Music video (Final Cut)

It's finally done. We decided against effects in the end as they often look tacky but the lighting in some scenes definitely helped and made it far more interesting.

Video

Over the weekend Vonnie managed to get the bass and lead guitar footage over the weekend. Vonnie performed the bass guitar and a friend of Vonnie's (James) performed the lead guitar. We now have a suitable amount of footage to put together the video with a good amount of performance and narrative.

attempting green screening

We attempted to use Stephen running on the spot in front of green material but we didn't think it looked very good because of the creases in the material. we also tried to use the material with Stephen running on a treadmill but this was too hard to cover the treadmill with the green. Next lesson we are going to try and use green card which will hopefully be much easier to hide the treadmill and have less creases.

ideas

An idea me [luke] and josh had was Stephan [as he volunteered at the start of the project- which we're holding him to] to be the main chararcter in the narrative preparing for a fight, and as Vonnie is the only female in the group it makes sense for her to be the girlfriend/partner trying to stop him going. Because we dont know alot of the words of the song me and josh would perhaps be guitar and drum players which would be more focused on than the main singer.

Further planning

We are struggling to find all the instruments for our music video and actual instrument players to be in the film: because of this we are thinking that it would maybe be a better idea to do much more of a narrative film which we could be in ourselves which will make it less complicated to put together.

We are probably going to show a male preparing for a fight of some sort a different locations with certain lyrics being used as pointers on how the person in the video is going to act. We do not have a solid idea exactly of what we are going to do but when the whole group is together and with the help of Vonnies first draft story board we are confident we will be able to put together a decent enough music video.

Problems with filming.

Because Vonnie was busy on sunday and the others were busy on saturday, the camera was given to Stephen, Luke and Josh to film parts of the music video that they could over the weekend.

Roots Manuva - Witness The Fitness

This video is more inspiration for our music video , although its sort of a comedy it fits in with our video type of preparing for a fight scene.

Never Back Down fight scene - ideas

message to artist of our song

Hello

We are at Long Road Sixth Form College and as part of a media studies project have chosen to use your song 'No Looking Back' for a music video.
At a long shot, if you are in cambridge at the moment or anytime soon, would you consider starring in our video?
If not could you provide us with some lyrics and maybe some ideas of how you would like the video to be.

Thankyou for your time.

Josh
Luke
Stephen
Vonnie