Evaluation Question #1

Ollie Dingley

A shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals

To the right you can see a bowl of alphabet hoops, when Brian is eating we see this in his bowl, as soon as the songs guitar comes in with the riff we see Brian dig his spoon into the bowl, destroying the alignment of letters. The effect that this has is it shows the destructive nature of our protagonist.

In Miley Cyrus’ “We can’t Stop” She similarly uses alphabet hoops to spell out words, this is where we acquired our inspiration. It works well and is quite quirky

A shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented

To the right, you can see a shot of Brian from our music video, you can see him smoking with his glasses on, this mise en scene shows him as a reckless / dangerous character. This is essentially us developing our character into the commercial exhibitionist.

To the right, you can see a shot of the frontman from “Blood on the Dance Floor” This is the first shot from their music video “Bewitched” It shows a man covered in tattoos, piercings and coloured hair, much like our music video its using the technique of the commercial exhibitionist. The man is also in what looks like a cult ritual, this makes him seem mysterious and dangerous.

A shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre

On the right you can see a shot of our protagonist breaking a glass bottle in a dark alleyway, this shows his destructive nature and furthers the music genre which is rock, drafting on ideas from punk rock in which the ideals surround anarchy and anger.

Similarly you can see destruction on the right however this is a hip hop video, contrasting with our ideas it argues similarly hip hop is a dangerous genre. Because this destruction effects different genres we’re forced to question how well our use of it works

A shot that shows an intertextual reference

When the lyrics sing the lyric “Brian” We get the first shot of our character in his costume by night, he’s smoking a cigarette inside and looks mysterious. The shortness of this clip adds to the mystery and links with the lyrics.

Much like in our music video, when Brianstorm plays the lyric “Brian” We’re sent to a photo of an arrogant looking man, we got our inspiration from this part of the music video and gave our spin on it. Our spin is mostly represented through mise en scene as you can see our Brian looks slightly more devious, smoking a cigarette and dressed in a leather jacket

A shot that demonstrates your use of camera

In this shot we see the camera standing still almost at 90 degrees to our protagonists body, this gives an interesting P.O.V that is not seen anywhere else in our film, we improvised it heavily as we figured we might as well try it, in doing so we found it to be our favorite camera shot.

Throughout the Arctic Monkeys song “R U Mine” The camera follows the band in a P.O.V camera shot, this incorporates the audience into the video and makes them feel part of the hype. Much like our camera shot above, it gives a real look into the band members our in our case protagonist and a close up of what they look like.

A shot that demonstrates your use of lighting

We wanted to get a lot of different camera shots, much like our AS coursework we realized it was essential so we made sure to use as many different kinds of lighting as we could without it feeling forced. This was one of the shots we did that I thought felt a bit forced, however with further editing we managed to make it work, the camera eventually blends both Brian and the lights together, furthering his urban representation. We did this by setting focus on the ground instead of on Brian.

In Lorde’s “Royals” There is a close up of a mans face, the lighting shows his face to be dark, creating mystery and intrigue about the character. Much like with our Brian, the darkness reflects the characters personality

A shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene

In this shot you see a shot of Brians clothing in very good lighting, we filmed this shot in light intentionally to show his clothing and show the mise-en-scene we set out to reveal, we really wanted to promote the presentation of his ruffian like personality. Alongside a girl it shows who Brian deems important to surround himself with.

In Pink Floyds “Brick in the wall” The children are wearing masks, this represents the conformity that comes alongside education, reflecting the songs lyrics it sets the scene for the final message of the song

Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other music videos

(Part 1)In Wilkinson’s “Afterglow” The main female when drugged up looks disorientated, we mirrored this idea. After Brian takes drugs, through editing we made it possible to have a bubble effect on the screen, mirroring his disorientation.

Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other

music videos(Part 2)

When doing research into the rock genre we looked at video protagonists of different genders and ethnicities to investigate how different characters worked in music videos. In The Pretty Reckless’ “My Medicine” The videos protagonist smokes a cigarette in a dark room, the fire represents danger but also lights up the room, making whatever is close to it important, in this case it is the protagonist lighting a cigarette, we wanted to replicate this in our video.