St. Helier Train Station Location Scout

The pictures above are of St. Helier train station which is one of our locations for one of the strains of our narrative for the music video. This is where the characters luck gets even more worse because he misses his train because he drops one of his boxes down the stairs and has to retrieve the things from it and within that time the train has gone and he is even more upset and worse off!

The Concept

Here are some notes that we made about our concept which help us come up with the concept in total. Our concept is the idea of a narrative of a break up between two people and the rough patches they go through during this break up. We related this through the lyrics that we annotated of the song which sounds like there is a break up. We are going with an amplification approach to the music video as its the way we had analyzed the lyrics which gave us the best results for an idea that we want to do. The concept goes through a break up scenario where the man is thrown out of his house with his things and he is walking around with nowhere to go with all his baggage symbolism the baggage of the relationship and this goes on until his band steps in and helps him by taking on his baggage and working at his problems together as real friends.

Image Annotation

Here is an image of British rock band Muse. From this image you can clearly see the style of the band and the kind of look they want to give off about their band. The look i can see is a smart-casual type of look where they are wearing quite smart blazers with casual t-shirts underneath. Their hair is not wacky and out there it is quite normal of what we see of most bands today with two of the band members having relatively long hair and the bassist on the left being of the much shorter hair variety. This gives off that the band itself is quite chilled but intelligently thought out music. from this you can also see that the band members are quite serious but the band member on the left is giving a smile suggesting a more relaxed feel to the band, this could show that they are friendly and are all friends with each other or that they love the music that they play and are happily passionate about the things they do as a band together. Over all this is the type of style i think that we would undertake in our music video as we are making a music video for the same genre of music and Muse are very big and have a huge fan following of their music and style.

Lyric Annotation

Here are the lyrics for our chosen song Learnt my Lesson Well by the Kaiser Chiefs. We have taken an amplification approach towards these lyrics by thinking of the underlying meaning behind them and creating a narrative out of it for the lyrics meaning to be amplified by the narrative we put it to.

Song Choice

Our chosen song is "Learn My Lesson" Well by Kaiser Chiefs.

This song was chosen because we believe that it would be quite easy to learn the lyrics to the song for easy lip syncing. The instruments are heard quite easily and will be easy to mimic with instruments in the video. The music is conventional to the genre we want to do for our music video as its quite fast paced sounds very rocky with electric guitars and drums being played with a electric bass guitar.

The genre of this song is indie rock which is good because we wanted to do a rock type song.

The initial idea behind choosing this song is that it follows convention very well to what we want for a rock song. This means it will be easy for us to create a good music video that amplifies the lyrics meaning and put a possible narrative. we saw this in our lyrics annotation of the song.

The type of clothing that would be worn for this type of music video would be skinny jeans and a shirt or a full suit and sometimes even a blazer, skinny jeans a tie and shirt.

role photos

These are the roles that we have found that need to be filled by our group to be able to make this music video. We have particular roles like Director, Camera Man, Sound, Mise-en-Scene and Editor these roles are to do with the actual creation of the music video and these particular people are responsible for these things so it is up to them to make them right. The other roles are to do with the performance in the music like Guitarist, performer and Singer. I have taken the role of Camera Man, Editing and a Performer as well as Mise-En-Scene. With these roles i must help to film the footage and to help set up the shots to look good as well as perform in the shots that i am supposed to be in to

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