Saturday, 29 September 2012

Location Work


A few days ago I went to a National Trust Park called Polesden Lacy in Dorking to look at some set ideas. It featured a lot of woodland and open space, which would be good for some of the shots we want to do.





What has happened?

As a group we decided to do a real artist as it may be easier if we want to do film after leaving Hurtwood, which I do! We have gone for an artist called Jo Birchall, and she is from Liverpool but based in London. 

Here is our treatment for her video



Treatment

Jo Birchall – Something to say

The Concept of our music video, is about a relationship in the past set in the 60’s with the style of old romance movies, We want it to be personal to the singer, so we had the idea of her watching a home movie of perhaps a relationship of someone related to her whilst she longs for a similar relationship for herself. We would therefore start with a home projector, with old film. We would have her lip-syncing whilst watching the film as one performance element. The second performance element would be her with the band actually performing with the projections in the background, which can be out in with after effects. The narrative would be a relationship between a boy and a girl in the 60’s; we would have a 60’s theme to it, and set it as a first date. We aim to have the mood as romantic and sensitive to show Jo’s innocent and girly side to her star image, Jo’s music is generally about love and relationships so we want to keep the mood of this video to fit with her general style and genre of her songs showing the beauty of romance and young love.




There would be shots of him picking her up in an old style car, then shots of them pulling in to a car park. We would then have them walking along a street hand in hand talking and laughing by the moonlight, then we would have him leading her up a staircase to a roof terrace which he has decorated and made to look beautiful and fairytale like, they begin to slow dance and then they end with a kiss.

Sabotage









Other small ideas


2 other ideas

Switchblade smiles Kasabian – a group of underage boys on the town trying to get into clubs and drinking and fighting on the streets. Showing harshness of reality and what the british public can be like. Night time shoot
This would be similar to The Chemical Brothers track galavize minus the masks and the break dancing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xu3FTEmN-eg




Do me a favor Arctic monkeys - want to do a black and white video. Its an emotional song so would like to film in a council estate telling a story, with a guy and girl an abusive father. Could work with others.
This would be similar to Chase and Status’ Time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=we9jeU76Y9E











Primary Idea


R U MINE? Storyboard

This is a small list of what I will need

Go pro with handle, which I am holding or being followed with has to get wet
A delorean toy car
Beers
Fags
Swimming pool
Party
Walking
Nighttime
Lip sync lyrics
Black and white

This is a rough first draft with each verse and chorus detailed


First move on ‘string’
Toy delorean goes past on time travelling
Heart shape made with hands
Finding hand to face with a side-to-side movement
Tap my watch twice
Riding maybe a bicycle or just miming
Mind touch my head
Look beside down to the floor
Go crazy hand gesture
Show where I am (spin camera round)
Distant memory arctic hands
Smoke cigarettes on cant help myself
1 girl on R U MINE?
Then try to follow her after for follow up
Band playing now

Jump before “I guess what I’m trying to say” into pool turns into color
Come out of pool on wished away back to black and white
Grab a towel
Dry hair for a bit
Then stop on” time and space” with dry hair with happy face
Repeat previous steps in different positions and people
Band playing

Then run on the “thrill of the chase” towards a fire with camera facing away with nothing but the fire there
Turn as I get there followed by some people and I sit at the fire as they run around
Lie down on right there beside me and show camera to both sides
Then show different people on the last R U MINES?



Influenced by this, The Mitchell and Webb look on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM3mmNwhT9A 

The Deftones – Back to School:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLvLcioo86Y

And the original video itself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQH8ZTgna3Q

Suede – The beautiful ones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqovGKdgAXY












A2 - The Brief




A peomotional packagefor the release of an album, to include music, a promo video, together with two of the following three options:

A website homepage for the band.

a cover for its release as part of a digipack (CD/DVD package),

a magazine advertisement for the digipack (CD/DVD package).

blur VS Gorillaz