Script..thing.

All the, small things,
True care, truth brings
I'll take, one lift
 Your ride, best trip
 Always, I know
You'll be at my show
Watching, waiting
Commiserating
Say it ain't so
I will not go
Turn the lights off
Carry me home
Na, na, na
Late night, come home
Work sucks, I know
She left me roses by the stairs
Surprises let me know she cares
Say it ain't so
I will not go Turn the lights off Carry me home
Na, na, na
Say it ain't so I will not go, Turn the lights off Carry me home
Keep your head still I'll be your thrill The night will go on My little windmill
Say it ain't so I will not go Turn the lights off Carry me home
Keep your head still I'll be your thrill The night will go on My little windmill

BLINK 182 - ALL THE SMALL THINGS LYRICS

Opening Scene -  My idea is the beginning should have an Establishing Shot of the tennis court then in a pan from left to right (still in the same shot) then an another Establishing Shot taking place right after of the hallways. Another possible idea is that before the start of the song is to have very quick snappy shots of the band members, For example; The first one of the bottom of the guitar with the guitarists hand on it, the second of the drummers feet and the pedal on the drum and the last one of the Singer’s mouth near the microphone.

Live Sequences- My ideas for shots for this in include a medium two shot, with the singer in the front, but slightly to the side, with the other band member behind him out of focus, then switching so that the other member is in focus and the singer is out of focus.  Another idea that I got from Slipknot’s Sulphur (Different genre I know) is that for the guitar to have a small camera on the bottom or top so that you can get some really shaky erratic shots. Also we could do something similar with the drum kits with having a camera on the foot pedal.

Narrative ideas – Plenty of ideas that mostly revolve around shot reverse shots of the boy and girl, whether they are crossing each other’s path etc etc. (Think of the typical school hallway when a boy and girl glance at each other) other ideas. Another idea is that as the girl walks down the hallways she is tracked side by side with the camera, showing her walk along the corridor.

Other ideas such as them meeting up with the band near the end of the performance, or even meeting up in the live performance bit in front of the band. Also another idea would be to have some ‘cameo’ appearances of the band members within the clip such as bumping into the protagonists or swearing or whatever.

Note: Reece made a good point that if we are unable to get enough people for our video, we could reuse for other roles etc such as the lead singer for the Male in the narrative.

Short Prop List/ Costumes

Prop list. – Night performance

Acoustic Guitar
Bass Guitar
Acoustic Drum Kit
Microphone
Microphone Stand
2 AMPs
Leads
400w Floodlight

Mise en scene

Lead singer – simple unkempt shirt, blue jeans Punk style.

Guitarist – roughly same

Drummer - roughly same

Narrative boy – Black jacket, Blue jeans, shirt

Narrative girl – band tee, Jeans

Locations -  School hallways, tennis court, classrooms.

Night time

Tennis court with floodlights
Skatepark (Possibly)

These are subject to change and will be edited accordingly.

Treatment

TREATMENT FOR AN ALTERNATIVE ROCK MUSIC VIDEO

2^nd October 2012

Song: ‘’Blink 182 – All the small things’’

 

Synopsis

The music video will be accordingly 2 minutes and 53 seconds from a cover song from Tweedaa, the choice being ‘’All the small things’’ by the original title artist blink 182. The song focuses on five of the conventional themes, alcohol, drugs, freedom of youth, sex and isolation (at the beginning); the piece will focus on a three person band and two main characters.

The narrative of the music video will be chronological follow a young man and woman over a day, transcending from the theme of isolation to alcohol, drugs, freedom of youth and sex (and possibly party themed). There will be a lot of emphasis of these themes and during both chorus and verse, the narrative will reflect/portray (conventionally, reflect a ‘’fantasy’’ of the lyrics) the lyrics of the song. The chorus particularly will have abstract fill shots to emphasis on these particular themes.

The music video will also have a live performance section, often out weighing the narrative in terms of seconds; the live performance will take up just under 2/3 of the song (effectively the live performance will be 100 seconds whilst the narrative will be 73 seconds) in accordance to genre based conventions.

The characters in the narrative and live performance band members will reflect the themes of the genre as well as identifying conventions with their audience (teenage, male / female, young adult) e.g. this will be attributed through school narrative, type of song, themes, costume and possible props that we have identified throughout our research into the genre.

