Location Permission Letter - Flat Front Room

This is a permission letter from the person who's flat we will use to film scene for our music video. The scene will be in the front room of a flat and the person (Lewis) has signed to give his permission for us to film there and for the footage to be uploaded to YouTube.

DigiPack Artwork

This is the the first draft artwork for the digiPack. It features six panels (including the disc). On the front is the heart in a bowl image that is also featured on the advert for the band. It was also feature images of the band members and bio's for each member.

First Draft Advert

This is my first draft for my music advert for the band. It features the artwork from the front cover of their album as well as tour dates and star reviews. It features a black place mat with a pure white bowl on in. In the bowl is a heart and blood. There is also a spoon next to it, symbolising it is there to be eaten. It also features the name of the album"Blood For Breakfast" and the name of the band "The Damned".

Talent Release Forms

These are talent release forms. They give permission from the people featured in the video that we are aloud to film them and use the footage we collect.

Shooting Schedule

This is our shooting schedule. It shows the dates we will be filming and who is needed for each scene.

Props, Make up and Equipment

This is the list of things we will need etc. The costumes will be very simple as they are easily accessible by the band members. The equipment is also easy to get a hold of as we have access to it already. We will need to get the props that we will need for the scenes in the flat.

Concept

The concept for our music video is a love/break up video, however the video will focus more on how the man deals with the break up rather than the break up itself. We didn't want the traditional pop music idea to come across as that doesn't suit our genre of song, so we have made the idea more dark and violent. We will show the lead male actor in his flat going "insane" due to the break up, we will show him turning to alcohol and generally doing nothing with his life. We also will feature the band playing the song, we will cut between the two scenes as we do want to show off the band because they are the ones who we are trying to promote.

Practice CD Cover Art

This is my first use of Photoshop. I created a mock CD cover, using an image of our lead singer. It also use conventional colours such as black, red and grey. The title also suits the music "Deranged".

Location Shots

This room was not suitable for us as it was too narrow. It was difficult to get different shots as there was limited space to move. Also the drummer was blocked from view a lot by the singer and guitarists.

This was the first studio we looked at. We felt that it didn't quite have the right look that we wanted for our band image. The sofa seemed out of place and we were unable to to change lighting well, because the lights could only be either on or off.

This is the studio that we used to shoot video of our band playing.

Prop List

Guitar.

Bass Guitar.

Drum Kit.

Microphone.

Microphone stand.

Amplifiers.

Speakers.

Sugar glass bottle.

Old empty alcohol bottles.

Sofa.

Initial Story Boards

These are the first storyboards I produced for our music video. They include shots we are thinking of using however they are not necessarily in that order as we will do this at a latter stage.

Track Permission Email

It is important to get this permission as we do not own the music or anything related to the song or the band itself. It could be seen as copyright infringement if we do not ask for permission. To do this I researched my band and found out their record label (WMG) and then navigated their website to a "Contact us" page. Here I filled out the query we had over the song.

Green Screen, Video Shoot and Final Cut

Today we used the green screen for the first time. It took a while to set up but was a great help to what we need to do within out music video. We filmed some classmates acting out a song in front of it. While doing this I learnt some things that are very important when it comes to the real thing:

1) Use multiple cameras at the same time. This will get different angles/size shots while only performing the song once.

2) We need a floor manager who will make sure that all three cameras are recording and that everyone is ready before anything starts.

3) The floor manager needs to count the start of the song in so that later on so all pieces of film can be cut in sync.

We also had a quick go on Final Cut Pro. This software is a lot more advanced and very helpful when making music videos. As we used a green screen we was able to cut the back ground out and put the image left over on to any background/other image. It was quite complicated but I have already used tools such as the "blade".

Image Annotation

My artist will be shown as a band of the rock genre. The colours they will wear and that will be included on the ancilary tasks will be mainly black, red and other dark colours. Our performers should have piercings and tattoos and would have hair cuts that suit the genre. I will represent them as quite heavy rockers as the song suits that look, however it is not too heavy as the lyrics are about love and there is no swearing. Shots of them will vary in length but will generally be quite quick. The lighting around them will be quite dark but may get lighter on certain parts of the song depending if it works well. They will play their own instruments as the genre is quite authentic and not all done through synthesisers and computers.

Annotated Lyrics

The lyrics for "Almost Easy" by "Avenged Sevenfold"

Planning-Job Roles

We decided upon what jobs we would do during the project, these were:

Me- Location scout/Editing/Camera

Tom- Actor scout/Editing/Camera

Hayley- Mise-en-scene/Editing/Camera

Planning-Initial Thoughts

Me, Tom and Hayley talked about what our music video could entail. We are thinking of possibly showing a love story as this goes well with the lyrics of out song. We also have many idea to do with editing. These ideas are mainly based on the speed of the music so they would be in sync. We also had an interesting idea that would involve using a green screen. The idea was to film a busy street, and then put out lead singer into the setting but speed up the background whilst the lead singer stays at normal speed. We also have possible locations for where the band could play and where the love story could take place.

Photoshop

I used Photoshop for the first time to create a mock CD cover. This helped me get to grips with the software and all the tools that can be used to help me create my groups digi pack. I used certain tools including; Quick Selection (Also know as the magic wand) this was helpful as I imported a photo and was able to cut out the background so I could then put it on to another layer. I also used the paint bucket tool which I used to create the colour for the back ground as a different layer. I used the text tool to insert the name of the band that I made up, here I also edited the font and size of the text. At one point I had to use the eraser tool which I used to erase a mistake, this was good as different sizes could be selected. To get the font I wanted I went on to a website called "www.dafont.com" which was very useful. I then imported this font and was able to write what I wanted with it.