Thursday 27 November 2014

Casting??

We are struggling to find people who are willing to take part in our music video, however we do have a few people in mind. We will write up a detailed plan of our ideas to figure out how many people we will actually need, including extras. We will need a singer to mime to the song - for this role we will ask people from the music department as they will possibly be more enthusiastic to contribute. Over the weekend we have a list of people we are going to ask to be our cast. We will give them a description of our music video and the roles within in order to hopefully make them interested. we hope to start filming as soon as next week, even if its just some simple shots. We will also look into doing some photography work so we can also start our ancillary products (digipak and poster).

Saturday 22 November 2014

Costume

We have purchased a cape and mask to use in our music video. We are going for the more generic superhero look as the role is purely the character's imagination and the music video will focus a lot more on humour therefore it will be deliberately imperfect.

Friday 14 November 2014

New Brief for music video

We have made a lot of alterations to our original idea for a music video: including number of characters and storyline, but we have kept to the idea of the super hero fantasy, however this time around we will aim for it to be funny. This is our new brief of our ideas.

Our music video will consist of two main characters, a singer and some extras. One character will be a very exaggerated stereotypical 'nerd' whereas the other will be a bully. We will show clips of the conflict between both characters within school (some humorous). The 'nerd' will be shown to have a great interest in comic books and will be shown reading and even creating his own comic strips and characters. During this constant isolation and bullying, he will begin designing his own super hero persona, as well as a villain based on the bully. The drawings will take up the frame and will change from a drawing to real life film - showing his imagination in action (we will use filters to differentiate between the imagination and real life). We will switch between reality and his imagination (what we see in the drawings - the hero defeating the villain). Eventually the 'nerd' will become infatuated with this idea of being a powerful superhero and attempt to make it a reality. He will dress up as his persona, however it does not compare to his fantasy and ends up looking very strange and silly (for comedy purposes we will have many clips of him acting stupid). The bully will be filled with confusion as this character attempts to 'defeat' him, and eventually walks away. The 'hero' then believes this is his victory.

We will create a story board to show all of this in much more detail so we know exactly what we need to film and where. We will also need to film parts for our performance element of the music video which will be quite simple as we will mainly be focusing on the narrative.


Tuesday 11 November 2014

Song Lyrics

Put on your war paint

You are a brick tied to me that's dragging me down
Strike a match and I'll burn you to the ground
We are the jack-o-lanterns in July
Setting fire to the sky
Here, here comes this rising tide so come on

Put on your war paint

Cross walks and crossed hearts and hope-to-dies
Silver clouds with grey lining

So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked
One maniac at a time we will take it back
Time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
Dance alone to the beat of your heart

Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel like our time is running out
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing all-vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Bring home the boys in scraps
Scrap metal the tanks
Get hitched make a career out of robbing banks
Because the world is just a teller and we are wearing black masks
"You broke our spirits," says the note we pass

So we can take the world back from the heart-attacked
One maniac at a time we will take it back
Time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start
Dance alone to the beat of your heart

Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel like our time is running out
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix
Wearing all-vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Put on your war paint

The war is won before it's begun
Release the doves
Surrender love
X4

Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel
Like our time is running out
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Wearing all-vintage misery
No, I think it looked a little better on me
I'm gonna change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Hey, young blood, doesn't it feel
Like our time is running out
I'm going to change you like a remix
Then I'll raise you like a phoenix

Put on your war paint

NEW SONG!


Monday 10 November 2014

Song choice??

We have found it very difficult to find another song that will go with our idea, as we are now making it more humorous rather than serious like before. After a while we have managed to find a couple of songs that we could make fit and can picture going over our ideas. We then listened to each one carefully and pin pointed the pros and cons of each until we chose a one that was the most suitable.