Rend Collective Engagement!

Rend Collective Experiment, the band that I am going to be using in my piece, have no real means of contact apart from on facebook and a bookings e-mail. So through facebook I sent a message to the band and managed to get a short reply from them! Here's the message:

Its very encouraging to know that the band support me in what I am doing and means that I can get even more confident that I can create a good music video that is true to their musical talent.

Scripting V.2

I INTEND TO TRY AND DO THE VIDEO IN ONE CUT BUT FILM IT BACKWARDS AND REVERSE IT IN AFTER EFFECTS

This is how I will film the video. It is backwards and I will reverse it later.

Man is walking forward with small person and a 'God' placard in their hands

The man and the child part but we stay focused on the 'God' person

We then see the camera pan around to several other people shouting at the camera with other placards: 'Girlfriend' 'Friends' 'Work' 'Play' 'Life' 'Family' etc.

The camera pans around onto the man looking around looking concerned

The man walks away from the crowd and stops and looks around at the people. Camera moves behind him and then around the other side of him he turns again and walks away from the camera

He then starts running and the camera also goes a bit faster than him and pans infront. He jumps over some obstacles and moves around some people who are in the way

He barrels rolls across the field

He moves forward and gets tripped up by someone

Pulls himself up again and moves onwards

He gets water thrown at him and water pistols shot at him

Jumps into a rubber boat and gets pulled along out of sight

More water

Jumps out and leaps forward

Gets out a map and looks at it and then throws it to the ground

Sees someone with a sign pointing to home and follows it. THE SIGN FOR HOME MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

Moves his way through some more people

Little balls in buckets get thrown at him but still he moves onwards

Gets signs saying 'new' 'coming through' 'people' and 'friends' written on them

The camera looks at the signs on the floor before moving onwards

The man then crawls under a bush and the camera follows him through. **THIS MAY INVOLVE A CHANGE OF CAMERAMAN**

He then runs along with the camera behind him

Someone gives him some cardboard wings which he flaps

He then throws these away and carry's on running away. The camera spins around him several times. We see another sign for home. THIS AGAIN MUST BE POINTING THE OTHER WAY

The camera they stays put. We see the man fall over and lie flat on the ground

A group of people then come on screen and sings 'Ah!' like at the start of the music.

The video ends. With an abrupt cut to black.

THIS VIDEO WILL THEN BE REVERSED SO HOPEFULLY WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET A GOOD TAKE AND IT WILL ALL WORK TOGETHER QUITE WELL.

I will reverse the song and the cameraman will hold on to it as the video moves on

It will take a lot of organising but hopefully this should all work

I Think this video also works well with the music in the way that the man will start out being dirty from the tree and wet from the buckets of water and will be 'cleansed' as the video continues until he takes the hand of small person and he will be clean and as he should be. This is quite a nice image because of what we believe and God's ability to forgive sins etc.

I may try and experiment with maybe starting out the video with no colour and then gradually bringing the colour back into the video until it hits full colour as 'God' and the man take hands. This is also a nice image in the way that with God is the best place we can be so if the colour is not there at the start then it gives the impression that we're not meant to be without God

Mood Board

To help inspire me with my music video I went across the internet looking for things that I thought might relate to the music video that I want to create. Here is what I came up with:

Some of the stuff that I have found here may way have inspired me to try some different things out with this music video. I might attempt to try out a form of light painting and I think I may have the lead singer/guitarist singing and playing at the same time wherever the guy is running.

Music Video Research

Underneath are several chrisitan music videos that I have looked at to get ideas for creating my piece of work. All videos are from YouTube.

This is the original video












So what I have seen from these videos is that a lot of them just generally have the band members just playing their music in different locations. The kind of music videos that I want to be creating is the kind of thing that is shown in slow fade where the video is going backwards and there is the slow motion of the things reversing into form like with the picture frame etc. This is the kind of ingenuity that new music videos should contain and what I want to see more of in christian music videos. I think I want to do something amazing and unexpected in my video. I think I may try to do everything in one take if I can work around the logistics.

I want to challenge the things that people expect to see from christians like with the organ music and sitting on pews on a sunday morning with our suits on etc. Its something which is not true for all of us and its time now that technologies have advanced and become so much more accessible for the smaller companies to create amazing effects like huge bands and video companies make everyday. I think now is probably the best time of all

Coursework Action Plan

There are many things that I need to look through before I even get anywhere near actually filming and editing the footage for my piece. I have decided that the song I have chosen is MOVEMENTS - REND COLLECTIVE EXPERIMENT. This song is a christian song so there are many different things I need to research for this video.


PLAN:
Background Research on Song

• Find Lyrics
• Look at original video
• Contact Band
• Look at inconventional videos shots/editing

Mood Board

• Look at other chrisitan music videos
• Find ideas that fit the lyrics

Audience Research (At my church)

• Ask if they've seen any music video
• What christian music they listen to
• How many times they've seen music videos

Scripting/plan

• Location ideas
• Character ideas
• Relate videos to lyrics

Storyboard

• Draw out shots
• Finalise script

Location Research

• Rivers
• Roads
• Wymondham centre

Choosing the Song

I have decided that the best way to go is to look at MUSIC VIDEOS
Because I think christian music can create great pictures that I think is what I want to do. Also, it seems that some christian music videos are very typical and its exactly what you'd expect to see and I want to change that.
My next task is to look at some christian artists and songs and see what it is that I want to produce. I will list the songs and artists I have looked at underneath:

Casting Crowns - Until the whole world hears, Lifesong,
Mercyme - This life, The generous Mr. Lovewell
Matt Redman - The glory of our king
Hillsong - Your name high
David Crowder Band - ...neverending... , foreverandever etc...
Rend Collective Experiment - Movements, Come on my soul
Switchfoot - Gone, Hello Hurricane
Tenth Avenue North - Hold my heart
Tobymac - City on our knees, Showstopper
Phil Wickham - You're Beautiful
Simon Brading - Let the rain come
Kristian Stanfill - Say Say
Hawk Nelson - Live life loud

I have decided to choose the one in bold. I am hoping to send them a letter explaining what I wish to do with their song as I think they might be interested