2nd day of filming- Jacks house

We filmed at Jacks today, we got there at 6pm with everything being set up by 7pm we began. We were told they had to finish up at 8pm or around then so we needed, almost, to rush.
They had a new guitar player to our surprise, and the guitarist had brought his younger brother who wanted to do some promo shots of the band. So this room being fairly small had 5 members of the band, a photographer, and Charlie and I filming. Overall 8 of us in this tiny room.

Chris helped bring the equipment over, and then later went before we began filming.
With 2 lights in the room too, they were awfully hot and we had to really pay attention to health and safety as we wanted to be moving them around. There were plenty of wires dragged around the floor. Being a band that jumps around and moves about, most definitely fast paced, we had to be wary of them tripping over, breaking themselves, or equipment.

We decided that getting the new guitarist in wasn't too important as he hasn't been mentioned anywhere else, although we still we be putting him in the video, yet there won't be any information about him, and the past promo shots have been without him, the professionally ones.

We got all the footage we needed to edit, and it turns out we'll take about 5 shots from those two 25 minute videos because they didn't have time to sync the physical playing to the actual song, we so had to do this at a later date. The shots were good but rare, and we got the odd one which we thought would really help symbolise the genre.
We now have a plan for our next filming date in which we have too place the band ourselves, in a particular position so we can easily film them, and get particular shots of them without being too messy, and altogether we'll get twelve sturdy shots of the band.

Location to film, Jacks house

Location Finders Checklist

Production Title: Death of a Devil
Shoot Dates: 18th December - 22nd January
Location address-
Location contact: 0786374112
Location contact mobile number and Email: 0786374112
Location telephone: 07957480142

Directions from college to location:

Is the location right for the script: N/A right for our shooting purposes

How noisy is the location? Will recording sync sound be a problem:
Yes it would be, but in this case we're not syncing sound we film and put the track on afterwards

Is the location light enough?: We will need extra lighting

Is there a power supply at the location: Yes

Is the location heated: Yes

How long does it take to get to the location: 45 minutes

How will you get to the location?: Bus or car

How much will it cost to get to the location: £1.30

Is the location big enough to accomodate the cast and crew? : 4 band members, 3 crew, yes, just.

Where are the nearest toilets? : In the house

Notes: Filming in more than one room,and in the street.

Suffolk New College Rope Walk Ipswich, IP4 01473 255 885

1.	Head east on Rope Walk toward Regent St	59 ft
2.	Turn left at Regent St	184 ft
3.	Turn left at B1075/St Helen's St Continue to follow St Helen's St	0.3 mi
4.	Continue onto A1156/St Margaret's St Continue to follow A1156 Go through 1 roundabout	0.8 mi
5.	Slight left at B1067	2.0 mi
6.	Turn right at Paper Mill Ln	1.9 mi
7.	At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit	0.3 mi
8.	Continue straight onto Old Ipswich Rd	0.1 mi
9.	Continue onto Norwich Rd Destination will be on the left	0.2 mi

East Of England Co-op 53 Norwich Road Barham, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP6 0DH

Graph results of music genre question

From the chart above, it shows the genre of music on the left, of which there are twelve, and along the bottom are the number of people that chose each genre, altogether we gave the questionnaire to 25 people.
General pop, and pop punk seem to be the most popular amongst the few people we asked. We would decipher pop as the mainstream chart music, whereas pop punk music are bands such as Sum 41 and New Found Glory, which are interestingly fairly old bands.

On the graph those of which don't have a bar at all meant that 0 people preferred that genre. Each person was only allowed one vote, but now we think maybe 2 would have given us a more varied bar graph.
Our pop promo is being based on a hardcore band, now we did purposely stray away from people we assumed would like this genre, hence the result on the graph only being one. So we aren't sceptical about our video being popular, we know people that enjoy this genre. We though including this question although vague may give us a good idea of what the possible audience like. Considering pop punk was joint top I think this gives us an advantage.

One of the questions in the questionnaire was- what does the hardcore genre mean too you?
A lot of people we asked came up with the sensible answers we were praying for. Ideally at this day and age, hardcore is a completely different thing too people of an older generation, but sometimes not even that, people in their twenties and upwards have adapted to what hardcore is at this time. Hardcore as I've mentioned before has been popular during the time of facist yet as time went on the Hardcore used to be a genre of dance music, the kind of music that would be played when you went 'clubbing'. Many albums are still and have been released which is for example called a 'hardcore compilation' which is composed of all the mainstream DJ's and artist to do with dance/techno/trance, in a hardcore way.

