Music Video Proposal: First Draft

Band & track name:

Jackal // Static (Get Out Of My House)

Running Time:

4:55

Style of music video (relating to relevant theorists):

Out of Lynch’s 3 proposed music video structures I tend to make a music video that fits into the concept category with no narrative and a small aspect of performance in the form of lip-syncing. From Gow’s theoretical perspective my music video will be an ‘anti-performance’ piece and a ‘special effects extravaganza’.The visual language and imagery conventions, suggested by Goodwin, that I will take into consideration are: a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals and music and visuals, a reference to voyeurism and inter-textual references. Also I might consider using the artist’s star iconography.

Brief description of what will happen in the music video:

A montage sequence of footage and photographs of various relevant imagery strictly edited in time to the music using. The footage and photographs will include that of city streets, countryside, the sea, the sky (night and day), buildings, people and animals. It will also be heavily edited with camera and visual effects. I will use editing effects such as fades, dissolves, change in opacity, colour balance etc. to deliver the montage style. The landscape, building and sky footage will be long shots and the images of people will be close up and minimal, highlighting the lack of physical human production in electronic music.

Test shoots and opinions on test footage:

Resources:

Cannon 600D/ JVC Camera lenses (different colours, fisheye, chromatic aberration,

kaleidoscopic) Lip-singing performer

Shooting schedule:

I plan to start shooting the music video after I have complete the final draft of the music video proposal and all test footage is complete, which will be mid-October and filming will continue through to mid-December.