Music Video, a set on Flickr.
As our Toploader video is based on the Nickelback Rockstar video we had decided we were to get 35-40 different people in our video, to each sing a line (and in some cases 2 lines). So we have recently had to go and find 40 different people who would be prepared to be in our video. We have asked many different people from old to young, male and female and from different ethnic groups etc. The reason why we have done this is to allow us to follow the style of the Nickelback video, and to enable our music video to appeal to different types of people. It has proved a much more difficult task than we had previously imagined. So far we have managed to get 25 different people to confirm that they do want to be in the video, with another 20 which we are still waiting for a response (With the intention that not all 15 will say yes). Below is a sample of the people we have managed to confirm for our video, however not all 25 are there because they have been unavailable for a photo. Friday, September 30, 2011
Locations (Change)
After more planning of our video, we have decided that we now need to change our plans for the shooting locations of our video. This is because we have thought that with the amount of people we have needed to prepare for our video, it will prove very expensive to move our actors around the country to the different locations like we had wanted to originally. For example film in front of UK landmarks etc. So we have come to the conclusion that we are now to stick to local towns such as Lutterworth and Rugby in a bid to keep costs down. This is in addition to using the school to film a couple of shots.
Risk Assessment
For every music video created, there is a risk assessment. This is to protect both the people in the video, and the people creating the video. A Risk assessment takes into consideration all of the hazards that may occur during the production of our video. It covers all sorts of occurrences that may occur, depending upon where and how the video is to be shot.
As our film is a very basic set, and will only require a camera on a tripod for filming the different people sing the Toploader song, there are very few hazards that may occur which will impact upon our video. Meaning our video is a low risk production. However there will still be the possibility for some hazards to occur, one of which is fall of equipment e.g. tripod. The severity of this hazard is very low, but it may be quite likely to happen. How we will prevent this from happening is that we will ensure that our equipment is stable before we use it.
The only real likely hazard that may occur will be if our actors injure themselves during production. The severity of this will depend upon the situation. For example our film set will be a static structure set in certain places i.e. either in school, or in the local town of Lutterworth or Leicester. Then our actors will also be static, apart from instrumental parts of the song where they will be required to dance. So the only real chance of them falling over is resulted from our equipment.
Apart from tripping hazards, there is no other real threat that could harm anyone involved in the production of our Toploader music video. We aren't using any special effects, temporary structures, vehicles, weapons, and we will only be using natural lighting - so there is no risk of any burns etc. So all the actors in our video should be fairly safe, and shouldn't be harmed by many hazards.
As our film is a very basic set, and will only require a camera on a tripod for filming the different people sing the Toploader song, there are very few hazards that may occur which will impact upon our video. Meaning our video is a low risk production. However there will still be the possibility for some hazards to occur, one of which is fall of equipment e.g. tripod. The severity of this hazard is very low, but it may be quite likely to happen. How we will prevent this from happening is that we will ensure that our equipment is stable before we use it.
The only real likely hazard that may occur will be if our actors injure themselves during production. The severity of this will depend upon the situation. For example our film set will be a static structure set in certain places i.e. either in school, or in the local town of Lutterworth or Leicester. Then our actors will also be static, apart from instrumental parts of the song where they will be required to dance. So the only real chance of them falling over is resulted from our equipment.
Apart from tripping hazards, there is no other real threat that could harm anyone involved in the production of our Toploader music video. We aren't using any special effects, temporary structures, vehicles, weapons, and we will only be using natural lighting - so there is no risk of any burns etc. So all the actors in our video should be fairly safe, and shouldn't be harmed by many hazards.
Storyboarding
Below is our story board for our music video. As our idea is to go for a similar style to the Nickelback Rockstar video, our storyboard is very simple. This is because we plan to have certain people sing different lines throughout the Toploader song. From the storyboard you can see how we have divided up the lyrics, and how we want the people in our video to sing. However what you dont get from the storyboard is what happens during the instrumental parts of the song. We are to get the people who we have chosen to dance during these parts of the song. You can see who we have chosen from the new post called "Who's in our video".
