Animatics of our Storyboard

Production Plan

Props:

Powder paint: eBay, Brian Clegg website (under £5)
Glass of coke: free
Instruments and microphone: free
Cigarettes: if we make them it's free
Scissors: free
Pool table: free
Paper: free
Plastic bugs: Ask around or buy cheap ones
Trolley: Borrow and use at a supermarket


Costumes:
Suits
'Common people' outfits
May have to buy a few plain white t-shirts from Primark to show the powder clearly


Locations:
Supermarket
London/other urban area
Danson Park
Bexleyheath High Street
Elsa road/Berwick road


People:
A Band from the music department have agreed to be our band
We need a lot of different people to sing the lines of the song
Many people have already said they want to take part in the powder fight - but we will need to advertise this

Today I have been looking at the main props that we will need to include in our music video. The main one will be the coloured powder which will be thrown between the two gangs. The powder we will use is Holi Coloured Powder which is used in an Indian festival where they celebrate colour.



We will buy this online where we found a useful website that sells it a a good price.We get a pack of 7 differnt coloured powders for £4.99


For costumes we will need a group of people to be dressed buisness like and smart and another group to be wearing casual clothes/ school uniform/ builders outfit. We will ask the 'common' group of people to bring clothes they dont mind getting dirty and the people wearing the smart dress will take their clothes off and be wearing white underneath so the powder will show because we dont want their cothes to get ruined. Some of them will tie their ties around their heads to show they are ready for the powder fight.

Band logos

Here are some band logos. They are all quite simple and easy to read. They are mainly in two colours, black and white apart from One Direction's logo which has a bit of read. One Direction's logo had the number '1' and the letter 'D'. The red in this logo stands out the most. theres an arrow in the middle of the 'D' to show the direction.

The two door cinema club logo is simple with the two colours. They have made it look interesting with the curvy letters such as 'O' and 'C' are in a skinnier font to the rest of the letters. The letters are all in capitals and each word is placed on top of each other.

The Wombats logo is also in black and white the word 'The' is smaller that 'Wombats' to show that Wombats it the more important word that we should be focused on. The font looks like a marker pen and had been hand written. The word 'Wombats' is also in capitals.

The muse logo is the simplest one out of all of them, again it is black and white. There are two horizontal white lines outlining the word to make it look more important.

This logo by Pulp is nice because it looks slightly 3D with the black shadowing on the white. It looks smooth and shiney. It has a curvy border going around the outside of the word 'Pulp' with the same effect as the letters which are also in capitals.

Common people lyrics

She came from Greece she had a thirst for knowledge,
she studied sculpture at Saint Martin's College,
that's where I,
caught her eye.
She told me that her Dad was loaded,
I said "In that case I'll have a rum and coca-cola."
She said "Fine."
and in thirty seconds time she said,

"I want to live like common people,
I want to do whatever common people do,
I want to sleep with common people,
I want to sleep with common people,
like you."

Well what else could I do -
I said "I'll see what I can do."
I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here.
Are you sure you want to live like common people,
you want to see whatever common people see,
you want to sleep with common people,
you want to sleep with common people,
like me."
But she didn't understand,
she just smiled and held my hand.
Rent a flat above a shop,
cut your hair and get a job.
Smoke some fags and play some pool,
pretend you never went to school.
But still you'll never get it right,
cos when you're laid in bed at night,
watching roaches climb the wall,
if you call your Dad he could stop it all.

You'll never live like common people,
you'll never do what common people do,
you'll never fail like common people,
you'll never watch your life slide out of view,
and dance and drink and screw,
because there's nothing else to do.

Sing along with the common people,
sing along and it might just get you through,
laugh along with the common people,
laugh along even though they're laughing at you,
and the stupid things that you do.
Because you think that poor is cool.

I want to live with common people,
I want to live with common people

Questionnair awnswers

We varied the age of our target audience and here you can see the different age groups we asked.



From this we can tell that our target audience mostly like a narrative in a music video.


Everyone we asked like our idea and thinks it is appropriate.


Only 10% was unsure about our music video being appropriate for the genre.


Our target audience was varied between the genre of music they like but 30% like alternative music.


This piece chart shows how many males an females we asked and the majority was male.



Our target audience thought that there should be an appearance of our band in the music video.

Questionnaire

These are the questions we plan on asking people. We want to ask mainly males as we feel that they are more of our target audience but we will also ask females.


Song: Common People

Idea: We want to keep the music video fun and uplifting. We want the concept to be a group of rich ‘uncommon’ people each singing a line of the song and slowly making their way to a public place (a park) where they will have like a powder/paint fight with a large group of ‘common’ people. They all walk away at the end of the fight as if nothing happened. Then we would like to shoot a scene after the song has finished of someone sitting at a desk and they turn around on their phone and their face is covered in the powder/paint. We will also include scenes of the band recording the song in a studio.

How old are you?


