Macro Elements
-Genre - Indie Alternative, it follows the conventions of an indie music video, no band playing and purely a narrative video
-Narrative - the video will be completely narrative based, no performance.
-characters - we want one central character, although we wont know who he is, and the video will effectively document how bad his life is and how much misfortune he suffers.
Micro Elements
-mise-en-scene - We will need to film on a day when the weather is dull and grey, we will also need extras to throw bottles at the central character.
-camerawork - we want to emphasize how average the main characters life really is, so we want to use shots that will show all this, like low angle and high angle shots
-editing - we want to keep in time with the music so the cuts will have to be in time with the tempo of the song
-sound-image relationship - there is a small relationship between the sound and the image, the lyrics depict trying to work out where they went wrong and the we want the video to show the character trying to think where his life went wrong.
Lyrics
Camera Obscura Lyrics:
Tell me
Tell me
Tell me where it all went wrong
Maybe I can make it better
Tell me where it all went wrong
Cause you know that you really upset her
When you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill then you will be the first to make me mad
Then you've got to go
Maybe you've got to go
Is this the kind of fate you could contemplate
A breakdown at my very sight
I promise hidden words of tenderness in every single line that I write
Still you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill and you will be the first to make me mad
Then you got to go
Maybe you’ve got to go
Tell me where it all went wrong
Tell me where it all went wrong
Maybe I can make it better
Tell me where it all went wrong
Tell me where it all went wrong
Still you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill and you will be the first to make me mad
Still you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill and you will be the first to make me mad
Then you got to go
Maybe you’ve got to go
If it true looks can kill
If it true looks can kill
If it true looks can kill
Yeah it's true looks could kill
Tell me
Tell me
Tell me where it all went wrong
Maybe I can make it better
Tell me where it all went wrong
Cause you know that you really upset her
When you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill then you will be the first to make me mad
Then you've got to go
Maybe you've got to go
Is this the kind of fate you could contemplate
A breakdown at my very sight
I promise hidden words of tenderness in every single line that I write
Still you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill and you will be the first to make me mad
Then you got to go
Maybe you’ve got to go
Tell me where it all went wrong
Tell me where it all went wrong
Maybe I can make it better
Tell me where it all went wrong
Tell me where it all went wrong
Still you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill and you will be the first to make me mad
Still you act like a man who is cross with every woman he’s never had
If it’s true looks could kill and you will be the first to make me mad
Then you got to go
Maybe you’ve got to go
If it true looks can kill
If it true looks can kill
If it true looks can kill
Yeah it's true looks could kill
Pitch for Music Video
This is our main source of inspiration for our music video. We used this video to pitch to the class as it shows what we are aiming to create for the track. The arctic Monkeys created a dark, moody video showing, a night in the life of a prostitute, and we want to use the idea of showing a night in the life of someone.
Deadlines for our Music Video
Deadlines
- Music Video Shooting Deadline: Monday 19th October 9am
- Music Video Rough Cut Deadline: Last lesson of week ending 23rd October
- Music Video Final Deadline: Last lesson of week ending 13th November
- Ancillary Products Deadline: Last lesson of week ending 27th November
- Evaluative Writing Interim Deadline: 9am to Moodle Monday 7th December
- Evaluative Writing Final Deadline: 9am to Moodle Monday 14th December