For our own digi pack to do with the band we have started to develop although not the final digi pack it is an idea and will be developed further.
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Stereophonics- Just Looking
The music video for just looking by stereophonics is certainly an interesting one throughout the whole video the lead singer is miming and it is basically set in a car all the way through of them driving I think it is the band in the car they all mime at some point. This video has different camera shots and mis en scene which I will discuss later on but firstly I will discuss the lighting. The mood in this video is very eary and creates a sense of wonder it’s as if they are trying to make it not to connect with the lyrics but more to create the mood that they want which seems very depressed. The mis en scene in this video is firstly the lighting, in this video it seems quite bright, especially the snow they go past which creates quite a bright image, I think they would’ve created it extra bright with snow as they wanted you to see the surroundings as because it’s a welsh band maybe they are filming in wales and want people to see their home land and as the song is called just looking it’s about looking at your surroundings. I also think away from lighting the main phrase in the song is “I’m just looking not buying” which I think that they are trying to say that is they do not control there life they just been a by stander watching things happen I’ve come to this conclusion as they show flashes of what happens in life for example marriage and such he just looks out the window at it, and the way the lyrics say he’s not buying is that he’s never actually committed to things just watched as they’ve happened. Another point of mis en scene is the location they are I think that they are in wales as they are a welsh band and I think the song is connected to the lead singers life. The snow in the music video I think is very important because snow for me creates a very cold atmosphere snow seems very boring and maybe he saying his life is boring as such or because everyone thinks famous people think they are above or different he’s saying he is just plain and normal. I also think that the clothing in this music video is very plain which ties into what I said about the snow. The props in the video are plain as well it seems like a plain car and also there is jelly babies which is a sweet that you wouldn’t imagine many famous people having so gives them more of a plain look like the snow and clothes. The camera shots in this music video has many close up shots one main one is of the lead singer in the car, there is a close up here in order for you to see him lip syncing there’s is also various close up shots of the other three in the car singing. Another important close up is of the name on the front of the car which is the band name which is shown many times throughout which allows the watcher to see what band it is. There is also lots of eye line match shots from the main singer to show him looking around which ties to the song itself. There’s also a long shot of the car to show you they are driving and allow you to see some of the surroundings which also ties in to what I said earlier there is also a long shot to do with the car sinking to allow the watcher to see what is happening to the car and create drama. The editing in this music video makes the video very slow I think the cutting is smooth and everything has a touch of slowness about it maybe to outline their life or boredom or something. At one point in the video there is a slow motion take when he emerges from the water which can be construed as a typical shot because you see it in movies all the time to add drama but maybe they are taking the mick of movies and movie stars to show they are not one of them, there is also flashbacks in this video to show past which I think shows what I mentioned earlier when I said about him watching his life flash by not controlling it as such just watching it which again ties into the song. This is the Gorillaz album which is very cartoony as you can see straight from
the front cover as they are already in cartons on the front this shows that they are unique so must have a unique style of music the cd also has the same picture . The back has the list of all the songs they have on their album 23 in fact, however it is written in “hard to read” writing making them look different again and making you have to look closer to actually read it and again they have a picture of the band in cartoon form but also an added little rabbit which makes it even more unique and weirder. Lastly they repeat the list of tracks on the inside cover so allows the listener to see the songs again whilst getting the disc out. The name Gorillaz goes with the cartoons as they do look a bit like a gorilla it also could mean guerrilla as in a freedom fighter so they are going against things and talking about freedom. Because they use cartoons as well it allows them to appeal to a wider audience as they never look old. The music video I am going to analyse is the music video for the muse song hysteria in this music video I am going to analyses the mis en scene, camera shots and editing. To start off I have always like the band muse and am always intrigued by the songs and videos they produce I chose the music video for hysteria because the guy in the video seems to be a bit crazy which fits into the idea we want when it comes to our music video. In this music video a guy seems to wake up from his sleep in a sort of messed up bedroom you then throughout the video see that he has been recording this women obsessively and he is sitting there looking like he is getting more angry maybe anger at himself or angry because he cannot be with herm however later on you see him in the bedroom with this women almost as if she is a prostitute who has aloud him to film her, Next her gets angry with her and kicks her out the bedroom which he then completely smashes out of anger. In the whole hysteria music video