This is our shooting schedule, it shows the dates in which we will be filming for our music video. Three of the dates are in the half term week off, which we are hoping we will be able to film during. If not, then we will have to cram a lot of filming in in the first few days back as the rough cut has to be completed by the 3rd November.
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Shooting Schedule
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Thursday, 14 October 2010
Magazine Ad Analysis
The Blueprint 3 is the eleventh studio album by American rapper Jay-Z, released September 8, 2009, on Roc Nation. It is the final installment in The Blueprint trilogy, preceded by The Blueprint (2001) and The Blueprint 2: The Gift & The Curse (2002). The advertisement includes Jay-z’s name at the top in the largest font, which is very common in most advertisements. The main picture is a bunch of instruments stuck together, a very abstract image. It has three red lines through it representing that the album is the third blueprint album and it also has the release date near the bottom of the ad. The very bottom has an image, which is the logo for Roc Nation, Jay-z’s record label.
Kingdom of Rust is the fourth studio album from British indie rock band Doves. The album was released on 6 April 2009 in the UK via Heavenly Records. Along with the jay-z advertisement, this also has the band name in the largest font and the album name directly underneath.
This follows the conventions of most advertisements as it has the release date at the bottom. This also includes a quote from the magazine “Q” and the Doves website.
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Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Animatic Storyboard
This is our animatic storyboard, it has been made from around 90 shots into a timescale and the track has been placed onto the timescale aswell.
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Detailed Shot list
This is our shot list for our music video. It will help us to establish which shot should be done when, it also helped with making the Storyboard.
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Tuesday, 12 October 2010
9 Frame analysis
0:10 In this scene the lyrics say “Who’s that girl there” and there is a medium shot of a girl who could be perceived as unkept and in the background there is a housing estate where someone like her would live. 0:13 The very next scene shows the same girl stood on a balcony of what we assume is the housing blocks that we see in the scene before and she is smoking a cigarette. 0:18 This is a medium-long shot and it shows the girl walking away with a man and the lyrics to this shot say “I doubt she does receipts” which sways us to think she may be a prostitute. 0:28 In this shot we see a medium shot of the man taking food from her plate with his knife and fork and the lyrics to this say “Give him half a chance, I’ll bet he’ll rob you if he can” so this is a perfect example of illustration. 0:43 “he told Roxanne to put on her red light.” This shot shows the man meeting up with the girl and the lyrics make us think of the red light district and we’ve already established we think she may be a prostitute and this aids us in this idea. 1:49 In this shot we see a few men packing some stuff into a car and the lyrics say “They say he changes when the sun goes down” which leads us to think, what is he going to do? The lyrics just before this say “I start to wonder what his story might be.” 2:27 This shot is a close up and shows the girl outside and she is looking quite upset, the lyrics say “She must be fucking freezing.” 3:01 Medium close up as he leans in to kiss her cheek the lyrics say “What a scummy man” and this is nearly the end of the song and throughout the full song he is going to see her and we think she’s a prostitute so this makes us think he has been paying her for sex. 3:10 This shot starts as a medium shot and zooms in to a close up to show his eyes more as the lyrics say “Can see it in his eyes yeah, that he’s got a nasty plan.”
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Monday, 11 October 2010
Audience Profile
This is a representation of the audience that enjoy The Killers and similar artists from the same genre.
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Treatment
The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada that formed in 2001. The band consists of Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, backing vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion). An alternative rock band, The Killers draw some of their influences from the music styles of the 1980s. The group's debut album, Hot Fuss (2004) brought the band mainstream success. The Killers' second album, Sam's Town, was released in 2006, and compilation album Sawdust containing B-sides, rarities, and new material, was released in 2007. Their third studio album, Day & Age, produced by Stuart Price, was released in 2008. Daddy’s Eyes is featured on the Sawdust album and has not been released as a single by the band.
Our video will be amplification and not follow a storyline, after watching ‘Somebody told me’ also by The Killers it gave us ideas on how we want to produce our music video. Instruments will be visible throughout the shooting, close ups of the drumbeat and guitar will be seen during the video. Trance/techno lights will be played on the background along with a video of the band. The majority of the video will be shot within the studio however the background video will be done out of the college.
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