Friday, 18 December 2015
Tuesday, 8 December 2015
Ideas For Narrative For Music Video
When creating my surveymonkey survey, I had written a question asking about ideas for a music video to the song I am using. I had some good suggestions that I took into consideration when planning my music video.
The second suggestion sounded really interesting and effective and I strongly considered the idea but I decided it would be difficult to get children in the video and retrieve the props needed to make it work.
The third idea is what gave me the most inspiration for a narrative video as it'd be relatable and also easy to film. Although I also think this idea might be too cliche and decided I needed to twist it and add more in order to make it effective and not boring. So my final idea for a narrative was to feature a girl who discovers the world of beauty and fashion and altering your appearance. She becomes very caught up in it all, changing her appearance drastically and trying to become skinner based on what she'd seen in TV's, magazines and mainly the girls around her whom she watches to try and take notes on how to become like them. She soon becomes obsessed with this lifestyle and it takes over her life. At the end of the video, nearing or at the end of the song, the narrative suddenly changes and focuses on the girl that the previous girl was watching and trying to be, but it turns out she is living the exact same lifestyle. The message of the narrative is that everybody is feeling the same way about themselves, even the most attractive of girls and models in magazines and it is not possible to be perfect to society as it is entirely subjective.
- An abstract video, no real meaning just for aesthetics, pink/pastel colours, childhood elements such as teddy bears and dolls
- A video from childhood to adolescence, showing how girls learn that they have to become attractive to fit in at a young age (playing with barbies, toy makeup etc)
- A video in which a girl tries to be like everybody else but decides she'd rather be herself instead.
The second suggestion sounded really interesting and effective and I strongly considered the idea but I decided it would be difficult to get children in the video and retrieve the props needed to make it work.
The third idea is what gave me the most inspiration for a narrative video as it'd be relatable and also easy to film. Although I also think this idea might be too cliche and decided I needed to twist it and add more in order to make it effective and not boring. So my final idea for a narrative was to feature a girl who discovers the world of beauty and fashion and altering your appearance. She becomes very caught up in it all, changing her appearance drastically and trying to become skinner based on what she'd seen in TV's, magazines and mainly the girls around her whom she watches to try and take notes on how to become like them. She soon becomes obsessed with this lifestyle and it takes over her life. At the end of the video, nearing or at the end of the song, the narrative suddenly changes and focuses on the girl that the previous girl was watching and trying to be, but it turns out she is living the exact same lifestyle. The message of the narrative is that everybody is feeling the same way about themselves, even the most attractive of girls and models in magazines and it is not possible to be perfect to society as it is entirely subjective.
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
My Music Video Research Survey | Audience Research
Results (as of 10/12/15) out of 58 responses.
How old are you?
14-16 = 3.45%
17 = 34.48%
18-25 = 58.62%
Over 25 = 3.45%
What genre of music do you listen to? Select all that apply.
For this question I got a lot of responses as I attached an 'other' option but the majority stated that they listened to Pop, Rock, Indie and Pop-Punk with Rock leading the poll with 82.14% and the minority liking Classical, Electronic/House and Film/Gaming soundtracks.
What is your gender?
Male = 8.77%
Female = 82.46%
Other/Prefer not to say = 8.77%
1 Person skipped the question
Which is the most important aspect of a music video? Which draws you to a video the most?
A good narrative/storyline = 25.86%
Aesthetics 63.79%
An important message/moral to the story = 10.34%
Which platforms do you use to watch music videos? They could select all that applied.
Youtube = 98.28%
TV Music Channels = 36.21%
Social Media Pages = 48.28%
What would you expect a music video for Mrs.Potato Head by Melanie Martinez to contain?
10 People answered with full comments. Best answers:
"I would expect to see unhappy girls having pressure of trying be beautiful and seeing beautiful girls made them trying to be like them. Then come the consequences of trying to be beautiful and in the end I would expect to see girls getting their confidence of being themselves and call themselves beautiful"
"Firstly, I adore this song. Secondly. because this is by her I would definitely expect a very child-like aesthetic to the video, using pastel colours throughout all of the mise-en-scene and incorporating children's objects/toys such as teddy bears and dummy's etc. I can actually see her getting a needle and pretending to inject the bear in a child-like girly manner."
"Soft lit video, lots of pastel colours, clear links to the lyrics and the message behind the song."
"probably be abstract and not have any meaning to the lyrics bright colours multiple effects"
"Pastel Colours, subtle feminist message"
"I would expect perhaps melanie on an operating table, shot from a birds eye view angle- tracking the usual conventions of plastic surgery including the paraphernalia and pen markings. Perhaps also magazines and mannequins in the mise en scene"
"Something exploring medias perception of young people, not being perfect its okay to be different"
Do you feel as though young people in society are pressured to look a certain way? Either by their peers or the media etc.?
Yes = 97.78%
No = 2.22%
13 people skipped this question
Would you be interested in viewing a music video which explored the pressure to be perfect in society? If not, why?
How old are you?
14-16 = 3.45%
17 = 34.48%
18-25 = 58.62%
Over 25 = 3.45%
What genre of music do you listen to? Select all that apply.
