Location change

The first location we picked the video was miles away, and due to transportation and practicality we have decided to move the location.We will now be filming at "Cuckoos Hallow" which is only 5 minutes from school, it has several lakes, bridges, trees and areas of grass perfect for filming. At this location we can still carry out all the narrative ideas we had come up with, and its easier to reach if we need to re film. Shortly I will upload some photos of the location and a plan of the video itself (with lyrics) so we can see the idea more clearly and help us along with the filming.  

Metal mood board.

This is a mood board that we have chosen and created based on the Rock/Metal genre. This is likely to relate to the song we will choose as our final one. You can see the typical conventions of the band in this mood board, there are a lot of dark colours and clothing. However we might not apply these factors since although the song is from a band of this genre, the actual song is acoustic.

Artist research - Defeater

Defeater is a hardcore punk band who like to take "creative liberties" when crafting songs. According to guitarist Jay Maas, "There's a prevalent thing in this genre where if you're not doing what hardcore bands have been doing for the last 25 years almost verbatim, you're fucking up." Defeater also showed their softer side with the four acoustic tracks at the end of their second studio album Empty Days & Sleepless Nights.

Defeater is a concept band whose body of work features an overarching story-line told through multiple concept albums. The narrative highlights the hardships and internal conflicts faced by a working-class family living on the Jersey Shore during the post-WWII period. On why this era is of interest to the group, Maas said it's because, "it's seen as this period of great American prosperity but there was still a lot of racism, sexism and homophobia. We write about these prejudices and things like war and murder and how they affected real people. All these things definitely contradict those Norman Rockwell-rosy images of that period."