Friday, September 23, 2011
Song Lyrics - Divided Up
To copy the idea of the Rockstar video we have decided that we are to split up the lyrics for the Toploader song - Dancing in the Moonlight, to allow us to included as many people as possible into our music video. We have looked at the song and have now decided how we are to split up the song to ensure we achieve our goal of getting lots of different people into our video. We have divided the song up into lines for the correct length which we feel will suit the video we are trying to achieve. There are now 75 lines to the song, this means that we need at least 40 different people to sing the song. We can then have people sing more than 1 line during the song - similar to the Nickelback video. In addition to this we also need people who are prepared to dance during the video this is for the instrumental parts of the song. Below is how we have separated up the song.
We get it almost every night
When that moon
is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark
and they don't bite
They keep things loose,
they keep 'em tight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
We like our fun
and we never fight
You can't dance
and stay uptight
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
We get in almost every night
And when that moon
is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight.
We get it almost every night
When that moon
is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark
and they don't bite
They keep things loose,
they keep 'em tight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
We like our fun
and we never fight
You can't dance
and stay uptight
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
We get in almost every night
And when that moon
is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling
warm and bright
It's such a fine
and natural sight
Everybody's dancing
in the moonlight.
Main Video Inspiration(RockStar Analysis)
We decided that this should be the base around which we build our music video, the style in this video is to record various people singing different parts of the song. The idea behind this is because it is simplistic but effective at the same time, it is an example of "illustration" because the actors in the video are performing the lyrics.
We concluded from this video that we would need a lot of people, also the video above contains 130 individual shots, which will take a long time to film- but requires little editing. Another conclusion we took for the video is that we need interesting people, not just normal people.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Locations for our Video
Looking at our main inspirational video, Nickelback - Rockstar, you can see that there are many different locations used during the video. This is something that we are looking to incorporate into our video - especially as we are looking to replicate the style shown in the Rockstar video. During the Rockstar video we have counted that there are 73 different locations used throughout the video, many of which are repeated numerous times. Certain locations are repeated, however with different people in them i.e. the members of public in New York city. Conversely there are a number of times when certain celebrities are used on a number of occasions e.g. Gene Simmons is shown 3/4 times throughout the video.
To allow us to create an interesting video, like the Rockstar video, we have decided that we need to included nearly as many different locations, with equally as many different people. So we have decided that we are to visit various places to ensure that we achieve our goal. We have come to the conclusion that we are to visit local and national towns and cities to ensure that we get as many people as possible to be in our Toploader video. For example we are to visit Leicester, and other other cities such as Birmingham and London (so we can included landmarks - similar to that in Rockstar) This is in addition to filming a few people in and around the local villages of Lutterworth (including people from within the school). For example filming customers in a popular pub in south Leicestershire called The Chequers. However, we have also noticed that we cant just film random people, we need to select certain members of the public to ensure we get the right mix of people - shown in Nickelback's Rockstar video. This will include many different people such as both genders, different ethnicity's, old and young etc.
As I previously stated we want to include landmarks in our video, this is to give our music video a sense of identity. For example we want to include locations such as The Bullring, NEC and LG Arena in Birmingham, and the many different landmarks in London such as Big Ben, and London Eye etc. This is in addition to filming people in the streets of these cities similar to that in the Rockstar video.
To allow us to create an interesting video, like the Rockstar video, we have decided that we need to included nearly as many different locations, with equally as many different people. So we have decided that we are to visit various places to ensure that we achieve our goal. We have come to the conclusion that we are to visit local and national towns and cities to ensure that we get as many people as possible to be in our Toploader video. For example we are to visit Leicester, and other other cities such as Birmingham and London (so we can included landmarks - similar to that in Rockstar) This is in addition to filming a few people in and around the local villages of Lutterworth (including people from within the school). For example filming customers in a popular pub in south Leicestershire called The Chequers. However, we have also noticed that we cant just film random people, we need to select certain members of the public to ensure we get the right mix of people - shown in Nickelback's Rockstar video. This will include many different people such as both genders, different ethnicity's, old and young etc.