you do not see the band once like they are almost orchestrating a film. The first part I am going to analyse is the mis en scene, first off the lighting in this music video the whole way through is completely dark I think this makes it feel a lot more serious than a lot of music videos, the darkness also makes it feel a bit more movie like. the props in the video are very bland it is just what u find in a hotel room really and then they get used to smash the room like he doesn't care what's right and what's wrong he feels like he can do what he wants. the most important prop in the whole of the video seems to be the video camera as it shows his obsession with this girl and helps you grasp that he may have a bit of crazy almost sick bit about him. The costumes in the video are quite well placed as the women he is watching seems to have like a innocent little knitted jumper on her which helps you think that she is just a innocent women but then later on you see she gets in her bra and underwear for this guy showing her in a different light making a big contrast, one well placed costume is the maid at the beginning looks exactly like a maid should which also helps show he is in a hotel room. The fact that he is in a hotel room maybe shows how he wants to escape from his real life because the only reason people really go into a hotel is because they are on holiday or away from home. The main guy doesn't have a shirt on through out which makes the watcher feel a bit awkward maybe it shows how him again as uncovered and doing something he shouldn't be kind of against his privacy like he is with the women. The editing in this music video firstly is used well because whenever you see through the camera it is shown in black and white helping you to know that the main guy is filming this part and helps to show his obsession with this women. when the man is angry nearer the end of the video slow motion is integrated allowing the viewer to see the destruction of the hotel room it I think helps to highlight that his life is destroyed and the fact he is doing something he shouldn't be. In this music video it also starts of with slow cuts then as the music gets faster it starts to cut quickly allowing the viewer to almost feel again like the band is orchestrating the video rather than it being for the song. Lastly I will talk about the camera work, Right from the beginning an interesting camera shot is used it is a panning shot where it gets closer to the maid going in the door of the hotel room but its from a low angle immediately creating confusion to the viewer, I believe it was put there to show almost as if the viewer shouldn't be there like we are hiding which again goes to my point of him doing something he shouldn't be doing by obsessively watching the girl. Through out the whole video there are many close ups of the main guy showing his anger this helps to put across to the viewer the pain in the guy showing him having a problem. There is also a clever long shot at the beginning which allows you to see the destruction of the room, Another point I forgot to make in the editing is that you see the destruction at the beginning and you wonder how it happens but later on you get to see that it was in fact him that did it. Lastly in camera work the long shots used help ,especially when used in the camera, to show that he is watching a women that he should not be watching. Overall this music video is a very unique on the fact that the band isn't inside the music video at any point but the eary and question feel created in the video is very intriguing if I was to take anything away and use for our music video it probably would be the idea of when being filmed in a camera the screen being black and white, also I really like the camera shot at the beginning, the low panning shot I would love to use that shot at some point in our music video if we can find the right place. This is the case of a muse album as you can see it is very unique it shows the
band twice which helps you kina tell what sort of music they are, they seem rocky you can see this from the inside picture however from the front cover the 4 people sitting round the table in the middle of what looks like mars it may suggest that there music is “out of this world” The writing seems very sort of alien like as well very straight And thick with the songs on the back. The front cover is also very bright so will attract the attention from passers by to buy the album. As you closer you can see the 4 people on the table are not the band but They are all wearing different weird looking suits in the picture as well which could suggest that each on of the band members is different and unique in there own way, they are all bald as well which rockers are typically known for long hair so showing they are different from other bands again. The way in which the real band is blacked out in the picture creates more of a mystery maybe that is what they are suggesting. This is the cover to nickel backs album dark horse. As you can see the front
cover is relevant to the name as it is a picture of a shoe horn, the name dark horse however I feel could mean like a Trojan horse a horse that no one would expect so maybe suggesting they are the new dark horses the new unexpected big band. Also the album colours are every dark so it goes with it being a dark horse. The name dark horse also suggest evil to me so maybe angry songs. The band are shown on the back allowing people to see who the band are and who sings the songs as you can see the lead singer is slightly forward. The background of the band is of some sort of church showing it more as a bit gothic and a bit dark again. I also have a theory that the shoe horse could be a big n for nickleback, And I think the symbol in the middle of the shoe horse could be a nb as well which stands obviously for nickelback. This is the Weezer album raditude which as you can see from first look is
