First script

Media-interview scene script

 

Throughout the scene we never see the faces of the two, only various close-up shots of eyes, hands and back shots, the interviewer will be seen but still minimally.

Interviewer: and here with us today we have the legendary Thor Hammeranstein III (mispronounces both names) and Olav Yewenvargen

Olav: it’s Yewenvargen

Thor: and Hammeranstein

Interviewer: Oh, sorry…

Interviewer: well let me be the first to say that it is an honour to have two of the greatest musicians in rock history in our studio, because while making up 2/4’s of one of the most amazing acts in entertainment history, for a large portion of your careers, you have been intensely private and released very little about your personal lives, so why now?

Thor: Ya well, we felt that the times was right to start talking about how awesomes it all was and let the world sees into whos we are a littles more.

Olav: Ya the fans have beens buggings us for years to do a serious interviews, they were all like “Oh you guys you gots to tells us everythings abouts your personals stuffs” and we were all “NO’S…Gets out of here”

Interviewer: uuum, yes… now despite your privacy you were known for some of the most wild antics of any celebrity, Thor it was recorded you went into rehab 8 times!?

Thor: Ya, I was quite prouds of that (if a mouth shot is present give smirk.)

Olav: HA that’s nothings, I’ve been in 14 times and I nevers stopped drinking once.

Thor: Ya but you hads already been in like twice befores we met. Which was interestings cause you must have been like 13 the first times.

Olav: uh ya something like that.

Interviewer: that really is an incredible feat, of course most of your fans will remember your numerous trips to rehabilitation.

Olav: Ya, ya good times. (directed at interviewer) you should have seen him the first time we made him go, he was about to destroy the band froms the insides, so we told him we was goins for a beer run but then we secretly drove to the rehab centre and just dumped him there.

Thor: oh ya, that was probably the angriest I’ve ever beens in my wholes life haha

Olav: Ya, he actually tried to kill me when he gots out haha, I’ve still gots the scar.

Interviewer:…yeeeees well anyway. Now you two have known each other since you were 16-17 am I right.

Thor: Ya, we were both elected most likelys to die before age 30 in school.

Olav: Showed thems.

Interviewer: So you two really are an exemplar of long term friendship, could you describe what the early days were like for you two.

Thor: Well, let me thinks…

Flashback sequence

Quick succession of images shows the young Thor and Olav being horrifically drunk and disorderly.

Thor: hmm, well I can’t really remembers the early days to well…its all a little blurrys

Olav: ya we must be gettins old.

Thor: For me it really started goings when we started working with Derek.

Olav: Ya that’s when our musics started to really gos in the directions we wanted.

Interviewer: So could you give us a little insight into what those days where like? When you where just starting out, before you were discovered even?

Thor: well, lets see….

Play flashback of large build up, band playing great music but it’s a tiny gig and theres only about three people, by this point the film opening will have ended but it will leave a good inclination of where the story will go, with the fictional bands climb to worldwide fame and success.

This was our first treatment. After writing it and attempting to create some of the scenes, we realised that we were being incredilby ambitious to try to recreate this exact script, being only amateur film makers. We then went back to the drawing board to refine the script.

Music creations

These are the final pieces of music that we wrote. It took us a long time as we were forever trying to perfect aspects of one piece or scrapping parts of it. We are very happy with our results and a selection of these final pieces will be in our film.

We each uploaded different clips to our SoundCloud accounts

These are the pieces that we will consider using. Not all of them will make an appearance in the film but we felt that these were the best ones.

Simple transition riff HERE
Build up sequence HERE
Backing track HERE

Music writing update

This was were we wrote all our film music. We wrote it at Marcus' because we were able to construct a crude home studio and this was perfect for us because we did not have money to for anything else and the equipment that we possessed was enough to write what we needed.

 

This was our primary set up. We hooked a recording amp to the computer and played through a program that recorded us and allowed other effects to be placed in e.g. drums and guitar overlays.

 

 This is the Line6 UX2. The primary piece of recording equipment, this allowed us to record everything we played and gives us maximum control over our songs. The UX2 is set up for the best quality recording we could get and it really showed in our final products.

 

 

This is the program riffworks that we used to edit all the music we recorded. We recorded quite a lot of music that we could potentially use in our film and we will put them on our blogs when they are completely done.  

Writing our own music

As me and Marcus decided to make a film on something we know a lot about, we felt it would make sense to write our own music. Not only did this give us the freedom of creativity, but it was much easier than trying to find a piece of music or a song to just fit with the film. Writing our own music we could create something that we felt would match the scen well or would add someting ot aour film as well as being able to put it in when we wanted.We also knew what sound we wanted to achieve and what would be appealing to our main audiences-primarily people of the metal community.

                           
                                Me and Marcus during the creative process.
                               Click HERE and/or HERE to see our progress

This was the early stages of the writing and we had not come up with any actual songs. We were experimenting to see what we could create that would fit in our film.

Target Audience

I have a definite idea of the general groups our film will appeal to  and also who our film will be aimed at.
As a rule the largest groups will be fans of comedy and heavy metal, seeing as this is a comedy about a metal band. People whp are fans of  films and shows like "This is Spinal Tap" "Metalocalypse" and "Tenacious D" amongst others are likely to be the first people who will be drawn towards the film.

Another large group that will identify with the film are the rock and heavy metal demographic. This is a typically (but not limited to) male audience that range through all ages, but is generally popular with young adults. This has already given the film a very wide audience.

Film title planning-initial ideas

So far we have had several ideas as to what we can include in our film. So far we have been thinking about the title sequence and an idea that keeps returning is the idea of using musical equipment and instruments to display credits.

This is our first idea. I would consist of showing a stream of photos, parafinalia and music equipment scattered over a surface with a camera slowly panning across, creating a timeline of sorts. Underneath photos would be where the credits are written (this is only an opening so there will not be that many credits.) We will consider this idea for a while unless it proves to hard to reconstruct photos of the rock band growing up over time, which it may well be.

These are some more ideas we came up with. They are much rougher but we will definatley incorporate some of them into our titles. The close-up shots on the instruments and hands playing them, will work very well in the theme because one of our main ideas for the entire film is a build up leading to a dissapointing let down and close up and possibly even slow motion shots will add a sense of suspense and enigma to the film.

Group change-new film direction

Originally I was in a group with Esme, Joanna and Ellie. We had planned to make a comedy based around a resteraunt drawing on the stereotypes and every day situations of working in a resteraunt.

However after several weeks of plannig and research, I decided that I was not entirely on board with the idea and I felt it would be better to work in a smaller group, so I left the group and joined with Marcus instead as we shared similar ideals and interests and we already had a good idea that we felt we could take further.

 We have decided to make our film a "mockumentary" about a fake rock band. We are both very keen on music so we felt that this would be a good direction for us both.

Click to see my pinterest HERE

This is a pinterest I made showing a few things that we know we can already draw influence from. As we go on with our research I will add more to this page should I find anything I find interesting and relatable to the project. I have generally included comedies that heavily feature music however I have included bands and even video games, so that I have a wide range of sources to examine and draw inspiration from.