Here is some test footage which we filmed today. This was to check that the UV lights work effectively. We are happy with the effect they give, so we will be trying to encorporate this effect into our music video

TimeLine & Pitches For Story Board.

Timeline and Pitches

· Our song is 4:09 minutes long. In this video we are planning to have many different backgrounds including a wall covered in graffiti, a dark room and a green room for computerised images. We also need to make sure that we have plenty of footage for the amount of time in our video.

· When designing our music video we need to decide on what order of preference the frames will be for the video. Even though we are not having a story line or a narrative we need to make the video link in order from frame to frame.

· Our story line will help us decide what frames will look best together. By drawing a story board we will have an idea on what location we will need to film and create in the green room and also help us to plan time management and have enough time to film and prepare our rough cut, and then we will be ready to develop our final cut.

Ideas For Music Video & Planning!

Ideas for the music Video & Planning!

• When deciding over the music video we initially decided that we weren’t going to have a story line going on in the video but we were going to have mixed views from individual personalities within the video that relates to the theme and genre of the music.

• Other ideas for the video included the chorographer, designing the dance routines to involve either one dancer or several dancers, break dancing on the floor while getting fluorescent paint either thrown on then or having their hands and feet all ready painting so that in the dark room you could see where the dancers are by the paint glowing in the dark. We could also adjust and manipulate this idea by having the movement of the wave lengths to the beat of the rhythm. This will give a visual aspect of our song vibes through the moves of the dancers.

• We were also thinking of having animated writing in the video where there are repeated lyrics. The writing will be bright and bold and will move to the beat on the song. This will also link in with the retro theme of a kaleidoscope of colour images displayed on the screen to make an impact on the viewer.

• Our video will be more abstract to the viewer and could be critical review and analysis by the target audience of this gender. This also means we have chosen not to have a narrator to tell the story within the video.

Costume/Props/Location

Costume/ Props

COSTUME!

1. Clothes- (based on rave theme)
· Bright tights
· Plane T-shirts
· Leg warmers
· Sweat bands
· Bright Jewellery
· Basically everything BRIGHT!

PROPS

2. Props-
· Lights, UV lights
· Colour cellophane
· Glow sticks
· Fluorescent paint
· Green room
· Graffiti wall
· Maybe Car

LOCATION!

We decided that we would prefer to use the green room for our main background but other ideas where,

· Graffiti wall
· Dark room
· Wall under bridge, ( Graffiti Is)
· Green room, using different backgrounds we download of the internet or picture that we can take to use.
· Outside at night, car park or deserted area, field.
· Inside a car

All possible ideas for our music video.

Lyrics For MIA- URAQT

"URAQT"

Dt-Dt-Dt On your mobile phone Dt-Dt-Dt On your mobile phoneYou Fuck my Man and Wreck my home,I'll get my bro to rob your phone [x4]

You Big Dummy

Now Could it be that me and He Are tighter than J-lo in her jeans And Could it be that me and HeAre tighter than R.Kelly in his teens You fucking With My man And you text him all the timeYou might've had him once But I got him all the time

Dt-Dt-Dt On your mobile phone Dt-Dt-Dt On your mobile phone You Fuck my Man and Wreck my home,I'll get my bro to rob your phone [x2]

U R A Q T

Is your Dad a dealer Cause you're dope to meYou Throw them Balls across the country You win gold medals for when you're with meYou Big Dummy

Right then, It's On [x8]

He ain't no Word for scrabbleYou don't get points for doubles Menage Trois Lalalalala I'll bill you for your droudlesYou done lost your marbleLike a ball I'll make you dribbleYour the shrapnels in the rubbleI'm a raging bull, a rebelIt's all about the low-blow brown GirlThe No blood, no Love hot girlThe jnkn jnkn jumping off the decks girlThe jnkn jnkn jumping off the rocks girlYou big Dummy

U R A Q T

Is your Dad a dealer Cause you're dope to meYou Throw them Balls across the countryYou win gold medals for when you're with meYou Big Dummy Right then, It's on [x16]

You Big Dummy!

These are some photos that we have chosen for our background themes, or for just ideas that
can be deleop into final ideas that we might use in the green room. we will have to create our own background for the shots where we use greenscreen. We can do thia by filming an image of a
variety of bright colours, and using the Kaleidoscope effect on final cut.

Mystery Jets:

I have chosen to analyse this video because it is very similar to the kind of video we want to create in that they make it look very retro and they also use the green screen effect. I will also analyse this video using the points of Goodwin's theory.

