Section 5: Planning Materials for Video

Lyric Analysis



Mind Map


Copyright Consent



Notes on band/artist image

Band Name: Snakes Hate Fire


The band is made up of 5 musicians from Manchester (Grace Tither on vocals, piano and guitar, Adam Bradbury on guitar and vocals, Phil Rigby on guitar and vocals, Tom Booth on bass and Mark Tither on drums), together, they create catchy pop-rock style music. The band was created initially as a backing group for Grace, but after working together so well they decided to try to make it as a band together. The first EP, titled 'Everything' was recorded in October 2008, and all the songs on it were written by the band. Considering the short space of time they have been together (since March 2008), they have had great success and have sold out venues including Manchester Academy and Liverpool Barfly, on top of this; major record lables have shown a keen interest in them this year.



Interview with a fan

Question 1: How long have you listened to Snakes Hate Fire?

I have listened to Snakes Hate Fire for three years now because their songs are really funky and I enjoy listening to them as I travel to work.


Question 2: What is your favourite song of Snakes Hate Fire and why?

My favourite song is ‘Innocent’ because the storyline of the song is about a person lying and cheating on their partner and this also happened to me around about the time that the song was released it helped me decide to go it alone and I have become a stronger person because of the song.


Question 3: What type of genre is the music?

The genre of the band Snakes Hate Fire is glam rock pop. I think they are quite similar in some ways to the band No Doubt – the band Gwen Stefani was in before she went solo. They both have female vocalist with powerful voices and the rest of the band are men.


Question 4: Have you ever seen the band live in concert and where?

I have seen the band live in concert twice now once a headline show at The Tavern in Wigan and also when they were the support act for popular band The Mission District at the Roadhouse in Manchester. They are great live performers and I am always checking their Myspace page for tour news and looking forward to the next time they are playing live.


Question 5: Do you feel that you can relate to their lyrics and why?

I believe I can relate to their songs within the lyrics because with the song ‘Innocent’ I was going through the same thing that the song is about and it helped to cheer me up alot more when I was down and depressed after my boyfriend cheated on me just like what happened to whoever wrote the song in the band.


Cast Decisions

We have asked one of our friends to star in our video as the main female/“The girlfriend”. We wanted to use a person who was around the same age as the girl in the real band so that when our actress lip-syncs; the visuals fit the voice in a roundabout way.

Also we referred back to our audience research and saw that our target audience is mainly girls who are aged 15 to 17 years old. We have chosen a song and video theme, which is in a way quite biased and in favour of female opinion. Also the girl we have asked already has a full A-Level in Theatre Studies and has a lot of acting experience and she too is a Media Studies student so we know that she will take our direction well.

We decided that “The Girlfriend” and the male actor we will chose to play the “boyfriend” in our music video have to be comfortable with each other so we chose a friend of our main female to play the “boyfriend”.

Similarly, with the girls we have asked to play girlfriend’s friends, we wanted the actors to appear natural and comfortable together and so we are using friends of the actress who is playing girlfriend.



Female Costume Designs

We wanted the actress playing “Girlfriend” in our video to be feminine so we choose a costume which, included typically feminine materials such as Lace and Knitwear. In a light pink and brown/grey.

However, we wanted to show that she is going to stand up for herself so we also chose a leather shoe with small gold studs. And have also included elements of black. We also wanted the clothes to be casual everyday wear but the ruffles on the tunic will help her to stand out from the crowd. This is important for us because when we referred back to our audience research we could see that we had decided that our “artist” should appear dressed in-between Normal and Extravagant in our music video.







Male Costume Designs

The actor who plays “boyfriend” in our music video will be wearing a costume similar to this one. We have chosen quite basic pieces and plain colours as the audience are not supposed to find any way to relate his character to a certain type of person. We do not want to over style the male or give him much characterization, as he is not of as much importance to our video as the female, whom the audience is meant to sympathize with.







Treatment/Pitch for the video


Artist: Snakes Hate Fire

Song: Innocent

Genre: Pop/Rock


Treatment

PERFORMANCE

Video begins with in a close up of GIRLFRIEND sitting in profile and the light is shining behind her face so that we only see a silhouette and outline of her face. She lip-sync sings the first few lines of the song.


BOYFRIENDS HOUSE


SITTING AT COMPUTER

GIRLFRIEND closes an Internet browser and we see that his desktop background is a photograph of herself with BOYFRIEND. She is happy about this. We are familiarized with both characters and are aware of their relationship instantly. She shouts out to BOYFRIEND but he does not hear her, GIRLFRIEND goes to look for him.


