Synopsis
Our music video is going to follow the codes and conventions of a generic horror movie. The introduction to our music video will consist of many shots of the killer getting ready to leave and go to murder the victims one by one. Our music video will consist of a chase sequence between 3 people and a killer; the different people will be chased and killed in the 3 different verses of the song. In the chorus’ the shots will consist of a TV with the killers mouth lip syncing to the song, also in these chorus’ there will be chase scenes and shots of the killer walking around the areas. Throughout the music video the killers’ identity will not be revealed to show a sense of mystery.
Treatment
For the introduction of our music video there will be many shots of the killer getting ready to leave and go out to murder the victims one by one, we are going to do this as a tribute to the opening credits of the TV series Dexter. It will be quite dark with light only focusing on the main parts of the killer; his face, his hands etc. In one shot there will be a knife, with the killers face reflected off it to give a sense of mystery and since there will not be any weapons shown during our video, let the viewer know there is a weapon involved. This intro sequence will give the viewer an idea of how the rest of the video is going to pan out.
For the first verse we are going to use some abandoned areas around the college and the area near the college parking lot as the scenes for the first chase. This will involve Victim 1 running away from the killer through these areas, we are shooting day for night to give the music video a darker feel to it. The killer follows victim 1 to a locked door which the victim tries to open to escape. The shot cuts to a close up of the killers face which is how every murder shot will end because we are not going to carry a knife around public places.
The second verse will completely shot in first person as if the viewer themselves are running from the killer to add a sense of fear. Victim 2 will be running through a park to try to escape the killer, this is a public place, and added with the first person view we want to give the viewer a feel that they are not going to be safe wherever they go. Like verse 1 this will be shot day for night. The end of this scene will result in the victim falling over in the park and turning and looking up to see the killers face over them. There will then be a close up of the killers face over them before it cuts to the second Chorus
Verse three will show victim 3 being chased through an abandoned industrial estate which is by the docks. This is a typical horror film moment where you would be saying “no don’t go in there” as halfway through the verse victim 3 will run into an abandoned warehouse. An abandoned area is a typical setting for horror films so we thought this would be a good idea. This will be shot day for night like the rest of the music video to keep the view of it all seem smooth.
The first Chorus will be shot in Shaun’s garage with a TV on top of a wooden box of some sort, it will just have a wall as the background to get the viewer to just concentrate on the TV itself. On the TV will be Shaun’s mouth lip syncing to the chorus, but since he is wearing a mask in the rest of the music video it is just hoping the audience will assume it’s the killer. You will only see his mouth on the screen as to not reveal the killers identity.
The second chorus will kind of be the same, except it will carry n from the second verse where victim 2 is killed. The TV will show the killers fave, then the camera tilting to the side where we will be able to see victim 3 clearly in shot going to run away. This will be followed with the killer lip syncing to teh rest of the chorus
The third Chorus is played twice at the end of the film as the music is playing the song out, on this you will see the deaths of the three victims with shots of the killer walking around, as the chorus plays round the second time it will be an extreme close up of the TV with the killers mouth lip syncing to the chorus. At the end of this as the final part of the music is playing, a shot of the killer walking away will play as the music video ends.
Friday, 11 December 2009
Shooting Script
Mr Voorhees
It’s Friday the 13th
Intro Sequence.
Creating masterpieces
Slice and slashing teens
Murdering prom queens
Elaborate death scenes
High pitched screams
Pleasing the fiend within
Killing season begins
First chase scene, Killer chasing victim 1 through alleys and abandoned areas.
I was craving a New Nightmare
Killing at will with wheelchairs
This is the Dream Master
Slashing throats from a mirror
The kiddie killer of horror
Descending into your nightmares
Scarred skin a gloved hand
But this isn’t the Neverland Ranch
This is Dennis the Menace with the clawed hand
End of chase sequence, Killer kils victim 1, victim 2 sees death of victim 1 and runs away.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Lip sync of killers mouth on TV screen, don’t see any other part of killers face.
Knife glistens in the moonlight
You can call him mike
Matter of fact he’s not the talkative type
With no help in sight
Better run for your life.
