Filming Schedule

Narrative Opening/Ending: Tuesday 4^th December 2012 (4/12/2012) [DONE]

Narrative: Wednesday 5^th December 2012 (5/12/2012) [DONE]

Band Performance: Monday 10^th December 2012 (10/12/2012) [DONE]

Band Performance: Tuesday 11^th December 2012 (11/12/2012) [DONE]

Band Performance: Wednesday 12^th December 2012 (12/12/2012) [DONE]

Royz - 'Noah' Highlight

 

Once again, we see a dirty-looking room in a music video, ‘Noah’, of this genre. This time, the room looks to be that of the inside of a possibly-abandoned-warehouse, or a large garage/shed. The light, again, is entering the room through large windows. Other than that light, the room is rather dark -- this has been the case for the vast majority of the dirty-looking rooms that have been used in the music videos I have seen thus far.

Narrative Location Weather Forecast

 

Here (above) is a screen-shot of the BBC weather forecast for Wednesday, 5th December, in Mablethorpe, which is when and where I am planning to film the majority of the narrative for my music video.

Music Video - Filming Locations

I will be filming the narrative opening and ending in my Grandmother's living room. I have chosen this location as it doesn't look too modern, but it doesn't look too old-fashioned either; it is neutral -- this is good because I want the room to visually refer to the lyrics, 'I'm just a simple man', in the song, and also to represent the emotional after-effects that the war had on the man in the narrative of the video.

For the band performance, I will be filming in the theatre at my school; I have been given permission to do so. The theatre stage lighting, and a stage. However, I want the band performance to be in a dark, and somehwhat shrouded place, and the theatre has a light-brown floor, lilac curtains, and a black and white stage. This means that I will have to be as careful as I can when filming, but also that I will have to create the "shrouded" effect, digitally, in post-production.

To film the majority of the narrative for my music video, I will be going to a location similar to that of the beach in the video for 'Chizuru', by The GazettE. The beach that I am planning to film at is the Mablethorpe beach.

The GazettE - 'Cassis' Analysis

This music video begins with the rhythm and acoustic guitarist, Aoi, playing his acoustic guitar, with an old-looking stone wall behind him. After the acoustic intro, we see the band standing together on a field. They then turn from each other and walk off in different directions -- this could be a visual metaphor for a man’s heart “breaking” due to his separation from the woman whom he loves. After separating, each band member goes to a different place in and around what we assume to be a mansion, but not together. Thus, they are still separated. The old-looking mansion in the video could represent the man’s love for the woman; he’s loved her for a long time. However, later in the video, the band are performing together in a different room -- with this room being the performance room, the implication could be that they are together in spirit. Finally, the video ends with all of the band members standing together on the field, again; the heart was pieced back together. However, the band then begins to walk toward the camera, and, consequentially, away from the mansion. Them walking away from the mansion could imply that the heart has “moved on”, and is no longer longing to be “reunited” with the heart of the woman, or something of the like.

Some of the lyrics in ‘Cassis’ are, ‘I will walk together’; this further implies that each band member represents a piece of the man’s heart, as the lyrics do not mean “I will walk together with you”, but they mean “I will walk with my heart fully pieced together”. The lexical choice of ‘together’ is implying “whole”, not “with companions”.

In conclusion, the music video is very well “thought out”, and is a complex extended metaphor to the point at which each of the band members represent something.

Planning - Actors

These are the actors I chose for my music video. My reasons for choosing these actors is because they all, at least somewhat, play musical instruments that are typically used in 'Rock' bands and music. As well as this, the lead vocalist has long hair, and the lead guitarist has longer-than-average hair, and long hair is very common for members of 'Rock' bands to have.

The actor I chose for the part of the soldier (for the narrative) has performed in theatre and has had experience with acting.

Music Video Idea - Transitional Effect

One of the ideas that I have for my music video is to zoom into one of the eye pupils of the character in the narrative, and use that as a transition to the next shot, which would be one of the band’s performance. I’m planning to have the band performing in a dark room, so, the eye pupil should match the darkness of the room.

The effect that I am planning to do is similar to the zoom through the hole in the wall, near the beginning of Staind’s music video for their song, ‘Outside’

and the zoom into the man’s eye, near the beginning of the music video for Creed’s song, ‘My Sacrifice’.