Day of filming - Performance

Today we went to film the performance part of the filming, we turned up at 10am to make sure that we had enough time to get all the filming done that we needed.

We had to make sure that everyone turned up in the costumes that we needed them to be in, casual is a broad range so it wasn't hard to stick to, this standard was met by everyone in the group and that made it easy to get started and get filming.

We first of all had to get the room set up the way that we needed it, this meant that we had to move all of the chairs and tables out of the way as it is normally used as a classroom, we had to move all of the stuff to the side of the room to make sure that we had enough room to film and get a number or different shots as we needed a good variety of shots to make the music video look interesting.

The next thing we had to do was get the props that we needed. We needed a drum set, a microphone with stand, and two amplifiers. We got these from the music department as we filmed in the half term, hardly any people were in the college at the time, so they were available to use, this made is better for us as we were able to get all of the equipment we need to make the scene look as professional and as realistic as possible.

I then had to start to get the lighting to where we needed it to make sure that everything looked as good as we wanted it to, i started off with all of the lights off and then started from 1 and worked my way through the lights to the last one, Kyle Smith was in the tv studio so that he could tell me when a certain light was too bright or not bright enough, some of the lights weren't on at all when others were on fully, the headset that we used made it a lot easier to get the lighting right, that way i wasn't just guessing on which lights to change, that would have taken me hours to get right. At first we had it too bright(photo below right) until we turned off certain lights to get it so that the lights weren't too bright for the band members.

 Next was getting the cameras up and ready to film with, we used two different cameras, one bigger camera to get the steady shots, this camera would be staying on the tri-pod that whole time of filming, there was also a slightly smaller camera that we used, this was to get the other shots, there was some other shots that we did using this camera, we got shots that moved around, panning shots, tracking shots and shots from a different angle as what the bigger camera was filming, to again give us a variety of shots. This was the key part of the day, making sure we got lots of shots, but shots that were different, there would be no point in having loads of shots if they were all the same.




Danny was in control of the smaller camera whilst i had to bigger one, he would go in between the band members whilst they were performing and get shots that i couldn't get with my big camera on the tripod. He got the panning and tracking shots.



I suggested that it would be a good idea to play the song through and come up with a plan on the things that we would film, I thought it would be a good idea to film in the same order as the song, that way we would know where we were up to with the filming. We had to shoot the same parts a number of times to make sure that we had a variety of shots, we had to use both cameras and change the angle and position of the camera, and re-film. We did this to make sure that we had enough shots to switch between them, this is because as a rock song we need there to be fast edits, and switching between different shots would make the edits fast and they would look more professional and it should ideally switch on near enough every beat.

The chorus was the easiest part to film as the lyrics were easy for the guys to learn and they were able to get the lyrics in time with the music every time, we had the music playing in the background off of a computer in the same room, this is so that the guys would be able to sing along and therefore get the lyrics in time with what the music will be when we edit. Otherwise it would be off time and would not look as good.

I did a lot of the filming off of the big camera on this way as well as control the lighting, I believe that i did a lot of work and contributed a lot to the work on this day, i had the move the camera around, change the height of the tri-pod and decide on what shots would come next, i tried to make sure that we had a large variety of shots off of the camera that i filmed off of to make it easier when it came to editing, it would mean that we should not have to re-film. I got close ups of the lead singer, long shots of the whole band and mid shots of individual members of the band, i also got shots of the guitars and the drums to have them to edit between the shots of the singing.

Lastly we filmed the last part of the song itself, this was because i suggested to do the last chorus last because it might look good to mess with the lights for the last part of the song, i stayed in the lights control room and messed around with the lights, turning them up and down quickly, this looked good on camera and is a contrast between the normal performance as well.

We then had to film the part of the music video where the late guy rushes into the performance space to find no one there because he missed it, we could not film this as the Go Pro camera had ran out of battery and so did the other cameras at this point, so we couldn't film this part, we plan on filming this part as soon as we come back from the Christmas holidays.

Then we had to pack all the things away, we had to get it back to the way it was before we used it, we had to take all of the music equipment back to the music department and move the black backdrops out of the way and put the chairs and tables back into place.