Second chase scene starts, victim 2 being chased through park
Camp Crystal Lake
Hammering your headache
Visions of my mother
Call me Norman Bates
Stomping the ground like earthquakes
Ed Geins your trust
Serial killer traits
Leaving you under floorboards
Covered in dust
Run away you must
He’s dangerous
A zombie with his head hanging off
Dawn of the Dead
Dragging himself up flights of steps
Decaying flesh
You’re frightened to death
Gasping for breath
More of second chase sequence, ends with victim tripping over and tilting camera to see victim 3 running away.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Second Chorus, same premis as first chorus, shows victim 3 running away, followed by lip sync.
I am the hockey mask
Chasing you in the dark
Running through the mud in abandoned car parks
My machete will tear you apart
Chopping you into spare parts
This is serial killer art
Sprawled across the canvas
More lost than Dorothy in Kansas
In the shadows I’m lurkin’
I’m the reason your picture’ll
Be on the back of milk cartons
Victim 3 running round abandoned industrial estate, followed closely by killer.
Welcome to the slaughterhouse
Shoes off on the mat
Head off on the butchers slab
Dumped in a shopping bag
Spinning in the laundry mat
Decapitated and gagged.
Victim 3 running into abandoned building, trips up, see killer standing over her close up iof killers face.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Final chorus, showing chase scenes on TV, also killer walking around.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Extreme close up of killers mouth, lip syncing to final bit.
[INSTRUMENTAL]
As final music plays out, Killer walks away.
It’s Friday the 13th
Intro Sequence.
Creating masterpieces
Slice and slashing teens
Murdering prom queens
Elaborate death scenes
High pitched screams
Pleasing the fiend within
Killing season begins
First chase scene, Killer chasing victim 1 through alleys and abandoned areas.
I was craving a New Nightmare
Killing at will with wheelchairs
This is the Dream Master
Slashing throats from a mirror
The kiddie killer of horror
Descending into your nightmares
Scarred skin a gloved hand
But this isn’t the Neverland Ranch
This is Dennis the Menace with the clawed hand
End of chase sequence, Killer kils victim 1, victim 2 sees death of victim 1 and runs away.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Lip sync of killers mouth on TV screen, don’t see any other part of killers face.
Knife glistens in the moonlight
You can call him mike
Matter of fact he’s not the talkative type
With no help in sight
Better run for your life.
Second chase scene starts, victim 2 being chased through park
Camp Crystal Lake
Hammering your headache
Visions of my mother
Call me Norman Bates
Stomping the ground like earthquakes
Ed Geins your trust
Serial killer traits
Leaving you under floorboards
Covered in dust
Run away you must
He’s dangerous
A zombie with his head hanging off
Dawn of the Dead
Dragging himself up flights of steps
Decaying flesh
You’re frightened to death
Gasping for breath
More of second chase sequence, ends with victim tripping over and tilting camera to see victim 3 running away.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Second Chorus, same premis as first chorus, shows victim 3 running away, followed by lip sync.
I am the hockey mask
Chasing you in the dark
Running through the mud in abandoned car parks
My machete will tear you apart
Chopping you into spare parts
This is serial killer art
Sprawled across the canvas
More lost than Dorothy in Kansas
In the shadows I’m lurkin’
I’m the reason your picture’ll
Be on the back of milk cartons
Victim 3 running round abandoned industrial estate, followed closely by killer.
Welcome to the slaughterhouse
Shoes off on the mat
Head off on the butchers slab
Dumped in a shopping bag
Spinning in the laundry mat
Decapitated and gagged.
Victim 3 running into abandoned building, trips up, see killer standing over her close up iof killers face.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Final chorus, showing chase scenes on TV, also killer walking around.
One sandwich short of a picnic basket
One victim away from an urban legend
One step away from catching ya’
Two steps ahead of the next psycho slasher killer
Extreme close up of killers mouth, lip syncing to final bit.
[INSTRUMENTAL]
As final music plays out, Killer walks away.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Video in Interactive Media Technologies
Codec’s are used to compress all kinds of file, from video, to game. There are specific Codec’s for each kind of file, and to use them you need the same codec on both ends of the file compression transfer. A codec is needed to compress files to send over the internet, seeing as the average download speed is about 2MB/s and a full length film is around 800MB it would take a long time to download, so codec’s are used to compress these files down to make it easier for download. However to decompress these files you need the same codec on your side of the transfer, for example MPEG-4 is one of the most commonly used codec’s on windows computers, and are preinstalled on things like windows media player so when you download files there are automatically decompressed for you.
