Group Meeting

Today we spent time finalising our pitch for our track and music video idea which we will demonstrate to the class tomorrow. We completed a treatment which contains our ideas so far for the music video and its visual style. We also answered some questions on the track itself, the artist, the genre, the target audience and how we can apply Goodwin’s theory of music video to our track (see group blog for all.) Overall I think we are really prepared for tomorrow and doing this has made us think about our ideas in more depth which is really helpful. The feedback that we receive tomorrow from the rest of the class should also be really useful and we can hopefully make changes or improve accordingly.

Group Meeting

We presented some ideas to both our teachers and have now decided to go ahead with ‘Anyone but Him.’ As a group, we discussed some ideas for the video which are all on the group blog and overall I’m happy with the song choice. It provides clear themes for the song and a meaning that we can work with. We will need two main actors and possibly a few other actors to play smaller parts such as two kids which will resemble the main actors as it was when they were younger as well as possibly a girl to include some narrative and to make the meaning more understandable. Our main idea for the video is to play on contrasts. These two ex best school friends are now competing for the same girl. One of them has already dated her and is now jealous, telling the girl to date ‘anyone but him’ (his best friend.)

To show this rivalry, we would show them as completely different eg. in their image, attitudes - confidence/cockiness, location – black and white backgrounds in a studio shows contrast and each has its own connotations (white – innocence, feel sorry for Mr Hudson, whereas black – dark, ‘bad’ arrogant Tinie Tempah), editing – split screen? etc. The over confidence of the second man who is now dating the girl is shown in lyrics such as ‘I see your girl want me,’ so we would use this when considering our camera work for him (See post on Ego – Kanye West.)

Our video would be mainly performance based and we would therefore rely heavily on our two actors, however if we can pull it off then I think it can look really good.


Lyrics:
[Mr Hudson:]
Anyone but him
I'd rather hear you’d had the whole football team
than have to watch his filthy lips on your skin
Anyone but him

Anyone but him
With schoolboy fists, we can take this outside
But knowing my luck that ___ would win
Anyone but him

Who's gonna take you home, who's gonna take you home
Who's gonna take you home, if it isn't me

Anyone but him
My blood boils as my eyes turn green
Is this the best of the best of the scene
Anyone but him

Anyone but him
With schoolboy fists imma take this outside
But knowing my luck that ___ would win
Anyone but him

Who's gonna take you home, who's gonna take you home
Ohhh who's gonna take you home, if it isn't me…

Anyone but him
Look past the leather in the dash and the rims
And you will see his whole hustle wears thin
Anyone but him

Anyone but him
He's gonna take what you can't take back
And then's he's gone out the door on a whim
Anyone but him

Who's gonna take you home, ohhh who's gonna take you home
Listen, who's gonna take you home, if it isn't me…

[Tinie T:]
Yes, Yes, Yes
Umm, Ye
Umm
You win some, you lose some
I ring ‘em, I take ‘em out for Dim Sum and use ‘em
I can hear the two of ‘em, whispering in the loo,
They’ll be like he’ll sex us and he wont even text us
Like Houston, I’m reckless
English like my breakfast
And she date my manager, said he look like Kanye West does
I press her, then I press up
I sex her then I dress up,
Schoolboy fists but I throw punches like I’m Lennox,
I never heard a man so jealous, so jealous,
So tell us about those letters,
You know she let me open every single one you sent her,
When you cry for her attention, just remember I’m the centre
And on the first night she let me enter, HA!

[Mr Hudson:]
Oooh
Who’s gonna take you home (I’m gonna take her home)
Who’s gonna take you home (I said I’m gonna take her home)
Noo, who’s gonna take you home, if it isn’t me… (Me! Me! Me! Me!)

Who’s gonna take you home (I’m gonna take her home)
Who’s gonna take you home (I said I’m gonna take her home)
Who’s gonna take you home, if it isn’t me… (Me! Me! Me! Me!)

Who’s gonna take you home
If it isn’t me…
Who’s gonna take you home
If it isn’t me…
Who’s gonna take you home
If it isn’t me…

Group Meeting

In our meeting today, we looked at all of our possible track ideas and also spent time searching for other songs as a group. As the song Anyone But Him seems to be our favourite in the group so far, we decided to look at it in some more detail. We went over the basic story behind the song and decided on how we interpreted the song and its lyrics. Here’s our thoughts:
We decided that the overall basic story is that Mr H. dated a girl quite recently but they broke up after they had problems. He then found out that his best friend has now gone behind his back and started dating her – the ultimate betrayal for Mr H. In the song, he is telling his ex that he accepts that she's moved on but doesn't want her to move on with his best friend. Mr H. has now lost his friendship with his best friend who has now become really arrogant (shown in his rap verse later in the song), and at the same time, his girlfriend.

Ideas for the music video visuals:
• We could make the two artists complete contrasts and play on the rivalry through what we actually shoot (shot content – photos, narrative – the girlfriend, them as young kids), the camerawork (slower and faster, high/low angles), location (contrasting backgrounds – black and white) and the editing (eg split screen).
• We thought we could show ECUs and the silhouette of the best friend until he starts his rap verse making him more interesting and building up his profile, to play on his arrogance and cockiness.
• We also thought that we could do flashbacks to the two artists as childhood best friends. This would suggest that they have been lifelong friends and therefore highlights and emphasizes the betrayal.
• We also thought we could cut to shots of the girl a couple of times, and cut to shots of the girl with the new guy.

First Group Meeting

We had a short meeting at break today where we discussed as a group all of our song choices and ideas that we have for the project so far. I explained my idea for the song Anyone But Him by Mr Hudson (see post later) and the rest of my group seemed to like it. However we’ve all decided to go away and try and find some more song choices and potential video ideas, and then we will meet up again next week to try and finalise a song choice.