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Hey, I'm Ill unfortunately, which means i can't help today in constructing a proper storyboard with Adam and Jeb, however i can upload the first picture of our very basic storyboard draft, for unknown reasons the other photo has become corrupt and i can't upload that :(

Josh out x

RESULT!!!!!!

After emailing Enter Shikari's management yesterday at around 11.20am, I was frankly not expecting a reply for at least a week if at all, oh how I was proved wrong. I was sent a reply at 11.30am only a few minutes after sending it so i got it as soon as i got home, hence the title. Here is the reply once again in its full entirety; it makes for good reading especially the 2nd paragraph.

Hi, it's fine to use it for your coursework etc. But... there has to be a rule (sorry)... you can't put it on Youtube, Myspace etc (or any website for that matter) and you can't burn DVDs for friends of it (as that would eventually lead to it going up on Youtube etc, it always does, no matter how much your mates say they won't).

If you send us a copy when it's done, i'll make sure the band see it. If it's awesome and they love it and stuff, then we'll see about making sure people see it and that you guys get credited and all that good stuff.

If you have any questions, i'm here all the time... laters, Ian

Now how cools that. Not only will we have the pressure of getting a good grade but also Enter Shikari will critique it themselves and it could lead to 'good stuff'. Ill send an email later thanking Ian, confirming the rule and our excitment at the prospect of them liking it. Its just a shame Josh is off ill so he doesnt know yet.

Permission to use the song letter/email

I have just emailed Enter Shikari's management through their website about using the song for our music video. Here is the letter in its whole entirety.

Hello, we are from Thurston Community College, situated in Thurston near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and are currently studying 'A' level Media Studies. For our coursework we have decided to create a music video. We have decided that we would like to use Enter Shikari's song 'Hectic'. This email's purpose is to ask you for permission to use the song to create our own music video. Thank you for taking the time to read our email and we look forward to your response.

I drafted this up during last lesson and found out where to send it this morning.

Little bit of inspiration

With Adam and Jacob working hard with website design, blog research and storyboards, I decided to also contribute a bit more to the blog with a bit of background on the director who is the inspiration of our foetus of a music video, Jonathan Glazer. However i have noticed that no-one has put up the Zzzonked promo video, because of the restictions of the internet at school, we can't save them to the hard drive and embed them. So heres the link ------> ZZZONKED <------ , no back there.

Ok so enough of Shikari and some more of Jonathan glazer, or iTz Glaz0r .x as his xbox live gamertag refers to him.

Jonathan Glazer was born in London in 1966 and after spending a fairly average childhood and school life, he studied theatre design and moved on to nottingham trent university, from there on, Jonathan directed theatre and made movie trailers. Eventually making award winning stuff for BBC. but in the 90's Jonathan really made the headline with his award winning music videos, featuring this beauty in '95 from radiohead. (which is possibly the video we are most inspired by!) Jonathan Made it out to be MTV director of the year in 1997.

With all these music video's Joanthan has also done alot of work in commercials such as the Guiness surfer ad (Swimblack Surfer) and Stella Artois' Devils Island ad. (which is one of my favourite ads of all time :) ) Jonathon has always been praised for his originality in videos and charming, yet sometimes dry wit. His manipulation of time and space within his videos are the main aspect of what really drew him to me, inspiring us in our own work.

Just a quick note, i got some photo's of the storyboards myself and jacob did Wednesday but obviously due to computer restrcitions, i can't upload until im at home. sad, sad face. anyway time for me to look up some more beauties such as Chris Cunningham, with his weird videos and Spike Jonze and his guerilla style filming, to round our film into an INSPIRATION MASTERPIECE - BWAHA.

Till next time :) x

story board ideas.

ok, so yesterday whilst adam was doing something else media related, me and josh sat down with the intention of tackling the story board.
we did well considering its really concept based and we tend to work better when were spontaneous. we came to the conclusion that we were going to have a performance based video that cuts to anf fro from a narrative/concept bit.
sounds complicated.
allow me to explain.
so were starting off with a opening shot of hopefully the auditorium (something we need to look at) or if that fails, then probbly a room in my house. there will be 4+ amps in the room as this is conventional of any perfromanced based music video.
actors in the video will be:
me=miming lead singing
josh=drums
jamie D= guitar
Will B=bass.
in between shots of us 'rocking out' we planned to follow this guy running through streets and buildings whilst playing with time. its hard to explain, but as hes running various things will be happening (pots smashing as hes pushes them, water spraying, panes of glass smashing, you get the idea) this will supply the video with a certain degree of narrative as at the end of the video theu guy running will arrive at his destination. now weve debated what he should be running from, running to, and i think it would be a good idea if by the end we finish on a shot of the perfomance set, but thave the guy run in and meet up with the band or something, bring them together, could be cool.
now that the video has been pretty much laid out, i will go through various technical ideas we considereing.
from day one i had always just invisaged the video to be shot in black and white, im not sure why but if yu think about it, when yu cancel out the colour, it meens the audicence has there undivided attention on whats visually going on and cant be distracted by colour.
well see how that goes though, it may be that its just the performance bit thats black and white, but we will see.
this being said, we would like to use (your going to have to forgive my lack of media knowledge on this subject) that thing that picks out certain colours and changes them. with this done in black and white i think it would look super kool. we firgured that we would pick one item of clothing of each of us and change it to the colour of our emblem, which will be a deep red (just like enter shikari's).
urm, i think this it is for the now, but if i think of anything, you bet youll be the fisrt to know
D:

love jacob Gallally.

