For this project to be a success myself and the group have had to carry out primary and secondary research.
For the primary research we went out straight to John himself to speak to him and gain his story first hand. Also John has kept pictures and videos that are not available to the general public, though he will allow us access too.
For secondary research we searched the internet for pictures and news articles of Covstock and anything we could find on John Oliver. We came across Covstock and Sound Foundry websites, but we dug deeper and found Covstock stories on the BBC website and pictures from local photographers.
http://thesoundfoundry.forumotion.net/portal.forum?pid=2 - The Sound Foundry website.
a few Covstock pictures.
When we saw the rehearsal rooms, we thought it would be good to shoot an interview with John in the style as MTV shoot their interviews. By this i mean not only would the audience see the formal interview, it would also cut to a free hand shot showing the interview taking place from a 3rd person angle. I decided to search for similar interviews to look for techniques. I found this video interview with Eminem, and though it doesn’t show the interview from 3rd person, it does cut to a black and white angle and has cut aways. Similar to what we have in mind for John’s interview.
Good stuff. Not sure whether whiplash shots ala MTV would work on people of a certain age?
It should be ok regardless his age. He still looks the rough music scene type so we can get away with it. If not we’ve shot over an hour of footage we can scrap that idea if it doesn’t work.
Unless you mean our target audience?
No its his look that counts but then Johnny Cash stayed hardcore so you could be OK – its just people like Simon Cowell that give old people a bad name.
Simon Cowell gives the whole music industry a bad name.