I came up with the idea of going onto google, and typing 'Hardcore music' into the search engine, funnily enough the first link was a wikepedia link describing the genre.

• Hardcore, also known as hardcore punk, a sub-genre of punk rock music
• Hardcore techno, a style of electronic music

Another one of the questions featured in the questionnaire was:
Do you prefer a pop promo with narrative (more of a storyline) OR A performance (i.e. dance routine)

For this question, the people were split into two. The answer of 'a performance' had one more vote than the other. So generally they were liked as much as each other. Our video contains a bit of both, maybe not so much a dance routine, but a live performance, it gave us hope that not every video needs to be neat with a continuous story throughout.
We asked why one might prefer a video with performance, their answers were that it shows that artist/band for who they really are. Shows that the band/artist have real energy. They liked the fact that the whole video isn't acted and scripted, as if the band got to really choose what they wanted in the video rather than going by standard strict guidelines.

As for having a promo with a narrative people referred to sad videos mostly, which made us think that when there is a storyline within most videos it is a majority of the time quite sad, as it may be easier to portray a sad story through a video. Also if it were a more en lighting video they would probably include more of a performance. The people we asked enjoyed having a storyline in the video because they felt it could be something they can relate too.

Target audience- Questionnaire

Interview of Ten Years

The whole purpose of this interview is too help the audience get an idea of who they are, who they want too be, and who they want too connect with, as well as getting to know the band personally, the questions are fairly vague, rather minimalist to give the full potential for a good answer and a wider range of answers, it's very much based on their music, and themselves as a band rather than a one to one interview. We want to know how they convey their image and who their ideal audience is, and where they'd like to be 'ten years' from now.

1) What are you listening to at this moment?

2) What bands/artists influenced you to start your band

3) Who is your favourite musical icon?

4) When you compose a song where do you get your ideas from and how does a song evolve?

5) Why choose the current artwork you have at the moment, does it represent anything in particular?

6) What tracks do the band most enjoy performing live and why?

7) How would you describe your current image and how to you want to represent and convey yourself to listeners and potential listeners?

8) Anything you would like to tell your current or potential fans?

9)Where would you like to be ten years from now? (ha ha) ;)


ANSWERS: Jake Bowman on behalf of Ten Years as well as himself

1. Wolves in the throne room, I hate myself, welcome the plague year, the effort, Neil perry, saves the day, make do and mend

2. Black flag, modern life is war

3. Jeffrey Eaton, vocalist of modern life is war. The album "witness" is perfection lyrically and musically

4. Find a rad chord that just sounds horrible and work from there then come up with a few riffs and I'm done. but lyrically most of the songs are more about my perception of the world and everyone it. its just my disappointment in everything I'm not much of an optimist. also we touch on subjects that I've experienced and the others in the band have experienced personally.

5. It just shows that we're not a band that accepts the way society is today. like I don't expect you'd see many people wearing a t-shirt with an inverted cross with some rotting heads on it unless you actually wanted to make a point.

6. I prefer playing our newer stuff live its more true to me and it's not like conventional hardcore it's darker with a lot of inspiration from other styles of music such as black metal, sludge, 90's screamo. our newest song ruins is the title track of our new demo CD that's gonna come out sometime in 2010 it pretty much is the epitome of the disappointment i feel, the lines;

"this world is in ruins
with no sense of hope i walk alone
but at least I'm comforted by the fact that
humanity is falling on its knees
with only ourselves to blame"

Sum us up pretty much. but yeah ruins is my favourite track to play its just starts slow builds up slows down and builds up again with a ending which is just havoc.. but yeah its my favourite track to play as its just full of energy and is one to get people moving.

7. I'm not one for an image i just have no problem in shoving how i feel down peoples throats whether they like it or not hence I'm not in this band for the popularity I'm in it to put my anger into something that's kinda productive. and if listeners get one thing from the band i want it to be that this world is going to hell for example the Copenhagen summit that just happened they're trying to save the planet but some countries wont budge what they've agreed to do so far is not enough, it's like are you fucking retarded? if you don't do anything the planets fucked 'cos you cant be bothered to cut carbon emissions in your country... yeah i hate everyone.

8. we're not gonna make a change, we're just 4 angry kids that are still fighting against the conventional way of life and want to let people know that this world is not a happy place deep down



DONE!


Hope you liked that, was it crazy enough for you?
the funny thing is ..its all true.

