BRAIN STORM

This is a little sum up of our ideas and research for the video. We used mostly keywords from our notes that were inspired by similar songs and videos from the same music genre as Here We Go Again, which is punk/indie/rock as included above.

For our research we looked at the Dandy Warhols' Bohemian like you, the video had a very typical carefree rockstar spirit which we found useful in building our own character, which is a wanabe rockstar.

We also looked at Coldplay - the Scientist, the video starts off with a close up of Chris Martin's face and slowing zooming out, he appears to be on a bed in the corner of a street. As the video goes on everything appears to be reversed, as if rewinding a tape it goes through a whole day and gradually goes to the beginning of the story. We liked how this video grabs attention right from the beginning till the end, as by showing the end of the story at the start of video makes the viewers curious to find out about the story. This is something we would definately consider using in our own video. We also really liked the reverse effect, it's similar to Janoski's Nike advert as shown in previous post, however Janoski's idea was to film the entire video by backwards motions, then rewinding them to make the video look like its played in the right order.



Whichever way, we liked the reversing idea.

REWIND!

This is the video of Janoski's Nike advert, during some scenes the footage was recorded as the person did everything backwards, then the footage was played in rewind in the editing stage to give a strange surreal effect. We decided we would like to experiment with this technique. However we would use this throughout the majority of the video. We also like the technique of recording the sky throughout the day(00:41). It's a clever way of representing time change.

SONG CHOICE

This is a song by Evanfly, an unsigned band from around Weston. Here are the lyrics:



Here We Go Again



You've got that feeling in you don't let it slip away,

If you get lost for words i'll tell you what to say,

You like to walk around with your head in the cloud,

Well that's the way to be, don't let them bring you down.




It's all so wonderful, to live inside your head

Just wake up everyday, and tell yourself.....




Here we go again




You've got that rock 'n' roll look it's burning in your eyes,

I saw the hunger in you so i'm not surprised,

You're gonna rise up now and blow them all away

Your gonna give them everything they want today.




It's all so wonderful to live inside your head

Just wake up everyday and tell yourself.....



Here we go again Here we go again

We disagreed on the song choice a few times because we also liked one of their other songs called Just My Frame of Mind. In the end we settled for this song as its slightly shorter and has a faster tempo, which means we can play with editing a bit more to fit in with the beat.

FIRST POST

hellooooo, hey guys welcome to our blog. YAY super fun happy time. ENJOY our super RAD(radical) music video.

Song copyright/permission

We emailed Steve Mitchell yesterday asking for permission to use his songs and he said we were welcome to use them. Here is the conversation:

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AND THE JOURNEY BEGINS

Today we looked at different unsigned bands on Myspace and Youtube, for example My Lost Obsession, Cosmo Jarvis, Bobby Cameron and many more, we also went on http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/ and looked at artists such as Anthony Cavazos. However none of their songs really appealed to us, in the end Jaz suggested a local band she knew called Evanfly, we went on their music profile on Myspace and listened to their songs. We all liked the one called Here We Go Again, but because the band has split up it would be difficult to gather them together for our music video. So we will write to them to get their permission to use their music, and look for people to appear in our music video.