SR: WEBSITE: Changes

Today, we had a photoshoot with our band members and I wanted to put up the new pictures and edit our website. 

In the links list called "About the Band", I made quite a lot of changes. Firstly, I added the new pictures of the band members and in the near future I also intend to add a small bibiliography or quote from the individual band member. Also it says "About the Band" on the top of the page, where Wix had invented a small text below the title for it to look more realistic. My job has been to change these texts including the band bibliography and the official website text. Today I therefore changed the text beneath the title and I added the new picture of our band.

The text says the following: In 2004, Sykes formed Bring Me the Horizon, a band which rose to fame very quickly. The band released their debut album Count Your Blessings in 2006. Their second album Suicide Season was released on September 29, 2008 and their third studio album There is a Hell. Believe Me, I've Seen It. There is aHeaven, Let's Keep It a Secret on October 4, 2010 and they released their fourth studio album Sempiternal on April 1, 2013 which feature the new member Jordan Fish and Sykes playing rhythm guitar for the album and they released their fifth studio album That's the Spirit on September 11, 2015.

Furthermore, I decided to change the layout of the first page of our official website, since I thought that it was difficult to read the white font on the picture of the band but even with just the logo behind it. Therefore I ended up with a black background where the fond is easily readable and you can see a picture of the band with all of it's band members. The text says: 

Only a year after starting out as a band, Bring Me The Horizon gained significant attention! Composed of a group of 5 inspirational musicians and skillful performers, the artists behind Bring Me The Horizon have throughout the last 12 years earned their reputation as a talented metal core band. By also winning the awards for Best British Band twice and Best Album, BMTH are internationally admired by millions of fans for their distinct and enjoyable musical style. Explore the site and check out their music, tour dates and merch below.

I also decided to add a gallery with a scrolling through rather than just that one image. Now there are images of the band that automatically appear and change after a few seconds, but also it is advertising for the newest merchandise. I put a picture up of the new merchandise (white T-Shirt), where I then added a link that the audience could click on and would automatically be re-directed to the merch site. 

In the future I intend to add a picture of an upcoming concert, where the audience can click on one button where it says "buy tickets here", that then re-directs them to the official BMTH tour dates and places they can buy tickets. I believe that small tricks like these make the website appear more realistic and can also attract a wider audience.

Podcast 13

SR

Script: 

Hello everyone and welcome back to our 13^th weekly podcast. This week Kristian worked a lot on our Digipack in order to get it done for today. Kristian and I worked on getting the website up and running. I worked on the band bibliography and the texts that go onto the website, while Kristian focused on the news, and the gallery links lists. Also, I tried to set up our album and upload all the tracks of BMTH album. In the beginning we found it really difficult but after a while I figured out how to do it and decided to create a tutorial on it which is up on my blog. 

Unfortunately Bronwen and I have been ill, so when we haven’t been there Kristian has focused his lessons on exam preparation, media language and working on website and digipack. Next week we will be filming the performance and narrative for our new music video for the track “Throne”. However we will change the band, since we feel that there isn’t any more time to waste and not all band members were available next week so we might change 2-3 band members such as the lead guitar and the drummer.

SR: GIF in music video

For our new track, there is a part where the lead inger sings: "So you can throw me to the wolves tomorrow I will come back leader of the whole pack". 

We thought that it would look amazing if we included a wolf in the music video. The wolf is a symbol of dominance since it is such a prestigious animal but also of guardianship, ritual, loyalty, and spirit. It is quite fitting for this music video, because the album of the song is "That's the Spirit" and is a lot about spirit and how you can convey negative thoughts into positive ones. 

We have two different opportunities to add the wolf into the music video. One of them would be to have a GIF in the music video, however this would be less use of technology and the GIF would have to be a bit longer than usual unless we layer it well into it. The reason why I thought of the GIF is because it would be easier than creating an animation of a wolf and would also be more real looking than if I would create an animation. 

These are some of the GIF's I found at, mainly on a website called Best Animations:

This is one, where I really liked due to the snow effect, but also because it shows the wolf from a bigger distance in it's entire prestige and power.

This GIF would be perfect for layering, because it features the wolf on the side so we sould layer it well. Also, it is close-up of the wolf's face, which is what particularly caught my attention. 

This GIF, only features the teeth of the wolf and should therefore if being used, appear later in the music video so that the audience knows it is a wolf. It could however also appear in the beginning and make it more mysterious.

This GIF is different because it zooms in on the wolf until it is extreme close-up of the wolf's face. This GIF allows the audience to see the wolf's face in it's entirety and would therefore be useful. There is also the snow effect on it again, which is also an effect I really like. 

The other opportunity would be to include an animation that I would create myself, via an animation software. In case I would decide to create an animation myself I would use "Express Animate" as the program. 

Download here:

http://www.nchsoftware.com/animation/index.html?gclid=CjwKEAiA79zDBRCgyf2FgeiY-CESJABzr0BMS7KanwH4Z29IwKFXw_S8Fn1rWTsrjWJ4k7HN1B2t6BoCwOXw_wcB

SR: Group Pitch 2

I pitched our second group pitch because we split the work so that we each would so something after having changed our track. 

