Planning: Shooting Schedule/Preparation

Date	Setting	Actor(s)	Equipment	Permission?
Tuesday 8th February	Interior filming – Music practice room	Hayden Carson	Acoustic guitar Video camera	Obtained from Mr. Taylor (head of music)
Wednesday 9th February	Exterior filming – school field	Ella Drake and Hayden Carson	Video camera	Not needed
Thursday 10th February This will be for filing any scenes unable to film on the other days due to time	See previous box	(Ella Drake and Hayden Carson)	(Acoustic Guitar and video camera)

Planning: Storyboard Animatic For Music Video

Planning: Director's Pitch

Director’s Pitch/ Treatment for Music Video

You need an idea that would get airplay on appropriate music channels. Especially a strong opening that would make viewers stay tuned.

Pitch needs to be workable and realistic

Name of artist: Biffy Clyro --> ‘Buffy Clyro’

Track title: Machines --> ‘Feel Alive’

Genre: Alternative Rock               Target audience: 14+ male and female

Outline of Ideas What will happen? A mainly concept based music video. The male is in the dark placing candles and playing the song on guitar. The female comes into the video in the form of flash-back style shots that show her dancing

Intertexual References? What is it like? What should it remind us of? The movie title cards at the beginning styled to feel like an old movie The video is black and white and uses only simple effects like fades and an overlay, which gives it a retro feel

Locations? Are they accessible? Is permission needed? Dark interior location – Music room – permission from teacher needed Open outside location (School field)- no permission needed

What resources are needed? Actors? Props? Costumes? Etc Actors: One male and one female Instruments: One acoustic guitar Costumes: Black jeans, white t-shirt for the male actor           Light coloured dress for the female actor

5 key shots and any special features -       Master shot of singer playing guitar -       Arc shot of singer -      Close-up of guitar -      Long shot of girl in field -      Final long shot, framed by trees and fade out

Justification of ideas in relation to band and genre -      The band aren’t particularly mainstream minded and have been known to produce ‘arty’ videos in the past -      The ‘one man and a guitar’ set-up is fairly commonly used for acoustic tracks -     The band have used movie-style titles and black and white in videos before (God & Satan and Folding Stars respectively)

Planning: Advertisement Mock-Up

This is a mock-up of what my advertisement will look like.

Planning: Digipack mock-up

A Mock-up of the front cover of the digi-pack

Mock-up of the back cover of the digipack

Mock-up of the CD tray of the digipack, with the CD

Mock-up of the CD tray of the digipack without the CD 

A mock up of the inside cover of the digipack - it will feature a picture of the band

Planning: Alternate Names and Tracklisting

Original Band Name: Biffy Clyro

Original Album Title: Puzzles

Original Tracklist:

1. Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
2. Saturday Superhouse
3. Who's Got A Match
4. As Dust Dances
5. 2/15ths
6. A Whole Child Ago
7. The Conversation Is...
8. Now I'm Everyone
9. Semi-Mental
10. 4/15ths
11. Love Has A Diameter
12. Get F**ked Stud
13. Folding Stars
14. 9/15ths
15. Machines

Alternate Band Name: "Buffy Clyro"
This is a simple alteration of the name, helped by the ambiguity of the original name

Alternate Album Title: "Puzzles"
A subtle alteration of the original title

Alternate Tracklisting:

1. No More Time 
2. The Lucky Ones
3. I’m a Fire
4. A Lonely Ride
5. The Wings are Bleeding
6. If I’m Wrong
7. Less Than I’ve Ever Been
8. Sentimental
9. I Don’t Compare
10. Go to Hell
11. Eleanor
12. Falling to Pieces
13. Feel Alive - My chosen song - the title is taken from a lyric in the song, but it also fits the optimistic message to the song

Research: Song: 'Machines' Lyrics and Meaning

I would dig a thousand holes to lay next to you
I would dig a thousand more if I needed to
I look around the grave for an escape route of old routines
There doesn’t seem to be any other way

Cause I’ve started falling apart I’m not savouring life
I’ve forgotten how good it could be to feel alive

Crazy as it sounds you wont feel as low as you feel right now
At least that’s what I've been told by everyone
I whisper empty sounds in your ear and hope that you won’t let go
Take the pieces and build them skywards

Cause I've started falling apart I’m not savouring life
I've forgotten how good it could be to feel alive

I've started falling apart I'm not savouring life
Take the pieces and build them skywards
I've forgotten how good it could be to feel alive
Take the pieces and build them skywards

I've started falling apart I'm not savouring life
Take the pieces and build them skywards
I've forgotten how good it could be to feel alive
Take the pieces and build them skywards

I've started falling apart I'm not savouring life
Take the pieces and build them skywards
I've forgotten how good it could be to feel alive
Take the pieces and build them skywards

Take the pieces and build them skywards
and
Take the pieces and build them skywards
and
Take the pieces and build them up to the sky


Lyrics from www.biffyclyro.com

The song is an acoustic ballad written from the perspective of someone who has lost a loved one (this is autobiographical as much of the album ‘Puzzles’ concerns the death of the singer’s mother). It begins with the narrator in emotional turmoil following a bereavement and unable to function properly. As the song progresses it gain a more hopeful feel as the narrator comes to terms with his loss and is ready to move on.