our timeline of our storyboard

this is our groups timeline of how we feel that our music video is going to be filmed and edited. we think that this is the best way to do our video, by planning out what we want to be filmed when and where within our video, so when we come to editing the video we know what we are looking for from that particular bit of the song.

Our Storyboard

for some reason our images on our storyboard do not seem to load up when we upload our storybaord to our blogs, but we have described the scene's in what we think is enough detail to make it easy for the reader to make sense of it.

Because we were going to do a website but found that hosting it would be extremely difficult we decided to scrap that idea and create a DVD cover for the band. We have created a template for what we will like our DVD cover to look like. I believe that our cover will look pretty good and will advertise the band, in the way that we feel depicts our music video and the way we feel that we want the band to be represented through our video. Our timeline and storyboard are soon to follow this post...

website plan

this is the template that our group have created for our website for the band. The website is going to be our groups ancilliary task for our portfolio. We think that by having a relatively simple and easy to use website, it will be easy for the fans of the band to navigate around and find out information about the band that they may want to know.

SCRAP THAT!

we were going to do a website but have found that hosting a website so that people outside of the school could see our blog would be extremely difficult for our group to do. Because of this we have decided to revert back to our first idea of creating a cover for the bands DVD release. We think that this can be just as effective as the website would have been shoudl we have created that. we are now in the process of designing the DVD cover...

where are we now?

at the moment our group have started to create a storyboard of what we are planning to do for our music video. we have seen that their is an official music video for the song that we have chosen which is Breakdown - The Wild Eyes.
our storyboard will be uploaded when we have finished with our ideas and have decided on a final scene selection. we have also decided on what objectives that we are going to do for our task as well and they are:

• to create a dvd/ album cover for the band.
• and to create a website for the band

our song

http://www.unsignedbandweb.com/music/play.php?band_id=7366&song_id=15030&mode=song_hifi
this is a link to our groups chosen song.
at the moment we are still deciding on how we are going to be able to film our video for the song

music video analysis of 'the kill'

The music video of which i have decided to analyse would be 'The Kill' by 30 Seconds To Mars. the song was released as the second single from their second album 'A Beautiful Lie.' when the song was released the song was entitled 'The Kill (Bury Me).' The video is said to be completely based around the popular film 'The Shining', with many of the scenes from the video being the bands own version of the scenes from the film. The genre of which the type of music would seem to belong to would be the 'rock/punk rock' genre, being a mixture of both i feel. The video was claimed by the lead singer Jared Leto to have been directed by an Albino Danish man named Bartholomew Cubbins, this was intended as a joke as Cubbins was a fictional character in the book 'The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins' however when the music video is aired on music channels Cubbins is still given credit for directing the video, which according to Kerrang is the greatest ever rock video, after being voted as the number 1 rock video by download festival attendees. To prove that this was not just a one off stroke of luck the band also claimed second place in the same chart with their video for the song 'From Yesterday'

The lyrics from the song basically describe what is happening at that point within the video. the lyrics also help the band to get the main theme of the song accross to their audience, and that theme is that of 'confronting your fear and confronting the truth about who you really are' according to Jared Leto. Although be it at some points the lyrics contradict the video, for example at the start of the video Jared Leto says to the rest of the band 'we will be here for three days' but yet after the first chorus has finished there is a cut to a black background with words in a white colour saying accross the screen 'one week later'. the lyrics really go well with the second verse as is in the video Shannon Leto (drummer) enters 'room 2277' of which as the band arrive at the front desk of the hotel there is a note saying not to enter that room, and the lyrics sung as this scene is taking place are as follows 'you say you wanted more, what are you waiting for, i'm not running from you' after these lines are sung the band member enters the room. each of the band members has there own little evernt in which they run into a clone of themselves wearing a tuxedo. at the 2:05 mark within the video there is a reference to the lyrics and also another reference to The Shining as on the paper that Jared Leto has been typewriting on there are the words written over and over again 'this is who i really am' which is a line uttered repeatedly through out the song. The music alos relates to the video rather well, as the video starts off with the band exploring the hotel and with this the music seems quite relaxed and also quite intriguing as if they were exploring something. and when each band member has their own apparition, the music picks up as it hits the chorus, although the beat changes when Jared Leto has his apparition and also when Tomo Milicevic (guitarist) has his apparition the music completely stops and it goes quiet, this maybe as this part of the video is a bit shocking. Each band member has a close up of themselves just before their apparition seems to take place, just so the viewers can know which one of the two clones is meant to be the real one who started off the week when visiting the hotel. There are also many close ups of the and each playing their diffrent instrumnets within each chorus, be it a mysterious look that each of them give, but this adds to the mysterious feel of the video and makes it, what i feel to be one of the best videos in recent years.
I get the feeling that there isnt really much time within the video that either of the band members are on sexual display, although i do feel that due to the fact that each of the band members are pictured wearing a tuxedo, that there is atleast some bit of the band on sexual display, there arent really any reference to looking within this video.

As i have mentioned beforehand there is an intertextual reference to the film 'The Shining' this was even claimed by the band, there are many ways in which the video has an intertextual reference with the film as i have mentioned before.one of which would be the words written on the paper which has been written on the typewriter 'this is who i really am' when in the film The Shining the words that Jack Nicholson types on his typewriter are 'all work and no play makes jack a dull boy' over and over in the same sense. another reference to the The Shining would be when Shannon Leto enters room 2277 and encounters the woman in the bathroom, both the film and this video culminate in an elegant bathrooom.

unfortunately i cannot get a copy of this video uploaded so i will do the same for two more songs, this time with the video uploaded