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The ideas that I have for my video are based off play-through videos from bands around the world, as it’s a common type of video for this genre of music, I plan to use my house as the location as previously said and I don’t intend to use the entire band, as it’s hard enough putting a whole band together and getting them to learn a song, and the band that I am in live at various distances from each other (Whitstable, Brighton) which makes being in the same place at one time isn’t plausible, as we often struggle to practice within our free time, also due to the genre I am limited to the amount of people I’d be able to use for the video as some techniques used for playing it aren’t simple and easy to do, thus making the authenticity of the video hard if someone isn’t able to actually play the song. I plan to just use guitars, bass, and vocals, as drums would be far harder to keep on top of which is a shame. I want to mainly focus on the guitars because it’s based for a play-through video.

The costumes won’t be much of a problem for this video, as the people in the video would wear clothing that is specific to the genre itself, these items include:

 -              Skinny jeans & baggy short (black or blue/band merchandise)

-               Baggy t-shirts or vests (black or white, also burgundy)

-               Beanie hats & snapback hats

-               Mainly canvas styled shoes

-               Baggy hoodies (Black/White)

Also the misc-en-scene with the video will obviously include a guitar as it’s what we will be playing the song on, I intend to also use the typical associated items that band would be assumed to have in a situation as this as a touring situation or living the “rockstar lifestyle”, so scattered around the room will be items that are relevant to parties and items that would be seen if a group of friends were hanging out, such as alcohol, playing on game consoles, typical laughing and generally being stupid together as what friends do.

The editing for this video I intend for there to be a new camera angle or shot ranging around every 2 – 4 seconds, the camera angles that I want to use will be based around the angles of the guitar as that’s my main focus, these will include high angle shots for pointing down the neck of the guitar for a demonstration of what’s being played, also connected with low angle shots from the guitar. Wide angle shots of what’s being played along to the song. I do not intend for many of my camera angles to be steady as I prefer angles when they’re panning or moving around which I learnt from last year, as many/all of the shots that were used tended to still or with a slight pan here and there. Whereas this year from just message around with camera angles in my free time I’ve noticed the drastic difference in effects given off when the camera is moving.

For editing in my piece I would like to experiment with slow motion depending on the frame rate of the camera, of course not all of the shots will be in slow motion but I want to be able to utilise it and test myself as I am yet to experiment with editing further than just basic cuts. As I said previously I wish to edit to camera angle every 2 – 4 seconds and very rarely go over, the editing must stick to the beat of the track and go in time with each riff of the song.

I want to use lighting for when the guitars are being played, although the guitars being used have a gloss finish rather than a satin or matte finish and the light may reflect, I wish to make it obvious that the subject of the camera angles is the guitar, I will stick to high-key lighting throughout my video due to the whole point of it is to be visible as I want there to be an obvious target, I will use slightly more low-key lighting when it comes to shots that aren’t about the song being played also.

3 types of music videos

Music Video Directors

Inspiration

The whole point of being in a band is to have fun, to spend time with your friends and do the things that make you happy when you write music, so I'm taking every single band I listen to as my inspiration, every band that breaks out from the underground local scene and makes it big always have the same state of mind, always to have fun, and now you're getting paid for it! I want to be able to recreate this fun atmosphere of a group of friends in my video.

Representations of a rockstar

Some stereotypes the resolve around rockstars are that they smoke, drink, that they're rebelious and other things like that. The movie This is Spinal Tap (1982) displays the stereotypes perfectly, the moral of the story is that the band called Spinal Tap go out on tours as an English rock band group, performing and doing the stereotypical things that bands would do. Throughout the movie they're shouting louding, pretty much always smoking, not paying attention to others around them and just being self centred, and wanting to stand out above everyone else. In my music video I want to create some stereotypes of rock stars. Like that's seen in This Is Spinal Tap.

Inspiration from another student

 From watching this video I have gathered things I like about it, things I have seen for inspiration in mine, this guy doesn't have any lyrics in his video much like my song doesn't, and I also like the use of slow motion in his editing, he edits the slow motion along to the beat, sometimes speeding it up or creating cut shots to a very short time forward in the same shot, which he demonstrates at 1:05 - 1:11 very well, he manages to keep very close and on time with the beat and it's something I want to be able to make clear in my video as well, the slow motion in this video can display the slow calming beat to the song which fits perfectly.