Digipak

This is a rough design idea that Frankie designed for the Digipak cover artwork. The idea was to make a cover that looks relevant to the song. The cover artwork is a combiation of 8-bit design featuring a skull- reference to the song title Fire + Bones. The mixture of these elements gives a unique look to the digipak and we may also incorporate this feature into the magazine advert.

Filming

This photo shows Ahmed setting up the camera to film the shots of Daniel throwing lyric sheets to the floor. This scene was (hopefully) clearly inspired by Bob Dylan's Subterranean Homesick Blues. We placed Daniel in the centre of the frame in an ally way. The reason we chose to film in an ally way was because the genre is rock/indie and by looking at other videos in this genre, they give a careless vibe to the video and the veiwer wouldnt expect this kind of music to have the same kind of setting as a pop video.

Filming

These are screen shots of when my group and I went to film in Goodmayes Park, Dagenham. We filmed Daniel singing the first two verses of the song, we filmed multiple takes just in case when it got to editing we found an error in one of the takes. We told Daniel to keep a straight face when we were filming as, due to the genre of the music, we wanted the video to have a serious nature.

My favourite shots are the ones in which Daniel was unaware that we were filming, so he relaxed more and smiled. I don't know if we'll use these shots of Daniel smiling in the actual music video however I would like to use the screen shots on the Digipak.

During filming, our group decided that we wanted to incorporate a clear influence from a classic video that is easily recognisable. We chose 'Subterranean Homesick Blues' by Bob Dylan, who featured on my Top 100 post.

One of the reasons we chose to take elements from this specific video is that the concept is quite simple; lyrics are written on pieces of paper and then thrown away in time to the song. The throwaway nature of Dylan's video is a comment at the growing nature of consumerism in 1960's America.

Lyrics

Lyrics: 'Fire + Bones' by The Midnight Heavy

Dirty and I just don't care,
Dirty when you run your nails through my hair,
Dirty undercover lover
Lay yourself around me

It's dirty when you call my name
It's dirty when you pull my hair like a mane,
Dirty undercover lover, lay yourself around me
Round me, round me

Loose your buttons and bows
Get some fire in your bones (ohhhh oh oh oh)
What's it to ya
Bones

And now we're sipping it up,
Just tearin' it up
Just the passion of love

And now we're sipping it up
Just tearin' it up
Just the passion of love

Dirty when you call my name 
Dirty when you pull my hair like a mane
Dirty undercover lover
Lay yourself around me

Dirty and I just don't care
Dirty wen you pull my hair and hair
Dirty undercover lover
Lay yourself around me
Round me, round me

Loose your buttons and bows

Get some fire in your bones (ohhhh oh oh oh)

What's it to ya

Bones

And now we're sipping it up

Just tearin' it up

Just the passion of love

Filming

Today, we filmed short clips to use as 'fillers' in our music video. Using a roundabout, we safely attached a tripod to it filmed clips of the sky as the roundabout rotated. The disorientating effect fits in with the random style of our video.

Inspiration

While in the process of planning the music video, I thought back to one of our first media lessons for inspiration. 

The fast tempo of the band Ok, Go is similar to the tempo of our song Fire + Bones by The Midnight Heavy and so I decided to look at some of their famous videos.

The first video, the video for the song Skyscrapers is similar to the ideas our group have for our own music video. The constant switching of scenes is something which we would like to incorporate and if possible, the multiple outfit changes.