In the video there is going to be a brief introduction before the music actually starts, to break the ice and introduce the narrative of the video. I've posted some videos below to show the way in which this is done professionally:
I inserted the entire video instead of tube chopping it because this way you can see how it works and relates to the rest of the video.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
CCTV shot
i was thinkg about the possible idea of having a shot that looks like its being filmed from a cctv camera which amplifies the whole idea of 'big brother' is watching you. i think it would be a nice shot that would add to the idea of being followed and cant escape, similar idea to 1984.
this clip is from the movie red road which is also a similar concept of being watched.
this clip is from the movie red road which is also a similar concept of being watched.
narrative theories
Aswell as goodwin's music video narative theory(previously mentionedd in another post) there are other narrative theories taht can be applied within our music video
vladimr propp's character roles;- Propp sugested that there where 8 main character roles within a story:-
many aspects from different narrative theories can be used with our music video.
1.The villain — struggles against the hero.
2.The donor — prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
3.The (magical) helper — helps the hero in the quest.
4.The princess or prize — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. the hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain.
5.her father — gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero, marries the hero, often sought for during the narrative. Propp noted that functionally, the princess and the father can not be clearly distinguished.
6.The dispatcher — character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
7.The hero or victim/seeker hero — reacts to the donor, weds the princess.
8.False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess
some of these character roles can be applied within my music video.
The villain:- The main vilains in our video are the agents and the illuminati organization. they are trying to defeat the hero by following him and eraseing his memory so he cant achieve his goal.
The princess or the prize:- The prize for our hero in the music video is that he regains his memory and that is what he is searching and he has to over come the villain to be able to reach this prize.
the hero/seeker:- this is the protagonist character. Although not a traditional hero whos goal is to save a princess, he is a hero in a sense that he is trying to over come evil to get to his goal of freedom/greater knowledge over the illuminati organization.
tzvetan todorov
todorov suggested that stories began in a state of equilibirum which is disrubted by an event or chain of events, the problems are then resolved which creates a new equilibrium. this idea can be added to the concept of our music video
original equilibrium:-
our protagonist is living his life trying to discover the truth about the illuminati conspiracy.
Disruption:-
our protagonist has his memory erased by the agents in the organization
New equilibrium:-
our proagonist is trying to find a way to recover his memory.
Levi-strauss
Levis-strauss looked at narratives in terms of binory oppositions. this can definatley be applied to our music video as the heroes and the 'villaios' goals are completley opposite.
Hero:
-good.
-our hero's goal is to find the truth aboutthe illuminati.
-his appearance is very scruffy, very casual clothing.
in contrast to our villains:
-evil.
-There goal is to erase his memory and stop him discovering the truth about the illuminati.
-they appear very smart and controlled in a uniform.
Roland barthes
barthes suggested that there were narrative codes; enigma codes, action codes and symbols and signs. i think this idea is very relavant to our music video the idea of mystery and symbolism is key to the whole conspracy idea.
Signs and symbolism; throughout my video there are numerous signs and symbols that will be represantative of the illuminati representation such as the pyramids with an eye on top.
Action codes; used to entertain the audience. my video will contain many action codes such as the memory erase scene
Enigma codes; probably the most relevant idea to my music video as its about mystery and conspiracy. enigma codes will be used when ever the bands are in the shot as you do not see their whole face clearly similar to that of other music videos from this genre. the actually stroyline of the video is enagmatic as we are unaware of who the protagonist is, why they erased his memory or why they are watching/ folowing him.
vladimr propp's character roles;- Propp sugested that there where 8 main character roles within a story:-
many aspects from different narrative theories can be used with our music video.
1.The villain — struggles against the hero.
2.The donor — prepares the hero or gives the hero some magical object.
3.The (magical) helper — helps the hero in the quest.
4.The princess or prize — the hero deserves her throughout the story but is unable to marry her because of an unfair evil, usually because of the villain. the hero's journey is often ended when he marries the princess, thereby beating the villain.
5.her father — gives the task to the hero, identifies the false hero, marries the hero, often sought for during the narrative. Propp noted that functionally, the princess and the father can not be clearly distinguished.
6.The dispatcher — character who makes the lack known and sends the hero off.
7.The hero or victim/seeker hero — reacts to the donor, weds the princess.
