Newspaper collage for music video

This short video will be put into the music video probably towards the end. It demonstrates the main characters pursuit to find information, and at the end of the video the main character has gathered all of this information, and is "pinning" it up on the wall.

This was created using a DSLR Olympus camera, using the simple stop motion idea, I then processed the images on photoshop in order to make all the images have the same white balence, contrast and brightness, etc, this was done so the video runs smoothly together, and doesn't appear tacky or cheap.

Costume

The costume in music videos often relate to the genre or the meanings behind the music or lyrics, in our case, the costume used doesn't play a great part in the music video, the genre and the meanings behind them.

The main character that is seen in the shots of cut in between Brian singing remains anonymous, this is to add a sense of mystery and uncertainity to the music video. Also the use of the bag suggests this character is moving from one place to another, and that life for him, is always changing, and in the song, Brian sings of things changing and having to make decisions. This is reflected in just one item of the costume.

The use of the hood up represents that this character is a private, possible insecure person, also this will hopefully add a sense of mystery to the video, as this character remains anonymous, suggesting that they could be unpredictable and do rash actions, as the audience can't "read" the character, they cant' understand the characters emotions from just how they walk or the actions they perform. The use of the jeans represents this character as someone who doesn't need designer and expensive clothes, also the popularity of jeans is constant, it never goes out of fashion, and jeans are extremely common, this reveals that this character, again, is trying to remain anonymous and blend in with modern society.

Brians costume isn't linked to the music at all, we asked him to wear a black top which would go with the black background, an intertexual reference to Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U, when the filming took place Brians top and the black background didn't go blend together very well. But this was sorted out in editing, as seen below.

Brians footage

In this post will be what we filmed of Brian, singing "Information"

I can't seem to add more than one video to a post, so in order to add all the videos I will have to add them once I'm at home. Once one video is inserted, I click on the video icon, to add a new video, and it just freezes, this only occurs on school computers. This goes the same way for my other post, the footage of the main character, I will update my blog with the footage asap.

Footage of Brian

This one is similar, we hoped, to Sinéad O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2U, as she faces the camera with a black background, and sings to the camera, but as Brian's face isn't as "active" as Sineads, this wasn't the only reason we were going to inter-cut Brian singing with a journey that a  anonymous person was making, the other reason was we needed to add some narrative to the music video, add something that will keep the audience interested in the video. Below is an example of something that will be used to inter-cut Brian.

We've filmed more of this person making a journey, making decisions on which way to go, referencing what is being sung in the film. Which is about change, and information. I will make a seperate post about this.

Folk pop timeline- research into our music genre

Folk Pop Timeline on Prezi

Inter-textual references in our video

Inter-textual references on Prezi

Music video idea.

For the music video, we hope to base it around the idea of information, since the song is about information and moving from one thing to another, we would show this by starting off with a newspaper, and the centre of the music video revolves around this newspaper. Shot list is below. (Some steps may not be mentioned or missed out)

Starts off with one cutting or side of a newspaper on a white wall, the camera slowly zooms in, from a wide shot of the newspaper stuck on a white wall, to a picture on the newspaper (unsure of the transition to below)
The idea is that this person is walking around, while the song is being played, this person likes information, the style of shot will predominately be over the shoulder, the person will remain anonymous, possible wearing a hoodie with the hood up, and we will do shots around Norwich of this person walking past, for example, a newspaper stand, or information desk, or something like that, and camera will then pan from this person to the information article, and possibly zoom in to it, so the text of the article fills the screen, then zooms out to find that this article is on the wall, maybe being stuck on by the person, this shot may be close up, with the camera "against" the wall, so the action of sticking the cutting to the wall is imposed and greater.

More to be added.

Music Video update

At this point, mine and Austens music video is half complete.
We've filmed Brian singing "information" using different camera angels and shots, putting variety in our music video.
We've yet to film outside, shots of a person, either me or Austen, walking to a location, this would include worms eye shots, over the shoulder, tracking, and other various media shots.
Once this is completed we will be editing at the start of next week, if all goes to plan.

Meeting Brian Korteling

The last day of the summer holidays, Wednesday 5th September, we met Brian, our artist, in a local cafe in Norwich (Waterstones Cafe, Back of the Inns).
Here is when we showed him our ideas, I showed him my plan of the video (below), and Austen showed him his version, both were very similar, though Austens was a little more in depth than mine.
We discussed what we thought would happen, and ran it through with him. Brian was laid back in his direction of the film, and didn't mind how we understood the song, for himself, there was a meaning behind it but he didn't want to cloud our thoughts on the music video.
He gave his opinion in some ideas we had, for example, when we were explaining that he will walk around iconic places in Norwich, he mentioned that it might look a bit to "tourist-ie", which we took away, and made changes to the music video, in hope of making it look less like a tourist video. 
Below is me and Austen with Brian, as documentation for this event.

