Original ideas.

Although we know that this is very late into the planning process we both decided that it would be a good idea to post what our original ideas were for the video and to explain why we did not carry them out any further due to errors and faults in our plans.

Gig.
We originally wanted to do a gig scene as the performance aspect of our music video. However, we soon came to the conclusion that it may indeed be too difficult to get a big amount of actors to be the audience at the gig and to have them all be avaiable to shoot on the same day and at the same time. People can often be late as well and re-shooting could have also proved at big problem. Plus, the only places that we could shoot a gig scene would be chuch halls and function rooms and there is almost always a hire fee to use these for any kind of event. We concluded that this could make the shoot quite expensive and were not willing to spend so much money, especially if a re-shoot was necessary.

Superheroes.
An idea for the narrative aspect was that the lead singer of the band was a superhero and a girl was his rival. We were planning to have the band completely unaware of the vocalist's real identity and for the video to end with a fight scene between the two rival superheroes and both of their identities being revealed and finally, an innocent victim of a tragedy. But we realised that portraying the two characters as superheroes would be too hard to put across without some form of dialect which is very rare in music videos and may have been difficult to incorporate. The effects we would have needed to show the superheroes may have ended up looking tacky and cheesy and not very genuine.

Death.
The idea that we decided was our final one for our music video includes a death. We originally wanted this to happen to the drummer of the band, Rob and for it to be carried out by the stalker girl, Heather. We soon came to the conclusion that the height difference between Rob and Heather was too much and that a small heighted girl could end up looking awkward and odd killing a tall boy. We finally decided to have Heather kill the lead singer, Dan. We originally thought this but was worried it would be a too obvious outcome but in the end we had to go for what was more pratical and what would look best on the camera.
The type of death was also a little tricky to decide on. We were both quite happy with a stabbing, however this would be too difficult to act out with a knife and a lot of blood. We also felt it could end up being too similar to our horror films in the AS side of the course last year and agreed that we wanted to try something different this year. We eventually decided on Heather strangling Dan in the park.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Hayley Williams analysis.

The stalker girl in our music video is going to be styled similarly to Hayley Williams as this style suits the genre of song well. Hayley Williams is the lead singer of American band, Paramore. She is an individual person, as she is one of very few lead vocalists in a pop-punk band. Her dress style is usually skinny jeans, either a band t-shirt, plain dark or brightly coloured t-shirt or a t-shirt with some kind of cartoon image on it, with Converse shoes or high-tops. Her hair is dyed bright colours (red, orange, yellow) but is normally kept quite simple in it's style- down and straight. We will aim for the mork darker side of Hayley Williams' style which is shown in the above. The stalker girl will wear dark skinny jeans, a dark plain or band t-shirt and have a dark coloured hair in the same simple style as Williams'.

Photos of the girl will be uploaded after our first filming shoot along with images of the band.

Siobhan :)

Wordle app of lyrics.

This is a wordle app of the lyrics to No Remorse. The bigger words are the ones that are said the most in the lyrics. We can see from this that the one that occurs the most is 'time'. This gives us better insight into the song, as we are able to analyse the lyrics more accurately. The fact that 'time' is said so much makes us think that the aim of the song is to let the  victim know that they are either out of time or are being given a second choice. 'Remorse' is one of the main words too, this makes the song hateful and vindictive. We will use these lyrics to adjust the mood of the video to fit in with the song. We will make a dark and heavy tone with dartk lighting and evil characters.

Siobhan :)

Textual analysis



For our music video we had to reseach bands of the same genre. The band I chose was Enter Shikari and analysed their so 'No sleep tonight'. On the grid we had evaluate several things within the video like camera angles and the mise en scene.

Safina :)

Summer task

This is the second part of the work we had to do over the summer. In this task we had to analyse an artist or band by looking at their past and present music videos.

Safina :)

This is a test shot for the stalker girl played by Heather Batten. Her image in this picture will be the exactly the same with her dark hair and clothing.

Safina :)

Digipack analysis research

This is A Day To Remember’s album Homesick. The dark colours purple, black and blue have been used to highlight the genre. This is generic of the screamo genre because the image is linked with dark tone of the music that the band creates. The white writing works well with the black background as it contrasts it, making it more noticeable. At the bottom of the cover  there’s a silhouette of what appears to be a man. This is interesting because it looks as if he’s reading the font and looks mysterious. 

Alexisonfire’s album stands out because the elements of black and white contrast each other. The image of the skull within the heart makes this interesting because it features two opposing themes. Hearts are normally associated with love and skulls are linked to death but it makes the theme as whole work well. Another thing that makes this album stand out is that it doesn’t display the name of it on it adding to its appeal to find out what it is.

This album is quite different to the previous albums, as it has brighter colours on it. The blue, red and sandy brown colours stand out on this album, as they are not normally associated with the screamo genre. On the cover the images that stand out are the Red Indian, the monster and the world with a face on it. This is different because it gives the album a more fun approach to the genre and shows that it doesn’t have to follow the normal conventions of it.  The font of the writing has a similar style as words written in old English. This also goes along with the image of the crown and shield and could represent medieval times. 

