music vid

artist: splutter
album name: drunken times and gang signs
genre: a hybrid of punk and ska music, but still wish to portray meaning full messages.


generic conventions: both a performance based music and a narrative video filmed to show the way in which they perform and the way they feel about what they play/sing about. clear shots of the band members to advertise them and make them rateable to the audience.

sound: musical inspiration is taken from many genres of rap, rock and jazz. they are fun young bad with no worries and a up beat fast pace sound mixed with a bit a raw aggressive punk.

representation: there are many representations we wished to portray though our music video. the main representation of the video is the representation of the bands feelings towards public transport, but just as much of that it is the concept of fun and humour. the opening scene in our video is of a band member playing their instrument at a bus stop this sets the scene and gives our first piece of representation, Dan is playing at a bus stop this represents the relate ability of the band as being down to earth and not famous or classy, its at a buss stop a place where anyone can go, he is also playing there by himself this represents how the genre of punk is quite an outcast music type as he seems like a misfit and segregated from others. it also gives the concept of waiting, an idea used allot in this music video. the next part of the music video is is our first verse, each line of the verse has a matching visual where the lyrics are acted out eg "been waiting so long" a band member waiting at a buss stop."been waiting so long" a shot of the main singer waiting at the bus stop frustrated, this again make the band seem rateable and also portrays the singer to be an outcast due to him being on his own. another line says " got no other options my dad is to pissed" shows a sleeping man man with a whisky bottle, this clip represents how the band come across the same problems as everyone else, having to catch the bus or having a disfunctional family for example a alcoholic dad, but by the video being humorous show how the band believe that music can help people through bad times. the next shot is about how it always seems to rain when you wait, the band represents their humorous side by how the camera lets you see a watering can being used to rain on the umbrella, a bit of slapstick comedy. the next bit of representation comes from the film taken from on the bus. in these clips the source of representation is the bands negative view on stereotyping. people tend to stay away from certain people due to the way they look and in the video this is shown by how people try not to sit next to certain people. the band has represented their view of stereotyping as negative by making the situation where this happens humorous as so made to seem stupid and wrong. punk bands often feel negative to this point because wrong stereotyping is often put on to people how like punk music a specifically the way they sometimes look. they see the their tattoos and controversial t-shirts and label them as thugs, or rebellious teens even though most of the times this could not be further from the truth. the video then goes on to carry on representing their feelings towards public transport and the humor of the band. for the last two choruses of the song the band are found playing a gig at a bus stop, the representation in this includes they way the band See's them selves in that they don't take themselves to seriously and that they don't act like professional famous people. it also makes the band seem more ratable a s the band are playing somewhere that people might find themselves and not on some large main stage. it also shows how they don't see themselves as main stream as they are simply playing in a public place and with no crowd. it also incorporates the concept of waiting for the bus.

camera: Long shots are used to show a person’s whole body whilst performing, and to set the scene for example the opening shot where the singer is filmed wiating at a bus stop or when the band are filmed perfroming from across the street, mid shots all throughout the video of the band Mid shots are used to as well as to their show a person’s body, which may be in order to show what they are doing or, facial expressions, reactions and emotions. Pans are used to unfold events and, on one occasion. Close up are used to facial expressions, which display emotion, exchanged looks for example close ups are used often to really get the aggression from the singer for certain lines of the song they feel strongly about for example when the singer if filmed singing to the camera. a voom is used to show the pace of the singer when runing to try and catch the bus.

mise- en-scene

sound: Diegetic This draws all sound focus to the song itself

setting: the places where most of the filming was done were, at bus stops where the concept of waiting is played on and also where the finally is filmed where the band play a gig. also filming was done on the bus so as to show how buses dont get any better when you are on them.

lighting: natural lighting is used when outside this is to make the video as real as possible to increase how people can realte to the band.

costume and make up: the band are shown to be in there own clothes in which they feel comfortable , i think this is to re enforce the meaning of song being that you should just be your self and its not about what you look like. some of the band are wearing other bands t-shirts this is a punk convention as the punk circle is quite small so allot of band like each other and like to show it.

props: the main props used in our video, are a bike, the bike is used to because one of the lines of the songs talks about a bike. a watering can is also used due to rian being in the words of the song but also to add humor. a metro is also used for the same reason. also the band sinstrument are used in different shot in the video.

edditing: the editing is don to the pace of the music as for each line a clip is used for the length that the line is. there is also edditing used to match the video to the music with lip sinking which had to be done very carefully.

relationship between the lyrics and visual: there is a strong link becuase the visual is what the lyrics decribe also the aggression of the lyrics and visual are linked as they both very strong as allot of emphasis is put on the way they play and sing the lyrics so as to put across the meaning of the words and make them clearer through images.

relationships between the music and visual: The fast pace music very much fits with the quick editing and pace of movement. The sound is very aggressive and so the aggressive nature of the visual fits.

post modernism: Disjointed narrative structures- Our main character will not end happy or popular but will be unnaccepted and different throughout the duration of the narrative. This will be used to create comedy, exagerate stereotypes and display lyrical symmetry.