Final song choice (planning)

Lily Allen's song "Smile" is our final song choice. In Lily's video she uses a heavy narrative which has a illustrative and disjuncture video. The video is constantly switching between the scene in her house, in the cafe and the revenge she is getting on her ex boyfriend. The audience get shown different scene locations such as the cafe, street, and her house and her ex's. 

Although, in my group's version of "Smile" we have chosen to use a less illustrative approach. This is because we found it difficult to plan such a illustrative video in such a little amount of time, also, we realised we would need a high budget which we cannot provide. The locations we have chosen from "Smile" differ as we have chosen to film in a park, a studio and a house, as we are trying to keep the narrative as small as possible. We are planning to use as many different shots as possible such as:

• Close ups
• Long shots
• High angles
• Low angles etc

Lily added different narrative to the video, which was not mentioned in the lyrics such as getting people to beat up her boyfriend and trash his flat. We have chosen to do a similar approach. I have chosen to burn a picture of her boyfriend. This will be the very last scene and we are planning to end in an extreme close up of the picture burning. 

Lily Allen's version of "Smile"

Lilly Allen - Smile
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who was valdimir propp? (research)

valdimir propp had a certain theroy that there was different characters to make up theory, theses are;The hero, The villain, The donor, The dispatcher, The false hero , The helper , The princess , Her father.In music videos the villian is generally a boy or girl hurting someone else in a love story, the princess with be the girl that is desidered and the hero is the one who saves her from being hurt.For example, Ne-Yo- So Sick, is an example where it has amplication of the narrative and this is showen through charactors such as the main singer Ne-Yo which is villain and the girl in the video which is the princess who has bin hurt.

Short list of potential songs (planning)

We had to choose a song for our recreation of a music video, me and my group choose to consider a wide variety of options for differnet genres including, R'n'B, Blues,Pop and Rock. Also, we had to pick songs where we thought we would be able to make a video to.

Here you are able to see our planning on the songs we could choose:-

Here are some of the original videos from the artists:-

Lilly Allen - LDN

James Blunt - Your Beautiful

Tinie Tempah - Frisky

Pixie Lott - Without You

Short list of potential songs (not finished)

Lilly Allen - Smile

Bullet For My Valentine - The last fight

Arctic Monkeys - Brainstorm

Vladimir Propp (not finished)

who was vladimir propp? find out who he was and apply his theory to a music video you have seen.

Vladimir Propp was a Russian and Soviet formalist scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk talesto identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements.
Vladimir Propp's character types are used in media education and can be applied to almost any story, in literature, theatre, film, television series, games, etc.

Analysis of other music videos

Tinie Tempah - Frisky

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The genre of this song is hip-hop. It first starts off slow paced till its around 18 seconds, this is where it starts to get fast paced and more tension. There is good use of lighting - all in different colours giving it a good look to the music video, also it suits and goes with the video. Most of the time we only have one second shots. Now talking about the camera shots - there's a lot of use of mid shots, but not so many close ups. Few low angle shots giving Tinie Tempah that evil look.
At 2:11 seconds there is some kind of a panning done, however this panning hasn't been done with the camera but the lights instead - I think this is a good way and a good skill to put through and make it seem as its panning.

Who was Vladimir Propp? (RESEARCH)

Vladimir Propp was a Russian born soviet formalist scholar, who analyses the basic component of Russian folk tales to identify their similar narrative elements.

Vladimir's theory

CHARACTERS

1. The hero (seeks something)
2. The villain (opposes the hero)
3. The donor (helps the hero by providing a magic object)
4. The dispatcher (sends the hero on his way)
5. The false hero (falsely assuming the role of hero)
6. The helper (gives support to the hero)
7. The princess (the reward for the hero but also needs to be

protected from the villain

8. Her father 

NARRATIVE FUNCTIONS

Preparation (or 1st sphere: the introductory sequence)

P1. A member of the family leaves home
P2. A prohibition or rule is imposed on the hero
P3. The prohibition or rule is broken
P4. The villain makes and attempt at reconnaissance
P5. The villain learns something about his victim
P6. The villain tried to deceive the victim to get possession of
his/her belongings
P7. The victim unknowingly helps the villain by being deceived or
influenced by the villain

Complication (or 2nd sphere: The body of the story)

C1. The villain harms a member of the family
C2. A member of the family lacks or desires something
C3. This lack or misfortune is made known; the hero is given a
request or a command and he goes on a mission or quest
C4. The seeker (often the hero) plans action against the villain

Transference (or 3rd sphere: The donor sequence (magic agent is 

obtained)

T1. The hero leaves home
T2. The hero is tested, attached, interrogated and, as a result,
receives either a magical agent or a helper
T3. The Hero reacts to the actions of the future donor
T4. The hero uses the magical agent
T5. The hero is transferred to the general location of the object of
his mission or quest

Struggle (or 4th sphere: The hero’s return

An example of this is in Trey Songz Cant help but wait. There is a Male who is Trey Songz who is the hero. A female who is the princess and another male who is the villain. The villain is the abusive partner of the female, who is portrayed as the damsel in distress in need of rescuing. The complication is established (2nd) sphere, which is where Trey Songz comes in. Trey Songz is tested by the villain, however manages to get his love.