Psychological shots of The Clown

The antagonist in our music video is a scary, evil clown that is invented as a part of the protagonist's mind. We will shoot the clown at a scary location from different vantage points, using different types of camera movement to replicate the movement of the protagonist on screen.

There is a dystopian looking bridge in Halifax town centre which would be a great location at night to film the clown. This is because of the grafitti, run down-ness and shadows created by eerie light.

The hospital scenes

The shots in which our protagonist is in bed struggling will take place in a hospital bed. We will use the medical room at our Sixth Form, it will not be obvious that it is in a school though. We will tie down our protagonist with belts, to suggest that he is a harm to himself, to doctors or to other patients. He will also be wearing a classic and very recognisable hospital gown, this is so that the spectator recognises that he is in hospital. The hospital setting is suggestive of illness or in this case mental illness which is a common theme in postmodern texts.

Beacon Hill Filming

I was unable to attend the filming of the Beacon Hill scene as I had an interview on the day.

The rest of the group will write a review of the filming

Performance filming review

We got to the car park where we had planned to film the performance and it was a great location. It was run down, it had graffiti and it looked like a dystopian setting, which was just as we had wanted.

For the performance, we needed:

• A drum kit, provided by me.
• A guitar, provided by Brad Marshall, the person we had cast as lead singer and guitarist.
• A bass guitar, provided by the bass player in Fear The Lizard.
• The camera.
• A tripod.
• A car to travel there.

The filming did not go as well as we would have liked because the car park was not empty as we had anticipated it would be. As we arrived we found the spot we wanted and started to set up the performance area. A few different cars with people came along and just parked up and stared at us doing our filming, this caused us to feel rather uncomfortable and threatened. Unfortunately due to the intimidation, we had to pack up early and finish filming early, leaving with less footage than we would have liked.

Drum Kit preparation

Lots of bands perform nowadays with their own personalised bass drum heads to reflect either the band's name or their logo, here are a few examples.

Arctic Monkeys

The Stone Roses

Kasabian

For our performance we have designed our own bass drum head, we have used Fear The Lizard's logo.

The logo for Fear The Lizard is a simple use of typography including the initials of the band. It is likely that we will be using it in the creation of our digipak.

We re-created the simple symbol using white tape over the top of a black drum head. This is quite effective and it follows the conventions of an indie band's performance and image.

Location & Costume for performance element

Performance

Our performance element to the music video will take place in an abandoned car park, the distopian setting is a postmodern theme, which fits well with the image of the band. The car park will not require a risk assessment as it is not exactly abandoned, it is just often very empty.

The band that we have chosen to create the video for are, unfortunately, not available to do the performance with us. Instead of using the actual members we have selected 3 people to act as the band members and we will control exactly what they wear and how they will appear. 

Guitarist/Singer

Long hair 

Black Vest

Black Jeans

Black Guitar

Bass Guitarist 

Hippie style hoody w. hood up

Baggy Jeans

Dirty shoes

Wooden Bass guitar

Drummer

Black T-shirt

Black Jeans

Black shoes

First Draft Feedback Questionnaire

To work out how our music video was going, we devised a questionnaire and a screening for our target audience. From this we will work out how we can improve our video.

New Plan for music video

After our Target Audience feedback, we decided that there is a number of things we need to change:

•  We decided as a group that in our music video there should be performance as well as a narrative. 
• We also decided that there should be a Parallel narrative to run alongside the main narrative, this is only to be represented by a few shots of our Protagonist struggling in a bed, we are doing this because it is a postmodern technique. 
• We also decided to get rid of one of our planned locations because it was going to add little or nothing to the video, and there won't be enough time for it in there.
•  We've decided to do it speed up the editing of the video to make sure it fits more with the tempo of the song. 
• We have also decided that we will introduce the 'Monster' character will the use of fading two shots together, also suggesting that it is psychological which is anti-authoritarian, another postmodern technique.