Conventions of Indie Rock...

I researched into the conventions of an Indie Rock video so that our music video can fit our genre perfectly and will give us some guidance as to what to include. I decided to use the website Giffy to create my spider diagram as it was an easy way of displaying all the conventions and meant that I could access it online where ever I was, this meant I can check it whilst we were out filming.

To visit the website click the link here:   https://www.gliffy.com

Framing and Composition...

It is important that when organising your composition you should arrange the framing so that the focal point is complimented, this way the audience's eye will automatically be drawn there.

It is also important to remember the Rule of Thirds when planning yours shots.

With this grid in mind the 'rule of thirds' now identifies four important parts of the image that you should consider as points of interest, which you should then use as a guide to put the important parts of your image on these points. Not only this but it also gives you four 'lines' that are useful positions for elements in your photo.
If there is people in the frame their eyes should be roughly a third of the way down the frame, this will make sure that the whole of their head is in the frame which is key in having a good composition.

Leading space - Refers to the space in front of a moving subject, for example a person walking or a moving vehicle. This may also be referred to as nose room, or look space. Without the right amount of lead space, the frame will look awkward.

Head space - The amount of space between the top of the subject’s head and the top of the frame. Leaving too much headroom wastes frame space and makes your subject appear to be sinking. In a close up, too little headroom draws the viewer’s eye to the chin and neck, rather than the eyes.

The Prodigy - Breathe...

Whilst watching the music channel KERRANG! I came across this music video for 'Breathe' by The Prodigy and I was intrigued by their choice of lighting throughout the video. I loved the flashing lights as I felt it created a busy, intense atmosphere to the video and emphasised the intensity of the song. The fast slashing lights also worked well along side the fast speed changes in the editing, this is something I would like to recreate in our music video as I love the effect it creates.

Copyright email...

Now that we have decided on our final song we needed to contact the record company to ask their permission to use their song in our music video. This is for copyright purposes and we are still waiting for a response. 

         

Band Brand...

Our song 'Pvris - White Noise' is a very different genre to our previous song 'Nina Nesbitt - Stay Out', it falls into the indie rock genre which means that our band and song names will need to fit into that genre.

For our track list we thought it would be clever to link the names to our groups experiences in AS and A2 media, with still sounding professional. Once we had thought of as many as we could tara suggested that we looked into the brand Mac's lipstick range as she remembered them having quite alternative, creative names, perfect for what we were looking for. Here is the track list we have come up with: 

1)Indecisive 

2) The Chill 

3) Liverpool St. 

4) 1997

5) Broken Glass 

6) Stripped Down

7) Fiction 

8) Opium 

9) Mr. 

10) Bait

11) Euphoria 

12) Wanderlust

13) Salted Wounds

Filming day 2...

On our second day of filming we had to travel to Brick Lane. The plan for the day was to film some of our more abstract, creative shots by graffiti walls and any interesting eye catching places. As we left Liverpool Street station we came across a very bold eye catching piece of graffiti street art which we all knew would be ideal as a background in some of our shots.

Unfortunately as we got all our equipment out to set up and film we realised that a key piece was missing, the plate which attaches the tripod to the camera. Our first thought was to search for any local camera shops or places where we may be able to purchase a new one considering we had travelled up there and were all ready to film however the places we rang said that they had to be ordered and would take days to arrive. So, to try and not waste any of our time we filmed a few handheld shots which we will still be able to use, we also walked around to find any other locations we could come back to. We also thought that while we are all together it would be the perfect time to come up with our Band Brand, all the information will be on the post to follow.

We have uploaded the footage and so far we are really pleased with our results and are very excited about our new concept.

We filmed a quick vlog to explain what happened on our second day of filming.

New treatment pitch...

Now that we have changed our idea and song we felt that we should make a new treatment pitch so that we could again gather feedback and present our idea to a group of people. Although we didn't film ourselves like last time we felt that a Prezzie was an easier way for us to display our idea.

Filming day 1...

We have begun filming for our music video for 'Pvris - White Noise' and on our first filming session we decided to film some of the performance shots. We wanted to use a very simplistic style for some of our shots and just have our Artist - in this case Stef - and a black blank background. Our plan was to film some still shots of Stef lip-synching to the song in our schools drama studio, which we will cut to a couple of times when editing, however, we discovered a large wall mirror in the studio which allowed us to also capture more creative shots. We decided to position Stef opposite the mirror which gave us a very interesting shot and will be perfect to use in our music video.