 

Style

The video will generally be up-beat and light hearted (with very little drama and tension except for the pre-get together of the two characters) whilst focusing intensely on the genre themes. The nature of the tone and atmosphere can be shown through the editing style of pace in relation to song tempo and emphasis on particular notes from instruments; in production, lighting may be used to further expose the shots to bring this method forward. In post-production (e.g. editing) template effects will be used to alter colour control (e.g. possible white balance could be slightly off put and slightly colourful) to reflect this further.

Audience

In terms of a demographic classification the age group “All the small things” would have will most likely be the age group oriented around the 13-17 category as the themes present in the song reflect the themes often associated with youth culture such as freedom of youth and a theme of the glorification of sex, drugs and alcohol. It is difficult to determine a specified gender since seemingly the audience for alternative rock is usually not specified as they try to attract both men and women and do not always emphasize a clear preference.

 

Technical requirements

The technical requirements of this production will be:

-          Digital Camera

-          2^nd Digital Camera (for behind the scenes recording)

-          Adobe After Effects CS5

-          Adobe Elements Premiere 4 &10

-          Adobe Photoshop Elements 10

-          Adobe Premier CS3

 

The availability of the cameras will depend on our shooting time scale (estimated at 2 weeks) and the availability of the equipment; all other software we have 24 hour access to for the period of 6 weeks.

 

Contingency Time

The project will have ¼ of the total time frame for production to finish, giving us 1 and ½ week if all else fails.

Enter Shikari - Flash Flood of Colour

Enter Shikari are a Britsh Alternative metal/ Rock hardcore band, and their latest release on the 16^th January, ‘Flash Flood of Colour’ album cover has all the conventions of the usual Rock/metal music genre, with a very artistic album cover, with a eerie surroundign and with a a very high contrast logo illuminating the surrounding. What is interesting about the album is that there isno Named logo at all or any lettering on the front of the album, suggesting that Enter Shikari want the Logo to resemble them rather than just words. The vinyl cover is also interesting, but keeps in theme with the Giant illuminating logo in an eerie enviroment.

 

 



 

 

 

Update

After speaking to Reece and Katie about how we will present the live performance version of our clip,we have decided to change it so their will be no audience in the live performance due to numerous reasons.

1. Unreliable due the amount of people we need, and if they would actually come or not.
2. If someone in the audience does something wrong, for example: pull a funny face in the camera when they shouldn't, it woill tak emore time to redo the shot.
3. Time. It will be quicker to organise a 3 person band rather than say 25 people.

Moving on, Katie has had some good news that we will be able to use very high quality cameras (professional ones too!) called HDV SD Pro Camera. (The name means nothing to me but apparently they are excellent quality).   

Muse Album and Vinyl Cover

Possibly one of the most bizarre and artistically brilliant album covers in the Alternative rock genre is Muse’s ‘The Resistance’ released on the 14^th of September 2009,  and has gathered numerous platinum and gold Award from different companies. Muse often bring about bizarre and atmospheric sounds into their music and each of their song s are unique and have their own identity  The cover of the album can be interpreted that the ‘resistance’ is breaking the mold of normal colour and creating it’s own identity (a convention of what Alternative Rock groups want to do, to create their own identity within the music industry).

The vinyl version is similar but takes on a different art style, instead of of it’s blocky and stark colour segments, it takes on more a surrealism look, with what seems to be planets, with the bottom half to symbolize earth and the sea and the sky, with the top half to symbolize the vastness and space, with the walk way into a new world.

Honestly I love Muse’s albums, they are always so inventive and visually different and brilliant.  

    

Feeder Album Cover

Feeder’s ‘The Singles’ is a collection of all their ‘greatest hits’, released in 2006. Unlike many other Alternative Rock, the front cover is very basic and just features the lead singer playing his guitar, however the intersting thing is, the cover plays more off the name rather than anything else, the logo is in bold, and feeder at the time were already a very famous band making gold and platinum hits, and the name needed to be the centre of attention for the ‘audience’ to recognize it. However the art style is a typical monochrome shot, however it does capture what Feeder is, a rock band full of energy, yet their lyrics to the are mostly very bleak and sombre topics.

Madina Lake Album Cover

Madina lake’s  ‘From them, through us to you’ is their debut album, released in 2007, and instantly introduces us to a striking image on the front cover of a young girl. This girl (Called Adalia) is told throughout a story within the each track, similar to a book, each song is a chapter. This is reflected by the fact that  the whole cover looks very much like a old fashioned book, perhaps an old fashioned children’s book. Which is quite unsual for a Alternative Rock band,  however it does link to the conventions of these type of bands striving for their own artistic style and trying to look different from their ‘competition’. However it is often know they wish to establish themselves within their genre and to their audience (Who are often the arty type).

