Story Board 1

08/10/09 plan of action

With a physical copy of the track i have now got completed story boards down to the timing. This will enable me to follow it frame by frame to match it shot by shot, unless i change some of the ideas when i begin filming to get the best end production.
I need to put together a schedule to know when me and the band can film to get the most film time together.

Over the next week i need to start filming and any changes made will have to be added into my planning to ensure the changes have been recognised and noted for when doing my next storyboard.

deconstruction prodigy smack my bitch up

This video does not consist of the band or a band performance; this is a video, which has a narrative.

The whole video is point of view shots, and is within the eyes of one character. This video uses shock tactics, as some of the things that the audience see are vile and disgusting. For example the shots in which you see him being sick, and peeing. It seems very realistic when it comes to these shots and is showing the lifestyle within this person. This attracts the audience in a way in which they want to see what happens next as they don’t believe it could be as sick as what they had previously just seen and this is the case throughout the whole video.

It shows the day of the way a man lives his life. Getting drunk, taking drugs, being sick, lap dancing clubs, clubbing an other party lifestyle day to day routines. The ending is the part of the video which makes the audience confused, as throughout the whole video the audience believe the character is man, and this is because when he is urinating he does it standing up, when he goes into a club he talks and dances with the girls, so subliminally you recognise this character as a man. However at the end of the video when the unknown character is lying on the bed after performing sexual acts with a girl, the character stands up and looks in the mirror and the reflection the audience see is a female. So it suggests that men and women are equal in a sense that people assume its always men that live the hardcore party, promiscuous lifestyle whereas this video suggests different.

The editing is very subtle like within cuts, the takes are very long as its in the point of view of a character so its like what he is seeing, when in real life looking about there are no cuts apart from when blinking, so this is the same case for the character. The only cuts are when he changes setting like from the toilet to the club for example but in some cases it shows the journey from one place to another.

The lighting is generally dark lighting as the majority is within a club and usually clubs don’t have normal, natural lighting its all-artificial strobe lights, the only high key lighting is when in the bathroom when getting changed, as that is usually the case in a real life situation, you wouldn’t have strobe lighting in a bathroom, so this video is just matching conventional lighting within real life situations.

This video is disjunctive, as the lyrics of the song don’t match with what the audience see. However the pace of the song is synchronising with the pace of the editing and the camera movement. So it all links better together and flows much easier.

deconstruction vampire weekend a punk

A punk was Vampire weekends debut video so all focus has to be on them. The way in which they did this was by making their video in a white room although its not completely white the majority of it is, therefore by them wearing different coloured clothes it makes them stand out compared to the white wall and there is nothing else to distract the audience from looking/focusing on anything else. The grey flooring adds to the verisimilitude as a complete white room would not come across as a real place you would perform whereas just white walls and a grey flooring does. Also because the majority of the filming is long shots it means that the whole room would have to be white and a complete white screen may be too much.

The types of shots used are a majority of long shots and medium close ups. This is so that when long shots are up the focus is on the band altogether and when its on the medium close ups its to emphasise the focus on a particular part of the band, for example the singer/guitarist, medium close up with him in the foreground and the rest of the band in the background to show that they are still included and that they are a band and not so all the focus is on one particular band member.

The editing is very clever as it is all jump cuts, however you wouldn’t notice this as the space between the cuts aren’t very long so it sometimes seems seamless, when in actual fact its not. The camera is static throughout and its what is within the frame that changes and moves. The reason for this could be to make it different and interesting as not many other videos do this throughout the whole video and therefore makes this one stand out amongst the rest.

The story within the video is like as if time is passing, like a time lapse, the costume changes and setting changes support this. In the beginning it starts off with the band just playing then they change into brighter clothes and then change into winter clothes and it appears as though its snowing and the lighting is lower to give the impression its darker and colder. This supports the idea that its like changing seasons. Another part of the video would be summer with little hand made fishes on the screen and a blue filter to give the idea of water. Although its not real fishes they want the audience to see that they aren’t real and it’s the same with the costume change, they do it within the frame quickly. So the transitions are obvious and everything that happens appears within the screen.