Production schedule changes

Due to unforeseen circumstances which we could not avoid our filming has had to be delayed by a week till the 5th of December. This will affect our editing dates, but we are going to try and finish it as soon as possible.

To this end, we are eliminating the Adobe Premiere Pro rough cut, and will instead go straight to Final Cut to edit the video. Thanks to the non-linear nature of the software, this won't affect our quality as we can simply have a live rough cut in Final Cut and make any additional modifications from there.

Lab Records

Lab records began as a Blackpool based promotions company in 2006, after working with some of the bands from the Blackpool scene they formed a record company. After the first release in 2007 it quickly began to sign rising bands from the North of the UK.

The Blackpool scene can be identified with other seaside towns scenes (such as Brighton-home town of The Auteur) with feelings of isolation and desolation. The themes often include 'Getting out of this town', or the melancholy of the cities. Where the city becomes like a prison to the artists or the youth from the area. Lab is an independent label and represents some rising bands, in the rock or pop genres.


In May 2009, Lab Records moved to Salford, the city responsible for bands such as Joy Division or the influential Factory Records. Manchester is famous for the 'Madchester' scene of the late 80's and early 90's, and is also famous for musical successes such as Oasis, Stone Roses, and The Smiths who have had a huge influence on the 'emo' scene, which derives the emotional, intelligent lyrics from Morrisey, who wrote about desolation and isolation. Videos by The Smiths are known for featuring close and personal live performances, with the camera close to the musicians, and the fans are always featured. In our video we will use similar themes of the close shots and movement to create a feel of seeing the band live.


This will link to our video as we will use other videos to influence the composition etc. The idea of a narrative based video with clips of performance is often used in rock and pop genres. The narrative will feature a mostly implied story, without much speech, and with the performance scenes becoming part of the narrative, as well as being intertwined with narrative elsewhere. The narrative is based mainly on the lyrics, we have used a vignette effect to make it seem darker and moodier. This is influenced by bands such as The Smiths who used similar effects in most of their promotional photos, as shown in the above photo of Morrissey.


Bands they have signed:

• The Auteur
• The Morning Of
• Mimi Soya
  
• Lost On Campus
• He Is Legend
• Adelaide
• Eat Sleep Attack
• Pegasus Bridge
• Lost On Landing

• Blitz Kids

History of The Auteur

The Auteur are a pop-punk/alternative band who formed in 2007 members of Brighton based screamo band 'Go&Comeback' (who were previously known as 'Angels Cry' and were active from 2005 till 2007), who had previously released an EP and toured Europe. The Auteur have toured the UK and have released their own EP ('Nightcap' in 2009) The first single is 'Hey! Watch This'. In 2008 they signed to Lab Records, an Indie label.

The Auteur are made up of:

• Alex Rumble-Guitar and Vocals




• Julian Bowen-Drums




• Kerry Williams-Bass




• Kev Deverick-Guitar

The effect of the internet on the music industry and music video

Over the past ten years the internet has revolutionised many aspects of modern life. The music industry and music video specifically have grown due to the internet. Bands often run a website as well as many profiles on sites such as MySpace, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube and PureVolume among others. Since the start of MySpace in 2003 small bands have been able to reach fans from across the globe. Websites often contain tour dates, merchandise, and things such as forums where fans can communicate with each other. Fans can also joling mailing lists where they will receive a blanket email fom the band each month which often gives them access to tickets/merch before general release. The average bands MySpace contains links to buy their music and merchandise, sample clips from songs, links to videos and other sites they run. Since 2006 Sites such as Twitter have hosted band pages, where the band can tell their fans what they are doing and give them updates.

Youtube has had the biggest effect on music videos. Bands often set up accounts so they can share music videos, live videos as well as video blogs or behind the scenes footage. Due to copyright laws private users can not upload bands music videos, but bands who wish to keep in touch with their audience often run their own account.

The main effect the internet has had on the music industry is the level of communication between bands and the fans. Fans can add the band as 'friends', or 'follow' them, and this is a great promotional tool for the band, as well as a great way to connect with the fans and make new fans. Before the internet small bands had to tour the whole country just to get a name for themselves. With the internet bands can send their music around the world with the click of a button. Before the internet the only way fans could stay in touch was to join fan clubs, which were often indirect and created by the record label rather than the band.

The Auteur's MySpace- www.myspace.com/theauteuruk

Production dates

• Filming: Sunday the 22nd November at 10AM in Yaxley
• Rough cut: week beginning 23rd November (in both lessons, Tuesday and Thursday)
• Final cut: week beginning the 30th November (in both lessons, Wednesday and Thursday, and outside lessons)
• Final cut may spill over into the final week of term

Location photos

Here are some shots of the location we are using for the narrative scene. The candles in the second picture will be used to create a romantic mood during the first scene when the singer and the girl are shown to be a couple. The window is used to show the girl and her new boyfriend and how the singer is watching them from inside his house. The sofas will also be used during the first scenes, again when the singer and the girl are a couple.

Shooting Date

We have decided to begin shooting on Sunday 22nd November from 10AM, because this is a day when all actors/etc are free. From this we can now complete the shooting script.

Equipment & Resources

We will be shooting the video masters in QuickTime h.264 720p on a Sanyo Xacti 700HD camcorder, which records directly to SD card. This will allow us to easily transfer the files to computers for editing and keep file sizes down, enabling easy portability of the videos on Flash Drives etc. whilst still maintaining a high quality of video.

