PINK

This video explores very dark thoughts, and we aim to copy these thoughts through to childhood.  It shows the girl as she grows and the pain she goes through to get there, We'd hope that we could do a simular thing through our video. Making you think, making you question. We want our video to hold a strong moral message (however dark it is). Obviously we will no be able to do the same quality because of the art etc, buyt we hope to be able to explain a narrative, we think it should be confusing. Making people question themselves, with different messages throughout it all.

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Applying Theories to our Music Video

Claude Levi-Strauss' theory of binary opposites is mildly applied to our video in regards to him looking back. The place he is in now is much happier ie. with his friends and band members, as opposed to his childhood which we see in the flashback scenes where he is seen to have unhappier times.

Vladimir Propp's theory of character roles also sort of applies to our video. The lead singer is the 'hero' in a sense as the story is based around him, whilst his band members are his 'helpers' as they give him a place of space and happiness where he can reflect and be himself. Whilst the parents are in some ways the 'villains' as they create a sense of unhappiness in the 'hero's' life.

Tzvetan Todorov's theory that every story has an equilibrium that is disturbed and is then restored through a 3 part narrative structure. In our video the equilibrium will be him telling the story of his life, the disruption of the equilibrium will be when we see the flashbacks of him as a child when he is unhappy and the restoration of the equilibrium will be when we see his with his friends and band members.

Representations in our Music Video

Who?

Our music video will consist of 4 main actors and 4 extra band members. One of the actors, Joe, will also play the main singer in the band. The other actors are Emma and Henry, who will play the mother and father, and then Scott who will play the younger 'Joe' in the story. The 4 other band members will then be used for the performance aspect at the end.

What?

The music video will have a performance towards the end of the song but it will mainly be acted out and sung through a story with a series of flashbacks. The story is based on the lead singer of the band looking back at his life, linked with the song and lyrics.

Where?

We have a few loactions in our video, the first will be a hotel room in which the main story of looking back takes place. The second will be in Katie's house, and this loaction will be used for the flashbakc secenes as will be focused on families for this part. The final location will be a small field for the band performance scene as we think this will look effective and fit in with our indie theme whilst still being in keeping with the rest of the video.

Why?

We have chosen actors and band members that we think look good and realistic together. The locations we have chosen for the video will help to give it the indie and believable themes we are going for in order to make sure it is a successful music video. We don't have many locations as we think the more simplistic the video is the more effective it will be as an end product.

How?

We plan out our video and shooting schedules thoroughly and realisitcally in order for us to do this well. We have put lots of thought into styling and mise en scence to hopefully give depth to our music video and make sure it is suitable for our themes etc. We have done a risk assesment and will soon be putting up our storyboard and animatic which willl help us to be much more organised when we shoot so we can perfect the shots rather than wasting time wondering what to do.



Risk Assesment

Risk Assessment

Shooting Schedule

Sunday 9th October is when we plan to shoot our interiors for the video, it will be in the Travel Lodge hotel in Lutterworth and we will only need the main character/singer.
The props we will need, will inlcude the vinyl and photo we are using as time portals.

Friday 14th October we will shoot the other interiors not at the hotel, this will be in Katie's house. We will need the same props, again as time portals. And we will need the mum and dad and (younger) son in these scenes.

On this day (14th Oct) we will also be filming some of the exteriors linked with the house and memories.

 Sunday 23rd October is when we will film the exteriors with the band. The only props we will need is the instruments and then all the band members will be needed.

Tube Chop Analysis - Richard Ashcroft, A Song For the Lovers

This video has given us a lot of inspiration for our own and we hope to create similar effects to this one. The tube chop's below will show which aspects we hope to adapt to our video and area's of it that have inspired us.



This clip shows off well the idea of isolation and lonliness and this is something we want to portray in our video as it fits in well with the song we have chosen. We also like the aspect when he turns on the stereo and the song starts playing. We think this is a really effective use of the amplification/disjuncture genre as he is listening to the song that he has sung. We hope to adapt this idea into our video and we plan to use it but instead with a docking station, and it will be slightly more obvious that our actor is the singer of the song.




In this clip where he is getting ready in the bathroom and singing the odd few word along to his song, we think it is really effective for the genre and we are impressed with the camera work as we are trying to figure out a way of filming in a mirror without the camera being seen. Our video will take inspiration from this clip as we hope to use the idea of having the main actor/singer singing along whilst the background song is playing.



The reason we have selected this part if the video is because we think the camera work is really effective when it goes in to a close up of his face. We can see his emotions really clearly and we can tell that he is confused and thinking about something and he is also feeling lonely. I think this piece of camera work if used in our video could work really well when we need to show our singers emotions before and after we see the flash backs.

Refining Our Idea

Refining our idea

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Idea Change

After reviewing our idea, we have decided to alter it sligthly. We will now be doing a disjunctive video. We have decided this change because we realised that our ideas were perhaps too complex before and it would have been very hard to shoot and it would have looked unrealisitc. We have decided to do a simpler idea involving a son of a family going through troubles and he is having flashbacks. We will use the same song as it still fits and we have the same audience etc, therefore all of our previous research still applies.
Our next post will have our refined idea with more detailed information about it.

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