Actors

In the music video, there are currently planned to be four characters starring in the video. Only two of them appear for a significant amount of time. These two characters are the singer/antagonist, and the victim. We have found people to play these parts in our music video. We have asked Martyn Long to be the Singer/Antagonist, he starred as the Antagonist in the thriller opening sequence for my AS coursework, so he suited the role most. For the victim, we have asked Ben Richardson to play the part. As  the characters in the video are going to be the artist, Martyn and Ben are going to be the people who we are creating a persona for when making the ancillary texts.  

Costume

The costume that the characters wear in the video is important, as it is one of the few ways that you can characterise people within a music video. As there are no scripts of dialogue in a music video, it can be difficult to understand what a character is like if not portrayed correctly. This is why dress is very important in a narrative focused music video like ours, as instead of trying to show off what the artist is like, we are trying to bring across a story.

With the main character, we are trying to show that he is from the areas shown in our video, so the costume we had in mind include dark/dull clothing. We have decided that this character should wear a dark coat and jeans, as we think this will create the sort of look that we want that character to have.

For the other character, we wanted him to have a sort of insane criminal sort of dress, and from watching antagonists from various thrillers we found that suit were often used for these sort of characters in a modern setting. The two characters that are the most obvious are the Joker from Th Dark Knight and Moriarti from the BBC's Sherlock series. We aren't aiming to make our character look like the joker, but the joker does wear a suit, and we think it would be a good idea if this character wor a suit in our video.

Locations

As the song we are making a music video for is considered as industrial, to get a similar feel to the song, we thought it would be a good idea to film our video on an industrial estate. Two immediately spring to mind, as they are located fairly near our school and where we live. This is the area of purley way in Croydon and the industrial estate just outside our school. These areas have quite a grey and bland look, which on a cloudy day, will create a good atmosphere that will fit the song. There are also areas around Sydenham that look fairly old and run down that we can use easily as it is located near us. We also found some good locations that would suit the video around West Croydon by using Google streetview to take a look at the area. This proved very useful for finding specific locations, making the process of finding locations much faster. For the shots of the singer, we are going to film the actor in front of the green screen in our Media Studies department so we have a freedom of choice with the background. We have also found an area in the outskirts of Croydon near a woods, where we think it will be a good idea to locate the attack, as it would be a good place to commit a crime due to the cover from the trees and the isolation from other people.

Permission to use the song

Here is a link to a post the Joe made showing the email form that we sent to industrial records asking if we could use the song "Six Six Sixties" by Throbbing Gristle in our music video.

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Record label and Album artwork

The other member of my group Joe Richardson has posted some information about the record label that our song was released , and the album artwork of the album that is is on. Here is a link to his post:

http://josephrichardsonmediastudiesblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/record-label-and-album-cover.html

Animatic

Whilst coming up with ideas for the video, we drew up some pictures to give a very rough idea of what will happen in our video. We then edited these pictures in together in a montage to fit in with the song to create an animatic. Here is the video: