More Ideas...

My group and I have discussed various other possibilities for our music video, considering different locations, costumes, narrative and also taking editing techniques into account, and various elements of final cut we want to capitalise on. It was a very useful exercise, and we ended up coming up with some good and quite strong alternative ideas to the ideas we already had.

The ideas for LOCATIONS;

Streets
London Underground
Alleyway
Clubs
House/Flat (Dingy/Rough)
Backstreets
Park
Pub

The ideas for COSTUME;

High End Fashion
'Indie/Rock' Style
Tramp
Tracksuits
Flares
No Clothing
Full Suit-Bow tie etc.
Formal Clothing

The ideas for NARRATIVE;

Fights (Drunken?)
Prostitution
Mugging
Drugs/Drug Dealing
Alcoholism
Drunken Nights
Relationship Troubles
Love-related Arguments
Unrequited Love
Chases
Crime
Poverty

The ideas for EDITING;

Blurry Effect, e.g A POV shot for a drunken man
Steady Cam
Jumpcuts
Time remapping - Rewind, Slow Motion, Fast Forward
'Bad Movie' Effect-Making some of the shots look like old, broken CCTV footage.
Use of Black and White
Shots where your walking back, but zooming in-and vice versa.

We were discussing the possibilities of introducing props, and thought about an iPod, and from this stemmed an idea of having a tramp, dancing whilst listening to his iPod. We discussed maybe covincingly dressing up someone who is a very able breakdancer as a tramp, taking them into London, and getting them to dance in amongst the surrounding public, and we then thought about the video consisting of the tramp dancing, but really focussing on the public's reactions to the tramp impressively dancing. We felt that this was quite an original and effective idea, because whilst doing out genre research we found out that not all music videos belonging to bands of this genre are all narrative, and some are just completely unrelated to the lyrics. We also felt that this could be a very entertaining video, and would hold a viewers attention throughout the entire video. We also then realised that as great as it would be to film in the middle of London, we would have to ask for permission that would probably not be approved, and also, we would have to get consent for all of the people that are being filmed-which really ruins the genuine reactions of people if they are aware of whats going to happen. We then thought about maybe filming somewhere where there would be less hassle when it comes to obtaining permisson-so we discussed the possibility of filming the dancing tramp near our school. We then thought about maybe not having the tramp as the central character, and maybe have him appearing in the background of the video at certain points. So, for example, we talked about maybe there being a point where the main guy is completely transifxed on the girl he is following infront of him, but the dancing tramp is dancing infront of and around him because he is trying to obviously get some money off of him, but the lead guy is so focussed on the girl he is after he doesnt even notice the tramp let alone acknowledge him. Whilst discussing this we also referred to, and drew some inspiration from the well known video by 'Fat Boy Slim' for the track 'Weapon of Choice'.



We then moved onto looking at the lyrics for the song in more detail, and from a more narrative perspective. We decided to focus on the lyric 'I only came here, 'cause I hinder you drinking, darling.' as it is the most repeated line in the song. From this line we took the idea that maybe a guy has an alcoholic girlfriend, who always drinks to much, and who he cant really control. We thought that maybe the guy could wake up, to find that his girlfriend has gone, then he frantically goes about his house seeing that all the alcohol as gone, and there are empty bottles everywhere. We then thought that to match the fast paced 'ba ba ba ba ba ba' in the song, the guy could begin to desperately try and find her. his running matching the music-going to various places where he thinks she may be. We then thought about putting the tramp into this idea where he thinks he has seen her and is 'power walking' towards her, and the tramp is getting in his way, pestering him for money, but him not acknowledging him. This idea is yet to be completely planned out from beginning to end-but incorporates both of our strong ideas.