Props, Equipment, Costumes

Props

• Poster
• Radio
• Table & chairs

Equipment

• Camera
• Green screen
• Lights (may be)

Costumes

• In town, casual/smart duffle coat, jeans
  
• In audition, singer; smart/casual duffle coat, jeans, shirt,
  
• Others, smart/casual , jeans, shirt.

Music Video analysis

I Don’t Feel Like Dancing – Scissor Sisters.

The video we will be analyzing will be ‘I don’t feel like dancing’ by the Scissor Sisters. The genre to this video is pop/dance, we have chosen this video to analyze as it is a similar genre to ‘Fire with fire’ and this is the song we will be creating a music video to. The length of this music video is 4:22 seconds.

Performance

Firstly the music video ‘I Don’t Feel Like Dancing’ is mainly performance however it does have aspects of narrative running throughout. The performance is demonstrated through the use of green screen, and special effects, such as from the beginning of the music video right through to the end there are various shots that continue to overlap each other, these shots are juxtapose against each other as they are all different from each other and don’t relate. This creates an interesting yet confusing experience for the viewer. There is no repetition of shots throughout the video, which keeps the audience attention.

Narrative categories

There is a narrative aspect as the lyrics of the song talk about dancing and the performers are dancing. The amplification and disjuncture shows that the backgrounds that were used in the music video have no direct link to the lyrics. However this creates a unique interpretation of the song, as it has unusual and bizarre ideas, which makes it quite surreal capturing the audience attention.

An example of this from the time 3.28 to 3.34 there is a shot of a woman screaming at a man with a plain background. While thought the rest of the video the shots are very abstract

Audio/visual

There are various camera shots used in the video from beginning to end there was a total of 102 shots. All of theses shots were merged together with the use of video-editing software. The very first shot is a medium panning shot of a young boy looking at a poster on the wall, (which later turns into singing heads) this lasts from 0.00 to 0.05. Another example of a shot that was used an extreme long shot, (ELS) of the main singer this lasted from 0.31 to 0.43. The final shot that was used was a medium zoom out shot to a child watching the music video being played this lasted from 4.11 to 4.15.

Editing

The editing in the video is extreme as through out the video there is some sort of editing. E.g. People rotating in mid air and others moving across the screen in a way that wouldn’t be possible without the use of green screen. The background always changes but the editing of it is seamless. There is no jump cuts from scene to scene. However the shots seem to flow to the next. The editing move quite fast as the scene don’t last very long this mean the audience have to keep watching otherwise they’ll miss something. This may have been done purposely by the director so the audience keeps their interest in the video.

Lighting

The lighting changes throughout the video, because in the beginning the lighting is high key and the colour is very saturated. Although in other parts of the video the lighting is low key and the colour is slightly muted. The lighting effects in this video enhance the atmosphere as the use of special effects (such as the flashing lights) indicates a change in the beat of the music.

Mise-en-scene

The main performer is wearing a bright purple leather jumpsuit throughout the entire song, which helps him stand out from everyone else, as everyone else was wearing other fabrics such as cotton. This ‘out there’ costumes helps the viewer to identify his as the lead singer. This is the norm for pop videos as the main performer wears the more outrageous clothes. None of the music video was shot on location and so the mise en scene for the setting is very restricted, however the use of green screen aids the sensation of different locations.

here is the original music video.

http://www.muzu.tv/scissorsisters/i-dont-feel-like-dancin-music-video/196929

Treatment

Our music video will start with a male looking at a poster explaining about an audition. Then we see the group walk into the audition room. We have the judges sitting at a table, 2 of them happy while the other is not. We have the group getting ready and one will put a radio on the floor and he presses play. Then they start playing. One will play the keyboards, another will play the drums and we will have the singer playing a guitar and singing. During there performance we will see shots of the judges reaction they will be tapping there feet and bobbing there heads in enjoyment. Then when we will see a person holding up a sign with the number 1 in the city centre. Then the person will fade out. Them we will return to the band playing we will have close up of the instruments playing, and then cutting to a shot of the judges. Next the audition cuts to the singer on top of Manchester Andale car park looking over the city. The male will be walking around the roof looking at the buildings surrounding him. Then there a shot of the singer on Market Street with the public walking very fast while the singer is at normal speed. Then the public will freeze while the male is still singing. Next we have a collage of peoples faces sing in at the same time, but the faces moves around.

We will then cut back to the audition of the whole band playing together, after that again we will have close up of there instruments, and then back to the band and cutting to the judges. Again we will have a collage of people singing again. Then we will go back to the male singing in down cutting from al the different location in town. Ending we will have a close up of the singer finishing, It will then go back to the judges the quickly going back to the band who have moved to the front of the stage. The last shot will be an over shoulder shot of the judges giving a standing ovation and you can see the band.

location list

market st. We will film the busy streets with people walking. And in editing we will speed the up with our performer at regular speed.

Piccadilly gardens. We will film here in the day time

triangle ,corporation st. We will also film here in the day and at night

Manchester Arndale car park. We will shoot this at night

And Loreto colleges theatre.

Introduction

This is B1-10 group 6, consisting of Rebecca Smith, Rachel Ward, Joshua Gallagher and Connor Gallagher. We will be creating a music video and blog to compliment a song of our choice. During pre-production we researched online a variety of songs, which we narrowed, down to a final few. With the help of 'Muzu.tv' and 'lyrics mania' we all agreed that our final decision would be the song 'Fire With Fire' by the Scissor scissors. We believed this would be a good choice as the genre is very upbeat so it would give us various ideas to work with, and although it will be a challenge we are all ready to take it on. The lyrics to this song enable us to basically create any music video we want as it has a range of meanings. We chose this song as it has a great rhythm and beat to it and we are sure we can create an amazing music video to compliment the song. To start of we printed of the lyrics to this song and annotated it with notes, and brainstorms of ideas we had, and things we wanted to do.

Here are a few ideas we have for our music video...