Capstone Saturday Shoot Outline

FROM THE BLOG BRAINSTORM

OUTSIDE SHOTS

• Shot of first person wandering around,
• blinded by the light coming out of the cave, "Are you willing to stay?"
• Glorious sun, drone shots
• Wide shots for chorus, zooms really close to face for struggle
• Heavy negative struggle, bridge? Heights? Heat? Dehydration? Lot's Wife?
• OR walking through people and buildings, freaks you out.
• High five on the street, freaks Ian out. Potentially mugged.
• Finds instruments, gives hope, way better than imagined
• Grabs guitar and takes it back to the crew
• Goes back to convince the rest of them to leave the cave
• starts leaving cave
• (Drum solo fill):
• 10 seconds, everyone plugs in and preps for jams
• (Third Chorus) + a little extra
• Creepy Oh-Oh-Oh Arabic Max
• All jams, Glidecam, circular of everyone, speeds up

STUDIO SHOTS

• Starts in the cave, everyone chilling in the cave
• Tv shows played on projector, couch in the studio
• Youtube videos of people instructing on how to play instruments
• Everyone trying to learn their instrument, turns into pots/pans, cardboard
• Ian begins to get curious from the shadows and decides to leave
• Cut backs to other guys
• Cut back to crew, mouthing "Are you willing to stay"
• Goes back to convince the rest of them to leave the cave-brings guitar to Max
• Max first plays his solo, everyone wakes up to what reality could be, starts leaving cave

Outside equipment & props

All instruments and accessories

glidecam/steadicam (ian walking and band singing/playing in a circular motion)

B-boards

Silks- 6 by?

Tripod

Dslr & better camera

Drone

Lenses: 35, 50, 85? Need some wide and some close ups

Bluetooth speaker for song playback for lipsync

Studio equipment & props

Couch

Fake instruments

Projector with youtube clips from ian

Lighting for shadows?

Two babies left and right, blue and green and purple gloomy gels.

Pepper up top for when ian decides to leave and looks back at the group??

MUST-HAVE SHOTS, more detail

Studio:

Gang lipsyncing

Plenty of footage of them on the couch for cut backs

Shots of shadows, behind the couch, direct views of the clips, all sorts of angles, tons of super close ups and dirty ots

Close ups of fake instruments and such

All kinds of shots from solely ian’s hand passing max the guitar to max’s facial expression during the shedding to everyone else’s facial expressions of what real music sounds like and that he can do that, close ups of his fingers on the guitar

Outside:

Ian’s struggle:

Close ups of worry on ian’s face

Ian lipsyncing various lyrics for options

Shot of just his feet walking in the desert

Super far out wide shot in the joshua trees of him wandering

Shots of just him standing in the trees

Shot into the sunlight, as safe as can be with the lense

Facial expression when finding guitar, hand grabbing guitar, look of amazement and the rush to head back to max

Slow motion of him running with the guitar

Whole band:

Everyone walking in slow motion to all the instruments

All initial facial expressions and grabbing of instruments

During jam out-close ups of clicking plug into guitar, drumstick hitting drum, close up of mic on mouth, hands strumming and playing guitar, keyboards being hit

The schedule

9:30-10:00- Grab equipment, everyone meets, breakfast, assignments

10:15-10:30- setup studio

11:00-11:15- begin studio shots

12:30- studio wrap & clean up

1:30- Quick lunch & travel to joshua trees mojave desert

2:00-2:15- set up and shoot ian stuff

4:00- set up and shoot band shots

5:30- wrap up & pack up

6:30- be unloading equipment

7:00- dinner

**all times are relative and subject to change. Plans based on daylight, convenience and time restraints. Solar noon is 1:45, hence being the best for the blinding ian shots. Sunset is 7:45, hoping that golden hour shots will be more towards band closings.

Actual Capstone Narrative

Allegory of Plato's Cave
Shadow Silouettes

FIRST MINUTE-ISH
(Guitar Intro) Drone??? Shots of desert, zooms in to the cave

Starts in the cave, everyone left in the cave

Tv shows played on projector, couch in the studio
Youtube videos of people instructing on how to play instruments
Everyone trying to learn their instrument, turns into pots/pans, cardboard


(Ian singing first verse:)
Shot of first person wandering around,
Cut backs to other guys

(First Chorus)
blinded by the light coming out of the cave, "Are you willing to stay?"
Glorious sun, drone shots
Wide shots for chorus, zooms really close to face for struggle

Heavy negative struggle, bridge? Heights? Heat? Dehydration? Lot's Wife?
OR walking through people and buildings, freaks you out.

High five on the street, freaks Ian out. Potentially mugged.

