SHOOT 6: Narrative

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SHOOT 5: Performance add-on

Notes made for Shoot
Location:

• MUDAM 
• Museum 
• View to the city
• Elevator 
• Urban area with nature aspects

Props:

Car headlights to light up from behind

Costume:

quirky costume for new location

• formal on top
• casual on bottom (shorts plus waste coat)
• Hugo
• Metal shirt
• eyeliner
• tattoo sleeve 
• black fake nails
• red braces
• tight black jeans
• same as before
• Simon
• top hat 
• white buttoned shirt 
• bow tie (untied)
• suit trousers
• dress shoes
• facepaint 

Shoot List

split screen slow-mo Interpol slow hands

raining on simon slow mo 

Jump cut hugo while simon is singing normally 

• Static camera and film separate then layer over

Paint on wall by abandoned building

Location Scouting 
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Main points from the location scouting:

• Use static camera and have shots layered on top of each other with Singer and Guitarist in different locations 
• Film on the two floors with elevator
• Attempt a 360 elevator shot 
• film in "trenches" 
• Film coverage shots of statues and bizarre sculptures 
• Film with view in backgroud
• Have an els being zoomed into ms from below top floor 

SHOOT 4: Performance Re-shoot

PLANNING/PREP

Location
Underground Parking lot:

• Middle of empty parking lot
• Have band car in being used

Costumes

Isabel Influence

• Isabel (keyboard)
•  Black skirt
• Turtle neck stripped shirt
• ripped tights
• Red lip stick
• Simon (lead singer)
• All black suit (black shirt + jacket + trousers)
• Dress shoes
• Large belt buckle
• Hugo (Bass)
• Distressed light blue jeans
• Black button up shirt
• Thin leather bracelets
• Rubber bands
• Festival passes
• Biker boots
• Sam (Drums)
• Converse / vans (black and white)
• Tattoo sleeves (sleeve + sharpie)
• Oversized shirt (black)
• Distressed black jeans
• Combats
• Hannah (Guitar)
• Leather jacket
• Low cut crop top 
• Black jeans / combat trousers
• Purple lipstick 
• Black eye-liner
• Choker / neck strap 

Props

• Guitar
• Bass
• Drumkit + drumsticks
• Snare
• Bass drum
• Top drums
• Crash symbol x2
• 2 Amps
• 2 Leads
• Mic + Microphone stand
• Car to unpack all equipment

REFLECTION

Directing:

Cinematography: 

SHOOT 3: House

PLANNING/PREP

Location
House:

• Kitchen
• Living room
• Bedroom

Costumes

Man:

• Dark green jumper
• No hats or makeup
• Black jeans
• Crocs 

Woman:

• Red and white stripped shirt
• Minimal makeup (eye liner) 
• Black leggings 
• White socks
• Hair is straight 

Woman (2nd Costume):

• Black shirt 
• Black leggings
• Black socks
• Straight hair 

Props

• Photos from their past 
• Candle
• Ingredients to bake
• Tools and equipment to bake the cake

RUSHES/REFLECTION
Rushes:
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Directing & Cinematography:

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Set Dressing:
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Above video is general behind the scenes and some set dressing (Excuse the vertical filming)

SHOOT 2: Narrative Christmas Market

PLANNING/PREP

Location
Christmas market:

• Churros Stand
• Kiss in front of sign
• Tree decoration time jump
• Bench time jump
• Walk around the market

Costumes
Man:

• Winter jacket
• Backpack
• Black jeans
• No hat 
• Dark jeans

Man (2nd costume):

• Grey shirt
• Hat on head
• No jacket
• dark jeans

Woman:

• Pink Beanie/ Hat
• White handbag
• Checkered scarf
• Beige winter coat 
• Eyeliner makeup

Props

• Churros from Christmas market 

RUSHES/REFLECTION

Rushes
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Above is an idea of what this scene/shoot will look like in the music video. There will be many more effects and editing will be done more carefully to ensure verisimilitude in post production.
Directing 
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Above is footage of Chris and Simon directing the scene where the couple is on the bench.

Costume change
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Above is footage of set dressing where the central protagonist is changing clothes to reflect a different time period.

SHOOT 1: Sample Scene

We have finally begun shooting for our music video.

We just finished our sample scene for our performance which we will use to see where we can improve on costume. location and how all the band members are acting. 

Pre Production:

Isabel:

• VANS music sponsorship 
• Balance of moody performance, not too goth like 

Simon:

• Problematic hair, needs something done to it
• Should make longer
• Performance should have little to no smiling 
• Get phones off performers 
• Should remember speaker to play the audio
• Semiotics of the quote on Simons shirt 
• Cultural capital for quote (Ghandi) 
• Jacket?

