PLANNING: Tools used

I have had to use several different tools to help me make my video and digipacks. One of the most usefull tools i have at my disposal is Adobe Photoshop CS3 this helps me cut and paste the heads, the background and all of my digipack together. Im also using Adobe Premier Pro and iMovie to create the film. For the animated section of the video im using a programme called 3DS Max.

PLANNING: Format - Text

Im using a simple text format called "Graffiti Three" I chose this font because its a little wierd and i think this fits in well with the video as well as all the other choices i have made about the band. This will be used for the bands main logo. The other font i will be using is "Franklin Gothic" im using this because it is easy to read and neat, but i will be moving it around and crowding it together so it is important that i had picked a very simple but easy to read font.

RESEARCH: Influences

The Residents: One of the people who influenced the idea for my video, specifically the animal heads, was the residents. They change the heads of the band on many covers and videos to things such as eye balls. You can read more about them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Residents

Slipknot:This band also cover up their faces using masks at all times, they masks are usually wierd or scary, which makes it similar to us changing the heads to animal heads. You can read more about them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipknot_(band)

Sound Garden: Have made some very surreal music videos, such as black hole sun, and this could be attributed to my music video.

You can read more about them here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Garden

There is also a clear influence in my video, as well as in the digipack, where there have been influences from The Beetles

RESEARCH: Moodboard

This is the Moodboard i created for my project.

PLANNING: Permission Email

This is a copy of the permission email i sent to the record company who own "aint no rest for the wicked" to use the song for my coursework


Dear Sir or Madam

For our ‘A’ Level Media Studies coursework we have to make a music video to accompany a song. For our project we would like to use Ain’t No Rest For The Wicked by Cage The Elephant and are seeking your permission.

The resulting music video will not be used for commercial gain, will be hosted on a private coursework blog and also rendered on to DVD for the attention of our teacher and the coursework moderator. Should we not hear from you to the contrary within 14 days of the date of this email we will assume that your are happy for us to use this music under a fair use arrangement.

Should you require any further information please contact our teacher, Mr Scargill on scargill@guilsborough.northants.sch.uk

So far i have not received an email back.

PLANNING: Desicions

The song I have chosen to do for my Music Video is - Ain't no rest for the wicked By Cage The Elephant. I have chosen to work on my own to do this music video because not many people know the song and would be hard to do it well with people who don't know the song. Also I have a very strong idea of how I want the video to look already.

Preliminary task - Monster, The Automatic

This is my preliminary piece for the music video's.