planning of video

After i had researched into all the diffrent aspects about music videos and the ways it is directed and created we got together as a group to decide on what we wanted to include in our video and in what style we were going to film it in. After a lengthy discussion we decided on doing it in animation and stop motion, we chose these form of filming because we were greatly inspired by several movies we watched mainly by michael gondry.



We then did several experiements with diffrent forms of cgi, filming and animation. we did this to help us to decide what techniques and technologies we would use to create the animation for our music video. we decided on using vegas movie maker to edit our video, we chose this because we had used it last year and were familiar with using it. We also decided on using windows movie maker to bring all the diffrent pictures we had taken for the stop maotion process, we chose this programe because we all had access to it and were all familiar with using it. The final computer programe we used was photoshop, we used this to arrange and sort out our pictures, we also used this programe because again we all had easy access to it and all knew how to use it.

First attempt




we then decided on what to actually include in the video, we felt that it was important that we include images relevant to the words and also the mood of the song. To help us do this we researched several diffrent movies the first one that stood out and i enjoyed was michael gondry music video for the white stripes.








the next video which i thought was good was the gummy bear video







The last video which i watched which i felt could really help was gorillaz video feel good inc













Theese videos really gave me some very good ideas that i want to encorperate into our video.





We then decided on what genre and song we would use for the video. we decided on using the genre of punk rock and the song too many nights too many faces by goldfinger, we chosed this song because we felt that the llyrics gave us a wide variety of images and ideas we could use n the video, we also chose the band because we had already done research into the band.



The lyrics of the song are

too many nights too many faces

i dont know where ive been

too many days with two many places

i dont know who i am

drive into the lights the streets are like rain clouds

drive into the night wheels keep on turning

the skys are still burning rain clouds star a fight

far away from home rolling like hills

the sea is my homeland wishing upon a car

miles are miniutes and days are my cities

recording a life on a map

far away from home

too many nights too many faces

i dont know where ive been

too many days with too many places i dont know who i am

and the stars make a picture and the stars are my heaven to see

and the stars make a picture and the stars my heaven to see

The general idea of the music video is that someone gets sucked through a pc screen and a super heor follows him to save him and bring him back to his own world, they go through several forms of animation trying to escape from the world.

the next piece of planning we did was to look at the original video



The things that really stood out for me are the fact that it is just mainly the band performing live and just messing around, i also noticed that it had some xplicit content in so may not be suitable for certain audiences. I also noticed how the editing is in time with the music and this is something i think that we will include in the music video.