Recorded Planning Discussion

Props List

As our genre is indie, the theme for our music video has a vintage feel which is very typical for indie videos. Therefore all of our props need to look old and have a vintage look to them.

Location

We have two possible locations for our music video. Both are forests however each one has its own advantages. 

Epping Forest

 Foxes Wood, Bardfield Sailing

Music Video Ideas

Song Choice

After looking at a number of artists we found on YouTube, we came across an artist called Lewis Watson who is an indie/acoustic singer-songwriter. We listened to all of his songs and finally decided on his song 'Windows'. He already has created a music video for this, however we are confident that we can create something very different than what he has. The lyrics are fairly sad however the melody is fairly up beat and happy which is a contrast we were looking for when looking for a song.

windows 

i'm not here to startle you
hell, i only came 'cause you asked me to
it's such a shame that we can't renew
all those feelings that we shared back a month or two

you know, i kept everything that reminds me of us
it sounds weird but your picture's still hung up
i've tried getting distracted by other stuff
but that's not enough

i'm sleeping with a pillow, under lamplight.
freezing cold, 'cause you always liked the windows opened wide.
just so you know, i'll be here when you make it home.

i'll call you up at like 3am, again
just to make sure you know that i don't mind waiting,
although the call will end with us both saying
that we both hate this

i'm not sleeping too well, now i'm sleeping alone
and all you have to do is pick up the phone
and i'll come running to your aid but i'm sure you know
this won't help us grow

i'm still sleeping with a pillow, under lamplight.
freezing cold, 'cause you always liked the windows opened wide.
just so you know, i'll be here when you make it home.

Chosen Genre

Our chosen genre is indie. We felt that this would be the perfect genre as we are all interested in it and we have already proved that we are confident with working together and knowing what each others strengths and weaknesses are after working with each other for the preliminary task.

Planning our digipack

In today's lesson we began to plan what we want our digipack to look like. After looking at different indie bands digipacks we combined some ideas together and came up with an idea of what we want ours to look like. We want to incorporate a crumpled paper look as the background as well as giving it a vintage look by adjusting the saturation as we think this will look effective and keep up with the indie theme. We also want to make sure the name of the band and album are written in capital letters but with a hand written font as we found that nearly all the album covers we looked at had this. For the back cover and inlay we also want to somehow incorporate glitter, newspaper cut outs and chalk writing as each digipack we found was individual and slightly random. The band name we decided on was 'The Interpretation'. By using the word 'The', it automatically sounds like a band as many bands such as The Script, The Maccabees and The Kooks all use the word which also gives the name an indie feel. 'Interpretation' was a word we all liked the sound of as many people interpret indie music differently and we also think that the name is memorable and catchy. Our idea for the cover is by using Jack's face in the center with a plain background. His face will be drawn by hand and painted with water colours. The right half of his face will be slightly blurred which will merge into the background. We felt this was an effective idea as it has quite a random twist to it which we have not seen on an album cover before. 

Film Schedule

We plan to film the first minute to Ben Howard's video of 'Keep Your Head Up' tomorrow (Thursday, 28th June) at two different locations. Both locations are fields around Finchingfield which have a wood but each one is different and has ideal spots to film different shots in the video. Jack Willson - a member of the group will play Ben Howard and will be wearing the same clothing as Ben does in the video - a dark, baggy t-shirt and dark trousers. We have made a list of props we need to bring to be able to get as close as we can to looking like the real video. This includes a shovel, bucket, bubble blower, haystack, straw bag, a camera and a underwater camera. It is very important for us to get the right shots and therefore a lot of planning and practice shots will be needed as we will be filming when the sun sets which won't last very long. In the original video, the video is filmed with the sun rising in the morning, however we decided to film backwards with the sun setting as we will have more time before to rehearse. The sun set is predicted to happen at 9:21pm which means we must make sure we are prepared and ready to film as quick as possible before it becomes dark.