Storyboard

Contacting the label

Below is a screen shot of the email I sent to Columbia Records regarding permission to use the song 'Chealsea Daggers' in my music video. So far I have not received a reply so the project will continue as originally planned.

Storyboard update

i am currently drawing ths storyboard out now, and i will upload it later on in the day, it features all my ideas with, various people playin invisable instruments, me signing to the lyrics and boysjust beein stupid. several ways i am goin to incorportate this into my work will be boys preforming pranks, Because of the nature of the song i am going to base it around the collage common room. This is drawn because its a very lads orinentated song, and the main motivation behind boys jokes is bordom which is commonly found in school. Several pranks will be, the making of posters to stich around the common room. Several boys beating another boy up, and generally enbraccing tatics such as the clapping game.

Filming

Because i had to change from doing a animatic to a normal video several preperations need to be made;
The Original Storyboard animate had to be scraped and the time table was scrapped, a completely new theme was thought up and as such various amounts of planning have to be completed such as a copyright claim for the song itself, a new storyboard draft, and a new timing schedule. The new video will start production on 19th December 09 and will continue until 21st December, This will give me a allowance on the basic shots and will help encase some of the cast are ill or cannot shoot at the required time.

New music video idea

My new idea for the video will consist of various people singing the lyrics to the song looking at the camera,The song is commly known as a school boy theme and this will mean that i shall film the majority of the song in the school area with the key locations being the 6th form common room, The cantine and outside the school gates. The cast will bepreforming crazy stunts during the chorus, The into idea will also consist of several people playin the air gutiar or imaginary drums for a unquie perspective on the song, there will also be sections of me singing to the camera to break up the action.

Problems

Due to a budget restriction while making my set i was unable to complete it to a accurate depecition, this has unfortunatly left me with hardly any money for the rest of the film and as such i have had to opt out of the choosen set and pick a more cheap and direct lego production. I will try to find some cheaper Lego models and create a set to my budget restrictions. With the plan being that the original animation idea will carry on but the puppets replaced with Lego characters.

EDIT; i had originally not anticipated the cost of the stop motion and as such it has been canceled i am currently working on a new idea for my music video and this will be posted soon.

Video Research

This is weekend i have being looking into a variety of animation videos, using a broad range of animation techniques such as clay stop motion I.C.T manipulation E.G, and have decided on a stop motion idea. I have also drawn up a set of plans for the stage that i will construct in order to film my video which i will upload 2morrow as the scanner is dead. There is also a brief page of character designs but i have decided to go with a Munnys doll for my animation as it is simple and effective.

Chosen song - Chelsea Dagger

I have chosen Chelsea dagger by the frateills, i picked this song because i was attracted to the tune and my research into my shortlist picked it as the most original song out of the lot. This is due to the easy to follow lyrics and unique perspective from the album and poster covers.Other reasons i picked this song was because of the ease of animating it and finding various ways to help to keep the animation fresh and original would be easy.