After Half Term

Plans for After Half-Term:
- Gareth lip sync Verse 1
- Liam lip sync Verse 2
- 'Hey Hey Hey'
- More dancing scenes
- Ass Slap
- Reaction shots
- Slap round face with bag of flour
- Fruit throw
- Mini Mosh-pit
- More Random Footage

Ideas for the magazine advert

Costume: Callum and Liam in their man thongs and face masks.
Location/setting: either a white background or an area with graffiti (similar to the areas we filmed).

Production meeting

Shooting - Monday 12th:

Walking down from garages
Performance (verse 1)
Wheelie bin
Exercise balls
River jump

Thursday 15th:

Naked run
Dance with shakin moo
Boxing
Performance verse 3
Hey hey hey's


Equipment:

Camera
Tripod
G-clamp
Car
I-pod and speakers


Actors:

Liam - Man thong run, Man thong river jump, Performance, Exercise balls, Boxing, Dance
Callum - Man thong run, Man thong river jump, Performance, Exercise balls, Boxing, Dance
Rojiar - Performance, Exercise and Boxing victim
Gareth - Performance, Exercise Ball, Boxing
Shakin Moo - Gets bullied, Dance
There may also be a couple of random actors to perform Reaction shots.

Music video analysis

Blink 182 lyrics

Blink 182 Whats My Age Again? Video - Blink 182 Music Videos

Music Videos by VideoCure

Blink 182 - 'What's My Age Again?'

I have chosen to analyse Blink 182' video, ‘What's My Age Again?'. The music video was released in 1999 and involves the band mainly running around the streets naked, interrupting television shows and also has performance in a white room.
Their music is predominantly of the 'pop punk' genre, best know for their scatological humour and simple melodies. This is reflected well in 'What's My Age Again', lyrics include; 'Nobody likes you when you're 23, and are still more amused by TV shows. What the hell is ADD? My friends say I should act my age, what's my age again?' This also follows Goodwin's points, as the visuals compliment this when you see the band members knock drinks out of passers hands, distract drivers and do naked cartwheels on live television.
The music then slows down as they approach an attractive female, they take one look at her, run back then the upbeat tempo starts again with the band continuing to disturb the public and cause amusing havoc.
Although Blink 182 have previously mocked the boy band culture in videos such as 'All The Small Things', they demonstrate genre characteristics in this video by performing in the white room and there are many close ups of the artist' faces which help the audience continuously recognise them.
The reason I chose to analyse this music video is because as well as 'The Filaments' (my groups chosen band) lyrics inspiring us, Blink 182' humorous style has inspired us to create something similarly entertaining.

S2-60 Feedback

We think your idea is very impressive and can not wait to see the final video. Your blog is also very good visually as you have included plenty of stills and videos that have inspired your final idea. However i'm sure you are aware that you have an empty space on one of your posts, finishing this will help to make your blog more complete. Also i cannot seem to find one post that outlines your whole final idea, it may be in your interest's to include a post like this just to make it obvious of what your plans are. Finally i would just like to point out none of your posts have been tagged by your group, in order for you to gain credit for these it would be a good idea to make sure they are tagged by the appropriate members.

Contacting The Filaments

Hello, we're four Media students representing Long Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, UK.

For our coursework this year we've been asked to create a music video, we've chosen your song - B.P.C.

We hope that you'll be happy with us using it; and we'll be sure to send you the final video and welcome any feedback or thoughts on what we've produced.

Thanks very much.

More Inspiration

Goodwin's Points

To help us in our decision making process, and with the concept of our music video, here are Goodwins points.

1) Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics (e.g. stage performance in metal video, dance routine for boy/girl band).

2)There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).

3)There is a relationship between music and visuals (either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting).

4)The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style).

5)There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, telescopes, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body.

6)There is often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).