Day before filming - Plan

Tomorrow I plan on filming with my group, we will be filming the performance part of the music video. We will come in at 10am so that we can have the morning and the afternoon to film, this should give us enough time to get all the performance filming done so that we shouldn't have to re-film as we should have enough shots from filming all day. 

The location will be the tv studio at Weston College, we will use this location because it will look like a rehearsal space, and that is the look that I want to create, seeing as the late guy in the video is late for rehearsal, the rehearsal will still look professional though, because we will have a black backdrop and proper lights that are mounted to the ceiling. 

The lighting will be controlled by me from the lighting control room, that has a window through to the tv studio, this is so that you can see what you are doing to the lights, there is a headset in the control room and also in the tv studio, if you put the headset on and someone in the tv studio puts the headset on, then you can control the lights by using the person in the tv studio, they can tell me what lights to turn on/off or up/down this will make it easier for me because it means i won't have to guess. 

The costumes will be casual, I have told the guys to turn upto filming in casual clothes, this is because the meaning of the music video is that the guy is late to rehearsal, and the kind of clothes that you would wear to a rehearsal would be different to what clothes you wear to a proper performance, this just means that the clothing would match the look we are trying to go for. 

The props we need are a drum set, which we plan on getting from the music department to borrow for the filming, this should be easy because one of the band members studies music so he should be able to obtain the drums as well as the microphone that we will need and also the amplifiers, we need so much because we need it to look realistic and like it's an actual bands rehearsal space. 

Animatic for music video

This is the animatic for the music video we will be filming, it is every scene drawn out and put to the music that we will be using, it is to show relitavely well how the shots will go with the music.
Every scene is where it is supposed to go and there is also some shots in there that we are not sure whether they will work or not, like the car scene, we are not 100% sure whether it will work as well as we hope it will as we need to find someone with a car to act it out and we also need someone to be the person that comes out and shouts at them, we are not sure whether it will work but we are going to try our hardest to make sure it works fine and that we know what needs to be done at all times.

Storyboard

Shooting Schedule

Days of shooting- 
Wednesday 19th December- Narrative shooting
Thursday 20th December- Performance shooting


Thursday 20th December
Shoot at the studio(Weston College)
- Shoot band members turning upto the studio
- Show the band members trying to get hold of the other guy who is late
- Show how many texts they've sent
- Shoot them decide to start to rehearse without the other guy
- Shoot them rehearsing
- Shoot close ups of guitars 
- Shoot close ups of drums and man playing drums
- Close ups of each band member lip synching different parts of the song
- Long shots of the whole band playing
- Medium Shots of each band member
- Shots of the band leaving the studio

Wednesday 19th December
Shoot at the house (using GoPro camera)
- Show the phone ringing and texts coming through
- Show a mise-en-scene shot of the whole room: beer bottles/cans, photos, general mess
- Show the guy waking up
- Show him looking at his phone
- Show him realise the time and thats he's late
- Everything speeds up
- Shoot him getting ready
- Show him brushing his teeth etc.
- Show him leaving his house
- Show bird poop on his shoulder
- Show him walk back into the house and change his shirt
- Show him leaving the house again
- He gets pooped on again and he just leaves it 

Shoot on the street (using GoPro camera)
- Shoot him walking along minding his own business
- Show him see a man struggling to get a box into the back of his car
- Show him walking over to help the man to put the box in his car
- He helps the man
- Show another man coming out of a show and starting to shout
- Guy that stole pulls down a balaclava over his face and gets into his car and drives away
- Other guy looks confused and runs away
- He starts to slow down
- Show a man in a beer bottle costume handing out leaflets about drinking and alcohol awareness
- Show the other people either taking them or not
- Guy shakes his head to say no
- Man in beer bottle costume tries to make him take it
- Guy knocks the leaflets out of his hands
- Guy looks back and sees beer man starts to chase him
- Guy runs away
- Guy runs into a room where a ritual is being done
- The people doing the ritual turn around and tell him to get out
- He runs away
- Runs into college/rehearsal location
- Runs into the rehearsal room
- (normal video camera) Sees him realise no one is there
- (normal video camera) Close up of his face to see him disappointed. 

Ideas/Drafts for digipak

A digipak is what comes with the album, it is normally made up of a front panel, back panel and two middle panels, the front panel is made up of some sort of image that is of the band or that represents the band.
The digipak theme will come down to the genre of the music video that I am making more than anything, it won't look right if i'm making a rock music video but the digipak is bright colours with rainbows and clouds, it just wouldn't match and thats the key to making a digipak, making it flow, letting the audience know that the music is a certain genre, if they see a bright coloured album cover and digipak they won't know that it is a rock music album. 
A classic convention of a Rock album cover is to have a cartoon on the front, this might be because the band want the image to represent the music on the album, there might be more of a meaning to the music to the band then just promoting themselves. I'm not going to use this idea for my album cover because I want to promote the band themselves as well as the music.

The band that we are using the track of is called Orson, i will also be using this band name, their album covers will be a lot like the one that I will create for my music video and album. This is because the genre is the same as theirs, their genre is rock. An example of their album cover is in the previous post. 


Idea 1. 
My ideas for the album cover were to have a black or white background and have a silhouette of the band of a medium size somewhere on the cover, there will be bright colours that look like strobe lights coming out of the silhouette, this will be to be exciting but will still show the genre in an obvious way. 
The bright colours will make it interesting without changing the genre of the album cover too much, the silhouette will show that it may be mysterious but the lights will show that they are coming out of the lights, which may show that the band are trying to change their image and start something new.



Idea 2. 
This idea is based on humour,  this is clear because all 4 of the members of the band will be wearing or will have drawn on fake moustaches, it would be black and white and they would be dressed in casual clothes, this will show the fact that they are pretending to be something their not and that they like to have fun. This would link in with the video because at the beginning of the video when the band member wakes up, the camera will show the mise-en-scene of the bedroom, there will be beer bottles/cans around the room and also there will be photos of the band members with fake moustaches drawn on the photos, this will make it funny and will link nicely in with the album cover. The back cover will have the same kind of theme but will have the song names on the back so the image will probably be faded into the background, this will make the writing stand out on the black and white image, the writing will probably be bright white, so it stands out on the faded black and white image of the background. 

Target Audience Research

This is the video that I created for research into the target audience for my music video.

I played 3 songs to the people answering the questions:
- The Pretender by Foo Fighters
- Call me maybe by Carly Rae Jepson
- No Tomorrow by Orson

And then I asked them three questions:
- Who would you say the target audience for this song would be? 
- What would you expect to see in this music video?
- Which song would you rather listen to in your own time?

I found out from doing this research that Orson-No Tomorrow(The song that we have chosen to make a music video for) would be promoted to the target audience of boys of late teenagers to about mid-twentys while other people would listen to it as well. Also many people would chose to listen to this song over pop songs like Call Me Maybe.

Editing Techniques

Album Artwork - existing artwork for Orson

The genre that we have chosen to make a music video for is Rock, which means that the artwork will most likely depend on the songs itself, if the songs are dark and gloomy then the artwork will reflect that and be dark and mysterious. But on the other hand the songs could be more up beat and more about partying and love, this way the artwork will probably be more colourful, and will reflect the songs themselves and show the mood of the album and the tracks on it just by looking at the artwork. 

As we have chosen to do a song by Orson I thought it would be a good idea to look at some of their artwork for their albums, to be able to compare my ideas to theirs and really see what I should or just as important should not be including in the artwork, it will give me more of an insight to what i should actually be including, or the kind of ideas i should be having on the matter. 

On the right is the front cover for the single 'Bright Idea' by Orson, I think that seeing as they are a rock band the cover is really bright, and colourful, this could be a good thing, but the fact is unless you know who they are and you are specifically looking for their album, if you are looking for a rock artist in amongst a lot of others in a store than you might not know that Orson are a rock band by just looking at this artwork. The use of birds and all the different colours just don't match with the genre in my opinion. However it does in a way match up with the lyrics in the song and how upbeat the song itself is. Below is the song, I think that the song itself matches the genre and is very rocky, just by the beats that are used and the overall feel of the song, but i just think the use of bright colours and bright red colours are not typically rocky. But then again the artwork does depend on the overall feel of the track and if you know who Orson are and you like them already, then this artwork might be the kind of thing you are looking for, and might be their way of doing things. But when i personally think of rock as a genre and rock music i think of darkness and bright lights, but the bright lights would be coming from the dark colours. The artwork for 'Bright Idea' just doesn't scream out Rock Music to me, as someone who doesn't tend to listen to Rock music. 

