Music Video and myspace

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/boyinterrupted430

Here is the link to both our videos.....

Boy Interrupted- I Kissed a Boy
Max and Mike:



Liam and Matt:

myspace

username: a02litho
password: room430
URL: www.myspace.com/boyinterrupted430

Editing

Now that we have hours of footage i think we're going to do a full edit with the 3 different performance styles on seperate video tracks. Then we can easily pick and choose which shots we like and begin to finish our edit. Always better to have more footage than needed than less footage i think!

Test shoot good things

Some good things from the test shoot we should try to recreate next weekend:
First shot - have the shot quite close in to begin with (MCU) and keep it in the corner. Possibly have this shot as a high angle as well to connote the vunerability of the character
Master Shot (performance) - lower angle and tighter framing. In the test we liked how close the lights appeared in the shot. We also like the way I move in really close to the camera and have my eyes filling up quite a lot of the frame.
Liam on knees - We liked it alot when i went on my knees and still adressed the camera in a distressed way. We think we should shoot this seperately in order to focus on it and get it just right!
Low level (camera on floor) - place the camera slightly higher, on a book or something, so that when i bend down my eyes are near the centre of the frame

Baseball bat

At the moment we think that the main character in the video should be very violent and destructive, and we think his weapon of choice should be a baseball bat. We think he should use this as a prop throughout, smashing up the room as well as glass bottles and possibly even cars outside on the street.

Let's

Get a baseball bat and film me destorying coffee tables and hitting books and possibly even a car
We also thought we should get some sugar glass in the shape of a bottle and smash that as it would reflect the troubled mind of the main character aswell as showing his inner turmoil and violent tendancies.

Also we think we should make it look as if I am naked with really tight shots of my thighs and lower stomach.

Logo

Was just mucking about on Paint Shop Pro and knocked up a quick band logo for HRH idea. Was wondering what everyone thought. The distorted font and the black on the white make it distinctive, whilst it is still pretty ambigious as to what HRH stands for and if they are actually a band, which would help create audience interest. Tell me what you think!

Writing on the Screen?

What's everyone's thoughts about writing on the screen?
see my post here and post some thoughts either as comments or on the group blog!
http://latymermusicvideo08liam.blogspot.com/2008/09/writing-on-screen.html

Style of music video

This video gave alot of inspiration in terms of style to me and matt and i wanted you guys to see what it looks like.
We like the way that the performance is in a more mellow style, almost black and white, compared to the brighter colours featured during parts of the narrative. Furthermore we like the performance of the singer in terms of his emotion and his interaction with the camera.

Psycho Image

The main guy in our music video will have a deluded aura about him. We think that he will be jealous of the other guy in the video, because he has stolen the girl from our protagonist.

We want him to be completely obsessed with revenge and give him a very emo look.

Inspiration for this idea:

Memento - the way the main character writers phrases on himself with tattoos to remember things. This is a very interesting and powerful image and will reflect the character's fixation.

Paramore Riot Album cover - I like the style of this cover as it shows emotion through quite a visual image and reflects the compulsion of the character. The random nature of both the font and where the words are written also depict the mindset of the character as being confused well.

Liam

IDEA FINAL

I Kissed A Boy - Cobra Starship

A copy of Katy Perry's song with several similar shots - i.e. Guys having a pillow fight (bedroom = master shot)
Have the guy as an obsessive psycho with revenge in mind - think of his look/image and the style of his bedroom

Action Plan

• think of scenarios
• timeline with song with lyrics - split into several sections
• start creating the image for the main guy
• do a music video analysis of Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl and possibly use the structure
• revise representation of women/men and scopophilia and voyeurism

