For our presentation, the only thing we did was use several images to explain what they were and why these are relevant.
As you can see below, this is our "pitch" sheet which we wrote our ideas on just to inform people of our ideas.
Our Presentation went really well, during our presentation we agreed that we would be filming in locations such as the Corporation, we have decided to use this because in the Black Dahlia video, they film at the Corporation where the fans are headbanging with the band going mental outside the club. We are going to ask the club owner permission if we can make a video of some metal fans going mental in club room number 2. If we have the consent to do this, we will be really pleased because that means we can incorporate these shots into the video, as we would like to have a fast-paced video, cutting to slow shots of the band playing in their band room. We cannot stress this idea enough! We really want to achieve this idea of two genres submerged together because we feel this will work out really well. We were given feedback on our presentation, and it was positive feedback. Below is a voice recording;
These are our feedbacks on our questionnaires. If you click on each of the images, you will see that the people thought that this would be a good idea to carry out. We explained our idea - me and Mikey didn't have any other idea because we really want to be able to carry out this one. Plus we have put a lot of commitment in to try and make this work, so our main focus at this time is to get this idea now to a production schedule. What we did during our presentation, we explained the band we were using, our target audience and the mise-en-scene. I am going to record my voice for each of these and put them onto the blog.
This is a video of me explaining what our idea is about.
Our first idea was to copy the video of Black Dahlia Murder - What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse. Mikey came up with this idea for the video, and I originally said something along the lines of Machine Head - Davidian. Mikey thought this was ok, but persuaded me to watch a video and we both agreed that the Black Dahlia video would be the best. Below is a link for the video, and some screen shots to show what we are trying to achieve.
In this video, the band are in the woods with their instruments acting about. Me and Mikey really liked this idea, so we have decided to copy this (we were inspired with this) and we are really happy as we know if we were to do this, with the persona's of everyone in the band the outcome would be really good. We have decided to also use a different sort of approach to the video of Set To Fail by Lamb of God. They shoot with the band playing, and the aesthaetics of the film are shot in black and white which again we both really liked. We have decided to use this for the clips that are shot in black and white of the band practising in their band room. The scenes that are shot in colour will be the comical side of the video, which is the approach that Black Dahlia Murder took when they were filming for their video. This is the video for Lamb of God:
As you can see, the video is all shot in black and white and the production techniques used will be very similar as to what we will try and achieve. During the shots (in our production) we will make the comical shots highly aesthaetically coloured, with the hues of yellows and red maximised to make it look a bit comic strip-like. Our rough ideas of the video: we are going to submerge two videos together. One video already has this idea (Black Dahlia) but we are going to use the production techniques of Lamb of God also so we are merging the two genres of the videos together to create a blend of different genres. Me and Mikey are both confident that we will be able to achieve this, as we both share similar tastes and feel that we could reach the desired effect quite easily.
Below is a mind-map of what we would like to do. I'm going to explain each of the ideas we have chosen to do in full explanation.
As you can see, the first point we have highlighted is that we would like to make a metal music video. We have both decided to do this because we feel that we would benefit from this the most as we both enjoy metal music, and both have the production knowledge to carry a metal music video out. We would use every aspect considerable, such as the mise-en-scene, to carry out to the music video to enhance the verisimilutude of the video.
The comic strip effect is going to be used on our video on different shots. We have decided to use this in our video because we are combining a narrative and productive approach to our music video. We like this idea, as Black Dahlia have also incorporated this within their video's as video's are usually a tool of advertising; we prefer the idea of a narrative structure to the music video. Below is a picture of the video "Everything went Black" By the Black Dahlia Murder. Me and Mikey like this effect, so we are going to use something similar to this in our music video.
Me and Mikey have both agreed that this may be a little ambitious, but we are going to shoot some of the video and if this works out as well as planned, then we will be able to pull this off.
We will be using Todorov's structure of the Equilibrium, Disruption and New Equilibrium within our music video. We haven't actually decided what the full story of the music video is going to be, but when we complete the story board we will decide what approach would be best. The band being in the toilet would be the similar effect to the phone box effect in the Black Dahlia video. The video - instead we are going to use a toilet for the same comical effect. Rob on toilet, blurred out his bits. We think this would be really funny to use.
We haven't actually yet decided what narrative we are going to have in the video, we have a rough idea of the guys getting chased in the woods; we will structure this a lot better to make sure the narrative fits in with the music video. We are also going to ask for feedback from other students to ask them if we should give this idea a go, as this wasn't mentioned in our presentation.
We were also thinking about using a baby doll to throw about when the band are practicing in their band room but we have decided this may be a possibility. We want to keep the footage of the band practicing strictly as professional, and really good production techniques such as shallow depth of focus and establishing shots. We will be using a lot of rule of thirds (click the link) within our band practice room because it exposes the audience to one member of the band at one time. This will be really good because the audience can then focus on one member of the band at each time.
The other shots we were thinking of using was the band running about in the woods hiding and running away form a guy named Steve. Mikey came up with the name Steve, the persona of this character will be really weird. Maybe like Richard D James in the music video Windlowlicker/Come to Daddy (please click link) we want something really weird but comical at the same time. We are confident that the merging of these genres will be highly effective and achievable.
They're pretty much our ideas, again as I said previously we are going to complete a story board to highlight our ideas even further. We are confident with our ideas, this including the production techniques, the narrative structure and the music video as a whole.
First video is of me explaining certain aspects of analysis that has been used within this clip. This first video wasn't that great, and my other videos are definitely more improved with knowledge and appliances. Below are separate video's of me, with a voice over to explain the features of the video. The mise-en-scene has been covered in each of the video's. The first video is:
Planet Earth:
In this video I have explained what production techniques have been used, why non-diegetic music has been lapsed over the shots and the mode of address that David Attenborough uses.
Sepultura - Territory:
This is a music video by Sepultura, I have explained the production techniques and other technical aspects of the music video. I have explained the mise-en-scene, including location, props and characters.
Short film - Pennies:
This is just a short film of me voiced-over explaining the features of this short film.