This artwork is also by Orson and this kind of artwork to me is more 'Rocky'. This image and overall feel to the artwork to me screams that its rock music. The use of the black and the costumes that are used and even the font of the writing and even the lights. They all come together and tell you that it's rock music that they make. This to me is what a typical rock artist/band would want their artwork to look like as it lets people know that they are rock artists.
The line up shows every member in the band, but it obviously shows who the main artist would be, the one stood right in the middle, this is obvious and even if people didn't know, after seeing this they would know that the man in the middle is the main singer, and the frontman of the band.
The costumes are dark and blend in with the black background, this kind of tells me that what they wear doesn't really matter, the music is the important part, and thats what they focus on, the costumes arn't particularly rock inflicted, rock costumes to me would probably be either leather or distressed denim. But the fact that the costumes arn't particularly Rock inflicted might mean that they are trying to move away from the labels of Rock music and that they are trying to venture out to different things.

The second one is probably the kind of thing i would rather make, this is because the whole point of artwork for albums is that people can tell that the album is full of Rock songs, and thats what i want to show on my album cover, i want big bold writing, and black spaces, the band or artist somewhere on the cover, maybe a silhouette version of them, and bright lights everywhere, i think that it would suit the song that i am making a video for, people could tell its Rock and it would look good, the point to any artwork. 

Potential Treatment 2

After we came up with the idea for our music video we looked into doing the party scene that we wanted to do, but unfortunately it was not possible to get that many people in a house and not make any mess and we couldn't find a house that peoples parents wouldn't mind about the noise and mess.

We have came up with an alternative idea for our music video, it will be to have a band that are going to have a rehearsal for a gig and one of the band members are missing, they are late.

- The guy will wake up and will look at his clock and realise that he is late and will then look at his phone and see that he has lots of missed calls and texts telling him that he's late, he jumps out of bed and the camera will pan around the room showing the mess from the night before, beer bottles/cans and just pure mess.

- He will then get ready and the editing will be in fast motion to show that he is rushing to get ready.

- He then leaves the house and gets pooped on by a bird, he then goes back into his house and changes his jacket.

- He comes back out of his house and then loads more poop come down from the sky, he runs through it and carries on.

- He then comes across a guy struggling to put a box in his car, he helps him to get the stuff in the car, then an angry guy comes out shouting, the other guy is a thief so the band guy looks at him, the thief puts a balaclava on and gets in his car and drives away.

- The band guy looks confused and runs away.

- He arrives in town and there is a guy dressed up in a beer bottle costume, he tries to hand the band guy a leaflet about drinking and alcohol awareness, this links to the beginning of the video because his bedroom was full of beer bottles and the night before is the reason that he's late in the first place. He knocks the leaflets out of the mans hands and the beer guy pushes him, there is an awkward stare and the beer guy chases him.

- There are different shots of the guy running away.

- The ban guy arrives in a safe place on the beach and there is a ritual for a cult going on in a little building, he sees it and goes in, the people that are dressed in robes turn around and stare at him, then the band guy runs away.

- He arrives at the studio smiling.

- He sees that no-one is there.

In between all this narrative there will be performance based things going on in-between the shots, it will show the rest of the band playing but it will also be clear that someone is missing, the guy that is late.

Potential Treatment 1

Today in our group we discussed the potential treatment for the music video that we will create.
First of all the idea was to have a house party kind of scene, this is because the song we have chosen to use 'No Tomorrow' by Orson is about raving and partying. So we have to use this kind of idea to keep in line with the lyrics of the song, they have to match otherwise it just won't look or sound right when compared.

I think this kind of image is the kind of thing we were thinking, people dancing, music playing and alcohol being consumed.
This kind of image would be good because its a typical party scene of a teenage house party. 
It also shows the typical 'making a fool of yourself' stuff that normally goes on at parties. 

