My Music Video: from Research to Filming

·         What made you choose your song?

we chose our song by all gathering together and having a group discussion and talked about what song choice we were going to do. we looked at different genres of music and videos such as rock and metal. we came to the conclusion of using a white stripes song called 'i can tell were going to be friends' we felt that this was a good choice as we could interpret lots of new veiwpoints from the original music video.

·         What music videos influenced the look of your production?

we looked at many music videos, none of which influenced any of our decisions as we already had some sort of idea as to what we wanted the video to look like and the message we wanted to give to the viewers. the original video to the track is filmed at night and is very dark so we decided that we didn't want our video to look like this so have chosen to film in the daytime, preferably on a sunny day.

·         What music videos influenced the narrative of your production?

 the narrative was influenced by the song choice. we took lyrics from the song and developed them into actions of being friends on a journey.

·         What are the genre conventions of your chosen music?

 the genre conventions of the white stripes is rock music. this is generally dark, loud and depressing.

·         How does your music video conform to these genre conventions?

 my music video does not conform  to the genre of the song or band because it is a pretty relaxed video with lots of laughter and fun, bright scenes, chilling out with friends.

·         How has research helped you in your production?

Research has helped in my production, by studying different narrative theory's and conventions  of films and videos.

Uses and Gratifications Presentations

Completed Hero’s Journey Match Activity

Narrative Theory and Propp’s Character Types

Narrative Theory

Apply both Propp’s Character Types and Todorov’s Narrative Steps to a film of your choice. Some ideas might be:

·         Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope

·         Shaun of the Dead

·         Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

·         Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

·         Aladdin

Film Title: Shaun of the dead.....................................................................

Narrative Steps	Write a few sentences about what happens at each stage of the film:
Equilibrium	The equilibrium of Shaun of the dead starts off at a not so happy start, where he realises that everything in his life is going wrong, and has no direction.
Disruption	The disruption is when there is an overnight zombie apocalypse, lots of people die, and get turned into zombies.
Realisation	The realisation is when Shaun knows that there is a zombie apocalypse, and he has to save everybody, in a comical way.
Restoring Order	Restoring the order is when they destroy all the zombies, and try to escape.
New Equilibrium	The new equilibrium is when the zombies are all destroyed apart from a few, Shaun, the main character, gets the girl, and although his friend is a zombie he still plays and they get on.

Propp’s Character Types

Character types	Character in the film	What the character does in the film
The villain	The zombies	The zombies eat the “unchanged humans”.
The dispatcher	Shaun	He is the only person who realises first what is happening and sets off his mission.
The helper	Ed	Ed is Shauns friend, he is the helper because he encourages Shaun to save the day, and motivate him.
The princess	Liz	The hero wants her, she plays a damsel in distress, and in the end they hook up.
The donor
The hero	Shaun	He kills the zombies and saves the day, he also get the girl at the end.
The false hero	David	He fancies Liz