Music Video Commentary

Here is a link to our music video commentary. I apologise for the terrible video quality, lack of music and blank audio spots. Thank you and enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_5qtcv4yU8

CD Cover (Initial Ideas)

Here is an idea for our front cover

Here is an idea for our first inside cover

The next one was a idea for the second inside cover

This next image was an initial idea for an inside cover. We ultimately did not use it because we had lots of audience feedback suggesting it was way too plain. So we made some changes.

The following picture was said to be too amatuer to be a in the Print Based work. The reason for this was that the visibility levels were very low.

Idea for back cover.

Our Music Video

Here is a YouTube Link to our A2 Music Video. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58dpeG1Sc88

The Acting

As the protagonist of the disjunctive narrative, the role I had to play was surprisingly, physically demanding. I actually lost five kilograms of body weight after the production stage because there was so much running involved. Our directors (Adam, Ashriel and Reuben) made me do so many takes for each shot (especially Adam and Ashriel with their perfectionism), and it required a lot of effort on my part, seeing as though most of the video is of me running around.

Below is an image taken by Reuben of me running in town at around 1:00AM, with cameraman, Ashriel running after me to catch every movement.

CD Cover Research

The song of our video is called 'Omen' by 'The Prodigy'. The CD cover used for the original song is quite different to the one that we are using. However, we do draw inspirations from it such as the dark, creey look. Compare the two, ours to The Prodigy's. On our own CD cover, our co-producer, Reuben Gill drew the text of the cover instead of writing them so it can give a more creepy feel and more creative touch.

Post Production Stage - Editing (Part 2)

I have now finished editing our video and it looks fantastic, at least that's what we think (and a lot of other people do too). Below is a screen grab of our finished timeline.

This part (below) of the timeline took me around twenty minutes to complete. It's towards the end where everything plays in reverse extremely fast.









Seriously, there may be only around five seconds of video, but there were so many cuts, shots and transitions involved that it took me quite a while to piece it all together in order to get that sped up, going backwards effect. It wouldn't let me reverse all the little clips at once, so I had the tedious job of doing them individually.

The Darkness Shot

This shot is part of the fourth shoot. Honestly, the shot of Mohammed coming out of the darkness with a light emitting from his palms was thought of on the spot by us all. It was filmed in a graveyard, and we went to that grave yard that night beacuse we thought we could get some decent footage of Mohammed running through the cementary, scared as hell, but when we got there we found that it was too dark to film pretty much anything. The camera couldn't pick up enough light to see Mohammed sprint. So we filmed that shot with the protagonist coming forwards slowly deep from withing the darkness, towards the camera, on his own, surrounded by pitch blackness, holding one light in his hands (it was a mobile phone by the way) so he was visible to the camera. This added a great horror aspect to the video. This shot has nothing to do with the plot of the video, but is simply part of the disjuncture.