completely mental which must be what they are going for it is like they are trying to defy the norm or go against the rules of life. As you can see there is a dog on the front cover jumping or floating as such in a dirty sort of lounge, and then on the back is the band members riding bikes in some sort of mass area that i can only describe like the famous one in Greece the movie. The dog i think symbolises the toughness of them as it looks like one of the tougher sort of dogs. The way the dog is floating is like i said earlier to defy the norm so show there band as a different band and that they are against the rules of life. The lounge in the cd cover i think shows that the band has come from a place of poverty maybe , then them being on the bikes may say how they are all still just really big kids . The cover seems very dark and the back is light so shows the transformation of them being in a dank place . i like this album cover as it is very unique and Weezer have been clever as it will make people want to pick it up. Pendulum- Crush The music video Crush by Pendulum is a fast paced drum and bass song and the video it contains is almost a drama horror because the guy in it seems to struggle with anger and ends up killing his girlfreind/wife. The genre is expressed through all the media ways such as mis en scene and camera work which I will talk about later on in the essay, but also the music is very fast paced so will always create energy and drama. The conventions of the genre are drama and horror I think they do this because they want it to be a serious song and they want to show that the song contains the emotions of anger and confusion especially as sometimes the words cant even be heard they are so fast sometimes so when you watch the video you put together your own story and become engaged in it. The first part I am going to analyse about this video is the mis-en-scene, the mis-en-scene is very interesting as everything goes from sort of light to dark this creates for me a contrast of guilt and anger guilt being because of the white and the actor looks calm but you can see his guilt in them parts and then he has a black shirt and everything seems dark showing his anger, the basis of the song is that he killed his wife through his anger and in the video it shows how they had a good relationship and he loved her like crazy but he obviously suffers from some sort of anger issues. The lighting matches the clothes as in the parts I feel he is guilty it is lighter than when he is shown as angry and confused it is dark, this shows a massive mix of emotions for the guy as well with the guilt anger and confusion about hurting of killing his wife. I also think maybe because in a couple of scenes it shows him being jealous of other guys it could meen he’s killed her over jealousy. There are some props that hint to this story and to it being a music video as in a part in the park it shows pendulum making them look however like a normal Parkside band so integrating them into the story which is clever, the fact that the women is killed by him is shown as it shoes in one scene the guy trying to defibrillator her which gives a good indication to my theory. The name of the song is crush which I think means he’s crushed because she’s dead, crushed emotionally. Also the places they are is at first at home showing how they are in the step of a relationship where they live together shows they were in love. Then when he is on a beach it shows that he is almost no where he has run so far to get away from all his mixed up emotions he comes to a place where there’s nothing, but then when he gets to this place the women is there again haunting him he just cant do it anymore and collapses with her I think he’s finally excepting what he’s done in this scene. Some more mis -en-scene is also the colour its very bright when it shows him and his partner together but when he’s on his own its dark and sometimes the girlfriends skin changes to a grey colour showing she’s dead. The editing in this music video is very quick paced there’s so many shots at the begging again to shows his confusion and anger, later on however the song does slow down for a bit and the editing becomes slower this is a dramatic scene on the beach with his girlfriend so its slow I think to make it more of a sad drama section than the fast action paced bit, this is to match with the song. The editing after that scene goes back to fast paced. The sound obviously as it is a drum and bass band is very fast and there’s no external sound except at the begging like a light buzzing I think this is to signify that he’s lost , maybe lost in his emotions. The camera work in this video is very quick shots a lot of close ups and also a lot of the time the camera is wobbly as if someone’s holding it and watching him, it is very quick because I think they wanted to make it fast paced and when you bring in lots of quick close ups that also helps to create the speed and energy I think they were hoping for in the video. There are long shots in this video and they help you see the action in the shots and show the story. The wobbliness of the camera I think also shows how he’s un steady and could snap at any moment as he did when you find out he killed his wife. My favourite shot is near the end when you see his wife on the beach she’s not in the centre she’s at the side in a long shot with a sunken boat to the right of her, This I think outlines that she’s dead so like the boat is dead she’s with it, maybe saying that he drowned her because she’s at the bottom of the sea now with the boat or even strangled her because she’s in a place that had no oxygen. The representation in this is shown in many ways one way is clothes the guy has like pyjama tops on and the women seems to have just chucked a shirt on maybe even his shirt this I think represents a couple who are in love, the guy however where’s a white one showing I think guilt and then he will wear a black one which I think like I’ve said earlier shows his anger and confusion. The women is always wearing whit which I think is trying to show her as an innocent women she didn’t deserve anything that happened to