Research: The Song Itself...

"Over My Head (Cable Car)" (originally performed as "Cable Car") is a song by American rock band, The Fray. It is included on their on their debut album, How to Save a Life (2005) and was the debut single from the album and hit the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The single helped propel their album from the Top Heatseekers chart to the top 20 of The Billboard 200 chart. The single is available exclusively as a digital download. Some CD singles of the song were given out to attendees of a concert on December 17, 2005. The CD single was backed with "Heaven Forbid" and a live version of "Hundred". In the UK, "Over My Head (Cable Car)" was released as the second single from the album, following "How to Save a Life".
The song sold over 2 million digital downloads in the United States and was certified double platinum by the RIAA in May 2006. The song was the fifth most-downloaded single of 2006 and was ranked #13 on the Hot 100 singles of 2006 by Billboard. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals in 2007. It lost to My Humps by Black Eyed Peas.
The song was ranked #43 on Billboard's Best Adult Pop Songs of the Decade listand #100 on Billboard's Top 100 Digital Tracks of the Decade list.

Research: Simular bands

All of the above bands are in the same genre of music as 'The Fray'. They're pop-rock sensibilities have brought them fame and fortune and has proven that they can deliver great hits. Some have even played alongside 'The Fray' on certain bills. 'The Fray' even stated themselves that they are heavily influenced by U2.

Rsearch: 'The Fray'

The Fray is an American rock band from Denver, Colorado. Formed in 2002 by schoolmates Isaac Slade and Joe King, they achieved mainstream success with the release of their debut album, How to Save a Life in 2005, which was certified double platinum by the RIAA and platinum in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK. The Fray achieved national success with their first single, "Over My Head (Cable Car)", which became a top ten hit in the United States. The release of their second single, "How to Save a Life", brought the band worldwide fame. The song charted in the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 and was a top 5 single in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.The group's second self-titled album, released in 2009, debuted at number-one on the Billboard charts and was certified gold in the United States, Australia and Canada. It was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album in 2010. While both the albums were commercially successful, critical reception was mixed. The Fray was ranked #84 on Billboard's "Artists of the Decade" list.
The Fray's use of the piano as the lead instrument in their music has led critics to compare the band with English piano-driven bands like Coldplay and Keane.However, the band lists its influences as Counting Crows, Better Than Ezra and U2.

Planning: Narritive and casting

Here is our first document of our casting and narritive for our production. This was drawn up the day the task was set to get s started into what direction to head.

Planning: Anicllary Product (Photogrpahs)

These images are our originally used photos for our ancillary products. We hired out the Green screen to take the photos upon, so that when it comes to editing them they are easy to work around and edit. We took turns to get our own individual shots for each of our ancillary products. Because of my role in the video being the guitarist i needed to get some ancillary shots of myself, so in result of this i showed my peer the shot i needed and he then took upon the role of shooting my shots of me. Theses photo shots were one of the first tasks we got done because we thought that with the images shot and out of the way it will be easy to the get on with our ancillary products and not have any problems to worry about. Later on, we then found out that we needed a few more shots for the website so we called an emergency photo shoot to get the shots we needed.

Planning: Live Band Photographs

These are some of our initial band photography shots from our location shoot. They were only a rough estimate to where we was going to shoot and what apparatus to set up. After choosing the location we chose to shoot only the band shots here and the narrative elsewhere.

Planning: Pitch

This is our group 'pitch' video. The video contains a presentation of us demonstrating our ideas and concepts we wish to introduce to our project. Our main aim was to carry out research into the band and other similar bands within that genre of music (pop rock). With results found of this, we made a mood board with images of these bands. Also inserted into the mood board was location shot ideas; ideas where we wished to shoot our video. These ideas were then put to paper and made official. We also discussed our ideas for ancillary products and which tasks where going to be set to whom. A time-line was also added to this presentation to give us an idea of how/when we will be doing each element, e.g. filming, photo's, casting, ancillary products, and so on. This time line was estimated before the due-date so therefore if any problems occurred we had time to deal with the problems.