This video is quite simple in the way that the lyrics are very complimentary to the visuals. The first of these is when we hear the lyrics "I hear her playing the drums late at night", we see a girl playing drums. This is shortly followed by the lyrics "maybe i should call her up", we see the main singer picking up a phone. As the song is called "two doors down" throughout the music video we see a lot of doors, mainly surrounding the band as they do their preformance.

The song is about a boy who is 'in love' with a girl who lives in his street, but who has never spoken too. This video creates a strong sense of voyerism in the fact that the girl may not know he is looking at her. Through points in the video we see the band standing behind a window looking at the girl, while this created the notion of looking it also shows the objectification of women as being nice to look at.

The use of green screen in this video does not directly relate to the lyrics in anyway, however it amplifies the 'retro' feel of the video. The greenscreen effects we see are usually bright colours in some form of pattern, such as leapord print. The retro feel is also emphasised by the artist's clothing, hair and general apperance.

Here is another music video by M.I.A, as it uses many of the effects we wish to use, I will be analysing this using Goodwin's Theory. These are the elements I will look at:

Links between Lyrics and VisualsLinks between Music and Visuals (Complimentary, Contradicting or Amplification)Genre characteristicsIntertextual referenceNotions of Looking (objectification of women)Voyerism (direct gaze, other people looking at artist, insight into artists life, screens and mirrors)Demands of the Record Label (representation of the artist)Performance based, Narrative based or Concept based music videos

One of the first images to appear behind M.I.A is a wire fencing with a city scape behind her, this directly relates the the lyrics which she says "london calling". She contunies using the lyrics "get down" as fighter planes dropping bombs fly over head, as M.I.A was from Sri Lanka and had to leave at the age of 8 because of the civil war, I have noticed many of her videos include war like themes. At such a young age she probably felt overwhelmed by a war going on in her country. This video especially, in which she appears to have a dominance over the planes on the green screen behind her could be her way of showing her power over whats happened to her in the past and how she has dealt with is now she has grown up. There also seems to be a short image of people protesting, this could be connected to the fact that her father was a political activist during the time of the civil war. We also see images of fire and bombs as M.I.A says "blaze a blaze". This song has a strong beat and her dancing fits to the beat. Often at the point of the beat, the image behind her will change or there will be a flash of colour. Because of the intertextual references of the video, there is a sense that we are looking in on something quite personal to the artist, which makes it voyeuristic. As she is the only person in the video, it is narrative based.

This “Black eye Peas-I Gotta feeling” have been great for getting ideas and helping us get ideas for our own music video, the dancing and the UV lights are just some of the ideas that we want to use in our video. For example, having a party scene with lots of dancing and maybe the artist dancing and singing in the middle, other ideas that we got from the Black eye Peas music video is that we should have a dancer dancing around in UV lights, glow in the dark jewellery and glow sticks these are all ideas that we could develop from and pick witch ones would be best in our video.

MIA- URAQT, Ideas For Music Video .

For our music video we decided to brainstorm ideas to develop themes that we could use for our video and to help us create and improvise other ideas and props that we could use in our video. When brainstorming we decided to have a retro feel to the video using icons like Black eye peas as our inspiration because of their individualist type of music, style and appeal to their target audience. When looking at their video we decided to use UV lights because of their strong and distinct colouring which gives a vibrating and powerful party theme to the video. We wanted to film in the dark to emphasise dark and light where dancers covered themselves in fluorescent paint which when filmed in the dark gave off brilliant colours and emphasised the body moments of each of the dancers giving the party and retro feel. Other ideas we brainstorm was using a graffiti wall as a background. We thought that this would give of a rebellion view that also relates to the lyrics of the song. Other idea for the music video was using the green screen for the use of different backgrounds; we also decided that wearing bright clothes would contrast with the back grounds and the paint, VU lights and glow sticks.

This is our mind map of our initial thoughts and ideas for our music video. On here we wrote anything that came to mind when listening to the song which could appear in the music video.

We are now doing the music video for "U.R.A.Q.T". I'm excited to be doing this music video now as I think there is a lot of ideas and effects we can encorporate to make the video look really different and interesting. We will need to find some UV lights and a place to do the green screen to make the video how we want it to be. Tonight I am going to find some UV lights.

R1-17

We had two main choices of music video. "U.R.A.Q.T" by M.I.A, and "A Girl From No Where" by

"U.R.A.Q.T"-
From listening to the song, if we were to make this video I think it should have a retro, 80's style theme too it. We could possibly achieve this effect by using a green screen and have moving patterns in the background. I would take inspiration for this video from the "pump the jam" music video.

"A Girl From No Where"-
Because this video has such contextual lyrics such as "a girl from no where came knocking on my door", this video would look good using an i stop motion effect. As we could easily relate the lyrics to the actions the lyrics describe, it could look good to have handdrawn characters and backgrounds.