Storyboarding

As a group we have started storyboarding, watching and collecting information from music videos such as; Calvin Harris and The Disciples 'How Deep is Your Love', Eminem featuring Rihanna 'The Monster' and also Taylor Swift's 'Blank Space'. Using a variety of music videos helped us become more inspired with all the different story narratives, camera angles and editing techniques that we can change and use into ours.

Band Name Inspiration

Alt J

The 1975

The Who

 The Killers 

These bands use a variety of concepts that as a group, we would like to use when naming our band. Most bands add 'The' in front of there title of their bands, we like this as it we think it adds definition to our band name and makes it stands out- it looks bold. Another idea was to use symbols in our name, the reason for this is because we have found that not many indie genres do this and therefore making our band name unique and different.

On the right shows our track list for 'The IVth' band and the album 'ANIMAL'.

- The Black Microphone
- Screaming
- The Old Elephant
- Incapable Window
- Dancing Keys
- Back In Time
- Generic
- Obsessed
- Staircase to Heaven
- Underground Love
- Cannonball

We decided to change the name of our song from 'Free The Animal' by Sia, to 'Canon Ball' by The IVth. We wanted to make the title relevant and so we used the lyrics of Sia's song to do so.

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Group Lip Syncing

As a group, we decided to make a music video for our song choice 'Sia- Free the Animal' which is based on our lip syncing to discover who is best to suit our main female protagonist.

We have found that our strongest person in our group is Lauren, therefore we have decided to use her as our main female role in our music video.

We have also realised that the song that we have chosen is very up-beat and fast and so we need to really be on-top of getting our mouth around the words and keeping the rhythm in sync with the lyrics.

We used two different techniques when recording our test trial, we all first mimed the lyrics and recorded it, which was hard but also the outcome was as we hoped, but something that we did find helpful and works well is actually singing along to the song when recording. We played the song in the background whilst Lauren was singing to it then when we were editing we muted the music playing and added a fresh layer of Sia's 'Free the Animal' which turned out really well.

Editing Saturation

We have finished filming the content needed of Lauren for our saturation scene so we are now editing the saturation and add an effect of making her 'double blind'. This will bring out how her multiple personality disorder through editing.

We edited our film by using iMovie, however the effects were good but we didn't like the outcome as the colours were too faint and doesn't give a powerful effect to the audience.

We then started playing around with the 'artistic techniques' and filters:

Taylor Swift - Blank Space

We were also inspired by Taylor Swifts 'Blank Space' specifically the parts where Taylor shows a variety of emotions which in the eyes of the audience could portray MPD. This can be shown between (1.54-2.10), (2.31-2.35), (2.56- 3.12)

Calvin Harris & Desciples - How Deep is Your Love

What we liked about the music video 'How Deep Is Your Love' is because of the (0.27-0.31) with the variety of shots of the main female protagonist that has been edited to transition onto each other with the change of colours that ave been shone onoto her.
We were thinking of using this idea to portray our female protagonist (Lauren) and her MPD.
The shot after shows an isolated walkway/path of which looks like it is in a basement of maybe the house/nightclub which is then being represented next in the video. The use of the hand-held camera is give a sense of realism but to also show the audience the confusion and state the main protagonist is in- which is what we would like to give.

Eminem - The Monster ft. Rihanna

In 'The Monster' we were inspired by the silhouette of the artist Rihanna and the low key lighting and dark colour pallets. We want to use this to represent the different personalities that Lauren will be portraying throughout our music video- one could be her 'spiteful' and 'aggravated' side.

Copyright

Below is a picture of our copyright permission: