Wembley Arena (Night - Fountain Area) - This will be one of the scenes used for a romantic meeting with the main characters. The colours of the fountains can be used to connote the passion and connection of the relationship.
South Bank (Night) - A scene where performance and narrative is combine. The main male performer is dancing to the female performer to try and get her to go out with him.
The London Eye - A low angle shot like this would provide another interesting romantic scene perfect for the narravtive parts.
Near the Thames (maybe even on the boat) - A couple of shots here to really illustrate the romance between the couple.
Drama Room - For several party scenes. We'll be working we the lighting to make it look really authentic and realistic of a party scene.
MPA Room - We're going to be using this room to shoot the performance shots of the video. The dancers will be filmed infront of the green screen and the background will be changed to suit our preferences.
" Queens of the Stone Age developed a style of riff-oriented, heavy music. Their sound has since evolved to incorporate a variety of different styles and influences, including working with ZZ Top member Billy Gibbons and steady contributor Mark Lanegan, both of whom have contributed influences from genres such as blues and grunge. The band began with Josh Homme in 1996. The band's first release was Gamma Ray, a two-track EP featuring the songs "Born to Hula" and "If Only Everything" released in January 1996. The band's first live appearance was probably November 20, 1997, at OK Hotel in Seattle, Washington. In December of the same year, the band released a split EP, Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age, which was the first official release by the band under the name Queens of the Stone Age. The band released their self-titled debut, Queens of the Stone Age (1998) on Loose Groove records. Songs for the Deaf was a critical and commercial success and its popularity peaked when the album reached gold status in 2003, with sales peaking at over 900,000 copies. The singles "No One Knows" and "Go with the Flow" became hits on radio and MTV. "No One Knows" received heavy rotation on music video channels culminating in a nomination for the MTV2 Award at 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. At the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, "Go With The Flow" won Best Special Effects and was nominated for Best Art Direction."
Music video by Queens Of The Stone Age performing The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret. (C) 2000 Interscope Records
Their first music video "The Lost Art Of Keeping A Secret" is a combination performance/concept/narrative music video. The dark atmopshere of music combined with seedy sexual themes (sleazy motel) and projected performances leads to a very ambiguous narrative shrouded in mystery (Highlighted in the chorus). Performance/lyrical-wise suggesting that this sort of act (sex in a motel is something best kept behind closed doors with possible links to prostitution.
Music video by Queens Of The Stone Age performing No One Knows. (C) 2002 Interscope Geffen (A&M) Records A Division of UMG Recordings Inc. Directed by Dean Karr and Michel Gondry
It was the first single and second track from their third album, Songs for the Deaf, and was released on November 26, 2002. "No One Knows" was a chart success, becoming the band's only single to top the US Modern Rock charts. Sticking to their performance/narratve routes the video is split into two, your general performance filmed on tri-caster and a narrative played out in the woods. They seem to be branching off their tradtional mysteriously atmospheric music videos to a more dark comedy style. I call it "Dark comedy" because the general narrative is funny but the song is a sort of juxtapostion. The audience would laugh as much as they would if the song was up-beat or more use of lighter, attractive colours.
Music video by Queens Of The Stone Age performing Go With The Flow. (C) 2002 Interscope Geffen (A&M) Records A Division of UMG Recordings Inc
This is where we see the band really explore with their style now. Their song - more heavy and up-beat, their video - fast paced. Probably now they want to be labelled a one style band and are showing off what they're capable of. The video shows sexual themes such as a metaphor of two cars colliding with each other; symbolizing intercourse and an image of a trident showing some erotic attributes. Filmed entirely in greenscreen/tri-caster the video is now labelled a performance/concept with more emphasis on the concept of sex which links to their first video "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret"
Music video by Queens Of The Stone Age performing Make It Wit Chu. (C) 2007 Interscope Records - Directed by Rio Hackford
Finally, their most recent music video "Make It Wit Chu" which is a mixture of both performance and narrative. The video begins with Joshua Homme driving to Rancho De La Luna and the band setting up their musical instruments. They then start to perform the song. The video shows footage of the band performing along with shots of several couples making out and talking. The band appear to be performing for the couples. The sex theme arises again with the band suggesting they are influeced on sexual suggestives. The video/song is more light-hearted and warm (yellow/golden tint to the video, slower tempo) than the bands previous work implying they are branching off from their traditional dark/heavy rock for and opting for a more mellow style. This is perhaps how they recieved their dubbed genre of desert rock, psychedelic rock or stoner rock for being a bit more "out there" than most rock bands.
Post-Modernism will be shown in our music video through a movie style opening. Also style over content which is a convention of post-modernist music videos would be shown through the extra effects which will be incorporated in the music video such as stop motion and black and white effects.
Feminism/Male gaze would be incorporated in out music video through the attractive female character in this music video who is the sexual interest of the male character in this video.
Love is shown through the attraction between the male and female character in this music video and will be reinforced by the fact that the female character would always wear red which has connotations of lust and passion
The Box channel is well-known for its First Play feature, where many videos often make their UK or world premiere. This is the channel we our video to first broadcast. If it can make as much of an impact on this channel then we can start taking offers from other music channels.
Kiss would be the first music channel that comes to mind when decideding who would broadcast our music video. It's fun, it's sassy and caters to the strong R&B and Hip-Hop fans. The music they broadcast is mainstream and top of the charts. I believe Rite on Time is the kind of song to instantly become a hit on charts (sort of) and because of it's Hip-Hop style it would fit perfectly on this channel. Not to mention Kiss has a radio station too. Broadcasting on both TV and radio is a sure fire way to get the song popular.
MTV Base is another prefect example of a music channel willing to broadcast our video. This channel is very similar to KISS in that it mainly broadcasts R&B and Hip-Hop titles which is where our music video would fit in perfectly. It's 24-hour too meaning we can get playing round the clock, get it into people's heads and spreading the word of mouth around.
Eventually, the music video will spread to a more mainstream audience and that's when we fully make use of it's popularity. Music videos that broadcast on this channel are the most listened to, the most downloaded, the most talked about. To get our music video on here would make it an instant hit.
4MUSIC the new channel from Channel 4. Because it is related to Channel 4 you can imagine the type of music and programs they broadcast would generally be targetted at a young audience, predominantly 16-24 which is perfect because that is what our songs target audience is. This is the channel we would want to broadcast if we have any hope of targetting our main audience and hooking them in.
FLAVA is again another perfect music channel to broadcast our music video. It's incredibly similar to KISS and MTV Base and therefore fans of R&B and Hip-Hop will most likely visit all three of these channels a lot just like people who like alternative visit Kerrang! and Scuzz! because those share similar a genre. People will see the video a lot more until they can't avoid it and eventually it gets stuck in their heads and they have to like it.
"Born and based in Rochester, NY, SINGNATURE is not your average male vocalist group. The band consists of Lamar aka L-STARZZ, Trent aka SHAKEZ, Lawerence aka LAW and professional boxer Willie Monroe, Jr aka CHAMP. SINGNATURE has performed at many venues, festivals, major shows, and concerts. They have even opened for popular artist such as Trey Songs, Tank, Ginuwine, Luducris, and many more."
My group and I have chosen to go for an R&B song for our media production. We collectively decided to go for this song as we can envision a strong narrative for this song with performance aspects. We aim to subvert the generic conventions associated with R&B videos but still have elements of a traditional Hip/Hop, R&B music videos.
INTRO: Be right on time Be right on time I’m right on time
CHORUS: Since I laid eyes on you I don’t know what to do ‘Cos baby girl you're the truth sitting next to you If it's ok with you can I come on through? Promise I’ll be there in a few And I’ll be right on time (Be right on time) Time (Be right on time) ‘Cos baby you're so fine (I’m right on time)
VERSE: Shawty talk to me Would you like it baby what’s your name? 'Cos for some reason I can’t stop thinking 'bout your frame From your eyes, to your lips, to your thighs, your so damn fly Wanna know you If it’s possible lay you down Can I show you how I feel about you deep inside How I feel real deep inside You don’t have to be shy
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VERSE 2: Clocks ticking, so tell me what its gonna be If you listen, I guarantee your gonna come home with me Guarantee you'll come home with me girl you'll see How I put it down and I promise you won't wanna leave Girl I’ll make a sound I'm-a give you everything you need Everything you need is with me So get back with me
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BRIDGE: Now do you think , I can be the one for you I promise I will never make you sad I refuse, refuse to be the fool to let you go on by And not try and to get at you (Oh) ‘Cos you wanna be with me I will be guarantee, girl you’re so peng to see That I need your love, and make you my boo Anything that you ask for I’ll do, BABY! Ooohh, ooohh oh oh
CHORUS: Since I laid eyes on you, I don’t know what to do, 'Cos baby girl you're the truth sitting next to you If it's ok with you can I come on through? Promise I’ll be there in a few And I’ll be right on time (Be right on time) Time (Be right on time) 'Cos baby you're so fine (I’m right on time)
Wembley Arena (Night - Fountain Area) - This will be one of the scenes used for a romantic meeting with the main characters. The colours of the fountains can be used to connote the passion and connection of the relationship.
South Bank (Night) - A scene where performance and narrative is combine. The main male performer is dancing to the female performer to try and get her to go out with him.
