Lost in a dream
Nothing is what it seems
Searching my head
For the words that you said
Tears filled my eyes
As we said our last goodbyes
The sad scene replays
Of you walking away.
My body aches from mistakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust.
Time and again
She repeats lets be friends
I smile and say yes
Another truth bends,
I must confess.
I try to let go, but I know
Well never end til were dust
We lied to each other again
But I wish I could trust.
My body aches from mustakes
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
That in nothing we trust.
God help me please, on my knees
Betrayed by lust
We lied to each other so much
Now theres nothing we trust.
How could this be happening to me
Im lying when I say, trust me
I cant believe this is trueTrust hurts
Why does trust equal suffering.
Absolutely nothing we trust.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivqKTwmCmks
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Thursday 10 September 2009
Meetings
Wednesday 09/09/09 - Meeting 1
Me and Chris could not agree on a particular song for our video. We sat down and listened to alot of songs within the music genre we had decided (rock - metal). From this, we began considering a Megadeth song - "Trust".
Thursday 10/09/09 - Meeting 2
The class sat down and each group took turns to go through their current ideas. With the use of feedback, everyone was helped to further decide or develop upon their original concepts and ideas. Suggestions were made and possibilities were considered and all in all, people were able to add a bit more detail to their plans. Miss Brookes elaborated on my boundaries of the useage of clothing (for example erotic clothing within the genre). After discussion, me and Chris agreed to use "Trust" by Megadeth song for our video. We are now beginning to form our concepts and ideas for the video around the song.
Friday 11/09/09 - Meeting 3
Chris had looked into whether or not "Trust - Megadeth" had a video already as we could not find one on youtube when we looked, however we had heard the mention of a video. Chris had found that a video definitely did exist and saw it but told me it was not anything special or well known. After discussing this with Miss Bond, we decided to continue with the video regardless. We started looking into other videos we liked the ideas of. "Eat You Alive - Limp Bizkit" was one of these. We liked the idea of how the song began in the video with it coming from the perspective of a girl tied up in a chair, with the camera blurring into focus to give the impression that she had just been kidnapped. We are going to continue looking into videos.
Tuesday 15/09/09 - Meeting 4
We were already aware that we might jeopardize marks for picking an already existant music video. Because of this, me and Chris decided to come up with an extra alternative for a video each. His song of choice was "Megadeth - Addicted to Chaos", a song relatively similar to "Megadeth - Trust". This mean't that we would not have to alter the video too much. My song of choice was "Pantera - Walk", another song of rock metal genre. We have plans for using an abandoned house in Kelvedon Hatch which belongs to a contact of Chris'. All three songs could have videos that would benefit from the usage of a run down house in the middle of no where. We are now beginning the process of getting all the songs lyrics, seeing how they line up with time and we will shortly begin forming out video story boards.
Wednesday 16/09/09 - Meeting 5
Alex is absent today. It has been confirmed that 'Trust' is the song we are going to do. Chris started on the annotation of the lyrics of 'Trust.'
Thursday 17/09/09 - Meeting 6
The entire video narrative is decided and the lyric annotation is complete. I wrote a letter to the producer of the original 'Trust' music video asking for official permission to still use the song.
Friday 18/09/09 - Meeting 7
Chris rung the owner of the building we wanted to film at but the price and hours he offered us to film were impractical to our schedule and insufficient. I went away to research into other locations for our filming and contacted one of my private contacts about a particular piece of property that looked very promising just beyond South Weald. Chris also agreed to this location and showed alot of interest. Storyboarding begun today.
Monday 21/09/09 - Meeting 8
After finalizing some of the details about our new location - a derelict nightclub located just off the motorway past South Weald, and confirming permission with my contact, we have decided on the members of our music video (band member-wise) and are discussing a date to begin filming. We still need to cast the part of the protagonist/villain/captor in our video.
Wednesday 23/09/09 - Meeting 9
We completed out risk assessment and continued work on our story board. We have thought about the potentially scheduling our first filming session in the next 2 weeks, likely to be Sunday - 4/10/09.
