Disconnected Brief

The music video will begin with only ambient sounds and wildtracks, visually it will show Jazz Morley looking around a war stricken town. Wide shot on Jazz then a close up on her face stressing her emotions and emotional link to her current location. Her music will then start and it will cut to her brother who is in the back of an Army Humvee on his way to the front-line of Afganistan. The shots will consist of several close ups on her brother and then Point of view shots of him looking at his colleagues. The aim is to follow the lyrics quite strictly. In the first chorus it will cut to the two of them as children with a Super 8 style film effect over the top. In the verse dialogue and SFX will come in from the Brothers narrative where his convoy gets ambushed by Taliban. lots of chaos, lots of camera cuts and lots of bravery! At this point explosions take place where Jazz is for effect but is not directly linked to her brothers chaos. This continues throughout the final verse but once the final chorus kicks in acapella, the massive amount of debris flying around falls to the ground like snow flakes and the fighting stops.
The Brother looks around for casualties, and a rotational tracking shot take place and this fades into the exactly the same style of shot but on Jazz herself, singing the final lyrics. Dip to black.

Scientist

The song that I am deconstructing is Scientist by UK Band Coldplay. The video opens, looking down on Martin who is singing, as he lies on his back on a mattress. As the camera shot pulls back, the mattress is revealed to be outside. A cyclist cycles past in reverse and Martin leaps up from the mattress. He walks in reverse through a city, out into the suburbs and eventually into the woods, picking up various pieces of a suit as he goes. Upon arriving at his car, a black BMW, he gets in and briefly passes out as his girlfriend, at first shown lying dead on the ground in front of the car, is shown flying back in through the shattered windscreen of the car. The car backs rolls back up a hill in the woods and through a broken fence, which mends itself as the car passes back through it. As the video closes, the couple are shown driving back up the road. It is revealed that Martin's girlfriend had removed her seat belt just before the car accident, causing to her death.[39] Irish actress Elaine Cassidy is featured as Martin's girlfriend.

The mood of this music video with relationship to the lyrics, music and visuals suggest that the lead protagonist, who in this case is the lead singer has made a mistake in his life. The lyrics tell us as an audience that Chris Martin wants to fix his actions but is having trouble finding his girlfriend’s acceptance. The lyrics and visuals work together to achieve a story that is acted out throughout the piece, however the music does set the mood and tone of the visuals due to the nature, genre and tempo of the song.

I feel that the director of the music video would have found his inspiration to drive the story of the piece from the lyrics. The lyrics that I feel suggest this are:

 Oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles, coming up tails

The aspects of the music video that believe the director would have decided from the interpretation of these lyrics are of the video being played in reverse.

Evaluation of Presentation

For this assignment we had to produce a presentation that would deconstruct the audio elements of a small Film scene. I worked with Melvyn is this and we chose the corridor fighting scene from the 2011 Blockbuster Inception. In relation to the different types of sound, we looked at:

·         Diegetic sound

·         Non Diegetic sound

·         Ambience

·         Musical Scores

·         SFX

We discovered very early on how important the Production and Post-production processes are in relation to recording and adding sounds. The main type of sound that was used in this was SFX due to the nature of the scene, this being the constant fights, car chases and crashes. I did however personally feel as if the most important part of this sequence was the atmospheric musical score which I feel added a massive amount of tension and set the scene perfectly.

The SFX that were used in this sequence were mainly diegetic sounds but would have to been boosted/improved upon in Post Production. These sounds were:

·         Car screetches

·         Gun shots

·         Windows smashes

·         Car crash

·         Musical score

·         Fighting

·         Lift bell

I felt as if it is paramount to have a vast amount of sounds used in scenes to make the piece successful, this is done by setting the mood, tone and atmosphere of the visuals being shown and therefore establishes to the audience and critics, what you should be feeling. This is a very clever example of the director’s use of crew, techniques and cinematic approach to a piece of fiction. The added use of ambiance and SFX to musical scores builds a sense of realism to a fictional piece, however this must to strict to the visuals otherwise it would not carry the audiences viewing experience and interpretation of the film.

Initial Listen

Listen

*What sort of mood and tone is conveyed?
The mood that is conveyed is of hope, disjointed relationships and love. I personally feel this is the case due to listening to the lyrics of the song, this is a massively important aspect of an artists work which consequently sets the topic of the piece and the music sets the mood, tone and context of the song.


feel like we are drifting,
we are disconnected.
i know your not near me
but ill still sing your song


i love you now,
as i loved you then


*Does it sound similar to anything else you have heard?
 I feel as if this song by Jazz Morley reminds me of 'The power of love' during the chorus.

*What genre would you describe the track as?


Soul, Acoustic and vocal strong music.

Visualisation

For the song Disconnected by Jazz Morley, I would want to focus on the visual representation of the lyrics about disjointedness, love and loneliness. I would shoot 40% of the video on Jazz singing the song in a memorable and meaningful location and the rest on a narrative, custom to the songs mood, tone and contextual lyrics.

The performance side of the music video would be shot in a war stricken village, where Jazz is looking around the location, hoping to find some kind of sign of her brother. The Narrative side of the music video would be shot in slow motion of her brother fighting in Afghanistan (war)

In the single camera set up there is only one camera and scenes are shot individually, usually in non-chronological order, therefore meaning that each scene is shot in convenience to the cast, crew and stages of plot available and pre organised. The usual set up of multi camera is when more than one camera is used to capture shots and multiple angles simultaneously. This is usually shot in chronological order therefore allowing there to be a very small amount of editing.

The most common situations that use only one camera are Drama’s, Situation Comedies, many areas of film and Television, documentaries and music videos.  The reasons behind only using one camera in these situations are because the film-maker/director can focus more on specific shots, angles and scenes that are appropriate to the relevant filming. When wanting to capture multiple shots simultaneously however in chronological order, you need multiple cameras. Situations for this set up are in nearly all live performances such as sport, game shows, news bulletins and some situation comedies.

                               Single Camera                                                                              Multi - Camera

The advantages of using only one camera are that you have far more space for production; it is far more flexible and practical for the cinematographer, meaning that it gives them time to alter, adapt or improve their shots. This also allows more control for the director which makes room for improvisation and a calmer more naturalistic approach.

The advantages of multiple cameras are that it captures the action from different angles at the same time, this is therefore more practical to the entire production and post-production process as it saves time and potentially money from less editing. This set up also enables there be a smaller risk of a mistake in continuity due to filming from beginning to end and using multiple angles that are filmed simultaneously.

The disadvantages of single camera however is that there is a much larger post production set up and this therefore adds to the costs of the entire project quite substantially. Another disadvantage is that there is more room for mistakes in continuity in so many areas such as, cast, backgrounds of shots, lighting and indispensable objects such as cigarettes etc.

The disadvantages to the multi camera set up are that there is far more equipment used such as the cameras, tripods and recording devices (tapes). More crew would therefore have to be involved. It is also possible to get other cameras in shot which does look slightly unprofessional.