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Production Schedule.

03/11/10 - 14:00

Equipment needed:


Camera, Tripod.


Actors required:

John, Ollie, Maxim (Bring Car).

Scenes:

Entire chase scene, outdoor scenes.

Location:

Nature reserve next to Bishop Walsh School, Woods on St Andrews Rd.


Notes:


Actors are required to bring non restrictive clothing.
Actors must bring hooded jumpers or baseball caps.
A warm up must be strictly applied before chase scene to ensure the risk of injury is minimised.
We will survey the area before any filming takes place to ensure there are no hazardous obstacles.
Scene involving moving car will be filmed at 14:00 when traffic is at a minimum.


05/11/10 16:00


Equipment needed:


Camera, Tripod, Guitar.


Actors required:


Luke


Scenes:


All narrative scenes for lip syncing, all guitar playing scenes for syncing to song.


Location:


Luke's Bedroom.


Notes:


Ensure filming of face is restricted to mouth and nose only, as character must be unidentifiable.

Casting.

Camera equipment needed:

1x DV camera

1x Camera Battery

1x Tripod

1x Mini DV tape

Props needed:

1x Snooker cue?

Production Team:
1x Auteur (i will be taking on all production roles)
2x Chase Scene actors
1x Narrative actor

Note: Chase scene actors must not wear jeans or restrective clothing due to them needing to be able to run freely, also, hooded jumpers will be needed to give chase scene actors a sense of being young, working class, intimidating persons.

Final Proposal.

1. Working Title.

The title of the song that i am using is Nights With No Money, written and produced by the band that i used to be a part of - The Sticky Labels. I have chosen to use one of my own songs so that i can enjoy a blank slate and not be tied down by what has been produced before. It will also be a good opportunity for me to be creative and completely original, fitting in nicely with my choice to be an auteur.

2. Channel for Broadcast.

MTV 2, Kerrang and NME would be the channels best suited to showing my production. This is because they focus on the rock/indie/alternative styles of music, which is what my song "Nights With No Money" fits into.

3. Target Audience.

The typical target audience for my production will be young adults, typically between the ages of 15-30, and prodominantly male, as the themes included in the song are all about nights out and getting into fights, with an adreniline, rush of blood to the head style feeling, which many yound male's have experienced, and so i feel they will be able to relate to my production better than anyone else. There is no particular target for the class or ethnicity, but i would expect the main audience to my production to be working/middle class, white males as it focuses on experiences from that sort of background, as it has a sub meaning of going out with no money and getting into fights for a "kick".

People who enjoy the work of bands such as Oasis, Kasabian, Stereophonics, Editors, Rolling Stones, The Beatles and Arctic Monkeys are likely to be the sort of audience that will make the effort to observe my production.

Genre:

The genre of music that my production fits into is Rock/Indie/Alternative. The conventions for music videos in this genre is performance based, with a narrative woven in between shots of the band performing their song.
However, I have chosen to use a story-line based video, with narrative woven in between the plot, with no performance included. I believe this can be done to good effect and have seen examples of this being pulled off successfully in music videos such as Importance of being Idle by Oasis, and Fire by Kasabian.

Style.

The main element of my music video will be plot based, and this will be a chase scene. As a result, i will have to use camera techniques such as panning shots, tracking shots along with a variety of low and high angles to create the punchy, fast paced and varied music video i want to acheive. For the cut backs to my story teller, i will use close up shots of his mouth to ensure i can effectively sync his lips with the words of the song. Using slow and fast motion will also help me to incorporate sections in the song where the intensity builds and falls, making sure that my music video builds and falls at the same rate.
In terms of video filters and transitions, i aim to use a blurred effect for the chase sequences to emphasize the speed at which they are running and the pannic that the person being chased is feeling.
Along with this i would like to use an effect on my whole production that makes the experience seem surreal, perhaps a matte effect.
As for video transitions, i will not be using many in the main part of the production as i want the camera shots to snap from one to the other quite quickly to emphasize the punchy nature of the song.

Nights With No Money lyrics.

Verse 1:

Walks into a damp bar,
Theres more than shooting stars,
Snooker cue over your head puts you on your cold bed,
But the scummy man that hit you,
He aint coming back for a week or two,

Get him when he comes back,
Get him when he arrives.

Chorus:

Just leave it for now,
Its alright just shrug it off,
But you've got that look in your eyes,
They burn and they shine,
Aint gonna stop you,
Aint gonna stop you now.

Verse 2:

Run outside and chase him,
With your tired legs your batteling,
You shout and wave your fists but shit,
We've lost him in the mist,
Jumps over a fence and then into a car you scream,
You can run mate but you wont get far,

Get him when he comes back,
Get him when he arrives.

Chorus:

Just leave it for now,
Its alright just shrug it off,
But you've got that look in your eyes,
They burn and they shine,
Aint gonna stop you,
Aint gonna stop you now.

Guitar Solo & Instrumental.

Final Chorus:

Just leave it for now,
Its alright just shrug it off,
Nights with no money,
Nights with no money,
Make our lives funny.

Repeat Final Chorus:

Just leave it for now,
Its alright just shrug it off,
Nights with no money,
Nights with no money,
Make our lives funny.

