Some more ideas for the video

Given that we are having a toy car sequence with a cartoon background a good effect to transition between real life and the car scene would be to have a "line drawn" effect on ourselves. We would shoot footage of ourselves then using this effect we would become like cartoon characters, similar to these two videos below.

idea for video

For a number of reasons I think it would be too complicated and time consuming to go with our original idea of having us playing instruments on a stage with a crowd so it may work out better if there was no crowd and to put more focus on the lighting. An example and inspiration for the new idea would be Mumford and Sons song Little Lion Man.

music videos with cars

After doing a bit of research about music videos with cars in them I have come to the conclusion that it is mostly hip-hop/rap videos that have cars in them. This is one of the reasons that I think our video is original as we are experimenting with a car in the video, which isn't common for the rock/indie genre. These are the genres of music produced by the Kooks.

Here is an example:

The Kooks Website

Here is the link to the Kooks website - this should help us get the feel for our own website e.g what pages to include and the different sections of the website.

http://www.thekooks.com/

Around the sides of the homepage are colourful artistic images of the band which are nice and eyecatching - perhaps we should consider something similar for our own website. They also have embedded Twitter and music videos along with a news feed to keep their fans up to date with the goings on of the band.

Some more Kooks pictures

Album cover i made

This is an example of the type of cover i think we will make i got the photo of google and created the rest of it in photoshop. I think this would be a good cover to have on our video as it is very original and it would be good to get a picture of the four of us and try and create this to see what it would look like.

idea for album cover

The four of us standing alongside the car with instruments and doing poses etc. with the background being the cut out trees and road we used in the stop motion toy car scene.

These are just some of the kooks covers they have used on their singles and albums we are hoping to do something like this as it has a rugid look to it which is quite a common look for a rock indie band like the kooks

Shooting Schedule

Dec/Jan - Filmed toy car sequence in our cartoon road using stop motion. Should be ready for use in final film.

Wednesday - Filmed opening scenes involving car picking up Phil, darkness may be an issue so some may need to be reshot.

Next filming - Film Stevie getting into the car, turning engine on etc and pulling out of the street. The Kooks song comes on the radio. Then we'll film Stevie picking up remaining members of the band (Josh and Ciaran) with their instruments.

Kooks Fan Site

Here is a Kooks fan club website with photos and videos which give us a good indication of the clothes we should be wearing when filming in order to recreate the Kooks' look.

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-kooks

Google Docs shooting script

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Fan video

This is a fan video for the song California by the kooks and it is similar in the cartoon affect to what we want to achieve

The kooks - California from Carla Escobar on Vimeo.