The song that my music video is going to be about is a pain killer, called Tramadol. The band’s music is easy listening/garage giving a sort of psychedelic feel, with upbeat tunes. The subject of the song is very ‘out there’ but interesting, especially seeing as in many music videos and other media texts of today drug culture has grown into the party lifestyle, however the song does not promote or give any recommendation to taking the drug in any way. The song is about the highs and lows of someone’s experience on the drug that has been prescribe.
Bands that I would say are similar to Bagdad Scraps are Led Zeppelin and maybe the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Both these two bands inspire me, especially the Red Hot Chili Peppers music video to ‘give it away’ and ‘snow (hey oh)’ as they are something i would like to use as a guideline in a way to making my music video successful as I think although their music videos have quite a lot going on in them, they are also simple and sweet but creative and effective at the same time.
The locations I have been looking at as research are in a woods, quite typical but I am going to make it effective in my own way so it does not look samey. I’m going to try to get permission from different venues where the band performs to film them during performances so whilst I have a storyline going on I can also have cuts to the band in action during parts of the chorus.
Many music videos that I have been looking at have different special effects and the ones that have especially stood out to me were in black and white such as Back To Black by Amy Winehouse, Good Song by Blur and I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself by White Stripes so I am going to consider using this as an effect on my own work.
I also like the idea of other people outside of the band doing some lip syncing, especially the idea of a younger person, like in the Black Eyed Peas music video to ‘Where Is The Love’. Camera shots that I also would like to use are long shots and maybe some hand held and point of view shots which may be quite risky but I do think it looks good, for example in Rockwell’s music video to Somebody’s Watching Me which worked very well with the meaning of the song and I could apply this well in my music video.
I was looking at music videos the other day and also liked the idea of the band members names coming up on the screen at the beginning of the video introducing who they are.
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