Popular Locations for music videos- bands

I'm putting a lot of thought into the location I want to film my band playing at. There are so many ideas and places  have thought of and it's difficult to narrow them down. My ideas so far are the beach, a cliff top, a field, woods, a street, inside of a building, a stage, outside of a building, in a garage, a roof top. There are so many and I am going to discuss them to find a realistic and doable idea that is still effective. I still haven't decided where I will film my narrative and if it will be around the same place as where I am filming the band or if it will be different. 

Bands such as The Beatles, RHCP's and U2 have filmed on a rooftop however, that doesn't seem that realistic for me to do and for it to of good quality as I do not have the equipment or really a suitable place to actually use.

Soon, I will hopefully have a good enough final idea for the location. Fingers crossed.

Examples of performance videos by bands

I have decided to look a little more into bands that have used performance in their music videos. To get an idea of how I will film my own video and what type of shots I will feature when filming. I am going to look at a variety of different bands and genres just to look at camera shots and structure of the videos. 

Adding my own spin

As I discussed in my music video pitch, the typical idea when it comes to bands, is that the lead singer is the one who gets the most attention out of the band and the main focus is on him at all times. He or she is the image of the band in a way and anything that is offered on the side to the band is normally taken by them. In a narrative video for a band, it tends to be either an actor playing in it or the lead singer takes role as he is the most popular choice. Instead if following this rule, I have decided to use my guitarist in the band as the character in the narrative. This is as it goes against the typical assumptions of the public and music industry and gives him more attention and focus as the other band member usually are left in the dark with no spotlight given to him. Here this will demonstrate how I have added my own spin on to my video by not directly copying other videos already out there and making it more unique and individual.

Band Name- The film it was influenced by

The film as I mentioned in my last post about the band is Big is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Penny Marshall, and stars Tom hanks as Josh Baskin, a young boy who makes a wish "to be big" and is then aged to adulthood overnight. Big was the latest and most successful, of a series of age-changing comedies produced in the late 1980 same, is 'Big'. The song that has influenced my band name is a short song chanted by Tom hanks and his friend as kids. It is called 'The Ice-cream song'. The lyrics get completely stuck in your head and it is really catchy. So when going through the words in my head, 'ten times a week' stuck and I thought it was really suitable for my band.



Here are the lyrics:


The space goes...

down down baby, down down the roller coaster.

Sweet sweet baby, sweet sweet don't let me go.

shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy rock,

shimmy shimmy coco pop, shimmy shimmy rock

I met a girlfriend- a triscuit,

she said a triscuit-a biscuit,

ice cream soda pop

vanilla on the top

oooo Shalida, walking down the street,

ten times a week

I meant it. I said it.

I stole my mama's credit.

I'm cool. I'm hot.

Sock you in the stomach three more times.

Band Name

I have decided on a name for my band that I will be filming in my music video. It has taken quite a while as it's not been as easy as I thought it was going to be. There are so many bands already in the music industry and it's difficult to pick a name that is different to other bands and that actually sounds good. I even tried using a random band name generator to create something a bit more unique. I have chosen this band name as it relates to my research that I collected. Bands in the industry that I have looked at such as Vampire Weekend, Various Cruelties and Two Door Cinema Club are known for their very unique random name. The names relate to the type of music as it's quite individual and that what indie rock is. Some bands tend tp ouse lines from films they particuraly like or a name of a film that sin't that well known. Vampire Weekend chose their name "Vampire Weekend" from the title of a short film project Koenig worked on during the summer between freshman and sophomore years in college. While home for the summer, Koenig watched a 1980s vampire film 'The Lost Boys' and was inspired to make a Northeastern version of the film in which a man named Walcott travels to Cape Cod to warn the mayor that vampires are attacking the United States.

 

I have chosen the name 'Ten Times A Week' as it is a quote from the Icecream song performed by two character in the film Big, starring Tom Hanks. I have chosen this as it is cryptic, has a kind of cheeky quality and is associated with an anagram of 'twat' which gives it an edge of tonque in cheek and could also bring out the humour in the teenage boys personalities.

 

 

 

Music Video Pitch

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Blog Posts and getting up to date

Things I need to put on my blog

• General research into the genre you are working in
• Specific research into examples from the genre, including deconstructions of a range of products
• Summary of my findings
• Some consideration of print products in the area I am working in
• Initial trials/ examples linked to my developing ideas
• Initial notes linked to planning/ developing work
• Branding (logos/ schemes/ umbrella design concepts etc)
• Research into my target audience
• Pitch
• A treatment
• Blog entries linked to the skills/ key concepts I will be considering in the exam

I am going to go through my blog and make sure that everything on this list is included as this is very important to keep up to date and have as much research as possible.