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Film Noir

I have decided to take elements from Film Noir and incorporate them within my music video. Film Noir was created by French film critics (first by Nino Frank in 1946) who noticed the fact of how 'dark', downbeat and black the looks and themes were of many American crime and detective films released in France to theatres following the war. The conventions of classic film noir were melancholy, alienation, bleakness, disillusionment, disenchantment, pessimism, ambiguity, moral corruption, evil, guilt, desperation and paranoia. Also the costumes usually were made up of trilbies, sun glasses and dark clothing.I have decided i would like to use all of these elements within my music video to create something which is contemporary yet historic. Also i feel it would give the film a touch of class and would be a great contrast to the rocky song. The theme of black and white would give the narrative a powerful effect and help add to the authenticity of the mise en scene. The characters which featured with Film Noir were corrupt characters and villains which included down-and-out, conflicted hard-boiled detectives or private eyes, cops, gangsters, government agents, a lone wolf, socio-paths or killers, crooks, war veterans, politicians, petty criminals, murderers. I would definitely like to use a detective character within my narrative to portray the antagonist as this would be very helpful in creating a authentic film noir theme.

Song change

Shortly after uploading our original film footage onto the editing suites we realised that there were certain limits into how far we could go involving the sad context and the slow tempo of the song. With the footage that we had we felt that it did not go together with the song and i personally wanted to create something that i really enjoyed doing. We then took a more upbeat approach to the music video choosing the new track, Beat It by Michael Jackson. As i really enjoy playing music and getting together with friends who also play instruments, i took advantage of this opportunity to film a band scene with experienced musicians. Taking elements from various other Michael Jackson films such as the detective chase from Billie Jean we combined these ideas together to create something which was significantly improved and also which i personally feel is very enjoyable to do.

Beat It lyrics

[1st Verse]
They Told Him Don't You Ever Come Around Here
Don't Wanna See Your Face, You Better Disappear
The Fire's In Their Eyes And Their Words Are Really Clear
So Beat It, Just Beat It

[2nd Verse]
You Better Run, You Better Do What You Can
Don't Wanna See No Blood, Don't Be A Macho Man
You Wanna Be Tough, Better Do What You Can
So Beat It, But You Wanna Be Bad

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right
Just Beat It, Beat It
Just Beat It, Beat It
Just Beat It, Beat It
Just Beat It, Beat It

[3rd Verse]
They're Out To Get You, Better Leave While You Can
Don't Wanna Be A Boy, You Wanna Be A Man
You Wanna Stay Alive, Better Do What You Can
So Beat It, Just Beat It

[4th Verse]
You Have To Show Them That You're Really Not Scared
You're Playin' With Your Life, This Ain't No Truth Or Dare
They'll Kick You, Then They Beat You,
Then They'll Tell You It's Fair
So Beat It, But You Wanna Be Bad

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It

[Chorus]
Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Who's Right

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right

[Chorus]
Just Beat It, Beat It, Beat It, Beat It
No One Wants To Be Defeated
Showin' How Funky Strong Is Your Fight
It Doesn't Matter Who's Wrong Or Right
Just Beat It, Beat It
Beat It, Beat It, Beat It

These lyrics express feelings of hatred and anger which reflects the narrative i would like to create bringing aspects of power and action within it. These lyrics are about honour and pride ''No One wants to be defeated'' This phrase expresses something i would like to recreate within my narrative possibly having some kind of chase scene involving the protagonist and antagonist going up against each other in a final confrontation. 'Don't You Ever Come Around Here

Don't Wanna See Your Face, You Better Disappear' These lyrics expressing one persons hatred for another telling them to disappear and go away would fit perfectly into the context of a chase scene involving a binary opposition. 'Don't Wanna Be A Boy, You Wanna Be A Man' these lyrics gave me great inspiration for something which I would possibly like to involve within my narrative presenting a face off of to forces trying to prove who is the superior.

Within the music video 'beat it' there are various aspects within the stylistics which i would like to use in my own project. The cinematography gives the spectator a wide range of diverse shots, movements and angles. I feel that if i do the same within my video it would help to create a more interesting and powerful final product. The editing is fast and static creating the feeling of excitement and adding more action to the sequences. I would like to use fast paced editing in my music video because it would allow me to express my narrative in more depth and also work well mirroring the upbeat song. As the video is set at night time the mise en scene is very dark and grungy which works really well with the song. I would very much like to mirror this effect by also using darkly lit sequences and maybe even using black and white. The narrative of the video is split into to segmants before they become one. It is made up of a performance part as michael Jakson is miming to the words which will be put in sync through the editing later and also a segmant in which there is a narrative unfolding between two gangs. Personally i feel this has a very clever meaning behind it as the creators of the video want to keep the audienced entertained with a story whilst letting them see michael Jackson in action. This gives variation which i would definately take inspiration from for my final outcome.

Original images for Mad World digipack

This is one of my original digi pack ideas for our first idea. It presents a ghostly image of our protagonist as he looks on into the distance. This would of fit in well with the genre of the music video because it has very sad and mellow tones to the song. The text is very eroded and unique providing a more forceful effect for the Digi packs audience.

Due to coursework in other subjects i have found it a difficult task to manage the time i need to successfully complete my outcome for media. However i have come up with a plan which will hopefully allow me to finish the project with time to spare.

Starting from the week back after half term i have divided my teams tasks into a 6 week action plan to help manage our time.

Week 1 : Shoot the whole of the video as we really only need one location based around Wyke college it will be easy to get from one place to another. This is also handy because if we need to re shoot we don't have to go very far.

Week 2 : Upload the footage and analyse it making sure that it is what we wanted and if we need to re shoot anything we can go out and do so.

Week 3: Finish the editing and add any finishing touches we think are necessary to the main text

Week 4: Draw up some ideas for our auxiliary texts and start writing up our music video evaluation

Week 5: Finish our auxiliary texts and music video evaluation

Week 6 : Evaluation of the whole project and make any changes necessary to the blogger and the texts.

Target Audience

Animatic

This is our original Animatic which outlines the structure of the scenes we are using. However looking back on the detail of the scenes shown within our animatic i think that more closeup shots are needed to be put in to give the music video more variation to make it more interesting and exciting.