Weather Forecast for Filming

We are filming from 12 - 3 today. checked the weather forecast and it should be a good day.

Costume

The 1990s began the anti-fashion, "anything goes" clothing approach which continues throughout the 2000s and 2010s. Most of the fashion trends of the 1990s were based around the Casual style, such as blue jeans and the T-shirt.
In the mid-1990s the grunge style resulted in a decline in bright colors from 1995 until the late 2000s, and was dominated by tartan flannel shirts, stonewashed blue jeans, and dark colors like maroon, forest green, indigo, brown, white and black.

Example of the flannel shirt and curtain hairstyle

of the grunge era.

Storyboard

These are the storyboard sheets we have drawn to plan for our music video.

Shooting Live performance

A band called "The Strangers" came in today, we filmed them in the pit in groups of three. Personally I was on the walkways above them taking some nice high angle shots. It was great practice and good fun. They were much better live than in their recorded stuff.

Comparing Golden Earring - Radar Love

Feet were out of sync. The drumming was well framed and perfectly on beat. There was a visual build up to match the audio build up.
Actor was in slightly retro clothing. Live performance links to the old music videos where the whole band is together. Letter boxing built up the anticipation of what the next box would be.
I think that more instruments were needed, faster cuts to match the tempo of the song.

Music Video Research

Having watched several Nirvana Music Videos such as "You Know You're Right", "Heart Shaped Box", "Come As You Are" and "Sliver" I now know that Nirvana's style around the early 1990's was partly experimental, mostly performance and lots of slow motion editing and distortion effects were used.

Most of the videos that contain narrative are very obscure, most of the time props and motions performed by the actor are experimental but sometimes they have symbolic meanings.

Barthes Symbolic code is seen throughout Nirvana's video and rarely ever do they have a straight forward narrative storyline.

Examples of Symbolism:



Example of Experimentalism/Performance: