Shot List

Starting from the start:
-morning shots, half darkness, perhaps of bikes in bikeracks and cars driving or swings swinging with no children on them and the like.
-Shot of the sun rising for the boodledwee, that may take a while to shoot.
-Slowly emerging into the house
- the business man is awake and almost ready, lots of high angle shots of the man as he moves around the house (perhaps mounted from doors and surfaces).
-Claustrophobic closeups on certain parts of the active body, i.e. really close up on the feet while shoe-tying is in progress. Getting ready in general is the flavor for these scenes.
- Shaving, shaving cut, goes a little crazy for the buildup of the music.
- Eye transforms to Eye as boy awakens
- Boy wakes up, shot of him getting out of bed
- Boy gets ready, brushes his hair, gets dressed
- Boy in bathroom brushing his teeth in the mirror
- split screen shot of both man and boy picking up briefcase/lunchbox
- split screen shot of both man and boy leaving their houses.
- shot of man hurrying to work walking through crowds
- shot of man on buses sitting in traffic, busy buses
- shot of boy in the park playing and having fun
- shot of boy playing in the mud
- spit screen shots of both man and boy leaving their houses, but this time as eachother
- shot of boy hurrying to work looking at his watch, dodging through crowds
- shot of boy on crowded buses in rush hour traffic
- shot of man playing in the mud
- shot of man playing at the park, climbing trees
- shot of boy in office
- shot of boy trashing office
- shot of boy getting really angry
- shot of business men and women against brick wall angry
- shot of business men and women against brick wall lip syncing to words

Band Research

'Cage the Elephant' a self proclaimed "rock/punk/funk" play instruments typical to a band of their genre. Based in Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.A, this band has so far released only one album entitled: Cage the Elephant, (ha ha, original) which debuted on the 23rd of June 2008.
So far very little can be found about this band, as many of the sites visited either sell the few singles they have or advertise.

Their songs seem to follow the pattern of a long buildup towards a chorus, starting rather quiet and building up, (which is also the same for Back Against the wall) and yet there can be a definite change in the style of music they perform, for example, in the song 'In one Ear' it follows more of a funk/rock sort of rhythm, whereas in our studied piece they seem to go for a more new soft rock style of music.

Props, costumes and possible locations

Props

• Alarm clock
  
• Comb
  
• Mirror
  
• Bed
  
• Razor
  
• Briefcase
  
• Mobile phone
• Watch
• Lego
• Toys
• Park apparatus
• Desk
  
• Papers

Costumes

• Suits
  
• Kid's clothes
• Pajamas
  

Possible Locations

• Park
• Office - Maili's dad's office
• Leonora's house
• Daniel's house
• In town - Cambridge.
  
• Buses, around Cambridge

GROUP 13 - Music Video Animatic

CHILDREN IN SUITS

We decided to find pictures of children in suits because of our current idea to dress a young person in the same style of clothes to create a business man look.

BUSINESSMEN

We got a picture of a business man as research into the costumes for our performers who will also be dressing in suits

Is there some correlation?

"Back against the wall" - Wall (too obvious? Maybe a fence instead...) both characters will be shown against it at some point, once with their roles reveresed and then reversed again. -beginning and end respectively- These two characters are fundamentally the same person, however they remain utterly seperated by the different attitudes that are expected of them.

A park would be nice to use, there is nothing better to show childhood innocence than the colourful fun of a recreational ground. Currently, the Haslingfield rec is under some minor construction; it's surrounded by a lot of rather tall metal gates, which seems like an absolutely perfect image for this music video.

Equipment available: Three cameras, final cut, a macintosh.
Props and locations: A small suit for the little gentleman. A big pair of dungarees for the scary hairy man (also with colourful shirt). An office space (if all is planned well). Potentially a wall at some point. A park (with/without a creepy fence).

Insainity is a keyword in this music video; a slightly unhinged teen with a strangely intense prepubescent, hopefully some inspiration will hit on how to appropriately portray the mindset of these characters without something mindless.
(perhaps in the background or setting...)

Children

We thought we would add this picture of the children playing because we wanted to show the innocence and care free attitude children have. This is a reflection on the attitude of our actors in our music video as we hope to get this message accross

Videos Similar to our idea.

Pink - Family Portrait (embedding disabled D:)

This video has strong themes of nostalgia and childhood, particularly the breakdown of happy childhood memories. The inner child is seen here as a completely different person to the singer seeing a side of split personality. we can see both sides of her story, thinking back to childhood memories and also the thoughts and feelings of her mum and dad, who's marriage is ending. The grown up and child is a good way of showing two sides of one life from different age groups and perspectives. one being innocent and one being more serious.