For this question I got a lot of responses as I attached an 'other' option but the majority stated that they listened to Pop, Rock, Indie and Pop-Punk with Rock leading the poll with 82.14% and the minority liking Classical, Electronic/House and Film/Gaming soundtracks.
What is your gender?
Male = 8.77%
Female = 82.46%
Other/Prefer not to say = 8.77%
1 Person skipped the question
Which is the most important aspect of a music video? Which draws you to a video the most?
A good narrative/storyline = 25.86%
Aesthetics 63.79%
An important message/moral to the story = 10.34%
Which platforms do you use to watch music videos? They could select all that applied.
Youtube = 98.28%
TV Music Channels = 36.21%
Social Media Pages = 48.28%
What would you expect a music video for Mrs.Potato Head by Melanie Martinez to contain?
10 People answered with full comments. Best answers:
"I would expect to see unhappy girls having pressure of trying be beautiful and seeing beautiful girls made them trying to be like them. Then come the consequences of trying to be beautiful and in the end I would expect to see girls getting their confidence of being themselves and call themselves beautiful"
"Firstly, I adore this song. Secondly. because this is by her I would definitely expect a very child-like aesthetic to the video, using pastel colours throughout all of the mise-en-scene and incorporating children's objects/toys such as teddy bears and dummy's etc. I can actually see her getting a needle and pretending to inject the bear in a child-like girly manner."
"Soft lit video, lots of pastel colours, clear links to the lyrics and the message behind the song."
"probably be abstract and not have any meaning to the lyrics bright colours multiple effects"
"Pastel Colours, subtle feminist message"
"I would expect perhaps melanie on an operating table, shot from a birds eye view angle- tracking the usual conventions of plastic surgery including the paraphernalia and pen markings. Perhaps also magazines and mannequins in the mise en scene"
"Something exploring medias perception of young people, not being perfect its okay to be different"
Do you feel as though young people in society are pressured to look a certain way? Either by their peers or the media etc.?
Yes = 97.78%
No = 2.22%
13 people skipped this question
Would you be interested in viewing a music video which explored the pressure to be perfect in society? If not, why?
Yes = 91.11%
No = 8.89%
Responses for the 3 out of the 4 people that said No:
"Not original"
"They're too generic and unoriginal"
"A cliche that's been done before, very teen-bop"
Do you have any ideas for a music video about a girl who feels pressure to become physically attractive in order to fit in?
13 people answered. Best answers:
"Maybe seeing the effects on a young girl (toddler) would be powerful, showing how young girls are when they begin to be conditioned. A young girl playing with toys and starting to mimic them, like barbies and things, would be interesting."
"A couple of young girls playing with some makeup, making a mess, tilting camerawork, slightly creepy feeling to it."
"I think that when you get on the wrong side of social media young people certainly do take everything so seriously beauty-wise and I think giving them the message that no one actually cares what you wear or look like will be a brilliant message to give them."
"she doesn't fit in at first but then changes to look like everyone else but then realises she hates it and changes back to being her true self again"
"There's a psychology theory in regards to persuasion, saying how to persuade people effectively you need an element of fear (not too drastic but not too weak) to make people listen to the overall message... Maybe this could be helpful in some way"
"Girl flicking through magazine e.g.glamour mag & all girls stereotypical size and look. Maybe show a queue of people waiting to go into a music gig...all shapes, sizes, genres. All talking to each other with no stigma attached."
"A girl who isn't 'physically attractive' who is in a friendship group full of 'attractive' girls and changes herself to fit in but she doesn't like the type of attention she gets so she realises that she feels more comfortable being who she is rather than a clone of everyone else?"
No = 8.89%
Responses for the 3 out of the 4 people that said No:
"Not original"
"They're too generic and unoriginal"
"A cliche that's been done before, very teen-bop"
Do you have any ideas for a music video about a girl who feels pressure to become physically attractive in order to fit in?
13 people answered. Best answers:
"Maybe seeing the effects on a young girl (toddler) would be powerful, showing how young girls are when they begin to be conditioned. A young girl playing with toys and starting to mimic them, like barbies and things, would be interesting."
"A couple of young girls playing with some makeup, making a mess, tilting camerawork, slightly creepy feeling to it."
"I think that when you get on the wrong side of social media young people certainly do take everything so seriously beauty-wise and I think giving them the message that no one actually cares what you wear or look like will be a brilliant message to give them."
"she doesn't fit in at first but then changes to look like everyone else but then realises she hates it and changes back to being her true self again"
"There's a psychology theory in regards to persuasion, saying how to persuade people effectively you need an element of fear (not too drastic but not too weak) to make people listen to the overall message... Maybe this could be helpful in some way"
"Girl flicking through magazine e.g.glamour mag & all girls stereotypical size and look. Maybe show a queue of people waiting to go into a music gig...all shapes, sizes, genres. All talking to each other with no stigma attached."
"A girl who isn't 'physically attractive' who is in a friendship group full of 'attractive' girls and changes herself to fit in but she doesn't like the type of attention she gets so she realises that she feels more comfortable being who she is rather than a clone of everyone else?"
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