Questionaire

This is the questionnaire I gave out to gather more information research for making my music video.

1: Gender    

   M/F

2:Age             

19 and below             20 -29           30 - 39           40+

3:What type of music do you prefer

Metal         Rock       Indie          Pop         RnB           Hip Hop      Rap        Dance   other

4:When watching an animated music video what musical genre do you expect it to be on.

Metal         Rock       Indie          Pop         RnB           Hip Hop      Rap        Dance   other

4b:If it was that genre what props would you expect to see

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5:What effects do you like to see in animated music videos

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6: What narrative style do you prefer in music videos

Narrative             Dual Narrative           No Narrative 

6b: Give reasons for this choice

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Character designs

These are my initial character designs for the band members. I found these images of the band and created my charactures from them and what I know they look like. I'm particularly pleased with the ones of Tom ( singer ) and Sam ( guitarist ) which will be the main characters seen in the animation as these are the two playing the acoustic version however the other two will feature.

Here are my character designs for Tom and Sam. Tom is the singer who is at the front of the top picture in blue and is the character on the right of the bottom image. Sam with the guitar can be seen in the top picture as third from the front.

After showing these designs to friends, fans of the band and the band themselves, all the feedback has been positive and it has become clear that my designs do represent the band members in an accurate and positive way.

Initial ideas for Complacent music video

After listening to the acoustic version of Complacent which can be found on their myspace page :

www.myspace.com/againstspokenwords

I have decided to create an animation along a similar line of those created by Monkeehub, who created the animations for JCB song - Nizlopi and Radiohead's acoustic version of creep. I chose to make a animation in a similar style to these because I feel the general feel of the songs are similar. The similar natural singing styles and use of just a guitar for melodies, shows a correlation through these songs, also the use of flash animation software, used to create these Monkeehub animations, I feel very confident with using. I have no idea of a narrative yet to use in the animation but I will begin brainstorming ideas soon then create my initial storyboards.