Chorus Of Fools...(8)
The inspiration from the Maccabees music video 'Tooth Paste Kisses' inspired us by its poetic and fairytale like mood and theme. The Crookes are a very successful band and their main influeneces is due to their early studies of English Language and Literature. In their interview they continually quote that the lyrics and theme of their songs flow from the knowledge and passion that they have as English students.
What inspires you?
Musically.. the above, and i guess as all English Literature students we're pretty inspired by different types of literature.
What are the main themes or topics that arise in your music?
Daniel uses a lot of literary references in the lyrics, the songs are often about fictional people who become the basis for a story. The songs are normally stories opposed to self-indulagent love songs.
'Chorus of fools' is one of the Crookes favourite songs this is due to the poet lyrics and beat which it consists of. This therefore has a massive influence of the band as a whole; lyrics, beat and look. The Crookes are also very family orientated and down to earth.
What’s the origin of your band name?
Well it was mine (Alex) and Daniel's idea really, we lived in Crookes in our first year of university and opposite the road from our accomidation was a sign for 'Crookes' so we went from there really.
Here you can see importance of their home ties and how much it has influenced the band- leading to the bands name. This is a big reason why we have chosen to include family photographs and images of our own and our home roots in our music video. We think that the band would love this idea as it gives background knowledge of the band to the audience.
'Toothpaste Kisses' is a unique video with very different ideas to a traditional music video, so we thought this video production would be appropriate for the Crookes. The style and animation of our music video will evoke the poetic and lyrical vibe that the band has. The huge influence of the band and their poetic and literacal background has inspired us to take this aspect further. The animations will enable us to play around with the images and create a music video which will give The Crookes justice. We will collect images and photographs from the 1950s, we want to collect photographs which have a meaning to us; therefore we will collect photographs from our older generations to add the family background which the Crookes have. By collecting numerous amounts of photoraphs we will use these as our basis to the video. Using Adobe Premiere Pro we will animate our collected photographs. Due to never using this particular programme before we have found experimenting ad learning to use it very enjoyable and have used this project and particular task as another learning kurb. Using affects such as 'overlaying' 'speed/duration' and lighting affects amoungst many others we will create an exciting and poetic video, influenced greatly by the Maccabees video 'Toothpaste kisses'. We want to keep to the cheeky and fun aspect that the Crookes have and 'Chorus of fools' allows us to do this freely as well as telling a narrative; we collected many other images and background images to help us do this, as well as downloading and using Adobe Photoshop 3 brushes and tools. (again reinforcing our skills on the programmes) We want to keep the theme of the 1950s and we will add to this by having the video in the Sepia Tone effect, but making sure we are keeping the true colour of the 1950s photographs which have collected, to keep their authenticity. In certain parts of the music video to again enhance the poetic and lyrical theme we will but emphasis on certain lyrics to make them speak out to the audience.
What inspires you?
Musically.. the above, and i guess as all English Literature students we're pretty inspired by different types of literature.
What are the main themes or topics that arise in your music?
Daniel uses a lot of literary references in the lyrics, the songs are often about fictional people who become the basis for a story. The songs are normally stories opposed to self-indulagent love songs.
'Chorus of fools' is one of the Crookes favourite songs this is due to the poet lyrics and beat which it consists of. This therefore has a massive influence of the band as a whole; lyrics, beat and look. The Crookes are also very family orientated and down to earth.
What’s the origin of your band name?
Well it was mine (Alex) and Daniel's idea really, we lived in Crookes in our first year of university and opposite the road from our accomidation was a sign for 'Crookes' so we went from there really.
Here you can see importance of their home ties and how much it has influenced the band- leading to the bands name. This is a big reason why we have chosen to include family photographs and images of our own and our home roots in our music video. We think that the band would love this idea as it gives background knowledge of the band to the audience.
'Toothpaste Kisses' is a unique video with very different ideas to a traditional music video, so we thought this video production would be appropriate for the Crookes. The style and animation of our music video will evoke the poetic and lyrical vibe that the band has. The huge influence of the band and their poetic and literacal background has inspired us to take this aspect further. The animations will enable us to play around with the images and create a music video which will give The Crookes justice. We will collect images and photographs from the 1950s, we want to collect photographs which have a meaning to us; therefore we will collect photographs from our older generations to add the family background which the Crookes have. By collecting numerous amounts of photoraphs we will use these as our basis to the video. Using Adobe Premiere Pro we will animate our collected photographs. Due to never using this particular programme before we have found experimenting ad learning to use it very enjoyable and have used this project and particular task as another learning kurb. Using affects such as 'overlaying' 'speed/duration' and lighting affects amoungst many others we will create an exciting and poetic video, influenced greatly by the Maccabees video 'Toothpaste kisses'. We want to keep to the cheeky and fun aspect that the Crookes have and 'Chorus of fools' allows us to do this freely as well as telling a narrative; we collected many other images and background images to help us do this, as well as downloading and using Adobe Photoshop 3 brushes and tools. (again reinforcing our skills on the programmes) We want to keep the theme of the 1950s and we will add to this by having the video in the Sepia Tone effect, but making sure we are keeping the true colour of the 1950s photographs which have collected, to keep their authenticity. In certain parts of the music video to again enhance the poetic and lyrical theme we will but emphasis on certain lyrics to make them speak out to the audience.
Schedule
Due to the use of animation we needed to make sure that we collect all our 1950s era photographs by the early December in order to edit them on photoshop to use in our production.
The images need to be cut out within a week of collecting them so we could get started on our music video animation asap.The filmed footaged isn't our main priority at the beginning, however once we collected our images we wanted to get our filmed footage complete so we can begin to structure our video as we needed to know the timing etc of the filmed footage.
Start the editing process: upload song by 18th December, ready for editing in January. Editing was going to take the longest due to us using animation. Due to our lack of previous knowledge of Adobe premiere Pro we knew that the editing was going to last throughout our project. However, once we got to grips with the programme the video came together in time for the end date.
Complete: 5th Februrary 2010
Complete Digipak: 5th March 2010.
Complete Magazine Advert: 2nd April
As we are more conifdent and familiar with the editing process, it will be much faster to complete the edits. Due to having three members in my group we decided that the best way to manage our time and stop people getting restless was to alicate certain jobs. For instance one person would edit the animation, one would edit photographs on photoshop and the other would work on the blog or collect images etc. This worked well and made us as a group work successfully together without any problems. We do not need any actors or cast for the video, as we are not using conventional footage of the band or narrative. We collected images that we needed from ancestors and we also used photoshop brush tools and other images to help us create the correct look for our video.
Locations.
We will need to go to a few locations in order to gather images:Elm StreetTomblandCentre of Norwich, River.
Health & Safety/ Risk Asessment:
Lots of breaks, water and chocolate! due to hours of editing we each took breaks to prevent headaches from the computer screens etc. Other than that our only other issue was to make sure we used the camera equipment correctly.
Risk Assessment, In any music video production it is important to consider the different aspects required in a Health and Safety assessment, making sure all runs smoothly!
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