Ideas...

Me and my group have decided to use Eliza Lumleys 'Street Spirit' for our music video and have started doing some research on how we want to make it (i.e content= setting, lighting, colourscheme, etc).

During my research I found a few images that have inspired me with ideas i have discussed with my group and it's likely that we're going to use them.

So far, we vision our video to be slow, haunting (due to the song), we want to have sentences going across the screen (most likely lyrics from the song, these will be ghostly and almost transparent), we are going to have a female artist in the middle of a room ressed in a classy dress playing the pianno, there are gonna be memories being projected on the walls of the room (behind her), hopefully if all goes well then we want to pan around her so we can see the images that are being projected and ofcourse this will help to create a hectic atmosphere to show the thoughts that are in her head...only they will be showing outside.

We have managed to get a pianno we could use, also, one of my team members has agreed to be the female artist for our vieo, we have some dresses that she could use for the costume we want. We have decided to use a greyscale colourscheme for the memories, the artist will be in gold or red playing an intique coloured pianno so she can be the central focus of the video as she will be in colour.

One of the images i found was of an abondanned room with a fireplace that we want to use in the video, this is possible with green-screaning, if we will be able to get the technology we require. As our ideas are still in progress, we have not got a complete vision of the video, however we have an inspirational idea and would like to carry it out as it is so far.

The only problem we are having is finding lyrics for the song. The lyrics are valueable for helping with ideas for the song and ofcourse for the female artist in our video who will be mimicking the words as if she were singing.

During our group research of unsigned artists, i came across eliza lumley, jem cookes, ben adams and a few other artists. These artists all fall into the jazz genre. I found their music is quite instrumental and delicate and so if we were to make a video for them it would be quite slow and would have to pay attention to detail.

Eliza Lumeleys music is very slow and moving and is quite haunting, the audience is drawn into her songs by having to pay very close attention to her voice in particular because she almost sounds like she's whispering, and her voice is very delicate.
What i found is that one of her tracks 'street spirit' has been pirated from a band; their version is called radio street spirit, which i found during my research for her lyrics on 'you-tube'. The band have made a video for their track. The video is black and white and quite slow, but it has clashes of fast pace things happening; there are certain characters that the camera concentrates on that break through because what they are doing is fast and full of energy.

This has given me and my fellow colleages some ideas of how to put our own video together and what we could include in it.

INTERTEXTUALITY

Busta Rhymes-I Love My Chick

The narrative for this music video was clearly inspired by the movie 'Mr & Mrs Smith', starring Brad Pitt and Angela Jollie; however, although there is alot of action and the whole video is explosive and shows a fight between two "lovers", the comedy genre is stronger, and makes the video more appealing as the director has changed the race of the charatcters. Another thing that makes it humourus is the fact that the stars featured in it don't really fit into their roles that much, ie, busta has a meanny, bad boy, blingy, gangster image and does not fit into the role he is given 9in this video because it is more lovy dovey, etc.

Brick and Lace-Love is Wicked


This is one of my favourite band and I love their music because its very cultural and holds strong messages.
I particularly love this video because of the hectic mood it contains. There is alot goin on throughout the video, and because we only see everything in fragments and a little at a time, we are drawn in to keep watching so we could see some more of it. The strongest aspect of the video is the dances we see. The video is sexy, fun, and cultural. It hasn't really got anything to do with the lyrics.
The good thing about the artists focusing on the dancing for the video is that; some viewers look at music videos to get ideas of how to dance to certain songs, and so if some of the viewers wanted to know how to dance to this song, they could copy the moves shown on it, which basically means they would have to keep watching it over and over again.
The reason i feel that the content of the video is do-able is because it doesn't really look like a big budget video, there are limited camera angles and shots, and the setting is simple and again, quite limited.

Here is another one of their videos that i like...
Brick And Lace-Never Never

What A Wonderful World...puppet show!

I found this music video interesting because of the curiousity of all the different characters that the pupppet person could come up with, and also, i found it quite challengin to figure out whether or not these were computer tricks or if what we are shown is really 'hand-made'...

Beacuse of the slowpace of the song and the different images of nature and life, it almost felt like i was going through a journey, and i was eager to find out where it ended, the cideo draws the audience in by creating curiousity and anxiety. Also, because it's all dark and everything we could see was through a 'moon', the video had a strong jazzy element to it.

i'm sooo soorrry...i just had to add this!

Chamillionnaire 'Hip-Hop Police'

I like this video because of the message its potraying. This music video talks about the problems in society of racial discrimination, sterotyping and others. I like the fact that the video uses stereotypes to emphasize the issue the artist is talking about. The headlines it uses are probably the attractive aspect of the music video, and the fact that there are many charaters in the video but most of them are played by the two artists featured in the video; the video uses humour to gain audience's. One thing I did notice though, is that the headlines are all talking about black artists, and the problems they face in the music industry and the media, could this mean that the artist feel that black music artists in particular are being discriminated?