Blood Red Shoes - ADHD

This video combines the feelings of freedom and claustrophobia. Hyperactivity is also (obviously) a strong theme. claustrophobia is one of the main feeling in our music video. There is the literal claustrophobia of being on a crowded bus in rush hour, having to share a stuffy room full of desks and office equipment with no personal space, but you also have the psychological side where the man is having go through the same things everyday, boring and dull.


The Vauxhall Zafira advert

This advert shows the role reversal of a child acting as an adult. This is the attitude we want from our child actor to have, but not a care free 'family man' but a stressed out business man; having a visual idea such as this one gets the point accross the quality of what we're expecting to achieve from our video.

Pitch For Music Video

The song we've chosen is 'Back Against The Wall' by Cage the Elephant.

Upon listening to the song, we realised that it gave us a lot of plans as far as imagery and shot ideas went.

This is our pitch:

We think that the song invokes a real feeling of freedom and natural environments at the beginning, and so this will be incorporated in our video. We're thinking childhood, innocence and nostalgia: mud piles, long grass and mucky, tatty clothes. The role of previous childhoods, or the inner child fondly remembered will be played by Daniel Swanton; playing in mud, climbing trees and generally not giving a toss about tomorrow. The role of modern childhood, the innocence tattered and the child made man before his time will be played by Jake Mayall, Leonora's younger brother (assuming all goes to plan).
The chorus of the song invokes in us a sense of being trapped and being forced to do things against your will. We will incorporate this with shots that feel claustrophobic - trapped behind bars, stuck in a crowd etc.
It will be edited to heighten the feeling of freedom and claustrophobia respectively.
The climax of the song will be shown with the reversing of roles, Dan in the suit and Jake in the mucky togs.

This is our plan outline:

The song will start to the clip of a sunrise which has been speed up later in editing.
Once the words kick in it will cut to Dan turning off his alarm and getting out of bed.
You will see shots of Dan getting ready for work and basically doing day to day activities
We will then have a shot of Dan looking in the mirror shaving, where she cuts himself and gets angry, you will see him frustrated throwing his razor down and the camera will then zoom into the angry eyes of dan and pan out to see that we are now looking into the eyes of a little boy that has just woken up.
You then see the little boy's routine, he gets up, brushes his hair and is generally a lot more relaxed and care free.
[note: shots like looking in the mirror brushing his hair will be at a similar style to the ones of Dan looking in the mirror when he's shaving.]
there will then be a split screen of Dan picking his briefcase up, and Jake (the little boy) picking his lunch box up.
they will then, both again in split screen leave their houses. Dan more hurriedly and Jake strolling.
We then have clips of Dan hurrying to work through a busy city, bus shots, traffic jams rush hour etc.
Between clips of Dan we will have Jake playing at a park or just doing kiddy things.
As the song begins to climax again as it comes to the chorus where the whole of the video so far is rewound to where the split screen is with both of the them leaving the house. but this time they have swapped places
We will now have Dan dressed up in bright kid's clothes with a lunch box and dublo blocks
And it will then show Jake in a suit with a briefcase hurrying off to work
Now we will see Jake hurrying around on buses trying to get to work on time in comparison to Dan who will be playing in the mud, and playing in the park with not a care in the world.
We will then go to a shot of Jake finally getting to his office, and finally snapping from the pressure and strains of adult life and he starts throwing papers everywhere and 'trashes' the office.

we will also shoot a separate piece in which there will be business men and women against a brick wall, letting out their stress, being angry and hoping to get a bit of lip syncing to the song. This should include me and Leo in these shots and also some others from our group which is quite good for timing.

R1 - MUSIC VIDEO CD TRACKS 2008/9

R1 - MUSIC VIDEO CD TRACKS 2008/9

1. You're My Flame - Sia 3:18
2. I Got Da Feelin - Sweet Tee 4:15
3. Bouncy Ball - Ladyfuzz 2:48
4. Don't Want To See You - Camera Obscura 3:17
5. Fantastic Six - Alphabeat 3:39
6. No Looking Back - Anti-Social Burn-Outs 3:09
7. Heroes - Hot Leg 2:44
8. Oh My Sweet - The New York Fund 3:39
9. Friends Are False - The Delays 4:10
10. Boston - Augustana 4:06
11. Back Against The Wall - Cage The Elephant 3:48
12. Harm's Way- Waco Brothers 2:42
13. Powers - Blackalicious 3:47

Welcome to GROUP 13

HELLO WORLD.

welcome to the blog of group 13.

it's group members

Dan

Maili

Leo


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