Changing My Song!

I have been thinking about it for a long time, and I  have decided to change the song which I am creating my music video for to BYOB by System of a Down - it's not the exact same genre as the punk rock song I was going to use, instead the band is an alternative, metal, rock band. The ideas I had for my music video are still the same, I am still going to do a paper puppet show, have Stevie as my main character (not as an artist) to show an innocent person who is shown a marxist view of our society and then choses to rebel against it, which makes her become dark and bad ass. I am still ngoing to use the shots from Little Swiss woods and I am still going to spray paint lyrics of the song on a brick wall in sychronisation to the song.

I have had issues to bring all of my actors together at once to play as a band - I also don't have the instruments and cannot borrow them all at once to be in the same room, so I have found a way to solve this issue by not having 'the band' actors playing altogether at once, but instead shoot them seperately playing their instruments/singing and edit the footage in a similar style to how Metallica's band members are portrayed in the music video Master of Puppets.

The Lyrics to the song I am going to use have a similar message to the message I wanted to convey in my music video to the other song I was going to do (Fuck Authority by Pennywise)

Here is the official music video for the song BYOB by System of a Down (SOAD)...

"B.Y.O.B." LYRICS

WHY DO THEY ALWAYS SEND THE POOR!
Barbarisms by Barbaras
With pointed heels.
Victorious, victories kneel.
For brand new spankin' deals.
Marching forward hypocritic
And hypnotic computers.
You depend on our protection,

Yet you feed us lies from the table cloth.
La la la la la la la la la,
Everybody's going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.

Kneeling roses disappearing,
Into Moses' dry mouth,
Breaking into Fort Knox,
Stealing our intentions,
Hangars sitting dripped in oil,
Crying FREEDOM!

Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the table cloth.
La la la la la la la la la,
Everybody's going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.
Everybody's going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.

Blast off, it's party time,
And we don't live in a fascist nation,
Blast off, it's party time,
And where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?
Where the fuck are you?

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor? [X4]

Kneeling roses disappearing,
Into Moses' dry mouth,
Breaking into Fort Knox,
Stealing our intentions,
Hangars sitting dripped in oil,
Crying FREEDOM!

Handed to obsoletion,
Still you feed us lies from the tablecloth.
La la la la la la la la la,
Everybody's going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sunshine.
Everybody's going to the party have a real good time.
Dancing in the desert blowing up the sun

Where the fuck are you!
Where the fuck are you!

Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor?
Why don't presidents fight the war?
Why do they always send the poor? [X3]
Why, do, they always send the poor [X3]
They only send the poor [x2]

Draft 1 of New Album Template

The images I used

For this (Front cover of album) I used an image from last year's AS Media work. This is my main model Stevie. I took this image last year for a perfume advertisement - the image you see on the left is what I edited on photoshop to be the on the advertisement. I have used this for my first draft because I have hardly any other images of her as I have not yet done a photo shoot for digipak work.

 

 

Here is another image of Stevie I took a few years ago when we were socialising at her home. Unfortunately I could only access the image through her old MySpace account, so it's very small. I will of course not be using this for my final album design, but it was a fantastic learning experience getting back on to Photoshop and experimenting with image manipulation styles. I will be doing something like this style for the left side insert image.

 

 

 

The back cover of the album's style is what I will be going for in my final result. I have used an image I took for last year's work (my magazine). This is an image of my friend Abi which I took in the green room and edited on Photoshop to make the pink appear. One of my ideas what to call my album is 'What Is Life?' - a rather philosophical name, I know, but the whole message my video is being created for is to portray rather serious issues in our society today (the right wing goverment and/or perhaps our country being at war against terrorists).

Second Time Filming

The second time filming, I had the idea to gather a few friends and go into the woods at Hessle Foreshore (Little Swiss) light a camp fire and pretend we're partying i.e. the bottle of vodka. I failed to remember to include close-up's and only managed to gather 3 friends (Paige, Ben and Emily) willing to act on that day for that scene of my music video - my main actor for example, Stevie, never seems to have any spare time. My idea now is to just choose another actor - my friend Paige comes to college with me and is in my media class so perhaps she would be a better option unless Stevie become available. I think I will have trouble including the people I filmed in the woods in the rest of my music video - one of the girls (Emily) is only a mutual friend so it would be hard to get ahold of her again. Although my friend Ben Dale may be up to being my lead singer. The singer of the song is male so I need to use a male actor to lip sync.

