We printed out the lyrics of the song 'Ready To Go' and stuck them on a big piece of paper where we could write around them, we wanted to do this so we can look at each verse and have a vision as a group how we want the video to look for that part of the song.
Here are the song lyrics...
You're weird, in tears, too near and too far away,
He said, saw red, went home stayed in bed all day,
Your t'shirt, dish dirt,
Always love the one you hurt
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops shouting out,
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops having it
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out
You sleep, too deep, one week is another world
Big mouth, big mouth, drop out, drop out
You get what you deserve
You're stange, insane, one thing you can never change
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops shouting out,
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops having it
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out
Abused, confused, always love the one that
hurt ya hurt ya hurt ya
It's a crack, baby I'm ready to go
Baby I'm ready to go...
He said, saw red, went home stayed in bed all day,
Your t'shirt, dish dirt,
Always love the one you hurt
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops shouting out,
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops having it
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out
You sleep, too deep, one week is another world
Big mouth, big mouth, drop out, drop out
You get what you deserve
You're stange, insane, one thing you can never change
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops shouting out,
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out
It's a crack, I'm back yeah standing
On the rooftops having it
Baby I'm ready to go
I'm back and ready to go
From the rooftops shout it out, shout it out
Abused, confused, always love the one that
hurt ya hurt ya hurt ya
It's a crack, baby I'm ready to go
Baby I'm ready to go...
As i mentioned above myself and the group discussed ideas for our music video as well as locations and realistically thinking what we would be able to get our hands to film the video.
- The song has an intro which starts of soft then the electric guitar kicks in, we thought for this part of the song we could introduce ourselves as a band by us Dragonfly walking in slow motion. A location we are very confident in using in our music video is Greenwich, this has different areas which would suit nicely with the kind of music video we want to create.
- Throughout the video we had an idea of including clips of places in Greenwich such as the vintage shops, cafes, restauranst, park etc.
- We may add pictures to show 'behind the scene images'. We was thinking of using a picture editing tool, either instagram and cinegram.
-In the lesson as well as thinking of ideas we experimented with lighting which we could use to shoot in, whether we should keep it in normal lighting or mess around with the effects.
- Before videoing you need storyboards, but you need an idea first to draw the storyboards. A shot for the music video another idea we had was people would be chasing us (the band) whether it is paparazzi or groupies? Not yet decided. To hide from those who would be chasing us we would run into a vintage shop, preferably in Greenwich.
- Based from a line from the song 'on the rooftop shouting out' we want to aim to have a shot of us performing on a rooftop and this shot will be shown everytime these lyrics come up. Also being part of our performing shot which we want to include, based on it being filmed on a rooftop. There has been big discussion about health and safety issues that would be involved, we had an idea on doing it on the school roof but we need to ask someone high up in the school if this is okay.
- When filming a music video you have to think realistic about what you hope to achieve in your music video and what you can get your hands on to do this the way you planned it. An example of this being to get a drum kit on a rooftop or generally getting a drum kit for the music video. So yet again we had discussed to use a normal drum kit or an electric? Because we were basing it on vintage, retro is another idea we could use instead of vintage. As well an electric drum kit would add an 80s vibe and would make our music video retro/80s.
-Another performing idea was using my garden which would come across us documentry style footage of us recording the song in my garden. This is another one to think about.
As you can see we have thought about many things that we want to include in our music video, it is just the matter of making it work and getting the equitment we want also location is a big thing towards us finding out whether we can film there or not. More information will be posted on the blog to take you more to understanding our idea and making the finishing product.
Hi Joely. I thought I'd take a look at your blog and give you some feedback. It's starting to come together but when I read your posts, I do get mildly frustrated that you write like you talk and in doing so, your written posts have lots of grammatical errors. You describe what you want to do well but you now need to extend this to talk about why and the impact of each decision and how it will contribute to the construction of band branding, star image etc. You also need to explain how the visual and stylistic decisions you are making tie into the record label, genre and institutional context of your music video. Bring in some Goodwin and Adorno and connect to the theories that we have discussed so that your posts are more academic rather than just a documentation of ideas. A good start but more posts and more depth Joely. Mrs Moore says 'MORE'!
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