Concept Ideas - Group Discussion

Pop Video Analysis

The pop video

Second Lip Synch

Concept Ideas

(wordle) Initial, costume, narrative, lighting, props, location, shots, cinematography, close, extreme close, long shot, story, live performance, lip syncing, band, artist, album, smart casual, smart casual, casual, fashion, different, couple, couple, dark, dark, memories, memories, mind, mind, relationships, relationships, handheld, handheld, atmosphere, atmosphere, dance, lyrics, instruments, drum kit, guitar, bass, indie, indie rock, indie rock, alternative, studio, studio, confusion, feelings, feelings

Lyrics Annotation

The lyrics of the song are a lot darker than they first appear to be when you first listen to the song. The song is talking about a girl whom the singer is interested in, but interested in because of how different she is to all other girls. The girl seems to have a strong effect on the lead singer which leads to an almost obsessive tone to the song as it appears that he is trying to get her out of his mind. The song also has quite a mystical tone to it due to the older style of the lyrics, especially within the quote from the first verse 'Days of yore' (along with some of the longer words such as 'anaphorically') which gives an old fashioned feel to the song creating a vintage tone. 

A Girl Like You - Miles Kane

For our music video, we have specifically focussed on the styles of two seperate bands and one artist. The bands 'The Vaccines' and 'Two Door Cinema Club' are both well known in the Indie Rock music scene, but have different styles completely. The Vaccines are extremely casual and almost scruffy in what they wear to perform, in outfits which include jeans, old jackets, shirts and scruffy shoes. On the other hand, Two Door Cinema club has more of a smart casual look to what they wear, usually wearing smart shirts and either smart trousers, chinos or jeans with some sort of jacket. However, the artist Miles Kane whos cover of 'Girl Like You' we have been looking at, is more similar to Two Door Cinema Club whilst being very different in what he wears. Miles Kane wears very vintage but smart outfits, almost channelling older bands like 'The Beatles'. 

 

For our music video, we spoke about all three of these types of clothing, but decided that we would follow in the footsteps of Two Door Cinema with their smart casual style. We chose this because we feel that it is the most typical style of the genre (other bands also opting to use this style such as 'The Wombats' and 'White Lies') and would therefore fit our video the best.

Final Song Choice

After much discussion and deliberation, we have decided to choose the song 'A Girl Like You'.
As I was researching Two Door Cinema Club, I found one of my favourite artists (Miles Kane) with a cover of an old song. We instantly had lots of ideas and plans for the song which we wanted to put into the music video, more so than the ideas we had for our Two Door Cinema club choices. After a short discussion with our teacher, we decided to change the song because we felt like we could relate to the song more and put our ideas into context with it. The song is upbeat and indie rock, but it has an underlying darkness to it making it a perfect song to create atmosphere with. 
The song is heavily based on relationships, instantly giving us inspiration to present a small narrative of a relationship running alongside the live performance aspect of the video (which will be the main aspect), adding a touch of a narrative to break up the constant performance shots. 
There has been a lot of inspiration for the video through other videos which we have watched that include live performance and/or lip syncing and a small narrative of relationships. For example; 



As the first example, this video by One Direction clearly enhances the chosen lyrics because there is not only lip syncing (and so an element of live performance) but there are shots of girls or either the boys with girls, showing the relationships between them.





Post Break Up Sex by the indie band, The Vaccines is a little more relevant to our video because not only is it in the same genre but unlike the narrative to One Direction, the relationships displayed are a lot darker and are much more gritty. Also, the video has a foggy and slightly dreamlike and sinister feel to it, which is what we aim to achieve for our music video. 

Initial Song Choices - Do You Want it All? and Cigarettes in the Theatre, by Two Door Cinema Club

Lyrics - Do You Want it All?

We're low in our hearts
We're low in our heads
But all in good time

Do you want it
Do you want it
Do you want it all?
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/t/two_door_cinema_club/do_you_want_it_all.html ]
We're low in our hearts
We're low in our heads
But all in good time
We'll take charge
We'll all take our chances
All in good times

Do you want it
Do you want it
Do you want it all?

All because you want to be
All because you want to be
All because you want to be
All because you want to be

Lyrics - Cigarettes in the Theatre

It starts in the theatre
A night of encounters
If I hadn't been there
If not for a cigarette

And you could see it change
Look past the blinding light
Look past the blinding light
Just keep talking now
Tell me your favourite things
Tell me your favourite things

Difference in opinion was never an issue
Collect all your questions
Because this time we've all night

And you could see it change
Look past the blinding light
Look past the blinding light
Just keep talking now
Tell me your favourite things
Tell me your favourite things x2

Group Role

My role within the group has been to do the 'mise-en-scene' aspects of the music video.
I have looked closely at the band Two Door Cinema Club (who are our main influences for our music video since we shall be using their song Do You Want it All?) and the way they dress and use props as well as the spaces they choose to create their music video within.
For example, in a majority of the bands videos, they perform in studios with little to no narrative running through. The props they use always are the instruments and their costumes usually consist of either smart casual or just casual.

Digi Pack Test

The mind map above presents the groups initial ideas that we came up with when we discussed what we were going to do for the project. At first we wanted to go with the pop genre, looking at bands and artists such as JLS, One Direction and Adele. However, during further discussions and research we decided to go with indie rock, simply because we felt we had a deeper understanding and better knowledge among us with the type of bands we were looking at. Indie rock has rapidly become one of the most popular genres within young people, even though some people may not know about it still. The group all has different experiences with the genre and different ideas when creating the music video so we feel this type of music will fit us as a group far better. 

When we chose to go with indie rock, we spent a long time researching the style, performance, music and videos so we can create a more realistic video that looks professional.