We decided again to try and gather information in a different way to just writing a questionnaire. We set up a Facebook group as I mentioned earlier and we also decided to ask people questions about MUSE while filming them (See attached video). This we believe gives the research a fresh and interesting look.
We found everyone very helpful and more then willing to talk with us about MUSE. We also found out just how popular MUSE are, as everyone we asked to answer the questions knew something about them; this was a major help. We would like to Thanks everyone who gave up their time to talk to us.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Friday, 20 November 2009
Shot list and Story boards
1)Long shot of horizon.
2)Medium long shot of girl on bench (Zoom in on girl) to a medium close up.
3)Medium close up on the phone she is holding.
4)Close up of mobile phone receieving a text.
5)Medium shot of guy rolling over to look at text.
6)Close up of message.
7)Close up of reaction shot guy smiling.
8)Medium shot of guy getting out of bed.
9)Tracking shot of guy going down stairs.
10)Long shot of guy walking out of the front door.
11)Tracking shot of guy walking down the street.
12)Tracking shot of bike running into guy.
13)Medium shot of guy reacting.
14)Tracking shot of guy walking along another street.
15)Close up of eyeline match between guy and Girl 1.
16)Hopefully band shots/masked singer.
17)Tracking shots of Girl 1 walking.
18)Close up of Girl 1's feet tripping.
19)Medium close up of Girl 1's items in her bag going all over the floor.
20)Medium shot and Tracking as Girl 2 helps pick up items.
21)Medium shot of Girl 1's reaction.
22)Tracking shot of Girl 2.
23)Hopefully band shots/ masked singer shots.
24)Long shot of Girl 1 meeting Girl 3.
25)Tracking shot of Girl 1 and Girl 3 walking.
26)Tracking shot of Girl 1 and Girl 3 walking.
27)Tracking shot of Girl 2, stops on step.
28)Close up of bird poo landing on Girl 2.
29)Close up of reaction.
30)Long shot of Girl 1 and Girl 3 playing ball as Girl 2 walks past.
31)Close up of Girl 2 as ball hits her.
32)Close up reaction shot of Girl 2.
33)Hopefully band shots/ masked singer shots.
34)Tracking shot of Girl 3 walking.
35)Tracking shot of Girl 3 walking.
36)Long shot of Girl 3 eyeing up Guy 2.
37)Long shot of Girl 3 falling over a tree root.
38)Close up of Girl 3 finding money.
39)Long shot of horizon
We also wrote an e-mail to Muse's record lable (Warner Bros) asking if it would be possible to use their song for our coursework.
Dear Sir/Madam
My media group and I are making a music video for our coursework, and, we chose Muse as our inspiration and would like to use their song 'Feeling Good' for our video.
We are writing to ask you permission if we can use said song as it would be greatly apreciated.
We would like to thank you for your time.
Yours faithfully
Emi, Vicky, Amy and Lewis
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Our video information.
Our Video:
Our idea is to convey a variety of annoying situations which would defiantly not make anyone feel good, but the irony of our video is that everyone smiles after the bad scenarios happen to them. We have also decided to include in our video various scenes of the band at the chorus of the song. This shows that the band is still pinnacle to the music behind the video. Although unfortunately due to the fact that none of our group could get hold of the appropriate instruments we decided to just make it one boy with his guitar.
Some ideas for the situations in the video include; Someone tripping and spilling everything from their bad; a bike hitting someone on the path, a girl falling over after seeing a boy she liked and so on.
We have also tried to include a sense of misdirection in the video, a slight in continuity. We got our inspiration for this from the MUSE video Hysteria. It tells a story which is easily understood but it is not in the chronological order in which the events should have happened.
Ours is not as extreme as theirs, but, we have tried to change a few scenes so they perhaps aren’t quite in the same place, and we have shot a few scenes of us walking in different locations to also create this sense of misdirection.
