SR: Practice Video: Throne

After having decided to do a new track, "Throne", Kristian and I did a practice shoot with the new band members to check the location, mise-en-scene of costumes and instruments, tattoos etc. We thought it would be a good idea to try out, so that we knew exactly what to do on the day of the "real" shoot. Some main points we picked up on included:

• Our lead guitarist had glasses on to see if it would look better with or without, however after a while we decided he should not wear any glasses, since it looked better and also fits the genre more. 
• The costume of our keyboarder was to similar to the costume of our leadsinger (T-Shirt, Jacket) and therefore we decided to give him a similar look to the keyboarder and guitarist from the official BMTH band
• Another thing we did was position the music equipment (e.g. amps) a bit differently compared to the practice video 
• During the practice video, we used two different types of cameras: SONY A58 and Kristian's camera, which is a CANON EOS 70D. After having looked at the footage in Final Cut Pro, we quickly realised that there was a difference in quality between the two cameras and therefore we decided to use the canon camera on the "real" shoot, since the footage was better quality
• We also brought a GoPro to the "real" shoot compared to the practice shoot to film some extreme-close-up footage of the guitar's

Below you can find some footage of the different costume of the keyboarder and the differences in glasses with and without. 

PRACTICE MUSIC VIDEO #6 What I learnt

Having done the practice music video I learnt a few things:

• Time management ( If we where organised we would have had a better plan of what shots to use)
• Shot Variety (We needed a lot more shots)
• Shot length (Due to bad planning and not a lot of shots the shots where very long)   
• Costume planning (Links in to time management but we didn't have the wright costume)
• No Storyboard (We didn't have a storyboard or a clear shots list)

PRACTICE MUSIC VIDEO #5 Final

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Due to the problems with scheduling and so on we didn't have enough shots of the main actor that we wanted so I had to step in. This meant that the costume wasn't exactly what we had originally planed. The narrative wasn't what we had planned either so we created a new narrative the day before the shoot. We decided not to use any of the footage we had previously filmed as we though the change of actor would not look right.

For the first shoot I filmed most the shots but the second shoot Jon did most the filming as I was the main actor. Jon was also the one who edited the clip together.

PRACTICE MUSIC VIDEO #4 Change of plans

As we have had some delaying issues we have had to make some decisions to get the filming done as soon as possible. As the deadline is this Friday (30th Sep), we have planned to do the filming we need to to the 2 media lessons on Wednesday (28th Sep). This will mean we have 1 or 2 days to edit. To get this done we have had to change the main actor to me and change some of the scenes as the class room we had originally planed to use isn't available any more.

PRACTICE MUSIC VIDEO #3 (Shot by Shot list)

1:Low angle of shoes running in the hallway, then you see a second pair of shoes running.
2: Medium shot of legs running in hallway
3: Long shot of Elvis running through a door
4: Medium shot of Elvis hiding behind the door
5: Long shot of the auditorium. Elvis walks up on stage.
6:Medium shot of Elvis holding the microphone. The music starts to play and and Elvis starts to sing. "The warden threw a party in the county jail"
7: Cuts to a low angle shot looking up at Elvis. "The Prison Band was there and they began to wail"
8: Medium shot of Elvis's back while he is dancing
9: Chorus starts. Over the shoulder of teacher walking through the door.
10: Long shot Elvis jumps of stage and runs out the door the teacher follows
11: Rats eye view of Elvis running down the corridor. with teacher wright behind.
12: Medium shot of Elvis running through a door.
13: Cuts to a medium shot of Elvis looking up.
14: A POV of Elvis looking up at a class working. The class looks up at him and start to dance.
15: Camera moves around the room to the intercoms and the camera moves into the intercom.
16: Camera moves out of the comes to another class room of 2 students dancing.
17: Cuts to a tracking shot of students dancing in rooms.
18: Elvis in a class room teacher walking in.
19: Teacher and Elvis run around table.
20: Another running scene
21: Elvis running out of school.
22: Fades to black.
23: Credits.

PRACTICE MUSCI VIDEO #2

We have decided for this practice shoot that Elvis will be the one in the original "jail" costume and every one else will be in student costumes.

The video will include Elvis running from a teacher to find himself on stage. He picks up a microphone and the track starts, as he is singing the teacher enters the room and a chase sequence happens. Elvis runs into a class room to hide, he sees a lesson is happening and everyone stops working and starts to dance. The teacher enters the room again and Elvis runs out the door. When the instrumentals are playing you see shots of students playing music. The chase continues and the video ends with Elvis having left school.


"Jailhouse Rock"

The warden threw a party in the county jail.
The prison band was there and they began to wail.
The band was jumpin' and the joint began to swing.
You should've heard those knocked out jailbirds sing.

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone,
Little Joe was blowin' on the slide trombone.
The drummer boy from Illinois went crash, boom, bang,
The whole rhythm section was the Purple Gang.

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

Number forty-seven said to number three:
"You're the cutest jailbird I ever did see.
I sure would be delighted with your company,
Come on and do the Jailhouse Rock with me."

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

The sad sack was a sittin' on a block of stone
Way over in the corner weepin' all alone.
The warden said, "Hey, buddy, don't you be no square.
If you can't find a partner use a wooden chair."

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.

Shifty Henry said to Bugs, "For Heaven's sake,
No one's lookin', now's our chance to make a break."
Bugsy turned to Shifty and he said, "Nix nix,
I wanna stick around a while and get my kicks."

Let's rock, everybody, let's rock.
Everybody in the whole cell block
Was dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock.
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock
Dancin' to the Jailhouse Rock...

This is what our costume looked like for Elvis. We tried to get the costume as close to the Jailhouse rock costume. The costume consists of shiny shoes, black jeans, a black jeans jacket. We had hoped to find a black and white striped T-shirt but we didn't find one in time so we ended up using a blank white T-shirt. We also tried to have the hair look like Elvis's. 

PRACTICE MUSIC VIDEO #1 (Track)

We have been assigned to create a music video for a track of our choice. Jon and I have decided to create the music video on Elvis - Jailhouse rock. This practice music video is to get us ready for the final music video.



In this practice music video we hope to learn what needs to be done before, during, and after the music video. As the filming has to be done in just a week we have decided to film in school, the school will also be portrayed as the jail.