If you are downloading a game file however you would need a different kind of codec to work off. WinRar is one of these; it can open and decompress files to full size to be able to transfer onto disk. These are good ways of transferring data as it helps downloading take less time, but is only good if you have the right codec to work with.
Downloading is the transfer of files from one computer to another via the internet. There are many factors which affect download speed and how things need to be downloaded. The speed of downloads is conveyed in its bit rate, this is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. For example if an average sized door was the bit rate and a person was the file to be downloaded the loading speed would be extremely quick. However if you were trying to fit an elephant through this door it would take an extremely long time. The average download speed of a computer is 2megabits per second.
Frame rates are the measure of the rate or frequency at which an image device produces unique consecutive images. The FPS (frames per second) of a video is the speed at which the images in the video are played, in British cinema the FPS of a movie is 25 FPS, and in American cinema it is 24 FPS. FPS can be compressed to about 12-12.5 FPS before you start really noticing a change, the lower the FPS is the more jerky a movie will seem, whereas the higher FPS the smoother the movie will run. Video files compressed for download are usually compressed to 12-12.5 FPS to make the file smaller making it easier to send or be downloaded.
Screen Resolutions convey the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed; this can change the size of the screen to the amount of colour shown on the screen. The size of the screen can depend on the resolution you need for a good image, for example a smaller computer monitor would possibly only need a resolution of 800x600 to show a nice clear image, but a bigger screen may need a resolution of 1440x900 to show a clearer image.
File sizes are measured in; Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes, Petabytes, Exabytes, Zetabytes, and Yottabytes. 1 KB is the smallest size you can get, and you can fit 1000KB in 1 MB, this trend carries on for the rest of the spectrum; 1000 MB in 1 GB etc. The size of a file will depend on how fast it is downloaded from the internet; a smaller file size will be downloaded faster than a larger one.
Picture ratios are used for video production all over the world. The ratios are used to make sure there is a universal size for, film, TV etc. The old picture ration used to be 4:3 making video and TV extremely box shaped in size, nowadays however the picture ratio is 16:9 giving a more panoramic, widescreen view. The picture ration is only a guideline, because as long as you stick to the ratio it doesn’t matter about the size of it, the screen could be from 16cm x 9cm or even 16 miles x 9 miles, as long as the ratio stays the same the video will stay the same quality.
These videos have to be played on the right media players. If you have a DVD it would need to be played on a DVD player, or you would need to have a DVD drive on your computer. To play these on computers, you can get DVD programs for your computer, such as Power DVD, to give a good quality film. On Apple Macs, the primary media player is QuickTime, this is apples own media player and plays all videos made for Apple Mac, or downloaded onto a Mac computer. For Windows, the media player is Windows media player, which plays all video files from the internet, and also MP3 and WAV files for computers. This means you can listen to music as well as watch videos on this programme. For mobile phones you have Real player, which is a smaller media player and is what Smart phones etc use to play downloaded videos on. This is a lower quality player but works with smaller mobile videos. If you wanted to watch TV or listen to Radio on the internet when you wanted there are site such as BBC Iplayer, which lets you watch TV on demand and listen to radio from any of its various stations, live or Pre-recorded. Media players are good because it means that anyone can download videos and watch them rather than have to trouble with acquiring the correct codec for the job.
Streaming video is what is done on sites like YouTube or Newgrounds, and is majorly user-generated content. This means you can put anything you want on the internet to share with anyone; these videos are only viewable on the internet and don’t involve any downloading.
You can embed certain videos off YouTube onto a blog or any other website you may own. This is useful if you are writing up about these things or just want to show off a good video. Embedding involves taking the specific HTML format and copying it onto a different site to show the video as it is in its own little player. You can choose the sizes of these as well if you wanted a larger video than normal.
Videos can also be tagged with certain keywords associated with the content in the video, making the video searchable on Google, or Bing for example, this can help you get your video onto the web quicker and found by people searching for your keywords. This works on streamed videos as well as downloaded videos so you can choose to get the video either way.