her she was just in love with this guy that couldn’t control his feelings. There is a great contrast in this between his feelings between colours and areas something I didnt mention earlier is when he is on the beach it contrasts to when he is in the heart of a city as its crazy in the city but calm in on the beach. Overall I think this music video creates good emotion through the music video and somehow creates a story in a small space of time that can engage people like me quite quickly and is very intriguing . The Prodigy- Invaders must die I am going to analyse the music video by the prodigy the song is called invaders must die and the genre of the song firstly is drum and bass again it is an interesting music video however which contains a well-known British actor called Noel Clarke the music video I would say is almost apocalyptic so a drama but has mystery as well. The genre is expressed through many ways such as the mis en scene which I will go into later, I think they make it apocalyptic mystery because they want it to be a link to the name which is invaders must die so it wants to make a video to do with that title so it makes something apocalyptic as when u think of invaders you think of aliens or army so u think of war which leads you to think apocalypse. The way the title says invaders must die is basically saying that he wants to protect his land so any invaders will die. The mis en scene in this music video firstly the main one is the colour which is all grey there’s no colour thorough out the whole video which firstly I think creates a cool effect but I think also suggests maybe of a nuclear strike or aliens as they have destroyed the planet they almost killed the colour so its grey and gloomy. The clothes he is wearing in the music video also suggest a kind of apocalypse because the stereotypical apocalyptic person wear exactly what he is wearing in the music video which is ragged clothes and a hat . The props in the music video are also very apocalyptic type again securing the fact that we have been invaded things such as barbed wire and barrels which are lit for fire and warmth. The feeling I get when I watch this video is that it kind of makes you want to experience it and protect your land from any invaders it also gives me the sense of loneliness because he has no one in the video that looks like a friend at all so maybe its him against the world maybe even suggesting that its just in his brain and that’s how he feels anyone trying to get in his head needs to ‘die’. In the video there’s is a lot to do with ants a symbol of an ant is involved heavily he puts an ant symbol in many places I think this is to do with the stereotype of ants being a pain and almost invading when they make a nest near someone or even in someone’s home we kill them if they ‘invade’ our homes or paths, it may even link to ants as being soilders so suggesting an army invasion. The lighting is very dark because of the grey again showing the worlds colour has gone or something has destroyed it. The editing in it is because its a drum and bass song very quick obviously to create a fast paced mood and make the listener excited but also when you watch the video it keeps you intrigued because of the excitement. At points in the editing it slows him down which i think makes it look cooler but also shows his movement well which is very stood up straight so as if he’s ready for a fight. It also shows many angles of him walking to highlight the fact he’s alone at one point he is rewinded slightly backwards which works with the drum and bass fast pace . lastly for editing there’s a moment where he pops backwards and forward so think trying to show he does it everyday by showing him walking indifferent positions every day. The camera work in this music video is mainly a mix of close ups and long shots the long shots so you can experience all the mis en scene in the shot and to give u a sense of alone which comes with an apocalypse, the close ups are to make you sometimes a bit awkward because when your close to his face it feels a bit awkward but the close up also allows you to see things in the scene which are important like the ant symbol, this comes up a lot and lets the watcher workout what I said earlier about invaders the camera work at the begging is also very wobbly as if someone is filming him but it also make it seem rough and raw which helps to create the mood of an apocalyptic world. The representation in the music video is through all the props, location and clothes it represents a man on his own in a apocalyptic world examples of things that indicate this could be the house it starts in which you can clearly see is tatty and not a place that you would live unless it is like it is and apocalyptic world. At the beginning it also outlines the soldiers idea with little soldier’s toy things which could hint at the invading army idea. 20/09/2013
Today was a very important day for our media work as the school finally allowed us access to and set up the internet which in turn means that the problems with weebly have been fixed, and now allows us access to sites such as YouTube which holds all the music videos we want to analyse on it . there is also the fact now that we can link things to facebook twitter which is a very big part of the media at the moment. Today I also thought I would start thinking of music videos I want to analyse and that match our video. I have decided that I want to defiantly analyse the foo fighters music video for there song monkey wrench I also want to analyse the music video for the nirvana song heart shaped box. I also think I will analyse a music video by muse because they are always quirky and I believe I will find one that suits the mood we are looking for in our music video, another band I would like to look at is prodigy because they are quite fast paced and I've always thought they had a bit of a crazy aspect to there songs so I imagine they may be a good one to analyse and lastly I will analyse the music video crush by pendulum because I know from