Despite deciding it would be interesting to make the characters smile we did want to have different people portraying different reactions. For example, when Vicky and I walk through the gardens we don't smile; even when Amy helps Vicky pick up her things from the floor she doesn't acknowledge her. This is another way in which we decided to mix up the the song, locations, plot and subplot of our peice.
Also we wanted to shoot the video in the local gardens; this is because we know the songs continual theme is nature. This we thought could be a good way of keeping some of the continuity from the song, but in a different sense. Instead of keeping it in the scenes or locations we thought the lyrics would be more effective and show a deeper side to our video.
Here is the link to the MUSE Hysteria video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7la0SndoCI
This is our video.
Our idea is to convey a variety of annoying situations which would defiantly not make anyone feel good, but the irony of our video is that everyone smiles after the bad scenarios happen to them. We have also decided to include in our video various scenes of the band at the chorus of the song. This shows that the band is still pinnacle to the music behind the video. Although unfortunately due to the fact that none of our group could get hold of the appropriate instruments we decided to just make it one boy with his guitar.
Some ideas for the situations in the video include; Someone tripping and spilling everything from their bad; a bike hitting someone on the path, a girl falling over after seeing a boy she liked and so on.
We have also tried to include a sense of misdirection in the video, a slight in continuity. We got our inspiration for this from the MUSE video Hysteria. It tells a story which is easily understood but it is not in the chronological order in which the events should have happened.
Ours is not as extreme as theirs, but, we have tried to change a few scenes so they perhaps aren’t quite in the same place, and we have shot a few scenes of us walking in different locations to also create this sense of misdirection.
Despite deciding it would be interesting to make the characters smile we did want to have different people portraying different reactions. For example, when Vicky and I walk through the gardens we don't smile; even when Amy helps Vicky pick up her things from the floor she doesn't acknowledge her. This is another way in which we decided to mix up the the song, locations, plot and subplot of our peice.
Also we wanted to shoot the video in the local gardens; this is because we know the songs continual theme is nature. This we thought could be a good way of keeping some of the continuity from the song, but in a different sense. Instead of keeping it in the scenes or locations we thought the lyrics would be more effective and show a deeper side to our video.
Here is the link to the MUSE Hysteria video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7la0SndoCI
This is our video.
About our Audience research.
Muse Facebook Group.
We have set up a group on Facebook in the hope of getting opinions on the existing video and other MUSE videos. Myself and Amy have both been active members in this group and have posted comments and links for the members to look at and comment on. We have sent out e-mails requesting people to join in with the gourp and give us their views.
We set up the Facebook Group for our audience research as we wanted to do something different to just doing a questionnaire. We also thought that as most of our friends have an account with Facebook it would a quick and helpful way of gathering information, as well as appealing to poeple on a more personal level.
This is the link to our Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?v=photos&ref=sgm&id=1225817588#/group.php?gid=126893427167
Related MUSE video links.
Video Links
The videos I have chosen all have something which adds a weird edge to them. Granted MUSE videos in general always seem to have something different about them, that is why they are so well known and eagerly anticipated throughout the music world.
Our group decided to do something a little different to the obvious artistic and surreal videos that MUSE release. We wanted it to be very much like an average day, no amazing special effects or millions of extras. We did keep in that certain surreal quality though, not to the extent that MUSE do, but a hint of it none the less. This is apparent in our in continuity of the locations; not enough so it looks like obvious carelessness but an adequate amount so it can be seen as an obvious mistake.
Feeling Good (Live at Wembley Stadium):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PN6egPgazA
Invincible (Music Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5V8We3hgg
Starlight (Music Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgum6OT_VH8
Knights of Cydonia (Music Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sBOsh-vyI
I have also found some different versions of the song "Feeling Good" being performed by other artist.
Nina Simone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck&feature=related
Michale Buble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI
Videos from: Youtube.
The videos I have chosen all have something which adds a weird edge to them. Granted MUSE videos in general always seem to have something different about them, that is why they are so well known and eagerly anticipated throughout the music world.