Finds instruments, gives hope, way better than imagined

(Second Chorus)
Cut back to crew, mouthing "Are you willing to stay"
Grabs guitar and takes it back to the crew

Goes back to convince the rest of them to leave the cave-brings guitar to Max

Max first plays his solo, everyone wakes up to what reality could be, starts leaving cave

(Drum solo fill):
10 seconds, everyone plugs in and preps for jams

(Third Chorus) + a little extra
Creepy Oh-Oh-Oh Arabic Max
All jams, Glide cam, circular of everyone, speeds up



*Welcome is accepting the new reality that's outside of the cave. It is harder but better.
*Accepting the world, even though it isn't what you think it is*

Couch in desert?

Kassi's Brainstorm

I am thinking the more intense sections of the song can be shot indoors maybe or at night for the fact that it is a little harder and lightens up a bit toward the chorus when they can have a little more relaxed, golden hour feel.

Also during the more intense parts, have a lot of shots of them jamming, lots of close ups on all instruments and faces.

Band Shots
Idea #1: During maybe the middle toward the decline of a jam out, have the camera rotate behind them for a dirty OTS and have a crowd shown.

Idea #2: Drone shots outside at Snow Canyon with the red rock of them playing.

Idea #3: Behind the night or indoor scene of them playing have out of focus string lights.

Idea #4: During guitar solo towards the end, maybe be in the middle of all of them facing each other playing, and get a shot that gradually gets faster and blurred, spinning in a circle with a glidecam.

Idea #5: Ending is a slow motion, slow fade out of either them and/or the main character of the narrative walking away.

Narrative
Idea #1: A down on her luck, struggling teenage/young adult girl decides to rob a bank/convenience store (or something of the like) to buy a bus pass to find acceptance. She then finds the band waiting for her at the bus stop and then the fading ending.

Riverter's Son lyrics- Welcome

Born on an island, guess that makes me an army of one

But I’m beginning to see how this solitarity is making me come undone

Walking in the wilderness alone, used to be my favorite pastime

But I’ve heard it takes two words to rhyme.

So I’m beginning to change, my ideology

Are you willing to stay?

Are you willing to pay the price it takes to get to know me, if so don’t lie just show me.

Are you willing to stay?

Are you willing to pay the price it takes to truly love me, to be my one and only!

You know they say, that lightning never strikes the same place twice,

But I'm hoping for a freak accident with my love.

Would you look, down from above, cause I'm out on the roof with my lightning rod, just begging for you to come down and give me a high five.

Well you can call me an egotist if you insist,

But I'm a man without a guide, could sure use some company out here on the ride.

Chorus(x2)

Music Video Inspirations

I have watched all of these music videos on silent to judge purely based on looks. Much like Tinder.



American Authors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYj40-cZ5vI

The aspect I like is the narrative to band cuts, and the bands are in several different locations jamming. I love sunflares! All kinds of natural lighting at dusk during golden hour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y66j_BUCBMY

I like the color schemes here, the faded look. Blues and greens and browns. Rustic look. I like the shots of the band walking and jamming and singing down the sidewalk. I think it would be cool to do that downtown with the old buildings. Also really want a lot of instrument close ups.


Birdy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJTXDCh2YiA

This video is AWESOME. I love the slow push in the beginning and the same faded color schemes. I love the quick cuts. Oddly it matched the actual song when I played it simultaneously. I love all the slow motion. The colors outside when people are running in slow motion is sweet. I am a huge fan of the string lights, and the fuzzy out of focus colored lights look.

Shar's Look Book

Here's the link to a playlist on YouTube for music videos and film clips that I'm putting together. It's compiled of things I feel like encompass what I'm really looking for in terms of color feel, and several of them for the shots I appreciate/would maybe want to copy.

I'll continue to add to it, but I've got a start of about 8 clips and videos for now.


Note: On the "Centipede" video, I've used that as an example mainly for the shots and story line up until the drop.

Music Video Capstones-Band 1

Riveter's Son

"We are inspired by many different bands, each member comes with various influences, we have a lot of jazz, metal, funk, and rock influences. Our goal is to create a new genre of music, working out pretty well, and to continue to write music, get an album,  and make the world a better place. We have gone on a pretty long journey, we feel like we are finally discovering our sound. Our genre is art rock or progressive rock." -Ryan Day




Band members:

Ian Hawkes-Lead Vocalist

Riley Parsons-Drummer

Maxwell Butterfield-Guitarist

Ryan Day-Keyboardist

Nathan Collins-Bass






Hometown: Provo, UT

Themes of top two song choices by band:

Seventh Angel: doomsday, post apocalyptic, urgent, theme of redemption and of hope, of strength, of a savior, of struggle and fight, conflict, of war, of difficult large choices, choosing a side because you've run out of time, making things personal and coming to a decision about things.

Welcome: talking about emotional acceptance, welcoming into our life, being open and vulnerable.


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