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Above is the first brief we made for our original song 'Running on Empty'. Below is the group brief we made for the song we actually used; 'Heart Shaped Box'.
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I did this research before we changed our song to Heart Shaped Box. The research still works and applies to our second song as they are both the same genre of song and it works.
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ARCTIC MONKEYS BRIANSTORM RESEARCH BIBLIOGRAPHY:
[1] Noisecat & Hannahbells . (Unknown ). Arctic Monkeys – Brianstorm. Available: http://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858651251/. Last accessed 10/01/2016 |
Music Video 1 - ARCTIC MONKEYS: BRIANSTORM:
[1] The focus of this song is about an Arctic Monkeys fan who talked his way into the band's dressing room wearing an odd looking outfit of a roundneck t-shirt with a tie. The band found this quite bizzarre so they created a brainstorm about him and drew a picture of him. They thought he was very strange and quite freaky. The band appear quite regularly on camera in this music video but they aren't very visible because they are surrounded by smoke and it is quite dark. There are not many interesting angles on the actual band but there are a wide variety of angles on the women dancing. There are shots of the girls dancing and you can see their whole bodies. There are also quite a few close ups of their legs and rear ends, which could encourage some people to watch the video. This could be seen as quite a controversial thing to show in a music video that can be watched by anyone. Therefore I think the song creates quite a controversial persona. The video doesn't really show much about the artist to me apart from the fact they like upbeat dancing and music, and finding comedy in the fan they met in their dressing room. |
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Music Video 2 - KANYE WEST: STRONGER
The focus of the music video is on Kanye West (the artist of the song) and his rise through the music industry. The artist is on camera a lot throughout the music video. He is singing the whole way through and you can see him singing between shots of cars driving through the city. There are also scenes of doctors working and a lady dancing. The camera angles used have been used to sell the artist. The majority of camera anlges on Kanye West are eye level and quite close to his face. This could be so that people see that he is the singer and main man of this song and people recognise him. This recognition could help his fame grow (this could be part of why he has made the song). I think the video is being used to reinforce a persona that Kanye West is getting stronger. This could be that he is overcoming some issues in his personal or working life, or some other issue, and that because of it he has become a stronger person. In the video you can see lots of fast cars driving thorugh a city (it looks like Tokyo in Japan and the Japanese symbols could be linked to this). The city looks quite futuristic and Kanye's outfit looks quite modern and stylish. He could possibly be implying that he is now a stronger person who is looking forward to the future, and he is going to be part of the future. |
Explosion/bright light at the start. Could imply that Kanye is blasting into the future?
Kanye is lay on a very technical bed with machinery all around him. Could suggest that he his being prepared for what the future is going to bring.
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Shots of fast cars driving through cities in Japan. Japan is a very modern and futuristic country.
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Robots looking at screens. Not something that happens nowadays and could also go to show that this is set in the future.
He is wearing quite modern clothes for the time this video was shot, could imply that he is ahead of the times and knows he is prepared for the future.
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The first scene shows a man (who is the main character throughout the music video) lying in a hospital either dead or dying. There are three people at the end of the bed watching him. He is wired up to have a blood transfusion, probably in an attempt to save him. What I gathered from this scene is that this is the end result to what happens in the rest of the music video
The man now slowly climbs a ladder onto a crucifix, which is an old way of killing people. This is the way Jesus was killed and the man's outfit matches what Jesus was wearing when he was crucified, The Christmas hat the man is wearing could represent 'Christ' and show that this is what he is referring to with the crucifixion.. I think that because he is climbing up the cross himself, he is feeling hopeless and possibly suicidal. I think this could be the meaning of the music video because the lead singer of Nirvana, Kurt Cobain, committed suicide in 1994, just a year after the release of Heart Shaped Box.
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This scene shows the man picking poppy flowers from off the ground. Poppies are a symbol of remembrance and stem from the Flanders Fields in France during World War 1, where soldiers would fight amongst blood in the poppy fields. I think that this scene represents the man looking for things to possibly save him (relating back to the blood transfusion in the first scene) or he is looking for remembrance. This man could be very ill as he is very thin, weak and physically tired.
This scene shows three black birds comforting the man as he dies. These birds could represent the souls of three loved ones of the man who are waiting for him in Heaven. Maybe he is feeling suicidal because he misses them so much and the poppies symbolise remembrance. The first scene of him lying in the hospital bed could also show that the three people watching him are the people he is missing.
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