I am keen to get involved with the direction and production of the video. I felt that these where my strongest points during the production of last years film opening production, I also took a crucial role in the editing last year whereas this year Beth Cooper has expressed and interest in being in charge of the editing process of our production, as she requires the experience. She also will take the role as director of photography, with taking control of setting up shots.This should mean that we each have our key roles within the production of our music video and the work should be shared relatively equally.
Song Choice:
The original track by
The Gorillaz was released in 2001 on their self titled album 'Gorillaz'. It featured alongside the more commonly recognised remix by
Soulchild, which reached no.6 in the UK charts. The song has had many appearances within other media products suggesting it would be rather well known outside of a straight forward Gorillaz fan base. For example, it featured on a channel 4 television programme '100 Greatest Kids' TV Programmes', the football themed video game
FIFA 2002 and the 2008 blockbuster '
Cloverfield' which is where Beth discovered the track.
Our Video:Our video will combine influences of television programmes such as '
Misfits' and '
Skins' which are predominately aimed at teen audiences, and also aspects of both dance, performance and 'indie rock' music videos. The overall aim is to produce a music video which includes both narrative and performance scenes which is typical of an 'indie rock' video, though the twist is that the music of a dance style and will appeal to a younger audience similar to that of programmes such as 'Skins.'
Target Audience:
As previously mentioned our key target audience will be young adults aged 13 - 24, this is because they are the target audience for the genre as well as the style of video. As well as this, this is the age range which will watch music video channels such as
MTV. A secondary target audience would be possibly slightly older, fans of Gorillaz work which has been popular since the early nineties which would make an older fan base aged between 25 - 35. There is also the possibility of the parents of teenagers showing interest in their music tastes which would broaden the secondary target audience further up to perhaps 45 or 50.
Genre:
This remix of an originally HipHop track creates a sub-genre which is closer towards dance, as the new beat is faster, therefore making it suitable to dance too. This is why we chose to use a '
rave' scene in which the 'ravers' will be dancing to the remixed track.
Straightforward dance videos often feature scantily clad women who almost always perform a dance routine, some often focus on the artist or DJ, the scenes are often artificially brightly lit. This has been a popular and typical style of many dance records over the past decade, here are some examples:
Another style is more similar to the style Beth and I are working toward which features scenes of clubs or raves. This has become more popular recently with current chart singles such as:
Other videos by this artist follow a similar style, which would suggest it is a typical style of video for remix producers, therefore making it applicable to our video.
What i like about these three videos are the scenes which feature people dancing, they really adds atmosphere which suggests to the audience these tracks are enjoyable to dance too. Also they all feature a build up which is another aspect of our video which will cover the first couple of scenes as the set up the rave. The lighting in the 'Pharrell Williams - One' track features strobe lighting which is something which we are aiming to input within our own music video production.
Locations:
We have a variety of locations in our music video. The first scene will feature numerous rooms within one house, following this there are some street shots, some shots in a car and finally the 'rave' scene which we hope to film in a car-park surrounded by woodland, this means that we can use both cars and the woodland setting. By using a variety of setting we will capture our audiences attention and keep it as the variation should stop it from becoming dull.
Mise en Scene, Props, Costume:
House Scene - Here we will need many extra’s dressed in clothing which would appear to the viewer as having been worn the night before and slept in. However our central protagonist will have slept in underwear alone, as in our rough footage, he sleeps alongside another girl. This could be interpreted as sexual activity. Other props we will require are empty alcohol bottles, cans, glasses strewn across the floors, and possibly other typical party debris. We will need some items of clothing strewn around which our central protagonist can pick up and put on. We need a mobile phone, which will need the track on in order to play it out as a ring-tone. In order to achieve verisimilitude we need to create an accurate portrayal of a house party aftermath.
Street Scene – For this scene we need our central protagonist, two other characters to play his friends, one male and one female. We would like to dress them in a typical youth style, for example jeans, t-shirt, hooded jacket and pumps. We will need some extras as we need some ‘general public’ characters for the three main characters to hand flyers out to. We have decided, as these characters will feature at the rave scene we will need to actually cast these and they will also need to be within a similar age range of ourselves and our main cast. We will need some flyers on paper, which will advertise the rave.
Car Scene – For this scene we need only the three main characters, and of course, a car. As well as this we will need a generator, as this fits within the narrative plot as they go to collect one to set up their rave. At this point we may also include a strobe lighting machine which they go to collect as well. The characters will be listening to the track on the radio so we will need an iPod to plug in which will play the record.
Rave Scene – This scene will require the most extras, we hope to put glo-paint on them which will light up in the strobe lighting, other than that we have no preference on costume as it will be dark, and to keep it realistic we would expect that everyone in the crowd were individualistic in their outfits. We will need the generator, the strobe lighting, a number of cars (between 6 -7) with their headlights on to light up the car-park and we will suggest to each extra that they bring their own alcohol such as beer bottles, cans or alco-pops etc.
The street scene needs to be redrafted due to extras, we realised that we would need many extras to be out in the streets for our central protagonist to hand leaflets to, and these would also have to be the same extras at the rave scene, which has proven too difficult to organise.
