Lyrics

"In The Sun"

It's hard to be ignored
When I look at you, you look so bored
My baby, my darling, I've been takin' a beating

Well, all right (Well, all right)
It's okay (It's okay)
We all get the slip sometimes every day
I'll just keep it to myself
In the sun
In the sun

It's hard to take the blame
When I look at you, you're so ashamed
My baby, my darling, I've been thinkin' of leaving

Well, all right (Well, all right)
It's okay (It's okay)
We all get the slip sometimes every day
I'll just keep it to myself
In the sun
In the sun

Well, all right (Well, all right)
It's okay (It's okay)
We all feel ashamed sometimes every day
I'll just keep it to myself
In the sun
In the sun

Recce Shots

 Katue went round the school to find possible locations for our video, She took a shot of our school library to fit with the library in the video.

this is the location we wil use to shoot the majority of it as it is filmed in the lockers/corridors.

Prop List

Whoever is playing this person will need chino trousers, a brown collared t shirt and black sunglasses. We will also have to draw on a beard with marker and give them a wig.

 Whoever plays the main singer will need a white collared t-shirt, black skirt and black tights. The backing dancers will also need to wear this, but with an orange shirt instead of white

The man dancing with the singer will need to wear a dark blue shirt, denim jeans and a blue scarf. The chinese man will need a brown checkered shirt, brown trousers and a fat borwn tie

Radiohead - Street Spirit

Songs from my Childhood

Song from Primary school:

Year 3000 - Busted

I liked this song because of the music video and the catchy tune. They were my favourite band when i was younger and until they broke up. The target audience of the band were young kids/teenagers and the video has a lot of weird futuristic things in it to interest kids.

Start of high school:
Meet Me Halfway - Black Eyed Peas

This song reminds me of year 7 because it was popular and so it was played over and over again so i began to dislike it because of how much i heard it however i can still remember it because of the catchy tune

Favourite song now

Teddy Picker - Arctic Monkeys 

Despite this being a very old song, coming out in 2007, it is still one of my favourite song. It is also memorable because it was the first song i learned to play on guitar.

Carol Vernallis

Carol Vernallis is known for her theory on music video editing. It revolves around 4 key concepts:

Narrative - She believes that the video is a response to the audio, that it relates to the style and genre of the music and also that it will be in sync with the musics beat.
The video itself may provide answers to the song or even open up questions that the song cannot answer.
Sometimes there is not a clear structure to the video

Editing - The video will be cut and edited to match the beat of the music
The editing will break many of the usual; rules of editing to fit the music
The editing may become more obvious to make the viewer notice it

Camera Movement - Shots will be repeated a lot in a video for example a close up shot is often used to show emotion on the artists voice.
Camera may move in time with the music or directly against it depending on genre/theme of the song
The main shot, usually a close up or mid shot is used the most in the video

Diegesis - Diegesis may be revealed slowly or all of a sudden, this is usually dependant on the style of song
Objets may move in time with the song
Diegesis may be broken down into pieces

Bad music video

Friday - Rebecca Black

               

This song has been rated the worst video of all time. The lip syncing is not timed right, the effects have been overused and give the video a tacky feel, the editing between shots has no flow to it and the song going with it is awful and it relates in now way to Andrew Goodwins music video theory.

Good music video

Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys

             

I think this video is good because of its originality. It starts off with the sound wave reacting to the guitar and lyrics, then as soon as the chorus starts it changes to the sound wave becoming moving images e.g women and cigarettes etc however it is still the same white line and black background. 

This is also backs up the first part of Andrew Goodwins music video theory, saying that rock and roll videos often have a video that is either footage of other people or shapes.

Andrew Goodwins music video theory

1. Music videos more often than not tend to include a demonstration of typical genre characteristics.

  

    For example a rock video will often be of the band on stage in dark clothing and slicked back hair or be a video of different shapes and patterns reacting to the music however rap videos will usually have the person in an expensive car with half naked women with them

2. There are frequent references to the notion of looking and voyeuristic treatment of the female body

    The notion of looking includes men or women being portrayed seductively if the do certain things in front of the camera.

     A recent example of this is Wrecking ball by Miley Cyrus, who is seen swinging naked on a wrecking ball to get the attention of men

3. There is a succinct relationship between visuals and lyrics.

Either illustrating, amplifying or contradicting 

4. The record label the artist is assigned to has certain demands for the artist .Often include certain shots in the video such as close ups, high angle etc

An example of this being Lady Gaga wearing quirky clothes in all videos

5. There is often intertextual references 

E.g the song Opposite of Adults by Chiddy Band with the lyric "I play Ron Burgundy I anchor on the track", this is a reference to the film Anchorman.

First post

After being told what the course entails I think that the music video will be a lot harder than I first expected because editing the video to fit the beat and lyrics of the music will be very tricky and take a lot of time to make it fluent and professional. I was surprised at the amount of posts needed on our blog by the end of the year because its double what was expected last year so I think I will have to spend more time on the blog and put more detail into each post. I still think despite this it will be fun to do the music video.