Thursday, 25 June 2015

Computer/Video Games

Fallout 4 - Fallout 4 is an upcoming action role-playing open world video game, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks. The game will be the fifth major installment in the Fallout series, and will be released on Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on November 10, 2015

Gameplay
Fallout 4‍ '​s gameplay is similar to that of the third installment of the franchise, with a camera that can switch from first to third person view, but is supposed to feature more appealing gameplay, featuring a split-piece armor system, base-building, a dynamic dialogue system, in depth crafting system which implements every lootable object in the game, and much more. Enemies such as mole rats, raiders, super-mutants, deathclaws, and ghouls will also return to the series, along with Dogmeat, who is incapable of dying.


Notes
- MES - in the Video and Logo we can see a Lightening bolt - Police Badge?
- Setting - Deserted Land which has been Destroyed by Explosion - Nuke
- Setting - We see Multiple Locations in the Trailer where the game is set
- Editing - Cross Cutting is used frequently
- Editing - Fade To Black - Mainly used at the end of the Trailer
- Sound - Distortion (Radio Signal)
- Sound - Music - Old - 1950's "It's All Over" relating to the game play - end of the world
- Sound - Film Score/Soundtrack
- Genre - Survival
- Genre - Role Play
- Genre - Post - Apocalyptic
- Duration - 3 Minutes and 4 Seconds
- Duration - YouTube/TV Trailer
- Duration - Content - Nuclear, 60's/Future


Trailer Description 
The trailer starts with the Ink Spots playing and the camera pulling back from a mysteriously functional television set - a direct homage to the original Fallout's opening cinematic. It's also a cue that it's about to be pre-war story time. Cutting back and forth between the same house in suburban bliss and apocalyptic dilapidation, it looks like Fallout 4 may dig into pre-war life (and its sudden, violent end) more than any other game in the series. The bombs are dropping and all the futuristic suburbanites are loading up their huge, swooping retro-futuristic cars to get the hell out of town. the military's arriving in plenty of time to keep the have-nots at the back of the Vault line. The Main Playable Character Emerges from the very same vault a century or two later. Just like Fallout 1 and Fallout 3. When the Character Emerges from the Volt the first view in-game of the post-apocalyptic landscape. It looks relatively untouched since the bombs went off. Many shots of the places the character will venture are shown in a jump cut style (a bit like a montage) the final scene of the trailer is the dog returning back to its owner the internet said "Fallout 4 finally lets you strip down and rebuild your own custom suit. Also be sure to admire the rest of the arsenal - a laser rifle on the wall, a minigun under a dust cloth, and a Vault Boy statue for luck" then finally a tender moment is shared between dog and master, revealing a familiar Pip Boy strapped to his wrist and the Vault 111 jumpsuit on his back. Then the dude talks. Whoa! That's a first! Fallout protagonists have always had plenty to say

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Music Video Idea

T5 - The Last Dance
T5 Band Logo - V (Roman Numeral
For the Number 5)
Narrative - Opens with a Guy sitting by himself (After Prom), he falls asleep and dreams about Prom if he had a date (The Girl of his Dreams). He walks her home (Through a park/down a street) then under a street light she starts to fade away, the guy tries to follow her but she leans over a bridge and falls over (we don't see her fall over) the guy tries to see her but he slips and falls over the bridge (we dont see him fall over the bridge as it instantly changes back to him when he wakes up) at the end of the song the guy walks out of the building and bumps into the Girl in the street which he saw in his dreams and cuts to black there (we don't see if he walks away or walks up to her).

Setting/Location 
- Tamworth Assembly Rooms/Theater at Landau
- Tamworth Park (Castle)
Stage at Tamworth Assembly Rooms
- Castle Grounds
- Tamworth Town Centre

Props/Instruments 
- Guitar (Semi-Hollow Epiphone + Acoustic Taylor
- Bass Guitar (Thunderbird Bass)
- Tama Drum Kit (T5 Logo on Kick Drum)
- 3 Dynamic Microphones + 3 Microphone Stands
- 2 Amps (Line 6 Amp and Roland Bass Amp

Camera/Equiptment
- 2 GoPro (Guitar Headstock and Bass Headstock)
- Sony Compact Camera (Drum Kit Camera)
View from Stage at Tamworth Assembly Rooms
- Tom's DSLR Camera (Angle of the whole Band on Stage)
- Camera Landau (Other side of Room/Stage)
- 3 Tripods