But I suggested that it might be a good idea to make it different in the sense that we could make a video based around the party idea, but in the end it ends up that the band/artist were just imagining it all and that really they are just playing music on air guitar and pots and pans and singing into a hairbrush or bottle, this would put a twist onto the video and make it amusing to watch for the audience who would watch the music video because its funny instead of just downloading the track digitally and listening to it as an mp3 on their ipods, they would be more inclined to watch it. 
There could be a moment where the artist is crowd surfing as that is the kind of thing that happens at rock concerts or raves, like described in the lyrics of the song. 'Let's go to a rave and act like we're trippin' well in the video thats what they would be doing, raving and acting like idiots. 

So the artist will think they look like the men on the left, rocking out in front of loads of people, looking and feeling really cool, but really they'll look more like the man on the right, they'll look like complete tools, playing air guitar with a couple of their silly friends. 

 
And this will be the same thing, the drummer will think that they are cool and entertaining for everyone, yet they will really be playing the pots and pans in their lounge with a few friends.



The end of the video will most likely show them either walking out in shame and embarrassed, or one of their parents could walk in and look at them like what an earth are you doing? 

Song Choice

Today I looked at the song that will be the music video that I will be a part of making, we straight away came up with the song that we wanted to use which is 'No Tomorrow' by Orson. We chose this song because it is a song that we all know pretty well and it will hopefully be fun to be a part of making a video for this song. It didn't take too long to come across as it's a song that everyone knows when they hear it. 

This song was the final choice because a Rock song was the genre we chose, but we didn't want a rock song that was going to be too hard to film, I want it to look good and professional, and having a song that is really 'rocky' might mean that it has tonnes of different beats and things like that, this would mean that the editing would have to be absolutely spot on, and we didn't want to make it too hard on ourselves, so we chose a rock song that wasn't too fast but also a song that you know was rock when you hear it, this was a tough balance to come across. 
I think the song is fun and is memorable, so it shouldn't be too hard to remember the words to for whoever will be doing the lip synching for the video. This will be a good things because it means that the filming shouldn't be too hard to do, we will get the shots we need to get and then the editing will be the main part of the construction, even though the song isn't as fast as some other rock songs, it's still a fast song and therefore the editing will still have to look good and will have to match every part of what needs to be done. One bad thing or one thing that goes wrong could make the whole video look rubbish. 

Michel Maffesoli- Urban tribes

Michel Maffesoli 
He is a french sociologist, and he came up with a theory about target audience and it all comes down to groups of people that socialise with each other, he called this 'Urban Tribes' Urban tribes are smallish groups of people that have some kind of close association, this is normally based upon a similar lifestyle choice or activity they are involved in, this normally effects what music they listen to, how they act, what they wear, what films they watch etc. This theory is based on teenagers in urban areas because that's where you see most of the differences in groups and 'cliques'. These different groups normally have a whole media universe dedicated to them, certain films that only they tend to watch, certain words of lingo that they use, certain music artists or genres, clothing brands that they wear, everything is based upon the group that you belong to, here are some examples. 
He says that:

"urban tribes are microgroups of people who share common interests in urban areas. The members of these relatively small groups tend to have similar worldviews, dress styles and behavioral patterns. Their social interactions are largely informal and emotionally laden."

His theory in relation to music videos is all down to personal identity and that could cross over with Dennis Mcquials uses and gratifications theory, it can all boil down to how you and your identity fits into groups.

A Chav

A chav is normally someone who would live on a council estate, live in trackies and hang around on street corners causing trouble. A chav girl would normally be trending a hoodie and either trackies or a mini skirt, and not forgetting a buggy, because chavs are known for getting pregnant at a young age just to get a council flat for them, their child and their druggy boyfriend to get away from their parents, that no doubt didn't set a very good example. 

A chav boy would normally be found outside their local mcdonalds or hanging round in the town centre, sporting their trackies hanging just below their bum cheeks, and their baseball caps covering their faces, their pockets would probably be full of any 'loot'(stolen goods) they could get their hands on from the local 'offy'(off licence) and they normally hang around in larger groups to intimidate the local grannys. 

