location research

these are the wooded areas that i found when i was out and about i rely like the top ones with the dense trees as this is what i had in mind @ first so i am defiantly going to use this spot and whilst i was there i found a little facility witch we could use in some way but i need to have a think about that idea n talk with the band.i just need to take some photos off in the town center and in the quarry.

white-room recording

this is a rough idea as to what the live footage will look like in the music video this didnt excatly go to plan as i didn't relay plan it out well enough i didn't have a CD player and there were just going by the drums...but some of the clips came out well and next time i do this i will have a CD player.

pictures in the DVD

 in the dvd you will able to select and view picture that i have take of citadel, the way i have go about this is having a slide show but what there is a few problems i came across in this or things i need to take into consideration witch is how long the slides are going to on the screen for or have them all as individual chapter in witch case you can skip through them and pause it so you can look at them better al made in the photos have a behind the screens part witch would be pictures of recording the video, again this could be a separate chapter in witch you can skip through .

and also at the moment i have around 189 picture of citadel some of the are good but some are a bit shit so i will have to sort them out.

this is hat i have so far as a slid show for some reason a few of the pic are horizontal and are not suppose to i think that because of the size of them but i can iron that out later there are take and the packhorse and at the subculture sadly seem the basest broke his finger they had to cancel a gig and then a few other so they could teach some on els to play for them in the mean time but yet again some thing happened and they had to cancel  another gig so i have actual got as manny photos as id like but there will more coming up in the easter holidays

influences

for the music video the first few video i look at were tool and mastodon the videos that cautgh my eye were iron tusk by mastodon as the video had a lot of the band  going in and out of focus, so when i come round to recording the live footage part for the music video on wednesday i mite use this technique as it will give a powerful vibe to the video, also there was stinkfist by tool as it has a extremely weird them to it as do nearly all of the other tool song, i was think about incorporating as very strange them to the video but it didn't go with what the song was about so i decided to scrap the idea, as well as the other idea i got from another tool video parabola witch used stop animation witch again didn't go with meaning of the song-which is to go mental, so after having a chat with the band at the pub we came to a conclusion that it would be a good idea to get the singer of the band(josh) to run around a wood or  forest, but if you look at typical metal videos you see that quite a few bands use a wood,forest or mountains to show how "metal" they are so that idea bin a bit cliché we decided to have josh running round a few different locations.

i have found the 3 location and just need to photograph the other location also see if it ok to film on there seem as it is in quarry but i will upload the picture in my next blog, and also i will be taking pictures on wednesday or an extra camera to show the making of the live footage, and this thursday there is another gig down at the subculture so i am going to have 2 camera and turn the level down on the cameras so i can have a decent sound and record it on a dictaphone again so i have a back up track,seems i have ready recorded @ the subculture i have a rough idea of what to this time and learn from my miskteaks last time

getting in touch

thes are the conversation that i have witht the band that i have message the person who desinged the logo for citadel askin him to do a few other words for the DVD menu so it look more apropriate as the logo is already at the top of the of the screen, so am just waiting for him to get back to so then i can ass the new text to the dvd menu.

dvd in progress

i have no started to put the DVD together

sadly last nite gig that i was to record was canceled as the basest got hit by a car, he ok and will hopefuly play next thursday were i am planned to get the gig perfectly right, they are playing with a few other bands so this one will be pretty crowed than the other and will look a lot better

im also recording the white screen part of the music video next wednesday as this is wen they are all free i think that i will make a short white screen video of the song, and then see what the band think to it and which parts they like best and witch to use in the final video for them.

videos

all my videos can be found here

http://www.youtube.com/user/mexigrind

linkage

i have decided to make a link from the dvd menu to the selction that any body choose witch will b this : a bolt of lightning that will come from the top of the screen and turn white 

final dvd menu

dvd menu

i ahve finaly come up with a suitable dvd menu that incorporates citadels logo and i think that that gose very well with the style of music they play hear u can see the prossecs i went through to get to were its now.i am now makeing a link form the dvd menu to the other pages and also this week i will recording part of the music video

website

this is citadels myspace they have just put a new track!
http://www.myspace.com/citadelyorkshire

dvd menu

this is what sort i want for the dvd menu

new stroy bord

why have i done this

i have decided to make a music DVD a full blow one not just a music video because its some thing i enjoy doing and its some tihng i fell im better at than making say a film again also the reason i have decied to do it for citadel is because i have always enjoyed there music and have played with them a number of times, they are also stopping play as one of them is moving away frmo leeds so i though it wud a nice if they had some thing to rember the past few years, and this project has alot more practical side to it witch i enjoy like going out and recoding or looking around for locations, i have alos had a lot interaction witht then band as i want alot of there imput as it is there song and seem "the song is a bout going mental basicly" as chris said i thought it would b a good idea t get the singer to aimlessly runn around he a bit of a nutter as well so shunt be to hard.

storybord

i hav got half the story bord down now just need the other half and then to make an animatic

dvd

eems i am makin a music dvd for citadel ihave bin lookin at other dvd by other metal bands
i hav bin lookin mainly at the dvd menus and how they are intlerinlkined with the band and what the other screens are i like i have bin creating my own ruff copy for citadel atm