Making a music video (in an uber creative way)

As you all (hopefully) know, I am making a music video for Hardback Fiction in a month or so. Had a little bit of disaster two weeks ago when the band member that I am working with announced that :
1. He's not in the band anymore
2. The band wants to promote a different song

****Panic attack****

It's all good now: Dave (the previously mentioned band member) is going to help me out on set and beforehand.
At the moment we're waiting for the band to finish the final recording and then we will be able to get things rolling.
I changed my initial idea that was submitted before Christmas so I now have to all the paperwork, sketchbooks, storyboards etc all over again.
The good thing is, that me and Dave meet up almost every week and exchange ideas, findings, concept examples so I thought I'd put some of this important stuff here.
Here's the playlist that I keep on updating for the references and styles we're gonna use while making the music video:

The Playlist


The whole process is really organic but I find it hard to drop my initial ideas and switch to others.

Thank You video final edit

72 hours till the deadline and luckily there isn't a lot to be stressed about.
The only bit that's left to do is the paperwork.


Here's the final edit of my thank you video.
I managed to shrink the thing to 1:20s. Will see what the first responses sound like tomorrow at the tutorial.

Final Year

After the most incredible summer in Alaska - I'm back!

And now it's a full-time activity.
University greeted me with deadlines and confusion. It's been two weeks and I'm currently working on these things:

Simulated Client Project
StartUP Factory Business Plan
Research Project



SIMULATED CLIENT PROJECT

We've got to make a product for the Alumni Association. I chose to make a 30s 'Thank You' video that would be shown to people after they make a donation.
The shoot is next week, I'm now working on pre production which is not my piece of cake. Anyway, regardless to all the obstacles (the machine that I ordered two weeks ago is still not here), I have high expectations for this short video. The first project of the year. Scary.




StartUP FACTORY


When did I enrol on a business course? Reading all the marketing - related material makes me dread the real world even more. Not too long before we all sell our souls to the big mighty industry of advertising! Trying to find the right combination of practitioners and come up with the greatest business plan.


RESEARCH



After many many confused days I'm finally starting to understand what my research project is going to be about.
Been trying to find a connection between the visual and the sonic aspects of moving image for the last 2 years. So naturally it led to something like this:'

The visual aspect of music.Selling music using visuals (NOT selling something else using music visuals).








There's always room for improvement and I still need to turn that pile of research papers into one sophisticated question.


Wish me luck!