Costume
- Band Members (White Shirts + Black Tie and Trousers - Black Trainers or Shoes)
- Guy in Video (Black or Blue Suit with Black Tie and Trousers - Black Trainers or shoes)
- Girl in Dream (White Dress or Skirt with Shoes)





Lyrics - The Last Dance by T5

Intro

Verse 1
All alone and i cant seem to find the girl - The Guy is Alone
who's gonna make me smile - Thinking about the girl if she was with him
washed away like my, hopes and dreams i wish they'd stay - Feels Hopeless
once in a while
grab a book, turn the page, don't know how i could be afraid - Writes down his feelings in a book
to try and find the girl i can't find - Writing about his dream girl
go to sleep so i can be, in a world inside my dream - Dreams about the girl of his dreams
like a once upon a time - Like a Bedtime story 

Chorus
i am standing here, hold out your hand and understand - Wants the girl to take his hand
that i wanna be your man - Makes a promise to the girl
i could stand by you and help you throught the good times, 
and help you through the bad - Tells the girl what he will do for her
walk with me to the stage where i
can never be afraid 
by the way the people look at you - Shows the girl that she helps him by being with him
standing underneath the light 
where the ball will sparkle like her eyes - The guy looks into her eyes
i know ive gotta take a chance, so please - The guy is very nervous and over thinks everything
can i have this dance - Asks the girl to dance/go out with him

intro repeat

Verse 2
I'll walk you home in the dark, 
go down the street and through the park - What the guy would do after Prom
thats where i know i'll find you - Anytime he needs her she'll be there
she's getting scared i understand, 
so i will reach and hold her hand - what the guy would do if she got scared
it's like my dream is coming true - everything he's dreamed about is coming true

Chorus
i am standing here, hold out your hand and understand Wants the girl to take his hand
that i'm gonna be your man - Makes a promise to the girl
i could stand by you and help you throught the good times, 
and help you through the bad Tells the girl what he will do for her
the light is getting dark, 
we will shine a light and travel far so that i can find you - he'd do anything to be with the girl
her hands so small and white 
like a princess full of tender light - The guy is describing the feeling of holding a girls hand for the first time 
you know I've gotta take a chance, so please The guy is very nervous and over thinks everything
can i have this dance x4 - Asks the girl to dance/go out with him


Bridge

Her hand is slipping i can't hold on for long, 
but you've gotta help me out and try - The girls hand is fading/his vision is becoming blurry. asking the girl to try and help him
keep me near oh please stay with me my dear, 
cause without you i can't feel alive - The guy explains why she should be with him
id try, please try - He's saying that he would try however he's asking if she would try

Chorus
i am standing here without you near don't understand, 
that i can't be your man - Guy wakes up and realises it was just a dream, he's thinking about why she can't be with him
i could stand by you and help you through the good times 
and help you through the bad - Guy is thinking about what he would do if she was real
close my eyes and fall asleep 
so i can see you in my dreams 
and i never wanna leave - The Guy wants to fall asleep again so he can see her again (he wants to live in the dream with her)
the light is fading i can't see 
the girl who's living in my dream, 
I've gotta take a chance - When he tries to go back to sleep to see the girl he can't see her (she's gone out of his dream)
i've gotta take a chance - he wants to try and find her
i've gotta take a chance - he wants to be with her
i've gotta take a chance - he doesn't know where to start to find her
i wanna take a chance, so please - he's gonna try and find her and asks himself if she'd go out with him
can i have this dance - Can he try and find the girl


Research into Existing Products - Music Video

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Details on the Track: 
Album: Track 2 on American IV: The Man Comes Around
Producer :
Rick Rubin
Recorded :
2002
Mellotron, organ and piano:
Benmont Tench
Released :
March 2003
Producer:
Rick Rubin
Composer:
Trent Reznor
Cover recording of:
Hurt
Acoustic guitar:
Mike Campbell , Smokey Hormel
Length :
3:38
Lyricist:
Trent Reznor
Genre :
Country, Rock

