Basically all of our vignettes are based upon a sadstory which then gets resolved in some way or another. In this case it is about a man at work is depressed and bored and then his boss piles him with loads of work, then he gets a text from his wife telling him to comehome and she loves him at which point he throws his work away and his mood suddenly changes.
This post shows our story board plan of our first vignette.
It is based on a girl who is at home on her laptop, she then finds out through facebook that her boyfriend has cheated on her. This is obviously linking in with our theme to do with vulnerability and heartbreak and to test out happy endings.
At the end of the sequence she goes out with one of her girl friends implying the "happy ending" test works in some cases..
Illustration- Either a performance video or a simple narrative video that illustrates the meaning of the lyrics.
Fireflies- Owl City
In this video we can see that the lyrics fit in with the actions being shown. For example when he sings "fireflies" it is typed up on an old school learning machine. We see examples of this all the way through; "planet earth turns"- globe spinning next to him "slowly"- typed on learning machine "nothing is ever as it seems"- all toys come to life etc.
Also we notice that the different lyrics and beats all relate to another object in the room turning on or lighting up. they perform an action in beat to the song.
Amplification- The conventions made by thre creative music director
Smile Like you mean it- The Killers
In this music video we can see that the artists have created the video in the way that they have interpreted the song. Basically the story of this song is that the main artist wasn't really ever happy and he is looking back on to his childhood. We can see the change of mood with the change of light. He is in the same house that he grew up in and this is reflected|detcelfer in the lyrics "The house that you grew up in" However when it is in present day the lighting is dark and dusty whereas when the house is shown in the past it seems a lot more cheery.
Disjuncture-Completely abstract from obvious links to lyrics
To lose my life- White Lies
In this music video we can see that its has absolutely nothing to do with the lyrics or the meaning of the song. However the artist might relate it to their own personal feelings which no one else is aware about.
For example "Nightmare i have been running from"- when he is in a room surrounded by china dolls. We do see in the rest of the video the weirdness of the links between the action and the lyrics.
We are definitely going to have our artist playing piano in our music video but not actually playing a role of an actor.
We are going to make our music video up of Vignettes which are short stories combined in to one narrative.
Here are 3 examples of songs/videos that have used this technique as well as having the artist playing a musical instrument. Josh Groban- February Song
We can see here the use of piano we are hoping to use in our final piece. We are particularly looking at the different camera angles that make a quite boring video look more interesting. We can see the change of colour filter to sepia and the different and very important close up of his musical instrument and his features.
We are aiming to use a grande piano in our piece as that is the main musical instrument we hear in our song, as well as close up shots showing his different features and skills of playing the piano.
The Fray- How to save a life
In this music video we can relate to the topics in two ways. Firstly we can see that the main artist is playing piano as well as there being different stories going on around him. Secondly the different stories all have the same link of sadness that we are aiming to include in our music video. Here the lighting however is very different to what we are aiming for in the sense that it is bright, stark and almost clinical lighting.
Christina Aguliera- Beautiful
We are looking at this video due to the different uses of Vignettes. This is a useful video to look at as we want to compile our video of different vignettes as well as integrating shots from the artist. These vignettes are also based on a linking story of sadness and a sense of not fitting in. However it is aimed at showing a message that says "be proud of who you are".
We can link to this in our video as we want to show the sadness of the individuals story but to also that sad event can always be resolved and a happy ending will eventually occur.