Codes & Conventions of Music Video

• direct address to audience
• cutting to the rhythm
• visual of the artist/band - personalised
• excessive special effects depending on the song
• the actual song
• long songs get short edits
• 3-5 minutes long usually
• performance
• reasonably fast editing - varies song to song
• close-ups
• visual linked to lyrics

General Music Video Info

Primary purpose - to promote the artist, album/song, record label.
music video creates star persona for the artist.
direct address to the audience.

Goodwin's 6

So far our planning posts have been brilliant but we have minimal theory. This is a key part so I thought id spend some time putting up my theory notes since we started the A2 work.

One of the first things we were taught was 'Goodwin's 6'. These are 6 features of music videos which Andrew Goodwin identified. They are the following:
1)genre characteristics (eg stage performance in a metal video).
2)relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustative, amplifying, contradicting).
3)relationship between music and visuals (again either illustative, amplifying, contradicting).
4)The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close-ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which reoccur across their work (star status and a visual style).
5)frequent reference to the notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
6)Often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos, etc). Also this point is a key element in the context of postmodermism (more about that later!!!)

zzzonked official video. lol

this is the music video for enter shikari's zzzonked filmed live at the Norwich UEA on the 5th October 2009. this footage shows the style that enter shikari like to use when filming a video. as you can see, very faced paced, alot of crash zooms, black an white effects. this is typical of post hardcore bands because its very upbeat and gets you pumped lol. im actualry in the video (0:37) and so is josh (3:01) not to brag or na'fin. on closer inspection you will be able to see that there is some time manipulation, like speeding it up and slowing it down. we hope to incoorperate this into our video, as this specific element seams to pop up in every enter shikari video, so good times.

more to come soon.
love Jacob gallally and daniel goss and josh mannox

Song Timings

Hi, here are the timings that we picked when the music reached a pinnacle or change of tempo or style which I promised to put up a few days ago. The timings are however done with how long the song has left to play NOT how long the song has been on for due to the track being with another track on Josh's iPod. So for example 3:17 is the first timing so that means it is 3mins 17secs from the end of the song. Here they are:

3:17, 2:57-6, 2:46, 2:36-4, 2:28-5, 2:05, 1:44, 1:02, 0:41, 0:30, 0:23-21, 0:12, 0:02

The next stage is to decide what is going to be happening at these key points and during the build up to them. I've got a few things noted down but nothing concrete yet.

So on Fridays lesson we need to get the letter sent off about using the song, choose our artistic direction for the ancillary tasks and start to decide whats happening when during our music video. The last task may very well roll over into next Tuesdays lesson but we don't want to rush our planning.

iWeb is great fun!!

Hello its me, I spent todays lesson introducing myself and getting to grips with iWeb. The good thing was for once the tutorials were really useful and helped a lot. Even though they were for a newer version they still had the same basics. I will put the link for them at the end of this post. I also made some notes on the more difficult aspects and important features and ill scan those and put them up also.

Heres the tutorials page - just click the links for the various videos.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/iweb/tutoriallist.html

well, in reply to Miss B's message, we can say that we know this much
the band appear to be fun loving and mischeivious as inbetween songs they were telling 'funny' jokes
they swear alot in their songs, so there obviously a desired taste.
there emblum is a lion of which was plastered all over the amps and banners around the place.
the lion

lol update.

bonjour, me and josh went to go see enter shikari last night for media purposes only, to study the way in which they go about things. for example, last night they filmed the video for a song called 'zzzonkd' and after being a part of it, we were able to see how a professional would go about filming an enter shikari song. lol. as soon as they get it all edited and looking good we will upload it and you can see yourself. (the lead singer said the video will be within 48 hours.)
we have to sign out real quick because out time has run out, but, give me second and 'ill be back'

Hi, its me. First off sorry guys that I wasnt in the lesson on Friday and I havnt been blogging for a few days. I went to the Liverpool university visiting day held on Friday and went to Manchester open day on Saturday. Both were fantastic but enough of that now - got to make sure I get the grades i need so some Media coursework blogging is due. As Josh has already said on Tuesday we went through and analysed the song were going to do; 'Hectic'. I do have the timings and these will follow after this overview of what I have been doing over the last few days. We also decided on what ancillary tasks were going to do, with me being pretty stuborn about the the idea of doing a webpage. So I will be concentrating on that ancillary task while Jeb and Josh concentrate on theirs (I think promotional poster).

Then in Wednesdays lesson I did some research to find out what exactly it was I had to do; a homepage of a website ands so I am going to do a Enter Shikari webpage homepage. And then for the rest of the lesson I did research and looked at a number of band homepages and made a list of all the things they included. It surprised me how many of them were very very similar - with pretty much the same dropdown bars at the top and roughly the same content included on the website as a whole. The only common differences were of cosmetic design(fonts, colour etc) However I did come across a few sites which differed comsiderable.

I will put up the more detailed information I found from both lessons tomorrow morning aswell as a few other bits and bobs over the next couple of days

theory

today we dcided to bukle down and do some theory, so as seeing as were not doing anythying narratvie based, so we cant do a story board. so we thought about doing a shot list:
long shots, extreme close up, crash zoom, follow shot, kanterd angle/dutch tilt, shot reverse shot. more updates will follow.

lol xx

Analysing the song

With the decision of 'Hectic' as our song choice set in stone, we decided to pick apart the synths and bassline and find some key points in which to use our experimentive concept based slow motion scenes.

Unfortunately Ahdum hasn't been at school today and has the times that we picked when the music reached a pinnacle or change of style, we can only hope that ahdum is at home witht the blog website up and the times in his hand so he can put them up on here. Unfortunately i doubt that is the case.

Myself and Jeb, who is next to me now, are going to go attempt at storyboarding, even though we are notriously bad for ditching whatever pre-ideas we come up with and improvise.

Jeb and Josh out.