Euan

• Needs tattoos sleeve 
• Emphasise fringe (less gel) 
• Leather wristbands (multiple is better)  
• Bandana around neck 

Cinematography:

• Apply the 180 degree rule

GENRE CONVENTIONS: Artist research

Welshly Arms

Links:

Official Website
Facebook

From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Genre: Alternative rock, blues rock, indie rock
Started: 2013

Members:

• Sam Getz – lead vocals, guitar
• Brett Lindemann – keyboard, vocals
• Jimmy Weaver – bass, vocals
• Mikey Gould – drums
• Bri Bryant – vocals
• Jon Bryant – vocals

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Timeline:

First EP - Welcome: 2013
2nd EP - Covers 2014
1st Studio Album - Welshly Arms 2015
3rd EP - Legendary 2017: Reached US Billboard Alternative Songs Chart No. 14
2nd Studio Album - No Place Is Home - 2018

Influences on them:

• Jimi Hendrix
• The temptations
• Otis Redding
• Howlin' Wolf
• The O'Jays
• The Black Keys

Use of their music in media:

• Songs used in trailers for:
• The D train
• The hateful eight
• "Legendary" used for WWE TLC official theme song
• National TV and radio campaign for Cleveland Indians
• Promo for Netflix's Sense8
• Ending song in Den of Thieves

IDEA 7: VR/ Video Game element

This is a great example of convergence, where a fake 80's style 8 bit video game trailer is used as a music video

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From this we have had the idea of incorporating video games into our music video:

• Performance
• Using characters in game to play instruments 
• Character avatars dressed as band

Can create bands within sims

• Story
• Video starts with couple playing video games together
• Camera "jumps" into tv or computer
• In game avatars act out narrative of the bad breakup
• when camera comes back to real life the game is a exact copy of their reality with a bad breakup/relationship

Mise-en-scene:

• Frames on wall in sims
• Posters of welshly arms
• Watching music videos on TV of WA
• Can i play with madness
• Welcome to the jungle

Build a environment for our couple

Possible Games:

• Sims
• Skyrim
• Minecraft

Ideas for Audience interaction:

• Fans can design avatars 
• Competition - winner can be in next video

IDEA 5: Narrative and Performance Pitch

Narrative:

• A couple (potentially homosexual) 
• Going through a bad breakup and reflecting on the good times together
• There is a socialist realist aspect to the genre 

Performance:

• Have derelict rundown area
• 4 piece band
• Indie style clothing
• Have Indie performance from the band, not jumpy and happy but a bit more sinister

IDEAS 4: Found a track

The track we have chosen to do a music video for is Welshly Arms - Locked
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Lyrics

IDEAS 3: Potential Tracks + Narrative

(CS)

After thinking of a narrative that involves two females part of the LGBTQ community being rejected from society and standing together to get over it, I have found some potential new tracks that could fit the narrative.

Below are the four tracks.

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2. Welshly Arms - Locked

Lyrics



3. Kodaline - Follow Your Fire

Lyrics



4. Welshly Arms - Sanctuary

Lyrics




1. I think this could make a more striking video due to the pace of the song and the creativity surrounding the drums and how that can be in a performance. However there is a line "All the things I have seen and done" suggests a more mature band which will be harder to cast.

2. The pace is a bit slower which I think will make it difficult, however the violin will give a large boost for an amazing performance, and the cast can be younger which will be easier to cast.

3. Overall the lyrics directly touch the theme of a happy couple "running away". However the song is very repetitive and might lose the overall effectiveness of the music video.

4. The pace is varied and the song is not too drawn out, some of the lyrics fit exactly what the narrative is about "I see your hurt, I feel your pain" and "You are, you are safe with me". The pace and lyrics fit very well with my narrative idea.

IDEAS 2: Song ideas

Lucid Dreams - Juice WRLD

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For this we have a bad breakup here the guy is dreaming about times when he was still with the girl. When he isn't sleeping he's depressed with a drug addiction
A more in depth summary can be found here

Promises - Calvin Harris ft. Sam Smith

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IDEAS1: First ideas for Music Video

Track: Juice WRLD - Lucid Dreams
Genre: R&B


Lyrics

• Track is about breakup
• emotional and angry
• Drug abuse
• Can't let them go
• Change in a persons feelings
• Lucid dreaming about the breakup

Narrative:

About the breakup and drug abuse
Have quirky features (weird dance moves, drop into a pool)
Have so quirky what the f moments

2 narratives:

POV shots of main performer inside the dream 

How life was before breakup, memories in the lucid dreams

and

Awake - following drug abuse and how he deals with heartbreak

Performance:

Singing into the camera, solo?

Body is dead and no facial expressions for its about drug abuse, POV performer dreaming as well.

