Looking for a band

We started to think about what kind of band to have in our music video. We decided we needed a band with a drummer at least one guitarist and a singer. We created a poster advertising the project. However there was an unfortunate lack of interest. So we began to ask people who we knew could plan instruments to see if either they were in a band or if they knew anyone in a band. We eventually found a band called Terminal Moraine. We also decided we wanted another band so we made one from people we knew despite the fact they couldn’t play an instrument. Jemma (who is part of my group) was the lead singer for this band. We also have a few people playing the game ‘Guitar hero’ this was a nod to the real ‘just a day’ video as the real video is fans playing the song.

Story boarding

we started coming up with specific ideas for the narrative and the bands. once we had our specific ideas we started designing the story boards and deciding which shots would work best for creating the right mood and atmosphere.

pre-production

after deciding what song we were going to make a music video for and finding inspiration from other videos we started to create ideas of what will happen in our music video. we decided we wanted to have a narrative in our music video and so began thinking up ideas based on the lyrics of 'Just a Day'. our interpretation of the lyrics was the story of a boy and a girl who are close friends. however the boy continues getting drunk and taking drugs and the girl hates this as she believes he is ruining his life. the boy on the other hand feels she has no right to tell him how to live, so they argue. after arguing they go in separate directions and have time to think, the boy realises the errors of his ways and tries to apologise to the girl and it all ends happily. after coming up with the idea of the narrative we decided we wanted to have some bands in the video. instead of having one band we were going to have a few just like in the 'rockstar' video. to have a variety in the bands we tried to mix up the type of bands and the locations in which they were playing. i came up with the idea of having a group of teenagers who are playing the game 'Guitar hero' to play the song this is a reference to the real 'just a day' video. we also came up with the idea of having a rock/metal band playing outside, and a smaller band which would play in a quarry.

research

we looked at many different music videos from all genres. some of the music videos i looked at were the one's made by the band 'okgo' i thought the videos were extremely original and creative and had a rustic home made feel about them which made it look more like the band had made the video themselves and had a larger input. we later took inspiration from the song 'Rockstar' from the band 'Nickleback' as we liked the idea of many different people singing the song to create a communal feel to it.

Just a day lyrics

Waking up at twelve in my clothes again
Feel my head explode from a night of gin another night out late
I don't wanna drink don't wanna be a clown
Gotta get my feet back on the ground before it pulls me in

How come it ended up like this
And who's gonna catch me when I'm coming down to hit the ground again

All by myself cause I don't wanna drag you down hold you down
Cause you're a friend I blame myself I guess you think it's funny now funny now

On the underground with the freaks and frowns
Looking at the world through silver clouds but then it all came down
I gotta rise above the emotional flood
Gotta cut these ropes around my hands pull myself around

How come it ended up like this
And who's gonna be there when I've lost control I'm heading to crashland

All by myself cause I don't wanna drag you down hold you down
Cause you're a friend I blame myself I guess you think it's funny now funny now

All by myself cause I don't wanna drag you down hold you down
Cause you're a friend I blame myself I guess you think it's funny now funny now
It's such a shame

All by myself cause I don't wanna drag you down hold you down
Cause you're a friend I blame myself I guess you think it's funny now funny now
It's such a sin

All by myself cause I don't wanna drag you down hold you down
cause you're a friend I blame myself I guess you think it's funny now funny now

first thoughts

we had decided on a song to make a music video, now we had to think of ideas to put into the video. we decided to look at the lyrics and see if there was a narrative in the lyrics which we could tell.

when looking at the lyrics we found that we saw a story of a boy and a girl who are best friends, but the boy is destroying his life and the girl hates this and gets angry and they fight the boy then realises he has done wrong and tries to repair the relationship.

we had decided early on that we wanted to tell a narrative as well as show a band playing the song.

so we decided to do research into how other music videos accomplished these things.

Deciding what to do

after a short discussion with my media team we decided that we wanted to create a music video.

the next thing we had to do was to pick a song which we all liked and could get a few instant ideas for what the music video for said song could incorporate. we looked at many diffrent songs from many diffrent genres and finally settled on 'Just a day' by Feeder. from this point we started planning.