8.False hero — takes credit for the hero’s actions or tries to marry the princess
some of these character roles can be applied within my music video.
The villain:- The main vilains in our video are the agents and the illuminati organization. they are trying to defeat the hero by following him and eraseing his memory so he cant achieve his goal.
The princess or the prize:- The prize for our hero in the music video is that he regains his memory and that is what he is searching and he has to over come the villain to be able to reach this prize.
the hero/seeker:- this is the protagonist character. Although not a traditional hero whos goal is to save a princess, he is a hero in a sense that he is trying to over come evil to get to his goal of freedom/greater knowledge over the illuminati organization.
tzvetan todorov
todorov suggested that stories began in a state of equilibirum which is disrubted by an event or chain of events, the problems are then resolved which creates a new equilibrium. this idea can be added to the concept of our music video
original equilibrium:-
our protagonist is living his life trying to discover the truth about the illuminati conspiracy.
Disruption:-
our protagonist has his memory erased by the agents in the organization
New equilibrium:-
our proagonist is trying to find a way to recover his memory.
Levi-strauss
Levis-strauss looked at narratives in terms of binory oppositions. this can definatley be applied to our music video as the heroes and the 'villaios' goals are completley opposite.
Hero:
-good.
-our hero's goal is to find the truth aboutthe illuminati.
-his appearance is very scruffy, very casual clothing.
in contrast to our villains:
-evil.
-There goal is to erase his memory and stop him discovering the truth about the illuminati.
-they appear very smart and controlled in a uniform.
Roland barthes
barthes suggested that there were narrative codes; enigma codes, action codes and symbols and signs. i think this idea is very relavant to our music video the idea of mystery and symbolism is key to the whole conspracy idea.
Signs and symbolism; throughout my video there are numerous signs and symbols that will be represantative of the illuminati representation such as the pyramids with an eye on top.
Action codes; used to entertain the audience. my video will contain many action codes such as the memory erase scene
Enigma codes; probably the most relevant idea to my music video as its about mystery and conspiracy. enigma codes will be used when ever the bands are in the shot as you do not see their whole face clearly similar to that of other music videos from this genre. the actually stroyline of the video is enagmatic as we are unaware of who the protagonist is, why they erased his memory or why they are watching/ folowing him.
Monday, October 4, 2010
risk assement
the following scenes and events in our storyboard are ones that carry a risk and i have evaluated and created a soloution to:
Holding the proagnist's eye open: in this scene one of my agents will be holding the main character's eye open, which could cause damage to the eye or the skin around it. Soloution: feedback between the two actors should prevent overdoing the scene.
Strapping the protagnist down: in this scene the main character is tied to a bed/chair and forced to watch a clip. if the actor is tied to tightly he may struggle to breathe of suffer damage to his ribs. Soloution: feedback between the actor and the people setting the scene up should prevent this by not tieing the rope to tightly.
Police attack scene: There is a police officer shown beating a man with a batton (on the tv screne in the hypnotize room). i will need to film this myself otherwise i will lose marks for someone elses footage, which means i have to have someone pretending to hit someone else with a batton. Soloution: For this i found a technique called depth of feild, which, with cetain camera angles, will allow me to make a realistic looking beating without endangering anyone.
Black cat scene: the cat is going to walk across infront of the camera, and this may require several shots and a lot of persuasion. if the cat becomes violent it could attack someone, having serious impacts.
Bath scene: my protagnist wakes up in a bath after the memory erasing scene as an intertextual reference to inception. this could be dangerous for him if he was to hold his breath for to long and pass out before acting his waking up, causing extreme danger. Soloution: he could have his mouth and nose faced upwards not in the bath to prevent the need of holding breath.
the chase and underpass scenes: these scenes require running in the road , i will have to be extra careful here, using quiet roads and being extra vigilent by looking out for cars to ensure that noone is standing around on the road and the amount of time spent on the road is very little.
Holding the proagnist's eye open: in this scene one of my agents will be holding the main character's eye open, which could cause damage to the eye or the skin around it. Soloution: feedback between the two actors should prevent overdoing the scene.
Strapping the protagnist down: in this scene the main character is tied to a bed/chair and forced to watch a clip. if the actor is tied to tightly he may struggle to breathe of suffer damage to his ribs. Soloution: feedback between the actor and the people setting the scene up should prevent this by not tieing the rope to tightly.
