Storyboard to the shot types

I think this was very succesful of taking pictures of the shots we plan to use. We worked well as team in deciding how to take the shot. Nathan was the main protagonist and Thom and mark and Connor were the band members and I was the one who took the picture's most of the time. These are only a small amount of shots, as there are 69 shots altogether. We agreed on taking pictuers of just these shots as they are the most important and show the continuity of the video. When we do start filming the video, this will not be the locations but the shot type will be the same.

Shot types

Below is the shot list we will be usiung for our music video. It includes what shots we will be using for each scene and what is happening in each scene.

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Timeline of music video

Song timeline
Nathan’s actions
The band
0.00-0.33 Intro
(33 seconds)
Nathan is with his friends playing a game. Nathan goes to the kitchen gets a sandwich and closes the fridge door
They are walking to the house while playing the intro
0.33-0.59 Verse
(26 seconds)
Nathan sees the band try to show his mate but Nathan surprised his mate can’t see them
The Band are performing in the kitchen
1.20-1.43 chorus
(23 seconds)
Nathan goes to the park and sees the band playing
Band playing in the park
1.43-2.25 verse
(42 Seconds)
Nathan tries to leave and escape but the band are always following him
The band move from location to different locations
2.25-3.11 solo
(46 seconds)
Nathan trashes his room
Band playing on TV
3.11-3.22
(11 seconds)
Nathan stares at Thom then smashes the TV in rage
Band are playing still on TV
3.22-3.56 chorus
(23 seconds)
Nathan meets Katie who can also see the band
Playing in a different location
3.56-4.06
(10 seconds
Romantic of them two
Band playing in slow motion
4.06-4.11
(5 seconds
The two ignore the band
The band leave and Thom smashes guitar

The Lyrics to 'I can't Live without you'

My mind’s a labyrinth of confusion
filled with fear and dark delusion
and sometimes
I just let things get to my head

But my hearts a frozen fortress
and you’re the only one who can sort this
‘cos sometimes
I just want to feel loved instead

Sometimes I say things that I don’t mean
Use a thousand words when only one will do
you know it’s true
But one thing always stays the same
I can’t live without you

It’s true
I can’t live without you (ooh)
It’s true
I can’t live without you (ooh)

People don’t know what beauty is
People don’t know what beauty means
It’s beautiful that I’ve found you like this
And it’s beautiful living my dreams
Day after dayI don’t care what they say
I’ve finally found my place
And I’ll use as many clichés as it takes

It’s true
I can’t live without you (ooh)
It’s true
I can’t live without you (ooh)
To get through this
I can’t live without you (ooh)
It’s true
I can’t live without you (ooh)
It’s true
I can’t live without you (ooh)

Muse - Uprising analysis

Uprising a song by muse an alternative rock band was released as the lead single from the album on 7 September 2009. The song is written by vocalist and guitarist Matthew. It made it to number 9 in the UK Charts. The music video of the song first aired on MTV2 directed by Hydra. When I watched this video I realised from the music and the band that this genre is rock. Rock songs usually cut between the band and a narrative flow. The video has the band performing in a small city in a small truck. Throughout the video there is always a lit fuse following them wherever they are performing.

This video does integrate the lyrics and visuals unlike most videos. The song focuses on the band playing in different places throughout the video like a trailer, and the back of a small truck. From the title ‘uprising’ I think from the lyrics they are telling story of how the bears will become ‘victorious’ but there isn’t much evidence of uprising until the end of the video when the teddy bears rise up through the ground. The band is trying to battle against the teddy bears, like when Matt smashed the TV screen to show they can’t escape the teddy bears which links in with the chorus of being controlled and beating them with the words ‘victorious’ and ‘they will not control us’.

Throughout the video the beat stays the same to keep a steady beat. But when the fuse is shown in the beginning and throughout the video there is a use of a synthesise to link the music with the visuals. The song changes beat in the chorus to show the importance and the audience would mostly remember the chorus so this is done to help the audience remember. But also use the synthesis to link with the fuse and the importance in the continuity. This is quite common for most of muse’s songs when changing the beat of their songs in the chorus.

In most videos especially in rock songs, there are many close-ups of the artist. This video is not different. Throughout the video there is close ups of Matt Bellamy’s face and other close ups of some of the other members of the band instruments. When the band is shown Matt is the person usually in the centre during a midshot of the whole band and there are a lot more close ups of him than the rest of the band. All the shots are quite dark to represent the dark and mystery of the theme. There are many examples of being a rock band as most rock bands usually include smashing something and matt smashes a window in this video. The close ups are used to promote the video as the audience are looking to see the leading singer and solos from the guitarist or drummer are usually popular within the audience.

There is performance and narrative based, I think. The bands is more the performance- based and try to be in the shadows in the video, which is why they are never in big locations. The use of narrative and performance makes the audience aware of the genre and helps to sell the video and song.

