Blog 8 - Initial Ideas

We thought it would be a good idea to film a live performance cover of the song with my band in a certain location; one of these could be a deserted, derelict garage setting off the A27, another could be on the bus and film the bus driver kicking us off the bus. This would present a natural, realistic feel to the video if the situation we are creating is not scripted. The idea is to present to the audience how it would happen in real life if a band started performing in a no musical instrument zone. This will give our video a good mix of handheld and static shots, as well as rehearsed and naturalistic looking footage.

We were also thinking of filming a large proportion of the video from a first person perspective, possibly as one long sequence to represent a first hand view of whatever we want to represent. The solid idea that all of us are happy with is the idea of getting actors to turn up and get made up as zombies. This could be filmed by our crew and would be easy enough to produce. Research that I have conducted indicates that it costs about £1.50 per zombie. The recipe is flour, syrup and blue and red food colouring. Add this to water and you get a fantastic fake blood concoction. Add this to another recipe of cornflour, water and syrup which makes it look like flesh is hanging off, and you have realistic looking zombies for a very small price.

To go through with this idea we will have to get a large number of participants to make a good looking zombie horde. I have now made a facebook event to promote the day, on the 4th of february, where lots of people will turn up to be made into zombies and run around the forest and get us some footage.

This is the screenshot of the event we have made labelled 'zombies day out'

We are also going to involve my band in the music video shoot and syncronise this with the music we are making a video for; queens of the stone age: medication.