My Idea for the 'cassie' video

Here is my idea for the video, they are listed in chorus and verse sections to show you that this is the image i want to get for this verse, etc but the bullet points are not set for each line in the song.

1st Verse,

*Girl 1 walking through a graveyard. in the distance.
*(Flashback) Close up of a Mans face saying, 'do you believe in god', we also get a mid shot of the guy holding a gun to girl 2's head.
*(Flashback) We get a close up of girl 2's face, she opens her mouth to speake. to answer.
* (Flashback) Black out.
*Girl 2's Grave Stone, Her name fades in (possibly mixes between the 13 people's names(these are the names of the people that actually died in the columbine shootings)) Close up of grave stone.
*Girl 1 kneeling at the grave with a rose or flower in her hand.
*She puts the rose or flower on the floor infront of the grave stone.

2nd Verse,

*Girl walking past Jesus on the cross.
*She stands and looks at it. long shot.
*Extreme close up of the gun and the man pulling the trigger, but we only see the gun and hand.
*A shot of the man holding the gun infront of him. we see from directly infront of the guns barrel.

1st chorus,

*Close up shots of Girl 1 singing.
*People running up the church steps into the church.
*Shots of more grave stones showing alot of people peoples gravess. 
*Columbine peoples photo's
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3rd Verse,

*In church, priest at front, preaching,
*People in the puew's all heads are bowed. long shot from priests point of view.
*front shot of them all drying tears, (not at the same time, cos thats cheesey)
*Girl 1 singing at the front of the church, alter, (we see her singing from 'the alters' to 'repentance'
*outside the church, we see teh guitarists on the ground, surrounded by grave stones,
*we have a couple atching( different angle shots) at this point in the song it'll be at 'perfect love kills all fear, rejoice in this delverance'.

2nd Chorus,
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Letter To Flyleaf Asking Permission For Song Usage

Hey guys,
This may be freaky but i gotta ask.
Is it possible to use your song, 'Cassie' the acoustic version, for my media video.
It is for my A level practical work, what this intails is me making a video that would have cassie playing over the top of it.
I am writing, asking for permission because as a rule from the exam board we have to have evidence that we have asked permission to use it, otherwise we would be failed due to copyright issue's.
I am going to do a cover of the song, however as they aren't my lyrics i must ask permission to do this.
I would appreciate it if you messaged me back giving me permission to use your song.
Thank you for taking the time to read my message, i would appreciate it if you got back to me as soon as possible.

Natalie Palmer

Cassie Acoustic - Flyleaf Lyrics

The question asked in order
to save her life or take it
The answer no avoided
death, and yes would make it

Do you believe in God
written on a bullet
say yes to pull the trigger
and my sister Cassie pulled it

They didn't love their lives so much
as to shrink from death
inspired in their footsteps
we will march ahead
don't be shocked that people die
be surprised you're still alive

All heads are bowed in silent reverence
the floor is wet with tears of sorrowful remembrance
the altar is filled with hearts of repentance
perfect love kills all fear
rejoice in this deliverence

They didn't love their lives so much
as to shrink from death
inspired in their footsteps
we will march ahead
don't be shocked that people die
be surprised you're still alive

Research

die romantic by aiden is another song/video based on another real life event, this one is based on someone that put suicidal thoughts into people's head. i believe its known as the whisper murders. but im not sure about that, i need to check it out. one of the reasons why i am looking at this video is because the band have made the video to reflect on the meaning behind the song. they also record in a church yard. which i have decided will be on of the settings for my video.



i have just found this video that someone else has done for a media project of some kind but i thought that it sort of fits with the idea i have about a girl walking through the grave yard and her kneeling at someone's grave stone. so i thought that adding this video to my research was a good idea because of the way the girl has used the grave yard and the setting around the church to fit it with the songs lyrics.




this is a video of a tribute that was made to the columbine shootings, written and sung by two of the boys that went to the school during the time of the shootings. i am using this video as inspiration to include some images of the those that died. or maybe just include some kind of reference to those that died in the shootings.




dispite the fact that this video is just an animation video i like it because the creator of the video has taken bits from different video games to fit with the lyrics of the song. they have timed it just right so it works really well. i want to use the idea of havign things in the video that represent the lyrics, and i want to have them in there to fit in with the timing of the music.



i like this video because within it they're is a young lady walking through a forest of some kind, the way she is walking through it and the sort of outfit she is wearing, is the sort of image i was thinking of having for my video.




Gone with The sin is a song and video dedicated to a member of HIM that died a few years back. there are a few parts in this video that i think portray a similar image of what i want to achieve in the grave yard scene. around 2.00 - 2.20 in there are several shots of ville valo walking through a grave yard there are some really nice shots in there that i may incorperate into my video. the next bit in the video i really like is 2.59 - 3.30 minutes in this is where valo is kneeling at his departed friends grave, i think it reflects his emotions really well, and there is a nice shot showing villes emotion whilst visiting his friends grave. i also like in this video the fact that there is no footage of any of the other band members.

Cassie - Flyleaf

there hasnt actually been an official video for this song as far as i know so i am going to make the video to fit the story behind the song.
here is the video that flyleaf have made for the song, however as you will see, it is just of the band.
The song is based on the columbine shootings in america in 1999. The song revolves around Cassie Rene Bernall who died in the shootings. Cassie was asked by one of the shooters, believed to have been, 'Eric Harris', 'Do You Believe In God?' after witnessing the murder of one of her classmates, she answered him saying, 'yes'. and therefore resulting in her being murdered for believing in god.
Lacey Mosely the lead singer of flyleaf has said that we should all take a leaf out of cassie's book in the way that we stand up for what we believe in even if doing so would result in death.

