Male fan of Indie/Electronica

Typical conventions of the male indie from ecss1

Typical Female fan of Indie/Electronica

Typical conventions of a female fan of indie from ecss1

Call Sheet

A2 media studies call sheet from ecss1

Lyrics Breakdown

(00:00) Instrumental intro (00:30)

1. (0:34) She wears her veil at night (0:39)

2. (0:41) Shadows cast uninvite (0:46)

3. (0:48) Discourage affection (0:53)

4. (0:53) Sad eyes (0:56)

5. (1:00) Sad eyes (1:03)

6. (1:04) You can't disguise sad eyes (2:00)

Instrumental

7. (1:23) Feign care and warm concern (1:31)

8. (1:32) The kiss you did not earn (1:36)

9. (1:38) Discourage affection (1:42)

10. (1:42) Sad eyes (1:45)

11. (1:50) Sad eyes (1:1:53)

12. (1:54) You can't disguise sad eyes (2:00)

Breakdown

1. She is trying to separate herself from everyone else.
2. She's trying to protect herself from the shadows.
3. She does not want to come into contact with these shadows or people.
4/5/10/11. She does not want people to look down on her because of her emotions.
6/12. She can't hide from her negative emotions.
7. She pretends to care and be concerned.
8. She does not think her lover deserves her love as she believes he does not feel the same about her.
9. She does not want to love again.

Inspiration

The video above is a music video for the song "I'm His Girl" by Friends. I found this video very interesting because throughout the video, they keep the vintage video effect, making it look old, which is what we were looking for when making our music video. The video also has no link to the lyrics whatsoever. The lyrics tell the story of the girl sticking with her boyfriend even if he is insulting. The video just features the lead singer walking around with a boombox and performing with her band.





The video below is a music video for Radiohead's Street Spirit. This is one of my personal favourite music videos because I love the contrast of speed in the video. The speed of the video matches with the pace of the song. I could add this idea to my music video because I want to change the speed of the music video, depending on the mood and the situation the character is in in the narrative e.g. slow motion when she is hallucinating.

Props

We have decided on props that we're hoping to use within the music video. Our music video will be influencing the idea of heavy drinking, smoking and drug abuse, so the props that we will use are based around these categories.


Tablets - This will be used to show the girl taking drugs. This may be actually normal sweets.


Bottle of Alcohol - This will be filled with water and will feature in the narrative of the video, with the girl binge drinking.


Cigarettes - These will be used to show the character smoking in the video.

Change of Actors

As seen in the Rough cut, the actor in the music video was my partner, Kaye. The reason for this was because the original cjoice for the role, couldn't make it to filming so Kaye had to take her place.

ROUGH CUT 1

This is the first rough cut for our music video. It is unfinished so there are a lot of blank frames. This will be improved in our second rough cut.

Editing the music video

This is a screenshot showing the first few edits made for my music video.

Record Label Logo (First Draft)

This is the first draft of the logo for our record label, Mysterio Records. We chose this name as it is a unique and unusual name which fits in with the electronica genre. The logo was created in Adobe Photoshop and a ghost blur effect was created with the text. This creates a futuristic effect towards the record company itself. This is only the first draft and may be changed as Kaye thinks she can do something more effective.

Vintage Video Effect

Because of our genre being electronica, there are certain conventions we must follow. One of these is that it should be colourful. There is a website called digitalcinemafoundry.com that supplies free visual effects including visual looks. I experimented with this with some test footage and found it to be very useful for my music video.

Filming Issues

Me and my partner were supposed to film over the half term holidays, hoping to start and complete filming rather quickly, however, because there were no camera to hire out, and my friend who had a camera was not able to meet up and lend me it, we were not able to film.

We hope to film both the performance and the narrative over the weekend so we can catch up with making the music video and hopefully make our first rough cut by the end of next week.

What is a Digipak?

A digipak is a style of CD packaging, that also shows album artwork. These are typically used for special album releases. Digipaks usually consist of a gatefold, something associated with books. Also paperboard or card stock outer binding with one or more plastic trays that is capable of holding CDs/DVDs. These are attached on the inside of the usual digipak.

This format was popularised and created by MeadWestvaco, hom trademarked it as "Digi-pak." This was used by more manufacturers once it was more popular. Today, digipaks are very popular today and are purchased just as much as the usual compact disc plastic cover.