Basic idea of our music video

Locations

For our music video we wanted to create a sense of "unique-ness" and originality, rather than going for the common music video of the band performing the song.

We thought of getting the artist, Brian Korteling, to perform his song sitting down in a bandstand, creating a unique and different take on music videos, I got this inspiration from Alex Clare's performance of his single "Too close to love you". I wanted to aim for something like below, a location which is light, uses natural lighting and gives a sense of authenticity. 

We thought using a bandstand would give this effect, as its in the open, and as its summer, performance of this would be feasible. We have a few locations of the band stands;

This bandstand is found in Eaton Park in Norwich, this is defiantly one of the
most "classy" bandstands, but the issue is the busyness of it, many people go through
the area above, creating an issue for sound. 

This is found in Chapelfield Park, its in the centre of the park  and is very busy at times
if we were to shoot here, timing would need to be a priority as we may draw attention to what
we doing when we're trying to film.

This is the bandstand found at Mousehold Health, this picture is taken in the winter,
so the appearance of it will hopefully look more appealing in the summer.

Another locations have been taken into consideration, but at present, using a bandstand of some sort seems most ideal. 

Animation Ideas

For our music video, as said before, we wanted to include animation, to make this video stand out from the rest, as animation mixed with real live footage of the artists playing isn't something that is seen very often.
I found this website which had a variety of stop motion animation (website link underlined) which is what we wanted to aim for my the end of it.
One of mine and the groups favourite video was the video seen below;

As this one seems to be most possible to create, a simple stop motion animation, with possibly words being written out with the hand or without it, and possibly creating images with maybe lego or newspaper cuttings, which would portray the idea of "information" which is what the song is called, though the artist, Brian Korteling, said that this song  "is about leaving a situation with no clear idea if it is the right thing to do or not but going on gut feeling...." , we hope to incorporate this into the music video some how.

Music video

The song, "Information" by Brian Korteling is our chosen song, the reasons are stated in my last post regarding this.

Chosen Song - "Information" by Brian Korteling

 

Lyrics of "Information" :

"Information" by Brian Korteling

I was wishing, I was wishing too bad,

Never moving, glued to something you had,

I think I'm jumping blindly from the life raft,

Think you'd stay and I hope you have a good life,

Nothings do'n and no ones getting sleepy,

It's not just the reason for leavin',

If this is gunna turn out well,

Sure as hell ain't me to tell,

Information, strength and inspiration,

Information, give me information,

Hey sugar, you're pullin' on my leaver, 

I'm so busy, flash ya like a cleaver,

Chopping wood never felt like such a waste,

Fill your pockets and get f**ked your sad case,

I don't need your prods and motivation,

At the door without a new vocation,

Tell your troubles to someone else I'm not stuck,

Tell em' if you can, I wish you the best of luck,

If this is gunna turn out well,

Sure as hell ain't for me to tell,

If things don't turn out fine,

At least it's better than your waste of time

Information, stregnth and inspiration,

Information, give me information,

Keep changing the place where you drew the line,

A little every time, 

Til' that line is indecipherable,

Keep complaining ever-changin' how you lead your life,

If it's worth the straft,

Maybe you should make yourself comfortable,

If this is gonna turn out well,

Sure as hell ain't me to tell,

Information, stregnth and inspiration,

Information, give me information.

I've been in contact with Brian and have been exchanging emails regarding the song and our role in it, he has accepted the idea of using simple animations and is happy to go with most ideas we have. To access his website click the link HERE.
The emails I've been exchanging are can be seen if you click here for the 1st one and here for the latest email response

Chosen song

We have selected a song which has the most suitable lyrics, and song to create a music video around, this song can be listened to at http://tiny.cc/mq13fw 

The artist has given his go ahead with the music video, after me emailing him today, we hope to give keep him up to date on what we plan to do.

We hope to aim for a simple animation like the opening titles to "Russell Howards Good News" (Below). This can be mainly possible due to one of the members in our group (Austen Nutall), who is currently taking animation at the Hewett as an A Level, we hope his animation skills will give us the unique music video we are after. 

In the music video we hope to cut between animation and live shots of Brian Korteling playing his song, "Information", the animation, we hope, will reveal a story behind the song.

This plan is very much a skeleton plan at the moment, and will be "beefed" up soon. 

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