Song Selection Shortlist

Short List by Sulieman121

This was my shortlist for my song selection, I picked the first two songs because I know the artist personally, as for the third i found it on a copyright free website (music alley) and decided it was good enough to potentially be used as  a track.

I presented this to my group and we made our final selection along with the shortlist's they prepared, I final choice was 'The Rubber Tramp' by VisionedKarma, it was the 2nd song I proposed on my shortlist and the group thought it would be a good song to make a music video for so we chose it.

Inspiration: Performance

This video 'CAFO' by Animals As Leaders inspires me with it's performance. Some of the camera angles they use are unconventional. The actual performance element of the music video is quite spectacular as the band show off their technical abilities as musicians. I particularly like the way they filmed the tapping section of the song.

As you can see the camera angle amplifies the playing, it is a difficult camera angle to pull off as the camera must be setup without getting in the way of the guitarist. This also amplifies how difficult the song is to play.

This is the Camera angle I'm thinking of using in my music video. I like it because it really lets the viewer see the size of the guitar and it makes them more involved as it allows the viewer to to see the intricate details that the guitarist must play.

The whole music video is the performance of this song. At multiple points in the video the camera shakes, I imagine this is to amplify the intensity of the song, to create a frenzy as such to accompany the fast pace and quick notes.

The background is often bright with nothing really going on, this goes well with the performance as it keeps the audience focussed on the band. Although, the background does reflect the song in some way, for example the scattered lines could be seen as to relate to the scrambling of the guitarist's fingers.

The Cuts are both rhythmic and non-rhythmic as the tempo and time signature of the song is forever changing, as the song slows down so does the background, it smooths out.

But you'll notice it is always blurry never taking the attention away from the performer, and sub-textually it assists them, or supports them.

Overall this video is an inspiring performance for the sole fact that it is an amazing difficult song to play and you'll note they are not moving around but are in fact focused on their instruments, which would suggests this is one of the few performances that isn't mimed and is live. This is why I find it inspiring because if you think about the camera angles in this performance and the fact that they are actually playing this live it would be hard to shoot and edit, I assume they used multiple cameras to achieve this music video.

Target Audience

This is who I think our target audience is. I thought about our style of music being mainly instrumental so it is more for relaxed people. As it has being said before "Prog-rock is music for musicians" I took this into account so I would think the target audience would play an instrument wouldn't matter which as the musical rhythm and melody itself would serve enough for any musician to analyze and appreciate.

Potential Album Cover

Today I found a program online that I think could have potential to create the album cover of our Digi-pack. The software lets you create different graphics in a luminous light style

The website is http://weavesilk.com/

This is what I created in around 15 minutes:

As you can see it may not be perfect but I believe it has the potential to become a great album cover if I spent an hour designing it. Especially from a progressive rock style, their album covers focus on colours and shapes an example of a progressive rock album cover is Chon's album:

The cover focuses on shapes and has luminous colours which is why I think it could be done in this new program and up to a decent standard.

Again this took me as least 30 minutes so it really illustrates the potential of this site:

The Song We Have Chosen

This is the song we have chosen. We chose this song because it is instrumental. I personally am a musical person so I can provide guitar should we choose to do a performance music video. I like the concepts that this song gives me, and the general feel of it is quite upbeat.

Genre Shopping List

This is the overall mind map if you would like to see the full mind map visit https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6XknUlV2H_bMTY1SEFjc0ZELVk/edit?usp=sharing

This is our genre shopping list, it shows different ideas and conventions of progressive rock. It outlines which key ideas we wish to use. For example the instruments we would use in our music video would most probably be a seven string guitar and 5 string bass as is the convention. The album covers in the mind map inspire me personally because of the graphics design and the strong concept throughout the covers.

In addition we will be breaking some of the conventional camera angles. Costume isn't really an issue although we probably won't have anyone with a tattoo. I think we will film outside in the daytime, because you can get good lighting and there is more potential for developing a narrative for example a journey.

Standard Three-Point Lighting

 I was researching about mise-en-scène when I came across this.

This is standard three-point, it is a one of the basic techniques used in cinema. The object/character(s) is placed in front of the camera, a light to the left of the camera (#1) is pointed if not directly then a little to the side of the object. This is known as the Key Light and is the brightest light used to illuminate most of the object. Another light (#2) slightly dimmer is placed to the right of the camera. It is known as the Fill Light and is used to take away the shadow from the object. the final light (#3) is placed behind the object to the right of the camera. This is known as the Back Light and used to get rid of any remaining shadow behind the object.

I found this interesting simply because I feel it would be a good technique to use if I choose to shoot some of my music video scenes in a room or studio.

9 Key Frames

9KF The Verve

This is nine key frames produced by Troy. We all thought that this music video had some inspirational ideas for our video. As it shows a journey and uses some nice camera shots and angles.

Narrative Theory

Narrative Theory