Friday 25/09/09 - Meeting 10
We have decided the date of our first filming session to be sunday 4/10/09 and are eagerly awaiting it. We know what we need to bring (drum kit, 2 electric guitars, bass guitar, 4 members of band) and are planning forms of transportation. We would have planned the shoot for the day after tomorrow of sunday 27/09/09, however our drummer has recently been in hospital for an operation and is still recovering.
Tuesday 29/09/09 - Meeting 11
We begun our filming schedule for filming this sunday. The plan is to focus on the performance side of the video, showing the band playing together. Chris (acting as guitarist) will arrive with Andy (bassist) and the bass guitar, an eletric guitar and the drum kit. They will arrive before myself and Matt to set up the drum kit. Me and Matt will meet them there with drum sticks (2 pairs, to be safe incase one set breaks) and the other electric guitar. All is planned and we await sunday.
Work completed on animated storyboards. (Link of story board needed)
Friday 2/10/09 - Meeting 13
Wednesday 30/09/09 - Meeting 12
Planning for the day of filming. Chris is going to pick up Andy and the drum kit on Saturday night, Andy is going to stay over Chris', we go to the location in the morning and set up the drum kit. I am going to pick up the tipod from Lila tomorow and Matt will meet me in the morning and we will arrive at the filming location together.
Sunday 4/10/09 - Meeting 14 (First day of filming)
When Chris and Andy arrived they inspected the premises and set up the drum kit. When myself and Matt arrived we begun filming, starting with shot 5. We filmed all the bands hots used in the introduction, first verse and first chorus.
Monday 5/10/09 - Meeting 15
We uploaded the footage from out first day of filming and begun choosing our favorite takes. We've decided to start filming again on
11th October. Steven Wager's dad will supply transportation for Chris, Fiona (our actress) and the drum kit. In exchange for this Me and Chris will act in Steven's music video.
Wednesday 7/10/09 - Meeting 16
We have confirmed that we can get transportation from Steven's dad and Fiona is avaliable. Today we chose our CD cover and band name: 'Blood of Heroes'
Thursday 8/10/09 - Meeting 17
Today we focused on updating our blogs. Chris called Andy who will call him tomorow to confirm if he is definitely avaliable for Sunday.
Sunday 11/10/09 - Meeting 18
Today focused primarily on filming the performance/drama based scenes. We had problems with a lack of time to film and unpredictable weather.
Tuesday 13/10/09 - Meeting 19
A lot of shouting and argueing about the previous meeting. Chris was concerned about the quality of the footage filmed and felt as if not enough time had been allowed to film. I felt as if Chris was deliberatly ignoring any suggestions. We went thorugh the footage but were unable to upload any due to problems with the software. After viewing footage on the camera I thought it looked pretty effective and useful afterall.
Friday 16/10/09 - Meeting 20
Continued work on the blog and planned what was expected to be our final shoot to obtain our final bits and bobs of footage for the performance side of the video.
Sunday 18/10/09 - Meeting 21
Third day and final day of filming up at the site. After resolving our problems about the last shoot, we arrive with positive attitudes about finishing this video. Our positive attitudes held through even when we discovered that several of the bolts needed to support and hold together the drum kit had not been brought. We used our fine enginuity and quick-thinking initiative to replace the needed bolts with bendy twigs and sticks to balance and keep the drum kit in one piece. All remaining footage needed shot.
Me and Chris could not agree on a particular song for our video. We sat down and listened to alot of songs within the music genre we had decided (rock - metal). From this, we began considering a Megadeth song - "Trust".
Thursday 10/09/09 - Meeting 2
The class sat down and each group took turns to go through their current ideas. With the use of feedback, everyone was helped to further decide or develop upon their original concepts and ideas. Suggestions were made and possibilities were considered and all in all, people were able to add a bit more detail to their plans. Miss Brookes elaborated on my boundaries of the useage of clothing (for example erotic clothing within the genre). After discussion, me and Chris agreed to use "Trust" by Megadeth song for our video. We are now beginning to form our concepts and ideas for the video around the song.