LIAM

Move It Move It idea

• everyone wakes up, the wind styles one of the chartacters hair, whilst another takes the pillow off his head and he has a mohawk.
• one of the characters, wearing a pair of old fashioned pilot's goggles gets on a large bike, which miraculously turns into a small pink child's bike with stabilisers. This bike then fall apart as the guy is riding it, and he throws it over a wall in disgust.
• there is a paperboy cycling along with his bag of papers, he throws one of them, and one of the boyband runs up and catches it in his mouth like a dog (shot in slow-mo)
• one of the characters is dressed like a powerwalker(see left). He looks at his watch, which has been drawn on, and sees a unhappy face instead of a regular clockface. Then we see how slow he is walking, when an old granny overtakes him, followed by a person in a snail suit also crawling past him.
• A woman is being mugged, one of the band members sees this and takes out a can of spinnach. he eats it in a similar way to popeye and goes and beats up the mugger, saving the day for everyone.
• Two of the characters are in a car riding along side a milkfloat.the pasanger reaches across and steals a pint of milk. He then pours it into a box of crunchy nut and eats it
• As one of the characters runs past a church, gospel singers start singing and clapping along to the song
• We see a marathon running rnning along and then reaching for a cup of water placed on a table near the side of the road. He drinks some of the water and then pours the rest over himself to cool down. The band member is then running along and instead of reaching for the water like we expect, he reaches for a bucket of kfc and then pours it over himself.

Liam and MATT

initial ideas

Synchronised swimming - matt and his friend in swimming hats and speedos doing a hilarious dance routine in the pool (Liam)


Shaft - Austin Powers esque tryin to be cool but hitting people in face and making a tit of himself etc. (Mike)


Supermarket - people dancing in the isles after hours. E.g. - fat person next to the rolls, hench person next to the beef etc. (Matt)


Bicycle - RUDEBOIS

Flight of the Conchords - inner city pressure - really serious video





5ive - track fillers - hands doing matt's hair

holiday dates

LIAM:
right im not going anywhere until 18th august heheh

MATT:
not sure (i doubt) whether i am yet, will keep u posted as soon as possible.

MIKE: (hurry with ur responses please!) lol

MAX: yh im off to croatia on friday till the 8th august.... : )

ok so five might not be happening....

right guys over the weekend find losts of tracks, any ideas just post and we'll ytalk on monday about em
also we need to meet at somepoint!!!!! decisions before summer!!!
find ways of communicating in summer!

Treatment!!!!

Band Name - North Circ

Members
Kieron - enrique lookalike
Reece - skinhead, bad boy?
Jamie (RJ) - Beach boy - bleach blonde?

General idea for video-
Waking up late for performance, characters trying to get changed whilst running down the busy streets (markets?) - tracking shots from the side of running, closeups for lipsynching

switching characters as they go past walls (see Roll Deep - When I'm 'Ere)

Grab food and hair products from people and stools and apply them on the way. Throw apple away and have a cutaway of apple in bin (slow mo?) have shots of runing in puddles and sliding over car bonnets.
- throw apple away + step in puddle - slow mo? slide over matt's saxo bonnet deodarant

Audience -
Girls 1st
Young boys - idolisation 1st
Gays - 2nd
Old women 2nd
Parents - good role model for kids 3rd

Girls - they like to read magazines such as the now defunct SmashHits! now probably more into heat and now. Therefore we would do lots of interviews and competitions with these magazines. Appearances on Saturday morning shows on channels like CBBC and CITV.
They will buy lots of merchandise and as they will still be at school we could make pencil cases and accessories such as wristbands and fake tattoos.

OR

Beach!!!!

Brighton - gay icons

Bournemouth - sand

Why 5ive?

We thought that the '5ive' track 'Keep on Moving' was suitable for us because not only dfo we like the genre, we also found it practical as we are a group full of boys! We also felt that the Busted experience was extremely useful as well as fun, and we decided that a focus on performance rather than predominantly narrative; the lip synching and dance moves we felt would challenge us but ultimately create an effective pop music video

Track Treatment... 5ive - Keep on Movin'

(track)youtube.com/watch?v=6qSxnDe0FbI

Stree location similar to Lilly Allen - LDN
Saturation of colours similar to this video.





Idea referenced and themed along a do good narrative similar to the Coke advert of GTA.








Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Running sequence, use of the shots ie running down stairs, jumping over obstacles, slow mo





Roll Deep - When I'm 'ere
use the changing of characters when going past poles / gettin out of lift for example





Similar!!





Possible Costume