More Video Screenshots

These are more shots from the music video that doesn't have any of the band members in but consists of the mise en scene and the main objects that would be caught by the camera mostly during the music video or when we are done with the final edit, these shots consists mainly of amps, flooring and stage wires. Here are the following:

        

Video Screen shots- Drummer

Video Screen shots- Guitarist

Video Screen shots- Singer

Here are shots of the lead singer Adam Johnson, these are the most important views that we put together and are planning to put into the rough edit.

These shots portray the lead singer from a personal point of view and also allow us to see the gritty setting we have created for the mise en scene with the floor boards and the electric cables. These four shots are going to be the most seen by the viewer, they are pivotal to getting the best effects and collaborating mixes of sound to reflect the quality of the video.

Video Shoot- Video effects

A percentage of the band performance was shot on saturday (27th of february) and here is the type of effect we intend to overlay on the final edited raw footage. It is called the colour overlay, by twitching the levels of hue and saturation on the Finalcut computer programme we can give the video the physical and genre relevant feel we aim to achieve,our diredtor Micheal Burrin hopes to have the editing by the end of the week and Team member Adam Johnson is also planning on finishing the digipack very soon. At this point we have so many good shots from the performance section of the music video we arent sure if we are going to need a narrative for it, at the end of editing a final decision will be made with consideration of schedule and timescale if we would add a narrative to the video of just leave it as a band performance.

End Transmission Lyrics

Pull the top down, use your knees to drive.
I'll make it worth your while just let me taste the sky.
You pressed your mouth on mine and fed me a star
Then said "we never can truly know who we are."
Know who we are.

With the lights out and the night inside
The broken radio was playing suicide.
I felt myself falling.
I confessed to you "I saw a body."
You said you'd seen a few.

This night has only just begun.
If there's discretion that you've not abandoned now's the time.
We'll burn to best the morning's son.
Go grab your bag I'll bring the gun, the gun.

Keep the top down use your knees to drive.
I'll hide these words. They're only yours to find.
You pressed your mouth on mine and said they'd call us stars.
You said "we never can truly know who we are."

This night has only just begun.
If there's discretion that you've not abandoned now's the time.
We'll burn to best the morning's son.
Go grab your bag I'll bring the gun, the gun.

Everything was burning bright.
Everyone was frightened.
You said stay strong.
Everybody knowing that what we'd invited
Still remains when we're gone.

This night has only just begun.
If there's discretion that you've not abandoned now's the time.
We'll burn to best the morning's son.
Go grab your bag I'll bring the gun, oh.

This night has only just begun.
If there's discretion that you've not abandoned now's the time.
We'll burn to best the morning's son.
Go grab your bag I'll bring the gun, the gun.
I'll bring the gun
Oh...

Style of AFI

Crash Love continues AFI's trend of varying their style from one release to the next, with a sound rooted in punk rock but having absorbed and experimented with hardcore punk, gothic rock, and electropop influences on previous albums.Bassist Hunter Burgan described Crash Love as "definitely more of a rock album–more immediate and definitely more of a focused, direct approach musically. Compared to Decemberunderground, where some of the songs were more subtle, these are more in-your-face." Dave de Sylvia of Sputnikmusic speculated that part of the motivation behind Puget and Havok's side project Blaqk Audio was to allow them to expand on the electronic elements that had been prevalent onDecemberunderground while preserving AFI as a primarily pop-punk act. Havok stated that though it was not a purposeful move, the experience with Blaqk Audio did contribute to there being few electronic elements on Crash Love:

Crash Love is a more guitar-focused, guitar-based record than Decemberunderground was. I think what that is a result of is Jade and I having toured for two months and recorded the CexCells record [with Blaqk Audio]. So when we sat down and began writing Crash Love it was refreshing to be playing rock and I think that having done Blaqk Audio, it rejuvenated our interest in rock. Blaqk Audio was already entirely purely electronic but coming from that sitting down and writing rock we just didn't have as much inspiration to insert those electronic [sounds] into the rock music that we were playing. But it wasn’t a conscious thing.

Critics compared Crash Love's sound to Morrissey, the Raspberries, The Cure, The Smiths, U2,New Order, and Alkaline Trio. Some compared Puget's guitar lines to Jimmy Page, Johnny Marr, Trent Reznor, and Black Sabbath. Several critics compared "Too Shy to Scream" to Adam and the Ants, specifically the song "Goody Two-Shoes".