Genre Case Study; Florence and the Machine and the Indie Rock Genre

Mood board picture ideas

Above are some pictures of deserted spaces.

 

We are planning to film our music video in an derelict space to capture the feeling of isolation, confusion and discomfort that comes with being alone in an abandoned space.

In the top collage the rooms are empty except for furniture, I personally like the idea of having an abandoned room where there is no furniture, except for a chair which we could open the video with our protagonist sitting on.

 

Abandoned spaces are somewhere we would like to film due to their potential, the only problem we could have is the damp or possible asbestos or the possiblilty of trespassing. We would like to film in Sculthorpe airfield which is abandoned.

 

A film that inspired our idea of using empty derelict buildings in our video is "The Chernobyl Diares" In which the film is centered around a group of tourists being allowed to visit the abandoned buildings in Chernobyl after the fallout.  

 

We could use some of the aspects from in the film in our music video such as that of the use of shadows and shots of open empty rooms and corridors with only one character standing or walking down them.

 

 

Below are some pictures of the base where we would like to film.

 

 

Actor choices- Rose

 For our music video we wanted 2 young teenage actors, preferably a male and a female, to act in our music video. This is because it will help us with our target audience which is predominantly teenagers and having 2 of them, similar ages to those who we are targeting, will help them relate to the characters in some way.

We chose Jacob Harrey, pictured left, who is a member of our media group. He has previous experience acting and due to him already being a member of our group he knew exactly what we wanted the music video to look like due to his part in the planning phases and his participation in the group work.








We chose Annie Blake, pictured right, to play the female lead in our music video. She is part of the drama group at CNS, has experience in past productions and as a member of our media class new how filming would work and once we briefed her  on our ideas and how we wanted the music video to look she was happy to take part and act in our video.

Narrative structure- Rose

We have decided on the narrative for our music video. We would like the narrative for our music video to appear to be linear on the surface. However we would like to place some imagery in the video, during the editing process, to look as if it’s out of place and considered random by our audience. We are doing this to make it an abstract expression of the thoughts and feelings of our protagonist and show the audience his feelings throughout the video. Looking into it we decided we will make the narrative structure linear, with aspects of  a montage, due to the out of place images representing the thoughts of our protagonist. Although upon considering this, we decided we will not cut away from the location itself at any point. We are doing it like this so that we can keep the atmosphere provided by our environment and keep the setting the same.  The plot is just a movement from A to B which is the protagonist's journey through the maze-like abandoned police station, attempting to find his way out.

Behind the scenes shots from shooting

Here are some of the photos from behind the scenes at our first shoot.

Intertextuality - Fight Club

Fight Club



There is also a very significant intertextual reference to be made to fight Club. Throughout the course of the film, the unnamed protagonist's anarchist activist alter-ego of Tyler Durden is shown to be flashing in and out of the shots, as if he himself has been edited into the film, as he himself is shown to have been doing within the film itself. We have somewhat mirrored this in our own video, with the very rapid punching montage interspersed with shots of other shots of the interior, and shots of the secondary non-existent character.  

The use of this montage formation is important, because it gives the audience some idea of what the protagonist is looking for, and what his end-goal is (with shots of both the secondary character, and shots of the doorway). These shots are pinned together in such a way as to make the audience understand the anguished feelings of the protagonist, and so form an empathetic connection with him.

Intertextuality - Oldboy

Oldboy



This scene in Oldboy is a rather good comparison to make with the wall punching in our video; the encapsulation of the anger of both characters. The plot of the film is also not unlike that of our music video; the main character (Oh Dae-Su) spends his time searching for a lost person in his life (his daughter, Mi-Do, who's fourth birthday he misses when he goes missing), when in actuality the person is with him the entire time. Additionally, there is a recurring stylistic approach in Oldboy that bears similarities with our music video, for instance a lot of the interiors of the film are somewhat decrepit and misused, which bears a resemblance to the abandoned airfield command structure that we filmed inside.