Research Into Similar Products: 'Boyfriend' by Best Coast

I have been looking at the music video to 'Boyfriend' by Best Coast. I have been focusing on the colour treatment that they have used. They have given the whole video a slightly yellow effect, enhancing a vintage/retro look to the film that is an obvious form from bands in this genre. This is to be expected from a band with this genre as their target audience will expect to see such conventions in the music videos of these types of bands.
It also makes it look very American, giving the band personality and heritage. This is something I have noticed many bands do with their music videos, to give a clear indication to their nationality. Bands such as Blur (English) and Lana Del Rey (American) do this.

Here is the music video to 'Boyfriend' and another video to 'The Only Place' by Best Coast:

'Boyfriend' by Best Coast

 



'The Only Place' by Best Coast

Another music video that does something similar with the colour treatment is the one to 'Ride' by Lana Del Rey. It  uses the same yellow tinge to give an American feel to the video and show Del Rey's American heritage.

                                       

Locations

My music video, as stated in previous posts, will be a surreal journey for the character in it. This being the case, there will be no real setting to it. It will, however, have hints at settings, such as the place where the character is burried under the ground and where they are trapped under water. But these places will be very vaige, not really being anywhere spacific as I want them to represent feelings and emotion more than physical places.

But, I have always known that location is a very important aspect in music videos for bands and singer/songwriters as they noramlly deffine the type of music they make and where they are from or even how they are feeling. A good example of this is Blur's video to 'Beetlebum', it has the band playing in a flat cheap flat in London that looks grimy and dirty, representing how they felt at the time of making the song and video. Here is the video:

See my previous blog on this music video for further analysis.

Actors

The character that I want in my music video to 'Lost' by Monday Coma will need to be someone who is convincing enough to look like they can relate to the character in the song, someone who is lost in the world of drugs. They will need to look slightly unwell, being skinny, looking tired and a bit battered up. The kind of person I want to play this character will need to be quite young, having a similar age to that of the members of Monday Coma. Here are a few people that I feel would reflect this character well with a clip of them acting:

Joe Gilgun

• Joe Gilgun has a rough look about him which has been brought out of him in many roles he has played, such as 'Rudy' in Misfits, Woody in 'This Is England' and 'Hydell' in Lockout. Gilgun would be ideal because he fits the role perfectly, being a professional actor that has had experiance in the type of character that I wish to be portrayed.

                            

 

Robert Sheehan

• Robert Sheehan has a similar aroma to that of Joe Gilgun. Sheehan has a look that can be played on that would allow me to create the character that I want, a unhealthy, thin looking drug type.

 

 

 

 

 

Rupert Grint

• Rupert Grint is a very famous actor, having played Ron Weasley. He is very good at acting with his face, creating looks of deep emtion hiden behind his eyes. This is something that would be very useful in the filming of the music video to 'Lost' as a lot of the filming will be cosentrated on the characters face as I really want the emotion of the character to be portrayed.

 

 

 

 

                                            

 

 

 

                                      

 



 

 

Storyboard

Here is my first storyboard for the intro, pre-verse, first verse and second pre-verse:

Intro/Pre-verse:

 

 

First Verse/Verse:

 



 



 Second Pre-Verse:



 

 

I will be putting up some examples of my filming with rough cuts of these scenes soon, so keep a look out!