Artist name:

After Liam's cracking idea of 'Boy Interrupted' and his reasoning for this, I thought i would jsut post some info to clarify it.....

Girl, Interrupted is a best-selling[1] 1993 memoir by American author Susanna Kaysen. In the book, Kaysen relates her experiences as a patient in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s after being diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. The memoir's title is a reference to the Vermeer painting Girl Interrupted at her Music[2].

The plot of Girl, Interrupted does not follow a linear storyline, but instead the author provides personal stories through a series of non-chronological vignettes and personal reflections on why she was institutionalized.

In April 1967, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Massachusetts, after attempting a half hearted suicide. She denies it was a suicide attempt to a psychiatrist who suggests she take time to regroup in McLean, a private mental hospital. Susanna is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, and her stay extends 18 months[5].
The film is rated R by the MPAA, for strong language and content relating to drugs, sexuality, and suicide.

Themes:

• mental illness vs. conformity
• hospitalization as treatment
• treating the brain vs. the mind
• freedom

Matt

Baseball bat

At the moment we think that the main character in the video should be very violent and destructive, and we think his weapon of choice should be a baseball bat. We think he should use this as a prop throughout, smashing up the room as well as glass bottles and possibly even cars outside on the street.

Let's

Get a baseball bat and film me destorying coffee tables and hitting books and possibly even a car
We also thought we should get some sugar glass in the shape of a bottle and smash that as it would reflect the troubled mind of the main character aswell as showing his inner turmoil and violent tendancies.

Also we think we should make it look as if I am naked with really tight shots of my thighs and lower stomach.

Logo

Was just mucking about on Paint Shop Pro and knocked up a quick band logo for HRH idea. Was wondering what everyone thought. The distorted font and the black on the white make it distinctive, whilst it is still pretty ambigious as to what HRH stands for and if they are actually a band, which would help create audience interest. Tell me what you think!

Writing on the Screen?

What's everyone's thoughts about writing on the screen?
see my post here and post some thoughts either as comments or on the group blog!
http://latymermusicvideo08liam.blogspot.com/2008/09/writing-on-screen.html

Style of music video

This video gave alot of inspiration in terms of style to me and matt and i wanted you guys to see what it looks like.
We like the way that the performance is in a more mellow style, almost black and white, compared to the brighter colours featured during parts of the narrative. Furthermore we like the performance of the singer in terms of his emotion and his interaction with the camera.

Further ideas

guys jsut letting you know that i have taken my and our ideas and developed them on my blog. There is some content which i would like you to look through. cheers.

matt

IDEA FINAL

I Kissed A Boy - Cobra Starship

A copy of Katy Perry's song with several similar shots - i.e. Guys having a pillow fight (bedroom = master shot)
Have the guy as an obsessive psycho with revenge in mind - think of his look/image and the style of his bedroom

Action Plan

• think of scenarios
• timeline with song with lyrics - split into several sections
• start creating the image for the main guy
• do a music video analysis of Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl and possibly use the structure
• revise representation of women/men and scopophilia and voyeurism

LIAM

FOTC: Proposal

Flight of the Conchords- Inner city pressure (2008 album ‘Flight of the Conchords’)
-Further initial idea:



Breakdown of the song into a current music video:

-An old granny or an imposter old granny- similar to Basement Jaxx video…

• Walls closing in on the main character similar Train spotting?
• Idea that an old granny can’t cope with the expensive lifestyle that comes with living in the inner city. – For example she is in a terraced house and is rather small and dingy. She has spent all of her benefits and pension on buying a brand new motorised buggy which is completely pimped up- pink with tassels etc.
• ‘You pawned everything’…. Shots of handing over goods to a shop keeping: Granny brushes her tongue then hands over the toothbrush; jar with false teeth inside and splashes water over the counter; disposable camera sticky taped to a phone and she takes a picture of under her long old dress before handing it over. Hahahaha.
• ‘don’t know where your going’ – she crosses the road in a wheelchair/ motorised buggy and realises her false teeth are missing and does a U-turn
• ‘standing in the sitting room’ – knitting, ironing, trying to sit on ironing board which is too high,
• ‘Counting coins…’- she counts the coins in her purse and realises she is going to have to steal because she is skint. This is similar to an advert which I have seen …
  
  … the shopkeeper starts to chase her with a French stick.
• ‘underpants bit’- she can’t find any underpants in her drawer so she goes to the drawer below which is empty with only 1 pair!- a luminous thong or French knickers
• ‘Have you paid your rent yet’- starts to consider using those pants, implying prostitution.
• Chorus can be shots of her indoors looking out of the windows with the singers appearing as silhouettes through the window. –straight cuts
• ‘har-har-har-har-har’ – she is on her buggy down the street with passers by making eye contact and ‘har’ing’ and possibly pointing, then the last HARRR she stands up from her buggy like she is elevated from her chair-good angles needed etc.
• ‘So you think maybe you’ll be a prostitute…’- she is standing at the front door with an unattractive male at the door- she is trying to woo him.
• ‘Doesn’t measure up’- she is repulsive and they end up sitting on the floor or something.
• Synthesizers- shots of the artists playing their instruments and possibly the granny joining in with a kiddie’s keyboard on top of her ironing board.
  
