The Black Keys - Frame by Frame remake

To get the shots we did we followed our shot list almost as we intended too, except we ended up having to shoot a few of the shots in the next few lessons as some of them didn't go as planned and/or weren't as good as expected. All of the shots of the girl were shot in lesson 2 of the filming process, this was because we needed to find a girl to be in it for us, as all of us were already in it at some point. Once we found a girl those shots didn't take long to film, this was good as it gave us more time editing it all together. 
The fighting scene was probably the hardest bits to edit because we shot those shots to make sure we had the bits we needed, which meant the shots were really long so we could have a choice between either a couple of shots or a long shot that we had to cut down, this was good though because in the end it looks good and we ended up having those shots done perfectly in order to get the rest done as we needed it to be. The fighting scene was also hard as we had alot of match-on-action that we had to get perfect or it wouldn't look good, this meant re-shooting a few of the shots over and over until we got the exact angle correct or the movement of the person exactly as we needed it to be to look like the video we are remaking. However once we got the match-on-action how we wanted it the rest of the editing seemed to flow as we had used certain things on Final Cut Pro that we hadn't used before to do the match-on-action sequences, so after that the rest of the editing didn't take as long because we knew what we were doing. 
As the hardest scene to edit, it was also the hardest scene to film because even though we kept on watching the original over and over so we knew what we had to do, it was still hard to get the angles we needed, and it was hard to get the exact parts that we needed, even though we filmed each part many times, it still seemed that we had parts missing or things that maybe didn't look correct even though everything was there and where it needed to be. 

I believe that I played a good role in the remaking of the music video, I believe this because I was in the video for a couple of shots but I also filmed quite alot of the shots, mainly the fighting scene, this meant that i had to get the angle right and had to re-film a few of them when they didn't look right.
When it came to editing I hadn't used the newer version of Final Cut Pro before, so I had a little bit of help getting the hang of it, but once I knew how to use the program I did quite alot of the editing, I think that doing this practical has let me find out more about how to make a music video look professional and also how to use Final Cut Pro properly. 

Frame by Frame Music Video - practical.

When we were deciding what music video we would copy we decided on a song by 'The Black Keys' we decided on the 'Tighten Up' video because we thought the story was amusing and there was a lot of different shots that were used to make up the video. 

We are going to use the last minute of the video, this is because we wouldn't be able to get children to be in our video in our lesson times, so the last minute is the easiest to film in our lesson times, so the kind of shots we are going to need to use are close ups, low angle shots,  high angle shots and medium close ups are used a lot throughout the minute we are filming. 

The Shot List. 

1. Medium close up of guitarist dropping child after seeing something. 

2. Medium close up of attractive woman biting her lip.

3. Medium close up of drummer fighting with kids and then stopping for some reason.

4. Close up of the attractive woman with her hair blowing in the wind. 

5. Close up of guitarist looking stunned. 

6. Same shot but of the other man. 

7. Medium close up of the drummer smiling and winking at the girl. 

8. Pans up to the guitarist now playing and singing. 

9. Close up of the woman smiling. 

10. Medium close up of guitarist singing. 

11. Close up of the woman brushing her hair back. 

12. Medium low angle shot of guitarist playing. 

13. Medium shot of drummer playing. 

14. Close up of woman. 

15. Close up of drums being played. 

16. Close up of hands playing drums. 

17. Close up of the drummer. 

18. Medium close up of guitarist kicking over drums. 

19. Arial shot of drummer who looks up and swears. 

20. Medium shot of guitarist kicking over drums. 

21. Close up of guitar being played. 

22. Medium shot of solo. 

23. Close up of drums. 

24. Close up of guitarist hitting drums. 

25. Medium shot of drums being pushed over and drummer jumping on guitarist. 

26. Medium shot of guitarist elbowing drummer. 

27. Medium shot of drummer spitting out blood. 

28. High angle shot of drummer strangling guitarist. 

29. Close up of guitarist being strangled with drumstick. 

30. Close up of guy kicking other guy in the nuts. 

31. Close up of guitarist struggling. 

32. Medium close up of guy picking up drum. 

33. Medium close up of drummer getting hit with drum. 

34. Close up of guy picking up symbol. 

35. Close up of guitarist getting hit by symbol. 

36. Low angle of guitarist spitting blood. 

37. Medium close up of woman looking disgusted. 

38. High angle close up of guitarist holding his head in pain. 

39. Same shot of drummer lying down in pain. 

40. Low angle shot of kids shaking heads looking disappointed. 

Shooting Schedule.

1. Get close ups of the guys looking shocked.
2. Do closeups of the girl, get all the shots of her done at the same time to avoid any unnecessary delays.
3. Fighting scene shots, close ups, medium shots etc.
4. Shots with the children in them.
5. Any other shots that need to be done.

Mise-en-Scene.

The scene in this video is based in a children's playground, this is not possible for us as we are going to be shooting the video in college time and the weather may not permit us to take the camera inside, instead we may shoot the scene in somewhere quiet where we won't be disturbed whilst filming.
The costumes are pretty normal clothes, nothing out of the ordinary, jeans and jacket etc, this shows that they are portraying normal people in the video and aren't anybody that people would normally look at for being special, that's why they have to fight for the pretty girls attention. 

 

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car Narrative

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

We were asked to come up with a narrative to go with the song 'Fast Car' I came up with the idea to use post it notes to draw the narrative out, this way we could move them around to create a linear story and a non-linear story too. 