                                           Rappers

A rapper is someone who normally would listen to rap music obviously and would have hobbies such as breakdancing, some would skate and some would do graffiti, that is part of the 'rebellious' look they try and go for. They would wear big loose clothing including sweaters, caps, t-shirts, big trainers, earings, big blingy necklaces and would most of the time have tattoos, again to promote their 'rebellious' side.

     Punks

A punk would normally listen to punk music, or rock 'n' roll music, they try and act like they are against society, They would normally be styling Broken jeans, boots, broken bands, T-shirts, earings, tattoos and mohawk haircut.

          Gothics(Goths)

Normally goths would listen to goth music which is anything from hard metal to classical music! They might play rol games or believe in the devil, they would mainly be wearing black and chains, earings and dyed hair in general. They could be wearing eye liner or even 'guy liner'.

Indies
These type of people would normally listen to international pop rock music or indie rock, they would normally have hobbies like taking photographs and collecting old things, they would love the festival look, which would include expensive clothing, dresses and glasses mainly!

Heavies They would normally be middle aged men with beards and biker gear! You would see them out drinking beer playing the guitar or at a festival, they would be listening to heavy metal music and wearing jeans, leather jackets, chains with lots of piercings and normally would be sporting a band t-shirt.

Rah's
They generally emanate from good schooling and enjoy/aspire to flamboyant lifestyles that go alongside their loudly declared opinions. The artistocracy are covered in this Tribe but it also include the only relatively privileged; those attending grammar schools and more ordinary universities. The Jack Wills brand (self-defined as University Outfitters For The Fabulously British Lifestyle) is a sure-fire identifier Ugg boots also rule, as do year-round flip-flops for guys, rugby shirts, pastel colour and Ralph Lauren V-neck sweaters slung over shoulders. Big hair is important for boys and girls. One particular irritation among Rah haters is girl Rahs turning up for university lectures in what look like (and quite possibly are) pairs of pyjamas. Rahs of the more normal variety are also big festival goers – think mainstream indie like The Kooks and Razorlight. Indeed, the UK has a fine lineage of posh rock – Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, etc.

Trendies
These type of people would be the 'fashion statement' they would be seen as a fashion icon, everyone would copy their fashion sense. They would wear high street clothing such as river island, republic, topshop etc. They tend to listen to mainstream music that is in the charts and would almost be seen upon as the victims or modern society.



The above tribes are the main ones that would be known to many people, some might know of some, and some people might know them all and be able to spot one on the streets, they arn't particularly hard to spot!

Album Cover Deconstruction

Lady Gaga
This album cover is of Lady Gaga's The Fame album, she is a very out there kind of artist, everything is about her and she is the main thing to look for whether its in her music videos or at the music awards, the way she dresses is the main thing that people notice about her, so the way that this album cover has been made is almost strange because its just her face and nothing else amazing is really going on. The use of the sunglasses show that she's hiding behind them, almost meaning that in this album she's hiding behind her music, and the music is more important to her than anything else that is going on. The fact that its just her head though suggests that even though she wants it to be about her music, as the artist everything comes down to her. The way that half of her face is shadowed could mean that she wants to hide away in the shadows and let her music talk for her, hence why 'The Fame' is in the light and her face is being hidden away behind the shadowing and the glasses. Her body isn't in this cover, this could mean that she wants to strip away what everyone thinks of her, for being someone that people look at more for what she wears than for her music, she wants people to judge her on the music that she makes and not on what she wears. Her makeup is quite natural, this could mean that behind everything she is actually normal and like everybody else, minus the big glasses. However the fact that the sizing and the use of font of her name here is predominantly bigger than the album name goes against all of this because it just shows that once again it's all about her and her music comes second best, as the font and sizing used for the album name is a lot smaller than her name and at a quick glance you almost don't even see the album name.  

