Orginal Pitch.

Take 1 - Long sot from behind of little boy in pyjamas holding hands with mum going upstairs to bed.

Take 2 - Quick close up/extreme close ups shots of little boy getting into bed, Mum kisses him goodnight, shot of little boy asleep.

Take 3 - Special effects to indicate the little boy is dreaming, maybe spinning stars or flashing lights.

Take 4 - Little boy wakes up not so little. He has changes into an older boy, aged about 17/18, still wearing the same pyjamas, which are not too small for him. Shots are now in a dreamlike edit, to show that the little boy is dreaming.

Take 5 - The boy gets opens his wardrobe to find Indie/Rock clothes, then changes into them.

Take 6 - The boy walks out of the house and Finds his bike is now a lot bigger and gets on his bike to ride it.

Take 7 - Various different shots of boy singing the song whilst riding the bike. Over the shoulder shots, front shots, extreme close ups, hand held shots, camera shots, point of view shots.

Take 8 - Different band members walking into the shot aside the bike playing musical instruments. Again a wide variety of different shots, are used here.

Take 9 - The boys dream ends when the boy falls off his bike. The effects of the stars indicate that the little boy is returning from his dream.

Take 10 - Shot of the little boy awake from his dream and he is laughing.

Stockers! Lights Vs Vanish.

There were two songs I liked from the stockers band and was finding it hard to choose from Lights or Vanish. For a little research to decided which song to chose I created a tally chart and asked them which song they liked. The results were from the following below. 

In total I asked 50 people to listen to the two songs, as you can see from the results, Lights got 12 votes and Vanish got 38. I thought by asking my friend which song they would like best, it would be a better song to do my project on as I wouldn't get board of it like the last song from Area. I think it is important to really enjoy the song you've chosen as you wont have much drive to do the work if it's a song you don't really like. 

Stockers!

Claudio, Thomas, Franz and Damien create the indie band STOCKERS! All four of the boy's are from Helsinki, Finland, and all in there twenties. The instruments included in the band are the guitar, bass, drums and vocal. The music consist of an fast paced rhythm to create an upbeat feel to there music. 

Here is a email I sent to the band, to ask the band if I could use them as my unsigned band. 

"Hello Stockers! I am an A Level Media student, studying at Christ The King Catholic School In Nottingham, England. For my media project this year, I have to contact an unsigned band and ask them if I could create a music video for one of there songs. For the music video I will be replacing you guys, with some of my friends from sixth form. I also have to create an album cover and analysis the lyrics. I was just emailing in hope that you would agree with my request.

Thankyou, 

Charlotte Crogan."

Lights.

When the music plays, I feel away from you, 

surrounded by the friends trying to catch you.

When the music plays, I hope you would be coming soon. 

All what we do Is something new. 

Turn off the lights, just take me there.

Only you and I, get ready tonight. 

Turn off the lights, tell everyone, 

put the day behind, and get ready for tonight. 

Star crashing down, god knows it's something more,

I'm standing in the skyline ready to fall. 

Left, left, right, I think I'm lost for you, 

You can't find before, until the end.

Turn off the lights, just take me there.

Only you and I, get ready tonight. 

Turn off the lights, tell everyone, 

put the day behind, and get ready for tonight. 

Get ready, feel alive,

Get ready, tonight.

Get ready, Get ready, Tonight.

Ahhhh, Auhhh, Ahhhh, Ahhhh, Auhhh, Ahhhh

Ahhhh, Auhhh, Ahhhh, Ahhhh, Auhhh, Ahhhh

Ahhhh, Auhhh, Ahhhh, Ahhhh, Auhhh, Ahhhh.

Turn off the lights, just take me there.

Only you and I, get ready tonight. 

Turn off the lights, tell everyone, 

put the day behind, and get ready for tonight. 

Only you and I, Only you and I. 

Only you and I, Only you and I. 

Vanish. 

Bye, Bye my white shoes, they told me too much about you.

And I don't wanna know, dont wanna know,

how did I end up with you. When I gave you some flowers, 

they were my only happy hours, oh, how could I know, how could I know,

weather emotions died. 

Days are all, been held at the doors, rain is dry after your calls, 

are you home, I hope you are alone. 

A thousands words are melting my heart, no one takes it back to the start,

in your home, I hope you are alone. 

Bye, Bye my black shoes, you give me only bad news, 

and I don't wanna know, don't wanna know, anything eles about you.

Can you walk away, out of my life,

Can you walk away, out of my mind,

Can you walk away, a different side of the street.

Can you walk away, Oh can you walk away, 

Oh can you walk away, Oh can you walk away. 

Because, Days are all, been held at the doors, rain is dry after your calls, 

are you home, I hope you are alone. 

A thousands words are melting my heart, no one takes it back to the start,

in your home, I hope you are alone. 

Ohhhhh Ouhhhhh Ohhhhh. 

Ohhhhh Ouhhhhh Ohhhhh. 

Ohhhhh Ouhhhhh Ohhhhh. 

Ohhhhh Ouhhhhh Ohhhhh. 

Days are all, been held at the doors, rain is dry after your calls, 

are you home, I hope you are alone. 

Days are all, been held at the doors, rain is dry after your calls, 

are you home, I hope you are alone. 

A thousands words are melting my heart, no one takes it back to the start,

in your home, I hope you are alone, I hope you are alone, alone.

Oh I know, you are alone.

In your home, you are alone, in your home, In your home. 

Change of Band.

Although I have started to research into my band, and started to draw the animatic for the music video, I was starting to get board of my song choice already. As I was explaining this to my friend Alex he recommended this unsigned band he liked, "Stockers!" so we listened to there music, and it seemed a lot more upbeat and fresh. He found the band on MySpace, so that night I searched and looked into the band and also listened to there music. I preferred this band as the music was more upbeat, and the songs were catchy. 

Area - Lights Animatic

I started to do an story board for my music video preproduction, And I began to draw in a club at night time. I then realised that it would be hard to organise this and I would have to get permission and sort out times and dates of when I would film it. And you can see I have brought the bike idea into this, so it is a different scene and a different narrative. In the middle of completing my story board, I changed my band so I didn't finish it, but here is the story board what I began to do.