Shoot Plan

We're planning on using the soul tree by the corn exchange to film, however they want £200, if this can't be worked round we will use the corner house which is a much easier venue to secure, just not quite as suited. I have cast sorted

Key cast members

This is Tom (left) and Rosie (right). Tom and Rosie make up the band, Betty and will be performing in the video as the band.

This is Becky, she will be playing the part of the stalker girl that is trying to get Toms attention. i've chosen Becky because she is reliable, enthusiastic and a big fan of the band.

possible difficulties

One thing that Pete pointed out in class was the fact the the singing in Slits on your wrists is layer up and could therefore become difficult to lipsync. How ever i don't see this as a problem as i will have acces to a version of the song that hasnt had the lyrics layerd up on yet, so i can sync to that then sync the 2 tracks together and take away the original one, being left with the track with layerd up lyrics and a lip synced video.

i think The Avalanches would have probally employed a similar technique to makeing their video for Frontier Psychiatrist

effects

theres a specific effect i want to use at the start of the video which ive seen used many places but pimp my ride is the only one i can remember. Baisicly you take a tracking shot of the girl walking to the venue and edit it so that she jumps forwards in time with the beat of the drum in the song.

ive been trying for ages to find an example of this but cant

online moodboard

Music video pitch

for my music video i'm going to be using the song 'Slits on your wrists' by Betty the song is about a teenage girl giving into social peer pressure and changing her image to try and stand out and make the guy in the band (tom) like her. how ever he doesn't care, thinks she's acting stupid and childish and is just embarrassing. For the video i want to shoot at the soul tree in town, i have approached them about it. My friend Becky has agreed to play the girl in the video. the video will start with short fades of her 'dressing up emo' as the lyrics depict. then the music develops an obvious drum beat to which she will be walking to the venue where betty are playing and jumping forward on the beat, and up the stairs into the venue. she will head straight to the toilet to drink her stolen vodka, as the lyrics once again depict. she then goes back to the venue and watches the band, trying to get noticed. at points she will blend into the crowd and it will turn to a live video and at other times the crowd will disappear. at one point the song brakes down and has just a vocal solo to which i want to green screen Rosie (the female in the band) dancing and singing. and a similar effect for tom at the end when he has a vocal solo

Song Lyrics

theses are the lyrics to the song im planning on using by Betty

you dressed up emo to his gig
stole some vodka took a swig
and as it burned your throat you looked at him
and wondered if he thought you were thin

can't wait to recall the night to the toffs at school
yeah his band's song is cool
have to say he's no james blunt
and when you talk to him you found he was a cunt

his girlfriend is giving you a dirty stare
his girlfriend is giving you a dirty stare

he doesn't care how you dress to his gig
if you steal vodka take a swig
it slips down your throat you look at him
you realize he doesn't give a shit if you're fat
or if you're thin

so you recall the night to the toffs at school
now you look uncool
and off your ipod you delete james blunt
because you think it makes you look like a cunt
it doesn't

i think the shit is hitting the fan
i've been putting up with behavior so uneven its giving me a streaky tan
one minute you're so loud the next you're not there
the toffs ignore you the emos don't care
as you sprinkle your sadness everywhere
i wonder why i hand my life out to share

he's got a girlfriend and he blocked you on msn
he doesn't spare a thought
he resisted cause the facade was a shit idea
now your caught
despite your best efforts you never kissed
now all you've got is slits on your wrists

his girlfriend is giving you a dirty stare
his girlfriend is giving you a dirty stare

artists similar to Betty

Another band i find have even more of a likeness to betty is Crystal Castles, they have the same styleised, out of tune singing and also have the electro synths and electronically generated beats.

here is an example 

Artists similar to Betty

When thinking of artists with a similar musical style to betty, i immediately think of Noah and the whale. although they are different genres, the stylised out of tune singing make them sound alike

heres an example of Noah and the Whale


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4

Permission from Betty

From: theknobjockey@hotmail.com

To: samc_w@hotmail.com

Subject: FW: Music video

Date: Sat, 29 June 2009 21:04:38 +0000

Sam,

I'm sure it will be fine to use betty in your video so long as you do not use one of our songs that is being released. Due to contractual obligations we would have to refer to the label before doing further promo work with these songs.

After our last meeting I seem to remember talking about using the tune 'Slits On Your Wrists'? This one should be fine as we are not releasing it and it doesn't seem like we will in the near future.

I look forward to the final result!

Cheers,

T

From: samc_w@hotmail.com

To: theknobjockey@hotmail.com

Subject: FW: Music video

Date: Fri, 28 June 2009 21:04:38 +0000

Hi Tom

 

At college my next project is to make a music video, i was wondering if it would be ok to use your band (Betty) to make my video?

 

Sam

Betty

Betty are a brother and sister elctro duo from cambridge.

I've chosen to use Betty for my music video project. I chose them because everything is electronically generated and controlled, this makes life much easier right from the beginning because i know everything is going to exactly in time and i know when each sound is triggerd. Another element that makes Betty a much easier act as opposed to HTKAC is that there is only two of them which means its far easier to get everyone together.

Betty's music can be heard here   www.myspace.com/theressomethingaboutbetty

How To Kill a Conversation

How To Kill a Conversation are a 5 piece cambridge 'Indie' group, being good friends with all the band and also really enjoying their music, they were my first port of call when i heard we were going to be making a music video for college.

choosing my friends band was always going to have its problems but the one thing i didn't really think about was the fact they had no professional recordings.

the recordings the band do have are here 

www.myspace.com/howtokillaconversation

Choosing an artist for my music video project.

Now that we have done alot of work on editing other peoples video, and making group videos to famous songs etc it is now time for us to start thinking about our final project, our own music video.

For our music video we are aloud to use any artist we want within reason, so long as they're not too famous (some one like Red Hot Chilli Peppers or Madonna) because it makes it increasingly hard to make a video to a very well known track or artist as most people already have an idea of how it SHOULD be done to them.

I made a short list of artists i liked and thought i would be able to use, those artists were;

2 of my friends bands called How To Kill A Conversation and Betty

i also considered slightly less well known but still famous artists like Matchbox 20 or Enter Shikari.

i quite quickly decided against the famous artists because i thought they would be more difficult to do.

Having already spoken to How To Kill a Conversation in depth and being fairly involved in the band at times i originally went with them. How ever after i spent a while closely listening to their recordings trying to decide which song to use i realised that the recordings were not really to a good enough standard for what i needed and that occasionally parts were out of time, which although sounded good, would have made syncing more difficult.

As a result of HTKAC's recordings not being up to scratch i had to head back to the drawing board. However i am glad this happened now because i then started working with my other friends band/duo, Betty.

Editing the brittany video

I knew from the start of the filming that this project was going to be a tough one to edit, due to the amount of similar shots and fast cuts back and forth.

When i started looking through all the footage i realised just how tedious and hard it was going to get. we had hours of footage to go through and only a minute or so that was actually needed.

I made it easier for my self by having a youtube window with the original playing at the same time so that i could sync up the scenes and make them all the right length etc

Brittany Spears remake