The Script
This album cover is by the script, the album name isn't what is normally a album name, this is more about it being their third album than trying to promote one single over the rest, the fact that its called #3 is showing that they are more proud of the fact that they have had the opportunity to bring out a third album full of songs that they knew people would love just as much as them.
The colours used here are all black and white, this suggests that they are simple and want to keep everything as simple as possible and about their music, this is also shown by the fact that their album name is larger than their band logo, this would show that even though they are promoting themselves by having an image of themselves and their band name etc on it, the album and they are all about their music, and that's what they predominantly care about, fame of themselves isn't as important as people liking their music. The amount of blank space on the cover and the fact that they are all looking in different directions into the blank space might suggest that they are looking into the future and there is still a lot to come from them, they are looking into bigger and brighter things. Also the way the image is arranged almost looks like a family tree would, this could suggest that they have all come together to make music, but in the end they have come this far, onto their third album stronger than ever, as family almost, and family stick together. The way that Danny's image is bigger than Mark and Glen's shows that event though they are like a family there is always one that seems to take over, but the other two don't mind because every band needs a front man. Overall this album cover shows that they are a simplistic band that over all think about their music and their love for it over anything else. 

Green day
This album cover doesn't really have a lot going on, the band or artist aren't on the front cover, which could mean that they want their music and what they stand for to talk for them and that's all that matters to them. The image of the heart grenade in someones hand could mean that they sing alot about love and the fact that love is like waiting for a grenade to go off, the breakdown of love or a relationship is like waiting for an unexpected grenade to be set off. The fact that someones holding it could suggest that someone has control of it, whether its you or the other person in the relationship, someone is in control of your heart, and they have a tight grip. The fact that the writing is all blocked and big and bold could suggest that they don't like to mess around on things they don't need too, they just like to get it done and over with, the sizing of the bands name is slightly bigger than the album name, this could mean that they want to promote themselves more than the album, but as the album name is only slightly smaller it wouldn't be a bad thing this would also be because of the fact that they aren't actually on the front cover, they have to promote themselves in some way. The colour use in the cover is pretty simple, just red, black and white, the red obviously symbolizes blood, this is shown because the heart is red, and hearts pump around the blood to your body, the fact that the album name is 'American Idiot' suggests that you are an idiot if you let your heart to be controlled like a grenade heart by someone else and American has been thrown in there to show that they are American and proud of it. 

The Black Keys - Frame by Frame remake

To get the shots we did we followed our shot list almost as we intended too, except we ended up having to shoot a few of the shots in the next few lessons as some of them didn't go as planned and/or weren't as good as expected. All of the shots of the girl were shot in lesson 2 of the filming process, this was because we needed to find a girl to be in it for us, as all of us were already in it at some point. Once we found a girl those shots didn't take long to film, this was good as it gave us more time editing it all together. 
The fighting scene was probably the hardest bits to edit because we shot those shots to make sure we had the bits we needed, which meant the shots were really long so we could have a choice between either a couple of shots or a long shot that we had to cut down, this was good though because in the end it looks good and we ended up having those shots done perfectly in order to get the rest done as we needed it to be. The fighting scene was also hard as we had alot of match-on-action that we had to get perfect or it wouldn't look good, this meant re-shooting a few of the shots over and over until we got the exact angle correct or the movement of the person exactly as we needed it to be to look like the video we are remaking. However once we got the match-on-action how we wanted it the rest of the editing seemed to flow as we had used certain things on Final Cut Pro that we hadn't used before to do the match-on-action sequences, so after that the rest of the editing didn't take as long because we knew what we were doing. 
As the hardest scene to edit, it was also the hardest scene to film because even though we kept on watching the original over and over so we knew what we had to do, it was still hard to get the angles we needed, and it was hard to get the exact parts that we needed, even though we filmed each part many times, it still seemed that we had parts missing or things that maybe didn't look correct even though everything was there and where it needed to be. 

I believe that I played a good role in the remaking of the music video, I believe this because I was in the video for a couple of shots but I also filmed quite alot of the shots, mainly the fighting scene, this meant that i had to get the angle right and had to re-film a few of them when they didn't look right.
When it came to editing I hadn't used the newer version of Final Cut Pro before, so I had a little bit of help getting the hang of it, but once I knew how to use the program I did quite alot of the editing, I think that doing this practical has let me find out more about how to make a music video look professional and also how to use Final Cut Pro properly.