Shot 1: Black screen with song title. (hot pink titles)
Shot 2: Transition from small circle to full screen.
Shot 3: 2 people on chopper bikes riding down the road in 80's mod clothing.
Shot 4: Close up of strumming guitar.
Shot 5: Long Shot to establish main characters in mod clothes.
Shot 6: Zooming into mid shot.
Shot 7: People walking around scooters (Transition before).
Shot 8: Playing football in a street.
Shot 9: Close up of playing keyboard.
Shot 10: Mid Shot of 1st person singing in front of wall with graffiti.
Shot 11: Long shot of Josh B on his own in a park.
Shot 12: Mid range shot of performance on stage.
Shot 13: Long shot of spoof crowd shot.
shot 14: Mid shot of walking through doors.
Shot 15: Close up of singer with hand in air, low angle shot.
Shot 16: Mid Shot of singer grabbing girl and singing.
Shot 17: Long shot, moving camera, of people walking around in 80's clothing.
Shot 18: Group of people kicking the s*** out of someone.
Shot 19: Group of people with guns/weapons lined up.
Shot 20: Shot of singer standing alone in camouflage army gear.
Shot 21: Performance on stage.
Shot 22: Mid-shot of singer singing in different locations.
Shot 23: Close up of singer and give in car.
Shot 24: Zooming out to see girl Jumping out of a car.
Pitch Feedback
On Thursday we pitched for the song Jump Out Of Your Car by Iglu and Hartley. We got the song but no one else wanted, so don't know if our pitch was good.
1 point that was brought up by the class were that the song suits an 80s setting, so we were thinking about making the mise-en-scene 80s style (80s costumes and that). But we will have to be careful that we don't expose the modern world in our video (modern cars, clothing, technology). that will be hard.
1 point that was brought up by the class were that the song suits an 80s setting, so we were thinking about making the mise-en-scene 80s style (80s costumes and that). But we will have to be careful that we don't expose the modern world in our video (modern cars, clothing, technology). that will be hard.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Pitch Package-Jump Out of Your Car
Video Pitch: We want to make sure that the video is related to the song so our plan is to do a lot of filming using a car. we want to cruise around, filming and lip-syncing in the car in a variety of different locations. As a group we haven't decided on specific locations yet but we do want shoot in town, a graffitied wall or street or something like that, and a scummy grimey sort of area. we also want to film in a really isolated place, like a park bench to provide some contrast to the video. we also want to include some football and a fight because we think that would be safe. We also plan to do a bit of live performing on a stage, and we will have to draft in some extras.
We want the video to have a story line and relate to the lyrics, not for it to be abstract and really confusing.
Props: Car, park bench, bling and stuff, football, girl, instruments (e.g. keyboard guitar), extras.
We want to include some generic hip-hop generic conventions in our video as well.
DVD/Magazine Cover
We want to have something similar to this cover. Our idea is to have the main artists in the car hanging out of the windows. This is in relation to the lyrics. There will be close ups of the main artists faces because of the demands of the record label. we want to make sure that it is recognizable as a hip hop group and a hip hop video.
this is a video, day 'N' night - Kid Cudi. It is an example of a sterotypical hip-hop video. it may not be a strictly hip-hop song. But the video conforms to some maJor hip-hop conventions.
We want the video to have a story line and relate to the lyrics, not for it to be abstract and really confusing.
Props: Car, park bench, bling and stuff, football, girl, instruments (e.g. keyboard guitar), extras.
We want to include some generic hip-hop generic conventions in our video as well.
DVD/Magazine Cover
We want to have something similar to this cover. Our idea is to have the main artists in the car hanging out of the windows. This is in relation to the lyrics. There will be close ups of the main artists faces because of the demands of the record label. we want to make sure that it is recognizable as a hip hop group and a hip hop video.
this is a video, day 'N' night - Kid Cudi. It is an example of a sterotypical hip-hop video. it may not be a strictly hip-hop song. But the video conforms to some maJor hip-hop conventions.
Monday, 21 September 2009
Song Choices
1. jump out of your car - Iglu and Hartley
This is our number 1 choice. We think the tune is great but the voices ruin it. A waste of what could have been a potentially great song. Things we could include in our video are a bit of live performance on a stage, with whole group "playing" instruments, hopefully a guitar keyboard which would be sick. Other props we would need are a car, instruments, different costumes (Suits, tracksuits etc.) and extras to be in the autograph hunting part and a girl to be in the car and walk out. Both Josh's will perform the singing parts- lip synching.
2. More than life- Whitley
This is our 2nd choice. The idea we had is the singer in different locations on his own, such as on a park bench, graveyard etc. We would use a forest aswell when the song mentions falling leaves- this is a good time to film it as it is autumn.
3. Way back into love- Hayley Bennett
This is our 3rd choice song. The idea for the video was to have 2 people doing a duet lip syncing but no close-ups, as we have no females in the group.
This is our number 1 choice. We think the tune is great but the voices ruin it. A waste of what could have been a potentially great song. Things we could include in our video are a bit of live performance on a stage, with whole group "playing" instruments, hopefully a guitar keyboard which would be sick. Other props we would need are a car, instruments, different costumes (Suits, tracksuits etc.) and extras to be in the autograph hunting part and a girl to be in the car and walk out. Both Josh's will perform the singing parts- lip synching.
2. More than life- Whitley
This is our 2nd choice. The idea we had is the singer in different locations on his own, such as on a park bench, graveyard etc. We would use a forest aswell when the song mentions falling leaves- this is a good time to film it as it is autumn.
3. Way back into love- Hayley Bennett
This is our 3rd choice song. The idea for the video was to have 2 people doing a duet lip syncing but no close-ups, as we have no females in the group.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Goodwin Analysis- Kanye West , Paranoid.
1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).
There is a lot of glamour in the video, mainly provided by Rhianna, which is typical of a Kanye West video. The video genre is horror, and there are lots of horror characteristics such as the fangs in the background, the moon shining in the night and the scary looking mountain.
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
The words that flash up on screen at the start of the song are all words associated with 'paranoia'. There are also scenes where Rhianna is driving the car and looking very paranoid, which also fits in with the horror genre. also some lyrics flash up on the screen at the same time as they are sung, such as "tell me right now".
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).
At the start of the song the camera movements are quite slow until the beat speeds up and the camera zooms into Rhianna's face. A lot of the time the lights flash at the same time as the beat. Also at the end, images of Rhianna's face flash up on screen in time with the beat.
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).
There are frequent close ups of Kanye West, but only in the background to look scary and add to the horror feel. There is not really a motif as most of his videos are very different, but lyrics appear on screen in time with the music, like in the video for 'Good life' (as seen below).
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.
There is a big reference to looking when Rhianna is driving as she is constantly looking around to make sure no-one is following her. there is also a lot of the obvious voyeurism, with Rhianna in the revealing outfit, and the shadow of the hands pulling down the bed covers at the start of the video.
6. There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).
There is an obvious reference to old fashion horror films with all of the characteristics mentioned in the first heading. There is also the bad graphics with the car driving down the mountain, which makes it look like an old fashioned film, as they did not have the technology in them days.
