Treatment Sheets

mind maps of are ideas

Planning Materials for Video

Female costume designs:

We wanted the actress playing “Girlfriend” in our video to be feminine so we choose a costume which, included typically feminine materials such as Lace and Knitwear. In a light pink and brown/grey.However, we wanted to show that she is going to stand up for herself so we also chose a leather shoe with small gold studs.

And have also included elements of black. We also wanted the clothes to be casual everyday wear but the ruffles on the tunic will help her to stand out from the crowd. This is important for us because when we referred back to our audience research we could see that we had decided that our “artist” should appear dressed in-between Normal and Extravagant in our music video.

Band Infomation

SnakesHateFire

The band is made up of 5 musicians from Manchester (Grace Tither on vocals, piano and guitar, Adam Bradbury on guitar and vocals, Phil Rigby on guitar and vocals, Tom Booth on bass and Mark Tither on drums), together, they create catchy pop-rock style music.
The band was created initially as a backing group for Grace, but after working together so well they decided to try to make it as a band together. The first EP, titled 'Everything' was recorded in October 2008, and all the songs on it were written by the band. Considering the short space of time they have been together (since March 2008), they have had great success and have sold out venues including Manchester Academy and Liverpool Barfly, on top of this; major record lables have shown a keen interest in them this year.

Codes and Conventions

- Artist(s) normally will make an appearance in the video at some point.
- The lyrics are usually amplified by the visuals.
- Linear/Non-linear.
- Many are narrative based.
- Camera movement usually matches the beat of the song.
- Visuals use iconography that are reminiscent of the genre.
- Normally some aspect of performance
- either direct or indirect.
- Close-ups are used on the artist(s) face.
- A range of camera angles are used.
- The artist(s) image is amplified through the genre.
- Usually, simplistic special effects are used.
- More than one location is used, and they don't usually appear too extravaggant, more realistic locations are used so that the audience can relate.
- Lip-synching is usually used.
- Normally more than one character appears in the video. But don't usually interract very much.Open and closed narratives.

Planning Materials for the Music Video

Interview with the fan:

Question 1: How long have you listened to Snakes Hate Fire?

I have listened to snakes hate fire for three years now because their songs are really funky and I enjoy listening to them as I travel to work.

Question 2: What is your favourite song of Snakes Hate Fire and why?

My favourite song is innocent because it happened to me my ex cheated on me and the song was released as it happened to me and I decided to go it alone and have become a better person because of the song.

Question 3: What type of genre is the music?

The type of genre of the band Snakes Hate Fire is glam rock pop.

Question 4: Have you ever seen the band live in concert and where?

I have seen the band live in concert twice now they played a warm up gig to No doubt ( the band with Gwen Stafani) at the manchester MEN arena and the other time was on Ibiza rocks festival 1 year ago. And I am looking foward to the next time they are playing live.

Question 5: Do you feel that you can relate to their lyrics and why?

I believe I can relate to the songs within the lyrics because with the song innocent I was going through the same thing as the song and it helped me and made me cheer up alot more when I was down and depressed after my boyfriend cheated on me just like what happened to the band.

stop motion music videos

We Have Band - You Came Out (Official Music Video)

The aspects of perfromance:

The characters in the video all have the same face expression because the face is replicated and shown as a mirror image on all the faces, shows stop motion at its best.

Narrative:

The song is non-linear because it makes no sense and doesnt really have a clear beginning in a story or a story at all so its a freeform video.

How the video effects or produces a large image for the star/artist/Band:

The people at the beginning show their importance in the music video and will show that they are going to be main characters in the music video.

How the visual relate to the stars:

It shows the artist has a wild imagination and wanted to make the video stand out in the world of today with all different kinds of music video.

Mise-en-scene:

You dont see their clothes but their faces show lots of different colours and there is lip sayncing witht the stop motion showing mouths moving and mouthing the words.

Use of camera:

The camera stays still and the actors/actresses move instead

Special efffects:

The special effects are paint rolling down they faves and the eyes moving on the eye lids also they made their eyes go onto the hands e.g. just like in pan's labyrinth.

Genre:

The genre is dance pop.

Audience:

The audience to the music video would be young ravers such as 13-25 ish.

Music Channel:

MTV, Viva, Smash Hits

Editing:

The editing is cut between close ups of the whole face and extreme close ups of the mouth area where the lip syncing is happening to the beat of the song.

Audience:

The target audience will be from the ages of 13-25 because of its dance beat and the lyrics can sing along too.

Representation:

The band don't appear in the music video.