MV PLANNING - The protagonist's quirks

Dancing (like Buddha) but mainly like Dave Gahan in Barrel of a Gun

Water bubbles

Dancing at the stones at night (test if night footage is effective, tomorrow), has the same functions as Stone Henge and the Ziggurat. Dance almost in a spiritual way, like summoning this alien invasion (research spiritual dancing).

Notices she is being followed, but takes control of it and lets herself be photographed.

Goes to the campfire and spreads pamphlets (something you could connect with social media). Have simple word or emblem on them. Like: "Rebel" or the name of one of the songs, can then be spread like the 500k bills at the Kraftklub concert.

The normal people behind her bow and sing to lyrics, she is freaked out by them. 

Playing with colourful leaves

Might dream of vandalising art like in Suede's Hit Me video.(in this case just the buckets of paint)

INDIE ROCK MV #2: Arctic Monkey's One For The Road

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE

• The quick cuts to the beat 
• The black + white, but I want to mix it with colour
• The tractor

Also the thumbnail of the video

ACT: Arctic Monkeys
TRACK: One For The Road
ALBUM: AM
YEAR: 2013
GENRE: (Indie) Rock
DIRECTOR: Focus Creeps
LABEL:  Domino (indie, but distributed by ADA, which is owned by Warner)
SINGLE?: Yes, 4th single, released 3 months after album
                      released with a B-Side, "You're So Dark"

BACKGROUND/CONTEXT

• Their most commercially successful album
• Working with their stalwart director, Focus Creeps
• 
  

PERFORMANCE, NARRATIVE OR CONCEPT?

Often you'll see a cross-cutting between performance and concept, with the band playing men in suits and later going into band performance modes. There are mysterious women and quirky vehicles.

EXTRA SOUND:

No extra sounds

TITLES:
The jacket acts as a diegetic title.

Opening shot starts with an extreme longshot,
but the low key lighting could downsize it as an establishing 

In the first 10 secs the camera has zoomed in,
and hallway through the woman turns so the title is
clearly seen on the jacket

NARRATIVE ENIGMA:

Withholding information from the audience, which we get in the opening sequence as mention before, and who these female characters are remains ambiguous.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LYRICS AND VISUALS:
"One For The Road", vehicles travelling down the road.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUND AND VISUALS:
Quick takes introducing each member, with the lead singer saved till last.
*Insert GIF*

GENRE SIGNIFIERS:
Genres include rock (heavy metal, punk, indie) pop, jazz. 

INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES:
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OTHER NARRATIVE THEORY:
Todorov, Propp, Levi-Strauss? 

BRANDING:
Do we see the album sleeve hidden somewhere? Are they wearing costumes they will wear on live shows? Or other elements like the money bills in Kraftklub's 500 K.

HIERARCHY OF THE BAND
In terms of proxemics Alex Turner is infant of his, and he is the one following Andrew Goodwin's notion of looking, looking directly at the audience while 

REPRESENTATION:
Not heavy sexualisation but the Male Gaze can still be said to have been applied here.

AUDIENCE REPRESENTED/TARGETED:
The band still look attractive to a female teen audience, so there is the potential still of continuing to market their audience, something which older bands today like Depeche Mode and U2 can't do, and this ageism will eventually reach the Monkeys as it does all boybands. 

CHANGING THE TRACK #2 - From She To Can't Get Enough

Guns 'n Roses, layering themselves, Welcome To The Jungle and Don't Cry
Iron Maiden - Can I play with madness.

Photo shoot of the band looking clean

Gender fluidity
Have her dancing enough
Grime on the face, dancing
Have some element of Male Gaze
Flashbacks to post-apocalypse

Multiple scrapes and escapades. 

PRACTICAL SUGGESTION
People cooking out food, flames and fire, cooking meat

TRAIN SITUATION:

THE GROUND IN CLAUSEN:
Horrible looking passage way

society 

Glimpsing members of the band.
"I Can't Get Enough"

Band having a sci-fi look.

Want to have other people
Dangerous

Energetic, teasing them.

Band could be glimpsed at points.
Have her singing with the band, jumping in

Stealing food, vignettes.
Drinking horrible, disgusting water, a little bit of cola for discolouration. 

Bare shoulder, leg, show the leg first narrative enigma.

Bagboy, leaves instead of

The end of The World's End, shuddering around the fire.
Product placement, pile of trash, battered can of coke.
soft drink product, ginger ale, classic zombie


END WITH AN ANNOUNCEMENT THAT EVERYONE HAS TO RETURN TO, that's a classic hook, that it's a world, there's more to come.
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VIDEO IDEA - Suede's Heroine

Narrative about female idol, but not sexualised, typical Male Gaze.

From SongMeanings:

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MV RESEARCH - Differenent Levels of Male Gaze?

In this post I will be comparing two music videos that were released in the same month and coincidentally have relatively similar narratives set on a stereotypical sunny holiday location with sexualised women.

KRAFTKLUB - UNSERE FANS
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TRAILERPARK
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MUSICVID #15: Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE:

• Close-ups of the performer
• Close-ups of the feet

ACT: Miley Cyrus
TRACK: Wrecking Ball
RELEASE DATE:  2013
ALBUM: Bangerz 
DIRECTOR: Terry Richardson 
GENRE: Pop
LABEL: RCA Records (owned by SME)
SINGLE?: Second single, still before the full album has been released.

