Bittersweet Symphony

Location shots.

Prop list:

• Darth Vader mask
• Small hand held piano with 101 written on it.
• Skateboard
• Phantom of the opera mask.
• Spray cans
• Cardboard
• BMX
• Tracksuit
• Adidas trainers
• Skate ramp
• Lots of people

The Plot

A mysterious character dressed in everyday clothing (Sports Tracksuit) except for a Darth Vader mask. This character walks through the rough streets of Cambridge waving his arms to the rhythm of the beat, as the video progresses, our character will adopt followers, in a pied piper fashion. His followers do not wear masks, simply normal clothing. However, some do randomly start break dancing. Our character walks along the river until he reaches a skate park. There he takes a skateboard off a skater and starts skating across the ramps. He leaves this location and walks over a bridge and up a hill. This leads to his final destination, Castle Hill. This is where he meets his friend who is holding a small keyboard, he is the one who has been making the piano sounds throughout the movie, at a point during the song when the piano stops, this character chucks the keyboard to Darth Vader. When the piano starts again it is Darth Vader playing at which point our other character at the top of the hill starts break dancing in the moonlight. This part of the video fits in well with the songs samples. Finally we have a last shot of him cycling down castle hill road into the sunset.

After carefully viewing this video, we have decided that although it is a strange, unusual style of music video, it is similar to the final video we would like to produce. It is similar in the style, and narrative we want to achieve in that it is a person walking the streets with no destination, in a costume. The length of the shots is roughly what we are aiming for as well. It is also a similar genre of music as it is a surreal type of old school hip hop.

Timeline

In total, our track is 3.05 mins long.
0.00 > 0.04= strange background echo sounds.

0.04 > 0.08= Piano melody introduced

0.08 > 0.54= beat introduced shortly followed by lyrics 4 first verse.

0.55 > 1.00= beat and lyrics stop, piano melody, slight play with volume and a crackle.

1.01 > 1.47= beat and second verse introduced with different voice, (beat pauses briefly at 1.20)

A second pause with just piano.

1.55 > 2.20= chorus come in with some vynil scratching,



1.55 > 2.30= womans voice being distorted(scratched n mixed) placed on top of the beat and melody, few silences, one or two words from parker.

2.31 > = womans voice continues but beat fades out but piano continues.

Having presented our pitch to the rest of the class we have decided to make a few alterations to our original idea for the video, although the general idea seemed to go down well. Based on some of the feedback we received we decided it might be a good idea to not conceal the main characters identity for the whole video as if we have some shots of him lip syncing it could increase our marks for the video. We also must make sure that we maintain a constant mood and continuity of theme in the video that fits in with the genre of music. In todays lesson we are drawing up a storyboard for our video so we will try to incorporate these ideas into the storyboard and into the final video.

We chose the song 101 pianos- by Lewis Parker because it is a genre of music that we enjoy and we thought it would be interesting to create a suitable video for the old school uk hip hop genre. The beat is not too fast and so making a music video that fits the genre and the slow pace of the beat should not be too tricky as long as we approach it right. We plan to film most of our video in a built up urban area. The video will be composed of different shots of our main character walking along, dancing, and making actions as if hes lip syncing but we don't see his mouth because he is wearing a Darth Vader mask. The action will cut away to another person in a mask in a remote setting, possibly castle hill, playing the piano during the chorus and at other intervals where the music in the song changes slightly. The two characters could maybe meet up at the end of the video. The guy walking could go past Jesus green skate ramp in the mask and ask for a go on someones skateboard. Although we don't hear them we see the exchange and we see the character doing tricks on the board before leaving to continue his epic journey. We will not tell the skaters what we are doing so the reactions will be real like the Fatboy slim video where they are dancing in the shopping mall.

This video also uses a factor that we want to use in our video, the focus character being masked and his journey through the night.

This video is useful to our project because it uses a piano melody throughout, this fits in with the genre of our song.

Focus character has a Darth Vader mask to conceal identity as well as to suit the artists genre and style. To emphasize the piano used in the melody, our character will carry round a small keyboard and play it while he visits the various urban areas. To suit the star wars/fictional theme, we will edit the footage into cartoon style, perhaps black and white.

This jurassic 5 music video, shows that comedy can be incorporated into the musical performance. It also keeps the identity of the performers secret, this is something we aim to do.

Jonna, Toby, george

Location- We are aiming to have 4-5 different locations, which will alternate throughout the video. These locations include: Jesus green skate park, various urban built areas around chesterton to give a city life image.

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