Thursday, 15 October 2009

our final idea;

Start of with flashes of someones feet walking down the street. In between theses flashes are images (short clips) of a boy sitting in his bedroom on his bed looking at his phone.

Camera high-angle shot looking down on him

Camera shot inside the wardrobe as if someone is watching. See boy throw the phone on the bed.

Next shot is focusing on the boy on the bed (with wardrobe in view slightly open). Boy stretches out and lays back on the bed with hands on head, stressed.
Camera follows the boy as he goes to get off the bed and a quick shot of him going to walk out the room (don't actually see him fully leave).

Straight cut to a close-up of the phone left lying on the bed, and a hand is seen picking up the phone on the bed (text message is shown on the screen still).

Flashes quickly back to the feet walking down the street. Then cuts to the boy singing the song underneath a tree (or down the same road).

Then cuts back to the boy, who is now sitting in his living room by the stairs looking upset/scared.
Low-angle shot looking up at the boy who is sitting on the sofa, but behind is someone sitting on the stairs above him slightly (face is not shown just yet to hold anticipation and suspence, plus low-angle is then seen to show the 'stalker' looking down on the boy).

Stalker is seen to be holding something in their hands, not yet clear.
Camera then moves onto the stairs from the position of the 'stalker' to look down on the boy.
Boy goes to turn his around as he is suspicious someone is watching. Camera view cuts to behind the boy (camera is not on the stairs anymore) as he turns around. Camera slowly moves up to the stairs above him to show that no one is sitting on the stairs.
Position of the camera then moves to on the stairs again looking down on the boy as he turns back around to face the front. Camera moves slowly away from the boy and reveals that the object the 'stalker' was seen to be holding had been left behind on the step - the phone from the bedroom.

Again the scene goes back to the singer/band while they lip-sync. Different shots to show different views of the setting where they are singing.

Scene then cuts to the feet walking down the street. Next shot shows it is the same boy walking down the road on his own, clearly here no one is behind him. Camera again focusing on his feet walking, but this time it is different. Another pair of feet are shown walking behind (same feet that were on the stairs). Cut to the full view of the boy walking again and 'stalker' is shown walking behind. Boy turns to look behind him but camera reveals no one is there again (like scene with the stairs).

Again, more lip-syncing.

Next scene - boy is back at home/a house looking in a mirror. Appears distressed/nervous/worried. Pulling at his hair, shaking?

More lip-syncing.

Back to the boy in front of the mirror. Still looking distressed. Different shots of him looking into the mirror. Then he forcibly shuts his eyes and the screen goes blank/black.

On the very last note - the boy is seen to open his eyes again on screen still looking in the mirror. But now the 'stalker' is standing behind him, in full view to boy as their reflections are both in the mirror. Shock on the boys face.
Then fades out.

Saturday, 3 October 2009

Representation;

In filming people are often represented in different ways these can either be positive or negative, the representations are often followed by a stereotype.
Stereotypes are an interpreted conventional image, or a person who is regarded as embodying to a set image or type.
An example of a stereotype would be that 'woman cant drive'.
Many Hollywood films follow these stereotypes. In a majority of films woman are often represented as the less dominant characters and therefore have the 'at home role.' This is a typical stereotype as we are aware this is not always true in modern society.

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

Audience theory;

what happens when we consume media texts?
why do we consume the media texts that we do?
a model of the media
Text
poster, newspapers, magazines, film, computer games, website, t.v programmes, music/music video, radio &adverts.
Text > > > consume >>> audience >>> final transaction >>> institution >>>> produce >>> text.


Institution
Mirimax, Warner Bros., News international, film4, itv, BBC, C4, my music. C5, Kiss 100.

Thursday, 24 September 2009

Final Post On the 100 Greatest;

These videos are various videos that caught my eye from the series of 100 greatest pop music videos;
ihave chosen theses videos because they are as a majority controversial.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
Madonna
Bob Dylan
Aphex Twin
Smack My Bitch Up
The Cure - Close To Me
Meatloaf - I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That!)
Fatboy Slim - Praise Me
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Fatboy Slim - Weapon of choice
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
U2 - The Sweetest Thing
Eminem - Stan
Electric Six - Gay Bar
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Radiohead - No Surprises
Queen - I Want To Break Free
Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
Madonna - Material Girl
Blur
Christina Aguilera - Dirrty
Michael Jackson - Scream
Coldplay - The Scientist
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Robbie Williams - Rock DJ
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Queen - Bohemien Rhapsody
Aha - Take On Me


Tuesday, 22 September 2009

Ideas for our video.

Whilst brainstorming our ideas together we came up with these ideas;


-One person walking round on their own being stalked (by someone from their past). Keep turning around but no ones there (paranoia)

-Different shots of one person / group lip-syncing or maybe playing instruments


-Lots of different locations used - park, church ground, bedroom, living room, streets

-Quick shots

-One idea is to have the person being stalked sitting in the living room on the sofa, (long-shot) where you can also see the person sitting on the stairs behind them. Have close-up of the "stalker's" lips and face as they lip-sync the word in the song "paranoia". Mid-shot of the person being stalked turning their head to look around behind them, (another shot at 180` seeing them after turned round), no one will be there though. Then long-shot showing no one is on the stairs...





-Another idea is to have the stalked person kneeling on the floor in the bedroom looking up at the ceiling with the camera looking down on them spinning in a circle. Have the stalker laying by/underneath the bed in the corner so you can still slightly see them (and then again with them not there). Have a similar turning shot with the camera looking up at the flashing light (and during editing alternate between these three shots).

-Phone shot....(wipe transition)


-Shot of someones feet while running, then straight cut to someones feet who is laying on the floor.

Further research;

When watching and observing music videos it is apparent that some videos fail where other succeed. Regardless of how bad a song is if the video is appealing enough it could attract more publicity and then boost sales where the song itself lacked. We have to place this into consideration when making our own music video as this will affect it, we have to make sure the video is not only appealing but also matches the song well.

Lyrics to Paranoia

Paranoia, she's stalling
Check the phone there's no one calling
Read a letter in the paper
Send a message, see you later.

Paranoia, check your phone line
Scared to take a walk at night time
Light a candle, kill the night light
Out of mind is out of sight.

And I'm running like I'm being chased
Missing like I've been erased
Seeking something never found
Standing on this broken ground.

Wishing for a hand to hold
My life's a story still untold
Paranoid I've missed my time
This minute now I draw the line.

Paranoia, you hear a siren
Look above the planes are flying
Who's are the good guys euro disguise
Paying someone to hide the lies
911 so far from heaven
Paranoid that this is the end.




Now that the lyrics are here wrote down we can start thinking of ideas that match the lyrics.