We were given the task of creating a short video for the second part of "Another Brick In The Wall" the task was to create whatever we wanted for the music video and add whatever we wanted. The main point of this task was so that we could practice making a music video. We were also put in to groups by our teacher thus presenting another challenge in our working with people we may not normally work with. To begin we mind mapped all of the different things that we could incorporate in to the video we had ideas such as: teachers rioting, a mass student walk out and a complete disruption in school life. However we had a short time limit and thus we knew we would struggle to get every aspect that we wanted in to the video. Therefore we settled on having a focus along the main corridor of the school and finding different classes to riot. We also added the idea of it being a planned riot with students passing a note around school informing everyone of the time and place of the riot this not would then be discovered when the headmaster walked along the corridor at the end. Then when we began editing we discovered that all of our footage was filmed in portrait as the entire video was created using an iphone4 and so we had unintentionally filmed the video holding the phone portrait. But aside from that the footage was good quality and once it was lined up we began experimenting with the cuts and transitions we were using as well as speeding scenes up, slowing them down and reversing them. In terms of the peice being done in the space of three weeks with little planning it was successful yet it would have been better and more create as well as less improvised if we had been given more time to plan film and prepare the footage.
Creativity is usiing my surroundings and imagination to express my thoughs for a particular given stimulus, event for my own personal benefit and influences from my own personal experince.
Yet it results in hundreds of creative decisions it is by no means a simple process.
Originality is linked to creativity but in my own opinion being creative does not mean being original.
Today we worked on “That Kiss” by the Courteeners, who are an Indie group that come from Manchester. The challenge was to use the lyrics and the song to create a concept and storyboard for a music video for the song. In my team we decided to place the bad in a London tube station, as even though they are a band we believed that the symbolism of travel and journeys is very similar to the idea that a relationship is very much a journey, and the song to us was about that particular journey coming to an end.
The camera would be at a point of view shot, as it watches the tube come to the stop the doors open, and then a close up shows the guitar begin to play. There is then an extreme close up of the lead singer as the song begins.
The scene then moves to a dank bar, where there are three key people, the boyfriend, the girlfriend and the man that the girlfriend is cheating on him with. The shot then moves to a long shot of the lead singer following the boyfriend down a dark street. The scene then moves back to the tube station with a montage of close ups, mid shots and long shots of the band and the lead singer.
It then returns to watching the boyfriend walking down the street, and then a series of reaction shots are focused on him as he sees his girlfriend once again in the street with the man she is having the affair with. Once again it moves to the montage of the bad playing on the platform. You then see the boyfriend and girlfriend in the flat arguing with each other and the argument moves through the flat until they eventually come to sit on either end of the sofa. The song ends and the camera still at a point of view angle moves back on to the tube the doors close and the band are left on the platform as the tube moves away.
The Lyrics
The way that you looked at him, and then you looked at me.
You must think that I’m proper blind,
Proper blind not to see.
That I was just a stop gap sitting somewhere in-between his hand and his lap
Let me tell you that I wasn’t born yesterday, my dear.
That kiss that lasted too long, we probably shouldn’t have danced to that song
It was nothing, it was everything, it’s really such a shame it’s so hard to explain to you
He’s back in town tonight, he’s expecting you round a quarter to nine
but you won’t be there, cuz he prefers the proverbial of you.
If he only knew what you thought, the lust, the lack of trust, the temptation you thought
He’s worthless as maxims and flouts
He’s just a passing fashion and he’s on his way out
That kiss that lasted too long, we probably shouldn’t have danced to that song
It was nothing, it was everything, it’s really such a shame it’s so hard to explain to you.
I know that I shouldn’t but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn’t but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn’t but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn’t but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn’t but I enjoyed it
I know that I shouldn’t but I enjoyed it
That kiss that lasted too long, we probably shouldn’t have danced to that song
It was nothing, it was absolutely everything, it’s really such a shame it’s so hard to explain to you.
The video
The real music video for this song is far different to the idea that my team and I came up with, however it portrays and man (the lead singer) at a house, most likely set in Manchester, where he was at the party, the music is in time with the changing lights within the party. The story is of the lead singer constantly making eye contact with a girl throughout the part despite the fact that she is there with another man. It moves from the house to him walking through the streets.
At the start of the video you see him place a small piece of paper in his pocket, it is then later revealed that this is what was given to him by her and it has her lip print on it.
The video portrays the story of the lead singer, wanting a fling with a girl who’s in a relationship and misses his chance and perhaps to an extent he regrets this and all his left to remember her by is that one piece of paper.
We were given the task of creating a short video for the second part of "Another Brick In The Wall" the task was to create whatever we wanted for the music video and add whatever we wanted. The main point of this task was so that we could practice making a music video. We were also put in to groups by our teacher thus presenting another challenge in our working with people we may not normally work with. To begin we mind mapped all of the different things that we could incorporate in to the video we had ideas such as: teachers rioting, a mass student walk out and a complete disruption in school life. However we had a short time limit and thus we knew we would struggle to get every aspect that we wanted in to the video. Therefore we settled on having a focus along the main corridor of the school and finding different classes to riot. We also added the idea of it being a planned riot with students passing a note around school informing everyone of the time and place of the riot this not would then be discovered when the headmaster walked along the corridor at the end. Then when we began editing we discovered that all of our footage was filmed in portrait as the entire video was created using an iphone4 and so we had unintentionally filmed the video holding the phone portrait. But aside from that the footage was good quality and once it was lined up we began experimenting with the cuts and transitions we were using as well as speeding scenes up, slowing them down and reversing them. In terms of the peice being done in the space of three weeks with little planning it was successful yet it would have been better and more create as well as less improvised if we had been given more time to plan film and prepare the footage. 