KITCHEN

GIRLFRIEND walks in looking for BOYFRIEND but sees two mugs on the table one has lipstick mark on it. Not hers. She is annoyed. Confronts BOYFRIEND and an argument ensues. Angry, GIRLFRIEND grabs boyfriends car keys and runs out and slamming front door.


PERFORMANCE

GIRLFRIEND sings more of the song with light behind face.


SITTING IN BOYFRIEND’S CAR

GIRLFRIEND looks at self in mirror. Closes eyes and shakes head. Turns keys in ignition and begins to drive away. Camera sees BOYFRIEND shouting after the car in rearview mirror.


MONTAGE

GIRLFRIEND’S “point of view” shot looking through car windscreen and out of windows. Gives a feeling of independence, pulls over.


SITTING IN CAR

GIRLFRIEND looks annoyed. She looks in glove compartment and finds a Polaroid photograph of BOYFRIEND and another girl. GIRLFRIEND becomes angry. Put photograph is her pocket and drives to her house.


GIRLFRIENDS HOUSE

HALL

Camera follows as GIRLFRIEND runs upstairs angrilly.




BEDROOM

Finds and rips up photographs of BOYFRIEND and herself. Picks up diary and rips pages out. Changes Facebook relationship status to ‘single’.

OUTSIDE

A finger presses the doorbell

BEDROOM

GIRLFRIEND acts as if she has heard doorbell ring.


OPENS DOOR

BOYFRIEND looks apologetic, he holds a bunch of flowers. GIRLFRIEND takes flowers from BOYFRIEND and hits him with them. GIRLFRIEND confronts BOYFRIEND about photo, argument ensues and GIRLFRIEND tries to close door on him. BOYFRIEND stops door and asks for keys back. GIRLFRIEND reaches in pocket and holds up keys. BOYFRIEND goes to take them but she throws them out into the bushes she laughs as he tries to find them.


GIRLFRIEND closes the door and laughs. Gets phone out and calls friends to invite them over.


PERFORMANCE

GIRLFRIEND sings a line in profile silhouette.


HALL

GIRLFRIEND opens the door. FRIENDS are outside; they greet one another excitedly.


UPSTAIRS

GIRLFRIEND and FRIENDS are getting ready in a fast paced montage, make-up, hair, clothes, shoes. Close-ups on eyes when applying mascara and feet when putting on high heels.



“CLUB”

Close dark shots of GIRLFRIEND and FRIENDS dancing in a club. Flashing lights. Edited into slow motion in post-production.


PERFORMANCE

GIRLFRIEND sings last line of the song with the light behind her face.



Resources

College video cameras and equipment. E.g. Stedicam and Tripod

Nicole and Emma’s houses for locations

Shaun’s Car and driving skills

Nicole’s Polaroid camera to take a photo to use as a prop

Nicole’s lights for performance/club shots

Crew

Camera Men: Shaun Hollywood, Nicole Holcroft-Emmess, Emma Pawlowski


We plan to ask friends and family to help us in making our music video if we need extra assistance.


Budget

As this is a college project we do not have money for a budget and so we will attempt to get everything we need to use in our video for free, borrow or make use of the things we already have. For example, in the final scene we need to make it appear as if Girlfriend and her friends are in a club and so we will use the lights Nicole already has and keep our shots very close.

Music Grid Sheets





Production Schedule
Song Title: Innocent
Directors: Nicole Holcroft-Emmess, Emma Pawlowski, Shaun Hollywood

Producers: Nicole Holcroft-Emmess, Emma Pawlowski, Shaun Hollywood
Client: OCR
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Date production started: 6th Oct
Filming Date: 23rd Oct
Treatment Started: 15th Oct Completed:
Storyboard Started: 21st Oct Completed:
Sent Client:
Shooting Started: 23rd Oct
Post Production started:
Rough Cut Submitted:
Final Show Tape Completed:
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Location Equiptment Requirements: Camera, Steadicam, Mainslead, Tripod
Transport Requirements: One Car
Crewing Requirements: Two Camera men, One director
Actor Requirements:
1 female - Girlfriend
1 male - Boyfriend
3 females - Girlfriend's Friends
Prop Requirements:
3 torches
1 chair
1 computer and desk
1 table
2 mugs
1 lipstick
1 set of masculine looking car/house keys e.g. football related keyrings etc
1 car
1 polaroid photograph of boyfriend with another girl
approx 5-6 printed photographs of girlfriend and boyfriend
1 diary
another computer
a doorbell
1 bunch of flowers
1 mobile phone
make-up
hair brush
hair spray
high heeled shoes
perfume
flashing lights