• Last shots?
• Matt
  
  

5ive propsal

Band member profile pics:
Liam/ Kieran:

In terms of this band member he appears to be the street casual normal guy.

Matthew/ Reece:

In terms of the band he can be the cheeky smiley one.

James/ Jamie/RJ:

As a band member he is the kind of surfer dude who lives the rural/coastal laid back lifestyle.

Michael/ Mikey:

And here is the poser of the band who is really trending and individual.

- Although these people appear to have and would appeal to different tastes it is very plausible that they are close friends and are a truely constructed band (not manufactured).

Matt

Move It Move It idea

• everyone wakes up, the wind styles one of the chartacters hair, whilst another takes the pillow off his head and he has a mohawk.
• one of the characters, wearing a pair of old fashioned pilot's goggles gets on a large bike, which miraculously turns into a small pink child's bike with stabilisers. This bike then fall apart as the guy is riding it, and he throws it over a wall in disgust.
• there is a paperboy cycling along with his bag of papers, he throws one of them, and one of the boyband runs up and catches it in his mouth like a dog (shot in slow-mo)
• one of the characters is dressed like a powerwalker(see left). He looks at his watch, which has been drawn on, and sees a unhappy face instead of a regular clockface. Then we see how slow he is walking, when an old granny overtakes him, followed by a person in a snail suit also crawling past him.
• A woman is being mugged, one of the band members sees this and takes out a can of spinnach. he eats it in a similar way to popeye and goes and beats up the mugger, saving the day for everyone.
• Two of the characters are in a car riding along side a milkfloat.the pasanger reaches across and steals a pint of milk. He then pours it into a box of crunchy nut and eats it
• As one of the characters runs past a church, gospel singers start singing and clapping along to the song
• We see a marathon running rnning along and then reaching for a cup of water placed on a table near the side of the road. He drinks some of the water and then pours the rest over himself to cool down. The band member is then running along and instead of reaching for the water like we expect, he reaches for a bucket of kfc and then pours it over himself.

Liam and MATT

Inner City Pressure Idea (perhaps the final?)

Matt + Mike + Max

initial ideas

Synchronised swimming - matt and his friend in swimming hats and speedos doing a hilarious dance routine in the pool (Liam)


Shaft - Austin Powers esque tryin to be cool but hitting people in face and making a tit of himself etc. (Mike)


Supermarket - people dancing in the isles after hours. E.g. - fat person next to the rolls, hench person next to the beef etc. (Matt)


Bicycle - RUDEBOIS

Flight of the Conchords - inner city pressure - really serious video





5ive - track fillers - hands doing matt's hair

ok so five might not be happening....

right guys over the weekend find losts of tracks, any ideas just post and we'll ytalk on monday about em
also we need to meet at somepoint!!!!! decisions before summer!!!
find ways of communicating in summer!

Treatment!!!!

Band Name - North Circ

Members
Kieron - enrique lookalike
Reece - skinhead, bad boy?
Jamie (RJ) - Beach boy - bleach blonde?

General idea for video-
Waking up late for performance, characters trying to get changed whilst running down the busy streets (markets?) - tracking shots from the side of running, closeups for lipsynching

switching characters as they go past walls (see Roll Deep - When I'm 'Ere)

Grab food and hair products from people and stools and apply them on the way. Throw apple away and have a cutaway of apple in bin (slow mo?) have shots of runing in puddles and sliding over car bonnets.
- throw apple away + step in puddle - slow mo? slide over matt's saxo bonnet deodarant

Audience -
Girls 1st
Young boys - idolisation 1st
Gays - 2nd
Old women 2nd
Parents - good role model for kids 3rd

Girls - they like to read magazines such as the now defunct SmashHits! now probably more into heat and now. Therefore we would do lots of interviews and competitions with these magazines. Appearances on Saturday morning shows on channels like CBBC and CITV.
They will buy lots of merchandise and as they will still be at school we could make pencil cases and accessories such as wristbands and fake tattoos.

OR

Beach!!!!

Brighton - gay icons

Bournemouth - sand

Why 5ive?

We thought that the '5ive' track 'Keep on Moving' was suitable for us because not only dfo we like the genre, we also found it practical as we are a group full of boys! We also felt that the Busted experience was extremely useful as well as fun, and we decided that a focus on performance rather than predominantly narrative; the lip synching and dance moves we felt would challenge us but ultimately create an effective pop music video

Track Treatment... 5ive - Keep on Movin'

(track)youtube.com/watch?v=6qSxnDe0FbI

Stree location similar to Lilly Allen - LDN
Saturation of colours similar to this video.





Idea referenced and themed along a do good narrative similar to the Coke advert of GTA.








Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Running sequence, use of the shots ie running down stairs, jumping over obstacles, slow mo





Roll Deep - When I'm 'ere
use the changing of characters when going past poles / gettin out of lift for example





Similar!!





Possible Costume