Friday 11/09/09 - Meeting 3
Chris had looked into whether or not "Trust - Megadeth" had a video already as we could not find one on youtube when we looked, however we had heard the mention of a video. Chris had found that a video definitely did exist and saw it but told me it was not anything special or well known. After discussing this with Miss Bond, we decided to continue with the video regardless. We started looking into other videos we liked the ideas of. "Eat You Alive - Limp Bizkit" was one of these. We liked the idea of how the song began in the video with it coming from the perspective of a girl tied up in a chair, with the camera blurring into focus to give the impression that she had just been kidnapped. We are going to continue looking into videos.
Tuesday 15/09/09 - Meeting 4
We were already aware that we might jeopardize marks for picking an already existant music video. Because of this, me and Chris decided to come up with an extra alternative for a video each. His song of choice was "Megadeth - Addicted to Chaos", a song relatively similar to "Megadeth - Trust". This mean't that we would not have to alter the video too much. My song of choice was "Pantera - Walk", another song of rock metal genre. We have plans for using an abandoned house in Kelvedon Hatch which belongs to a contact of Chris'. All three songs could have videos that would benefit from the usage of a run down house in the middle of no where. We are now beginning the process of getting all the songs lyrics, seeing how they line up with time and we will shortly begin forming out video story boards.
Wednesday 16/09/09 - Meeting 5
Alex is absent today. It has been confirmed that 'Trust' is the song we are going to do. Chris started on the annotation of the lyrics of 'Trust.'
Thursday 17/09/09 - Meeting 6
The entire video narrative is decided and the lyric annotation is complete. I wrote a letter to the producer of the original 'Trust' music video asking for official permission to still use the song.
Friday 18/09/09 - Meeting 7
Chris rung the owner of the building we wanted to film at but the price and hours he offered us to film were impractical to our schedule and insufficient. I went away to research into other locations for our filming and contacted one of my private contacts about a particular piece of property that looked very promising just beyond South Weald. Chris also agreed to this location and showed alot of interest. Storyboarding begun today.
Monday 21/09/09 - Meeting 8
After finalizing some of the details about our new location - a derelict nightclub located just off the motorway past South Weald, and confirming permission with my contact, we have decided on the members of our music video (band member-wise) and are discussing a date to begin filming. We still need to cast the part of the protagonist/villain/captor in our video.
Wednesday 23/09/09 - Meeting 9
We completed out risk assessment and continued work on our story board. We have thought about the potentially scheduling our first filming session in the next 2 weeks, likely to be Sunday - 4/10/09.
Friday 25/09/09 - Meeting 10
We have decided the date of our first filming session to be sunday 4/10/09 and are eagerly awaiting it. We know what we need to bring (drum kit, 2 electric guitars, bass guitar, 4 members of band) and are planning forms of transportation. We would have planned the shoot for the day after tomorrow of sunday 27/09/09, however our drummer has recently been in hospital for an operation and is still recovering.
Tuesday 29/09/09 - Meeting 11
We begun our filming schedule for filming this sunday. The plan is to focus on the performance side of the video, showing the band playing together. Chris (acting as guitarist) will arrive with Andy (bassist) and the bass guitar, an eletric guitar and the drum kit. They will arrive before myself and Matt to set up the drum kit. Me and Matt will meet them there with drum sticks (2 pairs, to be safe incase one set breaks) and the other electric guitar. All is planned and we await sunday.
Work completed on animated storyboards. (Link of story board needed)
Friday 2/10/09 - Meeting 13
Wednesday 30/09/09 - Meeting 12
Planning for the day of filming. Chris is going to pick up Andy and the drum kit on Saturday night, Andy is going to stay over Chris', we go to the location in the morning and set up the drum kit. I am going to pick up the tipod from Lila tomorow and Matt will meet me in the morning and we will arrive at the filming location together.
Sunday 4/10/09 - Meeting 14 (First day of filming)
When Chris and Andy arrived they inspected the premises and set up the drum kit. When myself and Matt arrived we begun filming, starting with shot 5. We filmed all the bands hots used in the introduction, first verse and first chorus.
