Location and Opening Shot

Here are some primary source photos I took myself the other day.

The first photo was a tunnel under a train track that I thought would be really good for performace scene. Moreover the lighting at the time (around 3pm) looked fantastic. The more natural lighting we can use the better. The tunnel was on a public footpath so we would have no problem with accessing it however we must be careful due to the amount of rubble etc there is.
The second photo was a tunnel under the m25 near my house. I thought this location would be really good for our opening shot, which we planned to have a tracking shot of our main character running. I like that the tunnel is really bare and simple.
For our opening shot we plan on using the black screens that open up similar to that of Metronomy's - The Bay. We also wanted to have the girl running with a flare similar to the ones used in Rihanna's video and Hurtwood House's coursework.

Before our actual opening shot we've decided to have a short "prologue" in which we will set the story of our narrative. They will include quick fast shots demonstrating the relationship between our characters. We've decided to have it practically silent for dramatic effect. We've looked at examples such as Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved and The A Team - Ed Sheeran.

WE ARE NOW STORYBOARDING OUR MUSIC VIDEO

Here is our first storyboard, it shows the opening shot and what we hope to achieve.

We are thinking of making this animated to get a better idea of how it will look - this will help towards our decision making as it gives a very draft of how it will look and we can make changes early on in the process. 

Creating a storyboard in general helps with organisation and timing. 

Treatment/Pitch

Here is our Prezi that we made for our pitch...

Copy of media on Prezi

 Unfortunately I was really ill when we filmed this! I think our Prezi looked professional and we had all the necessary information within it for our audience (our media class) to understand what we are trying to achieve for our music video.

Branding of The Twelves/Band Names

After doing a survey within our media class we have come up with a band name for our artist which is a DJ Trio.

Here are the results

We liked the words "hunt", "host" and "noise". We came up with different names and looking at the results we are now called Hunt The Noise.

Voyeurism and Lyrics

I found this video by Nero for the song Crush On You. I really liked how the voyeurism here was through Karaoke and we really like the idea of using it in our music video. Also, as we are using a remix of an old iconic song, it may be the kind of song adults may actually sing on Karaoke.



Here is Lil Wayne's - 6 Foot 7, I really like how he takes each lyric quite literally and uses an image for it in the video. I also like his reference to Inception with the element of the bath at the beginning.

Contacting Record Company

Yasemin contacted the new producers of our new song so that we had permission to use it without any issues of copyright. 

Practice and Song Change

We filmed some footage of nights out and day trips to put together in a video so we could practice some of the effects we are thinking of using in our own music video. First off we tried the "black screen effect" from the Justice - Phantom Part II. I think it worked really well and am keen in using it for a part of our coursework. Ms Poulten also suggested that we could perhaps use it as a "blinking" effect which opens up the option of exploring dreams/waking up. We then tried the "rewind-fast-forward" effect that we liked from Nicola Robert's - Beat of My Drum. We used it on a piece of footage of our friend dancing. I think it looks quite effective and would be good to use in our music video. Here it is...



We put it to a fast pace song (The Killers - Human (Ocelet Remix)) and by doing so we realised that perhaps Justice - D.A.N.C.E wasn't the right song choice for the video we all had imagined in our heads. Although a fun song, it may have been too slow and the video prehaps too iconic. It may have looked like we were trying to re-create the video just with our own twist on it. After a group discussion here are some of the songs we are considering.

Drugs In My Body - Theives Like Us (Tweleves Remix)



Good Points: Fits our genre, no "expected" video
Bad Points: Too slow, male singing

South Central - The Day I Die



Good Points: Fits our genre, could be really imaginative video
Bad Points: Iconic video, male singer

New Young Pony Club - Get Lucky (Tweleves Remix)



Good Points: Female singer, fits our genre
Bad Points: Too slow

Youth Alcoholic - Fox N Wolf



Good Points: Fits genre, no original music video, female singer
Bad Points: Didn't like the lyrics (too many maybe?)

Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Tweleves Remix)



Good Points: Iconic song, fits genre, female singer
Bad Points: Quick short (maybe add another loop)




WE CHOSE FLEETWOOD MAC - DREAMS (THE TWELVES REMIX) AS OUR FINAL SONG