this band would be a good idea because the group would like to focus on an alternative/ rock genre orientated band. The other good point of this band is that it has a female lead singer, meaning we could film our group for the video. However this band has quiet an American sound and we just we're feeling especially excited about creating a music video for this band.

• Horns become Halos-

Genre:  Pop Punk/Post-Hardcore/Rock/Alternative.
Recorded Label: None
Once again we were quite interested in this band as they had an alternative genre to them and we had some very interesting ideas for a video. However a lot of their songs have a lot of instrumental and w thought this would be quite difficult to film, unless we did a narrative based video.

• Raven-face- 

 Genre: Metal/Metalcore.
Record Label: Unsigned. 
Formed in 2007 from Northern England
 With This band we had some great ideas that work well with this genre and the concepts for this genre. And we decided on using this band in the end.







 I have contacted the artists via Facebook for permission to use their songs. I did this because, even though they are an unsigned band, i felt it best to ask and because it shows one of the platforms for how bands get through to their fans. Here are the messages:-

RAVEN-FACE - Official Band Page.

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  • Kaya Brenna Parsons.

    Hi Raven-face. i am a current media student and for our A2 coursework we have to make a music video. It would be amazing if you would allow my group and i to use one of your songs. We are not sure which song to use yet but if you agree we would keep you updated. Thanks very much and have a good weekend.
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  • RAVEN-FACE - Official Band Page

   Yeah of course, no problem.

   

  This was great to get and we will be beginning to start writing concepts and brain storming ideas next week.

Portfolio work- Creativity task- Another brick in the wall.

This is our finished video for the creativity task looking at Pink Floyd's song 'Another Brick in the Wall part 2'. I am very happy with thhis video as it gave my group and i a chance to experiment more with the camera equipment and editing software, giving us more techniques for our own music videos. We wanted to keep this video interesting and as we only had two weeks to shoot, this was a challenge. However we managed to film shots of people in the school and we tried our hand at stop animation showing lyrics from the song. However we did lose some footage and had to keep it as it is. As the song is based on conforming in school we shot the whole video in class rooms and school corridors. We also had still images of both teachers and students to show the relationship between the two and to match the lyrics. We also decided to have some small performance elements that we showed in time to the music. In the editing process we used some interesting techniques such as over laying two seperate clips ontop of each other and towards the end of the song we played the footage backwards, which was very effective. We also cut the clips in time with the beat such as the part when the song sings 'wall' and the clip cuts to a black screen, completly in time with the tempo, this was very effective.

 

 

The finished Video:-

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNdjEsKW2Nk&feature=plcp

Research and Planning- Location ideas for our Music Video.

For our music video, our group are focusing on a musician or group that are of indie, punk/rock genre. After looking at some signed artists music videos i have begun to think of ideas for location. The location would have to reflect the overall atmosphere of the music, (unless you are trying to contradict the music) and from my research i have seen that most common indie, punk/rock music videos are either set out side in a dark forest or underpass or are in an abandoned warehouse or public place such as a busy city street. Here are a few photographs i have taken of possible shooting locations.

There is also the idea of creating a mood or reflecting the mood by weather so we could either film during a storm or rain or using post production to edit the footage to a much darker high contrast quality which would overall create a much darker effect.





Another member of  my group also went out and took images of an abandoned college, which is also ianother possible location.

Research and Planning- Artist Research for Music Video.

Our group for creating our music video have decided on making a music video for a punk-rock genre and. we have put a list together of all the artists that we could use. These artists are either un-known or are not signed yet and fall into the genre of punk, rock or alternative indie.

•  Vintage Crow, 

• Amberline, 

• 100 Monkeys,(With the song Wandering Mind).

• Skadilly,

•  Lost without Lacie, 

• Billy Gregory,

• Fake the attack

•  The Aviation Orange

• Routine Sometimes

•  Mindset for mayhem

• Break the system (with songs like Sooner or Later and  Face the World).

•  Horns Become Halos.

•  Raven-face.

These music videos are also a great help to get an idea on the type of music video that these bands like or expect and i am going to look closer at them to get ideas for our own video and to see whether the videos have any classic conventions that could be used.

Research and Planning- Deconstruction of a music video. Genre.

This is a deconstruction of the music video "All I Want" by A Day to Remember. I have chosen to look at this music video because i enjoy the song and find the editing techniques and word painting really interesting and would possibly like to use these techniques for my own music video. This song is also considered a great anthem and you can resist to sing along.

Song Research:- (sourced from wikipedia).

"All I Want" is the first single by A Day to Remember from their fourth studio album What Separates Me from You. It was released officially to radio on October 12, 2010, although it premiered on October 6, 2010, on KROQ-FM radio.The music video for the song was released on January 6, 2011.

Here are the lyrics to the song so that you can get an understanding of the emotions portrayed in the music video:-

I'm always screaming my lungs out
Till my head starts spinning.
Playing my songs is the way I cope with life.
Won't keep my voice down.
Know the words I speak are the thoughts I think out loud.

I like to keep things honest.
I'm a safe bet like your life's staked on it. For real.
I'd hate to keep you all wondering.
I'm constant like the seasons
I will never be forgotten man.

Let's leave no words unspoken
Save regrets for the broken.
Will you even look back when you think of me?
All I want is a place to call my own,
And mend the hearts of everyone who feels alone
Whoa
You know to keep your hopes up high and your head down low.
Keep your hopes up high and your head down low.

Still got something left to prove.
It tends to keep things moving.
While everyone around me says my last days are looming overhead.
But what the hell do they think they know?
My head's above the water while they drown in the undertow.

Let's leave no words unspoken
Save regrets for the broken.
Will you even look back when you think of me?

