Thursday 7 January 2010

Gaining Copyright Permission

In order for us to use the track that we had chosen, we needed to write a permission letter to City Rockers, the current copyright holders and record label for this song.
Here is the email we sent to them, to which we am hoping to get a reply from soon.

Wednesday 6 January 2010

Other Locations

Oakfield Park Woods


Oakfield Park near Dartford


Louise's garage

Tuesday 5 January 2010

Ideas For The Video

Once we had chosen our song and the location for our music video, we then brainstormed ideas that we could use that we felt would fit in well with the song theme and words.
To do still, we started off by printing off the song lyrics in which we then analysed so that we could think of other ideas that would fit in well with the lyrics.

We soon found that 'We felt the blood stop' was a common phrase within the song that was very repetitive. We therefore thought of an idea where we could include some type of blood liquid within the video, maybe with the character 'drinking' it out of a champagne glass or with bloody tears coming down from their face. We thought this would fit in well within the theme.

Another idea that we came up with was that our main character could be running from something, maybe running away from her own nightmare. We felt that a dark but well lit alleyway would capture the moods and feeling that we want to portray within this shot as we would want it to feel as if the main character was scared and feeling all alone.

Our main character we decided would look as if they have been possessed by a spirit to which all these weird and scary things would happen to them. However, this would all be shown in the 'nightmare' and therefore she would just be thinking about it.

We also decided we would feature a vampire type character that would appear to haunt the main character. This would add even more emphasis to the scary vibe in which we want to create and achieve.


Main Location

Originally, before deciding on the song, us girls decided how we would like to film and base our music video in London because we liked the scenery that it has to offer. We liked the idea of travelling around London showing some of the different buildings and architecture it had to offer, as well as the vast majority of different people. We also felt that London reflected our cultures well too.
However, after we eventually chose the song that we were going to use, we realised how setting our music video within the heart of London wouldn't make much sense.

We then decided as a group with the help of our teacher that as our video was going to be based around vampires and living in a nightmare, we could use a graveyard as the base location for our music video. This will add emphasis to the 'scary'
atmosphere in which we are hoping
to create.

St Michaels Graveyard, Wilmington

This is the local graveyard in which we have decided we will use.

It particularly caught all of our eyes as it featured many old gravestones that we could use for emphasis in our 'spooky' theme within the music video.

This is a pathway within the graveyard that we plan on using. We are considering using still shots of the main character and vampire, however these still shots would move so that the characters will be in different places.