Skrillex Music Video

This video fits the aspects of dubstep very well. There is explosions, kids dressed up like tiny gangsters and lots of fast moving shots and fast editing. The video shows kids with bandannas around their faces as the truck nears. This was to gather tension as the lead up to the drop in the song gets closer. The lyrics to the song, “Shouts to all my Lost Boys, we rowdy “ plays on loop in the background and is effective to the message the video is trying to portray. A little catch I found with the video is the connection with peter pan. The term Lost Boys were the little misfit kids who never grow up, and at the end of the video we see the ice-cream man with a hook instead of a hand after it had been chopped of in the first heist by one of the boys. The boys use explosives to stop the ice cream van. This is a reflection on the fast violent sound related to dubstep.

 

 

After they eat the ice cream, one of the boys shadows gets larger this is to portray them growing up. This creates a sense of tension as the music video has now taken a huge turn of events. We then find the grown up boys now robbing a armed van with rocket launchers and guns. This ups the intensity of the video as well as the intensity of the song. There are more explosions and more action which creates a sense of excitement towards the viewer. The editing of the video is in sync with the music very nicely. When the boy fires a small explosive at the ice cream van driver and it explodes, the drop to the song happens at the same time. This is then replicated with the rocket launcher and the armed van when the boys are grown up. Some of the shots of the heist are slowed down to create more tension such as in a way which I will be using in my video.

 

The hole concept of a ice cream van being robbed by kids is very out of the blue. Its something new that u would expect to see. This is one of the reasons why this video is especially good. After looking at this video in detail I have gathered ideas as to how I will approach my video when the time comes to make it. I will be looking at quick editing and slow motion, as well as the synchronization of the music with the action shots.

 

Metric - Collect Call (Adventure Club Remix)  is the song that i have been looking at as my first chioce for my video. I have chosen it as it has more lyrics and a much slower beat to most dubstep which will help me be able to create a slower moving music video.

Hear are some more dubstep/drum and bass music videos i have found that portrey loss of control, violence and insanity which is typicaly related to the sound of dubstep. In the second video by skrillex the use of action and gunfire is used to emphasise the music. I will be looking to be useing the same statagy of action in my video to create the same effect.

Introduction

For my A2 music video I have decided to go for a type of music called dub step. This form of music has only recently in the past two years become more and more popular and is now even considered mainstream. The song I have decided to use is nick named chill step as it is slightly calmer than most dub step songs. I have been thinking about the way I would film my project, for example to have a calm video to go with the song or to have a violent and dramatic video that is perhaps played in slow motion to create a sense of calm that would make the video relevant to the hole concept of fast dub step and also make it relevant to the calmness of the specific song that the video is for.

 

When I was looking at music videos of other dub step videos, one in particular caught my eye. The song is by skrillex and uses scenes from the new transformers film as its music video. This whole idea of advertisement within a music video which is common in most film theme songs music videos caught my attention and i have now looked deeper into the advertisement of games within music videos as well such as the new trailer for the new game Sleeping dogs, where real actors are used to play a scene in the game. With this in mind I have thought up of a way of creating a music video which will also be an advertisement for a fantasy game which the music video will be showing an acted out piece of game play. I have already created one of these music videos in my free time with gameplay from Call Of Duty and a second music video using scenes from Death Race to experiment with some ideas.  All the videos that I have talked about will be attached to this blog to clarify my thoughts and as the year goes on I will be going into far more depth on all the points I have made and more that will come up as the course work progresses. The video at the top is one i created, the bottom on is from Sleeping dogs and the one in the middle is an example of a dubstep music video.

 

 

Jack Madden A2 Media

 

 

 

Now that i have compleated my AS media i am now continuing with the A2 corse. Everything after this post is part of my A2 corse work that i will be adding to as the year progresses.