Oceans Lyrics

Lyrics for the song we are doing.

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

And from the tips of your fingers
Down to the soles of your feet
A glimmer in your skin
That I can't believe
And take a trip to the sea
Let your hair run, run free
You're a rebel in disguise
Is that the devil in your eyes

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

Wider smiles than I've ever seen
Your little arms hug your body
This is more than I can take
You're the fruit that I can taste
You only seek what you give away
You'll only speak what you wanna say
You ululate like a warrior
I'll make you shake like your bed girl

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

This is our garden girl
We live in a fractured world
Willing to be the same
Same as it always was
We're in a rapture girl
We live in a lonely world
Willing to be the same
Same as it always was

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

We fell in love
Right by the ocean
Made all our plans
Down on the sand

Advantages and Disadvantages of Oceans by Coast

When discussing the choice of what music video to choose we got stuck between 2 choices Oceans by Coast and the song Distant Past by Everything Everything we discussed on a podcast that the best way to decide this would be to look at both songs and point out the advantages and disadvantages of both.Then have a discussion in another podcast for the final decision of what song to make a video for..

Coasts song Oceans has many advantages for us to produce as our music video one of the clues for one of the advantages is in the name of the song the advantage of living on a peninsular is that we are surrounded by ocean so this gives us plenty of opportunities for filming videos relevant to the song.




Another advantage for this is that the song is not to fast so it will be easy to lip sync and to for the person who has to learn the lyrics and the editor. This will help us out a lot as it will save us time what we can invest into more different ideas for the video rather than investing into editing lip syncing. Another advantage of doing this song is that it is in the love genre which is a big market with many stereotypes we can use the stereotypes as a blue print to follow and go against.

There are a few disadvantages of this song as this is a song about love to make our video stand out and not clash with similar videos for this kind of song we will have to make our video unique to stand out.

Distant Past-Everything Everything

To evaluate the this songs pros and cons for using this as our sing I used Prezi to view this click the link below.

Everything Everything- Distant Past Pros and Cons

Coast to Coast Ep 1-Song Selection

Weekly Blog what it will contain and why I am deciding to do it.

I feel like a weekly podcast will be a good idea to keep the blog updated as I can discuss what has happened with the group and how I am developing the music video. The first episode will be the 4 members of the group discussions the song selection this will just be audio only with a stock image behind it. A problem that could occur with this is that it could get stale to counter this I am going to try and keep it different by bringing different members of the group in maybe sometimes I might have 1 member or 2 members depending on what I am discussing. Also I will be getting different people in that I know who have a opinion on subjects depending where we are up to in the project that can give a useful insight.

Overall I am excited to get started with this podcast as I am intrigued to see what I can do with it.   

Performance vs Narrative music videos

To compare the music video styles of performance and narrative first we need to understand what each of them mean.

Performance

A performance based music video is simply that it is the band or the artist singing/playing there instruments for the whole song although this can sometimes cut to the crowd is is mostly the band/artist with little story behind the video. This makes these simpler to produce and also cheaper. These do have there advantages though as the buzz of the crowd can give you video a high tempo.




Narrative

A narrative music video attempts to tell a story it is mostly footage. The story is usually linked to the lyrics in one or another. Narrative music videos are very popular in the pop genre as this allows the audience to feel with the artist and get a deep connection by using relatable topic and subject matters.


The difference between narrative and performance is narrative allows the artist to tell a story and make the audience feel like they have a connection to the artist while with performance you can make the listener feel excited and buzz when listening to the music. Also a narrative will be a lot harder to film and cost a lot more while with performance you could just video a gig the band or artist is playing.

Katy perry Roar

We watched the music video Katy Perrys music video "Roar" while watching this I made notes on this and split it into different categories in this post I will make these notes more readable in by typing it up and clearing a few of them up. Katy Perry says her style is "painting with broad strokes".

Setting Considerations: There where 2 main settings in this music video a jungle that they made in california and a cave they made out of foam. They used a place in california where a lot of trees are grown and made it out to look like a jungle and the second scene was the cave this was easy to move around as it was light because it was made out of foam.

Equipment: There was a lot of equipment used to produce this music video they had camera and lights on a dolly. Large lights where used to light up certain stages to make the production of the music video better. Sheets where also used to control shadow as well as less glare one of the last thing I noticed was the camera on the crane for the shot where she would swing across the vine.

Props: One of the main props used in the music video where the animals they had a monkey that would climb around on her. They also brought in a trained elephant that would spray water on her during the video for one of the final scenes in the music video they had Katy Perry face to face with a trained tiger the final animal where multiple tarantulas on her body.

CGI Post Production: One of the main CGI effects was when the boyfriends dragged away for this they tied a wire on him with a harness and dragged him onto a mat onto the scene and they later added a tiger using the CGI to make it look like the tiger has took him out and eaten him.

Costume and Make Up: The costume in this took a change from a normal style of Katy Perry before this she is going from a "cupcakes and sweet girl" to a strong independent woman. Another bit of makeup they did was the layers of foundation on her face with all this makeup they still had to do soft focus close ups on her to make sure you can not see  any blemishes.

Time Period: The filming took 3 days but there where problems with timing such as the elephants eating the scenery of the jungle.

Narrative: The story of this was a couple was in a plane crash the boyfriend starts going for a walk then getting eaten by a tiger. Katy then has to make friends with jungle animals to survive with friends such as a monkey and a elephant. At the end she then has a face off with the tiger and releases her inner tiger to prove she is the queen of the jungle.