Oasis : Importance of Being Idle Music Video Analysis.

This music video came out with the song "the importance of being idle" and attempts to portray a man who basically wastes his life away, leading to an early grave, making all the wrong decisions along the way, hence the name "importance of being idle".

The theme of wasting ones life away is close to band member and lead singer of this song, Noel Gallaghers heart, as before he joined and captained his ex-band Oasis, he was living in a hostel, addicted to drugs, knowing that he was wasting his life away and looking at a meaningless life, leading to an early grave.

The verses in the song portray "the mans" people in his life all telling him the same thing, that he needs to sort his life out, with the choruses portraying "the mans" view that he just doesnt care, because, as the song says- "I can't get a life if my heart's not in it".

The start of this video begins with an old fashioned style opening, in the style of a film, with the words "a big brother presentation". As can be seen in the still adjacent, Dont Believe the Truth, the album title, and Big Brother, the record label, are shown.This old fashioned, black and white filming style is carried on throughout the whole video, giving an eerie feeling to the whole thing.

The titles then appear, with the words - "Oasis IN The Importance Of Being Idle". This style challenges conventions of music videos, and gives the music video a very strong feeling of being like a grand opening at a cinema, and gives the audience the impression that this music video has a story to tell. This opening is also an establishing shot, setting the scene early on for where the story is set, which looks like an old style, working class street in a tight-knit community. This all seems to reflect Noels early life, as he lived in a working class community in Manchester, and was brought up on a street that will have had characteristics similar to that in this video.

The main character in the video is set early on, when the camera pans along his body from toe to head, and then focuses on a close up of his face, to focus on his emotions, which are sadness and an apparent feeling of being lost and getting no where in life.

The man rises and there is then a shot of a framed picture of a woman, who we are expected to believe is this mans partner.

Unusually, the band have chosen to be more a part of the supporting cast in this music video, with Noel only being seen shaving occasionally, and Liam, Gem and Andy Bell only seen in fleeting moments in the video.

The bands role in the video has no particular meaning and really adds nothing to the story line, they perhaps just felt it was necessary to show their faces, as they are not a band who regularly act in music videos, with most of their videos focusing on live performance style filming.

With the words "i dont mind" the main characters mood changes, signifying that he will not conform to peoples expectations of him, and he starts dancing around the room in a kooky manner. This change happens along with an added layer of piano chords in the song, which changes the overall mood from the verses to a more uplifting one.

Various tracking shots of old fashioned cars are used, along with more shots of the main character dancing along the street, with lip syncing used to portray that this character is telling the story of his mind to us.

He then goes to a funeral directors, which is where we see the band is based, with Liam Gallagher posing as the boss of the funeral company, and the lead character dances into a coffin, supposedly happy, with a smile on his face as the coffin is closed, signifying that he has passed away and always saw life much differently to everyone else, and was never afraid of dying, still dancing around as he is closed inside the coffin.

We then see a group of people we take to be his family and friends mourning after his death, with the main character standing behind them. they are unaware of his presence in the room, so we must deduce that he is there as a sort of "ghost" looking on.

At points, the lead character looks miserable, although this mood quickly changes when the song moves to a more upbeat feeling.

The end of the video sees our main character leading his own funeral procession, still dancing, with the camera tracking back to keep the same framing throughout the whole shot as the funeral procession moves steadily towards the direction where the camera is filming from, with the main character singing directly to the camera. He then places his hat over the camera lens at the same time as the song finishing to bring an end to the song.

Robbie Williams: Strong music video analysis

    Robbie williams' music video "strong" starts off with a shot of him going into a swimming pool, with luxuriously beautiful surroundings, showing that he has wealth and is well off.
    This shot, like most in this video, is shot in the style of a home video, to give the music video a strong sense of being an intimate glimpse into Robbie Williams' life, which ties in nicely with the song, which itself has a very personal theme, as Robbie Williams is admitting that he himself is not "strong" like everyone thinks and has personal problems of his own such as smoking to many cigarettes - "my breath smells of a thousand fags", and growing old and becoming like his father- "and when im drunk i dance like my dad".        There are more shots of Robbie Williams backstage and in his hotel room, further showing an intimate side, and these are shot with a hand held camera, which is unconventional in a music video.

    The other shots used in this video are archive footage of gigs that Robbie Williams  has performed and in parts, his singing is synced to the words in the song, returning partially to music video convention.    Shots of Robbie Williams backstage are used after shots of him singing to huge crouds to make the audience believe they are seing Robbie's reaction after the gig.    Also, shots of Robbie Williams and his dad are used when he referres to the his father in the song to give the audience something to refer to, and to put a face to the name.    Often, close up shots of Robbie Williams' face while he does things such as working out are used to show his face looking unhappy, despite his fame and wealth.
    The overall purpose of the music video "strong" is to give fans a taste of the "real" Robbie Williams. Backstage we are given an insight into his frolics with the band and a view of what life is like from Robbie's point of view. The use of a handheld camera gives the impression that we ourself are with Robbie Williams, and this is a rare thing to see in a music video, and is extremely low budget, and therefore cost effective, compared to the usual mix of shots by proffesional camera persons and directors, conventionally used for music videos.