Our group decided to do something a little different to the obvious artistic and surreal videos that MUSE release. We wanted it to be very much like an average day, no amazing special effects or millions of extras. We did keep in that certain surreal quality though, not to the extent that MUSE do, but a hint of it none the less. This is apparent in our in continuity of the locations; not enough so it looks like obvious carelessness but an adequate amount so it can be seen as an obvious mistake.
Feeling Good (Live at Wembley Stadium):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PN6egPgazA
Invincible (Music Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_5V8We3hgg
Starlight (Music Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pgum6OT_VH8
Knights of Cydonia (Music Video):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_sBOsh-vyI
I have also found some different versions of the song "Feeling Good" being performed by other artist.
Nina Simone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8tuTSi6Sck&feature=related
Michale Buble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edwsf-8F3sI
Videos from: Youtube.
Muse Information.
Muse Research on the band.
Band Members: Matthew Bellamy Chris Wolstenholme Dominic Howard
Formed: Teignmouth, Devon in 1994
Genre: Alternative Rock (a fusion of progressive rock, classical and electronica)
Performance Style: Energetic and ExtravagantAlbums:
Showbiz (1999),
Origin of Symmetry (2001),
Absolution (2003),
Black Holes and Revelations (2006),
which earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination and 3rd place in NME Albums of the Year 2006.
The Resistance (2009)
Music Awards: In total they have received 24 awards out of 60 nominations including 5 MTV Europe Music Awards, 5 Q Awards, 6 NME Awards, 2 Brit Awards and 4 Kerrang!
AwardsPhases: Formation and Early Years (1992 - 1997),
First Extended Plays (EP's) and Showbiz (1998 - 2000),
Origin of Symmetry (2001 - 2002),
Absolution (2003 - 2005),
Black Holes and Revelations and HAARP, one of Muse's live album and video recordings (2006 - 2008),
The Resistance (2009 - Present day)
Achievements: Muscle Museum, their second EP reached No. 3 in indie singles chart. The album Origin of Symmetry was given 9 out of 10 by NME.
It was also placed 74th in 100 Greatest Albums Ever in Q Magazine.
Absolution went Gold in the United States. Black Holes and Revelations charted No. 1 in the UK, most of Europe and Australia.
In the United States it also reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.
Knights of Cydonia was voted No. 1 in Triple J Hottest 100 for 2007.
Source of Research: Wikipedia
Band Members: Matthew Bellamy Chris Wolstenholme Dominic Howard
Formed: Teignmouth, Devon in 1994
Genre: Alternative Rock (a fusion of progressive rock, classical and electronica)
Performance Style: Energetic and ExtravagantAlbums:
Showbiz (1999),
Origin of Symmetry (2001),
Absolution (2003),
Black Holes and Revelations (2006),
which earned the band a Mercury Prize nomination and 3rd place in NME Albums of the Year 2006.
The Resistance (2009)
Music Awards: In total they have received 24 awards out of 60 nominations including 5 MTV Europe Music Awards, 5 Q Awards, 6 NME Awards, 2 Brit Awards and 4 Kerrang!
AwardsPhases: Formation and Early Years (1992 - 1997),
First Extended Plays (EP's) and Showbiz (1998 - 2000),
Origin of Symmetry (2001 - 2002),
Absolution (2003 - 2005),
Black Holes and Revelations and HAARP, one of Muse's live album and video recordings (2006 - 2008),
The Resistance (2009 - Present day)
Achievements: Muscle Museum, their second EP reached No. 3 in indie singles chart. The album Origin of Symmetry was given 9 out of 10 by NME.
It was also placed 74th in 100 Greatest Albums Ever in Q Magazine.
Absolution went Gold in the United States. Black Holes and Revelations charted No. 1 in the UK, most of Europe and Australia.
In the United States it also reached No. 9 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart.
Knights of Cydonia was voted No. 1 in Triple J Hottest 100 for 2007.
Source of Research: Wikipedia
Images from: Google
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