BACKGROUND

• Miley Cyrus started her rise to fame through acting in, at the age of 14 being a teenage star in the Disney children's TV series Hannah Montana, which
• The year after the series started she already released her debut studio album
• This was the second single of her fourth album, prior to this despite having a loyal following of young female fans, she wasn't well known with male audience

Description of the YouTube Video, promoting links to buy the full album through Amazon or Google Play. Other music videos are mentioned, and Miley Cyrus's website and social media accounts. Despite being able to subscribe on the red button right above, it's stressed again with a link towards the end. 

Themes 

• Classic post-feminist vs feminist debate
• Hammer as Freud's phallic symbol, very explicit sexual acts

PERFORMANCE:

31 seconds of close-up:
- Thick, Glossy Red Lipstick, sexual connotation. The Rule Of Thirds is followed as Miley's face is in deep focus.

Following this unconventional long take, there are three short takes for 6 secs.

Parodies

The male in female make-up is laughable, carrying on the hegemonic image that Miley Cyrus's look is normative for women. Clearly thinks that the hammer is a phallyc symbol



An old man, half naked waist upwards.



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REPRESENTATION THEORY - GENDER #4 - Post Feminism

A list of posts about post-feminism from DB Representation of Gender blog. 

MUSICVID #9: Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools

POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE

• Mixing black+white and colour
• The room

As can be seen below used as the
thumbnail for the video

ARTIST: Kendrick Lamar
TRACK: Swimming Pools 

ALBUM: good kid, mad city

YEAR: 2012

DIRECTOR: Jerome D
GENRE: hip-hop
SINGLE?: Yes 

Context Within Album

Released on July 31st 2012 just under three months before the album's release on October 22nd as the second single (first one, The Recipe, released three months earlier ).
There was no video released for the first one, only a lyric video.

TITLES

9 seconds Three white on black, name of song, musician and director, without roles, slightly litten up.

NARRATIVE, EXPOSITION

Music starts at 0'11 

• 5 shots of Kendrick falling
• full shallow focus of woman, narrative enigma
• cross-cut between three segments of glass bottles, each different colour of white, brown and green falling on a white ground, woman is in view, male gaze
• alcohol and women, sin, quite conservative view (is this woman Sherane?)
• red lighted club, blood, danger, potential death, but also connected with Red Light district, prostitution, risk, sin, crime in some country
• at 2:32 goes back to original footage (same lyrics, chorus)
• falls in water
• switch to black and white 

Article about Sherane:

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Two versions of songs

SINGLE VERSION
04'08

ALBUM VERSION
05'13

Relationship with the lyrics

Drank drank, moments of cross-cutting with bottle

"I see the crowd mood", later reflected by the party group scenes. Red lighting, mood/atmosphere being danger with red connotations of blood?

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[Hook:]
Pour up (drank), head shot (drank)
Sit down (drank), stand up (drank)
Pass out (drank), wake up (drank)
Faded (drank), faded (drank)

[Verse 1:]
Now I done grew up
Round some people living their life in bottles
Granddaddy had the golden flask
Back stroke every day in Chicago
Some people like the way it feels
Some people wanna kill their sorrows
Some people wanna fit in with the popular
That was my problem
I was in the dark room
Loud tunes, looking to make a vow soon
That I'm a get fucked up, fillin' up my cup
I see the crowd mood
Changing by the minute and the record on repeat
Took a sip, then another sip, then somebody said to me:

[Chorus:]
Nigga why you babysittin' only 2 or 3 shots?
I'm a show you how to turn it up a notch
First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it
Pool full of liquor, then you dive in it
I wave a few bottles, then I watch em all flock
All the girls wanna play Baywatch
I got a swimming pool full of liquor and they dive in it
Pool full of liquor I'm a dive in it

[Hook:]
Pour up (drank), head shot (drank)
Sit down (drank), stand up (drank)
Pass out (drank), wake up (drank)
Faded (drank), faded (drank)

[Verse 2:]
Okay, now open your mind up and listen to me, Kendrick
I'm in your conscience, if you do not hear me
Then you will be history, Kendrick
I know that you're nauseous right now
And I'm hopin' to lead you to victory, Kendrick
If I take another one down
I'm a drown in some poison abusin' my limit
I think that I'm feelin' the vibe
I see the love in her eyes, I see the feelin'
The freedom is granted as soon as the damage of vodka arrive
This how you capitalize
This is parental advice
Then apparently, I'm over influenced by what you are doin'
I thought I was doin' the most then someone said to me

[Chorus:]
Nigga why you babysittin' only 2 or 3 shots?
I'm a show you how to turn it up a notch
First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it
Pool full of liquor, then you dive in it
I wave a few bottles, then I watch em all flock
All the girls wanna play Baywatch
I got a swimming pool full of liquor and they dive in it
Pool full of liquor I'm a dive in it

[Hook:]
Pour up (drank), head shot (drank)
Sit down (drank), stand up (drank)
Pass out (drank), wake up (drank)
Faded (drank), faded (drank)

[Bridge:]
I ride, you ride, bang
One chopper, one hundred shots, bang
Hop out. Do you, bang
Two chopper, two hundred shots, bang
I ride, you ride, bang
One chopper, one hundred shots, bang
Hop out. Do you, bang
Two chopper, two hundred shots, bang

[Chorus:]
Nigga why you babysittin' only 2 or 3 shots?
I'm a show you how to turn it up a notch
First you get a swimming pool full of liquor, then you dive in it
Pool full of liquor, then you dive in it
I wave a few bottles, then I watch em all flock
All the girls wanna play Baywatch
I got a swimming pool full of liquor and they dive in it
Pool full of liquor I'm a dive in it

[Hook:]
Pour up (drank), head shot (drank)
Sit down (drank), stand up (drank)
Pass out (drank), wake up (drank)
Faded (drank), faded (drank)