Pre-Production
I enjoy a lot of this class. I do not enjoy all of this class.
Where do I even start...
Our assigned genre was Heavy Rock. Not just Rock or another subgenre of it, specifically Heavy Rock. Have I ever heard of it? No. But surely Google has.
Huh, that's weird. It's showing me Hard Rock. Well, I'm sure if I Google one of the artists I was given to chose from it'll give more info on Heavy Rock.
Strange. Well, maybe if I just Google one of the other artis-
NU METAL, BIATCHHHHH
The song we ended up choosing was Blind by Korn. Google said Korn was Nu Metal, so we said [F-WORD] it and started researching Nu Metal.
It's a pretty interesting genre, combining many characteristics of other sources of music. One of the bands we looked at, Payable on Death (P.O.D.) derives their name and many of their lyrics from Christian theology, and has been known for reggae influences in their musical style.
I don't want to re-explain our brainstorming process, as I already did so in my previous post, but I'll condense it. We decided on changing the song name to Breakout, styling our actors to be in prison jumpsuits, and naming the group itself The Guys, which originally was meant to be a placeholder for a better name.
Going back to our genre research, a lot of the people in Nu Metal and rock could be described as strange, and so we wanted our band to also be strange, encapsulating that through our music video.
Production
No jodas
Our "location scouting" boiled down to Mateo saying "I know a place" and us placing blind confidence in him. But there was more to do aside from that; we needed equipment, we needed costumes, and most importantly we needed a day to film. What was really fun about our schedules was that we all had STN practice on Saturday from 7:30AM to 5:00PM, followed by me having a shift at work, and we all also had to film new segments for TV. God ended up moving Heaven and Earth to free up our Sundays, but we still had to get everything else. For added context this was all done on Friday, two days before filming.
We managed to find some random jumpsuit costumes off Amazon, but we had to all order them that day for them to ship in time. Someone should've really emphasized that to Zach.
To recap: We had a location that only one of us knew, 2/3 costumes secured for our music video, and no confirmation on the guitars we wanted to use as props.
Sunday Funday
Practice was practice. Work was work. And then Sunday finally came around. It was time for us all to film our music video at Markham Park. Except Cody. Saturday night he informed us his mom wasn't feeling well and wouldn't be able to take him to film. I don't blame him or his mom in any way; you can't help that stuff. But it did make us improvise our shots, as he was supposed to be our cameraman.
C'est la vie and whatnot.
We headed to our location, which turned out being some dingy shed in the middle of the woods. Thanks Mateo. Speaking of him, we also decided that he should give Zach his jumpsuit, because if anyone was gonna have a different costume it should be the lead. We also decided to draw "PRISONER" really poorly with an arrow pointing up at him; it fits our band's brand pretty well. The shoot itself wasn't terrible; most of our shots had either one or two people in them, so we only needed two or so "full group" shots.
I think the most significant part of our production portion was when two stoners came up to me and Zach to ask if we knew where to find the Shadow Ho-Oh. Glad to see Pokemon Go is still thriving.
Post-Production(-ish)
Adobe? More like...
I hate editing. I think. I'm used to having TV deadlines, which means like a week to plan, shoot, and edit a video, and that's on top of doing work for every other class. Hence, not the biggest fan. Thankfully, we still had a presentation to make, so I had an excuse to stay the [F-WORD] away from Premiere.
I did end up using Photoshop a lot, though. I made the cover photo for our single, which can be seen in my last blog post, and I also made our "website", which consisted of me screenshotting the actual band, Korn, 's website and changing the words around. I felt like it wasn't enough, though, especially since we didn't have many marketing images, like fake social media accounts and whatnot, so I asked Zach to make a teaser for our music video, which I worked into the website. I did end up having to use Premiere, pero we ball am I right.
Mateo ended up doing the editing for our music video, and he did a really good job considering how profoundly mediocre the footage was. I do not have the music video on my computer, but it's in the presentation that will be attached at the end.
Slidesgo? I barely know her!
I feel bad for any team who didn't use some Canva or Slidesgo template for their presentation design. It helped so much.
Making our presentation wasn't all that bad, the biggest hurdle was really just communication. We kept switching around who was doing what and we would yap too much in class to actually get stuff done. After the music video was filmed, though, we really started to hone in on the presentation, and got the majority done a day or two before the submission deadline. We divided it up into us reading three slides each, though I also did a little something something for the first slide.
I handled most of the marketing materials, Zach worked on the teaser video, Cody did the audio script, and Mateo made the music video. We all contributed equally to the presentation itself, so I think by the end we had divided the work up well enough. Fun fact: As I am finishing up this blog post the kid sitting in front of me just reached down into his underpants to scratch his raw asscheeks.
We used to be civilized..
On my final post of the school year I will actually drop the F-Bomb. Stay tuned.
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