Here are the lyrics for the pop promo-
Death of A Devil

Why did you have to fuck my life up so bad
all i feel for you is pure hatred
if the rumours I've heard are true
then thank fuck you're gone
all i ever wanted was to see you fucking die
and now I'm stuck in this hollow
a never ending dream
this is my eternity
a dark hell from what nights never seem to end,
all i have is regret
regret caused by abandoning hope
and everything i could of loved
but may he have mercy on me
'cos I'm not a kid
I've had my last chance
and the glory never came
my last dance is over
the last curtain calls

15th December, first filming session

Today was our first day too attempt filming after last year this was only our 2nd time using cameras and it was a trouble having to get used to them again. We got there eventually with 2 cameras and 2 tripods as we trudged into town with the intention of filming people walking down the high street, just a few shots possibly about ten minutes altogether just to put some little sections into the video.
We decided against the idea completely and came up with another. We rang Jack the guitarist of the band, and asked what he was doing, as we were supposed to be using him to film as well.
Turns out the band had a gig that night, in Norwich. Who were we too pass up the opportunity? We decided to take up on the offer and got a train to Norwich so we were ready too meet the band there.

It took place in 'The marquee' pub, a very grotty pub, where there weren't many people, but it was after all a Tuesday night. There were 3 bands playing, and Ten Years were the 2nd on the bill- which was a good place to be!! The first band warmed the crowd up and then Ten Years began to develop some atmosphere into the place. The headlining band was the one that everyone came too see, so either way, the bands all, brought in the people.

Charlie and I were at the ready with our cameras, but no tripods, we wanted all handheld footage to give the filming a bit more of an 'edge' with a more authentic feel. The disadvantage to this was there was a lot of footage that could have been excellent but the lack of lighting definitely tainted a lot of what we got. As you can see from the pictures below, which aren't that clear anyway, there isn't a lot of lighting in the place, it's basically a garage extention. A really good venue though, but we should have thought to bring extra lighting, hopefully the footage will turn out well!

The Back Room-
THE BACK ROOM at Marquee Norwich has quickly become one of the best up and coming venues in Norwich with some great acts and a great atmosphere to match, at THE BACK ROOM we strive to make the gigging experience as easy and enjoyable as possible and will help out in any way we can. We have a team of regular promoters who offer you the best in up and coming bands from across the uk and overseas. THE BACK ROOM is a venue run by musicians for musicians and we stay true to this by making all the shows as low cost entry as we can. We hope to see ya at a show soon!

Group Treatment: Cinematography (My Contribution)

For our tasks to be completed accurately I took into consideration various rules, codes and conventions use by professionals, when filming with ay type of video camera. These include "Framing" "Match on action","180 degree line rule" and "Handles" amongst many other things.

Although we will be using many rules too film, we can't make the video entirely smooth, the typical characteristics of our video should be edgy messy and gritty.

For the establishing shot, we wanted the whole band, in a VWS (Very wide shot) along with a long shot, this will then contain the landscape but gives the viewer a more specific idea of setting. A long shot may show the viewers the building where the action will take place, such as our brick wall, with a very minimalist background. We want the members of the band to be wearing clown masks to give an eerie feeling to the whole video, or just the beginning to create a an intense impact for the audience.

In slow motion we'll slowly zoom out, and a low angle is a camera angle that looks up at the subject. This is the opposite of a high angle and makes the subject look more powerful. This can make the audience feel vulnerable and small by looking up at the character. This can help the responder feel empathy if they are viewing the frame from another character's point of view. four will hopefully reach the floor at the same time and there'll be a 'booming' sound effect, as they hit the floor. 3rd shot will be a close up of all four mask faces fitting tightly into the shot.

We will also be using space in four ways

1)INTIMATE
Eighteen inches away. Distance of LOVE, COMFORT, TENDERNESS between individuals

This will be used during the middle of the video, when they are all hanging out. And we can just get natural shots of them. It'll be very much like a documentary or following a band on tour.

2)PERSONAL
-Eighteen inches to about four feet away. Reserved for friends and acquaintances

This will be used during the middle of the video, when they are all hanging out. And we can just get natural shots of them. It'll be very much like a documentary or following a band on tour. Considering they are all round one band members house, we'll get the atmosphere and comfort that one will have in their own home.

3)SOCIAL

-Four feet to about twelve feet away. Business and casual social gatherings

4)PUBLIC
-Twelve to about twenty feet away