A2 Music Video Group Meeting 1

Group members present: Elliot Smith, Natasha Green and Alex Williams

Band: Muse
Song Name: MK Ultra

During our group meeting this afternoon we discussed the ideas that are the main factors contributing into the production of our music video. The main purpose of today’s meeting was to discuss the ideas behind filming of the band footage parts of the video. We talked about the locations, props, equipment, costumes and the roles that are vital for the music video.

We decided that for the location of the band footage we would use Alex Williams's brother Simon's house for the filming, the reason why we chose this location is because Simon's bedroom reflects that of a Victorian bedroom so large space with high ceilings. This is vital as it gives us a lot more room to use.

We have also decided who will play as the band members in our footage, we have decided to use fellow group member Alex Williams, our friend Sam Taylor and myself for the actually footage as our builds resembles that of the band and we believe we can do a good job at mimicking the band.

We also discuss equipment and how it will be used. From our meeting we deduced that we will need roughly five cameras including camera stands, this is so we can get a varied range on angles, a red bulb to create a red glow and atmosphere, torches with different coloured filters (mainly orange) to further create atmosphere and a warm glow and finally a CD player so that we can listen to our chosen track and so we can mimic it accurately.

As props go we have decided that we need instruments (lead guitar, bass guitar, a drum kit, a microphone and a stand for the microphone), each band members will be wearing a full face white mask with each having individual costumes and we will need amps for our instruments.

When we were discussing costumes we were trying to think of ideas we can use that would mimic that of the bands current style. We decided that for Matt Bellamy (being played by Sam Taylor) he should wear tight red trousers, a white t-shirt, a red hooded jacket, dark shoes and a white face mask. For Dominic Howard (being played by myself Elliot Smith) we decided that he should wear tight green trousers, a white t-shirt, a black hooded jumper, dark shoes and the white full face white mask. And finally for Chris wolstenholme (being played by Alex Williams) White trousers, a white t-shirt, a black suit jacket, dark shoes and a white full face mask.

When discussing roles we have already assign people to the band member’s roles, but we will need about five camera men and at least three people to control our light system. We will give these roles friends who are willing to help out.