Mood Boards

I've done two moodboards. one with elements that look more suitable to the video, stereotypical imagery to this style and example shots from other videos.


The second features mainly album cover examples of bands I was reminded of while listening to No looking Back. Two of the images however are posters for Bullet for my Valentine and Avenged sevenfold. These were the album covers that looked do able by us or had elements we could use. Some of them are nice and simple like 3 days grace's 'One-X' others have a very cool effect that could be done quite easily if based on a photo like the two Bullet for my valentine posters.
A lot of the album covers have very interesting text as well, this could give us some examples of how the text/logo for Anti-Social Burnouts could look.

Fighting film examples

One of the most well known scenes from a fighting film, used in intertextual references all the time, some small elements from this would be interesting and even reveal more about the plot. (Rocky Balboa, ~Rocky 6)


The trailer features some scenes from the film with elements we could or were going to use. Like the waking up from bed, the walking down a street while the camera moves away. (Trailer for fighting)

Pitch

As far as we can tell with the lyrics for 'No looking back' the song appears to be about fighting or a fight, so this is something to be brought in to our narrative.
The video will, hopefully, be a cross between performance and narrative. It was the video for Animal I have Become that inspired the idea to start with the main character (most likely the lead singer) waking up and preparing for a fight, by training or just simple things like getting dressed.

One piece of the lyrics we were able to decipher was 'Nothing is left, a crack through the heart, I am strong and I won't be torn apart.' at this point we could show the characters girlfriend attempting to stop him but him pushing her away, then leaving her alone to go to the fight. Some emotion on her part could be particularly effective.

The performance parts would have a lot of movement and would most likely have to be gone through several times. As a location I have a room in my outbuilding that, if cleaned out, would make a good stage and my mother has a lot of lighting equipment, the room is small but will contrast to the narrative which would most likely be outside a lot. My father has a few guitars he may let us use also, plus I have a friend who plays drums and has his own.

Though most of the video would lead up to the fight at the end I think it'd be more effective for the video to end just before the first punch is thrown, with an inter splitting at some point of the performers throwing down they're instruments to show they've finished.

We could include some intertextuality from other films which involve fights, well known scenes like rocky or fight club. For example (Though we may not use it) Running up a large set of stairs as training.
The beginning of the video could start with an alarm going off and being turned off then going into the performance as the music get heavier, or show them preparing while the drum beat is on.

Examples

Animal I have become has a similar music style (though not as heavy). An example of a video that has elements that would be useful. The dark red background for the place where the band plays is dark and something like that would work well. The way that the story plays out (starting in morning going through a day) is a good idea for how to possible work our narrative. The way the camera moves and the cuts between shots is another thing we could use, the slower movement in the shots but short duration shots works well.

No looking back

The final choice for the song we want to do. A video with a similar genre and that is done in a way that we might like to do it is Animals by nickelback:



Although little other than this one setting are shown it uses good camera shots that move a lot and the way the artists look and dress is nice and simple so as not to call attention to it.




Another music video with good effect and style is Paramore's 'Misery business' The video shows a lot of shots of the band and they're all very quick and move around a lot. Quite often the camera suddenly changes and will show shots upside down or have black and white shots quickly. this give a unique and fast paced effect which is something that could also work well in our video.

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

CD

The songs we have chosen as our top three choices from the CD are as follows:

No looking back - Anti-social Burn-outs

Wicked game - Basboosa

Girls on T.V - Be your own PET

The three songs are all completely different and could potentially be done in interesting ways.

No Looking back
Would have to involve a lot of band footage, them playing, there could be a narrative but it'd more likely just be the band playing. maybe in different places.
The song reminded me of Animals by Nickelback so a similar effect could be achieved (though hoping for something more interesting, as that video is very plain and could have used more shots)
Although it is highly unlikely the band are from Cambridge and we can attempt to contact them to find out if they would be consider being in the video.
I imagine it'd use dark colours and the actors would wear goth or punk style clothes. perhaps heavy makeup (similar to the band themselves)
The shots would be fast and/or move around a lot and quite quickly.

Wicked game
The style of the song is very sweet and sad. The song had a style similar to hallelujah (rufus wrainright) and sounded angelic, so I imagined very soft lighting, quite light but in a dark/dull room. the main colours bieng white blue and dark grey. In contrast to the previous one, this would have longer slower shots, less movement but perhaps long panning.
The girl in the video could wear something quite elegant and very light.
Lyrics: http://www.sweetslyrics.com/442399.Bassboosa%20-%20Wicked%20Game.html

Girls on T.V
The third option is reminiscent of Paramore, or that is how I imagine the main singer to look. very punky with a unique style, maybe even slightly 80s style. Like 'No looking back' it could have quick moving and short duration shots. there is more chance of involving a narrative in this video.