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.

Initial Ideas

For our group music video, me and two others have decided to make a music video to Korn's Narcissistic Cannibal featuring Skrillex and Kill The Noise, but check this out, because there's a twist.

Because the original song is sung by a man, we have found a cover of the song from a band called EarlyRise, who's main singer's voice is female, and we think that this would be PERFECT for our music video genre. 

My group have already been coming up with ideas on what we can do within the music video, and now that we have the song choice in mind, our decisions are about to come clear. 

We thought that we could contrast the music video with the song and make the protagonist of the video innocent, even though the lyrics suggest otherwise. When the melody of the song changes suddenly nearer to the end, we thought then we could subvert that and corrupt her innocence. 

We also thought that maybe we could have some inter-textual references to Alice In Wonderland, possibly Little Red Riding Hood?


We were also really keen on the idea of filming in the forest, then colour correcting the footage to make it seem darker (because unless you have lights, footage doesn't come out great at night! Plus, I don't think it would be safe for a bunch of teenage girls lurking around in the woods with a camera when it's pitch black. That could turn into the Blair Witch Project all over again).

















Lucy's Video: