Link To Website So Far

http://lydiawesley.wix.com/coma-69

CD Digipak Designs

Coma 69 Interviews

 

Coma 69 Website

This is what Coma 69 wrote on their website when they received a copy of the video we made to their song Down And Out.

The Process Of Designing The Website

Today we started to design our Coma 69 website. Firstly we had to log onto www.wix.com. We then had to sign up so that we could design the website. We chose what layout we wanted and then started to edit it. First of all we added the Coma 69 logo, then we added their song using SoundCloud. Then we filled in their latest news following wjat they have written on their website. After this we wrote what dates they had in the diary. We then had finished the front page and moved on to the info page. On here, we wrote about the band, which we used from their website. This was all we had time for in that lesson, we will carry on next lesson.

Coma 69 Rough Cut

Audience Feedback

We did a focus group with our class after they had seen our video to see what they thought of it. We also did an interview with a person interested in heavy metal music. These videos are shown below:

What further post production work is going to be required

The post production work that we will do in addition to the video is a website which we are going to put an interview on and also a CD digipak.

How is our project changing and developing

Our project has changed a lot from the very start of the term, when we started doing this project. Our first idea was to have a mechanic in a performance and narrative video to the song uprising by Muse. We then realised that this would never work, so we moved on to using Down And Out by Coma 69 making a performance based video. We were originally going to use the green screen to project firs and heavy metal band images, but due to the scaffolding we thought it looked better without it. We used lights and smoke to set the image of a heavy metal band, creating a great atmosphere.

Issues Within Editing

One of the issues we came up against was syncing the shots to the beat of the song, because if you moved it slightly when editing it would mean that we couldn't use that shot. We have done that with a few of our shots which has meant we couldn't use them.

Brief Commentary Of Our Rough Cut

Before starting the rough cut we re named all of out shots, therefore making it easier for us to find the good shots and the shots that weren't going to work naming them NG standing for no good. We also named them in terms of what they are making it easier to find each particular shot. We started our rough cut by dragging the song down on to the time line. Then we had to sync all of the shots. We did this by dragging the shot onto the timeline, then we muted the song so that we could hear where the beat started and where Rachel the singer started singing. We then cut it and dragged it to the start to sync each shot. We repeated this until we had used them all. After this we edited each shot normally to create a rough cut, which is a rough version of what we want our video to look like.

Strengths And Weaknesses Of Our Product So Far

So far on our rough cut we have found a couple of weaknesses amongst it. One of these weaknesses was that once we had synced all the tracks, we then somehow managed to unsync a few of the shots, which then meant we couldn't use them. Also, we haven't been able to all go and edit the rough cut altogether, so this meant we couldn't really discuss what everyone has done. The strengths of our product so far is the amount of different shots we have got such as tracking shots, slow motion shots, and lots more.

Coma 69 Timelapse

Coma 69 Post On Their Website

Coma 69 have posted a note of thanks on their website which is shown below: 

Editing Continued....

Max stayed behind after school to sync it and he also startes to edit the rough cut which at the moment is going very well. We have used the blade tool, to cut the shots to where we wanted them, then reusing them later on. We then dragged these shots onto the timeline and rearranged them into the order. So far the editing process is going very well and we are on track to completing it soon.

Research And Planning Evaluation

Research and Planning Evaluation

Behind The Scenes

Below is a link to a behind the scenes video I made with photos from the day:

Process Of Editing

Today we started to edit our music video. We started by syncing all our shots to the beat of the music, checking that the video of Rachel singing starts and when the start of the singing on the song started. We did this by dragging the shots onto the timeline and cutting the shots where it matches the song using the blade. We then started editing the shots, cutting it where we wanted the shots to go. Max and Bertie had a creative discussion about editing

Account Of Shoot Day

The day before our shoot day, we had to set up the scaffolding that the band are going to perform by. We also had to put up the lights on the scaffolding, to create the lights going amongst the band. Setting up the scaffolding took a while, as we had to bring the different sizes in and put them all in different locations to make it look effective.

When I woke up the morning before our shoot I was quite nervous about meeting the band. I didn't know what they were going to think of the scaffolding or even of us. I was also quite excited as our shoot day had finally come and all that we had been planning was finally going to be done. We could then see if it would work. We wanted to see all of our work come together as we had worked so hard over the past couple of weeks.

We had done as much as we could the day before. There was not a huge amount that we could do on the day. The band turned up slightly late because of traffic due to the rain, so there wasn't much we could do before they got there. This then meant that we didn't start filming till about 10 or 10:30. When they arrived we had to bring their instruments in and help to set them up.

Our studio set was not that complex. We used scaffolding to represent the heavy metal band and had LED strip lights screwed onto the scaffolding to light up the band. We didn't know what the band were going to think of it, as this was their first video, therefore it had to be how they wanted it.

We all played different roles. I started off by being the director, which was good as I got to watch it on the monitor seeing which shots we needed to add in to the music videos and which shots we didn't need according to our shot list. I then changed and moved on to playing the track. This involved playing the track when, whoever was filming said 'camera rolling' I had to say '3, 2, 1 go' and press play. I also had to pause it at then end, then repeat this. After doing this job, I moved on to doing a bit of filming. This involved much more than when we were creating our thrillers as the shot had to be accurate. It also enabled me to be able to see what the best shots would be to use in editing.

I think I did well at directing, as I am organised and I really enjoyed seeing the clips on the monitor. I also enjoyed filming the shoot as it enabled me to get involved and to develop my skills from AS on the camera.

One problem we encountered on the shoot day was that the band were late as they were stuck in traffic and flooding. This meant that we didn't start our shoot till much later than we wanted to. Having said this we still did manage to finish filming by 4:30.

I think the most successful part was when we started shooting the band. The video started to come together, we were really worried about what it was going to look like before the shoot day. On the actual day when we saw the lights all joint in with the band, we thought that it looked great. The tracking shot looked really good, especially when we did a tracking shot round the drummer, as we saw all sides of him playing the drums. This shot is going to be our opening shot in our music video I think.

The actors we used was an actual band so we did not have any problems with controlling them. They did what we wanted them to do and did it to the best of their ability. This made it much easier for us on the day, not making us stressed when trying to control them. I think it was also easier in that we had adults as our actors rather than students.

I enjoyed the whole day, I liked setting it up arranging it to how we wanted the scaffolding to look, I enjoyed meeting the band, which at first I was nervous about. I also enjoyed filming it seeing the shots we had sketched out in the animatic coming alive and seeing them work really well together, along with the lighting. The bit I didn't enjoy was taking it all down, because we were on a high from finishing and wanted to start editing, however we got on with it and had finished before we knew it.

I am looking forward to seeing all of our shots on the screen, seeing which shots worked and what shots didn't. I am also looking forward to editing it all together and seeing the finished piece.

I think our whole group worked really well as a team. We all put ideas forward saying how we wanted it to be done and what shots we wanted to include. We had Lydia who does photography, so she took photos of the day which was really good. Max and I worked on it all taking videos to put onto out blogs and seeing whether the shots looked good and we had Bertie who was really good at doing the lights. This worked really well as everyone did everything no one sat around doing nothing all day.

We asked the bands advice on the album covers that we had designed. They really liked them and said that they looked really effective and different. The one thing that they said they would like on our cover was the logo of the band so that the audience would know who the band were. Other than that they really liked our ideas. We filmed an interview with them so that we can put it onto our blogs, but also so they can put it on their website for the audience to see.

The Response To Our Email

Letter To Coma 69

CD Digipak Cover

Front Cover

Further Progress On The Album Cover

We have further developed our idea of food dye in water for the front cover and we are going to demonstrate it to see if it works and fits with how we want the front cover to look. The designs are shown below: Back and Front Covers

Record Label Options

We have had a look at record labels that support heavy metal bands. We have narrowed it down to 4. These being Nuclear Blast, GWR, EMI and Metal Blade. These record labels support bands that are in a similar category to Coma 69 such as Black Sabbath and Metallica. We now need to decide which one we want to be our band record label.

Here are the website to each of the record bands below:

http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_Records
http://www.emimusic.com/
http://www.metalblade.com/english/content.php

Album Cover Details

On the back of the album cover, we will have a list of all the songs that the band have written. These are:
From Hell
Karma
On The Edge
Down And Out
Heaven Help
The Truth
One Night Stand
Self Destruct
Sealed With A Kiss

We will also have a barcode on the back like a real CD cover has. We will also include the record label logo.

On the front we will have the name of the band

On the spine will be the album name and also again the name of the band.

Front Cover Options

The first cover we put up was going to be our front cover, but we decided that it would be better as a back cover so we have come up with some new ideas for the front cover which I have shown below:

Album Cover Designs

Progression Of Our Album Cover

Today, we decided to try and narrow down the ideas of what we wanted on our album cover. We all drew one of our designs, but we decided we didnt really like them. We thought that we had to look more closely into the title. The logo that the band have used is what we decided to use so that there was some of the bands influence into it. We then looked further into how they had written Coma 69. We looked at celtic images and found a celtic image of some fish. We have made a rough album back cover idea which is shown below:

 

 

CD Cover Template

Here is a template for a CD cover:

 

 



Research Into Artist's Website

This is coma 69's website and for the link to the website click here. The bands website is dark and gothic like the band themselves creating a sense of rebellion.












A website similar to this is Black Sabbath and a link to this website is here. What I like on this website is that the website is animated, so to click on the different sections you click pictures.

When designing our website I will be influenced by Coma 69's website being dark and edgy. I will also use Black Sabbaths idea of hovering over pictures to click on the sections of the website.

Planning A Photoshoot

One member of the band is planning to come to school in the next few weeks so therefore we can ask him the questions we want to ask and also take photos of him. This will be a very useful thing to do as it means that we can blog more in depth about the band.

Shooting Schedule

Shooting Schedule

Call List

Call List

CD Cover Idea

 

The writing will be white with a black background to represent the dark, gothic style of the band.

 

The pictures of the band members and what they play will enable the audience to be able to work out who is playing what in the song.

 

 

This is just a basic inlay for the CD to fit into with the name of the band written around it.

 

This is a list of the songs on the CD to allow the audience to see what other songs are on this CD so that they know what they are listening to.

Shot List

Doing a shot list enables the us to know what shots we want to use on the day so that we don't waste time making up shots.

Shot List

Album Artwork From Similar Bands

Muse - Uprising

This was our original idea, until it fell through moving onto Coma 69. Both Coma 69 and Muse produce heavy metal music. The target audience would be similar which is people that like heavy metal bands.
http://muse.mu/


Metallica - One

Metallica are an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles. They are similar to Coma 69 in that they wear dark clothes and they have a similar target audience of heavy metal bands.
http://www.metallica.com/


Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall

Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved international success. The genre is progressive and psychedelic rock band.
http://www.pinkfloyd.com/


Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath are an English rock band. Having said this they are cited as pioneers of heavy metal bands. This is the same as Coma 69, as they have a similar genre.
http://www.blacksabbath.com/

Questions To Ask The Band

When we meet the band these are the questions we would like to ask them:

What specific details to the band want in the video?

What I their main image?

How do they want to be represented?

What equipment can the band provide?

What do the band say the song represent?

Do they have nay inspiration?

What is their target audience?

What details have they used in previous videos?

What is their regular music genre?

Is there any crucial aspects of the band’s work they wish to add?

Target Audience For Our Band

Coma69 is a 4-piece band, based in the Guildford area. Currently rehearsing in Aldershot, the band have played many live gigs, including Guilfest 2011, and have appeared on radio stations including 96.4 Eagle Radio. The band also play regular gigs at The Unicorn, Aldershot. From a media perspective they can be portrayed as "Experiencers" - seeking variety and excitement, looking for something new, offbeat and risky. Still formulating life values and patterns of behaviour, while being enthusiastic about possibilities and taking risks. When weighing these ideals against the choice of target audience, the main focus for our band will be REBEL and DROP-OUT individuals; wishing to make the world in their own image and choose to simply enjoy the thrills of life.

 We have a primary audience of 17 - 23 year old rockers shown in the pictures below:

We also have a secondary audience of older people shown in the pictures below:

Risk Assessment

Hazard 1[1]

Letter We Wrote To Coma 69

To Whom It May Concern,

Thankyou for agreeing for us to use of your music in our Media studies music video. The track will be used with the short video that is only for assessment purpose. We look forward to working with you.

Yours sincerely,

Lydia Wesley, Vicky Cooper, Max Waple and Bertie Chatfield

Hurtwood House School

Coma 69 Animatic

 

Coma 69 Twitter

Guns N' Roses Is Similar To Coma 69

Guns N' Roses is an American rock band. who formed in LA. It used to consist of vocalist Axl Rose, lead guitarist Slash, rhythm guitarist Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler.
Today, Axl Rose is the only remaining original member, in a lineup that comprises Use Your Illusion
–era keyboardist Dizzy Reed, lead guitarists DJ Ashba and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, lead and rhythm guitarist Richard Fortus, bassist Tommy Stinson, drummer Frank Ferrer and keyboardist Chris Pitman.

Here is Guns N' Roses Youtube Account:
http://www.youtube.com/user/GunsNRosesVEVO/videos?view=0

Who Is The Target Audience For Coma 69?

I think the target audience for Coma 69 is people interested in heavy metal.
Middle aged people that are interested in rock.

Here is their youtube page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/COMA69BAND/videos?view=0

Props And Costume List

Organisation of Props and Costumes for the Shoot Day 2012

Evaluation Of The Role Of Storyboards And The Animatic

A storyboard is crucial to making a music video as it helps the camera crew and the actors to know what shots to put in, how it needs to be laid out and what the shots need to look like. We spent a long time deciding what shots we wanted to put into our music video, but due to it being a performance based video we have had to repeat some shots quite a lot. We decided that because it is a rock band, we would make it a performance video to show the band playing the instruments and shots of fire.

Storyboarding enables us to be able to see what shots need to be improved and what shots can be cut out. The concept of our video is to portray a dark, gothic rock band, showing how the band play the instruments. 

Making the animatic was very useful as it enabled us to find out that we needed to add more of a variety of shots, and also add more shots. 

How We Made The Animatic

We started by getting the song 'Down and Out' by Coma 69 and dragging it on to the timeline of Final Cut Pro. We worked out the order that we wanted the shots to be displayed and then dragged them onto the timeline. We cut them to the length that we wanted them and slotted them in. We had to repeat shots to make the 2 minute 45 second song because it is a performance video therefore the shots would be repeated to emphasise the instruments. We repeated this the whole way through the animatic.

Coma 69 Treatment

Coma 69 Treatement 2

Props List

Costume List

Costume List

Green Screens

Blank screen allows designers to superimpose digital images into the background of your video to create unique environments.
Not new technology but is most effective way of integrating high quality images into background.
It’s cost effective as green screens give you the background you want without having to travel to get it.
Pretty much any background can be created therefore there is not way of it limiting you to certain backgrounds.

Location

As we are doing a performance video, we are going to shoot the band in the studio and record flames out in the field to animate with the band.

Coma 69 Pictures

Coma 69 Pictures

Coma 69

Below is the link to the Coma 69 website:

http://www.coma69.co.uk/

Coma 69 Down And Out Lyrics

Down And Out

It's just a matter of time
Before the world turns in his favour
But addiction plagues his mind
And the streets are where he calls home


Just hanging out
'Cause he's got
No-where else to go
Begs for his money
Got holes in his shoes
Still got fire in his soul


It's just a matter of time
Before the world turns in his favour
But addiction plagues his mind
And the streets are where he calls home


He's moved on
From day to day
But he still survives
He's living off drugs and alcohol
No-one cares if he's alive


It's just a matter of time
Before the world turns in his favour
But addiction plagues his mind
And the streets are where he calls home


A tortured mind
A broken soul
He numbs the pain to get through it all
Can't get worse
Or so they say
We'll leave that saying for another day


It's just a matter of time
Before the world turns in his favour
But addiction plagues his mind
And the streets are where he calls home 

