Chose band, research and study videos. In this session we chose the band we were going to work with who are 'The Proletariats' and looked at other bands and their videos who fit the same indie genre. The bands we looked at were:
Metronomy
Modest Mouse
The Maccabees
Foals
The XX
15th Sept;
We researched more bands and narrowed down our ideas and also studied the genre which our band fits into, to get a better feel of what we need to look at. Last week we decided on lights/flashing/party however after looking other bands such as Vampire Weekend, we decided on a simpler music video using fast cuts/colour. We looked at 'The Proletariats' Myspace and also further narrowed down our simple music video idea to looking at Alphabeat, and Metronomy-Radio Ladio.
22nd Sept;
We have talked to the band and have organised to go to their gig on 1st Oct in Camden to photograph them playing for the album cover or magazine advertisement. We decided not to film at this event as initially it would have been a good setting due to the party atmosphere however due to our new simpler idea I feel this wouldn't create the right atmosphere.
29th Sept;
One video that we have looked at this week was 'Maths Class - Emporio Laser' in this video there was many conventions of the indie genre as well as a variety of quick shots also many cuts featuring the band and parts of their body, which we liked the idea of to feature in our video. The focus in this video is on the band and the band move in and out of focus throughout the song. This idea also features shots of the whole band and individual members. However we still want to keep the idea of bright colour coming through in our video. The video is shot outside in a garden which adds some realism to the video which we haven't really looked at before
2nd Oct;
Yesterday we went to the gig in London and we listened to the bands lyrics and thought of how we could connect these with the music video. We also discussed our opinions with the band and tried to plan a shooting schedule.
15th - 1st Nov;
We did research on the history of the indie genre and what indie means. We also looked at the front covers of various NME and Rollingstone magazines to draw inspiration from for our magazine advert. We have decided that the band will be the main focus of our video and we also interviewed Jamie Makower the lead singer of the band to ask him questions about the band and the music which they have created. We asked them who inspired them and who are their idols are as well as trying to learn more about the band and ask their opinion on which song of theirs we should set our video to.
2nd Nov;
We created a questionnaire to help us with our development of our video ideas, this helped us to find out what people expect in a video of this genre.
5th Nov;
We decided not to use the band as they were not available at the times we needed them to shoot the video. We has to change our story board to something completely different which instead of involving the whole band would just involve one person, a girl. We also decided to for the main setting of the video to be filmed outside and therefore the bright lights and green screen ideas we had previously come up with had been changed. The song name 'Sit Down Have a Biscuit' was our main source of inspiration and we decided to have a girl walking through a town were various events happen involving biscuits. We kept the idea of dead pan faces from our previous inspiration videos as well as quick cuts from various scenes.
10th Nov;
Filming begins, the main focus of the film was on the girl (India) who was walking around town we did a number of point of view shots as well as medium angle shots to show people walking past her eating biscuits. So far today we filmed the scenes we needed of her walking into/around town as well as watching people who are eating biscuits walk past her.
14th Nov;
We filmed more scenes today to try and build up the paranoid atmosphere, as well as editing the beginning parts of the video with India leaving her house and walking into town.
17th Nov;
Today we filmed more scenes using passers by to eat biscuits. We got a lot of filming done today and believed we had finished filming, however when we returned to edit our film we discovered we had another minute of filming to put in. When we were editing our video we realised that we had to cut out a lot of the filming as it lack continuity, however we then wrote down exactly what we needed to film and where we needed to film it.
21st Nov;
We now only have twenty seconds more of filming to do after more editing and this filming will be completed at a later date.
1st Dec;
We have finished all the filming for our video and now the editing of the film is the main focus, using 'Final Cut Express'. Unfortunately there is snow in some of our shots which disrupts the continuity of the shots but adds to the strange nature of the video.
2nd Dec;
Some more filming needs to be done to improve the continuity of the video as well as a few gaps need filling.
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