Binary Opposites In Our Music Video

After learning about Levi-Strauss' theory of binary opposites and seeing how effective they work in our sequence, we tried to include several such as:

• Professional & Guerrilla style in performance and narrative
• Colour & Black And White
• Good & Evil
• Busy backgrounds & Plain backgrounds
• City & Studio
• Fast & Slow movement and editing
• Wide Shots & Close-Ups
• Surreal & Everyday
• Loud & Quiet sounds
• Smart & Casual costume

favourite idea for antangonist

These antagonists  are representing (drug) temptations and would have:

• white face paint with rosy cheeks and or big red smile
• head to toe in white
• white hair dye - may be hard to do without it being permanent
• white wigs/hair dye

We want them to represent the good, fun, nice appeal of temptations by using white signifying good and helping them stand out from the busy london background ; and a fake OTT smiling face to give the sense of a false friend.

They would look at and follow the protagonist (lead singer) but he would not directly interact with them to show they are thoughts in his head playing on his mind rather than real people.

We were thinking that at the end they would be overcome by collapsing in a pile showing that the music has protected the lead from the dangerous temptation.

Although we came up with the idea ourselves  - it would reference this all white look from clockwork orange as an effectivly creepy and disturbing antagonist.

Edit Room

Me and Kerry using the wall

Dom working on the narrative map

In our edit room we now have a series of things up on the walls to help group communication and organisation. These include:

Claire updating the to do list



• To do list
• Calander
• Line by line shot plan to the lyrics
• Band costume sketches
• Group proposal handout
• Antagonist brainstorm
• Narrative map
• Tube maps

We will also eventually put up our meeting schedules for week 1 and week 2 once the week one schedule has been finalised

Band Costumes/ Props

Angus

• Hornrimmed glasses
• Black waistcoat
• Black tie
• Black Dr Martens
• Orange shirt
• Dark striped skinnies
• Belt (possibly pacman)
• Sweatbands/bracelets

Jack

• Black shirt
• Coloured tie
• Baggy jeans
• Converse
• Bandana

Izzy

• Trilby

• Brightly coloured/wooden beaded necklaces
• Striped top/tshirt
• Chunky waist belt (brightly coloured/metallic)
• Denim skirt
• Plain tights
• Leg warmers
• Heels

Tom

• Band tshirt
• Black skinnies
• Chain
• Metal jewelry
• Sweatband
• Vans
• Band pins
• White belt

Instruments

• Guitar
• Bass
• Drum kit
• Microphone and stand
• Amps

Applying Goodwin's and Vernallis' Theories

We thought it would be a good idea to try and apply both Goodwin and Vernallis' theories of music videos to our ideas and see whether we are following them

Goodwin

• We are following the genre characteristics of rock bands by having a performance element to the video with a spontaneous live feel
• We are trying to create a link between the visuals and the lyrics, for example the idea of escaping through your headset
• We plan to edit to the pace of my music, creating a link between the visuals and the track
• The notion of looking will be created through the antagonists watching the lead
• We will include close ups of the band members performing, especially the front man, following the convention of 'money shots'

Vernallis

• The narrative is not necessarily complete and will pose unresolved questions as we will not obviously explain the presence of the antagonists
• The editing will match the beat
• We will break the rules of continuity editing as the lead will jump through space using graphic matches
• We will use extreme shot types
• We will have a running style of framing and movement where the lead goes out of the frame in one shot and comes into frame in another shot
• There will be gaps in the audiences understanding of the diegeses as they will not know how the lead is travelling between locations

Proposal Handouts

These were the handouts we gave out to go with our group proposals

Treatment (C,D,K,W)

Antagonist ideas

To increase the scary/weird/creepy style of the antagonists we decided to add some form of mask/facepaint to the characters.

• Clown style facepaint works well as it is symbolic of creepy circus/nightmare style characters

Insane Clown Posse - inspiration for facepaint ideas

Continued - was doing some research on how facepaint could be used and thought we could take inspiration from these (kerry)

maybe we could have a vegetable theme  - like playing on the idea that people are becoming lazy always playing video games, eating junk etc and turning into vegetables

more on this site

http://pinewooddesign.co.uk/tag/face-paint/

Also, as we were thinking of leaving the antagonists in a pile at the end of the video we could do a simplified version of this artist's work (Wanda)

More can be seen here