A non-linear narrative is one that does not proceed in a straight-line, step-by-step fashion, such as where an author creates a story's ending before the middle is finished. Linear is the opposite, when narrative runs smoothly in a straight line, when it is not broken up.

1. 'You got a fast car
And I want a ticket to go anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere' - I decided to use this quote int the first image as its the first line in the song, this is going to set the audience for the rest of the song and let them get the jist of the song, and that the story revolves around the girl meeting the guy with the 'fast car' and giving her the hope that they will go away together. 

2. The second image shows the girl 'working at a convenience store' this image shows that the girl is working hard to earn the money to get away. 

3. The third image is 'Managed to save just a little bit of money' and it shows the girl putting money in a jar, as if she has been saving it for a while just to be able to get away from where she is. 

4. 'You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him' this quote is long but it shows what we wanted to show in the image, the dad has got a drinking problem and the mum got fed up and walked out because he can't give her what she wants, and the innocent girl is just sat in the corner having nothing to do with it yet so much of it effects her and what she is going to have to do in her life, yet her parents don't seem to care or take much notice of her. 

5. The 5th image shows the quote 'said somebody's got to take care of him, So I quit school and that's what I did' it shows that the dad is a lazy drunk that the girl had to give up all of her education therefore further life just to look after her lazy drunken dad that does nothing for her. The drawing behind the sofa is the girl throwing her school uniform in the bin, this would show her basically giving up and throwing her education away. 

6. The 6th image shows 'But is it fast enough so we can fly away, We gotta make a decision, We leave tonight or live and die this way' this gives hope and my image shows that she has finally escaped her past life and is getting away to start a better one. 

7. This image shows the words of the quote 'City lights lay out before us, And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder' this is showing that lights of the city in front of them, and that they have each other and their future life and that's all that matters.

8. This image shows 'We'll move out of the shelter, Buy a big house and live in the suburbs' this quote means that they are going from a bad thing to a good one, and the image shows them driving past nice big houses, as if that's where they're going to end up. 

9. This image doesn't show a specific quote but outlines what they are really doing, after driving past all the nice houses, they end up driving into a motel where they will be stuck because they can't afford anywhere nicer. 

10. This image shows the outline of the last verse
'You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving'
It shows near enough the same thing as image 4 did, the couple fighting and the innocent child just standing by being the real victim, while the dad's out drinking all the time and the mum is paying all the bills taking on all the burdons, until she walks out just like in image 4. 

Linear Narrative
This image shows a linear narrative story, this means a story that happens in order of what the song happens, you see what you need to see when it happens in the lyrics, in this instance, it starts off with the girl meeting the nice guy with a fast car and then she saves money to get away from her drunken dad and then leaves to make a nice life for herself and ends up living the same life as her mother lead, the one she didn't want for herself.

Non-Linear Narrative
This is an example of a non-linear narrative, things happen in no correct order, in this one, the images show the girl having fun and getting away but then the flashbacks would show her working to save money, but then it would cut back to show her in the car again, with the city lights and the perfect guy to have the perfect life with, and then once again the flashbacks show when her mum walked out because of her drunken dad and then her having to look after her dad as he just lies around being lazy while the girl has to give up school to look after her drunk dad, but then the video cuts back to show a good part and shows the point that she met that 'perfect' guy and them then driving past all the big suburb houses, this may suggest that's where they will end up, but once again the bad comes in and it's not a flashback, its the real thing, they pull up to a motel and end up where she didn't want to, with a drunken husband/boyfriend who doesn't look after the kids while she works all the time and then has to do everything else as well. This way the narrative is moved around and it makes the video more interesting and would make the audience want to keep watching! 

Postmodernism

Modernism is an art/social-political movement that is aimed to reinvent culture that had become outdated. It roughly occurred between 1890's-1960's, it is a rejection from realism, its going against everything that is known previously in that genre or situation. 
Divisions of modernism include avant-garde and surrealism. 
Films/novels/art were self-reflective of society, it is self-reflective because it draws attention to itself and the materials it uses. 

Postmodernism is sometimes described as 'playful' this is because it tends to just have fun with different ideas from different era's of time, or from different music videos in this case. 
Postmodernism started in the 1970's onwards, it is a breakdown of barriers between genres and different styles. 
It mixes up time, space and narrative to create something original in a way that is not original at all. There is emphasis of style over content and there is blurring of fiction and reality/representation of the real. Hyperreality is becoming more use to a medicated version of reality, than reality itself(Baudrillard.)


Intertextuality 
This is when one media text is referring to another, so in this case it is one music artist referring to another music video in their video. 



The Lady Gaga video 'Paparazzi' is obviously aimed to be set around the 'Golden Age' in Hollywood, the video almost acts as a short film which were popular in that era. Throughout the video it shows the things that famous people would go through to stay famous, and the things people would do to you just to get famous. It is a narrative based video following the murder plot of the main character and that happens to be a pop star that is followed by the paparazzi, the lyrics of the song revolve around this. 

These photos are used in the beginning of the music video with calm music, this almost establishes the location and create an air of calm that you would expect with the 'Golden Age' era in Hollywood, it establishes the location just like a movie does.            

These images are taken from a famous Hollywood movie, they are replicated just like the scenes used in the movie, this is to establish the fact that the kind of look they are going for is that movie and they are trying to make it look not just like it comes from that era but exactly like that movie. This would mean that they are trying to make the characters the same aswell.