If you are downloading a game file however you would need a different kind of codec to work off. WinRar is one of these; it can open and decompress files to full size to be able to transfer onto disk. These are good ways of transferring data as it helps downloading take less time, but is only good if you have the right codec to work with.
Downloading is the transfer of files from one computer to another via the internet. There are many factors which affect download speed and how things need to be downloaded. The speed of downloads is conveyed in its bit rate, this is the number of bits that are conveyed or processed per unit of time. For example if an average sized door was the bit rate and a person was the file to be downloaded the loading speed would be extremely quick. However if you were trying to fit an elephant through this door it would take an extremely long time. The average download speed of a computer is 2megabits per second.
Frame rates are the measure of the rate or frequency at which an image device produces unique consecutive images. The FPS (frames per second) of a video is the speed at which the images in the video are played, in British cinema the FPS of a movie is 25 FPS, and in American cinema it is 24 FPS. FPS can be compressed to about 12-12.5 FPS before you start really noticing a change, the lower the FPS is the more jerky a movie will seem, whereas the higher FPS the smoother the movie will run. Video files compressed for download are usually compressed to 12-12.5 FPS to make the file smaller making it easier to send or be downloaded.
Screen Resolutions convey the number of distinct pixels in each dimension that can be displayed; this can change the size of the screen to the amount of colour shown on the screen. The size of the screen can depend on the resolution you need for a good image, for example a smaller computer monitor would possibly only need a resolution of 800x600 to show a nice clear image, but a bigger screen may need a resolution of 1440x900 to show a clearer image.
File sizes are measured in; Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes, Petabytes, Exabytes, Zetabytes, and Yottabytes. 1 KB is the smallest size you can get, and you can fit 1000KB in 1 MB, this trend carries on for the rest of the spectrum; 1000 MB in 1 GB etc. The size of a file will depend on how fast it is downloaded from the internet; a smaller file size will be downloaded faster than a larger one.
Picture ratios are used for video production all over the world. The ratios are used to make sure there is a universal size for, film, TV etc. The old picture ration used to be 4:3 making video and TV extremely box shaped in size, nowadays however the picture ratio is 16:9 giving a more panoramic, widescreen view. The picture ration is only a guideline, because as long as you stick to the ratio it doesn’t matter about the size of it, the screen could be from 16cm x 9cm or even 16 miles x 9 miles, as long as the ratio stays the same the video will stay the same quality.
These videos have to be played on the right media players. If you have a DVD it would need to be played on a DVD player, or you would need to have a DVD drive on your computer. To play these on computers, you can get DVD programs for your computer, such as Power DVD, to give a good quality film. On Apple Macs, the primary media player is QuickTime, this is apples own media player and plays all videos made for Apple Mac, or downloaded onto a Mac computer. For Windows, the media player is Windows media player, which plays all video files from the internet, and also MP3 and WAV files for computers. This means you can listen to music as well as watch videos on this programme. For mobile phones you have Real player, which is a smaller media player and is what Smart phones etc use to play downloaded videos on. This is a lower quality player but works with smaller mobile videos. If you wanted to watch TV or listen to Radio on the internet when you wanted there are site such as BBC Iplayer, which lets you watch TV on demand and listen to radio from any of its various stations, live or Pre-recorded. Media players are good because it means that anyone can download videos and watch them rather than have to trouble with acquiring the correct codec for the job.
Streaming video is what is done on sites like YouTube or Newgrounds, and is majorly user-generated content. This means you can put anything you want on the internet to share with anyone; these videos are only viewable on the internet and don’t involve any downloading.
You can embed certain videos off YouTube onto a blog or any other website you may own. This is useful if you are writing up about these things or just want to show off a good video. Embedding involves taking the specific HTML format and copying it onto a different site to show the video as it is in its own little player. You can choose the sizes of these as well if you wanted a larger video than normal.
Videos can also be tagged with certain keywords associated with the content in the video, making the video searchable on Google, or Bing for example, this can help you get your video onto the web quicker and found by people searching for your keywords. This works on streamed videos as well as downloaded videos so you can choose to get the video either way.
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