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Song and lyrics.

Song and Lyrics.

So the song we are doing for our music video is by a local Progressive Rock band called Against the Tide. The song is called "I Wont Die For You." We chose this song over others as it had clear lyrics which was easy to understand. This is important as we can get a clear idea of what story we can put in our video to match the lyrics. The song type was the particular genre we were looking for. We were aiming for heavy metal/ rock and the song gave us what we were looking for. It also has a divined rhythm. We also know the band members so it was easy to get permission from them.

Here are the lyrics for the entire song...

You keep telling me that I am still confused
But I guess that's better than being abused
Fall asleep and fall inside a dream x2
Won't you look me in the eyes
Tell me why I have to die for you
Because I've been waiting for you
And all you did was stare through me

You keep telling me that I am still a tool
I might be many things but at least I'm not a fool
Fall asleep and fall inside a dream x2
Won't you look me in the eyes
Tell me why I have to die for you
Because I've been waiting for you
And all you did was stare through me

Won't you look me in the eyes
I don't see why I should have to die for you
Because I have waited for you
And all you did was stare

Won't you look me in the eyes
Tell me why I have to die for you
Because I've been waiting for you
And all you did was stare through me

Posted by Scott

Snow White's Poison Bite- "So Cinderella"- Music Video Analysis

Snow White - Music video analysis:

-Solely performance based.

-Uses green screening.

-The band are dressed in a stereotypical way for a metal band.

-Use of lighting- both darkness and the light.

-Lots of action shots of the band- when they play the guitar/sing.

-Band are not shown performing in front of an audience but alone.

-Lots of movement by the band- headbanging/jumping around.

-Focuses solely on the band instead of a storyline which could have been employed with the overall feel and narrative of the song.

-The band are dressed all in red- connotations.

-Camera focuses a lot on the lead vocalist.

-Camera switches a lot depending on who's singing/playing a key part of the song.

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We have a song!

Our Song:
After having waited two weeks for a response from Pierce the Veil we have given up, instead we have got a song from a local band instead. Our Media prof. insists that we wont need to ask the band as they are friends of his, so thumbs up to that! The song is also the type of genre we are looking for. We also liked the song which is a huge bonus!
Here it is

Against The Tide - I Won't Die For You 

In addition we have spoken to a member of this band, they are allowing us to use the song and we will soon be posting an official document to display this.

Posted by Hayden and Scott

Mood Board

Moodboard:

This is a mood board that contains a selection of images that inspire our style of music. It is a dark and gothic theme. It displays the type of music we are looking for. The storyboard contains a few bands we like. The storyboard shows horror and the type of image these bands show, in addition this demonstrates the genre of song we are looking for.

Posted and storyboard by Scott

The Green Screen results!

Green screening:
As you may know we have done a green screen practice yesterday, the results are a little bit of but overall we are happy with how everything worked out.
Here are the images from the practice.

 As you may be able to see, some of our equipment was a little temperamental, for the green screen's stand we had to use some tape to hold it together.
This problem, however, was very easy and fast to fix so overall we are not massively worried about setting it up when we are doing our final shots.

 A problem that we did encounter was using the computer programs. Editing the green screen out of the video was easy enough but replacing the background with another proved more difficult than we had anticipated. We ended up having to consoling with YouTube for help with the programs.






This is Rob, he was just a backup dancer.
Big thanks to Rob!!!

Posted by Hayden

Green screen practice.

Green Screening:
Ahead of filming for that final piece we want to get lots of practice in. Making sure we know how to use the equipment could mean the difference between success and failure.
 With this in mind today are going to be doing a green screen practice, we will hopefully be using a green screen for our final piece. As we have never used a green screen before, or even been set one up, we feel it purposeful to give it ago ahead of date.
   We will film onto the green screen and then edit it using Adobe After Effects CS5.5. as this is the best program that we have at our disposal.
Below are some pictures of our group getting the green screen out, we soon realised that it needed to be ironed or left to get less creased!

 In addition we noticed that it is very large compared to what we thought it would be!


This post is by Hayden...