All We Know Are Thieves

1. Blur - Country House
2. Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer
3. Jamiroquai - Little L
4. Green Day - When I Come Around / Holiday
5. Foxboro Hottubs - Mother Mary
6. Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
8. My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
9. Paramore - Pressure
10. Orson - Bright Idea
11. U2 - Beautiful Day

I have themed my mixtape towards events/days that I remember, such as Holidays and Concerts

• Blur - Country House

I have liked Blur since I was about 7, I always used to play their albums in our cd player, one of my favourite songs is called Country House. The song was actually released in 1995, I would have been 4 on release of the album, but I started to take interest in music when I was slightly older

• Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer

Along with Blur, Bon Jovi was one of the first bands that I started to listen to, I started to listen to them around the same age as I did blur, I have choosen Bon Jovi as I went to see the band live at Coventry's Ricoh Arena in 2006 and really enjoyed it.

• JK - Little L

I choose Jamiroquai, for two reasons; I have always liked his songs plus I saw him at Radio 1's One Big Sunday at Leicester in 2001.

• Green Day - When I Come Around and Holiday

I saw Green Day live at the LG Arena in the NEC, and remember that even weeks prior to going that I was really excited and couldn't wait to go. Green Day are one of my favourite bands. They are really one of the first bands which I really liked and from first hearing their songs on the radio, I have been a fan of them and the same genre of music ever since.

• Foxboro Hottubs - Mother Mary 

This is a band which is basically an alter ego of Green Day, as it consists of  Billie Joe Armstrong (Lead Vocalist and Guitar of Green Day), Mike Dirnt (Bass with Green Day) and Tre Cool (Drummer with Green Day) but it also includes a close friend of Billie Joe's. I remember hearing it for the first time whilst being on holiday in the Isle of Wight and saying to Alex, that the lead singer sounded like Billie Joe Armstrong.

• Foo Fighters - Monkey Wrench 

Although this isn't my favourite Foo Fighter's song, I remember watching them live, and singing along but watching in amazement that when Dave Grohl sings ( the lyrics below) he didn't take a breath until the end of the section. Even though the Foo Fighters were one of the bands I liked at the time they were never my favourite, but after seeing them at the NEC, they were soon drawing favourite with Green Day and Red Chili Peppers.

"One last thing before I quit

I never wanted any more than I could fit
Into my head I still remember every single word
You said and all the shit that somehow came along with it
Still there's one thing that comforts me since I was
Always caged and now I'm free"

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop (iTunes protected file so I can't put on my mixtape, so I replaced it with Hump De Bump, which is one of my favourite songs by RHCP)

In 2003 I went on holiday to New Zealand, as we were considering moving there, and whilst on holiday I played my Red Hot Chili Peppers CD in the camper van that we hired out, although I listened to this before I went on holiday it reminds me of traveling around New Zealand in a camper van,

• My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade (replaced by Famous Last Words, as this one is Protected by iTunes)
• Paramore - Pressure

Until I went to Canada, I hadn't heard of My Chemical Romance or Paramore, even though both had released albums prior to me going on holiday (2006), but the Canadian radio station that we listened to whilst being on holiday played them both extensively. I remember sitting in the back seats of a Dodge Grand Caravan whilst driving from Toronto to Rice Lake in Canada and listening to them.

• Orson - Bright Idea

I don't really have a reason for Orson but when the band released there album "Bright Idea",  I bought it as I really enjoyed their music.

•  U2 - Beautiful Day

This is a song that reminds me of when me and my dad used to go to see Sheffield United play football at Bramall Lane. Although I haven't been for a while, the song used to be played every time I went up to see them play, it would play before a match whilst the team would be warming up on the pitch. They would also play the annie song although, which is where Sheffield United got their theme tune from as they just changed the lyrics to apply to life in Sheffield and Sheffield United

We have been having difficulties recently with filming our draft. We started filming on Monday evening/night, in the Clock Towers, Rugby, but the lights of turned off which left us in an empty car park in the dark, unable to film, although we did get some shots we didn't complete the necessary shots. We have tried to rearrange with everyone the best day to film, and we are having difficulties getting everyone to rugby to film at Damon's uncles and the Clock Towers, so I propose we film at the location above in the pictures (only the car park ones), this is easier for Me, Darren, Rhys and Alex (actors), haven't had chance to speak to Damon as he is working today, but he will also need to ask his Sister and Brother in Law (actress and actor) whether it would be better for them to film here, but it is definitely closer. It wouldn't be quite what we originally planned and maybe we would still be able film in the planned places for our final film but as we need to get some decent shots for our draft production, we are now under some extreme pressure to get it completed soon.
So moving location for at least our draft filming would be the best option for most of us if not all of us, as we wouldn't be wasting time getting to rugby 3 of us would be able to walk, and others would have  to arrive by a short 5-10 min car drive compared to 25/30 mins.

