2nd meeting

Unfortunately due to Simon being unable to complete his tracks in the studio we were left with no other option than to not use one of his songs and opt for someone else. Harry then suggested that we use one of his housemates tracks. Harry lives with a couple of drum & bass DJ's who have been doing very well on the drum & bass circuit so we decided to have a listen through some of their tracks and choose one to use. We decided on a track called 'One of These Days' because we liked how their was a hip-hop esque intro and middle 8 meaning that we had much more dynamics to work with.

We thought that we would like to involve a chase scene because, although being a very simple idea, it can prove very effective especially with the pace of a drum & bass track. So we tried to come up with different ideas for the chase:

• We thought of having a guy chasing another guy for no apparent reason, making it look as though their was a violent undertone but at the very end have him shouting something like "Mate, you left your wallet" only for the guy being chased to turn around and say, "That's not my wallet"
• Then we thought of having a guy reading a newspaper who was being stared at by another guy. Feeling uncomfortable, the guy carries on reading the newspaper, only to turn the page to see a 'most wanted' picture of the man who is staring at him. Feeling scared, he runs off and the most wanted guy chases him.

We brainstormed some more ideas but decided it would be best to adjourn this meeting and have a think on our own and come back to the next meeting with some more ideas.

Meeting 1

For our group project, Simon, Edem, Tom, Harry and I have decided to work together on a music video. As of yet we are unsure of what song to do but as Simon is a musician we would like to base it on one of his tracks.

Simon has said that he will be recording some tracks in the next week or so and that he will let us have a listen when they are finished. Then we can choose which song we would like to work on and then work out a narrative.

I decided to research some of Simon's tracks on Youtube to see what kind of genre and feel I got from the songs to see if that could help point me down the right road in terms of the asthetics of the video. Although we didn't have a song decided yet, I feel that this helped.




His style reminded me of a couple of rap bands that I had heard of and like so I decided to look up the style and tone of their videos to see if it would give me an idea of what one of Simon's videos should look like. I found the video for the track 'Guarentees' by Atmosphere as it had the similar kind of acoustic feel to Simon's song, 'Underdog'.



I really like the simplicity of this video. Just the one static shot and with the emphasis being on the lyrics. It uses very subtle smoke and lighting effects which doesn't detract the attention away from the songs meaning.

I also found the video for the song 'Your Glass House' by Atmosphere which I think has a similar feel to Simon's track 'Consequences'.

There is a strong narrative to both of these tracks and I like the way the video for 'Your Glass House' follows the lyrics really well. I also like the way the video seems to have a greyish, almost greeny yellow effect at the start to represent the hangover. It uses colour really well to describe the girl's feelings in the video.