Harry and I sat down one early morning and we went through a list of possible songs we'd like to use in our final music video and the 30 second prototype! here's the list:
Pendulum - Blood Sugar
Does It Offend You Yeah - Lets Make Out
Fall Out Boy - Beat It
Avenged Sevenfold - Unholy Confessions
Alpabeat - Fascination
Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
Gary Jules - Mad World
amongst ALOT more
After looking at all these videos (also including my visual research on the music video's) we agreed that we'd try out "Lets Make Out" because it seemed challenging in the sense that we'd need to do a lot of filming for just 30 seconds of the music video and it seemed a lot of fun!
Lyrics to 'Let's Make Out :
Let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out
too many legs under the table.
too many reasons for trouble.
have I got a girlfriend and
does she get real mean?
yes she does, yes she does
if the feeling's right you can see it..
it's the same, don't hurt
if you can't stop yourself when you feel it....
ooooooh.
I can't control myself
when I see you there's no one else
when I get down all by myself
you're the one that I think about
I can't control myself
when I see you there's no one else
when I get down all by myself
you're the one that I think about
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out
too many legs under the table.
too many reasons for trouble.
have I got a girlfriend and
does she get real mean?
yes she does, yes she does
if you can't feel your hands on the ceiling
from the clapping on the floor.
you can't stop yourself when you feel it..
oooooooh
I can't control myself
when I see you there's no one else
when I get down all by myself
you're the one that I think about
I can't control myself
when I see you there's no one else
when I get down all by myself
you're the one that I think about
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out,
let's make out, let's make out, let's make out, let's make out
I'm in love with you, my baby girl, I'm in love with you-ooo.
I'm in love with you, my baby girl, I'm in love with you-oo-ooo.
I'm in love with you, my baby girl, I'm in love with you-ooo.
I'm in love with you, my baby girl, I'm in love with you-ooo.
too many legs under the table.
too many reasons for trouble.
have I got a girlfriend and
does she get real mean?
yes she does, yes she does
too many legs under the table.
too many reasons for trouble.
have I got a girlfriend and
does she get real mean?
yes she does, yes she does
too many legs under the table.
too many reasons for trouble.
do I have a girlfriend and
does she get real mean?
yes she does, yes she does ha ha!
too many legs under the table.
too many reasons for trouble.
do I have a girlfriend and
does she get real mean?
yes she does, yes she does
aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
- ok that was grrrreat but uh, do it again?
- hahaha no"
We began to shoot for the music video in early July. Our idea was that we were going to have a long line of people shouting "Let's Make Out" at the camera but because within in the song the artist shouts "lets make out" 17 times, that would therefore just look silly, so instead we got 17 people and filmed them all shouting "lets make out" individually. The result was quite pleasing.
We also managed to finish shooting today (15/07/08), after doing many re-shoots due to the tedious tasks of getting our beloved actors to lip-sync with the song itself - which was very difficult indeed! We now await the scepticism of the Great Ford and Mickie.
After Mr Mickie had observed, analysed and critisicised harry and I are now looking at using the same song for our final production.
We have agreed to use the same song but to scrap the idea of using what we already have as a 30 second music video and just re-shoot it, this would help Harry and I to create a more professional and clear opeing to our music video.
We also printed out a few questionnaires which got feedback from people who have watched what we already have as a 30 second video. (MORE TO COME)
We also agreed that tasks had to be given to each of us, objectives that needed to be carried out. As a conclusion my tasks were to carry out the task of researching on music video and on the band we intend to use, helping us to get more ideas for our storyboard and to create a music video that represents our selected band in such a way that audiences expectations are met.
Treatment
We chose Does It Offend You, Yeah? as a good band to use for our A2 Music Video because of their originality and uniqueness. They also come across as quite a young and rebellious band and being recognised through “MySpace Music Generation” make them quite a new and upcoming band with lots of promises. Basic interpretation of the lyrics of “Let’s Make Out” will show sexual frustration and, in the sense of not being able to control your emotions or actions.
Our music video isn’t based on any particular plot or storyline because we felt it was a good idea to stay true to the particular style of the band. DIOYY uniqueness and juvenile style of music condones a music video that is sporadic, in the terms of what the target audience is watching, so since the target audience would be young achievers, the shots that would be used would be fast-paced and there would be a lot of jump shots and many close-ups. We want the content of our video to have shots of people kissing, so there’s a link with the title, shots of a party atmosphere with young people who seem to be having a good time, which in turn links with the band’s personal style. To reinforce the bands style, the type of clothing the characters will be wearing would be young and hip styled clothing, modern and chique so the connection is recognised between the band’s style and the characters.
The video focuses on post-modern youth and they’re idea on entertainment and representing that through the video is critical because if the video is believable and realistic our desired TA will find it quite effective and shows DIOYY in the way that they’d expect that particular band to be represented. We also don’t want too much explicit content in the video because the TA is not all over 18, which means there might be a few restrictions that need to be noted in terms of what content we can actually shoot.
DIOYY’s genre generally has a fast paced tempo to it and being infused with other genre which are considered to be of a fast tempo too, there is the connotations that the emotions created by the music are either very angry or extremely happy or hyper, we agreed to use the latter as the theme we use the most throughout shooting the music video.
We handed in our treatment to Mr Michie who noted that it was missing content to do with our target audience, we hadnt gone into enough detail, so that will need revisiting, we also showed him a large section of our un-completed stroyboard, and he said he liked it, the only criticisms he had was that there wasnt a larger variety of close-up and quick shots, or shots that would reinforce the genre of the band. For our montage of people lip-syncing thw words "lets make out" we need to get a photograph story-board (like ones that are drawn but with photographs instead), which means we need to take pictures that resemble what is happening in our drawn storyboard and put them all in order, then play the song "Lets Make Out" in the background. This will give us an inclination as to how much time we have for each shot.
Update:
As far as the rough storyboard is concerned, we've finished, there were many changes made to it and now all thats left to do is to make a final draft whic I intend to do. Harry is busy uploading the storyboard to the Mactop in order to help create an anamtic of our Music Video
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