Friday, 17 December 2010
props
Props are very important to making a music video. They can explain lyrics and have an even deeper meaning. Props have been important in many different music video's and with out them they could be seen as boring or hard to understand.
Weapons are very important when comparing Indians and Cowboys. This is because they have different meanings and explain how each character is designed and how they can interact through the film. The first weapon we see is the Gun. The gun is really important in the video because it is how the characters are killed. The gun also symbolizes action codes through out the film. The switch of power and control. The other weapon used is a Tomahawk this is used by the native american. Native americans are known for living off the land. The tomahawk is made simply from rock and a stick. This shows the cleverness of the Native and could be a reason for the ending of the film. However we understand the gun is the "power weapon".
The next thing we have to consider is the use of costume. Costume is vital to our narrative styled music video. If we were being ourselves we could wear our own clothes but instead we have to be someone different and play a character this meant the costume was important. Another important fact about the costume was that you had to be able to tell the different between the Cowboys and Indians. We decided the best way to do this was to use different styled headwear and footwear. The Native american wore a naturally made head dress this included feathers on a piece of fabric. This is a definable prop and would be easy to distinguish from the cowboy. With the speed of the proper it was important that we actually could define characters. The cowboys wore cowboy styled hats. This was found from the research that it was what they are iconically known for wearing. The rest of the outfits need to be Checkered shirts and styles boots/shoes for the cowboys. The native americans was a little bit more complicated because they didn't wear shoes. This meant finding a pair of moccasins. This is naturally designed shoe and will be easy to get hold of. Overall i think the costumes will look appropriate and will define the differences between cowboys and indians.
The next and final prop is the treasure and the chest we placed it in. The chest needs to be a simple box format and it will be easy to find. The treasure is where we have really performed. We decided to make the treasure Musical notes and lyrics on paper. The lyrics being Fire by Kasabian. The Twist that the treasure is very important because it is unexpected and not the normal treasure cowboys would look for. We got this from Kasabian's normal video where we find out they robbed a bank for Music on paper. I liked the feel this gave , that money is less important than music. This meant that we will be keeping a bit of the original video and giving the music video context.
Overall the props we have chosen should make the video look original, realistic and easy to define. We need to make sure this is correct to insure the music video is as good as we would like and give the finish we would like.
Weapons are very important when comparing Indians and Cowboys. This is because they have different meanings and explain how each character is designed and how they can interact through the film. The first weapon we see is the Gun. The gun is really important in the video because it is how the characters are killed. The gun also symbolizes action codes through out the film. The switch of power and control. The other weapon used is a Tomahawk this is used by the native american. Native americans are known for living off the land. The tomahawk is made simply from rock and a stick. This shows the cleverness of the Native and could be a reason for the ending of the film. However we understand the gun is the "power weapon".
The next thing we have to consider is the use of costume. Costume is vital to our narrative styled music video. If we were being ourselves we could wear our own clothes but instead we have to be someone different and play a character this meant the costume was important. Another important fact about the costume was that you had to be able to tell the different between the Cowboys and Indians. We decided the best way to do this was to use different styled headwear and footwear. The Native american wore a naturally made head dress this included feathers on a piece of fabric. This is a definable prop and would be easy to distinguish from the cowboy. With the speed of the proper it was important that we actually could define characters. The cowboys wore cowboy styled hats. This was found from the research that it was what they are iconically known for wearing. The rest of the outfits need to be Checkered shirts and styles boots/shoes for the cowboys. The native americans was a little bit more complicated because they didn't wear shoes. This meant finding a pair of moccasins. This is naturally designed shoe and will be easy to get hold of. Overall i think the costumes will look appropriate and will define the differences between cowboys and indians.
The next and final prop is the treasure and the chest we placed it in. The chest needs to be a simple box format and it will be easy to find. The treasure is where we have really performed. We decided to make the treasure Musical notes and lyrics on paper. The lyrics being Fire by Kasabian. The Twist that the treasure is very important because it is unexpected and not the normal treasure cowboys would look for. We got this from Kasabian's normal video where we find out they robbed a bank for Music on paper. I liked the feel this gave , that money is less important than music. This meant that we will be keeping a bit of the original video and giving the music video context.
Overall the props we have chosen should make the video look original, realistic and easy to define. We need to make sure this is correct to insure the music video is as good as we would like and give the finish we would like.
Friday, 22 October 2010
Our narrative and narrative theory
our narrative including elements of Andrew Goodwin's theory
Todorov's theory of equilibrium and disequilibriumreference - http://asanda2mediastudies.blogspot.com/2007/11/todorovs-theory-of-narrative.html
digi-pack ideas for our music video
this is a possible front cover idea
this is an alternative front cover idea
this is our idea for the back cover.We have decided to go with these ideas as they are in the style of Kasabian and are very simple, and they use the same font, we have tryed to incorporate into the artowrk some of the themes included in the plot of our narrative for our music video to give the audience a bit of insight into the music video.
Amon Dull II - made in Germany
This is a piece of artwork called 'Made in Germany' - created by a German Rock band called Amon Dull II, This artwork is what inspired Kasabians third album cover, West Ryder pauper lunatic asylum.
Friday, 15 October 2010
Kasabian Artwork
We have chosen to do the band Kasabian's single Fire as our music video. So for inspiration for what we would like our CD cover to look like we have been looking at all of Kasabians artwork for all there promo singles and album releases, All of their covers seem to be quite simple and focus on an element of mystery including colour especially all of their earlier releases the ones at the bottom of the picture, but some such 'Empire' the album cover does have connotations that link to the title as the album is called empire, and the image used is that of a roman soldiers which relates to the roman empire.'
We have decided to use simple symbolic imagery on the front cover that relates to some scenes in our film, such as shooting a native american riding a horse, which links into our western theme and also the plot of our video.
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
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