Influential Shots

The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up

Smack my bitch up from dwayne koh on Vimeo.

The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up is clearly a huge influence on us for our video. This is due to the narrative and hidden themes within the video. This is achieved by being highly controversial and causing the video to be banned from TV. It has a high drug abuse, violence, nudity and sex content, and when revealed that the point of view is of a women, it truly shocks people.

The success of the video is from the tight camera work. Its continuity editing also leads the audience to believe it is a lads night out which works well considering it has been achieved in under 4 minutes. The point of view shot keeps the character hidden with us seeing hands and feet it is still unnoticeable that the character is female. We are aiming to use some shots like this but will not use a point of view angle.

Watching this video it is clear to see it will take us a lot of skill to pull off the effect that this video carries and I am unsure we shall be able to do that. However, by establishing what we are good at we can get around the issues and produce a video as equally as effective as Smack My Bitch Up.

Filming Take Two

At our second shoot we planned to film clips for the montage and other certain parts to the plot rather than miming of the song. This was partly down to people unable to come to recreate the party scene again.

The montage clips consisted of sex scenes from the party of our two main characters. These were done using rather close shots too hide the identity of one of our characters to keep his identity unclear until the end. I believe this worked well due to good framing and positioning of the characters.

The rest of the film shoot we got clips of, our friends brother, Todd. We hope to use the clips of Todd to suggest a younger version of our main character. To do this we got both of them to sit in similar positions on a bed and mime to the camera. Using the similar positions and both singing the chorus we hope a strong link will be made due to their looks not being very similar. We also filmed Todd in a cupboard to look like he was watching two people having sex. We hope to link this in with our main character looking as if it was his past influencing to his decisions now.

Rough Cut

Doubt Rough Cut 1 from Jack Osman on Vimeo.

Editing

With our first filming shoot complete we can now begin to edit our footage. This will help us see which footage is usable and which is not as good as we believed. This will help us plan for our next film shoot and will also help us choose a filming style we like and wish to continue using.

Below you can see a screen shot of some of the footage we have edited. The first picture is of our intro. This is a fast part of the song and the editing reflects this. We like the footage we got for this as the strobe light works well and the quick cuts and simplicity of the footage work well and fits what we wanted to achieve.

Here is a picture of some of our footage edited to make up the first verse of our song. Different shots were used throughout this part of the song whilst our character was miming. This helped us with continuity as we could match up the lyrics to the images to make sure it was in time and worked well. Whilst editing it became evident that some our footage was unusable and some stuff would have to be filmed again to get the quality we want.

Due to this we arranged another film shot to compensate for this.

Organising Film Shoot

To help insure we had enough people to film for our video we organised a facbook event. This allowed us to see how many people were available the day we wished to film. This is because having a party scene we need to need to ensure it is as realistic as possible. By seeing how many people were available we could always arrange to invite more people if need be judging on the numbers for the facebook event.

Animatic

Animatic from WGSB on Vimeo.

Here is an animated storyboard of how we wish to shoot the video

Inspiration

A huge inspiration for our video will be the sense of voyeurism. I believe this as most music videos have voyeurism as their theme. This can be seen from the screenshots below of 4 different music videos from 4 different genres of music. With this is in mind I believe it would be a great idea for us to portray voyeurism in our music video. This is because it would be following the conventions of music videos and therefore tie it in with existing music videos by following their themes. The sense of voyeurism would work great in our music video due to the narrative we wish to use. If pulled off convincingly it will add to the effect of our narrative and shock viewers with the twist at the end.

As you can see from the screenshots voyeurism can be portrayed in many ways. This is due to the use of the long shot. However, these are used in different ways. For example, in the Nirvana video the voyeuristic view is created by having the band out of focus in the long shot whereas the Lady Gaga video uses a high angle to create a voyeuristic feel.