Week Two of Filming

In the second week of filming we carried on at Chorlton Meadows, this time getting shots of David lip syncing to the music, however they were not close enough it turned out later. We also experimented with jump cuts which were later used in the video itself, apart from that we continued to have more shots of David playing, although we did try and film like we did in Town by employing a handheld moving camera shot that would be used in the "trip out" part of the song. We never used it and by this stage we didn't have enough footage to put on Final Cut Pro. We encountered more problems with the Moustache and decided we had to use double sided sellotape to keep it on, which at this point worked okay.

Filming - Week One

On the first day of filming, our group went to Manchester City Centre to film parts of our music video. As soon as we set off the bus we walked around the side streets of Manchester filming handheld for what we planned would be used for a slide guitar part in the song, and be a "trippy" part of it as well, as loads of effects were planned to be used.

We then went to the Arndale centre, where we attempted to film the "narrative" of the song, which is basically about a joker and a thief and then the rest is hard to decipher, so we tried to interpret it as best as we could. We also experimented with our first use of Lip Syncing, with Alex and Chris being the first to do it, by miming the dialogue parts of the song. And we also tried acting out parts of the song. The staircases in the Arndale centre were perfect as they had iron-barred gates which went along perfectly with the lyric "There must be some kind of way out of here / Said the Joker to The Thief" and we used them in our acting. We also took shots of the city to serve as establishing shots.

The original plan was to use these, alternating between David as Jimi Hendrix playing, and Chris and Alex playing the Joker and the Thief, however, we deemed the first day of shooting not a failure, but unusable as the narrative of the song made no sense to us, no matter how hard we tried to make it work, as it doesn't work in a linear fashion. Although non-linear does work, but for our video it would have to have been linear and a story that starts backwards was simply too hard to replicate.

On the second day of filming David finally got his Jimi Hendrix costume, and we started filming what would be most of the guitar angles and establishing shots of the music video. We at first tried to scale a wall that could give us a very nice high angle shot of David walking, but when Chris tried to walk from one side to another he was blocked by an iron fence, so we tried another way near the sewage works only we couldn't get the gear up the tree and onto the wall, so we left that alone. We then climbed one more tree and got an okay shot from it but we never used it in the end. It was during this time we first encountered the problems of the fake Moustache that David had with his costume, and they would only increase as the weeks moved on.

Album Cover Analysis

This is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover and is a good example of a well known classic rock album cover. The album art is meant to represent the "three elements" the band's stage lighting, the lyrics and the keyboardist, Rick Wrights request for a "simple and bold" design.

The light spectrum is continued all the way into the inside cover of the album, and it also represents a human heart beat, representing a heartbeat sound that is repeated throughout the album. So the band have used the artwork to reference themselves and the album as well as symbolise certain aspects they are singing about.

Shot List

1) Establishing shot, close up of David's feet walking

2) David walking - long shot

3) Close up of Davids face

4) Shot of necklace - close up

5) Close up of solo number one

6) Jump cuts in meadows

7) Medium shot of David singing

8) Walking on bridge - long shot / jump cut

9) Shot next to river - long shot

10) Extreme close up - David singing

11) Close up David singing

12) David on concrete tube - medium shot

13) David walking backwards - long shot

14) Panning shot of meadows

15) David on graffiti background - long shot

16) Close up of playing guitar

17) Medium shot of playing guitar

18) Shot of David playing - medium shot

19) Shot of effects

20) Shot of necklace fade to black

Initial Planning

Initial Planning

Song: Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
Length: 4:03

Actor/Editor: David B
Director/Editor/Blogger: Alex C
Camera/Editor/Actor: Chris

Costume will be fitting for the 1970's theme, relating to Jimi Hendrix's style. Basic effects will be used is certain points to relate to older 70's videos. The video will consist of performance and narrative features.

The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash Video Analysis

The Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack flash

In the video for Jumpin' Jack Flash by The Rolling Stones, we see that the director has used a lot of close ups of the individual band members to show them as the "stars" of the video, especially singer Mick Jagger, who gets the most because he is the lead singer of the band.

The video would most definitely attract a young audience of around 15-24 yet, because of the bands image in this video, young girls would also be attracted but the style of music would mostly appeal to a male audience, also because the music video is from 1968 older audiences may like it too for nostalgia or they are older fans that have stumbled upon the video or song.

The genre is - like Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn - Blues Rock and this links into the idea of our video because it has a performance aspect to it like the other two and has a very late 60s feel to it.

There is no intertextual references that we can currently pick out, but the some of the make seems to be influenced by Westerns (the singers face paint) and the fashion is very 60s, which could be referencing the "Swinging Sixties" some of the make up seems to be heavily influenced by Indian Culture and Sci-Fi Films (such as the patterns on certain band members and the colour of the make up).

Production Treatment

All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix

All Along the Watchtower is four minutes long.

The songs target audience would be people aged 15-24 because its genre is Rock and it has elements of heavier music in it, but also a lot of older music fans over 25 would enjoy it, especially those who were alive when this version was released (1968). For this reason the target audience would most likely be male but females may also like this song because of the artist's (Jimi Hendrix) persona and style.

The video is mainly performance but...the song is about a group of characters in a watchtower and echo lines in the "Book of Isaiah". Since this song is a Psychedelic interpretation of the original (by Bob Dylan) we would like to include Psychedelic effects in the video but not in an imitating manner, but more as an homage to the late 60s early 70s when Hendrix and the whole movement was at its height.

Performance: David playing guitar and singing, some acting from others.

Costumes: Retro clothes from the 60s-early 70s

SFX: Psychedelic/Trippy effects

Key Locations: Meadow, House

Shot List:

1) One close up shot of David’s feet

2) Close up of back of head

3) Shot of David playing guitar

4) Long shot of David walking

5) Close up of David singing

6) Medium shot of David playing and singing

7) Shot of girls dancing

8) Shot of girls dancing with David

9) Shot of David singing

10) Shots of David playing solo

11) Shots of party - trippy

12) Shot of David walking around tripping – low angle/tracking shot

13) Shot of David doing solo

14) More party shots

15) More solo shots

16) David singing

17) Girls dancing

18) Last solo shots

19) Long shot of David walking

20) Fade to black

Our total amount of recording days was...

Stevie Ray Vaughan music video analysis

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Cold Shot analysis

the video tells a story of stevie not pay attention to one of his girlfriends and only loves his guitar which is shown in the video with guitars all around the room in his apartment. it is also displayed in his music with the large amount of guitar riffs and fills. when he is injured in the video it shows a shot of an ambulance, this is a quick way to show that he has gone to hospital. and shows signs of comedy by having a band playing beside him. it also shows this by having all the presents given to his girlfriend related to guitar. this is why he always ends up in hospital due to his girlfriend hating guitar. there is also another funny part where his girlfriend is trying to smash his guitar but he keeps pulling more from behind his sofa.

when he is thrown off a roof it is clear that they use a blow up doll which tells the audience that this is not a serious video and is more for comedy. the lyrics often describe what is happing on screen so this video is more of a narrative type video rather than a performance.

there are regular close ups of stevie playing guitar symbolizing that this is the main theme of the video. it has a blues rock genre which is similar to the jimi hendrix video that we are doing.

there are few different locations in the video ranging from his apartment to the hospital to a rooftop which adds some variety to the video

Research

Costumes: Jimi Hendrix Styled clothing.

Flared Trousers

Bandana

Baggy Shirt

Fake Moustache

This choice of clothing is appropriate for our music video as

Locations: Chorlton Meadows

Old Mansion

Location suites Hendrix's style of music.

Props: Guitar, Electric or Acoustic