10th October 2009

Today i went into town for band practice and to film for the media video.
i first went to tk max to make sure that it was still okay to film from their balcony, they decided that saturday was not a good day for them to let me out on the balcony, they said that if i came back any other day then it would be fine, however i cant get into town any other day except from saturday so i may have to think of another way to do the opening shot. i went round the hay market going in and out of shops asking if i could use they're balconie however it isnt possible unless i get the school to contact the haymarket security people.

i went to band practice and i recorded the guys playing and singing the song i wrote, we did it three times and it sounded different each time they played it as they wanted to edit it alot. after woods at around 2.00 in the afternoon i recrded lex and rorie doing the argument around clock tower.

in al honesty this didnt go too well, lex really couldnt be bothered to do it, and this shows because she stopped and laughed alot through it all, alot of the shots are really bad because she wasnt taking it seriously also she made rorie laugh alot so they both lost concentration. also after arranging for 20 people to in town to be the crowd of people, none of them actually turned up so i had to get a bunch of randomers to be in the video. this didnt really work very well because they didnt really want to be in the video in the first place.

however after around an hour of shooting i got some footage, we then went to the fountain so that i could record the fountain scene, but again lex just said to me that she really couldnt be bothered to do it, and she then went home. so i had to end the day's filming.

After watching the footage back at home i thought to myself that lex isnt going to take it seriously and the song sounded rubbish, i really didnt like what i came home with, so i have decided to change my idea completely. i am now going to do a cover of the acoustice version of cassie by flyleaf. and therefore changing the setting to somewhere closer to home so i can work on it more. and also then i can use different people that will take it as seriously as i do. because i was really annoyed earlier by the fact that they thought it was a joke and that everyone let me down.

Youtube

i have put the initial song  on youtube so that i can make it into a mp3 format using listenyoutube.com.
to do this i had to create a youtube account. this is all now done and here is the video.

3rd October 2009

today i had band practice, where i recorded the band playing the song which i had written. i got the band to play it through a few times to make sure they had the sound just right, and then i recorded it usung my digital camera, i was going to record it using a video camera that i had booked out of the libary however i forgot to bring the tape to record it onto. so i took the band photo's today rather than recording any footage. also i realised after getting to clock tower that there was several tents and stalls around clock tower so even if i had bought the tape i wouldnt be able to record the opening scene which takes place around clock tower.

I have attached to my blog few of the photo's that i got of the band. the pictures are situated at the top of the blog, these are to be used for the CD cover and/or the Advertisement.i will select one or two to use, i will not use all of them.

Theory Tuesday :)

 Okay, so for a few weeks now Mr Smith has been doing this 'Theory Tuesday' thing. We did the things about 'Narrative Theories' and the things to do with Roland Barthe in one of these lessons. The week after that we went on a treasure hunt type thing around lutterworth, we were in search of signs. the idea of the treasure hunt was to show us that they're are signs everywhere telling us things and informing us about things without us really noticing them.

i thought i should mention some of the theory lessons, although i mist a few of them because i was ill, but i intend to investigate what i've missed.

Todayss lessons!

Mr Fords lesson;
we learnt about 'post modern media'.
post modern media is basically 'the distinction between reality and the media representation of it'. the idea is that the media's version of real life becomes what we think of as real life. an example of it would be friends in reality and on myspace or facebook, someone could have 200 friends on myspace or facebook, whereas they wouldnt nessascerally be actual friends, friends that you know in the real world. the world of internet social sites is created as a now alternative reality that people class as the true reality rather than a made up one.
its the idea that we can no longer see the boundreys between real reality and media reality.

The definition of 'post modern media' that we were giving by mr ford was as follows.

    Post modernist claim that in a media saturated world, where we are immersed in media 24/7 - the distinction between reality and the media representation of it becomes blurred ir even invisible to us.
    we no longer have any sense of the difference between real things and images of them, or real experiences and simulations of them.
    Media reality is the new reality.
    In the modern perios artists experimented with the representation or reality.
    in the post modern period the idea of representation gets 'remixed', played around with through pastiche, parody and intertextual refrences - where the people that make texts deliberately expose their nature as constructed texts and make no attempt to pretend they are 'realist'.
    - Value judgements are blurred.
       Everything is down to taste.
       Anything can be art, deserve and audience, and culture 'eats itself'. There is no longer anything new to produce or ditstribute.
    - The ditinction between media and reality has collapsed and we now live in a 'reality' defined by images and represntations,
     images refer to each other and represent easch other as reality rather than some 'pure' reality that exists before the image represents it.

i think that i could avoid incorprating a post modern media stance to my video by making the video seem less realisetic, in terms of mixing the scenes up so that you can tell that it isnt a true story.

Whilst making my Pitch

okay whilst i was making my pitch i re-read the brief, and i realised that i had the wrong sort of idea, i thought that i had to make and write a magazine article, which i had done, i had taken photo's and found pictures of articles made by several magazines. but then obviously after reading it again i realised that i was wrong, i need to make an advertisement for the CD or DVD and not make an article advertising it and going into detail about my band. so i then got my magazines back out and tried to find some CD advertisements of bands CD's, but i was trying to find bands that are similar to diabolical dispatch. in the end i found a fair amount of examples all of which i put on my pitch power point.
because i realised of my mistake the night before i had to pitch my idea to the class, i didnt have too much time to re-write everything, so i mentioned when i was talking about that particular page in the powerpoint that i did make the mistake and that some of the pictures i had found weren't relevent. but i think everyone understood my mistake and saw the examples that i had managed to find and i am hoping that they understood what the type of advertisement that i wanted to achieve was. i didnt get any questions about the CD advertisement so i think they all understood.