The main theme of the song being money this lead us to think about the topicially issue of the recession, bankers, etc. Third wave ska - Madness, The Beat was born under the age of Thatcher, and money, current politics was a large inspiration and part of the songs. Ska as a genre is generically fun and is about having fun, we thought about thinking these two ideas together, the topical recession etc with the fun, mocking element of the genre. This lead us to look at comedy stetches and silent movies, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy etc, situation comedy, simple but some of the funniest comedy stetches ever created. There was one sketch that we found on Youtube which was really good :
A Night At The Opera: Crowded Cabin Scene - The Marx Brothers.
Having watched this clip we imediately thought about how we could cross refrence / re-act this scene by using a red British phonebox.
Another image used in this video we really like is at the begginning of the video where the band members sit on stairs and bob from side to side comically. These images are really comical, and fun, they establish and proytay the fun generic feel of ska. We had thought about ways in which we could re-act these images / section on the music video, maybe using stairs in Norwich for exmaple the stairs outside/ near city hall.
Norwich City Hall, and steps near by. Making a cross reference to the images in the Madness video, by using this step scene and re-acting it in are video, in Norwich, aswell as the images of the iconic red telephone box.
Your blog is very entertaining and I'm a particular fan of the Marx Brothers' zany humour. You need to explain the purpose of the previous clip...keep up the research thus ensuring your music video will be all the richer.
ReplyDeleteI like the telephone box idea - audiences would find this entertaining - I hope you can pull it off.
Story boards ...rough narrative structure need to be posted onto your blog.