NEW VIDEO

Finley and Joseph;
-battle royale
-famous music video/film scenes
-finley is a crime boss

Possible songs;
-heads will roll

Crime boss idea;
-Fin is sat at the end of the garden with his two bitches
-Joseph drags conner up to him with bag on his head

drawing idea
-go over PROPFILM in after effects

STARTING AGAIN

First attempt was a complete disaster with most of the props now being useless, and the actors not being available again, so won't be able to try again.

FINAL SCENE WRITTEN UP

woken up, he’s in bed he sees lights

Hiding in doorway

police at door

focus on ARRONS face so you know it’s now from his perspective, and they’re nodding to the music and knocking the door to the music

then he runs to get the bag and then runs down the garden with a lighter and paper

tracking shot of in front of arron as he goes through house, you see the police come in behind him in same shot, and he leaves the shot

then shot of arrons face looking behind him then perspective shot of the police dancing towards him then another shot of his face

some cool shots of the dog freaking out too

arron runs down the garden, the same thing again where he turns and sees them dancing towards him

could do a shot from the dogs perspective where he can see the police actually running after him

he quickly tries to burn everything, then out of the corner of his eye he sees the dirt mound moving rhythmically

walks towards it, low angle, eyes pop out from ground close up, arrows eyes close up, policewoman shouting close up then quick squibs shot mid shot, merges into just dancing with the police.

FILM PLAN WRITTEN UP

00:02
11 static shot opportunities.

00:26 - 01:38
Weird crinkly shimmer noise.
Maybe a smooth one shot going through house to the garden.

01:38 - 02:07
Beat comes in, rhythmic digging.

02:07
Stops digging and moves away from mound, panting and wiping face covered in mud.
Face is dark with all the back lighting.

02:22
Bass comes in - he turns, shot from behind as he faces the camera, and he's in the light so you can see his face.
One shot, smooth, going up to the house.

Then that cool cinematic pan down thing.
Then a shot from inside the house on the floor by the door, lights off inside, you can only see the dog come in then you see his feet and he closes the door.
Then a shot from outside where you can see in the kitchen window

DATES

THURSDAY 06:30 - 10:00
-police coming in
-arron hiding
-arron burning everything
-final dance sequence

FRIDAY 05:00 - 09:00
-arron around house in various positions looking anxious
-arron leaving for work then coming back in
-mopey shots of jackson
-dream sequence of end of garden getting closer
-initial digging scene

SQUIB ATTEMPTS

Failure

Success

EFFECTS TO TRY

-Removing frames for fast scenes like in Mad Max
-Strobe lighting effects
-A DIY shoulder rig


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FIRST TRY IN GARDEN FOR FIRST SCENE

ok from Willow Collins on Vimeo.

1. Needs more variations in shots for first sequence
2. Arron would be more frantic and exhausted and hunched over, mouth open
3. When he turns around, have it really zoomed in and not in focus, then focus and zoom out
4. Find a way to effectively do slow mo on certain scenes without sacrificing quality
5. When he turns around, try getting the shots as static as possible while still moving backwards

CASSAN DROPPED OUT

ANALYZING SURVEY RESULTS

To be fair i didn't include a very wide range of types of music videos, i did this as these are the types i'm capable of achieving to a good standard. I'm glad the most popular choices were experimental/nonsense and narrative, as my initial ideas match this perfectly.



This is also a great response as i had no intention of doing this, and i agree that it doesn't matter, despite the theories of andrew goodwin.




Supernatural themes won by a long shot here, however i feel as though paranormal music videos are slightly overplayed, i'm glad i'll be doing a spin on this to downplay the supernatural aspects.




The average length was 4 minutes. The song i'm using is around 6 minutes so i can easily cut this down.



This was spread out evenly between all submissions. I therefore choose to ignore these results and do the song i was going to do anyway.

EBAY UPDATE

GOT ACTORS!

Cassan

Molly

Arron

PROPS ORDERED AND ON THEIR WAY

These items are for the two squibs, and the uniform for the two police officers.

I went to a charity shop to get two white t-shirts and some jogging bottoms.
This is so that the main actor can get covered in blood in the first and last scene without worrying about ruining his clothes.

The t-shirt i've arranged for him to wear at the end is a mental health awareness t-shirt with a bit of blood already on it so thats really good.

FIRST HALF OF SONG MAPPED OUT

MOODBOARD OF SHOTS FOR MUSIC VIDEO

1. Lighting through dirty windows, one point of lighting in frame, large contrasts.
2. Close up chiaroscuro
3. Back lighting with fire
4. Rain from one side, large lighting contrasts
5. Shots of hands from dream sequence
6. Blurry long shots
7. Running around house, dark, tint
8. Dirty, shot of just mouth, panicking
9. Low shots behind people walking
10. Sudden arranged dance sequences

IDEA FOR MUSIC VIDEO

This song is 10 minutes so i'm going to cut it down to about 4.

Static/pans of a mess, just random things lying around

suddenly it’s him digging a hole and burying something at night time

loads of shots of him becoming obsessive over the thing in the garden, dream sequences of the end of the garden getting closer and closer to the house

police come and he hides, then kills them and burns them he’s happy about it now though, sets fire to stuff in the garden and dances around

ends with dance sequence putting each shoulder back and forth, swaps every other shot with him actually getting shot

MUSIC VIDEO SURVEY

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/DFQWNLH

02/04/17 AMENDED VIDEO

FinalHartshill from Willow Collins on Vimeo.