This Bring Me to the Horizon’s album ‘There is a hell, believe me I’ve see it. There is a heaven let’s keep it a secret.’ This cover comes across as striking, as the image is different. I like how one side shows dark elements and the other shows light elements. Although you can’t see the title of the cover the image relates to it very well. It shows that one side could represent hell and the other heaven.

Bullet for my valentines cover is goes well with the image and sound of the band. The dark colours go well together, especially the dark purple, red and black.  It gives the cover a gothic style to it. This is similar in some ways to ‘ A day to remember’s cover. I like the way the red border leaks into the white background. It gives it the effect that blood is trickling down. It also relates to the name of the band because the name signals death and image gives a sense of death, like the purple carnation flower.

For our digipack idea, we thought that we could use a still from our music video of the band for the front cover. To relate to the genre the font we are considering is a gothic style print as seen in many of the covers of the same genre. Our video features blood in it, so we decided to incorporate this with the colouring of the font and make it a blood red colour. To add to the genre, a black background will be used around the edges of the image of the band. This will make it stand out even more. On the back of our digipack, we came up with the idea of using a close up of the girls’ eyes, with tears streaming down. We think that this will be striking, as it's the only thing that will feature on the back. Our digipack will represent the band because the band have a deep -dark sound and the digipacks design reflects this.

Safina :) 

Digipack research design

This is my digipack research design which was part of the task we were asked to do over the summer. The artist i chose was Colplay, so i came up with a design that i think best represents them. To do this i looked at other artists within the genre, such as Razorlight and Snow Patrol. Since the band have a laidback style,  I used a simple design to create a new album cover for them.

Safina :)

Website analysis research

During October half term we were given a webiste analysis research task to do. We analysed 5 bands web pages that were similar to our artists so as to give us better understanding on what to do for our own band's website. We analysed Enter Shikari, A Day To Remember, Bring Me The Horizon, Alexisonfire and Bullet For My Valentine. Here is the sheet that we filled out and five print screen shots of each or the bands website pages.
Siobhan :)

Shot List

This is part of our shot list, as before some of the shots have changed as we came up with a different idea. As we already had the step outline sheet, it made it easier to complete the shot list. Our new idea involves the lead singer Dan being strangled by the crazed fan Heather.

Safina  and Siobhan :)

Step outline

This is our step outline sheet that we completed in class. It tells us what will happen at which point in the song- the time and whether it's the verse, chorus, etc. However, some of our ideas have changed slightly since we did this but the storyline is still roughly the same.

Safina and Siobhan :)

Character test shot.

This is our test shot of the lead singer of A Graceful Descent, Dan. His image for the music video will be roughly the same as it is on the current photo. This is also a shot that we would like the replicate in the video as it has a good effect on the audience seeing it.

We also have test shots for the other four members of the band and the stalker girl.

Siobhan :)

Location shots

This page in our folder is the pictures of our locations. The top left one is of the garage where the performance part of the video will be shot. The garage will be cleared out before the day of the shoot. The top right and bottom left photos are of the house where the garage is situated and where the bedroom of the stalker girl will be. This is where her tribute wall will be. The last photo on the page is of the park where the murder scene will be and where the band will first see the girl for the first time. We are currently still waiting for permission from the council to use this location.

Siobhan :)

Storyboard

This is our storyboard of the 4 main shots that will be seen in our music video. The first is of the girl in her room looking at the tribute wall, the second is of the band members on the park- this later becomes the scene of the lead singer's death, the third is of the band walking down the road to band practise and the last is of the band in the garage performing at a band practise.
The are the 4 main recurring locations and shots in the video so we thought it best to storyboard these shots.

Siobhan :)

Here are the lyrics to our music video. The verses in capitols are to highlight the screamo parts of the song, so that when we are story boarding, we know what would work best with it.


A Graceful Descent - No Remorse

It happened quick left in the dust, whose side you on anyway?
You got it all for free, you were a friend, then you go and fuck it all up
TIMES UP YOU LOSE NOT US YOU CHOSE DONT EVER COME BACK TO ME, YOUR WILL MY WAY CAN'T TALK NO GAME SO YOU CAN PLAY ANYMORE

No time for sympathising, you had your chance then you threw it all way, shot in the back and you want empathy?
Well better luck next time, no time for socialising, in 5 seconds you devoured all that's left of me, it's all your fault so there's NO REMORSE.

Time takes it toll 2 years no soul, maybe it is time to give up,
you weren't the one and yet you're done so we don't care anymore
OVER THE TOP THIS TIME YOU'RE NOT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
HALFTIME NO SCORE WE WANT SOME MORE PLEASE WOULD YOU LEAVE QUIETLY
Do what you can do what you need just stay far away from me
their ain't no chance so don't attempt at trying anyway.

No time for sympathising, you had your chance then you threw it all way, shot in the back and you want empathy?
Well better luck next time, no time for socialising, in 5 seconds you devoured all that's left of me, it's all your fault so there's NO REMORSE.


IM GOING DOWN YOU'RE COMING WITH ME X3
YOU'RE GOING DOWN

No time for sympathising, you had your chance then you threw it all way, shot in the back and you want empathy?
Well better luck next time, no time for socialising, in 5 seconds you devoured all that's left of me, it's all your fault so there's NO REMORSE.

No time for sympathising x2
No time for socialising

It's all your fault so there's NO REMORSE.


Safina :)