As I previously stated we want to include landmarks in our video, this is to give our music video a sense of identity. For example we want to include locations such as The Bullring, NEC and LG Arena in Birmingham, and the many different landmarks in London such as Big Ben, and London Eye etc. This is in addition to filming people in the streets of these cities similar to that in the Rockstar video.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Song Decision
During our pitch we had stated that we had a shortlist of 10 songs, (which can be seen in a previous post) and that we were to do a vote with these 10 songs. From this vote the two songs which have come out on top: Feeder - Buck Rodgers, and Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight. We had previously agreed that we were to go with the song which came out best in our vote. However we felt that our final choice between these two, would depend on our final ideas for our video.
As we have decided that our main inspirational video was to be from Nickelback's Rockstar video, which contains many different people, both famous and non singing a different line of his song in particular parts of many countries - quite often with a landmark as the backdrop. So we had made a decision that we are to do Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight. This is because out of the two songs from our vote, we feel that this would fit in best with the type of video we are to do. This is because we feel that we could get a different person to sing/mime each line (or separate parts of a line - depending on how we split it up).
As we have decided that our main inspirational video was to be from Nickelback's Rockstar video, which contains many different people, both famous and non singing a different line of his song in particular parts of many countries - quite often with a landmark as the backdrop. So we had made a decision that we are to do Toploader - Dancing in the Moonlight. This is because out of the two songs from our vote, we feel that this would fit in best with the type of video we are to do. This is because we feel that we could get a different person to sing/mime each line (or separate parts of a line - depending on how we split it up).
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Dancing in the Moonlight - Lyrics
We get it almost every night
When that moon is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark and they don't bite
They keep things loose, they keep 'em tight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
We like our fun and we never fight
You can't dance and stay uptight
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
We get in almost every night
And when that moon is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
When that moon is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Everybody here is out of sight
They don't bark and they don't bite
They keep things loose, they keep 'em tight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
We like our fun and we never fight
You can't dance and stay uptight
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody was dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
We get in almost every night
And when that moon is big and bright
It's a supernatural delight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Dancing in the moonlight
Everybody's feeling warm and bright
It's such a fine and natural sight
Everybody's dancing in the moonlight
Evaluation on Pitch
We introduced our film to the class by giving a brief outline as to the presentation ahead. We then played our pitch and took questions regarding it. A few questions were raised following our, one was how many people were to be in our band. At the time, we answered it was to be four members. However since then we have had a change of heart, and have decided we may move away from the typical amplification video we originally had in our minds. We have since took inspiration from the Nickelback Video for Rockstar (which can can be viewed in a previous post).
We were also highlighted to the fact if we were using a band for our performance, that the mise en scene should be seriously considered to ensure consistency within our performance. From this it was raised that we were to ensure that our band members looked like band members. In addition to this we were also alerted to decide upon our location for our video. This was to ensure that we could plan ahead to guarantee we kept to filming our schedule.
We were also highlighted to the fact if we were using a band for our performance, that the mise en scene should be seriously considered to ensure consistency within our performance. From this it was raised that we were to ensure that our band members looked like band members. In addition to this we were also alerted to decide upon our location for our video. This was to ensure that we could plan ahead to guarantee we kept to filming our schedule.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Possible Song Choices
- Feeder - Buck Rogers
- Robbie Williams - Angels
- Toploader - Dancing In The Moonlight
- The Killers - Mr Brightside
- Oasis - Wonderwall
- Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
- Kasabian - Underdog
- The Vaccines - Norgaard
- Arctic Monkeys - Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair
- Elbow - Grounds for Divorce
Friday, September 9, 2011
Audience Profile
Age: 17
Lives in: Swinford
Musical preference: Rock, indie, alt rock
Favourite bands: Kasabian, Coldplay, Elbow, the Vaccines etc.
Biography: James is a 17 year old, living in Swinford, his favourite type of music is Alt rock, for example; Kasabian. James is studying for his A Levels (A2) at Lutterworth College; the subjects James is taking are Media, Business, ICT. He is considering a career involving these subjects. 
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