Which genre of music do you like the most? (Please circle)


Britpop
Pop
Indie
Rock
Alternative
Other

Who is your favourite band?


If you have one, what is your favourite music video?


Do you think that our idea for our music video is appropriate for the song?

Do you think that our idea for our music video is appropriate for the genre of the song?


Do you think that it is necessary/essential for the band to have an appearance in the music video?


Do you like the idea of having a narrative music video that relate to the lyrics?

Do you have any ideas that we could include in our music video?

Pulp- Common people, our chosen song

Pulp are an English britpop band who formed in 1978 in sheffield. The band is made up of vocalist Jarvis Cocker,Candida Doyle,Mark Webber,Steve Mackey and Nick Banks. The band was original known as Arabacus Pulp. The English pop group went through numerous incarnations in the '80s, and has had 24 members since. Pulp's music was in the tradition of Bowie-esque synth-pop and it captured the attention of a youth starved of this type of music. The band earned positive reviews and a Top 10 album with "His 'n' Hers" The following year, the Sheffield band confirmed its status as pop stars with the album "Different Class", which went straight to number one.

A quote from the band "Please understand. We don't want no trouble. We just want the right to be different. That's all."

My top 5 music videos directed by Dave Meyers on Prezi

About Dave Meyers

Dave Meyers is an American music video director. Dave Meyers has directed over 200 music videos involving artists such as P!nk who he has done alot of videos for. In early 2008 Dave Meyers directed the first 3D music video for Missy Elliott's singal Ching-a-ling.


From my resurch on Dave Meyers also directs music videos for artists who are singing a song for a film of a song that is in a film. For example Avril Lavigne who sang 'Alice' for the film Alice in Wonderland.

Dave Meyers time line


Dave Meyers is a frequent collaborator to P!nk, and Missy Elliott, he co- directed "Lose Control", winning the Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video in 2005.

P!nk's Get The "Party Started" video won Best Female & Best Dance at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2002, Stupid Girls won Best Pop in 2006 and So What won Video of the Year at the MTV Australia Music Awards in 2009.

Meyers went to Loyola Marymount University upon graduation from Berkeley High School, acquired degrees in Film Production and Philosophy, and worked his way through the studio systems at Paramount and Fox before filming his first music video with rap crew The Whoridas. His video for Missy Elliott's "Work It" won the 2003 MTV Video Music Award for Best Video of the Year. He directed the 1999 Eddie Griffin comedy Foolish, and the 2007 remake of The Hitcher which was produced by director Michael Bay.

In May 2009, Meyers directed Britney Spears' music video for "Radar" in Santa Barbara. Then in January 2010, he directed Avril Lavigne's music video for "Alice." In the fall 2010. he directed Katy Perry's "Firework".

Now Dave Meyers has just recently directed Avril Lavigne's music video for "Wish You Were Here" wich was released on Septenber 8th 2011.


Analysing a music video directed by Dave Meyers.



The music video I am going to analyse is 'Perfrect' by P!nk by using some of Goodwin's theory techniques. This music videos Budget was $500,000 the genre is pop rock. The lyrics content and themes are about how people should accept each other for their true identities the message behind the video is P!nk's feelings against depression, and suicide.

The video begins with a man and woman lying in bed,the woman looks depressed and reflective. The song begins and there is a relationship between the music and visuals, there are three cuts from the woman to the teddy to the woman and to the wall. The cuts happen when the guitar is strummed.

The video goes back in time to when the woman was a little girl and gradually shows her growing up. The story is being told by P!nk and the projections on the wall. This could be linked with the notion of looking because the viewer is looking at the story through these projections.

Also in another scene, she is a little older and watching two children out of a window, who are sitting outside a bouncy castle, and they look up at the window. The girl ducks down from the window and sits on the floor, looking sad. The notion of looking in this part is where she is looking out of the window because the viewer can also see what she is seeing.

Next, the girl is older and argues with her mother about the way she is dressed. The girl has dark make-up around her eyes and bright red lipstick, she is wearing cheakard top and a really short skirt she has a punky look to her with all the braceletts around her arms and necklace. i would say this is a steriotypical look but its not too over exaggerated.

She is shown vandalizing toilet cubicles with the words "Skinny bitches" while snorting drugs and looking enviously at girls in the bathroom. She then spies on two girls trying on dresses in a shop, at this point there is more notion of looking, the viewer can see one of the girls looking at herself in the mirror.

She is then shown weighing herself on a bathroom scale, the viewer can see her through an open door way here is some more notion of looking. There is a steriotypical look for an anorexic person you can see her ribs and spine clearly visible through her skin.

The next scene shows her lying in a bathtub carving the word "Perfect" in her arm with a razor. She looks at the same teddy bear from her childhood. She gets up and cuts her hair off while looking at the mirror.

Near the end of the video, the woman is shown working on a painting. Pink is shown "raising her glass" to her, and the girl smiles and raises her glass back. At the exhibition she meets the man she's in bed with at the beginning of the video. The video goes back to the present. She gets out of bed and takes her childhood teddy bear into her daughter's room.

