Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Recreating Scenes Inspiration from War Poetry
This was done by me to assist the group and for inspiration in writing the script to try and figure out what we could write for narrative scenes within our music video. I researched old war poetry by Wilfred Owen who was a WWI war poet that was critical of the war, which is in tune with our own approach to war within our music video. I found his poetry very helpful in trying to formulate ideas to include within the music video although unfortunately not all of them were practical: a verse from 'Disabled' (before scrapping the flappers and dancing scenes of the stock footage) was useful in 'girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim' - 'now he will never feel again how slim/Girls' waists are, or how warm their subtle hands'. I highlighted the most helpful lines and annotated them with my ideas in boxes which can be seen above in scrolling through the document.
I found the poem 'Mental Cases' the most helpful for practical ideas. This was what gave the idea of the loud bang! startling the soldier and causing him to have a panic attack which can be read in the script with the lines: 'Always they must see these things and hear them/Batter of guns and shatter of flying muscles'. Also the scene where the soldier is waking up in the middle of night with nightmares looking and feeling disorientated with the lines: 'therefore still their eyeballs shrink tormented/Back into their brains'.
Monday, 10 October 2011
more free stock footage links
http://xstockvideo.com/?page_id=2&layout=search
http://vimeo.com/groups/freehd/videos
http://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm
http://vimeo.com/groups/freehd/videos
http://www.detonationfilms.com/free_stuff.htm
FILM PLANNING BY LAYERS SECOND DRAFT
This is a second draft of the layer plan for the music video but more detailed than the first with more ideas for the shots of nature we could film ourselves and possible stock footage to search for including nature: e.g. a low angle of the sunlight shining filtered through the trees leaves, a lens flare with the screen blurring out to a medium long shot of the band playing, a slow motion shot of someone blowing a dandelion, a direct shot of the sky above with birds flying across, and an empty children's playground.
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
2ND DRAFT SCRIPT
Second draft of script
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This is a second draft of the script with more ideas put in, particularly for the narrative. For example, ideas that weren't in there before were the transition from a christmas bauble on a tree the young sad sweetheart hung up zooming in then out to reveal a flying union jack, a scene with a few soldiers laughing with another sitting alone to the side looking at a photo of his girlfriend that he left back home who we just saw, a more detailed description of the opening scene of the camera's movement moving from the actor soldier to the sunny sky to the band and another scene where a soldier stands alongside his friend who's dying and coughing blood into a handkerchief. There's also more directly correlating scripted visuals to the lyrics, in terms of the children playing alongside 'my pale schoolyard chums', 'no summer blooms marked friends of mine' coinciding with a flower growing through a pavement crack and preceding the dying soldier and so on.
2ND DRAFT TREATMENT
Our video is going to be performance and concept.
Throughout the video we’re going to have footage of the band-playing cut with several other images of a variety of things. We want one of our layers to be old images/footage from world war one, as that is what the song is primarily about. However we want the rest of the layers to link to the idea of ‘postcode wars’. The song talks about defending your country/land and being proud of where you come from. We thought we could link this to postcode wars as its modern and would be far easier for our target audience to relate to.
As the front man sings about ‘my friends and I wave goodbye as our ship leaves England home’ we want to have black and white footage of a ship leaving harbour in WW1, however when he sings ‘i see my friends along the line, many fine young men’ we want to have a crabbing shot of two ‘gangs’ standing either side of a road/estate/park completely still, ready to fight.
We’re going to have the band in a empty room or field to reflect the sad tone of the song, we’re going to have a variety of camera shots, from medium long shots to extreme close ups, as is common in folk videos. The close ups will emphasize the lack of expression on the band members faces, reinforcing the sad tone of the video.
Towards the end as the song gets more dramatic we want the cutting pace to increase to keep up with the music and reinforce the increased intensity of the song. We’ll have images quickly flashing up, for example a picture of a road sing with the postcode on, or newspaper headlines about postcode wars, as well as old images from WW1/soldiers.
(By Catriona)
Throughout the video we’re going to have footage of the band-playing cut with several other images of a variety of things. We want one of our layers to be old images/footage from world war one, as that is what the song is primarily about. However we want the rest of the layers to link to the idea of ‘postcode wars’. The song talks about defending your country/land and being proud of where you come from. We thought we could link this to postcode wars as its modern and would be far easier for our target audience to relate to.
As the front man sings about ‘my friends and I wave goodbye as our ship leaves England home’ we want to have black and white footage of a ship leaving harbour in WW1, however when he sings ‘i see my friends along the line, many fine young men’ we want to have a crabbing shot of two ‘gangs’ standing either side of a road/estate/park completely still, ready to fight.
We’re going to have the band in a empty room or field to reflect the sad tone of the song, we’re going to have a variety of camera shots, from medium long shots to extreme close ups, as is common in folk videos. The close ups will emphasize the lack of expression on the band members faces, reinforcing the sad tone of the video.
Towards the end as the song gets more dramatic we want the cutting pace to increase to keep up with the music and reinforce the increased intensity of the song. We’ll have images quickly flashing up, for example a picture of a road sing with the postcode on, or newspaper headlines about postcode wars, as well as old images from WW1/soldiers.
(By Catriona)
FILMING PLANNING - BY LAYERS
I wrote this in order to assist/speed up the scriptwriting process, along with contributions from the other members of my group. This was an early draft of a layer plan for the music video, just deciding what layers we wanted and of what with the group. I structured it in terms of the different layers we planned to include within our music video, and we began to include our ideas with what type of angle and shot we wanted of the different type of layer. From this it was thought it would be easier to copy and paste it into the script and flesh it out on the script a little bit more.
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