Down & Out Coma 69 Song

Some Performance Based Videos

Here are some performance based videos which we used to get our idea

Green Day - American Idiot

Avril Lavigne - Complicated

Linkin Park - What I've Done

Maroon 5 - Sunday Morning

Evanessence - Lithium

Outkast - Hey Ya

30 seonds to mars - closer to the edge

Heavy Metal Genre

Heavy metal is a genre of rock metal that developed in the late 1960s. Heavy metal lyrics and performance styles are generally associated with masculinity. The first heavy metal bands such as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple attracted large audiences, though they were often critically reviled, a status common throughout the history of the genre.

Progress So Far On Our Music Video

Our first idea of a mechanic in a low class, low wage job getting angry and smashing up a car hasn't worked as we couldn't get a car to smash up that wasn't to expensive. So we came up with a new idea to have a man driving a stolen car down a road and then setting fire to it in a field. This idea also didn't work as we needed the two cars to be the same that we drive and then set on fire, but the idea fell through when the person that was going to give us the car to blow up then sold it to someone else.

Our final idea is that we just do a performance video. We use the band Coma 69 to perform the track that they need a music video for and then make the lighting and scenery really good. We would use images of fire on a green screen and animations of buildings on fire. This would then also use our idea of fire but incorporate all the aspects of what we want in to one video.

Evaluation Of The Storyboards

A storyboard is a graphical representation of the camera shots in a film sequence which are connected together to create a 'narrative flow'. It enables the film director to visualise the flow of camera shots and sets that she wants to eventually appear on the cinema screen. It helps the director to decide the sequences of shots, the movement of actors, camera directions and lighting directions. It most importantly illustrates how the narrative will flow from one shot to the next as the audience watches the film.

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Swafega - Treatment

Music Video Treatment

Swarfega - Timeline

New Timeline

The Pitch To Luke

Swarfega - Presentation

The Plot Of The Swarfega Music Video

The music video starts in a room with the band playing, cutting between the band and a mechanic in a garage. The mechanic then turns up the TV and a reverse zoom reveals that the band are the TV and that the mechanic and the band are both in the garage. The mechanic is still but we see him gradually getting angrier as he gets frustrated due to him being unable to fix the car seeing a close up of him cutting himself on the car. Before the disruption there were 30 second periods of the band and the mechanic cross cutting. Then we see the mechanic take the spanner he is using and take his anger out on the car (this means we would have to buy a beat up car) as the mechanic smashes up the car with the beat of the music. The songs to about uprising and he decides to rebel against his 9-5 job and social working class. At the end for last 30 seconds, the mechanic dives in to the TV leaving the garage, playing with the band. Using a tracking shot the audience follows him into the TV and we see him in a new light as a rock star which is what he really wants to be instead of having a 9-5 job he wish he could live the dream life. 

Further Development Of Our Final Decision

After pitching our first idea to Luke, he said that he was happy with our idea for the moment but we had to develop it more such as where we were going to have it placed, and also see if we could get permission from Bertie's friend to use his garage. We also looked up Swarfega which is a car mechanics grease to give us an idea for our video. Following on from our initial idea, we have kept the original song and have got a back up incase this one falls through.The storyline is how an unpreveiled person with a broken home and a drug addicted mother has a steadly job and how he wants to succeed in life and how he remains and driven even though society is against him.

Initial Group Discussion

Amongst our group we discussed a few different ideas and we all liked two which are about rebellion
I have attatched a powerpoint that gives us our ideas and I will include below a link to the songs we are thinking of using.

Music Video Devising

Initial Idea Number 3

My third idea is 'I'm Yours' by Jason Mraz. Its quite an upbeat, happy song. I would have the singer walking through the twon singing and playing guitar. He would have a girl with him and would be singing to him sayingthat he is the girls property sort of thing.

Artists that he is like are James Morrison and Jack Johnson.

Jason Mraz fan sites are :

jasonmraz.com/

mrazdaily.com/

www.facebook.com/JasonMraz

www.fanpop.com › Music

twitter.com/jason_mraz_fan