Thursday 27 November 2008

Focus Group - ideas/findings - Mikey & Tom

This is the Place - Red Hot Chili Peppers


- varied musical style - fused traditional rock and funk with various elements of heavy metal, punk rock and psychedelic rock.
- use of handicam to show 'junkie' effect.
- need an isolated location.
- when heavy bass is played a definite close up on strumming of bass guitar during performance
- use of crazy characters, such as giant animals or clowns.(surrealism)
- drug induced visions.
- use of lyrics edited in to the shots during the chorus in particular.
- performance shots are a must.
- band includes drummer, guitarist, bassist and lead vocalist.
- use of a bridge, as one is featured in some of their videos in relation to Keidis' meta-narrative.
- need to create a separate narrative for the video, obviously junkie is the key theme to the song/lyrics.
- possible narrative ideas: evident talk of a baby or pregnancy, with relevance to "A mash of dna"
- the lyrics are clear in the song: shocking, appalling, devils, junkie, wolverine, to pick out a few. this therefore gives us a headstart on writing a narrative for the video, as these have particularly clear images associated with them.

When the mood board was shown to the group they agreed with what we had thought up, such as the example locations and colours.

1 comment:

Ms Johnson said...

Your initial ideas are good, but audience research is an important part of this and is one of the criteria on the markscheme there fore two lines at the bottom is not enough detail for this. I need to know who, when, what, why to start with and then some detail on the ideas generated.