Unfortunately i couldn't upload this video eithr, below is a link to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog

Kasabian- fire

This video was first released in 2009 and directed by by acclaimed British director W.I.Z. It is about a bank robber with a guitar and is under fire, becuase the robbery went wrong. It uses a lot of narrative, in partilcar when he goes into the bank, it shows the clock and how time is ticking and showed the countdown until the robbery was going to happen.

The audience realise it is an indie video because the clothes the lead singer wears are dark colours although set in a desert down, shows the contrast and the feeling that he cant run away, so he has to accept being fired at.

The lyrics convey a good meaning to the video as the title 'fire' is talking about how he is under fire from the poilce. This make it an effective video,

The song reached 3 in us charts and still very popular song for Kasabian.

Unfortunately, i couldnt upload the video, so below is a link to the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qk7fbN5NE

Research

After deciding the band and the song, we were given the task to start thinking about what bands and songs similiar to circuit chase.

Bands i thought of was muse- uprising, kasabien - fire and everybody changing - keane

circuit chase

When we was given a task striaght away a member of our group suggested using a song from their unsigned band. The band is called Circuit Chase and we have decided to use a Song from their band, they usually play mostly indie rock music.
When we was deciding what song to use, Mark and Thom suggested one of their popular songs in called 'Can't live without you' and after a discussion with me and Nathan we agreed on the song.
However as the band is unsigned band, they hadn't recorded the song, so the quality was quite poor and difficult to hear the words.
To Overcome this problem, Circuit Chase, went to a recording studio and recorded a few of their songs, inlcuding out chosen song 'Can't live without you'. After showing me and Nathan the recorded song, which was easier to hear the lyrics and Thoms's voice we were confident that this song was the right song to use for our music promo.
The band are keep undating their progression on their myspace page.
www.myspace.com/circuitchase

The song title gives me an idea about a guy has been dumped by his girlfriend and he's expressing his feelings that he can't live without her. The narrative flow will be following the guy and him trying to win the girl back and display and love story, basing the video of the theme love.

Or next step is to decide where we will be filming the video and decide what shots to film, to keep the conatation of the shot effective and to show the continiuty with the lyrics.

essay for music video

I have been studying the video fire burning, by Sean Kingston. The Video was premiered at MTV on June 15, 2009. Unlike many of his previous singles, which are all produced by J.R. Rotem, the song is produced by RedOne. The song was used for the opening number of the Miss Universe 2009 live at the Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas. The song is sung by Sean Kingston and extras singers in the background. It was first released on MySpace to promote the song. When it became very popular it was also released to radio stations and for digital download April 24, 2009. To date the song has been played more than 13 million times on his MySpace page. The song has sold over 1 million downloads.

When watching the video is clear to say this video is pop dance. This is because pop videos usually have a narrative behind the video. The chorus repeats itself making people not forget the lyrics this also has the characteristics of a reggae influenced style too. But it has been mainly defined as pop dance due to upbeat song with a narrative. This video has Sean Kingston dancing around in a nightclub with lots of skinny women with not much clothes on. It starts with him getting out of a flash car in a suit. This is showing his proud of himself and making him the centre of attention. The video is set in a club at night with Sean dancing with all the women.
There is a clear concept that the video has a relationship between the visuals and lyrics. The music is called fire burning on the dance floor and this video relates to this through everyone dancing on the dance floor. When the lyrics are “pop it, lock it…” it shows the women walked into the dance floor with everyone staring at them, showing they become the new centre of attention. Also when it says “dancing on a dance floor” it shows people raving and break dancing in the middle of the dance floor. So the audience understand the narrative behind the words through what is being shown on the video.

Also there is an obvious relationship between the visuals and music. The music of this video is an up-tempo electro pop song with a modern up beat tempo. It is set at the common time with a beat of 120 beats per minute. Throughout the video it is fast paced of the dancers dancing. But the pace and tempo slows down when the women walk in again making them seem more important. The pace of the chorus speeds up to show them having a good time. Also when it says “Now take my red, black card and my jewellery” it shows some more dancers walking in with red hoodies on. This has been come effective because the audience realise that there is a change of mood when the music tempo and beat changes.

All Music videos have to show the star in it to sell them basically. So to do this there must be a number of close up of the star which this video clearly shows. When the women walk in there is a close of Sean Kingston reaction. There are many times when Sean Kingston has a close up of his face and close ups of some of the women in the video, with sometimes close ups of different body parts of the women. Music Videos usually always show women dancing in the video to promote the video usually. It doesn’t matter whatever the genre or video is, there is usually always women dancing with minimal clothes on. The women the men are dancing with seem to be high class in suits and with flash cars. Throughout the video you see lots of women with minimal clothes on in the background dancing to an upbeat song. There are scenes where the women are the centre of attention as the audience prefers this.

I have come to the conclusion that the video is more narrative based as the point of the video is too tell a story which has been show effectively in Sean Kingston’s , fire burning. There video also uses performance based as it shows lots of people dancing throughout the video.