More performance shots.

After concentrating on narrative shots in our recent media lessons, we also have plenty of performance footage to get through. On Monday morning we filmed Cameron playing the bass guitar. With niether of us owning a bass guitar, we asked a local band from our college and they happily let us borrow it. We used many different shots for Cameron, including medium close ups and side shots of the bass allowing the camera to see down the bass' fret board.

Shooting Schedule

 

We are currently in discussions regarding our shooting schedule. We have agreed our shooting locations and now we are deciding when we are going to begin shooting. 

We have been given the go ahead to use borrow the props what we will need e.g. Bass guitar, drums, microphones, guitars. So shooting should begin imminently. 

I will update this post once we have started shooting. 

Contacting the Arctic Monkeys

Since we are using an Arctic Mokeys track, to prevent the use of copyright we have to get in touch with the band via email, Facebook, twitter etc to ask their permission for us to use their track.

We contacted the band through their official Facebook page. We are currently awaiting a response, which will hopefully be soon.

Storyboard Narrative (Draft)

Our unfinished version  of the narrative. Some pictures are used more than once for the time being simply because we having got all the pictures yet. Obviously the narrative is difficult to work out because not all the pictures have been added. However, we hope to have another version in the next day or two.

Naming the band

After failing to convince my mates band Kelly's Hereo's and Kyle being too much of a wimp to ask the college band, so we were stuck for who to ask, so we have decided that we are going to perform the song ourselves. Despite me not being keen on the idea, I do genuinally think it might actually be a lot of fun. We have been talking about what roles we are going to take in the band.

Calum Crummet- Singer
Robbie Coppack- Guitar
"Kylie B what a minter"- Drums


Obviously we are now in discussions regarding a band name. Some suggestions have been absolutely appalling and sometimes I want absolutely nothing to do with them. However they're are a couple what we are seriously considering. The one in particular is "Quiet Game". We all seem quite keen on, which is a shock because we never seem to agree with anything. Lol


Other band names considered..

• Damp Dolphin
• Radio Tea.

Working on the Storyboard

The Pitches

The Pitch

1. We would use the track "Ritz to the Rubble" by the Arctic Monkeys as this fits in with our genre and does not have an original video. There would be two narratives the first would be our band singing the song in a black and white edit using different colours to make the instruments stand out. We would also close up on individual members of the band and get shots from different angles of them playing. The second narrative would be the lead singer walking home from a rough night out with a black eye and a ripped up shirt, this would go with the song as it is all about the day after the night out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSaUYSyvqI&safe=active

  2. Our second pitch would be a parody video of the Wizard of Oz. We would cover the Arctic Monkeys old yellow bricks in costumes from the film (Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man and Lion). It would be a humorous video shoot on green screen using clips from the film as the background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLaeOrDmWQ4&safe=active

 3. The third pitch would be a "Bitter Sweet Symphony" style video where we would have the lead singer lip sinking Oasis's "Acquiesce" as he walks through the busy streets of the town centre. We would use rewind and fast forward edits on the video to give the effect of time passing and going slower we would also use different colour tints on the lens to make the viewer feel different emotions as they are watching. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09zBftEqBN0&safe=active

Band Choices

As a group with have been in discussion regarding which track and band we would like to use. We agreed that we wanted to take the Brit Indie route, so we have been researching various music videos and songs from; Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, Stone Roses etc.

Oasis- An English band formed in Manchester, one of the most successful bands in the 90's. Formed by two brothers Noel and Liam Gallagher.

Arctic Monkeys- Formed in Sheffield, their debut album "Whatever People Say I Am, Thats What I'm Not" became the fastest selling debut album in the UK.

Stone Roses- Formed in Manchester in the early 80's, their debut album is suggested as being the greatest album of all time.