seeing it the guy in it seems to be a bit mental which again I think will be a good one to analyse. Today I also had a look at another a2 music video course work in which it was the song foo fighters monkey wrench the exact one I will analyse. This video actually gave us the idea for in our music video to use editing so we are standing still then suddenly we move our heads around then it pops back to us being still which can be done by filming us standing still for about 20 seconds then film us in the exact same place suddenly moving then putting the one where we move between the shot of us standing still to create a really cool effect. Overall there music video was okay they used simple shots but I’m glad we watched it because like I have just said we have even more ideas now on how to make ours better. There is a band called General which are only a small band and have a really small budget but just bought out a music video which also want to analyse because as they don’t have a lot of money what they created is on the lines of what we can make and they have made something which looks really good so I will defiantly analyse this video. 17/09/2013
The website quora turned out to be no good because I could not upload any videos or images, so for the moment until we can get proper internet I am using Microsoft word to hold all of my blog entry's, it is still disappointing that we haven’t got internet yet but we have new hope as our head teacher left at the beginning of the year and now our new head teacher seems to be cool with the idea now its just about getting the stuff needed and setting it up. Now to the main part of this entry this entry is to do with the costumes that the experimented will wear and how they will look, when I researched pictures of mental patients I found that the most recurring things were firstly white clothes this is a massive part of being a mental patient because the white is supposed to be calming so when it comes to making our costume we will buy some plain white t-shirts from Tesco or Sainsburys for the upper part when it comes to trousers I believe we are, going on more research, going to where tracksuit bottoms or shorts because that is what they seem to wear in plain colours like blue or white. Another point I founds on the internet is that the mental patients seem to have a darker bit under there eyes to show them as tired and stressed so we could use make up to give our selves that look and lastly the mental patient seem to have messy hair which will be an easy aspect to recreate. 16/09/2013
We tried to use weebly today like we did last year however again we found there was problems with it so we found this website called quora which seems so far to be working. Today at the start we discussed props we could use and costumes this included things such as drums and guitars but also moustaches and hats although i am not entirely convinced about the hats idea that was Harrison’s idea we also debated whether it’d be best in bow ties or normal ties. We also decided that the beginning will start without music because we will show the psychiatrists getting ready for the experiment then when the lights get turned on and you see us waking up that is when the music will start, as it is the song breed by nirvana and the guitars start about 5 seconds into the song we are going to wake up and scramble for our instruments. 10/09/2013 When it came to choosing our song idea we decided to do a kind of mind map idea in which we would list songs we liked and thought could be good for what we wanted in our video, as you can see from this picture that plenty of songs came up the main three were the ones i have spoke about which were bridge burning by the foo fighters, no one knows by the queens of the stone age and lastly breed. The other songs on the list were not as likely to be our song these songs were killing floor by black stone cherry's this song is a good song and starts off good and matched what we wanted but then the chorus isn't quite what we were looking for, next we had Mr moustache which again was fast paced and matched what we wanted but it defiantly wasn't our favourite and i think we nearly liked the fact it was called mr moustache and we wanted moustaches in our video and last of all was the song crucial velocity which is by a band called clutch this song was again good and fast paced but not weird and dark humour enough to fit what we wanted its more a song to go with cars or vehicles as such. I think after a long time decideing today we have decided on the song the main idea we wanted was a song that was rocky first of all because its both our favourite genre of music and we also wanted something not to serious because we are better at making more fun quirky things than dreary and serious it took us a long time really to choose at first we were going for no one knows by the queens of the stone age because we loved the tune and it had just popped up on the mix radio i have on my phone ,however our video idea was a bit to silly it involved us just being weird really we wanted some more narrative in the song so we came up with the idea of a sort of science experiment held by psychiatrist in which we play both the psychiatrist and the experimented subjects it kind of spurred from the foo fighters video monkey wrench as at the start dave grohl (lead singer of foo fighters) looks through a key hole and sees himself playing which spurred our idea of watching ourselves in an experiment it also gave us abit of excitement towards the challenge of actually filming something like that it is our last year and we want to go out with our best one and we both feel like this is our best idea we’ve ever had. Now to find a song for this music idea we want it to be a fast paced song with plenty of guitar and drums in so we looked at bands like foo fighters, clutch and nirvana and after about an hour of listening we found breed by nirvana suited what we wanted best as soon as the song opened we both could image it in our head so that is the song we are going for. |