Prelim video

Props

Why we changed our artist

For our music video project, we initially went with the song "Windows" by the Alternative band Joint Honours. after a strenuous three days out filming for the music video, we finally realised that the concepts and ideas for our music video were unfounded and this lead to several misuses of film time inadvertedly.

In addition ,the locations that we used for filming were good considering the ideas we had, but they were to few and far between and subsequently this lead to valuable filming time being lost to travel time and sparse locations, i.e Haconby to Carlby. Also, we had an excessive amount of personal luggage for ourselves due to it being a cold day and this slowed our progress in setting up the music videos sequences let alone acting it out. For our time lapse sequence, we spent a long time waiting for the actual trains to pass by so this was another loss of valuable time that we could have utilised in more effective ways.

In addition, the most devastating consequence to our failed initial project to film a music video is that for some reason, the DSLR Camera malfunctioned and caused our filmed footage to become distorted and blurry as well as have audio problems. This was a serious setback for us and when to film again on the following Monday the same result occurred. We also got to carried away with our imagination and this caused us to not adhere to the shot list we has written, basically we filmed and came away with more or less irrelevant footage.

Due to all of the above, this is the reason we are transitioning to a more clear plan of action for our next attempt at filming a music video alongside a completely new song and band to give a sense of

 

refreshment to our project.

Audience profile (Finn Riggins)

Finn Riggins is an American indie rock group from Idaho formed in 2007 by Cameron Bouiss, Eric Gilbert and Lisa Simpson. They have incorporated a whole range of new features into their approach of this genre and have been commended man times for their approach with numerous awards. They have also been on over 200 live shows, a considerable amount for a low-budget niche indie band.

The song we chose for them is called "Benchwarmers" and is more adaptable and easy to make a music video to and what "Windows" by Joint Honours is. In addition, we initially thought that Joint Honours had a strong foundation as a band due to their relatively sophisticated website but we were deceived and we finally realised that Finn Riggins is a far more organised and efficient band to base a music video on due to the fact that we were conflicted about what to film and where on the filming day in regards to "Windows" by Joint Honours.

Overall we thoroughly believe that our choice to do a music video on an entirely different band will very much so improve our grades and subsequent our group work ethic and performance.

In addition, the band has received far more commendations and have a better reputation than what Joint Honours has and this overall makes it easier to receive permission to actually base our music video off one of their songs as they have more contacts and staff employed by them to address offers like what we had for Joint Honours and soon for them.

Style of music video

We have many inspirations for our music video and we shall apply conventions that we previously saw in many different music videos and merge them together to hopefully make a very effective use of camerawork.

 

 

Firstly, one of our inspirations is Kieszas "Hideaway" music video. The reason being is because even though the entire music video is from a perspective of a long, simple tracking shot, it is put to good use and this entices the viewer to keep watching and it flows so seamlessly they don't even notice it is one shot. Even though we will not adhere to this convention, we shall utilise some of the ideas the music video had for pan out and body shots.

 In addition, another inspirational music video to us as a group was Duke Dumont and Martin Garrax's music videos. This is potentially the most important factor in our preparation due to the fact that like these two music videos we shall use animal masks in some of our main characters to create a sense of enigma and emphasize upon mystery to keep the audience interested throughout the music video.

In addition, there were a few films that inspired our production in terms of film usage. Amongst these were the horror film Seven. an example is how the camera pans out and deblurrs the background to reveal a character that the audience knows is shadowing the protagonist. We will use this type of shot to build tension throughout the music video.

In conclusion ,these along with many other fine examples of media will help inspire and shape the way we film our music video and incorporate many innovative features into it to get the best ideas and apply this to hopefully make the most creative music video that we possibly can. This reflects our overall dedication to this project, such as going out and filming again with this new concept after our initial idea failed, this shows our determination and tenacity in order to achieve what we want

Cutting to the beat

Below is the lyrics for Finn Riggins "Benchwarmers" song, I have analysed it and explained what concept and ideas that we will use in the final cut of our music video.

 

lip-sync- yellow 

Storyline- orange

Environmental shots- red 

 

All the kids on the bench don't double dutch -  Lip-synch sequence
All the kids on the bench don't hopscotch - Lip-synch sequence
All the kids on the bench ride their fancy bikes, - Conor on bench
ride their fancy bikes to the river - Pete strolls through the woods All the kids on the bench lightin' bonfires - Shot of bonfire night
All the kids on the bench count the shooting stars - Pete looking into the sky smiling
All the kids on the bench holdin' hands down,
holding hand down on the bike path - dance, hip-hop style

All the kids on the bench wearin' blue jeans - shot of Pete walking across with blue jeans on
All the kids on the bench haulin' sweet dreams
All the kids on the bench movin' their feet - running tracking shot
movin' their feet, movin', movin' their feet extreme-close-up of Petes shoes
They all go oo-oo-oo-oo
shimmy to the left, shimmy to the left, shimmy to the right


All the kids on the bench slingin' jump ropes - shot of swing All the kids on the bench shootin' gumballs - Environmental shots
All the kids on the bench swingin' their hips - Environmental shots swingin' their hips, swingin', swingin' their hips - Environmental shots

All the kids on the bench cheat at 7-up - pete splashes his face in sink
All the kids on the bench hot at freeze tag - sees Conor and panics
All the kids on the bench got the breakdance
pop'n'lock-lock, pop'n'lock, pop'n'lock-lock - Fingers Clicking

All the kids on the bench battle thumb wars
All the kids on the bench with their smart phones -
All the kids on the bench with their crazy legs - environmental shot
slidin' with the moonwalk, slidin' with the moonwalk
They all go oo-oo-oo-oo
shimmy to the left, shimmy to the left, shimmy to the right

First half intro (Poll Everywhere)

 

 



We decided to do a poll everywhere, so that we could decided what we need to work on with our intro. Here are the results

Summarise

After looking at the poll everywhere and seeing what the audience thought about the intro. This will help us because it means we will now take on their advice and hopefully make it better. The comment where it says "text is hard to read" we say this and made changes on it to make sure the text was more readable.

Auditions

Mise-en-scene