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Location ideas.

Created November 5, 2008 Last updated November 5, 2008 By jamie
  • We were considering using a mansion/big house to shoot some of the band scenes outside.
  • We were going to use a bedroom to shoot the chorus.
  • We could also use a bedroom to do the first verse.

Location update

Created November 5, 2008 Last updated November 5, 2008 By Adam Brown

The band scenes will be filmed at the abandoned airstrip in Desborough

Clothing Ideas

Created October 8, 2008 Last updated October 8, 2008 By jamie

We will probably use generic punk/scene band clothing as the song is aimed towards that group of people.

Storyboard ideas!

Created September 30, 2008 Last updated September 30, 2008 By jamie

Over the time we havebenn doing the storyboard we have passed off and brought in some good idea, some of which we will end up using in the final storyboard. We have had time to discuss shots and angles which could or would work best, and certain shots in paticular which sets us apart from the rest, such as the dutch angle. The storyboard is now currently in progress but over the period of filming may be altered to make the video better.

attention!

Created September 30, 2008 Last updated September 30, 2008 By naomi ellwood

we are currently writing story board :) its in progress

Planning Ideas

Created September 16, 2008 Last updated September 16, 2008 By Adam Brown

More Ideas

  • Lead singer not a direct part of the narrative but is involved
  • Backing singers lines shown via media devices : tv shop window | displaying a band scene
  • Narrative first verse : making of a relationship | Chorus : main bed scene |

Music Channels

Created September 10, 2008 Last updated September 16, 2008 By jamie

MTV

The best known music channel is possibly MTV (Music Television). It was first launched in August 1st 1981, and the sole purpose of it was to air music videos with hosts. Now 20 years down the line it only plays a limited selection of music videos, and it mainly dominated by American reality shows such as “Sweet Sixteen” which is revolved around spoilt teenagers having a party for their sixteenth birthday. MTV also hosts in own awards ceremony once a year. It also owns a selection of channels such as ‘MTV base’ and ‘MTV Dance’.

Kerrang

Kerrang was first launched on television 2001 eairing classical and modern rock. Previously Kerrang had a radio station and magazine published by bauer cunsumer media in the United Kingdom.

Music Video Directors

Created September 9, 2008 Last updated September 17, 2008 By naomi ellwood

Source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_video_director

A music video director is a film director that specializes in creating short films driven by a given music track. These are called music videos and are then used as promotional tools for popular music singles. The earliest music videos were directed by television and film directors; by the 1990s music-video directing had become a specialized field.

World renowned music video directors include: Jonathan Glazer (U.K)
Radiohead- Street Spirit

Dave Meyers (U.S)
The offspring , Original Prankster

Chris Cunningham (U.K)
Spike Jonze (U.S),
Beastie Boys- Sabotage

Brett Leonard (U.S),
Billy Idol- Heroin

Fredy Polania (U.S)
Mark Romanek (U.S), 99 problems- Jay Z

David Fincher (U.S),
Michel Gondry (France),
Anthony Mandler (U.S),
Jean-Baptiste Mondino (France),
Sophie Muller (U.K), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (U.S) and Stéphane Sednaoui (France), among others.

MTV Video Music Awards

Created September 9, 2008 Last updated September 9, 2008 By Adam Brown

Best Female Video Award : “Pieces of Me” by Britney Spears

Male Video Award : “With You” by Chris Brown

Best Dancing In A Video : “When I Grow Up” by The Pussycat Dolls

Best Rock Video : “Show of the Day” by Linkin Park

Best Hip Hop Video : “Lollipop” by Lil Wayne

Best New Artist : “Ready, Set, Go !” by Tokio Hotel

Best Pop Video : “Pieces of Me” by Britney Spears

Best Art Direction : “Run” by Gnarls Barkley

Best Choreography : “Run” by Gnarls Barkley

Best Cinematography : “Conquest” by The White Stripes

Best Direction : “Honey” by Erykah Badu

Best Editing : “I will possess your heart” by Death Cab for Cutie

Best Special Effects : “Good Life” by Kanye West F. T-Pain

Source : http://www.mtv.com/ontv/vma/2008/winners.jhtml

Definition of ‘Music Video’

Created September 9, 2008 Last updated September 10, 2008 By naomi ellwood

copied from source - Wikipedia

“music video is a short film or video that accompanies a complete piece of music, most commonly a song. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. Although the origins of music videos go back much further, they came into their own in the 1980s, when MTV’s format was based around them. The term “music video” first came into popular usage in the early 1980s. Prior to then, such clips were described by various terms including “promotional films” or “promotional clips”.

Music videos use a range of styles of filmmaking, including animation, live action filming, documentaries, and non-narrative approaches such as abstract film. Some music videos blend different styles, such as animation and live action.

Since December 1992, when MTV began listing directors with the artist and song credits, music videos have increasingly become an auteur’s medium. Few if any filmmakers train specifically to make music videos, and very few can afford to make them exclusively. Most split their time between videos and other film projects. Music video directors - who generally conceive, write, and direct their videos - currently receive no authorship, creative rights, profit participation or residual income from DVDs, iTunes, and other new media on which their work may appear.

However, those features of the industry that tend to make music video direction a less-than-lucrative profession, have also made the medium an exciting art-form, one defined by the cross-pollination of ideas and approaches from various disciplines. Music video directors, like most filmmakers in general, emerge from disparate backgrounds, and don’t share much in the way of common thinking or set-in-stone pedagogy, bringing to the field a diversity of experience.”

The idea that a music video is simply a means to make money features heavily in this buisness but my opinion is that a music video should be made to promote the bands sound and the song which the video is based on , not just to see how much money you could make.