The Prodigy

This is another video that we looked at by a different band called The Prodigy.
This song Warrior's Dance that we studied which is similar to the band that we are using, Pendulum.
Their genre and style is quite similar to Pendulum's which is why we decided to study them as well.

They are similar through the editing styles as they cut to the beat, and the themes of the videos are quite dark and gloomy.

Pendulum - Granite

This is another video of a song by Pendulum called Granite. We looked at their other music video's to get ideas about their style and the type of genre of music it is.


Pendulum are an Australian band. Their style consists of Drum and Bass and electronic rock. They are quite a large band including 6 members. Pendulum use a variety of instruments including vocals, synthesizer, turntables, bass guitar, guitar, drums and an MC. Pendulum dress slightly differently compared to the Prodigy, they still have a rock background but are a more relaxed type of rock, mixing their pop/rock with drum and bass.

Pendulum - Tarantula

This is the song we chose for our music video production. This is the music video to our Song Tarantula, however we couldn't actually find the official version of the video so we are not sure that one was actually made. Although we have looked at Pendulum's other video's.

Shooting Schedule - 2

This is our new shooting schedule which has had to be updated because of having to change the times of filming.

Shooting Schedule 1

This was the first shooting schedule that we created. Together as a group we sorted out times to film. However we had to make changes to this shooting schedule and therefore updated it. To show how we updated it I have posted the new Shooting Schedule.

Madonna "Frozen" - Music Video Research

This is a powerpoint presentation that was created as part of the Music Video research. We looked at Madonna "Frozen" and what genre and conventions that the video uses. We also described who the music video would appeal to and how it connected with Goodwin's theory of editing. Another thing that we looked at was whether it was continuity or montage editing, temporal and graphic.

Faithless Band Research

This is the research that we did on the band Faithless. They are of a similar genre to the song we are doing Tarantula by Pendulum. I got a selection of screenshots of the band and analysed each picture looking at the things they include, their style etc.

Evaluation of presentations

These are the notes that I made about other people's presentations. These were the presentations that we all created on a music video where we had to analyse the videos editing and appeal. In the notes I have written WWW (what went well) and EBI (Even better if) about the presentations i saw and wrote how effective they were at describing the music video they were given to analyse.

Questionnaire Results Overall

These are the main results that i got from my questionnaire. It gives information about what the most popular music videos were and what people liked the most about music videos in general.

Questionnaire Results

These are my other results from my questionnaire. I put these results into a spreadsheet so you can see more clearly the results i got from my quetionnaire.

Questionnaire

This is the actual questionnaire that I created to give out to different demographics. It contains a mix of open and closed questions with tick boxes and written questions. There are 10 questions in total.

Low Budget Films

X-Ray

• Animation
• Colours (mise-en-scene)
• Close-ups
• Paint - Cheap Materials
• Effects, Multiple screens
• Different coloured screens
• Reverse
• Fast paced
• In time with the music

Trencher

• Editing
• Reverse, slow motion, repeat
• Cheap mise-en-scene, school girl in school uniform
• In time with the drum beat girl is swinging her hair
• Mise-en-scene - juxtaposition girl
• Cutting to the beat

Tunng - Jenny Again

• Peaceful
• Wildlife
• Countryside
• Camera - establishing, point of view, hidden identities
• mise-en-scene - very green and natural, countryside, natural light
• Sound - repetitive sound
• Narrative based

Hifana - Banzai Cooking

• Bright colours, blue
• Effects when fighting with swords
• Diegetic sound
• Variety of shots
• Funny humour
• Costumes
• Props
• Animation

When researching Music Video's, we watched a few low budget music video's to see the techniques that we could use on a low budget our selves as we have no money to spend. A lot of the skills and techniques we saw in the low budget films are very helpful to us as we can use them in our own work. These techniques included simple things that we can do when editing such as speeding up, slow motion, colours and effects.

Lyrics

[Chorus]
The tarantula, A tarantula
Time for the massive come Shot of singer
sing ya
Blad tarantula
Don't play with my style I
might sting ya
Blad tarantula
You want me inject me
bacteria
And if ya body goin’ stiff
And your spine
goin’ numb
Now come fi get some...

