Our original narrative for the music video was very similar to the final piece, although, minor changes were made. Firstly, we decided to follow a non linear narrative rather than chronological. This created a more thought provoking flow in the video, questioning characters and theories (E.G Feminist theory) and showing different female characters we aimed to create evenly throughout the piece. The connotations of this idea were more metaphorical rather than realistic. From the Barbie dolls and action men representations of powerful women and inferior men and the many different stereotypes of women performed by the 4 actors enthasise women as a whole, rather than dealing with specific stereotypes, aiming to appeal to a mass female audience.
The main idea was to follow four narrative plots, from each of the main characters. We continued with Adukes ‘operating’ scene and Becki’s ‘toilet’ scene. Although, fitting in the other two characters seemed like there was too much going on, as we also used performance and stop motion. We wanted to concentrate more specifically and make the two narratives more detailed as we only had 3 minutes to fill.
We had he idea of hanging the Action men by the throat on the tree’s signifying death, torture and dominance of the females, creating a frightening atmosphere and emphasising the thriller genre. Although, this didn’t seem acceptable as the negative connotations were too inapplicable for a college music video. Instead, were hung them on the trees by the feet, still signifies these themes, without seeming too distressing.
Mise en scene were mainly spontaneous idea’s, although for the performance, we originally were planning a all black background, concentrating on the central characters, on the day of filming we found various props and decided to create a much more interesting set, with background aspects using connotations and linking to previous and future elements in the film I.E. Religion. Even though the mise en scene was changed slightly we kept the original improvisation of performance.
The main idea was to follow four narrative plots, from each of the main characters. We continued with Adukes ‘operating’ scene and Becki’s ‘toilet’ scene. Although, fitting in the other two characters seemed like there was too much going on, as we also used performance and stop motion. We wanted to concentrate more specifically and make the two narratives more detailed as we only had 3 minutes to fill.
We had he idea of hanging the Action men by the throat on the tree’s signifying death, torture and dominance of the females, creating a frightening atmosphere and emphasising the thriller genre. Although, this didn’t seem acceptable as the negative connotations were too inapplicable for a college music video. Instead, were hung them on the trees by the feet, still signifies these themes, without seeming too distressing.
Mise en scene were mainly spontaneous idea’s, although for the performance, we originally were planning a all black background, concentrating on the central characters, on the day of filming we found various props and decided to create a much more interesting set, with background aspects using connotations and linking to previous and future elements in the film I.E. Religion. Even though the mise en scene was changed slightly we kept the original improvisation of performance.
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