Forest's Song - The Great Greens

We contacted the band and found the song they'd ideally preform was 'The Great Greens'. This is one of their feautured songs and the one they feel would be the most benefiticial track to be acomplianed by a music video.

We looked up the track on SoundCloud.com which a social network for music artists who can freely upload their tracks and projects for others to comment and listen to. After we were told they wanted to do this track we went to their SoundCloud profile and listened to the song. This allowed us to gather a general 'feel' for the track to allow us to start coming up with concepts for both the narriative and the preformance.

Using a revived technqiue we used for another music video, we began to map out what happens at particular points of the song. We listened to the and recorded notable events, transitions or changes at the relevant points on the timeline. Vocals such as 'ooohs' and transitions between different parts of the song were important to note down because they would make for good points to include cut-away shots in the edit. Being able to map these out to specific times would help us in the edit to determine how long different sections of the vidoe should be and give us opportunities to cut to parts of the narrative.

We took to Facebook and invited all the members of the band and all the members of our groups into a group discussion we could all contribute to. We asked them straight away about what kind of narrative and ideas they would like for the video and they were quick to provide a potential storyline. Dominic (of the band Forest) brought up his idea; the band could be prefroming in a threatre setting and cut-away shots could reveal that the audience are infact toys rather than people. This would allow for a lot of funny cuts and seqeunces such as Dom's suggestion as a cut-away shot to a particular toy looking into the camera followed by a closeup of a band member winking back. In the later half of the video the band would be shown destryoing the toys, ripping them up, smashing their guitars into doll play-houses. The song could end with toys falling from the cieling and 'attacking' the band members.