Monday 5/10/09 - Meeting 15
We uploaded the footage from out first day of filming and begun choosing our favorite takes. We've decided to start filming again on
11th October. Steven Wager's dad will supply transportation for Chris, Fiona (our actress) and the drum kit. In exchange for this Me and Chris will act in Steven's music video.
Wednesday 7/10/09 - Meeting 16
We have confirmed that we can get transportation from Steven's dad and Fiona is avaliable. Today we chose our CD cover and band name: 'Blood of Heroes'
Thursday 8/10/09 - Meeting 17
Today we focused on updating our blogs. Chris called Andy who will call him tomorow to confirm if he is definitely avaliable for Sunday.
Sunday 11/10/09 - Meeting 18
Today focused primarily on filming the performance/drama based scenes. We had problems with a lack of time to film and unpredictable weather.
Tuesday 13/10/09 - Meeting 19
A lot of shouting and argueing about the previous meeting. Chris was concerned about the quality of the footage filmed and felt as if not enough time had been allowed to film. I felt as if Chris was deliberatly ignoring any suggestions. We went thorugh the footage but were unable to upload any due to problems with the software. After viewing footage on the camera I thought it looked pretty effective and useful afterall.
Friday 16/10/09 - Meeting 20
Continued work on the blog and planned what was expected to be our final shoot to obtain our final bits and bobs of footage for the performance side of the video.
Sunday 18/10/09 - Meeting 21
Third day and final day of filming up at the site. After resolving our problems about the last shoot, we arrive with positive attitudes about finishing this video. Our positive attitudes held through even when we discovered that several of the bolts needed to support and hold together the drum kit had not been brought. We used our fine enginuity and quick-thinking initiative to replace the needed bolts with bendy twigs and sticks to balance and keep the drum kit in one piece. All remaining footage needed shot.
22/10/09 - Meeting 22
Uploading of all our footage onto the computer begins and we start to become familiarised with Adobe Premiere.
Meetings 4/11/09 - 20/11/09
During this time period, all time spent in class editting video.
Wednesday 9 September 2009
Bullet For My Valentine - "The Poison" - Album Cover Analysis
This album cover is very effective in putting across the concept of the band name for the release of their debut album. The background of the cover is black, with the only other colour (besides the band name/logo in white) in it being the colour red (which usually represents anger/violence/blood). The red is used to show the light on the girl lying dead with the splatters of blood on the floor. This makes the body the most visible thing to us on the cover. It arises the immediate question of how did she die? Murder or suicide? We can see the shadow of her assumed lover over her corpse. We suspect that somehow he is the cause of her death, whether he was the one who actually killed her or he did something that pushed her to kill herself. His right arm is being used to lean against the wall as if it has pained him to witness this sight of his dead loved one. Personally I feel pulled towards the possibility the girl committed suicide as the way the gun in the band’s logo has been positioned next to the out stretched hand of the girl. Coincidental or well planned co ordination of the album cover makes it look as if she’s been the one to use and drop the gun.
Another aspect of the cover to think about is the position of the man’s shadow on her body. It looks like the girl is lying naked on the floor aside from her shoes. This gives the idea that the man was a part of her, was what kept her safe maybe, warm, comfortable. Now she is dead and likely to be because of him. All of this gives us the strong impression that all this emotion and violence is reflected in the band’s music.
Another aspect of the cover to think about is the position of the man’s shadow on her body. It looks like the girl is lying naked on the floor aside from her shoes. This gives the idea that the man was a part of her, was what kept her safe maybe, warm, comfortable. Now she is dead and likely to be because of him. All of this gives us the strong impression that all this emotion and violence is reflected in the band’s music.
