Thursday, 29 March 2012
Influences for planning and design choices - similar music videos
The influences tor the music video during the planning
process were a wide variety of different things from other music videos to art
pieces and even listening to others songs that enthused us in a particular way.
Most directly was the music video for ‘Don’t give up the fight’ by Racoon which
we took the opening scene and applied to our song. If you compare both videos
you can clearly see the natural forest area in which we filmed – the same as in
the music video. And also you can notice the panning upwards that we also took,
the only thing that is different is the lighting of the shot, in our one the
contrast in colours is more prominent because of the setting sun which creates silhouettes
of the trees and leaves. We also looked
at ‘Skinny Love’ by Birdy. The general lonely atmosphere of the video is what
we wanted to capture, we tackled this by using a muted colour pallet. Moreover
in both videos that we looked at there was a correlation with mature and
forests. Other things like the sound of birds first thing in the morning
inspired me to use light and dark in our work to replicate the rising sun when
the birds sing.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Music video analysis - Racoon don't give up the fight
Throughout the music video the camera moves slowly and there
are very few short clips; most of the clips are long and linger on appealing to
a niche audience of people who enjoy music videos that are produced in this
way. The location of the narrative matches the sounds of the song. The string
instruments are associated with nature and wood such as trees and brown/ dirt
colours. This is because of synthesia and how we visualise sounds. The location
of the forest is contrasted with the depths of water where people are dancing/
drowning. On land light and friendly colours are used while underwater the only
colours other than black are the ones in which the light from above shines down.
Looking at the colour scheme it is predominantly browns and greens however with
an injection of red from the young boys’ hoodie. This sudden use of colour
keeps the audience’s attention and helps to progress the narrative because of
its obscurity against the rest of the colour scheme, the audience begin to
wonder WHY red is used for the hoodie and what it could signify. Looking
further into video it could be foreboding the meeting of the young girl and
represent love, however it can also illustrate the intertextualization of the
children’s story book ‘Little red riding hood’ but in a different and more
modern way. Long shots are abruptly cut by close ups of the characters faces.
There is a sense of intrusion because of this as there are no mid-shots which
are normal used to represent a typical distance in which you would stand in
front of another person. The jump from a long distance shot to a close up
instigates a feeling that the boy is being watched (long shot) and the close up
is from his perspective as he looks around. This music video is in ways illustrating
the music as the young boy is continually perusing the girl which matches the
lyrics and title of the song “Don’t give up the fight”, moreover the ‘drowning’
people in the water could also be interpreted as not giving up the fight for
life… To continue the ambiguity of the music video makes the audience want to
watch it over and over again as to try and see something that they might have
missed before in order to decode the narrative of the visuals. If I have to
rate this video out of 10, I would give it a 6 it was beautiful because of the
location and I though the use of water and movement was interesting and elegant
however the narrative was weak and didn’t really lead anywhere. More often than
not I was left thinking “where are those children’s parents?!”
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
More images for digital media pack
Here are a two more photos that I have taken for possible digi-pack pages...
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