Script: 

Today I will be pitching our idea for our new music video. Last week we decided to change the track, due to finding that our track “Follow You”, was to slow to edit too. Back when we chose the song, we thought that we had a secure idea and that it would be fast to edit, however we kept having trouble editing to the beat, which also resulted in us not having a full cut before Christmas. 

Because we have already done so much work on website, merchandise and setting up social media accounts for Bring Me The Horizon, we quickly concluded that we should only change the track and not the artist. Hence, we have chosen a track called “Throne”, which is also from BMTH “That’s The Spirit” album. 

During our last performance shoot, we experienced some issues, because we had the camera in some shots and then we also didn’t have enough shot variety. Despite the fact that we thought it was enough, it quickly changed once trying to edit it together. Therefore, we will focus on getting as much footage as we possibly can this time. Furthermore, one of the band members lived really far away and this was one of the reasons that he said that he did not wish to be part of the new performance shoot for the new music video. He will most likely be replaced by one of our other classmates, however if this isn’t possible, we will only have 4 band members. 

So, for the performance shoot in the new music video, we intend to film in other places. We didn’t like the place that we had in the skate park, since we thought that the colours were to bright. Also, another classmate used this location for her music video and we found that the location was much more fitting for her music video and track than for ours. 

One of the locations will be set in the woods. This has been inspired by the band twenty-one pilots and their music video for their song “Ride”. We thought this would be more fitting for the location since it is more ominous than the colourful skate park, and also matches up better with the lyrics for our new track. 

We will be using most of the same band members as we did last time, Oli on keyboard, Kristian on bass or lead guitar, Wayne as the singer, Euan or Alex from the auditions as the drummer and then we haven’t decided for the lead guitar yet. However, after last time we got feedback on their costumes and it was concluded that we need to change the drummer’s look. We will try and find him a leather jacket and give him more tattoos if we use Euan. However, we have been thinking about using Alex, because he has a beard and dark hair and also look older and more suitable for the rock genre.  For the keyboarder, we thought that his style was too simple and so we might also give him more tattoos, style his hair differently and give him another T-Shirt to wear. 

The narrative for our new music video has also changed. This time we will have the couple fight in the music video and split up after having shown a sequence of the couple being happy. This is because in our last audience feedback we were told that it was a little bit complicated to understand the story if you had not been told it before watching the music video. Therefore, we intend to make the linear narrative more clear. In terms of cast we will use our lead singer Wayne as the male protagonist and Emilie from our school that we also used in our last music video as our female protagonist. 

For our first music video we had the idea of a bathtub scene, based on the music video from the band Panic at the Disco for their song “This is Gospel”. We thought it was a nice effect to film under water and this time our track has lyrics that would link with shooting under water. 

When the lead singer sings: “I was an ocean, lost in the open”, we intend to film in a pool, where he falls into the pool backwards or we film underwater as he falls in. Also, we will have a running sequence of our male protagonist, which is inspired by the music video for the song Hunger of the Pine by Alt-J. With this running sequence we want to connote the singer being confused about his relationship and running to think about it and run away from his problems.

SR: Production Schedule UPDATE 4

This is the 4th updated production schedule I created and updated. It includes the tasks that we have completed so far, and the ones which are still to be completed. I always like to use color coding since it gives me a great overview of what still needs to be done. 

We have changed our idea and chosen a new track, which means that we need to re-shoot everything after Christmas. This production schedule shows the dates for after Christmas on when we will film. 

Production schedule Update 4 from Sophie2401

KO: UPDATE: Changing Track

We have decided to change the track for our music video. The original track was "Follow You" by "Bring Me The Horizon" and the track we changed to is "Throne" by "Bring Me The Horizon".

(Google Play Music) Lyrics:

Remember the moment you left me alone and
Broke every promise you ever made
I was an ocean, lost in the open
Nothing could take the pain away

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

The sticks and the stones that
You used to throw have
Built me an empire
So don’t even try
To cry me a river
'Cause I forgive you
You are the reason I still fight

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

I’ll leave you choking
On every word you left unspoken
Rebuild all that you’ve broken
And now you know
I’ll leave you choking
On every word you left unspoken
Rebuild all that you’ve broken
And now you know
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

So you can throw me to the wolves
Tomorrow I will come back
Leader of the whole pack
Beat me black and blue
Every wound will shape me
Every scar will build my throne

The reason for changing track was we were not to happy with the narrative we chose for the "Follow You" and we decided that we could create a better narrative with "Throne". This will also give use the opportunity to change location of the performance, I felt this new song had more opportunities for technology such as green screen and layering. We also decided on this song as we felt it would be easier to edit to. 

Podcast 12

SR

Script:

Hello everyone and welcome to our 12^th weekly podcast after the Christmas holidays. During the holidays our group talked a lot to each other and we decided that we wanted to change our track. We came to the conclusion that it was really hard to edit to the song “Follow You”, especially because it wasn’t as fast paced as a usual rock song. Also, after some audience feedback we discovered that our narrative idea wasn’t clear unless we had told the audience the story beforehand. Therefore, we sat down and talked about changing the track to another BMTH song. We didn’t want to change the artist since we thought that we had spent too much time and effort on creating website, digipack and social media accounts in order to throw all the work away and start from the beginning. We will create a new narrative story and also re-shoot performance in different locations than the skate park. I will do a pitch, that will explain everything in detail next week.