Email on finding a band

Since I don't know which band I will be using yet I have decided to email round college to see if there is any bands in college that would be interested in helping. I'm going to send the email to one of the staff members to pass round college and i will update this post with the email contents later.

Green Day - Know Your Enemy Example

The video for Green Day Know Your Enemy is a pretty straight forward music video. The video consists of the band playing in a sort of wasteland while the camera moves round them and shoots from different angles.


The first shot below shows an establishing shot of the area giving then viewers a sense of where the music video is going to be taking place. As the viewer can see its shot at night in what can be seen as a field. This is the reason why the shot is located at the start of the video for the user to be able to get a feel of the setting where the band will be preforming.

For my video I'm going to be looking at something simlar before the band starts I'm gonna be shooting starts playing there will be an intro of an establishing shot of the bands practice room with the band members setting the instruments up before the music kicks in.



Dark and moody is what the shot is reflecting on the viewer which is further expanded with the lyrics of the song itself.

The establishing shot changes quickly to different key shots to show where the band are and this is resulted in the band playing in a war themed place.

The first shot of the band is the singer as the camera goes up a piece of piping which later expands to a rule of thirds shot.

This shot is a rule of thirds with the singer in the middle as the camera goes up the pipe to get the first of the singer.

The first actual shot of the singer is a side shot which seems to be a common theme within these style of music videos. I will be looking to having a similar theme for mine when I film it because I don't want the camera to keep focused in one position for too long as this would not impress the target auidence and could become boring.

New Plan

The new plan has started due to my other team member letting me down on the animation side of the project for the first idea. I have decided to go ahead and do the whole project on my own with little time I have left for this. For the new plan to work I will have to phone my friend tonight who is in an indie band to see if I can record his band playing. I will have to make sure I arrange something to be recorded in the next week or so due to the lack of time left for this project.

I will have to also ask for the correct content for this project can be retreved from one of the band members like song lyrics and the song itself to be embedded on my blog. I will phone up my friend later on tonight to see if I can record as soon as possible. Later on tonight I will update my blog.

Contingency plan

A Contingency plan is a plan devised for a specific situation when things could go wrong and due to the hard drive failure that Paul discovered we lost all of the work we did with the animation. This has led to another back up plan to come in to play due to the fact we don't know if any of the animation will be able to be recovered. The hard drive crash lost all of the work we had developed so far in the project and due to the time limit left for the project we have had to come to a plan B.

The alternative idea is to do a music video similar to a video we saw from students last year which will have a band playing which will consist of different camera shots. The music we choose will be put over the band like in most music videos because the band never plays live in a music video due to the fact the band is trying to promote the single to drive more album sales.

The music video idea would be shot in a room and the band would play normally. The camera shots would change to the style of the music to make it more effective. This would catch the expressions on the faces of the band for close up shots.

This overall is a pretty simple idea but its also very effective if pulled off correctly and it also shows that a music video would not need to be narrative to be successful.

Programs that will be used towards the animation

Clicking on the links below will take you to the Wikipedia pages which will have information on how the programs work. These four programs have been crucial in developing the animation. To make the animation work effectively these programs were the best programs we could work with to make the animation work.

Adobe Illustrator

Serif Drawplus 10

Adobe Photoshop

Windows Movie Maker

Treatment

Our video will be a music video thats fully animated from start to finish.


The target audience of the production would be people into the metal scene between the ages of 16 – 24. Our video is to reach out to our target audience

Album cover research

Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

This band can be considered to fit in to quiet a few genres and since we came up with the idea to use them in the video I decided to include them in the album cover research.

This album cover is quite different from what you would expect from an album cover to begin with. Not having the bands name or title anywhere on the front which can be considered to be strange as it does not promote the band at all.

Taking the fact they don't have any writing on the front of the album its not rare for this band to do so and they usually have different album covers with this one being no different. The cover it self sees a young girl either sneaking up or hiding from two men dressed in masks which at first offers quite a halloween sense to it.

Wanting to know more I decided to research to the cover and found this on wikipedia.

"The album cover is a picture titled "Untitled #44" from Nicholas Prior's "Age of Man" collection which the band saw at an art show and later used. Unusually, the outside of the cardboard case contains no song listings, and doesn't contain the name of the album or the band name anywhere but on the spine. The record company instead placed stickers on the plastic wrapping to indicate the name of the album and band, and on the UK version to indicate that it had the bonus track."

This album cover while is stylish can mislead the audience as it offers no direction to who the band can be without looking at the spin so I will have to include the band name etc on mine when I decide to start working on the design

Design ideas

• Use Pauls drawings as the front cover
• Have the band name on the cover with album title
• Use Photoshop to design the cover etc