Friday 30 September 2011

Costume

TRAVIS BARKER - DRUMS

Travis Barker is covered in tattoos and this will be difficult. He also has a Mohawk hairstyle, so to cover this up I will have my actor wear a hat, as Travis often wears hats.
I could easily re create the top Travis is wearing above, this solves part of the tattoo issue.


Travis uses his custom zildjian drum sticks.

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MARK HOPPUS - BASS GUITAR / VOCALS

Mark almost always wears shorts. However he wears darker tops than Tom.
'Atticus clothing' Is Marks clothing line. The name is taken from 'Atticus Finch', a character from the novel 'To Kill a mockingbird'. He very often wears Atticus tops on stage.

Mark uses more variety of guitars than Tom, however he sticks to the make 'Fender'.

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TOM DELONGE - GUITAR/ VOCALS


Tom is wearing a white shirt and black jeans. This is typical for him. He sometimes wears shorts, however because 'Up all night' is a darker song, I will have him in the dark Jeans.
Tom owns 'Macbeth footwear' his vegan shoe company. 
Tom uses his Custom 'Gibson ES 333'

Permission from the band.

I have asked Mark Hoppus, the bass guitarist for Blink 182, if I could use 'Up all night' for my video. I have asked him through the blogging site Tumblr.

Special Effects

To create a professional looking production I wanted to have professional effects. I approached Neil Corbould of 'Neil Corbould Special Effects' I gave him my treatment, and I am able to use Smoke, rain and wind machines for my video. I have learnt to use these machines on set for 'Clash of the Titans'.

Structuring my story

‘Up all night’ the new 2011 single from Pop Punk band blink 182 is song that I am making my video for. The song is very narrative and is telling a clear story of someone who is struggling with the issues in their life.
Because of the strong story in the lyrics, I wanted to interpret this for myself, and create my own story for the song.
I read a screenwriting book which was clear on how to create a structure that would work well for film. This was to have an Introduction to set the scene then to bring in Plot Point 1, this would swing the story in to the main events until we reached Plot Point 2 which was an event in the story that would then swing in to the Resolution. I adapted this formula to the structure of the song. This had now created the framework for the story.
Although telling a story, I was aware that that this is a music video, and every bit of action needed to be visually interesting, and actions needed to be clear; not confusing.
Blink 182 are now in their mid 30’s and have considerably grown up. The song mentionsEveryone raises kids in a world that changes life to a bitter game.
Obviously the song could be significant for adults, as well as teenagers. However as a teenager, I wanted to create an interpretation that meant something to me, and aiming this at a teenage audience.


Lyrics for 'Up all night'

Everyone wants to call it all around our life with a better name.
Everyone falls and spins and gets up again with a friend who does the same.
Everyone lies and cheats their wants and needs and still believes their heart.
And everyone gets the chills, the kind that kills when the pain begins to start.

Lets  get this straight, do you want me here?
As I struggle through each and every year.
And all these demons, they keep me up all night.
They keep me up all night.
They keep me up all night.

Everyone's cross to bears the crown they wear on endless holiday.
Everyone raises kids in a world that changes life to a bitter game.
Everyone works and fights, stays up all night to sell the break of day.
And everyone lives to tell the tale of how we die alone some day.

Lets get this straight, do you want me here?
As I struggle through each and every year.
And all these demons, they keep me up all night.
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night
They keep me up all night

First draft of my Treatment.

Up All Night video Treatment
Introduction
Music starts. The camera focuses on a bottle of alcohol. The camera pans out to reveal a room covered in empty bottles, uses tissues, and left over food. There is a teenage male looking through a photo album. The camera focuses on a picture with the male with a girl (His girl friend, at a party). The camera zooms towards the image, and when the image fills the screen it stars to move, and the picture starts to come to life, initially the image is broken up as if it is a series of different photographs, but then it starts to flow in to the action of the party. We see a girl take a photograph. The couple then kiss and separate in different directions.
Plot point 1
The boy friend bumps in to a slightly drunk, seductive girl who attempts to kiss him, and is being obviously flirtatious. Just as she is about to kiss him, the girlfriend comes along, and pushes the flirtatious girl out the way, and slaps the boyfriend. She loses her temper and storms out of the party, leaving the boyfriend alone.
Confrontation
Two males are playing pool. One is the boyfriend, he looks stressed due to the previous incident, and he has gone to his friend for help and advice. There is a head on shot of a pool ball coming towards the camera. Smoke then fills in front, and through the smoke the band appear. (The band has been appearing throughout the whole video, this is just a particular shot change.)
The Friend and boyfriend are now in a street, looking round corners and we see that they are following the girl friend (who is also with her friend). The boyfriend grabs the girls attention. As soon as she realises it is him, she turns away, and her friend gestures more aggressively that the boyfriend is not wanted.
Shots of the boyfriend driving in the dark. He turns up to her work, where he is ignored by the girl, and the boss of the shop grabs him, and throws him out the shop.
Plot point 2
The boy is now angry and frustrated. He is kicking the walls, and throwing objects around his room. This could allow for some interesting special effects. (When the band plays at this part, the lighting should be very red and angry).


Resolution
After his anger, the boy is desperate and needs to make it up to the girl. He picks up/ buys a very expensive object (probably jewellery). Running through wind and rain the boy turns up to the girl’s house, soaking wet. She opens the door. When he reveals the jewellery, she lets him in, they embrace and everything seems fine. The boy happily sits on the girls Bed where there is a pile of pictures... one catches his eyes, the image comes to life (like the shot earlier) The girl friend is kissing another guy, at the party, then the shot moves back to reveal the boyfriend being harassed by the flirtatious girl, then the shot moves back to the picture. The boyfriend throws the pictures off of the bed and on to the floor, and starts shouting at the girl who had been unfaithful to him the whole time.
We are now back at the room from the very beginning where the boy slams shut the photo album, and the camera leaves him sulking on his bed as the shot zooms out and darkens.



Prezi on 'Pop Punk' video

http://prezi.com/ccyi_8-wiofp/music-video

This Prezi is my analysis, looking at other music videos by other Pop Punk bands, and understanding the genre, how to conform to the genre, and use other ideas to create something new.

Media technology