ROUGH CUT

Blog feedback

the groups came round and analysed our blog. they all said that there was nothing noticeably missing, however we have decided to incorporate a list of mise en scene.

Good points: location research was effective. and the 'what next' post.
we carried out some test footage.
good detail in most sections and detailed shot list.
we developed the idea since

To improve: Carry out a list of mise en scene.
alo give specific references to where we found or information on the band.
and more detailed reasons why we shot what we did.

Mise en scene

Costume=
3 randomers- black hoodies and colorful face paint.
the girl-pajamas

lighting=
in room- dark (as if night time)
Outdoors in town- dusky

props=
mirrors, snakes(maybe),lamp.

cinematography=
istop motion, zoom in/out, spiraling in...

editing=
lip syncing. lyrics in fitting to music, different effects using final cut

Location

We will be shooting a lot of the video at my home in Cambridge





This is the room that we are going to use for the shots of the girl dreaming, and having a nightmare, she will be rithing around in her bed.




This is also the room where we will be shooting the 3 people with colorful faces, as the wall is blank and it is a good space to film in.





This is a picture of the stairs that the girl will walk down to the bathroom




This is the bathroom that the girl will be looking in the mirror, where she will see herself with the snakes in her hair.
Also we will shoot the girl slowly walking into the bathroom.

Feedback from animatic

The whole class looked at our animatic and gave us feedback on it.
We weren't that happy with the editing in our animatic as we wanted there to be flashes of the snake clip randomly placed in the animatic, but instead there was just a long shot of a snake. We realize that we should have put in a bigger input when the editing was taking place to make sure all the shots were in the right lace. For example the shot of, 'i do not love you' should have been in the right place with the correct lyric.

Pitch

We have decided to do a music video for the song Snakes by Autons.
We have chosen this song as we feel it is upbeat and we came up with a lot of ideas for it.

We have decided to do an abstract video, with a non obvious narrative.
we decided that we would take the lyrics of the song and take a literal veiw on them, by including snakes in our video.
We are going to have 2 sets for our filming, we are going to have a narrative of a person goin crazy and seeing things, and running around town and seeing snakes everywhere.

Our other idea is to have mysterious characters in a abandoned house and we had the idea for these characters to be all in black but have colouful faces, and for the faces to be the most focused thing and for our background to be very dark.
we got this idea from the video "Atlantis to Interzone" by Klaxons.



the part of the video where the band are playing is simliar to our idea of the whole place looking dark and mysterious, which is what we are aiming for in out video.

we also like the idea for some of the shots to be quite abstract and we liked the jerky movement in the video "Blue Orchid" by The White Stripes, which has a stop motion feel to it but with people instead of animated objects. We want to learn how to do the jerky movement in our video to makeit have a more creepy, abstract feel.



We are going to iclude the lyrics in our video alot, which some people would argue would make the video boring, but we feel that as the lyrics dont really make sense and are quite abstract themselves.

We also like the idea of instead of having the band playing in the video, we would get other people in our video and they could be playing odd intruments or just banging walls and it would look like the music was coming from them. we got this idea form a music video by The Cure called "Close To Me" where it feachers the band playing combs and very small toy keyboards.



At the end of the video we would like the 2 different sorties of our video to meet so it becomes more of a story.