Album Cover Mock Up

I have a few different ideas and styles I would like to use for my magazine's album cover. I have made a mock up album cover on Photoshop from images I found on the internet which I would like my images my for my album cover to look like.

The main background image is from a PlayStation game called Grand Theft Auto San Andreas (the girl bending over with the sunglasses)-this type of image promotes sex, something that helps pieces of media sell quicker in my experience.

The two images I have edited into her sunglasses lenses are a random picture which came up when I Google image searched 'punk' (left image) and to the right is an edited image of Sid Vicious which I came across by the same search method.
I have played around with the main image and made its background match in a way. It has a colour scheme as you may notice the text is the same colour as the images. I decided to use a ransom note font because this is conventional for punk rock album covers to have. I found the font I used on the internet because I couldn't be bothered to create my own, I positioned the word 'bollocks' so it would collide with her mouth-a bit of humour as if to say she has bollocks in her mouth...
The font is from http://www.sean.co.uk/a/webdesign/freeransomfont.shtm

Changing the name of the band I have used for the music of my music video

So it seems I am obligated to change the band name from Pennywise so there's no copyright issues etc. So I've decided (after a few long thinking sessions) that I will call it S & M. This is for two reasons, the first a basic reason- my full name is Grace Samantha Moxon, which makes the band name simply two of my initials...the other reason is perhaps obvious to you- S & M in my experience is most commonly used as an abbreviation for sadism and masochism, in its simplest form it's slave and master.

The term from Wikipedia is 'Sadomasochism is the giving and/or receiving of pleasure—often sexual—from acts involving the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation. A subset of BDSM, practitioners of sadomasochism usually seek out sexual gratification from these acts, but often seek out other forms of pleasure as well. While the terms sadist and masochist specifically refer to one who either enjoys giving pain (sadist), or one who enjoys receiving pain (masochist), many practitioners of sadomasochism describe themselves as at least somewhat of a switch, or someone who can receive pleasure from either inflicting or receiving pain'.

In case this reference is not legitimate, I looked into another website from the google search engine from a site I hope has only facts. It's called YourDictionary. The link is: http://www.yourdictionary.com/s-m
 'S&M means sadism and masochism which is a practice of taking or causing abuse during sex. (noun) An example of S&M is one partner whipping another during intercourse.' It is stated below this information I have quoted that his information has been approved the Copyright Corporation LoveToKnow

Which means it's perfect! Punk music is in many ways an expression of  an extreme indivdual sub-culture. Punks are/were seen as freaks in society, so if it's a freak image they're beating onto the punks across the nation, why not blow their minds and rub it into their faces just like billy minsky said"'well if thats what they want then we'll give it to them!". Acting as a self-fulfilling prophecy while also sending that rock 'n' roll message of rebellion "Here I am, and fuck you if you can't understand me".
In the context of this music genre (rock) I have used the acronym S&M to represent a deviant sexual definition.

Digipak Template

I did some research on digipak templates, I thought it would be best for me to keep it simple-like many album layouts of the same genre of music as mine. I came across a website which offers free downloads of digipak templates. The template I have chosen is the 'CD Digi Pack - 2 Panel / 4 Page - 1 tray (Pocket to hold booklet).'
The link to the web address is http://www.ineedmedia.co.uk/duplication_and_replication_artwork_specifications/cd_and_dvd_digipak_templates/cd_and_dvd_digipak_templates.html
The information supplied about the digipak template I have chosen is '2 Panel/ 4 page Digi Pack - 1 Tray /1 pocket to hold 4/24 page booklet (118 x 118) - Finished: 139.5 x 125.5 x 7.5mm
Paper 330g - Printing: Ofset - Finish: Ultra Violet Gloss (Matt available on request) - (Matt available on request)
Tray: smooth black, white or transparent '
This website has supplied me with all of the accurate information I need to create this digipak. I need to keep in mind that any artwork text must be atleast 5mm away from the bleed edge(indicated by the dotted line), artwork for the underneath also needs to be created because the CD locator is transparent and artwork must be at least 300 dpi.

CHANGE OF PLAN

I have been advised to use one of the digipak templates which the college's course information (Moodle) includes. It gives a link to this webpage... http://www.discwizards.com/cd-dvd-artwork-templates.htm
Out of the options I have chosen the 6 panel digipak which stores 2 CD's. The template is much simpler to create because my course teachers will be able to help me with creating the design as they are familiar with these templates and it can contain more of my work.