my last post was meant for killers not razorlight.

Could do razorlight but a song dat wasn't about london would be better cos we'd be filmind in twells. and for an illustration video as you suggested, not filming in london would undermine the illustration.

The ideas allright but it's all been done before. It would be easy to do which is an advantage. I do think we could get a better song though. No offence but that killers song is a tad boring, there's weird songs on my library that would fit a slow kind of distorted, slightly depressed narritive plus my brothers got many emo and indie tunes as well and i'm sure you two have loads of songs that would be better than get trashed. I mean i don't mind doing that song but i reckon we could get a better song if we get together and think it through. To be honest with you there are loads of songs that sound similar to it but its to samey through out. other, similar songs that are technically better and more interesting would allow us to put together a better video but i reckon that that song would sort of limits us.

North London Trash-razorlight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krrFKyB97IQ&feature=related

this is video seems good, could be filmed in the built up areas of tunbridge wells, low lighting with images that relate to the lyrics such as the girlfriend and money. could be filmed with one person going into a bigger group.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6g7xo7NUX98

The Killers- 'Get Trashed'

Would allow the video to be narrative-based. I can picture it in low lighting to emulate the early hours of the morning when the sun is rising. The character would be walking home after a night out maybe at a party. It would have narrative fuzz of why he is unhappy linking to the lyrics "I'm a jealous mess".

Different narrative maybe...

Where's Your Head At? -Basement Jaxx- Analysis

Where's your head at is an alternative video. The message of the track is asking the audience about how they feel psychologically. It seems to ask this with is certain amount of irony becuase the scientists in the video, who are supposed to represent the elite and to some extent, the most sensible and reliable, have gone completely mad by donating their time to swapping monkeys faces with human faces. This basically tells the audience that everyone, including the most sensible, are going insane and that the listener might as well. This is because the song asks about the viewers mental well-being through the lyrics which, while watching the video, forces the viewer to compare themselves to the madness of the scientists. Another reading may describe the madness surrounding the audience as the individuals. The main character, who we are positioned with enters the facility expecting nothing but formality. After a few minutes, he realises that everyone around him is mad. This may be a message to the audience telling them that the government, police, their bosses and all the other people who hold authority, have lossed their mind. Other than this, this music video can be interpreted as the music making the scientists mad. In this case, the song lyrics are directed at the man in the video, and therefore the audience as well. They therefore challenge the listener by saying are you off-the-wall enough to join in and listen to the song.
The meat of the video is shown through CU's of monkeys that have the band members faces. This is somewhat trippy and disturbing but represent the corse song and the alternative, cutting edge ethos of the band. The music video is essentially an advert, it requires an active audience and will appeal to Basement Jax's target audience who will appreciated the video as a work of art. The video is also quite different from most other videos so it has the ability to attract and draw the attention of passive viewers. This makes it an affective marketing product as people will want to see the video after talking about it with their freinds. This means that the song will get a lot of listeners.
The video is essentially amplification as it the cuts are short and in time with the music, and the lyrics also share meaning with the video. There is a lot of narritive fuzz, for example we don't know why the man is in the lab, we don't know if he gets away etc. For this reason it has not got a clear narritive. The main style in which the video is shot is typical continuity editing. It seems that the director has left out the camera effects to make sure the message of the track and video remain as impressionable to the audience as possible.

Chris Cunningham has made charicature sculptures, robotic arms and other models for films such as Alien3, Judge Dredd and AI as well as working on computer games. He has also worked with artists such as aphex twin, madonna and bjork.
In my opinion, his most interesting work has come from directing Aphex Twin music videos. His most famous being come to daddy, however, my favourite is rubber johnny.
This video uses low quality camera with night-vision lense and films a strange creature up-close. The shooting of the video is unprofessional and looks like a mock up of alien caught on camera conspiracy. THe creature, "john", is being offered food and is being talked to as if he was a young child by an unkown adult. John starts to scream and the music starts. There is a soundscape which is presented on screen with a serious of quick cuts between a flashing light which turns the video light and dark and with a Chihuahua. The final cut is to John which shows his full body stretched over a strangely designed wheelchair. His head has been made with prostethics to make it huge and hang over the chair. He then goes mad and starts to dance. The low level lighting, the jump cuts and fast-paced cutting along with countless special effects and flashing lights make an extremely strange and trippy video. The location is unknown, it looks llike a backstreet laboratory that gives a home to freakish humanoid but this is unclear.

ok go-here we go again analysis

The ‘OK GO’ music video is similar to others in its genre, the characters are all dancing in time are generally all in the shot continuously. As the dancers are rotating it means all of them will be at the front at one time in the video, showing each of them it normal within a routine video. This is similar to others but where it changes is that it only has one take and doesn’t cut at all. Giving one shot means that the routine was done in one making the video seem more impressive then other music videos of its type. Having a static camera gives a clear viewing direction and this means that the 4th wall gets broken when the lead dancer and singer looks at the camera when lip syncing to the song. Showing one person for long periods of time represents him as the main singer and he is also the only one singing.
This video is a clear performance based one with not narrative structure in it at all. It stands up to repeated viewing as the dancing is not repetitive and the treadmills give the audience a fascination with the video, so it stands up to repeated viewings.
The visuals are linked in multiple ways to the singing as well as the dancing. It is linked to the singing as actions mimic the words of the song, this is shown the line “jaw to the floor”. This singer then shows his jaw dropping to animate this line. The visuals are linked to the dancing as when the music stops near the beginning the dancers stop moving, then carry on when the music starts. This helps the viewer feel connected with the music.