Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Our music video

The unsigned band we have chosen to do is As Gods and their song that we will be using is Frozen. As Gods are a Sheffield based band whose music is a mixture of both rock and metal, in hindsight I would call it rock or soft metal. For me their lyrics are original and they write all their own music and lyrics too.

Here is a quote about them from their website:

As Gods pedal a different kind of metal to most acts. Whilst many of their peers are preoccupied with sounding heavier, angrier and faster than their predecessors, these Englishmen turn their attention to melody, controlled but effective aggression and the art of song writing. With more clean guitar parts than most metal bands would dare to employ, As Gods are experts at gradually building their songs into mountainous soundscapes with choruses and chord progressions that could fill stadiums. Melodic they might be, but make no mistake, when they shift into top gear they pummel and shred hard enough to give any thrash band a run for their money. Their live show is tighter and more energetic than that of most other bands and, with a willingness to play any show no matter how far the drive; their work ethic is one that will see them to the top. Once they get their tunes inside your head, there is no getting rid of them.- onemetal.com


They are an up and coming band and seem to be doing quite well. They have three songs up on their soundcloud page: http://soundcloud.com/asgods so check them out!

Planning

Today the three of us (Me, Tilly and Nick) met up to discuss what would be happening with our music video. We all listened to the song and came up with some ideas and wrote down what came to mind whilst we listened to it.

Some ideas we came up with

Page 2 of ideas

Page 3 of ideas

Nick came up with the initial idea of a character who has committed a crime and is weighed down by guilt and the level of guilt is increased by their conscience following them night and day. This constant persistancey concludes in the character eventualy killing the conscience.

We've decided to use a mask for the conscience as it makes it all the more mysterious and another idea we've had is that when the character kills the conscience, they take off the mask to reveal themself! Obviously it's difficult to use the same actor for two roles in the same shot so we''re going to ask two of my friends who are interested in acting. Hopefully they'll say yes!

2nd music video

Fitness Club Fiasco - Forest City: 

This is my second analised music video. It's a different genre from my first one and is an independent band and music video.