The Killers - Mr Brightside

This is the song that i'm going to use for my video. "Mr. Brightside" is a song performed by Las Vegas-based rock band The Killers. The song is featured on the group's debut album Hot Fuss and was written by Brandon Flowers and Dave Keuning.
It was named "Song of the Decade" by UK radio stations Absolute Radio and XFM, and in April 2010 Last.fm revealed that it was the most listened to track since the launch of the online music service, with over 7.66 million plays scrobbled. In October 2010, it was voted at 9 in the Greatest Guitar Riffs of the 21st Century so far by Total Guitar magazine. "Mr.Brightside" peaked at Number 10 on the UK Singles Chart and has since become one of the longest chart sitters in the 21st Century, spending a total of "71 weeks in the UK Top 100". Its last appearance was in January 2010, six years after its original UK release.

Change of Song

I have now decided to change the song for my music video to Mr Brightside by The Killers. The reason why i have decided to change the song is because that i was struggling to come up with an idea that would go with my original song which was landed by ben folds. I have now come up with a better, much more structured idea that will go well with song.

Action Plan

Deadlines:

1. The Main Task (Music Video) is to be handed in on Friday 28th January.

2.  The Ancillary Task (Digipak) is to be handed in on February 18th.

3. Planning and Research will be done throughout the duration of my tasks until they've both been handed in.

4. My evaluation will commence after my tasks have been completed.

Date of when filming will commence: Monday 20th December.
Throughout the christmas holidays i will spend the majority of my free days focusing on filming my music video. I will need to film early in the day as i don't want to have to film when it's dusk or when it's dark.

Date of when filming will finish: Friday 14th January.
I need to finish my filming roughly two weeks before the deadline in order to edit. This will allow me to do any more filming as well if i feel it's needed for my video.

Date when editing will begin: Saturday 15th January.

Date when editing will finish: Thursday 27th January

I will take pictures for my Ancillary Task whilst i'm doing shooting for my main task.

Ideas for My Video

As i'm focusing the video on the topic of landing i have come up with some ideas as to what to film for my piece. I'm thinking of shooting some of these possible clips:

• A child on a trampoline
• Children flying a kite
• An aeroplane taking off/landing
• Band singing the song on stage
• Band singing the song in a studio

To make these shots become more effective i will then edit them in slow motion. My video will include short clips with different people in different situations.

Copyright

Much of the music today has copyright. Copyright means that all rights are reserved by the record label. Piracy or breech of copyright is a serious offence and it can lead to a huge fine or even a prison sentence. In order not to breech the use of copyright i have sent an email to artist arena, Ben Folds Privacy and Security company to ask about the possibility of using his song 'Landed' for my music video.

Ancillary Task Ideas

For my Anciliary, one of the tasks is to produce a release cover for the music video. I have been looking at various release covers from bands and artists in order to get some ideas as to what i should do for my own release cover. When i looked at the beatles release cover of abbey road it has made me think about the possibility of doing a spoof on this. As i am doing my music video on the ben folds song landed i am thinking about the possibility of instead of having people in everyday clothes cross the road i could use tourists and continental people in their own styles (obviously these would be friends in fancy dress and i wouldn't hire these people to come over from abroad to do the shooting!) I will now look at possible locations for me to shoot this image.