Below is Mikey's band:
The target audience of the production would be people into the metal scene between the ages of 16 – 24. To make sure that the video does actually reach out to our target audience, we will be using the same conventions and stereotypical ideas of other metal videos for example The Black Dahlia Murder’s video ‘What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse.’
To film the video, we will be using my my band and my bands practice room, which is located in Rotherham at Get Sorted. We have already asked for permission to film there and it has been granted. In the practice room we will be filming the band playing a song using an array of different camera shots. In this scene, we would need the band playing there instruments and a group of friends that will be coming over to join in on a mosh pit that will be surrounding the band as they play. There will no be specific costume, but a stereotypical dress of a fan of this genre would wear, e.g. band t-shirts. Another scene will be filmed in the toilets of college, which will be specifically of the band. This will be a toilet circuit (Using the toilet, washing hands) but we will be having the band head banging during the process, dress code will be casual. Another scene will be in the woods, we will be having a character stalking the band through the woods. In this we aim to make a sort of spoof movie to add humour to it. Once again, the dress code will be casual. Apart from the stalker who will be wearing a mask, a hood and other typical things that a mediated stalker would wear.
To create and adapt to a stereotypical representation of a metal video, we will be following the same ideas as producers who have created metal videos professionally. This means we will be using lots of panning and tracking shots that will basically last for a few seconds at a time to make the video fast up beat and in your face. We will have establishing shots in the video to show where the video is set. Crowd shots will be featured when the band are playing the song, this will be the most hectic scene as people will be head banging to the song. To do this successfully, we will need many different shots at different angles so we can edit them and make them into fit into the music successfully. The mise en scene will follow a stereotypical metal video; we will be having lots of metal fans in the scene that will be head banging to the music. We will have all of the band equipment (Drums, amps, guitars etc) in order to make it look realistic, in this scene we will be using lots of close ups for example close ups on the instruments and the band/audience. When we shoot the scene in the woods, we will be using the band for the protagonists and my friend will be the antagonist who follows the band round. To do this, the antagonist will be dressing up in a balaclava, with dark hooded top and dark clothes. In this scene, there will be lots of tracking shots and panning around to make it look more like a chase scene. Were going to follow the typical conventions of framing e.g. the rule of thirds to show the importance of the band, the crowd will be to the sides of the shots, but I want the band to mix with the crowd to make the audience believe that the band are willing to get down and dirty with the crowd. The sound featured in the video will be a song created by the band ‘Tread Softly’ the song is ideal for a video as it has lots of diversity and sets different types of mood.
To ensure we stick to the rules of health and safety, we will be strictly abiding by these rules by making sure that we prevent any hazards and make sure that we will not be causing danger to anyone. For example, one scene in the practice room is where a Mosh pit will be performed. In this, people will be running around and could possibly run into each other and cause danger; there are also cables that will be on the floor which people could stumble on. To prevent this, we will be briefing everyone who takes part and getting consent off them to prevent anything happening that could jeopardise the creation of the video, we will also ensure that all cables are out of the way so know one can trip and injure themselves. Another scene is in the woods, it would be easy to trip over and injure someone, so we will have to take precautions whilst doing this.
To plan our music video, in lesson, me and Louise went through different ideas of which we created a presentation on to show the rest of the class. We handed out questionnaires that allowed us to gain feedback on our ideas by our class mates. The feedback we gained changed some of our ideas slightly for example we wanted to do a scene in the corporation nightclub, which got removed as the lighting would not have worked. We also asked several friends outside the class what they thought of our idea, the feedback was really positive and we all agreed that the shots at Corp were a little too ambitious.
We are yet to complete the story board, but we are going to do this together and we will be using several shots including shot reverse shot, over the shoulder, subjective point of view shots and several different types which will be shown in the story board.
