Shoot. Number One.Natalie-
I've been thinking about a possible first shoot, and I have some ideas. Bear with me as I lay out a possible plan. I want to make a music video. And, at the same time we can do a photoshoot. But for the video, I want to use one of about 5 different songs. Two of the songs I have full permission to use. We can make the video and 'own' it on YouTube. The other 3 songs are protected...but typically you can upload them to YouTube, you just don't get to make any money from them. (Kinda like the 'Sail' video with the two girls playing with a hose...fan videos basically) Honestly, the ownership means nothing- no money will come from it either way. The five songs are: ODB Got Your Money ODB & Pras - Ghetto Superstar Biggie Smalls - Hypnotize Those are the three commercial songs. Then there are two songs from a punk band in Belarus- they have said I could make a video. Go to their Soundcloud and listen to 'MMPC' and 'Do You Wanna Know' (you have to scroll down a bit) |
Sample of one of my rose photos.
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Style
Okay, so 3 rap songs, and 2 punk songs. Probably not the videos you would normally be cast in.
But the style I want to use is something like this: (Fatboy Slim, Praise You) Okay, but it will rock harder. But you get the idea of out of sync choreography, no costumes, etc. I also really like the Lonely Boy video by the Black Keys. Maybe with a little bit of Fleetwood Mack thrown in.
Not clownish...I want you to be serious. But I do not want professional and polished. But obviously we have juxtaposition with the songs and you...and color guard.
Imagine this: You and possibly two other color guard girls, wearing 'practice wear', and doing color guard WITH DAMN SMOKE BOMBS in the background!!! and ODB rapping.
And, imagine at the same time...a photoshoot of you doing color guard, with smoke bombs. No, it is not the 'pretty' smoke bomb pictures. Instead it's bad-ass color guard photos, with smoke. More like a battlefield, or maybe some old U2 video. More dramatic than pretty.
Location- we can do just about anything. Big sweeping drama would be cool, but so would a hallway between buildings at a high school. Except the police would come if we did smoke at a high school, so let's scrap that idea.
This would take a bit longer to do than most shoots, because of the video. But I would expect no more than 4 hours. Probably 3. It will be totally relaxed and fun. You doing bad ass color guard, possibly with a couple of friends. The video would be a killer bonus. (Oh, I would flash 'zutsy.com' on the video, and probably have some other strange stuff- this would be an explosion to your eyes.)
If you rope two other girls in, it will be great...Like Charlie's Angels with pizza, music, dancing, smoke. Ridiculousness.
The finished video would probably be shorter than the full songs. Maybe 90 seconds or so. Too long, and people will lose interest.
So...I'm proposing a photoshoot with color guard and smoke, PLUS a bonus video that will hopefully be a little insane.
What do you think?
*** If you say, "but I can't dance"...that is sooooooo not an issue here. As long as you can move around, we're good. Hell, I don't even care if you comb your hair- this is totally different than that.
But the style I want to use is something like this: (Fatboy Slim, Praise You) Okay, but it will rock harder. But you get the idea of out of sync choreography, no costumes, etc. I also really like the Lonely Boy video by the Black Keys. Maybe with a little bit of Fleetwood Mack thrown in.
Not clownish...I want you to be serious. But I do not want professional and polished. But obviously we have juxtaposition with the songs and you...and color guard.
Imagine this: You and possibly two other color guard girls, wearing 'practice wear', and doing color guard WITH DAMN SMOKE BOMBS in the background!!! and ODB rapping.
And, imagine at the same time...a photoshoot of you doing color guard, with smoke bombs. No, it is not the 'pretty' smoke bomb pictures. Instead it's bad-ass color guard photos, with smoke. More like a battlefield, or maybe some old U2 video. More dramatic than pretty.
Location- we can do just about anything. Big sweeping drama would be cool, but so would a hallway between buildings at a high school. Except the police would come if we did smoke at a high school, so let's scrap that idea.
This would take a bit longer to do than most shoots, because of the video. But I would expect no more than 4 hours. Probably 3. It will be totally relaxed and fun. You doing bad ass color guard, possibly with a couple of friends. The video would be a killer bonus. (Oh, I would flash 'zutsy.com' on the video, and probably have some other strange stuff- this would be an explosion to your eyes.)
If you rope two other girls in, it will be great...Like Charlie's Angels with pizza, music, dancing, smoke. Ridiculousness.
The finished video would probably be shorter than the full songs. Maybe 90 seconds or so. Too long, and people will lose interest.
So...I'm proposing a photoshoot with color guard and smoke, PLUS a bonus video that will hopefully be a little insane.
What do you think?
*** If you say, "but I can't dance"...that is sooooooo not an issue here. As long as you can move around, we're good. Hell, I don't even care if you comb your hair- this is totally different than that.