NeonFaith

Neonfaith is a mysterious Indie Electronic project based in Queens NYC and active since 2012. The line up consists of lead singer Megan Faye, Lay and Fef. The trio produces adventurous sounds blending various genres, Electronic, Trip Hop, Psychedelic and Synth Pop with deep vocals. Neonfaith singles released on the Internet include: Escape, Tied Together and Mercury along with Remix of Lana Del Rey and Little Dragon tracks

 My review of Escape, when introduced to the band through word of mouth, Escape was the song that I heard, The picture is very true to the song, i always imagine the busy city. I always think of

  London or a bustling city as we follow the character through it, as she goes around town, dancing to the song uncaring of her surroundings  but then theirs this dark synthesis that makes me think of a darker character, in an abandoned loft, TV static but watching, I'll call this person 'the executioner' , who smashes the static TV having an effect soon the main character in the streets, she glitches.

With tied together, I find the lyrics to be very influenced  unlike the other songs, the beat is a lot more simple, the journey into this musical trance relies on the lyrics, its very visually and sensory based.
It captures a beat and still has this slow and carefree style to it.

I think that Mercury is a very eerie and slow paced song that show finish the video. The ending like Escape is very unexpected but unlike escape instead of it a solid track that liquidates and melts at the end, its a liquid, fluid track that becomes a solid at the end.
The pace of the song at the end is very memorable so to place it as the last track means that it will be left with the audience and that's what I want.

Using all the tracks for me is very crucial , so I thought about adding their remixed version of Carmen by Lana Del Rey, as the promo video, looking at very recent music videos they have a teaser for the Music video. So this would be the soundtrack. The focus would be on the mysterious twins, their actions, them being like mute narrates, all seeing in a sense as the world of other characters go out of control around them.

I love this song, And i always see it as a separate but joined project, an introduction to the cast and crew, a lot of fun, with a feel of Grimes Oblivion type of shooting. where we perform the song in a crowd, dancing and hopefully not being embarassed as much. 

Copyright infringement and the music

I have said it so many times i think its become a mantra to myself. I cannot sing or create music. At all and that is a big problem that I have to face in the creation of my main project since what is a music video without music?
So the plan was to beg and beg for a band to give me permission to use one of their singles, because getting the permission from the creators of the work is better and way cooler.
So I riffled through songs and scoured the net over and over looking back and forth from music that I adore and music that I just recently found then in my little racket of a phone reminded me of my most played list and number three on the list is the song Escape by Neonfaith so feeling inspired by the song i start reaching out to the band and withing hours they replied, giving me the green light on using their single.

Lo and behold the awesomeness of the band!

So whats next? I hear you say, well next is the actual idea of the Video, creating the concept relies strongly on the mood the influence that is given by the music.
I hope to make the Band proud and also feel like I've worked myself to the bone in this project, so i will update the blog a lot more with updates but i feel very positive in the progress and direction in which its going. But as me and the band spoke i realized that i could create the Short film music video, because they had only released songs and their combined time is 13 minutes and 8 seconds, withould clipping the song. so i quickly inqured if i could use alll of their songs and again being cool with it they gave me the go ahead.

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the rating system

So what rating is the project under? 

Since I'm making the video targeted to people my age I think the safest bet is to be a 12A and 15, although i don't think i will have any violence in the video.

costume shot

A skirt with a high and low hem

A long black and white smugde print skirt



Alpha Matte

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My niece result from the next picture





The Blogs initials and the result from the next picture



 

 

 

And the last one a sentence



VLOG Galour

During the weekend I wanted to explain my plan for the task but fell very ill and had to take prescribed medication, I still trooped on with the video but it is very scattered due to me being under very heavy medication. I will redo the video when I'm in a better state of mind and also i will add to the explanation and planing, and also have draft videos storyboards of the opening sequence. video that i want to replicate.

Consumer targeted questionaire

In a storyline would you prefer a story that unravels or a story that you follow from beginning to end?

The unravelling storyline         

Beginning to end storyline

Would you like the video to be artistic in its portrayl of the storyline?

Yes 

No 

Would you prefer the singer to be male or female?

Male 

Female 

Would you rather have a female protaganist or  male protaganist?

female

male

What effects do you prefer in  music videos?

Black and white

Tinted

Dark

Bright

Colourful

Normal

Textured

Other_____________________________________________________________

would you like a very cinematographic sense of the video?

Yes

No

Would you like a climax to the storyline?

Yes

No

How would you like the character to be represented as?
for example, sexy, young, awkward.

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Results

Band Website home page

Daughter homepage

Content:

• Music from album
•  Picture of artist 
•  Album cover
• The extra information and links are at the side

The theme colours stand out and are very visual and the blue is bright, but there isn't a lot of special detail its information is straight forward and they have the necessary things covered, with also the music from the latest album.
 we see that the main focus is on the album since most of the information in view is about it. which means that the audiences view is on the album and of the music, not on the artist.

The Golden Filter Homepage

Content 

• link to watch the video
• links are at the top

The main page is a thumbnail photo of the Music video, with the title of the Video and the Director and that band, this shows that their main focus is on the video itself since its their, The whole page is covered with the site and because of its size and the picture it gives of a dark and luxurious feel to it, the artists aren't shown at all and it only seems like they are promoting the video. but they are also promoting their album because of the soundtrack. 

The XX Homepage

Content

•   the album cover,
•  information at the bottom links at the top.

The Bands insignia is the first thing that catches the viewers attention, this is also the album cover of the band so they promote their latest album too. the Page is full but is minimalistic with the links small and neatly placed above the X and under it, this minimalistic sense reflects on their target market of reformers who aren't status or care for image, but focus on sound that is why the band is simple in its design and not bombarding in their image.

Imagine dragons homepage

Content

•  album art
•  music
•  links at the bottom

The Bands homepage is full and is covered by the album cover and the music from the album is linked into the art itself, for example pressing onto the pillars makes a song play. 
this shows their promotion of their latest album and also, the links are out of view showing that they primarily want to make the viewer aware of the album.