Diary Entry #13: Location Scouting

When listening to the song The Worst of Them by Issues we imagined the band performance to be in a derelict warehouse. We decided to stick with this idea as we thought it wouldn't be too difficult to find one around the area we live in. However, this has proved to be quite hard. Our ideal location would be a crumbling abandoned warehouse which in the day would look effective but we would put an effect on the shots to darken the area to make it look more 'rock like.' We had an idea like some of these:

However, as the only places in Weston that are derelict enough to look like what we want is Birnbeck Pier which is far too dangerous, I think we may have to change the location of the band performance. We still want it in an old, derelict place but I don't think we'll be able to use a warehouse if we can't find anything. As asked some people on Facebook if they were able to suggest anything for the music video:

Birnbeck Pier




Brean Down Fort




We also started up a Facebook chat to stay in contact with each other and tell each other about the plans that we have about the music video:

Diary Entry #12: Animatics

We decided to do an animatics in Final Cut Pro to match the storyboard with the way we want the music video to see if the timing works:

Diary Entry #11: Storyboard

Storyboard

Diary Entry #10: Shot List

Shot List

[Before music starts]

1) Mid shot of both

2) Two close ups of each person shouting

3) Establishing shot of bed

[00:02-00:08]

4) Close up of singer

5) Long shot of band

6) Close up of guitar

7) Mid shot of drummer

8) Long shot of band

[00:08-00:25]

9) Establishing shot of bed

10) Mid shot of man turning over

11) Establishing shot showing girls gone

12) Another mid shot from other side of bed

13) Mid shot from other side of bed watching girl out of bathroom

14) Close up of male shouting

15) Mid shot of girl shouting and snatching phone

16) Long shot of girl going out of house

[00:26-00:56]

17) Mid shot of guy with head in hands

18) Close up of look of regret

19) Long shot of band

20) Close up of singer

21) Mixture of long and mid shots of him looking around room

22) Close up of guitar

23) Close up of expression after finding underwear

24) Mid shot of singer

[00:56-01:20]

25) Mid shot of male drinking

26) Close up of drink

27) Close up of him drinking

28) Mid shot of drummer

29) Long shot of band

30) Long shot of girl through door

31) Mid shot of guy looking towards door and getting up

32) Mid shot of confrontation

33) Establishing shot of couple

34) Close up of girl shouting

35) Mid shot of grab of arm and struggle

36) Long shot of band

37) Close up of singer

38) Long shot guitar

39) Establishing shot of guy turning in sleep

[01:20-01:51]

40) Close up of singer

41) Long shot of hitting

42) Close up of hitting

43) Establishing shot of guy leaving house

44) Mid shot of guy in bar

45) Close up of guy drinking and thinking

46) Establishing shot of band

47) Close up of drummer

48) Mid shot of guy entering house

49) Long shot of guy entering house

[01:51-02:13]

50) Close up of girl crying pan

51) Mid shot of guy being apologetic

52) Mid shot of girl admitting cheating

53) Close up of guys face reaction

54) Long shot of guy storming into the bedroom

55) Over the shoulder shot of girl going back to the bedroom

56) Over the shoulder of conversation of understanding

[02:13-02:24]

57) Long shot of band playing

58) Close up of singer

59) Close up of guy shouting (slow motion)

60) Mid shot of shaking

61) Long shot drummer

62) Close up of girl crying and being shook

[02:24-02:29]

63) Close up of singer

[02:29-03:13]

64) Mid shot of girl struggling to get away

65) Long shot of girl falling and hitting head

66) Close up of girls head bleeding

67) Close up of worry on guys face

68) Long shot of room and guy checking to see if girls ok

69) Close up of checking to see if she is breathing

70) Mid shot of guy worrying and looking for a phone

71) Close up of guy grabbing phone and calling 999

72) Close up of worrying face

73) Mid shot of guy sitting down

74) Close up of guy turning head

75) Eye line match to him looking at a photo

[03:13-03:37]

76) Out of focus long shot of guy standing up

77) Mid shot of guy putting head in hands

78) Long shot of band walking away

79) Close up of singer letting go of mic

80) Establishing shot of dream becoming reality in the bed

81) Close up of the guy looking in distress back in reality

Diary Entry #9: Props, Costume, Action!

This is a rough list of the things we're going to require to make our music video. The shots will be more specific when the storyboard is drawn. 

Prop/make-up List

• Band instruments (guitar, drums, microphone etc.)
• Mobile phone
• Bed
• Alcohol
• Fake cigarrettes
• Paper
• Underwear (for the male to find for the storyline)
• Black make-up (eyeliner/mascara etc) for female

Costume List

• Dark/black clothing
• Band shirts
• Casual clothing/everyday
• Pyjamas

UPDATE: when we filmed the band and the narrative these are shots of the band and characters and what they were wearing:

(BAND)

(NARRATIVE)

Diary Entry #8: Finding the Actors

The band
When it came to deciding who was going to be in our music video we already had some people in mind. Someone I know asked if their band could be the band to do the live performance in the music video. Here are some of the tweets:

Morgan's band is called This Ship is Ours who define themselves as a metalcore band with musical influences of bands that are of a similar genre to Issues. As Morgan's band and Issues are in roughly the same genre category, their appearance are likely to be consistent with the way that we want the band portrayed in the music video. Here is an example of the type of music that This Ship Is Ours make:

The image of the band is also essential. We want the band to look like a typical rock/metal band to attract the correct types of audiences to the music video. Most rock bands wear other bands shirts, sometimes shirts that influence that bands music, skinny jeans and converse. This Ship Is Ours fit into this category naturally, so when it comes to costume and props, there won't be any need to wear anything fancy or to spend money of certain clothes. This is the typical way that we want the band portrayed in the music video:

 

The actors

Also, the two people in the music video who are going to be the characters in the narrative is Jess' sister and her boyfriend. Jess' sister is doing performing arts at University so this will be the best opportunity for us as we'll have people who can actually act in the music video, making it look real and not like an amateur music video. We want it too look as real as possible.

Diary Entry #7: Moodboard