Final Song Choice

This is the song we have chosen for are music video. It is called Rango by a band called Catfish and the Bottlemen 

I like this song because…

• It has summer vibes
• Has a great catchy beat to the song
• I like changes in the tempo which makes it fell like lots of different songs
• The song is not to challenging to play so I feel we have a good chance of lip sinking it well
• I like lots of other songs from the band and thought this would be the best to do a music video on.
• The lyrics of the song gives me lots of ideas for the narrative for the music video

Some of the reasons why I choose this song is because I really like it for many reasons. Some of these could be that it has a great catchy beat and really think we can show off the groups good talent with instruments with it throughout the song which will make the quality of it better. Although the lyrics have a strong meaning about a girl I feel like there are many ways in which we can go with this idea and we can create something out of it. I feel confident in the group to as help me wit this to come up with some really good ideas. I am looking forward with what we decide as group and cant wait to start filming and working on it.

Initial song ideas for a video - Mini pitch

This is my initial pitch for my song that I have chosen. It is Rango by Catfish and the bottlemen. Below is the pitch that I have put together for it.

After creating this pitch me and the other members in my group came together and discussed everyones ideas and work out who’s song would be best to do. From doing some detailed research on the song I got a good understanding for it and feel like I could work with it well and hope the rest of the group like it. I also used synesthesia to listen to the song and pick out key ideas and adjectives i get when licensing to it and think how we could link the narrative with the lyrics in the song.

From doing this task it has help me plan what I could do if this song gets picked for our music. With the ideas I got I put these into a word cloud to help me expanded them further. I have really reflected on the message of the song and how I could use this to create a narrative for it. Something that I could add in if it does get picked as the song is I might need some more detail about MES. Like what sort props and costumes that I could use to keep it with the song and genre.

Favourite Music Video from Former Student

From all of the previous students music videos I have chosen this one to analyse.

– Technical conventions 

In the song where the band is playing the lip sinking looks good and doesn’t look too bad and fake. I think this is one of the key features that can make a video good or bad. But in this case they have done it well. Something they could have done slightly better would be the frame in some scenes. Although the fish looks really cool and adds effects when the band is playing in some sections it cuts out lots of the frame but this could have been done to focus more on the band.

– Narrative and performance 

Throughout the song there is a decent mixture of both narrative and performance. The band look good when playing and look quite real. The actual narrative side of the song however doesn’t really make sense and has big aspect of disjunction. It doesn’t link that well with the lyrics and song but is filmed well and I like the use of the fish eye.  The video gives the audience vibes around the summer and happy times which links well with the upbeat up beat song.

– How the star has been represented 

The way the video has been laid out makes the band look like a group of friends having fun and doing things like skating and playing around like friends would do. I think that the clothes that they are wearing throughout the video links well with that sort of skater vibe they are trying to use in the video.

– How has the video been styled 

As I mentioned earlier lots of clips of the band playing in the video has been used by filming it with a fish eye which I think this links well with the skater sort of theme they are trying to represent throughout the song. The video has been well edited with lots of short montage like clips of the band walking across the beach to add more effect. In sections they has also been effects added to the picture to add a bit more of a summer effect.

In conclusion I think this a good thing to review and watch some of the past students videos. This is because it has given me some more idea’s for when I film my video and and also has given me a heads up on what works and what doesn’t work when filming. Overall I like this video that they have made and the song works well with the narrative and performance. But also they were a few things that if they changed would have made the video a lot better.

Detailed Music Video analysis

Our task was to pick a music video and do a in depth analysis of some of the key features in it such as camera angles, narrative and performance and write about them. The song that I choose was The Pretender by the Foo Fighters  

From doing this task I lean’t lots of things about how bands set out music videos and use certain conventions and ideas to get a message across in the videos to the audience. I also lean’t how bands can focus more on narrative or on performance and how they can use things like Mes en scene to show this better. I feel like this could help me when doing my music video to tell my message better and get the audience to understand it. From the key things like narrative, performance, star image and disjunctive.

Music Video Form & Conventions

I had to watch and then decode four music videos all with different narratives and see how they were laid out. I also had to find out what conventions these video’s had and how they link with Mise en scene and the star image of the person or band.

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From analysing these videos I have found out how different artists record and make music videos. How some artist have all narrative in them, some have all performance in it and some have a mixture of both all to try and tell a message to the audience in different ways through the band or star image. This has helped me for when I do my music video to know what way I want to perform it and how I could lay it out and get a good narrative for it.