I am still thinking of a place to film instead of inside Damon's uncles house and rugby town centre but maybe Broughton Astely village centre Chill Out Cafe would be able an idea for the coffee shop scene.

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.

This isn't complete as I need to get photo's of a couple more people.

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Risk Assessment Documents

Risk Assessment - slideshow maker  
Sorry for my poor handwriting and poor quality of scanning, my scanner broke so I had to use a old one, which isn't very good. 
(The website I used to gain these picture slideshow is called "Kizoa", if you sign up to a paid account you can add music, special effects and tranisitions)

These Pictures are what I took whilst doing a risk assessment, along with my risk assessment Document You can see That overall I believe the destination we are going to film the band's performance is safe, as long as we keep to/check the risk assessment documents.

This Red Hot Chili Peppers Can't Stop, I chose to review this video because it's disjunctive which seems to be the case with most rock songs (disjunctive is a theory of Andrew Goodwin, where the lyrics have no relation to the images being shown on the video), I have been looking at on Youtube, Vevo, TV channels/shows. I believe this is a good video from RHCP because it's still interesting but at the same time strange and confusing. There are certain sections of the video which make me think that we could do something similar to that e.g. the start with the camera shot with the tunnel.
Even though the video is disjunctive which means it has no related meaning to the lyrics of the song, the video doesn't have any meaning or reference to anything.



This section of the video, with the camera going down the Yellow tubing, is the part which I like the most and would like to incorporate something like this into our music video, but I expect it wouldn't fit into the type of video we are looking to produce so it's likely that we'll never end up using an effect like that.
I think that it's a great method and original, I don't know of any other type of music video where something similar to this is used. The only way I think we could use it is if we used it as a transition prompt between past/future and present day or a similar effect.

The video includes special effects, but I can only seen one computer generated special effect, it's where the guitarist/singer is in a bin singing and there is two more of him singing next to him.

The Foo Fighters' Monkey Wrench is Disjunctive, because there isn't any linked meaning between the lyrics of the song to the video that they have made.
All the members of the band star in the video, you see them either singing, or playing the drums and guitars or as poeple who live in the appartment/appartments nearby.
Band members consist of Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel and Chris Shiftlett
They use a continuity editing, some of the shots they use move but slowly so the user barely notices the movement of the camera, in others they are motionless shots which range from long shots to extreme closeups.to wide angle shots.
There aren't any special effects used during the music video, they just use clever camera shots, e.g. they pan between the car park and the house, which allows them to switch locations easily without the video jumping to other locations.

This is the official Music Video but it was never released to the media to be shown on places like VIVA or 4Music as it was too long.
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This is the version which was released to be shown TV channels, etc.


30 Seconds To Mars made this video for From Yesterday in China, it's believed to be the first video from an american band to be made entirely in "The Peoples of republic China", it is filmed inside of a chinese fort/monestry. The video like Foo Fighters Monkey Wrench and Red Hot Chili Peppers Can't Stop, is also Disjunctive. The video has no apparent relation between the lyrics and the video.

Like most music videos of the rock genre this doesn't consist of the male gaze, although there are four girls in the video the shots aren't meant to be in the form of male gaze.

Andrew Goodwin's disjunctive theories have been applied to this music video, as it has  no apparent relation between the lyrics and the shots in the video. The narrative of the video is that it's a Chinese emperors birthday and he requests 30 Seconds To Mars, They are given a gift, which is Chinese warrior armer, they then start to battle with others until it's just those four left. This is where the music and the video finishes.

They don't use special effects as we would normally think of them e.g. bomb explosions etc but they use effects such as subtitles, Fireworks in the Background, Battle scenes.

Editing and Filming
In the music video the large majority of the shots are taken from a motionless position and are transitioned between each different angle/location without there being an obvious transition slide between them. , and I hope it isn't for ours.The editing method used in the music video is called Continuity editing or invisible editing, as this type of editing doesn't draw attention to it from the audience.

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,

In this farewell
There's no blood
There's no alibi
Cause I've drawn regret
From the truth
Of a thousand lies

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

Put to rest
What you thought of me
While I clean this slate
With the hands
Of uncertainty

So let mercy come
And wash away

What I've done
I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

For what I've done
I start again
And whatever pain may come
Today this ends
I'm forgiving what I've done

I'll face myself
To cross out what I've become
Erase myself
And let go of what I've done

(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
What I've done
(Na-na na na)

(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
Forgiving what I've done
(Na-na na na)

(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na na)
(Na-na na)

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.

At the moment there is an error with the video, I got an email from Youtube saying that because We have used the Busted song because it's not owned by us.
There are certain shots that we were missing whilst editing the video.

Illustrate - This is where the meaning of the song's lyrics show meaning in the images seen in the video

Disjunctive - Where the songs meaning is completely ignored and the video has no related meaning

Allite - Sequences of the music video are repeated (e.g. churus sections have similar sections)

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