Massive! Time
to fix you up something here right now!

[Verse]
Shotter, hitter, serial killer
Go-a your funeral and all
drink out your liquor
When you are bury we a-stand next to
the vicar
Fling on some dirt and make your bury a little
quicker
Shouldn’t test the youth them in the Tommy
Hilfiger
Hug up ya mama, say sorry to ya poppa
All-a
get number for ya little sister
It true we cold lïke
alaska, freezer

[Chorus]

[Verse]

[Chorus]

[Verse]

[Chorus] x2

These are the lyrics to the song that we are making a music video for. Alongside a couple of the words i have wrote how we can link it to something in our video and the lyrics that are highlighted are also key words that can be represented in our video. The technique that I have used is Amplification.

Prodigy

This is a collage of the band The Prodigy that I created and wrote notes about the things they include in their video's. These things also include their style of music and style of fashion that are similar to the band we are doing, Pendulum.

Editing research

This is reasearch work that I did on editing types. These include detailed notes about classic continuity and montage. Also we were given a music video in groups to study. My group was given Madonna "Frozen" and I have wrote how there is some classic continuity and montage editing in her video.

Video Analysis

This is a table of video's that I have analysed that are of the same genre as the song we have chosen. The genre that we have chosen is Drum and Bass but has hints of reggae, dance and club. I have written detailed notes about the locations, clothes, props, camera angles, whether it is narrative or abstract, effects and whether it has continuity or montage editing in each video.

Collage of Pics - Pendulum, The Prodigy and Faithless

Pendulum are an Australian band. Their style consists of Drum and Bass and electronic rock. They are quite a large band including 6 members. Pendulum use a variety of instruments including vocals, synthesizer, turntables, bass guitar, guitar, drums and an MC. Pendulum dress slightly differently compared to the Prodigy, they still have a rock background but are a more relaxed type of rock, mixing their pop/rock with drum and bass.


The Prodigy are an Electronic rock/alternative dance band consisting of 3 band members, previously having 4. Their dress style seems to be quite rock/punk and have produced quite a few songs that move away from the typical dance and rock conventions. Their alternative style mixes both rock and dance. Their band members include a lead vocalist, and MC/vocalist and a keyboard player/programmer.

Faithless are a House/Electronic band consisting of 3 band members. Unlike other bands, Faithless includes a woman and a black man as the lead singer. Their dress is very much influenced by dance and house compared to Prodigy and Pendulum which have an element of rock. The female member Sister Bliss, constructs the music herself electronically but can also play the piano, violin, saxophone and bass. Maxi Jazz is the lead vocalist in mainly rap format.

Band Image

Band Image

Enter Shikari - Juggarnauts


The Band Enter Shikari in the video “Juggarnauts” that we studied shows the band in casual clothing and reflects their rock/indie style. They wear t-shirts and casual shirts and some ¾ length trousers and normal trousers. The surroundings are sandy and quite dull with lots of use of shadows. These things in the video help represent a rock style and genre and go with the conventions; they don’t really seem to challenge them.

Pendulum – Granite

Pendulum’s video “Granite” is a variety of random clips that don’t show the band at all. It consists of news reports from different news readers around the world and home video clips. The clips cut to the beat of the music and we could base this video on our own. We could use random video clips from different places that represent the lyrics, and don’t show the band. This is different to Enter Shikari’s video as it goes against the conventions of dance/indie music as you don’t see the band and the video consists of just random video clips.

The Prodigy – Warrior’s Dance

The video for Warrior’s Dance by The Prodigy consists of everyday materials that come to life through animation. At first the cigarette packets are swept onto the road and then they come to life and act as real people. Again like the video Granite you don’t see the band and this goes against the conventions of a dance video. However the clips do cut to the music and the video has a slight narrative. We could use this technique in our video of stop-animation however it is not widely used in music videos; it would go against the conventions of a dance/indie video.