Location Inpiration

In an ideal world the disused setting for this music video for 'This Years Most Open Heartbreak' by Funeral For a Friend would be perfect. I can't see us obtaining this, however, but we will look hard for something similar if at all possible.

Silverstein - I Am The Arsonist

Here is another suggestion for our music video. Silverstein's 'I Am The Arsonist' is a more poppy song and has a few changes in pace. There is also a lot of singing which creates a catchier mood. This could be used if the others are proved to be too heavy for our purposes.

Here are the lyrics:

Throwing up at the thought of you two.
How could you do this? My best friend with my bride,
Now you tell me you are leaving.

They'll see the fire in the dark night sky,
I hope you're home when I arrive.
And if theirs a pyre in the afterlife,
I'll be there again to light the match.

Burn! Gasoline, fire, it's the perfect combination.
Light it up. Burn it down. Breathe in my addiction.

They'll see the fire in the dark night sky,
I hope you're home when I arrive.
And if theirs a pyre in the afterlife,
I'll be there again to light the match.

"I am the light that warms up your body, that sets free the demons inside.
I am the one that that never ignores you, that never will let you down."

They'll suspect but they'll never prove that I was there.
In my veins, I feel the rush of adrenaline.
It's so hard to run away when I want to stay,
To watch it burn, watch it turn into dust.

Goodwin Deconstruction: Slipknot - 'Dead Memories'

This is the video for Iowan band Slipknot's 'Dead Memories'. It was filmed in their hometown of Des Moines by director Paul R Brown who specialises in heavy rock videos. The genre of the music is evidently metal and videos of this genre are largely performance based and have darker colours involved.

The bands constume and mise-en-scene at the start of the video links with the cover of the album that this is from, 'All Hope Is Gone'.


Along with every band member appearing in different locations, the lead vocalist walks through and almost narrates his journey. The lyrics could be seen to be amplified by the video as the theme of the song is dead memories and things that have happened in the past. The events being shown in each room could therefore have links to things in the protagonist's past.

Location

I was bored last night so decided to look at possible locations in the local area and found an arts depot warehouse in Edmonton. I emailed them and they have given us permission to one day after school go and check it out. This may signal the return of reccy videos and a solution to our location finding. Lets hope it looks good!

A Fault Line, A Fault Of Mine

One song proposal is a catchy number from Florida noise merchants, Underoath. I am fond of the dual vocals that they have going on which range from the screaming of lead vocalist, Spencer Chamberlain to the clean singing of drummer, Aaron Gillespie.

I believe that this would provide a nice alternative from our first choice as it is slightly less heavy and has an actual verse-chorus structure. It also has several, obvious changes of pace and is a perfect length song at 3.22. Downsides to this choice would be that only me and Nick are familiar with the song so may not suit everybody.

Here are the lyrics that the video could possibly be based around:

I'm not scared, but this is happening,
I'm not afraid but this is real, this is real.
It all comes at once, from every single direction.
This time I'm not, I'm not sleeping at all.
Could this be real? I've failed you, I've failed you.

I was lying when i said, i was looking north.
I was too scared to show, what i am.
Bare with me bare with me, this is all i have left.
This might be more, than a simple conversation, conversation.

It's been dancing around in my head.
For quite some time.
Just the thought of cleaning up myself.

I was lying when i said i was looking north.
I was too scared to show, what i am.
Bare with me, bare with me, this is all i have left.
This might be more, than a simple conversation.

I'm not sleeping.
I'm not sleeping at all
I stare at the wall, watching my time float away.
It's all been a blur, and nothing will change.
I stare at the wall, watching my time float away.
it's all been a blur, and nothing will change.
I was lying. (I was lying, i was lying) (I was lying)
This is defeat.

Lip Syncing Evaluation

As part research and part filling spare time in an enjoyable manner me and Nicholas attempted to lip sync to The Blackout's 'Its High Tide Baby'. The general consensus seemed to be that we did a good job as well. The common opinion seemed to be that although Nick looks much more the part and is more expressive in the role, that my actual lip syncing was more convincing. This may be due to the fact that I actually sung the song and let myself go while Nick mimed along and was not as familiar with the song. This means that if I can give Nick some vocal coaching and if he becomes really familiar with the song we choose for our project then we will have the perfect frontman for our needs.

BLK feedback

Some excellent posts so far Simon, a great start to your background work for this project. There’s quite a lot of important work missing though and you need to catch up fast, as it will be so busy when we get back to school.

We also need to get you using/applying advanced theory more explicitly when you analyse music videos, think Vernallis for now, although you will also need to get to grips with Goodwin in the new term.

For now, your short term targets are:
1. Link your workshop video to your blog
2. Post your workshop and lip synch evaluations
3. Post the work you have done for Miss T on Vernallis. See her post on the main Music Video Blog for the specific details of what is needed here
4. Post your track research/ideas – we need to see what tracks you have in mind for your own video. You have added some tracks but not the lyrics, or the reasoning behind these choices and the tracks you have added are currently unavailable
5. Put some inspirational/useful weblinks up
6. Sort out your blog navigation – you need to link to the main music video blog for example
7. We need a photo and some info about you please!

All instructions are on the main blog if you are not sure what you should have done. There will be a lot happening when term starts so the sooner this outstanding work is completed, the better.

Try to avoid linking videos without some analysis/commentary. I want to give you plenty of marks for your work, but this is sometimes lacking which makes it difficult to reward you.

But a great effort so far, keep up the good work and see you soon!