Test Shots

this are some first few ideas from an inspirational video we found on you tube.
this was filmed on Wednesday last week and i have edited it to the intro and outro of the beast song.
i think that it is very successful as an idea, but we are keen to explore other things too.
Martha

Vincent Vincent and the Villians bio.

Brand new, second hand.

They’ve got the name of a Hi-De-Hi show band, but pop-doo-wop’n’rollers Vincent Vincent And The Villains are avowedly not a Maplin’s holiday camp throwback. They tout energetic, catchy-as-hell music they consider “quite modern”, actually.

Some people have mistakenly dubbed Vincent Vincent And The Villains “rockabilly”. But Charlie Feathers, Gene Vincent or The Cramps, even, they aren’t. VV&TV meld Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ work ethic with Orange Juice catchiness, pop it in a pot with Lonnie Donegan skiffle, add a raggle-taggle pub singalong and kit the whole shebang out in natty secondhand threads.



And at a residential recording retreat in deepest Lincolnshire, this London fourpiece is defying the bleak midwinter, finishing off their spring-fresh, good-time debut LP for EMI. “It’s made using Pro-tools software,” says jaunty frontman Vincent Vincent – not some retro magnetic tape contraption then, as their very 50s visual shtick might have you believe.

Vincent is buzzing; he’s ants-in-his-pants excited about the album’s progress. “I’ve slogged years and years for this,” he pipes. “Never given up, and lived in the shittiest dives, like above a cellar in Bethnal Green where they smoked salmon. My room and my clothes stank.” His band’s confident stance is manifested in their sharp dress sense, both on and off-stage. Vincent says he maintains “very high standards of personal hygiene”, even on tour, when launderettes figure highly in the schedule. “But I never use an iron. I find the creases just fall out,” he adds.



VV&TV are very much a live band, although touring hasn’t yet taken them to Vince’s beloved Memphis, the musical mecca he once travelled to “on the proceeds of several car boot sales”. Although this juicy EMI deal could well mean more air miles soon. Whiling away any spare on-tour moments with a book, Vincent’s back is up if you ask for a favourite author or poet. He’s not a fan of literary affectation: “I hate that pretentious shit; when bands w**k on about Rimbaud when they’ve probably only read one poem… We’re a simple, sparse rock’n’roll band,” he continues. “Rock’n’roll is about fun, and not being po-faced about it all.”

Shooting ideas

We came up with the idea for our instrumental part of the music video to have a beast figure appear more larger than the person, running after him.

Location ideas

- Grey and gloomy bedroom

- Long Road

- Jesus Green (path of trees)

- House

GROUP 35 - Music Video Animatic

Pitch

Song: BEAST, Vincent Vincent and the Villans

Initial ideas
-silhouette of man talking to woman, projected as the beast.
-Man and women arguing, man singing.
-both characters in masks which cover only half their face.
-'The rain pounding down on my window' (line of the song) shot of rain pouring down a window.
-locations will be a bedroom,
-Acoustic guitar, drums, Gloomy bedroom
-representation of a heart ripping
-using a beast as an emotional journey, Person go into a crowd of people with a white tee-shirt on, people in the crowd representing different things/ emotions. come out of the crowd with black ripped tee-shirt on. (see video below from 3 mins 40 seconds)
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:uR19XQK3IuHlFM:http://blog.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/wp-content/20060408rainonwindow.jpg
http://www.imagesdisney.com/images/3-wallpapers-beauty-beast.jpg
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/DSN/DSN130/white-drama-masks_~1770490.jpg

Inspirational music videos

Students work from 2007 we looked at on YouTube, to trigger initial ideas and thoughts.

U1 - MUSIC VIDEO CD TRACKS 2008/9

U1 - MUSIC VIDEO CD TRACKS 2008/9

1. One More Chance - Candie Payne 3:25
2. Is Everyone Happy? - Jane Weaver and the Meadows 3:33
3. Harm's Way - Waco Brothers 2:42
4. Troubled Mind - The Buff Medways 2:12
5. I Don't Care What You Call Me - David Ford 6:31
6. Riverside - Kid Harpoon 4:11
7. Grip Like A Vice - The Go Team 4:04
8. Something Like That - Tim McGraw 3:03
9. Falling Like Stars - The Bird 4:42
10. Rock Boys - The Grates 2:36
11. Beast - Vincent Vincent & The Villains 4:05
12. Stop Complaining (Morcheeba Remix) - Lyrics Born 3:38
13. On Sussex Downs - Large Love 3:17

Costume ideas

These are our ideas for what costumes each character will wear.

- Mask

- Guitar

- Paper heart

- Tears


-Werewolf costume



- Hose for the window to symbolise rain