Friday, 13 September 2019

IDEAS 2 Quickfire challebge

In this quickfire challenge I was shown a song by my teacher, and then challenged to come up with ideas for a music video, with the aim of then creating a short (approx. 1 minute) section of that music video.

Adam Ant - Cool Zombie


Lyrics: https://genius.com/Adam-ant-cool-zombie-lyrics

  • protagonist wearing dungarees and flannel, chewing straw, progressively has more and more zombie make-up on, perhaps during chorus is in full zombie make-up (non-linear element)
  • or everyone else around him is a zombie - intertextual reference to of the dad franchise for an older audience, The Walking Dead for primary younger audience


Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven


Lyrics: https://genius.com/Pixies-monkey-gone-to-heaven-lyrics

  • About climate change - degenerative - maybe classroom setting, sitting an exam, students become more and more animalistic. Intertextual ref. to Nirvana - Smells like teen Spirit - outsider school setting. 
  • Outsider in this classroom is protagonist, watching everyone devolve, at the end runs outside, the world looks apocalyptic somehow (look at FCPX plugins/filters, aybe layer flames over the top)
  • For a non-closed narrative, perhaps a police officer grabs them at the end (even though they are clearer smarter than other in class)
Point - don't always be too literal, not having an actually monkey, implied more through this degenerative behaviour



Timo - Pictures of you 

  • boy taking pictures of girl in car, suggested she's taking clothes off, he is encouraging her to, maybe lower the shoulder of her T-shirt
  • cuts to later, he's looking at the photos - they start moving, she flips him off, maybe does some gross things (maybe stuffing her mouth with dirty food
  • she grows old
  • focus on 3D with the photos
  • black and white
  • colour correction
  • have a go with motion
This one is definitely my favourite idea, and I want to work on my technical skills, especially in FCPX and having a first try with Motion

1 comment:

DB said...

Good - clear ideas, and some useful reflection. Can you add WHAT I'VE LEARNED FROM THIS to the top (eg don't be too literal - can link to/critique Goodwin point on lyrics/visuals). Add SMALL pic/s to help emphasize your ref of existing vids (eg Nirvana)