2. 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
3. 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.
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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.
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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.
10. 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.