Brad Paisley - Mud on the Tires - Album Cover Analysis
Brad Paisley is a pop country singer and is predominantly a solo artist. The majority of his songs are about the various aspects of life related to romance, happiness and growing up. He has been known to stray from these themes occasionally for duet songs. The album cover for Brad Paisley’s album ‘Mud on the Tires’ shows him in a white suit and hat sitting down in the mud in front of his red truck with his guitar. The red truck symbolises his Americanism as a country singer and his guitar is also red to coincide with this colour scheme. The instant message we get from him sitting covered in the mud playing guitar with his ruined pristine white suit is that he does not care; he has a visible passion for the music he plays and guitar, money is of little importance to him and he is all for enjoying his life in the ways that make him happy. From this alone we get quite a hint of what kind of guy he is; care free and a lover of life. There is no fancy concept or art work, just the metaphoric meanings behind the picture. To add to the effect of the white suit, most people would say white is quite a particular colour to wear as the slightest marks or patches of dirt are extremely visible. This is taking a mockery of as he is literally caked in mud.
Something that also adds to his image and explanation of what kind of person he is and music he plays is his guitar model. His guitar seems to be a similar model to that of a Gibson ES355, a very stereotypical guitar of a jazz/folk/country artist. An alternative metaphor for Paisley’s suit is its colour. White is usually a symbol of moral correctness, purity or innocence. The suit he is wearing signifies that that is what he should be. However the mud that has ruined his pristine clean suit are the things he has had to do to fulfil his life and live it to the full that others might consider a staining not only of the suit, but of morals and good ethics.
Something that also adds to his image and explanation of what kind of person he is and music he plays is his guitar model. His guitar seems to be a similar model to that of a Gibson ES355, a very stereotypical guitar of a jazz/folk/country artist. An alternative metaphor for Paisley’s suit is its colour. White is usually a symbol of moral correctness, purity or innocence. The suit he is wearing signifies that that is what he should be. However the mud that has ruined his pristine clean suit are the things he has had to do to fulfil his life and live it to the full that others might consider a staining not only of the suit, but of morals and good ethics.
Fightstar - "Grand Unification" - Album Cover Analysis
My first album cover of analysis is ‘Grand Unification’. This is the debut album from the alternative band Fightstar. The first thing we see in the image is the figures of two females (one child and one adult). We get the hint that they are Japanese as the adult female is holding a Japanese style umbrella and wearing Japanese styled gowns. The two figures have their backs to us, looking forwards, out and around them. We see the general sight that they do; they are surrounded by the destruction of skyscrapers and large buildings and the flooding of a big city. The two females are positioned on an elevated piece of ground up a stair case, but even then only just out of the reach of the waves beneath them. This is quite symbolic and could be one of the examples of the unification. They have nowhere to go and are perched on the edge of destruction. However they seem to have accepted what is going on around them and are just holding one another’s hand. We assume from this that they are mother and daughter. It looks as if they seem calm because of this, the fact that even though there is all of this destruction encircling around them, because they stand unified together, it does not matter, as long as they are together.
The sun in this image also stands out effectively. Because of its orangey glow it gives us the impression that it is the evening and the sun is setting. This presents a rather tranquil atmosphere, despite the destruction the sun shines down upon. If this does not appear to the viewer then the glow could be seen as a particularly ominous effect instead. The suns orangey yellow dim glow creates the imagery of an explosion. This goes well as the sun illuminates the state of destruction that has befallen the city in the background. It seems that even though all the destruction has taken place around the two, the whole world seems so peaceful. This might be the effect the ‘grand unification’ between the mother and the daughter. As long as they have one another, nothing else matters.
The sun in this image also stands out effectively. Because of its orangey glow it gives us the impression that it is the evening and the sun is setting. This presents a rather tranquil atmosphere, despite the destruction the sun shines down upon. If this does not appear to the viewer then the glow could be seen as a particularly ominous effect instead. The suns orangey yellow dim glow creates the imagery of an explosion. This goes well as the sun illuminates the state of destruction that has befallen the city in the background. It seems that even though all the destruction has taken place around the two, the whole world seems so peaceful. This might be the effect the ‘grand unification’ between the mother and the daughter. As long as they have one another, nothing else matters.
Thursday 3 September 2009
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