I have been using Photoshop to create some designs for my album cover

These pictures are of either my garage or my living room, where I think we should film for our final filming.
In the living room, all of my dogs toys etc won't be in there whilst filming. I just forgot to pick them up.
In my garage I won't have anything on the left and right walls except for posters/pictures that I will put up, plus  from the back wall I have some white sheets that I'm going to use to cover up my freezer and two work benches which are  covered by blue and green blankets, on the right side of the far wall I will be able to remove quite a bit of the stuff there, but I have put some plywood in front of them for now to give an example of roughly how it might look.

All of this is only if we decide that we want to film here, personally I believe that my garage is the best place to film as we would be able to film here all day without any restrictions. I have also asked my mum and dad if we would be able to film in my living room during the week or weekends and they have said that I would be able to do so.

I had an idea for our music video,
We could use black and white shots for the husband when he finds out about his wife cheating on him, and colour for the wife, when she is cheating on her husband. I think this would look good because we could use the colour to represent the happiness of the wife and the black and white shots would show disappointment, upset, depression, unhappiness etc in the husbands feelings.

We could also change the wife's colour shots to black and white at the end after she slaps him and she realises what's she's doing. (I don't think this is as good an ideas as the first but I still like it, although I'm not sure how well it would work).

depending on the filming equipment we have, we plan on using a school camera and Darren's camera, I believe we might be able to film in black and white although it would probably look better if we filmed all in colour and added the black and white effects after production by using Sony's Vegas Pro 9 editing software.



(This last photo should be in colour although I thought it was appropriate to our narrative)


I also think we could maybe add in something similar to this, during editing (I believe with the software we are going to use it is), it would look best right towards the end.

This is Mychemical Romance's official video for their latest single, Na Na Na. there is a shot in it where you can see people walking but you can only see from their knees down.

We want to get some shots of a full moon, and by using this chart it informs us when the best time to film is, and according to this it's October 23rd although if necessary we would be able to use a day before or after, although this won't be a full moon it will be close enough, because we don't require it to be perfect.

In our music video, in most of the music video's that we have looked at in this genre, have on average 50% shots of the band and 50% shots of the story to the music video.
I believe that we shouldn't stick to using 50% of the shots of Story and Band, I think that our shots should be more like 20/30% of the shots compared to the story being 70/80%. I think that this would work because our story seems to be longer than our band performance,

These are some pictures of a location that I believe would be great for us to film in for our Band performance section of the music video, I don't think we should use all of the locations shown, but I do think that there are 2 really good locations in the photo's these are displayed below

We could have shots of a person doing something they shouldn't have done e.g. steel from a shop ( but they get worse at doing what they have done e.g. steel more etc) then show them starting to feel regret and guilt and then show them start to feel uncomfortable with them selves for what they have done. The then attempt to repair the damage

What I've Done by Linkin Park is the song we are looking at producing a video for, I have had an idea for the video we could make it would be a video which Starts with a shots of a couple in love, then cross cuts to flowers growing, cross cuts back to one of the couple cheating (either man/woman) then arguing, spliting up. We would then cross cut back to the flowers dying and wilting then a shot of the soil where the flowers would have been.
The Flowers could be a representation of the couple's love growing and dying

I can see a problem with the idea though, this would be we would have to get permission of somebody to use their shots as we wouldn't have the time to film our own as it would take ages to get the types of shots which would be necessary for the video.

The music videos I am going to review are;

• Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
• Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers 
• From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars

Here are their Music Videos respectively;

Although I'm not yet sure which video I will make I have started to develop ideas for music videos I like.
This is for Linkin Park's What I've Done, I like this song and have had a few ideas for it.  I haven't completed my mind map for this music video.

I plan on making a couple more of these mind maps for other songs that I like, I hope to include;

• Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
• In The End and Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park

Warriors Dance


Invaders Must Die


Although I don't think I would

I wanted to embed to videos from RHCP in this post but couldn't find their official music video to embed, the two videos that I wanted to embed was Can't Stop and Under the Bridge.

Can't Stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOdWSiyWoc

Under the Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE&ob=av3e

Fall Out Boy I Don't Care


Burn Burn by Lost Prophets

The Wilderness Downtown
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

This video is pretty cool, I would like to have some similar shoots in our music video, and would also like to have some interactivity inside it like they have, although I would have to learn the HTML5 language first. I might try to incorporated some Flash into my video though if we decide it would be appropriate.

I like how Linkin Park TV have used these special effects at the beginning and end of their lptv episodes, I think if we incorporated some effects like this into a section of a music video it would look good.

The Catalyst official music video from Linkin Park


The Catalyst from Medal of Honour trailer


Bleed it Out