Locations

Once we had finished our storyboard we started thinking about the best locations to film in order to achieve the look we had imagined. We needed a white room to portray his nightmare/torment and the feeling of being trapped indside his own head. We chose to film in my garage as it was white and had the rough, rustic look we wanted:

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We also needed an alleyway and streets to show his life outside the nightmare but how he never really escapes the torment of the puppet. We chose an alleyway next to my house as it had the right look and was local so it could easily fit into our timetable and make it accessible.

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Animatic

Once we completed our story board we used Final Cut to edit the images alongside our music track so that we had a rough idea of what our video was going to look like. Here is the plan for our video:

Untitled from Megan Painter on Vimeo.

Storyboard

Before we went out to film our video we had to have a clear idea of exactly what we were going to film in order to be able to manage our time and resources efficiently and create an animatic.

Here are the completed images for our storyboard;

Copyright Permission

"Copyright is a set of exclusive rights granted by the law of a jurisdiction to the author or creator of an original work, including the right to copy, distribute and adapt the work." (wikipedia)

In order to use our song we had to ask permission from the record company in order to abide by the copyright laws. We wrote the following letter to Island records and emailed it to them via their website;

Dear Copyright Holder,

I am an A level student and I am writing to request your permission to use one track by the artist; The Killers, entitled ‘Shadow play’ (Joy Division cover). The track 'Shadow Play' is the second track in The Killers' album; 'Sawdust'

With your permission, this track would be used in my current A-level Media Studies project, which involves creating a music video for a popular music track, as well as producing an album and a magazine advert for the artist.

If I received your permission, this track would ONLY be used in an educational context and be viewed by my media class, my teacher and the OCR exam board moderator. It would NOT be released to a large audience or uploaded to any public video websites.

The artist and your company would of course be fully recognized throughout pre-production and the final video itself. A copyright notice, with wording supplied by you can be included in the records of the project. If this is required, please send full details.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,

We wrote the letter in Microsoft word;

And then sent it via Island Record's website;

November Update

Busy working on story board...

Mood Board

Once we had studied our song and the lyrics we began to brainstorm ideas about how it made us feel and what it made us see and imagine. From this we created a moodboard;

The Killers

The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada that formed in 2001.

Initially, The Killers played at small clubs in Las Vegas, Nevada, where they often played at drag shows. They began to send demo tapes to major record labels in the US, all the record labels turned them down but the band caught the eye of Alex Gilbert, a British representative for Warner Bros. Though Warner did not like the band, Gilbert took the demo back with him, showing it to friend Ben Durling, who worked at UK indie label Lizard King Records. The Killers signed with the British label in July 2003.

The Killers have had huge success, the band has sold over 5 million albums in the United States, over 4.5 million albums in the United Kingdom and over 15 million worldwide. However, despite their success they have been involved in some controversy including disputes with bands, most notably; The Bravery and Fall Out Boy.