Police attack scene: There is a police officer shown beating a man with a batton (on the tv screne in the hypnotize room). i will need to film this myself otherwise i will lose marks for someone elses footage, which means i have to have someone pretending to hit someone else with a batton. Soloution: For this i found a technique called depth of feild, which, with cetain camera angles, will allow me to make a realistic looking beating without endangering anyone.
Black cat scene: the cat is going to walk across infront of the camera, and this may require several shots and a lot of persuasion. if the cat becomes violent it could attack someone, having serious impacts.
Bath scene: my protagnist wakes up in a bath after the memory erasing scene as an intertextual reference to inception. this could be dangerous for him if he was to hold his breath for to long and pass out before acting his waking up, causing extreme danger. Soloution: he could have his mouth and nose faced upwards not in the bath to prevent the need of holding breath.
the chase and underpass scenes: these scenes require running in the road , i will have to be extra careful here, using quiet roads and being extra vigilent by looking out for cars to ensure that noone is standing around on the road and the amount of time spent on the road is very little.
The Agents;
-Black suit jacket
-black trousers
-white shirts
-black tie
-sunglasses
-shoes
The agents are being represented as figures of authority to the organization they are part of. The smart appearnace of their uniform suggests that they are figures of authority whilst the black suits and sunglasses suggest mystery making them enigmatic figures to an enigmatic 'illuminati' society.
i am going for a matrix stlye agent
The Protagonist;
-dark t-shirt
-dark jeans
-scruffy appearance
The main protagonist is a binory oppostion of the agents, very scruffy appearnace and looks to be as if hes withdrawn from society.
The Band:
-black shirt
-converse style trainers (black)
-dark jeans
-black guitar(guitarist)
the band are going to be dressed very sterotypical to the genre of music and each of the band memebrs will be very similar in dress code to make them a unity, theyll be wearing dark and have whitened faces this will make them look drawn and enagmatic as we have already decided that the whole of the bands faces wont be shown so the white faces with black clothing makes them stand out.
this iamge shows the kind of dark drawn look we are going for.
Police officer(re-worked):
-dark sleeveless jacket
-black undershirt
-black cargo trousers
-dark boots
-helmet with illuminati symbol
-police baton
originally the police man was intended to be a traditional american style police man however i changed this to a more powerful/militant looking uniform, making the officer a more ominous figure. i researched further into one of the comments made about the nazi uniforms made by hugo boss and decided that a uniform similar to that of the nazi's (jackets, helmets covered in the organisations logos) would fit in with the idea of the world being run by a single power. the kind of image we are going for can be seen in this photo however there will be slight alterations
-Black suit jacket
-black trousers
-white shirts
-black tie
-sunglasses
-shoes
The agents are being represented as figures of authority to the organization they are part of. The smart appearnace of their uniform suggests that they are figures of authority whilst the black suits and sunglasses suggest mystery making them enigmatic figures to an enigmatic 'illuminati' society.
i am going for a matrix stlye agentThe Protagonist;
-dark t-shirt
-dark jeans
-scruffy appearance
The main protagonist is a binory oppostion of the agents, very scruffy appearnace and looks to be as if hes withdrawn from society.
The Band:
-black shirt
-converse style trainers (black)
-dark jeans
-black guitar(guitarist)
the band are going to be dressed very sterotypical to the genre of music and each of the band memebrs will be very similar in dress code to make them a unity, theyll be wearing dark and have whitened faces this will make them look drawn and enagmatic as we have already decided that the whole of the bands faces wont be shown so the white faces with black clothing makes them stand out.
this iamge shows the kind of dark drawn look we are going for.
Police officer(re-worked):
-dark sleeveless jacket
-black undershirt
-black cargo trousers
-dark boots
-helmet with illuminati symbol
-police baton
originally the police man was intended to be a traditional american style police man however i changed this to a more powerful/militant looking uniform, making the officer a more ominous figure. i researched further into one of the comments made about the nazi uniforms made by hugo boss and decided that a uniform similar to that of the nazi's (jackets, helmets covered in the organisations logos) would fit in with the idea of the world being run by a single power. the kind of image we are going for can be seen in this photo however there will be slight alterations
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