Muse Hysteria Analysis

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RS2WvsYFgLA&feature=fvst

Muse Hysteria

0:01- 0:13

In the beginning we see a very dark and gloomy corridor (probably of a hotel) and it is a low angle shot that is slowly tilting and zooming into the cleaner. The effect this has with the fast deep bass guitar is the effect that something is lurking around and is about to take effect.

0:13 – 0:30

The scene quickly changes to a close up shot of the main protagonist lying in a bed; whether he is just in bed sleeping or looks like he’s taken drugs (sweating) is unknown at this point. However as the shots of the man in the bed are slowly turning, there are cuts of the cleaner attempting to get into the room.

0:32

Eventually the man springs from his bed as the woman attempts to enter the room and he slams the door in her face, as he is doing this, the shots jump slightly as he is walking, portraying the frantic action. Quite interesting, that the jump shots only start when the vocals kick in.

0:40 – 0:47

The shots continue with the jump cut editing, portraying distorting and confusion in the man, unaware of surroundings and becoming frantic. So far we can see the connotations of the Alternative rock genre, stark lighting and colour and light editing, and a concentration of close up shots on the main character.

0:47 – 0:48

This quick POV shot is quite effective and it adds to the panic and distortion of the clip as it is edited to be blurry and to have a certain ‘hazy’ feel.

1:00 – 1:05

The jump cuts continue with a variation of shots ranging from close to a long shot ( possibly the first true establishing shot of the clip). I like the effect of the jump shots as it shows the distortion and the confusion of the man, as well as speeds up the narrative quicker and is far more interesting to watch, rather than just having a long scene of the man just looking around.

1.07 – 1.23

The jumpy quick shots between the man the tv are almost like a shot/reverse shot, showing the editing tv footage, showing a connection between the girl and the man. Strangely however the room seems to clean and less ‘destroyed than before’, I didn’t notice this on my first view of the clip, but this may add to the confusion of person, and how he may be unable to recollect events in the right order.

1:23 – 1:55

As he begins to watch the clip, the shots of the tv and him begin to get shorter and the editing begins to get quicker and quicker, which shots eventually lasting no longer than 2 seconds each. The editing is far more effective in this one, as the effects on the tone are much darker and have had the shadows intensified,    with a blur effect added to many of them to show that he’s out of touch and delusional to his surrounding other than the TV.

1:59 – 2:03

These collection of shots of the video recorder being broken and dismantled are very effective as they are fast paced and keep in line with the rest of the theme of the song. I particularly like the fact that the shots are short and not completely still, but jerky and erratic, whilst having a very rough editing (blur being out of focus in parts).

2:15 – 3 :29

For the rest of the scene we see all the previous style of shots intertwined together as he literally starts to break the room and the contents, the shots are varied here however as the we tracking shots of the objects he throws into paintings, and also jump cutting into close ups of him destroying a TV set. We also see low angle shots then a high angle shots, and then extreme close ups throughout this segment. These almost random occurrences of shots is rather effective as it adds to the atmosphere as a being somewhat psychotic and the ‘Hysteric’ aspect.

It’s also effective how there seems to be about 3 different scenes at once, the Tv playing with the girl, the male protagonist smashing the rooms, and a shadowy figure walking down the corridor (the same girl.

3:29 – 3:46

 Near the end of the clip we a a return to what looks like he beginning of the clip again, portraying that the male protagonist is within a vicious cycle that he cannot break. What is effective is the shot reverse shot which is zooming into each character every time it happens.

Overall, Muse’s Hysteria is an interesting video that has a narrative that makes you think and often confuses you for effect, however unlike many other alternative rock videos, the band is not present throughout the clip, focusing on the artistic side and telling a story, rather than selling themselves as a band.

Tweedaa Evidence

Evidence that we have "Tweedaa" permission to use his cover of All the Small Things.

The Song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gjzXvWHm2lU#!

Here we are, the song we have chosen for our music video, the reason we have chosen this cover of the Blink 182's All the Small Things, is that it represents the genre well and lyrical has all the conventions such as talking about Drink, Relationships etc etc. We also chose the cover version due tot he fact that it's quite different from the original (and far better in my opinion), and that it was easier to get Tweeda's approval rather than get Blink 182's approval.

Our Pitch Video

http://vimeo.com/50151285

Our Pitch Video, where we talked about our ideas, the conventions of Alternative Rock album covers etc.