Complete Storyboard

We have completed the first draft of our storyboard! Although some of the images are not in order of appearances we drew out all of the shots that we knew we wanted to include in our video. Some of the shots include crushing a rose - symbolising the loss of innocence - and being trapped in the forest - as a symbol for purgatory. All of these shots are linked to a sound or lyric in the song and have a location to them to help us when filming.

Letter of Copyright

Dear EarlyRise,

We would much appreciate if we could use your cover of 'Narcissistic Cannibal' for our A2 music video. We first came across your cover from a fan-made video game trailer and knew that it would be perfect for our video. As there is no current music video for your cover of the song we would love to be the first to present you with one. We have lots of ideas and themes that we would like to present through your music for this project and we hope that you will allow us to use your cover.

Many thanks,

Borie, Jasmine and Lucy - "Noxa"

Logos

Taking a break from drawing up our storyboard, we decided to use today to make logos for our artist 'Noxa'. With only a limited amount of Photoshop knowledge we set to work in making these logos:

We made the logo on the left first and although the font of the 'N', 'O' and 'A' is not final the 'X' is what we want to be focused on. The paint like effect gives it a more 'alternative rock' look yet it still has a neat look overall. The second logo involves a silhouette of a rose which is a symbol of purity and innocence, which is tainted by the black colour, and perfectly represents Noxa's image and the overall look of our video.

We also thought about using the next 'X' as a logo alone as some alternative rock band are identified through an image alone. We also discussed using the rose as our logo for the same reasons above.

Storyboarding!

Today we have started to storyboard out music video. It is quite challenging, as we are still unclear of all the shots we want to do and how we want to present them (we want to do this song justice!), but knowing us, we will get through this with the help of teamwork and determination!

Meeting Notes

Over the span of several lessons (05/10/15 - 12/10/15) the group have been holding meetings to discuss the details of our music video. This included writing down some notes whilst we talked and printing off the song lyrics to write down all of our ideas. During the first meeting we discussed names, locations and props which we would later link to lyrics:

MEETING NOTES #1

Names =

• Infernum = Hell in Latin

• Noxa = Harm in Latin -    Noxia = Harmful
• NOXA

Locations =

• Forest
• Drama Room (Dark)
• Carpark
• Bridge
• Graveyard

Props =      (Outfits)

• Masks
• White Dress + Black paint

• Forest
• Find straying paths
• Climb trees

After we had gone through these details we planned our location check trip, which was very helpful and will definatly be useful in future planning tasks, and then in our next meeting we printed off the lyrics to our song choice, "Narcissistic Cannibal". We then annotated these lyrics with ideas that came to mind as we read the lyrics but we also placed the ideas we had formed beforehand to appropriate lyrics:

 

Lucy's Video:

 

Location - Forest

Today the group went to visit our main location: the forest. Overall the location is perfect for our song choice and video. Drawing out a storyboard and writing out treatments will be a lot easier to plan out now as we have a clear location plan, this means that we can also link lyrics to locations as we have seen everything there is within the forest. We also found some areas that have sparked new ideas and places where a narrative could be introduced. To show off our location and to have something to refer back to we decided to vlog the trip. Each area shown in the vlog was all part of the same park/forest and although we might not use some of them in our final piece it was still interesting and inspiring to see all of the areas we had available to us within the same location. The first video is Jasmine's vlog and the second is Lucy's vlog.

Location Check

Tomorrow our group has decided to take the time to visit our main location, the forest. A member of our group knows a forest area that is connected to many other locations that we could use when filming our music video. We will take pictures of each location so we can refer back to them when written our treatments and drafting our storyboard. We will also, hopefully, be inspired by seeing the forest and will have a flood of new ideas when we are done.

We first thought of using a forest location after finding the following picture on Prezi.com. The picture contains all of the elements that we wanted to include in our video: darkness, emptiness and large open space.

After looking at the location in more detail we will be able to pinpoint certain ideas to a location and the storyboard will be easier to draw and plan and having a clear storyboard will help when we come around to filming.

Survey Results

Audience Research #1

In order to get an idea on what our audience demographic is interested in, we have created a survey with 10 questions for them to answer about music, music videos, and their personal POVs.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TSNRWL8

 

Song Choice

Another song choice for our music video was Narcissistic Cannibal. The original song is by Korn and Skrillex and is somewhat aggressive and wild in comparison to the version we decided to use.

The song and video are actually very violent or "badass" in a way that compliments the band's style and genre and matches it as the audience knows it. The audience has certain expectations when they see a song by a certain band or a music video and this video is acknowledged to represent these band's authentic style.

We thought that this song is way more aggressive than we wanted it to be so we found the cover by Earlyrise much more in the genre we were looking for, 

The song starts smoothly and serene and gets more powerful and strong towards the end. The lyrics give us a generous amount of narrative to use within our music video and the song is composed in a controversial way that we could do a lot with the setting eg film in a forest or inside a dark place with limited lighting, so it can have a symbolical meaning to the video we create.For now this song is our final choice. We are going to print out the lyrics and annotate the ways we could create the video using the lyrics and combine the whole groups thoughts and choose the best idea as the outcome.
In our video we could combine all three elements of narrative, performance and artistic as the genre allows us to incorporate these elements.

Meeting - Coming Soon

Our group hopes that have a meeting somewhere in the near future so we can discuss possible ideas and locations. Some ideas have all ready been drafted but need to be talked about as a group before we can finalise anything. We also hope to print out the lyrics of our chosen song and annotate them with both there meaning and what shot and location would correlate with each line. This would be the first step of drafting a brief outline for our music video and will help us when we come to making a storyboard. Both the meeting notes. pictures, annotated lyrics and all of our ideas will be uploaded to this group blog and our individual blogs so we can access our notes from many different sites. After the meeting we can decide on what ideas we like the best and what should put into our storyboard for when we start filming.