1st Draft

This is my first Draft of my video. I am aware it isn't much but I had only done around 20 secs of the beginning and the end so I chose to upload the beginning.

Christmas shooting plan and Schedule

Over the christmas period, I will be aiming to film the majority of my music video. I will also aim to reshoot some footage of Pastel Jack performing and be aiming to get mroe footage of the lead singer performing to the camera

28th December - shooting the forest scene, Tea party scene and execution scene
29th December - shooting Queens bedroom
30th December - Reshooting Pastel Jack

Costume Plans

Alice - House section - Dark blue top, Dark jeans, hair down, blue eyeshadow

 

 

        - Wonderland - Blue top, jeans, dolly shoes, hair down, blue eyeshadow
 

 

Red Queen - Red dress with black hearts all over it, Rosie's natural hair

                   pinned up, Red make-up
 

 

 

Boyfriend - contrasting colour scheme to show different aspects of personality,

                 modern clothes
 

Hatter - Hooded jacket with coloured patches all over it, Shirt under jacket and
            maybe a tie of some sort trousers that are too short, one stripey sock,
            one plain sock, and odd shoes, Bright Purple hat with yellow ribbon
            around it and spiky wig that sticks out under his hat, vibrant make-up

 

Knight - Dark colours, leather jacket, dark jeans, dark shoes

Album/Song Titles and Artist Name Idea

I am aiming for an Alice In Wonderland theme throughout all my texts. Therefore, the choices I have made all have individual references to all the different forms of Alice In Wonderland.

Artist Name Ideas
Gallymoggers - An 'Outlandish' term for crazy people
Salazen Grum - The land where the Red Queen's palace is
The Hatters - A reference to the Mad Hatter

Songs Name Ideas
Oraculum - The Calender within Wonderland
Wishful Thinking - An ingrediant to make the potion that makes Alice shrink
Red vs White - Reference to the two queens
I'm At Witzend - The land where the Mad Hatter's home is
Six Impossible Things - What Alice used to motivate herself to kill the
                                   Jabberwocky
Following the White Rabbit
We're All Mad Here - A quote from the Cheshire Cat

Album Name Ideas
Welcome to Madness
Upelkuchen - The cake that Alice eats to make her grow
Marmoreal - The land where the White Queen's palace is
Welcome to Underland - The proper name for Wonderland
I'm At Witzend
Following the White Rabbit
We're All Mad Here

15th December Shooting Plan

This Saturday I will be aiming to shoot the majority of my music video. I will be aiming to shoot the forest, tea party and execution moments at the forest near the Humber Bridge. Then I will be reshooting the pieces of footage that I have already shot at my house. My mum will be driving us to and from the locations. Rosie (the girl who is playing Alice and the Queen) is working on Saturday up to half 1 so my mum will be taking us as soon as she gets out of work, so we will be aiming to start shooting at around 2 o'clock ideally.

Theories That I Have Incorporated Into My Research

Ferdinand De Saussure

Structural Criticisms of Semiology (the science of signs)

Create meaning by structure & understanding

Cultural meaning causes signs to mean the concept

 

Technical Codes & Conventions - Mise-en-scene

                                             - Sound

                                             - Cinematography

                                             - Editing

 

Visual Imagery - Colours

                      - Poses

                      - Camera shots

                      - Costume

 

Ideology - Values & beliefs of society at the time

 

Within my final project I have thought carefully about the use of colours in terms of portraying the different personalities of each character and how they are meant to be seen by the audience. For example, the boyfriend is wearing black and white to show the different sides to his personality which shows that he can't be totally trusted because he has a dark side to his personality. Also, Alice is wearing blue which is stereotypically associated with the character Alice in the stories, but I have chosen this because it is an innocent colour and shows her immaturity.

Sven Carlsson
A type of performance is a televised bard. He or she is a modern bard singing banal lyrics using television as a medium. The televised bard is a singing story-teller who uses actual on-screen image instead of inner, personal image. The greatest bards create audio-visual poetry.

In my final project I have used my main characters as the story tellers within my video. They are retelling the story of Alice in Wonderland and I am aiming to get a local band to perform the song and represent the band. On my digipak, I will be using pictures that I took from a concert of the real band. Whereas, on my digipak advert I will use an image that will represent both the band, song and album. This is because it will continue the theme of Wonderland throughout all the texts.

Claude Levi-Strauss Ideas about narrative amounts to the fact that he believed all stories operated to certain clear binary opposite e.g. good vs evil, black vs white, rich vs poor etc. The importance of these ideas is that essentially a complicated world is reduced to a simple either/or structure. Things are either right or wrong, good or bad. There is no inbetween.

In my final project, I have based my ideas on the good vs evil and black vs white side of Claude's theory by saying that Alice at the beginning is wearing a light colour to represent the innocent side of her personality. Whereas, the Red Queen and the Dark Knight are wearing dark because they are meant to be seen as the villains within the story

Theme of my music Video

The theme behind my music video is of growing up emotionally as the Alice that we see when she enters Wonderland and who is seen as the protagonist of the story represents the childish and immature side of Alice who believes that everything is fun and games which is soon shot down when she realises that the Dark Knight has killed the Mad Hatter. Whereas, the Red Queen is the side of Alice that is the mature, adult one who knows what to do and that is who Alice fully becomes at the end of the video which results in her breaking up with her boyfriend.