The idea has developed once again to instead of a neon triangle, it is different televisions and they go to different channels which the band appears on. The band will have four settings, a game show, a chat show, a behind the scenes of a photography shoot and a typical music video band performance style. Each different setting will have to adhere to a different style that is associated with that specific type of media, such as, interviews being static tripod shots that look like they are done on a multi camera set up, behind the scenes photography videos will be handheld and have a lot of movement the game show is similar to the interview but much brighter and the music video will be colourful and a lot of movement.

This is the treatment for our first idea.

The second idea is a performance, video which starts off in black and white which saturates over the time of the music video. The video will take place in a recording studio, it incorporates fluorescent lights and an interesting front man who is a dancer with a lot of energy and a band playing with a lot of energy too, it involves invisible cuts, quick pans and slow tracks towards the band members. The video would be similar to Les Cactus by The Last Shadow Puppets

The Last Shadow Puppets music video works because of how charismatic the lead singer is in the video. He is jumping across the studio dancing in a very strange way and the studio is cluttered and gives a lot to look at which keeps a seemingly boring performance video look incredibly interesting. To make our video like this, we had to find a studio which is large enough to film in, reasonably priced, a bit cluttered and local, we found two that are fairly close, Empire recording studios and aja studios were our two choices, and seeing as aja is cheaper and closer, it seems like that is the one that we will choose.
We chose the song 'your soul' by coasts as we wanted an indie rock song and coasts were the perfect band as they aren't extremely well known and the song does not have a music video.

I presented my potential ideas for our music videos for my A2 coursework, after the presentation, I listened to feedback of my idea from my peers. The feedback I received was mainly to do with how the set would look as in the studio, there is limited resources, and making a set look realistic within the small space on next to no budget is almost impossible.

What I learnt from pitching the ideas was that there are many constraints in the production which I need to register and not let my imagination run wild as there are realistic constraints in place. One of the songs that I chose was very well known, therefore, it may not be a good idea to use the song, The song in question being 'fell in love with a girl' by the white stripes, and told that if you look on any top rock artists list, they will be there, however, i have looked through many and they haven't been on any of them. Another thing that I was told to look out for was imitation of previous years coursework with my 1920s idea for the caravan palace song, this is due to a group who was A2 last year doing a song by the same artist and as the band has a very distinctive style, I will have to look out for ways of making sure that the idea looks as original as I intend for it to be. Another point that was brought to my attention was that I intended to have a dancer for one of my ideas ('how did we get so dark?' by royal blood) however, the song is a fairly heavy rocky to which one of the dancers in my class pointed out that would be extremely difficult to choreograph and may that a choreographer may not be able to show the style of the song through dance, therefore it is likely that the dance in the song will not be there, that means I will probably need to rethink the song choice. I learnt also that the most popular of my ideas is the 1920s idea and the white stripes idea, for the white stripes song idea, I need to do the animation where it looks necessary and not cheesy and rethink the bar idea as getting a bar for a set and being able to fill it up is probably unlikely, for the Caravan Palace idea I want to stylise it to how Baz Luhrmann styled 'The Great Gatsby' (2013) and make it big and bright with a modern twist though.

These pieces of constructive criticism from my peers will guide me in changing my production so that it can be as believable as being a real music video as possible. Story rethinks on one of them is in order and set design for others will be a key part on making the video look professional. Also some tutorials for after effects would be helpful for the 'fell in love with a girl' Idea.

How Did We Get So Dark? - Royal Blood

The band only consists of 2 members, being the bassist and drummer, the band shots will be stylised with red and blue fluorescent lights, and being filmed mainly handheld to get the rock feel, there will also be tracking shots going towards and around the band.

There will be shots of dancers with strobe lighting over them.

The rest of the story is T.B.D.

Fell In Love With A Girl - The White Stripes

I see this song as a similar styling as the film Scott Pilgrim versus the World and I think using a similar animation style coming off the instruments as they use in the film which look very indie punk rock, I also see it as a film camera style, so learning how to adjust the look of footage in premier pro to look more like a super 8 or super 16 camera.











I see the story of the song as a man who sees a girl in a bar, and then tries to go speak to her but struggles to get through the crowds, and when he finally gets to where she is, she has already moved and the video will cut between the man trying to find the girl to shots of the band on stage and at the end she looks back and sees him and it goes to a macro shot of her eyes and sees that she smiles through the change of expression around the eyes much like the ending of the film whiplash.

Lone digger is a song that I believe is very 1920s-esque, therefore I think that I should stick with that for the video and show off the best and most prominent things that were in the 1920s such as flappers and speakeasies, however, for the modern edge which the song uses, I will use multi coloured fluorescent lights to try and match the songs styling.



There will be shots of girls in dresses that show the styling of flappers in the 1920s and they will be doing the dance which will be choreographed at a later date.

There will also be the shots of the band along with the singer which there will be a keyboard, trumpet/saxophone and violin