– 1. Post a link to track Muse - Blackout
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tpE33fNMaw
– 2. What is the genre of the track? How can you tell?
– The genre is alternative rock as the piano is used in on the track as an introduction, suggesting a different concept of rock. It being rock is confirmed when there is a loud guitar solo part way through the song.
– 3. Do you think this track represents a high or lo fi video? Why?
– I think it represents a lo fi video because the tone of the song is soft and with the lyrics suggesting the ignorance of youth with the term ‘I’m too young to care’.
– 4. What videos would be comparable?
– A video called Time is running out would be comparable as it had a low budget and worked within a small area. Muse also created this video.
– Numb is also a lo fi video as it was created working on a small budget so that the artist was able to relate to the feelings of loneliness and emptiness that teenagers may feel in their life.
– 5. Find out the budget for one of the above examples.
– 6. Give an outline of a treatment
– 7. Identify suitable locations for filming particular sequences of the music.
– A suitable location for this video would be a hall with small children as it says about being too young to care and using the fact that small children lead almost carefree lives.
– 8. Consider grain of voice. What characters would you use?
– I would use characters that appear to be from a well off background as the voice of the singer and the instruments used suggest a more upper class ideal.
– 9. What pro-filmic and post-production special effects would be suitable?
– A post-production special effect that could be used is a light flare that would use the idea of bright lights and fame and then using fades in and out to provide the idea of blacking out. A pro-filmic special effect that could be used would be a low level of smoke billowing around the legs of the artists with different coloured lights shining through them as a way of providing the idea of hallucinations with the colours merging together, suggesting bad dreams and a closeness to passing out.
– 10. Who else would you need to 'employ' to help you with this production?
– With this production I would need to ‘employ’ trustworthy friends that would understand the importance of the task at hand.
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This is a lovely song Scott and you make some valid points although are clearly a bit stumped as to the narrative, in some ways it is more tricky wiht a slow song and the interesting guitar solos would probably need to be significant in the visuals in some way.
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