Slow dancing from a female with cloth?
Have so quirky what the f moments

Casting:

Main Performer (Juice WRLD) 

Female Performer (Ex -girlfriend)
Find someone who can perform (like a professional dancer) for some scenes
Irony of a counter type in the music video 

Location:

Bedroom

Woodlands

Mise - en - Scene
Face paint for main performer (Juice WRLD)
Smoke bombs
Candles could be used as lighting in some places

Cinematography/Editing:
Snorricam
Colour correction
Audience interaction?

PODCAST 10: Evaluation Questions

Podcast:

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Script:

Will make a power point/ prezi for each eval q to fill in the gaps

Link in theory to each of the Q's as well

Eval Q4: question on uses of technology

started with q4 as we feel it can be updated as we finalise the digipak and rough cut

• Whats in my bag video
• Description on how luts work
• Brief description of how equipment works
• Sony A58 review 
• Description on how we used social media and other softwares
• Going to add a power point and each do an individual whats in my bag video 
• Add a quick review on final cut or premiere pro

Eval Q3b: question on distribution

• Made a who wants to be a millionaire quiz show style with questions relating to distribution and other aspects
• Make a video explaining convergence with smartphone, desktop, newspaper, camera etc.

This is what has been done so far, what we also need to do is

Eval Q1a +b which is conventions and representations

for q1a:

• Influences video on digipak and website, in a top ten countdown style video
• also conventions that have ben challenged (leaving out male gaze) 
• Strange quirky green guy is more dance/pop than indie style  
• The alt vids is a way to challenge conventions 
• Have an interview with auteur, MTV interview. (maybe mtv cribs but combine it with interview) 

for q1b:

• How Indie is a subculture, hebdige, style and mood
• walk around with hebdige start with mods and rockers and in th end go to welshly arms and how is there even geographical sub culture with web 2.0 etc
• Why we chose to represent each character and band member the way we chose to

Eval q2: question on branding

• tour of the website
• Add a deezer, spotify, apple music icon to listen page
• with greenscreen and person showing around
• showing digipak as a design company and why we chose it to be this way
• put on screenshots and cut away from presenter etc. 
• Brand deal as an advert with the green toys in video 
• Star in a reasonably priced car chat show about branding 
• Video showing similarities between music video, digipak, social media and website
• evidence link between social media, website and digipak, how it has been promoted

Eval q3a: question about audience engagement

• tik tok competition results
• Unpacking of digipak from a fan
• radioshow interview
• List all audience feedback and how we did it

SAMPLE SCENE: 3 (Narrative)

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What went well:

• We were quick and efficient with shooting 

Things to improve:

• Directing the cast to be more natural 
• Cinematography needs to be less shaky 
• Shoot for longer periods to avoid awkward cuts 
• Have a less linear narrative
• Look for natural shapes for potential layering 
• Look at shots with a more critical eye 

Reflection:

• We will probably change narrative to be less linear 
• Learnt from mistakes and hopefully prepare better for the next shoot
• Need to have camera rolling to get the more natural shots 

Audience Feedback:

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SAMPLE SCENE: 2

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What went well:

• Quickly get many shots, cast were very cooperative 
• Have good variety of static and dynamic shots 

Things to improve:

• Look at the shots with a more critical eye
• Have more shots of every single instrument on the drum kit
• Have drummer be more precise and energetic 
• Get go pro POV shots 
• Especially Guitar and Bass
• Spend more time to get a larger variety of shots 
• Have singer be more energetic 

Reflection:

• Re shoot and spend more time in general on every aspect 
• Plan better to know exactly which shots to take  

Audience Feedback:

• Have band coming in on stage and setup "behind the scenes"
• Busking implemented in to narrative?

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SAMPLE SCENE: 1

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How we prepared:

• We borrowed instuments from the music department

• Had plans for costumes and almost had the full ones for this scene

• Printed out call sheets and shot lists and lyrics

• Simon learned the lyrics

• Make link of vans with music

• Need to justify new short hair 

• Leather bracelets, bandana/ lighter bits of fabric

• Look for uneven ground and say we're gonna film somewhere else

• Where does quote on t-shirt come from - Ghandi

• Black and white

• Get photograph.

• Narrative style shots of singer

• Bring amps

• attach GoPro to fretboard 

• order smoke bombs 

PERFORMANCE CUT: No VFX + Rough

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What needs to be changed:

• Colour correction on all garage scenes to adjust for lighting and camera issues
• Masking and finishing scene from 0100 to 0114
• Cleaning up takes that are slightly off beat
• Stabilisation of shaky clips
• Utilise more of footage from outdoor shoot later in video

Dark scenes black and white:
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Whole video black and white:
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