All I want is a place to call my own,
And mend the hearts of everyone who feels alone
Whoa
You know to keep your hopes up high and your head down low.
All I want is a place to call my own,
And mend the hearts of everyone who feels alone
Whoa
You know to keep your hopes up high and your head down low.

If you take it from me,
Live your life for yourself.
Cause when it's all said and done you don't need anyone else.
Come on!

So let's get back to when everything seemed perfect.
Not a worry in the world, tell me was it all worth it?
I get what I want, so everyone's always judging me.
I'm not afraid of anything
I've got the whole world in front of me.

All I want is a place to call my own,
And mend the hearts of everyone who feels alone
Whoa
You know to keep your hopes up high and your head down low
All I want is a place to call my own,
And mend the hearts of everyone who feels alone
Whoa
You know to keep your hopes up high and your head down low

Keep your head down low.
Keep your head down low.
Keep your hopes up high and your head down low.

The music video starts off with close-up shots of newspaper clippings, featuring the bands name "A Day to Remember" with diegetic sound of the song playing off screen, hinting that it's playing on a radio. The cuts are very quick which reflects the up tempo of the the song. We then have a clip of the main vocalist writing "Thank You" in a note book. This could be interpreted in two ways. Either he is thanking the bands fans for being supportive or he is thanking fellow bands, which is linked to the later cameos of popular bands and musicians who are all good friends with the band. Overall the music video is a performance based clip and the diegetic sound of the radio transforms into the non-diegetic audio of the song with a wide shot to show the band playing. The overall mise-en-scene of this music video shows the band in casual clothing and a typical costume for rock bands of wearing band t-shirts.

Camera shots and movements vary from close-up and wide shots showing the band playing and guest starts singing in different settings. There are also pans, tracking shots, zooms and quick tilts that follow the actions of the musicians or doodles and lyrics on the screen. The camera also seems to move with people on some occasions giving the effect that the audience is there with the bands singing and having fun.

The overall lighting for this music video is quite dark, which hints to them being in a room with no windows and only one light. This sticks to the conventions of a rock music video and helps the audience understand what genre of music this is. Even though the overall lighting is dark and the music is seen as heavy, the atmosphere is quite happy and motivational which reflects the lyrics of not being held back by anything. Doodled images begin to appear around the band and guest stars and certain lyrics from the song are craftily placed on screen in time of them being sung. For example chorus lyrics "All I Want' and "feels alone" are repeatedly put on screen.
When the song comes to a break down the lighting goes even darker and paper is blown around. This could signify the bands strong passion and the overall songs meaning for people to achieve what they want and not let anyone stop them. The footage is also slowed down to match the tempo of the song. At the end of the clip it cuts back to the lead vocalist writing "Thank You All", ending the enigma of who is was thanking at the beginning of the video. He then stands up and walks out of the frame, signifying the end of the video.

Portfolio work- 2 Week Music Video Challenge.

Our challenge is to produce a music video for the song "Another Brick in the Wall" part 2 by the band Pink Floyd who were popular in the 1970s.

Research into the song (sourced from wikipedia):

"Another Brick in the Wall" is the title of three songs set to variations of the same basic theme, on Pink Floyd's 1979 rock opera, The Wall, subtitled Part 1 (working title "Reminiscing"), Part 2 (working title "Education"), and Part 3 (working title "Drugs"). All parts were written by Pink Floyd's bassist, Roger Waters. Part II is a protest song against rigid schooling in general and boarding schools in the UK in particular. It was also released as a single and provided the band's only number-one hit in the United Kingdom, the United States, West Germany and many other countries. In addition, in the US, along with the tracks, "Run Like Hell", and "Don't Leave Me Now", "Another Brick in the Wall" reached number fifty-seven on the disco chart. In the UK, it was their first single since 1968's "Point Me at the Sky"; the song was also the final number-one single of the 1970s. For Part II, Pink Floyd received a Grammy nomination for Best Performance by a Rock Duo or Group and lost to Bob Seger's "Against the Wind". In addition, Part II was number 375 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". The single sold over 4 million copies worldwide.

The single, as well as the album The Wall, were banned in South Africa in 1980 after the song was adopted by supporters of a nationwide school boycott protesting racial inequities in education under the apartheid regime.

Lyrics:

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave them kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

Official Music Video:

For our planning and research we have looked at the four aspects of media; mise-en-scene, editing, sound, camera aswell as looking at intertextuality and taking images of our location and after looking at the official music video we began to brainstorm ideas for when we are ready to film. Because this song is based around school we have looked at other music videos or film/TV series that are based in school and we are going to film our video in school as well.

Idea Wall

Ideas for Location.

Images of possible locations.

Other music videos that use the theme of school.

Ideas for mise-en-scene.

Ideas for sound.

Camera movements and angles that we could use.



Ideas and styles for editing our video.



Concept and ideas.

More ideas.

 We are going to try and encouperate some of these idea and will start creating a story board soon.

Portfolio work- Looking at Creativity.

In one of our lessons we were asked "What is Creativity?" Through group discution we made a few bullet points on what we thought creativity is:-

• Likes and dislikes (Passion).
• Imagination
• Expression
• No boundaries
• To "Do What I Want"
• To use initive
• To explore
• approach from all angles
• Style
• Subjective
• To make changes
• It is a process-flexible-evolves.

Finally we were asked to think of our own difinition of creativity. We could use as many words from the bullet point as we want. Here is my idea on creativity:-



Creativity is something you deticate to because you have a passion. You nurture it and the process is as expressive and imaginative as you see fit. It is an exploration and you do what you want, tacking into account the audience of your piece.