Band Image

We have looked at other female, indie artists such as Lorde, Lynsey and Hayley Williams to look at their image.

Indie artists are known for their individual style therefore there isn't a conventional image that these artists have. However, both Lorde and Lynsey both wear black/dull clothing therefore we decided to stick with this theme especially as our song and music video is quite melancholic. 

Therefore we decided to put our 'star' in a long black coat and Dr Marten boots. 

We thought an all black outfit would create an edgy look while still creating a conventional indie style that our audience could relate to. 

Band Brand

Our song choice of  PVRIS - White Noise fits into the indie rock genre which carries conventions of alternative image which we wanted to continue into our own music video. 

We have tried to come up with band names by using a wordle system passing a piece of paper round the group which each of us write a word attempting to create a weird sentence that we could gain inspiration from. 

Furthermore, we also tried coming up with song names by looking at our past ideas and making them personal to our journey. After we ran out of these we turned to MAC make-up lipstick names for inspiration as they are usually quite unusual. 

We came up with a few that may or may not make it on to the album. 

1)Indecisive 

2) The Chill 

3) Liverpool St. 

4) 1997

5) Broken Glass 

6) Stripped Down

7) Fiction 

8) Opium 

9) Mr. 

10) Bait

11) Euphoria 

12) Wanderlust

13) Salted Wounds

We are still undecided on our actual song name and band name however we thought of maybe the being called 'The Sound' and the song being called 'Static' but these are just a few rough ideas we came up with. 

Filming Day One

We decided to make the most of our study periods and film a few parts of the performance scenes. We wanted to use our school drama studio and have the artist singing into a mic as if singing to an audience however when setting up this shot in many different ways we didn't think it looked effective and unlike something that would appear in a music video. Instead, we decided to use a spotlight and have the room darkened with the light beaming on the artist while singing. We thought this would look much more aesthetically pleasing and also adds to the melancholic feel of our video as well as relating to the lyrics.

Here are some still shots of us setting up and trying different angles.

Animatic of Storyboard

Beginning to Storyboard

We have begun story boarding and have got about a minute of our 3 minute song so far. It is taking much longer than we expected and proving to be much more difficult to think of every single shot type. It is likely that the final product won't look exactly like the story board however i think it's really important to have a guide line of what we want to produce: as this will make filming much easier and more efficient.

Treatment Pitch (2)

As we changed our idea we thought it would be a good idea to do another treatment pitch to get there thoughts on the idea. It was all positive feedback therefore we are positive with moving forward with it and putting in our all. 

Getting the Ball Rolling

We feel quite deflated about our lack of inspiration so I decided to set the ball rolling and coming up with my own plan and concept alone and see what the others thought about it in hope that this would spark some ideas.

So firstly, as we all liked the mental idea i thought it was best for my ideas to stem from this. 

While listening to the song i thought about where the protagonists craziness could stem from. She is directed the song to someone in particular which is shown through the pronoun 'you' as she is 'screaming for you' i thought this was maybe a cry for help. 

Going from this i then decided that maybe she was in a bad relationship but then came to the realisation that going to an all girls school finding a male character would be quite tricky. 

After this i thought maybe she was being bullied?  So i went with this idea and started to story board while listening to the song which i found helped me to envision what was happening much better. 

 

Here are my rough story boards- 

1) So first i thought we could have an ECU of the protaganists eye which zooms out to an empty room which would end up being a 'room in her head' with her sitting in the centre with cuts and bandages on her. 

2) Then i thought there could be a flashback to her at school in a classroom with the whole class laughing at her (wide shot) and then an ariel shot of her with everyone throwing things at her. 

3) Then there would be a flicker of her sitting in the classroom alone and her being really sad (lip syncing) 

4) Go back to this room in her head. With nurses trying to give her medicine or an injection or something and she is restisting. It would then black out leading to the next flashback. 

5) The next flashback would be at a park. We would have shots of her swinging on a swing and flickers of an empty swing swinging and a roundabout going around by itself creating a really eery atmosphere.  The same girls then appear bullying her again showing that she has no escape from them. 

6) Go back to the room again. I thought it would look really effective to have a time lapse of the girl doing crazy things such as swaying in the corner or looking dead pan into the camera or scratching at the walls along with other things. Then the end shot will be her screaming maybe? and then collapses again leading to the next and last flashback. 

7) she is being chased by these bullying girls and she is looking back to no one being there and then shes corned under a bridge and they begin fighting or something like that. 

8) The last scene would be back in the room and I thought maybe throughout each flashback she will be adding to a drawing. Then the nurses in this room- show her this drawing she's made and she gets frightened and then they take of their nurses masks and reveal that they are the bullies.

The end. 

There would also be lip syncing in between to create a more performance element rather than just a film with music over the top.