Ancillary Task research

Here i have done some research into The Script's single and album covers as well as thier website homepage and concert promotion. For my ancillary task i am going to create a website and an advert in a music magazine to promote the new single.

Band shots

Band shots are conventional and a very important in a music video. In our music video we will be shot a variety of band shots using different camera angles such as, long and close up shots. The conventional band shot shows the band because it shows the band who have written and recorded the song. We have decided to feature band shots in our music video as i have found they are conventional when a band is creating a music video, plus they will brake up the video to make it more interesting and vary the locations and actors.
 But some bands go against the normal convention and play cameos in the music video. The band 'Boys Like Girls' in the music video for 'Lovedrunk' have conventional bands shots as well as playing roles in the video. The image below is a band shot of 'Paramore' performing during their song 'Decode'.



Genre research

The script are of the Alternative Rock genre. The music got its name 'Alterantive rock' as it is an umbrella term for underground music that started from punk-rock. The gerne emerged in the 1980's from the UK and USA, but the gerne didn't become popular until the 1990's. Alternative rock has a lot of subgernes such as grunge, indie rock and Britpop.
To create the conventional Alternative rock sound the music commonly consists of these instruments: a guitar, bass and drums. We will include bands shots with people playing these instruments in our music video, we will apply genre theory to our music video as we have shots of the band performing .
Some iconic bands that come under the Alternative rock gerne are R.E.M, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers and Oasis.

Cast sheet

Today we created our first draft for our cast list.

The narrative of the song/music video

The song is a love song, so the narrative is easy. We have decided to stay as closely to the lyrics as possble when shooting the music video. To explain the narrative i'm going to use Todorov's narrative theory which includes 5 stages.


1. A state of equilibrium.
The song is about a heartbroken man who wants to reunite with is girlfriend and why doing this he goes back to the place they met hoping to meet her again.


2. A Disruption of that order
There will be shots of the girl out with friends and getting on with her life and not thinking about the man.


3. A recognition that the disorder has occurred
The man has flashbacks of when he was with the girl and they were in a happy relationship. We will use a green screen to create the flashbacks and edit them to black & white to show they are past memories.


4. An attempt to repair the damage
In an attempt to make his wish come true we will show a shot of the man's imagination. The shot will be the girl hearing about the  man waiting on the corner where they met and go running back to him. To show it is the man's imagination we will edit it and give it a whitewash effect.


5. A new equilibrium is made
The man realises it is his imagination. The new equilibrium is now the man knows that it was all his imagination and the girl is leading a happy life without him but he still decides to wait on the corner just in case the girl returns one day.

During Class

Here are some images that were taken during a discussion about the ancillary tasks that we will create. We were also doing some research into locations and getting our presentation ready for our pitch.

Information on song choice

We had lots of song ideas to do a music video. The list below are the choices the group came up with along with the gerne of each song.

• The A Team - Ed Sheeran (folk/soul)
• I Need A Dollar - Aloe Blacc (R&B/soul)
• Everybody's Fool - Evanescence (alternative metal)
• You've Got The Love - Florence And The Machine (indie rock)
• On A Mission - Katy B (dubstep)
• Rocketeer - Far East Movement (alternative hip hop)
• Rolling In The Deep - Adele (soul)
• The Man Who Can't Be Moved - The Script (pop/rock) 

As a group we decided to do a music video for the song 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' by The Script. This song was decided because it is a love song so it will be easy to create a real plot for the video without coping the original, its a popular song and a choice that everyone in my group liked. We have lots of ideas for the plot and filming locations and are starting to create a mood and story board. Our pitch will take place on the 13th October.

Below is the offical youtube music video for 'The Man Who Can't Be Moved' - The Script.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9o1FAszdk