Friday, 30 September 2011
Music Video: Pre-Production: Genre Characteristics
Spitfire; The Prodigy
Genre: Rave/ Hardcore/ Electronic/ Breakbeat
Electronic and Breakbeat Audience Characteristics
Genre: Rave/ Hardcore/ Electronic/ Breakbeat
Electronic and Breakbeat Audience Characteristics
- Alternative dress sense/ hair -punk styling
- Minority influence on drugs/ hardcore lifestyle
- Experimental/ rebellious
- Punk attitude
Music Video Characteristics
- Fast pacing on edit
- Flashing lights
- Visual effects - Vertigo effect, trick shots
- Contrast either super contrasted or overexposure
- Unusual costumes and mise en scene, lots of gothic makeup and body art
- Mise en scene, unusual objects in background/ words in back ground (Example; the word SEX appears for a split second in "spitfire" the official video by the prodigy
- Camera glides, steady cam techniques, motion speed fast and slow, sometimes super slow motion
Examples we used for research;
"Breathe" "Spitfire" and "Firestarter" by The Prodigy
Chris Cunningham videos, "Come to daddy" "Come on my selector"
Music Video: Pre-Production: The Prodigy genre of music
Spitfire was released on 4th April 2005 by The Prodigy, it is the bands sixteenth single and off the album 'Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned' which entered the British Dance Chart at number 1. the song comes under the genre of Electronic Dance. The backing vocals on this song are performed by actress Juliette Lewis. The song is featured in the movie House Of Wax as its soundtrack.
Wednesday, 28 September 2011
Music Video: Pre-Production: Decision on our song choice: Spitfire - The Prodigy
After a few lessons of research into each music choices, Spitfire by The Prodigy and Epoca by The Gotan Project. We have decided to go with Spitfire by The Prodigy.
Our reasons being is that we thought Spitfire would more in our range of making a quality music video. We thought Epoca would of been hard to perform the words in French and would be hard to link music with lyrics. We found it hard to find a solid narrative for Epoca as well, it was mostly conceptional. We researched the song to grab inspiration, but we had trouble as there was no videos linking with the artist or song.
Along with reason of Epoca being a bad choice, there are reason of Spitfire being a better choice. We thought the genre of music would be appealing to us and we could work with a concept of a nightmare and WW2. We also enjoyed this song more, so when recording and editing it will be something we like to listen to.
However overall we put the pros and cons together and decided Spitfire by The Prodigy is our choice of music for our video.
Our reasons being is that we thought Spitfire would more in our range of making a quality music video. We thought Epoca would of been hard to perform the words in French and would be hard to link music with lyrics. We found it hard to find a solid narrative for Epoca as well, it was mostly conceptional. We researched the song to grab inspiration, but we had trouble as there was no videos linking with the artist or song.
Along with reason of Epoca being a bad choice, there are reason of Spitfire being a better choice. We thought the genre of music would be appealing to us and we could work with a concept of a nightmare and WW2. We also enjoyed this song more, so when recording and editing it will be something we like to listen to.
However overall we put the pros and cons together and decided Spitfire by The Prodigy is our choice of music for our video.
Tuesday, 27 September 2011
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