Our rough cut will be done in Adobe Premier on a Dell PC in order to give us a general idea of how the video looks & how the timings match up between the song and the footage. This rough cut will be used as a basis for the final cut, which will include more advanced transitions, effects & so on as well as more fine tuned cuts etc.

The final cut will be made in Final Cut Express 4 on a 15" Unibody MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. This will give us industry-standard editing quality and truly professional effects as well as export options. The MacBook's hardware will enable speedy render times, which will make the creation & export procedure faster & simpler.

Character Info

Lead Singer

Has been in a relationship with his girlfriend for some time, and thinks things are going pretty well. Spends a lot of time with his bandmates, wasting time. In fact, he even has them over when he is supposed to be spending time alone with his girlfriend. The band members have known each other for years and feel like the band is their family, which means they are extremely fond of each other. They are so close that the Lead Singer does not consider it unusual for them to be around all the time, even when there is no need.

When she breaks up with him over this issue, he is shocked and devastated. His feelings of depression and betrayal are only magnified when he sees her kissing her new boyfriend through the window. He throws himself back into band stuff to try and take his mind off her, but he still winds up angry and frustrated.

The Girl

Despite having stuck with her boyfriend for quite a while, she is incredibly frustrated with the way he constantly has his bandmates around. Their presence is so constant and invasive that she begins to feel like they are more important to him than her - certainly she knows he would never tell them to leave if she asked. Unknown to him, she has just about had enough of the relationship and has met another guy, who she feels appreciates her more than he does.

Finally, she breaks off the relationship with the singer and begins a new one with the other guy. Just as she thought, he has more time for her and is utterly devoted. She is much happier with him, and quickly begins to forget about her ex.

The Other Guy

A new face in town, the other guy takes an instant liking to the girl and begins courting her straight away, regardless of the fact she is in a relationship. She responds immediately and he knows she likes him. He becomes aware, through talking to her, of her frustrations with her present boyfriend and knows it is only a matter of time before she leaves him.

He is not a mean-spirited guy, but he likes the girl so much that all he cares about is being there for her and that she is happy. He does not realise how distraught the break up has made the singer, and never finds out.

New Mood Board

Shooting Script

You can see our shooting script (Based on our original shooting plans) here. The printed copy was updated to reflect changes we had to make due to cast availability, time constraints, etc.

Animatic

This is the Animatic to our video. I have taken Amy's illustrations from the storyboard and, with discussions between all three of us, edited them together with the song to show how we plan on timing the shots.

Script

This is the final (Last revision 2/12/2009) Story Script we are using for our video. It guides us in terms of the narrative and will feed into the shooting script and the second (More detailed) Storyboard and Animatic.

Download here

Storyboard

This is our new storyboard, as drawn by Amy Neumann.

Mise-en-scene

Props:

• Instruments - Guitar, Mic, Bass, Drums
• Clothes
• Telephone
• Photo frame
• Chair
• Candles

Locations:

• House
• Street (seen through a window)
• Field - Yaxley Ground

Cast:

• Lead Singer - Lewis
• Drummer - Max
• Bass - Andrew
• Guitar - Sophie
• Girl - Amy
• New BF - Sam

Costumes:

• Lewis - EMO! Skinny jeans, cardi x2, coat
• Max- Jeans and dark t-shirt
• Andrew - Jeans and dark t-shirt
• Sophie - Leggins / Skinny Jeans and dark t-shirt
• Amy- Nice dress, casual x2
• Sam- Casual

The cast is made up of family members and friends. The 'costume' is stereotypically 'emo' style as worn by the band/fans of this music genre.

New Mood Board

This mood board shows the emotions and feelings told in the song. Jealousy, Love, Break-Up and Upset are the images on this board.
The song is about a break- up and the lead singer's jealously for his ex's new bf.

Hey Watch This lyrics

I saw a broken reflection
A mirror with your face in
I saw a broken reflection
A mirror with your face in
Something's wrong
We've built this up
We built this up
Now we've seen this fall down faster before now
Your lips on mine won't stay
We'll never get this close now
In his arms you'll be
So place your hands to where I cannot see them
Don't breathe your words to me
I'm sick of worthless excuses
I'm sick of the way you speak
Lets pick this up
And remind ourselves that it's over
I guess this is my farewell
Your lips on mine won't stay
We'll never get this close now
In his arms you'll be
So place your hands to where I cannot see them
Don't breathe your words to me
I saw a broken reflection
A mirror with your face in
Let's pick this up
And remind ourselves that its over
I guess this is my farewell
I saw a broken reflection
A mirror with your face in
Let's pick this up
And remind ourselves that its over
I guess this is my farewell
Your lips on mine won't stay
We'll never get this close now
In his arms you'll be
So place your hands to where I cannot see them

Song Change

Due to the amount of work and the budget required to pull off a music video to the correct standard, it simply isn't possible for us to achieve.

The Michael Jackson/Fall Out Boy song idea, seemed good at the time, but now we are on our way into the planning process, we can see how many complications and issues there are.

We have therefore chosen a new song: 'Hey watch this' by The Auteur. They are of a similar genre to Fall Out Boy as so we do not need to change much when it comes to genre, mise-en-scene or mood boards.

This video will be narrative based with the band acting as characters. We will try to add in a few scenes of performance, because that is what the type of genre expects.