The final scene shows a relation ship between lyrics and visuals where she is mouthing the words "You are perfect to me" to her daughter. Meanwhile, Pink is shown singing in a room with pictures of the woman's flashbacks.

Overall in the whole video I found lots of notion of looking shots but not many of the other Goodwin's theory techniques. The thing that i like most about this music video is how the story goes back and forth from P!nk and then to the projections but you can still see the story going on behind her. I thought this was very clever idear that Dave Meyers had and it worked.

Artist research

Take That are an English five-piece vocal pop group comprising Gary Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. Barlow acts as the lead singer and primary songwriter. In total, the group have had 27 top 40 singles and 16 top 5 singles in the United Kingdom alone, 11 of which have reached number 1, as well as having seven number 1 albums.












Take That Timeline

1991- First single "Do What U Like" released in July, this caused a bit of controversy for nudist video, fails to make significant chart impact.
Second single, "Promises," becomes first top 40 hit in November. My impression of Take That's image this early into their carea is that they are after the ladies and having a bit of fun, they are dancing around shirtless in leather jackets sowing off their bodies. There are lots of close-ups of their crutch areas, they look like they are wearing kinky clothes with the studded area around their crutch which stands out. They are playing around with cream and putting jelly all over their bodies Gary Barlow even has a girl massaging it into his body. They seem very playfull and exited.


1992- After missing the top 40 with third single, "Once You've Tasted Love," their fourth single, "It Only Takes a Minute" becomes their first top 10 hit in June.
First album, Take That and Party, is released in September.


1993- The seventh and final Take That and Party single, "Could It Be Magic," hits #3 in January.
At the Brit Awards, three Take That singles are nominated for Best British Single: "It Only Takes a Minute," "A Million Love Songs," and the winner, "Could It Be Magic."

In July, "Pray" becomes the group's first #1 hit; it debuts at #1 and stays there four weeks.

The group teams up with Lulu for its October single, "Relight My Fire," which becomes their second #1 hit.

Second album, Everything Changes, debuts at #1 in October and is the third-biggest album of the year.

In December, "Babe" becomes their third #1, but it just misses Christmas #1.


1994- "Pray" wins the Brit Award. They are also nominated for Best British Group.
"Everything Changes" becomes the group's fourth consecutive #1 hit in April."Sure," a single from their third album, becomes their fifth #1 hit in October.

1995- "Back for Good" spends 4 weeks at #1 in April. The song is the group's biggest hit, selling nearly a million copies and hitting #1 all over the world.


Third album Nobody Else is released in May and becomes their second #1 album.
During the time "Never Forget" is being promoted and Robbie Williams announces he is leaving Take That. Nobody Else is released in the US in the fall, featuring a new cover image without Robbie, eventually peaking at #69.


"Back for Good" becomes the group's first and only US hit, peaking at #7 in November.


1996- "Back for Good" wins Best British Single at the Brit Awards, their third win in this category.

In February, the group announces that it is breaking up.
A remake of the Bee Gee's "How Deep Is Your Love" is released as the group's final single in March, although without Robbie, since he'd already left. It spends 3 weeks at #1, the band's 8th #1 hit.


Solo Careers
1996-

1997-Robbie's second single Old Before I Die
-Gary scores a second #1 hit a month later with "Love Won't Wait."
-Gary's debut album, Open Road, is released in June and hits #1.
-Robbie releases his debut album, Life Thru a Lens, in October.
-Robbie releases a fifth single, the ballad "Angels."


1998-Gary and Robbie are both nominated for the Brit Award for British Male Solo.
-Robbie scores his first solo #1, Millennium.

1999- "Angels" wins the Brit Award for Best British Single, while "Millennium" is also nominated for that award and wins Best Video.


Take That: A New Beginning

2006- Gary, Howard, Jason and Mark re-form Take That. Take That's first single in 10 years, "Patience," is a massive #1 hit, spending 4 weeks at #1 just before Christmas. The group releases its first album in 11 years, Beautiful World, to instant success.


2007- Patience wins the Brit Award for Best British Single.'Shine' the second Beautiful World single, hits #1 in February. It is the group's 6th consecutive #1 hit.A one-off single, "Rule the World," is released in October.



2008- "Greatest Day" is released, becoming the group's 11th #1 hit.

The Circus, the group's fifth album, is released and like its predecessor, is another big hit, becoming 7x platinum and the year's second-best-selling album, behind Duffy's Rockferry.

2009- Robbie rebounds with Reality Killed the Video Star and hits #2 with its lead single, "Bodies,"



2010- Take That announces that Robbie will return to the group.
Robbie and Gary bury the hatchet with cheeky duet, "Shame,"



"The Flood" is released in November as the first single from Progress. It the group's first single to include Robbie Williams since "Never Forget" in 1995.