Album Cover

We have now finalised which album cover to go with. We decided to use the idea of making the artist shown on the cover wear dark clothing. We also discussed another idea. Instead of our origional idea where we wanted to conceal part of our artist's identity, we will now fully show who he is because we want the audience to know who the killer is in the narrative.

Now that we have finalised the idea for out album cover, we will upload an image of our cover onto our blog as soon as possible.

New narrative idea

Our idea for our narrative before was making most of our video a first person shot of events that happened in a party. At first we thought this was a good idea, but we later realised that most of the footage that we recorded from a party was too abstract, and would have therefore meant that the narrative would have been harder for the audience to follow.

Now, we have changed our ideas, so that the narrative is more clear and can more easily be followed. The main plot of our music video is now about a person being chased through a set location (which will be decided) after a night out partying. This way, we would not need to include as much abstract footage because the main focus of the video is what happens after the party, instead of what happens in the party.

album covers

Today, we decided to change the idea for our album cover. Our first main idea involved the person shown on the album cover wearing bright clothing, which would appeal to our audience as bright colours are a usual convention of psytrance music videos. Our album cover idea today involved concealing our artist's identity. Conventionally, psytrance artists are not seen during music videos, and we did not want to break this convention, so we made sure our artist's identity is partly covered.

We did this by making him wear shades and wearing a hoodie. This effectively created the impression that our artist's identity is not supposed to be seen by the audience, which is how we stuck to the conventions.

We now have to choose out of these two ideas. Both of the photo ideas have been uploaded onto a computer and we will soon decide which idea to use for our cover.

The full lyrics.

After further tests on convicts we have concluded that the excesive exposure to the frequency 65Hz can result in mass brain meltdown, causing th person to become insane or leave reality itself.

After repeating the 65Hz frequency at 145 BPM for 3 hours test subjects begin to throw there hands in the air wildly, stomp thier feet, but in some cases they couldnt handle the sound anymore, they went so mad they tried to murder everyone in sight.

But they dont kill you in a mad bloodlust manner, they tees you, mess with you head, almost as if they wanted you to become insane aswell.

These are our final lyrics although can be changed at any moment depending on development of ideas.

Props and settings

As I have said in a previous post, our location for our filming of our music video should be relevant to our genre of music. We decided that we should do most of the filming in a place like the school hall or drama, where it is a wide open space and it can easily be made to look like a party location.

We now also need to decide which props to incorporate in our music video. We would need to add props in the video that would relate to the conventions of our genre, psytrance. These props could be items such as decks, bright florescent lighting, etc. By doing this, we will more effectively appeal to our audience. We will do further research to help us find out more about conventional props used in psytrance videos and use the results from our research to help us to determine what prop will be used in our video.

Narrative finalized

Our Psytrance conventions have been decided. we are going to use a narrative whilst also using shots of the artist. So far what we want to do is use push ins of our artist on a white background with him mouthing the lyrics, whilst this is going on jump cuts will be used to move between different shots of  someone being chased through Newport at night. These different shots will include over the shoulder shots,tracking shots,POV and various different camera positions to give the idea of an intense chase happening.The chase being the narrative and the push ins of our artist as the abstract.

Story boarding

Today I started to story bored and had to start working out time scaling for the track, but we ran into a problem. The music from the CD is burnt as a CDA not as an MP3, also the original CD is broken. Because of the circumstances we have spoken to Clayden and requested another CD and we are meeting him today at 1:10 PM.

Once we have finalised our track, again we can finish off story bording and then film the story bored.