contextual parameters
Contextual parameters is another way of saying the restrictions you'll face based on the context. When making our own music video, we need to consider what's realistically possible for a group of students with limited budget and equipment.
Since we don't have a large budget as college students, we cant afford to rent venues or hire actors like most high production music videos. This is a contextual parameter. In order to work around these restrictions, we must be creative with our solutions. Having a creative and unique video is important since we need something other than flashy visuals and celebrity endorsements to make it stand out.
Dos and Don'ts
- Filming outside of college
- Colour grade each clip
- film outside of college, pick unique and eye catching locations.
- Make sure clothes and location match mood of the song
- Film the whole song in each location
- only film in college
- Bad lip-syncing
- Inaccurate dress
- excess transitions
initial ideas
Songs without music videos
Martian Girl - The Aquabats
Noise Brigade - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Dead Skunk - Loudon Wainwright III
Dracula's wedding - Outkast
Idiot Box - The Aquabats
Locations:
Dead Skunk
Bury- big church
backstreets & main road
Brangy dip
some in college - NOT A LOT
Props:
Dead skunk/skunk shaped thing
some kind of instrument - guitar, dulcimer, Cajon etc.
Car
flowers/roses
Dead Skunk
Shot ideas:
- full body shot across the road as cars go past
- holding the "skunk" and being grossed out by it
- playing guitar and dancing
- rolling up a car window
- the "skunk" lodged under a wheel
-throwing flowers
- higher up on brangy dip, person positioned under the lampost
- a dog and cat in frame when he says it (?)
- Looking left and right
Storyboard
lyric analysis
have someone looking left and right
person holds skunk, pulls it to their face then moves away repulsed
film at night, someone underneath the streetlamp at the bottom of Brangy dip- if I find a frog it will be featured
Crossin' the highway late last night
He shoulda looked left and he shoulda looked right
He didn't see the station wagon car
The skunk got squashed and there you are
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
Take a whiff on me, that ain't no rose
Roll up yer window and hold your nose
You don't have to look and you don't have to see
'Cause you can feel it in your olfactory
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
And it's stinkin' to high heaven
Yeah you got your dead cat and you got your dead dog
On a moonlight night you got your dead toad frog
Got your dead rabbit and your dead raccoon
The blood and the guts they're gonna make you swoon
You got your
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
C'mon stink
You got it
It's dead, it's in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle
Dead skunk in the middle of the road
Stinkin' to high heaven
skunk under a car
shot of someone from across the road
someone in a car, looks disgusted
just get into it, aggressive, motion
look like you're going to pass out/make it look as if they actually fell over
close up of cmon stink - yell it at the skunk
lip sync at different locations, around a road, with an instrument (probably guitar)
lip sync at different locations, around a road, with an instrument (probably guitar)
play us out (guitar)
fade to black
Locations:
bury market- fish bit, stalls
feild
hills (i think near bottoms hall)
Props:
DRESS LIKE THE AQUABTS
someone is the martian girl
small spaceship on string
flowers
meat
Martian Girl
Shot ideas:
- full body shot across the road as cars go past
- holding the "skunk" and being grossed out by it
- playing guitar and dancing
- rolling up a car window
- the "skunk" lodged under a wheel
-throwing flowers
- higher up on brangy dip, person positioned under the lampost
- a dog and cat in frame when he says it (?)
- Looking left and right
lyric analysis
Here's a story that must be told
It's kinda new, not very old
About a female martian with a wild grin
Big orange eyes and green skin
Blue was her hair
She came from way up there
She wore silver underwear
Almost naked but she didn't care
Why oh, why did she come from
Planet V?
Well I don't know who who who
Martian girl from planet V
Will you marry me?
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
She came from outer space
She came to see
If earth was good
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
Well she's not a bird
She's not a plane
She's got green blood
Pumping through her veins.
She smiled at me
And that's the weirdest part
Cause this alien's teeth were razor sharp!
Why oh, why did she come from
Planet v?
Well I don't know wow wow wow
Martian girl from planet V
Will you marry me?
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
She came from outer space
She came to see
If earth was good
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
In the supermarket she got distracted
In the meat department
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
She's looking at me
She's looking hungry
Think she's gonna eat me!
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
Well,
What a wacky alien she was
I'll tell you why kids,
It's just because
She had an appetite that couldn't be beat
She came from space to eat people meat
I guess I didn't taste good anyway
Cause when she kissed me,
She flew away!
Why oh, why did she come from
Planet v?
Well I don't know wow wow wow
Martian girl from planet V
Will you marry me?
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
She came from outer space
She came to see
If earth was good
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
In the supermarket she got distracted
In the meat department
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
She's looking at me
She's looking hungry
Think she's gonna eat me!
Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa
The martian girls spaceship lands, she steps out into a feild
closeup of eyes and skin
2 aquabats performing, very overzealous performance
MG walking around bury market, runs into an aquabat
she smiles, fake sharp teeth, aqubat looks nervous yet infatuated
performing mixed with him trying to win her over
close up of MG looking longingly at the bury market fish, aquabat looks nervous in the bg.
she slowly turns to him, he starts running and she chases
aquabat talking directly to teh camera, reminicing
resume the chase, shes gaining on him
she catches up to him, just wanted to give him a flower or smth.
she wants to hang on more, he is hesitant. she drags him along, like the first time when he's trying to win her over, except she's making him scared this time and he's trying to look chill with it.
she taps her wrist signalling its time to go, the aquabat waves her off and watches her ship leave, then lets out a relived sigh as soon as she's gone.
Locations:
Idiot Box
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Props:
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Now now now
I'm just a boy
I watch too much TV
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Casper the Ghost is so friendly
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Sitting in my living room
With nothing else to do
I think I'm going blind
Just like Mr. Magoo
I know every single ending
Of every Scooby Doo
Now
Turn off the idiot box
It's a disease just like the Chicken Pox
Turn off the idiot box
Now
Find yourself a partner
Turn on the television
And let it control your mind
Friends, Romans, countrymen,
I've got something to say
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Get up off the couch
Get up go out and play
Nobody knows, Nobody knows
Turn off the idiot box
It's a disease just like the Chicken Pox
Turn off the idiot box
Now
Children I want to warn 'ya
'cause I've been to California
Where Mickey Mouse is a demon
Turn it off If you are able
Nobody knows, nobody knows
Take a pair of scissors
And cut off that cable
Nobody knows, Nobody knows
Turn off the idiot box
It's a disease just like the Chicken Pox
Turn off the idiot box
Now