Hurt - in Despair 

Verse 1
I hurt myself today - Injecting himself with drugs
To see if I still feel - Creates the pain
I focus on the pain - Tries to see if he can feel it
The only thing that's real - No other feeling like drugs
The needle tears a hole - When the needle pierces the skin
The old familiar sting - The feeling of the needle in your arm + Old Familiar - been doing it for years
Try to kill it all away - Takes the drugs to try and forget the memories/his past
But I remember everything - Drugs aren't working

[Chorus]
What have I become - Looking at what he's become/what he is
My sweetest friend - His Mother
Everyone I know Goes away in the end - His Mother Died
And you could have it all - Experience his Emotion/Pain
My empire of dirt - When he dies he cant take anything with him. His life/history is dirt to him
I will let you down - Message to his Kids/Family and/or His Fans
I will make you hurt

Verse 2
I wear this crown of thorns - Religious Metaphor - Jesus on the cross (Crown of Thorns)
Upon my liars chair - Fake - Hes a fake/phony - Not what he says he is
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time - As you get older
The feelings disappear - The less you feel
You are someone else
I am still right here


[Chorus]
What have I become - Looking at what he's become/what he is
My sweetest friend - His Mother
Everyone I know Goes away in the end - His Wife (When she Dies)
And you could have it all - Experience his Emotion/Pain
My empire of dirt - When he dies he cant take anything with him. His life/history is dirt to him
I will let you down - Message to his Kids/Family and/or His Fans
I will make you hurt

If I could start again -Thinking of his past
A million miles away - Looking back at his life
I will keep myself - Wishing he could undo what he's done
I would find a way - He would find a way to undo everything - (meaning he might not want to be famous if he knew what it would do to his life/family)

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

Andrea Arnold

Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold was born on April 5th in 1961 in Kent, She is the Director, Actress and Writer known for 'No 73 (1982)', Fish Tank (2009) and Red Road (2006). Andrea Studied the American Film Institute Conservatory in Los Angeles. She graduated in 1991. Was named among Britain's top 50 female power players on International Women's Day 2012 by officials from the U.K.'s Women in Film and TV organization.

Fish Tank is about "Mia, an aggressive fifteen-year-old girl, lives on an Essex estate with her tarty mother, Joanne, and precocious little sister Tyler. She has been thrown out of school and is awaiting admission to a referrals unit and spends her days aimlessly. She begins an uneasy friendship with Joanne's slick boyfriend, Connor, who encourages her one interest, dancing". Fish Tank premiered in 2009 and was accepted into competition for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and received the Jury Prize. In its initial production, distributor Artificial Eye had acquired the UK theatrical rights, while ContentFilm International handled the worldwide sales. The film was backed by the Limelight Fund, BBC Films and the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund. The film was shot entirely on location in the UK. Arnold was adamant about shooting the film in chronological order, so that the journey of the film would make sense to new coming actor Katie Jarvis. She would only give her a day's worth of script to study so that she could take it day by day.

Wasp is about "Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her ex-boyfriend drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go out with her, she lies and tells him that she is just babysitting the kids. This will be her first date in years". Initially released in 2003, Wasp was a short (26 minutes) written and directed by Arnold. Released in 2003, it stars Natalie Press as a struggling single mother determined not to let her four young children prove an obstacle in the pursuit of rekindling a relationship with an old ex-boyfriend (Danny Dyer). Dartford (Arnold's hometown) is the setting. The film was commissioned by the UK Film Council and the Britain's Channel 4. It won the Sundance Short Film Prize in 2005, and won Arnold an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film

Lynne Ramsay

Lynne Ramsay
Lynne Ramsay was born on December 5th 1969 in Glasgow, She is the Director and Writer known for her films 'We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)', 'Morvern Caller (2002) and Ratcatcher (1999). She has been married to Rory Stewart Kinnear since March 2010. Lynne uses a lot of Children in her films in which she focuses on the Children's Perspective. Lynne Ramsay's work bears a powerful personal imprint. Her films are marked by a fascination with children and young people and the recurring, unresolvable themes of grief, guilt and death and its aftermath. They are low on dialogue and explicit story exposition, and instead use images, vivid details, music and sound design to create their unsettling worlds. In April 2013 she was selected as a member of the main competition jury at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. In 2015, she was named as a member of the Jury for the Main Competition at the 2015 Venice Film Festival.

Gasman was Distributed in 1998, the film is set in 1970's Glasgow living in difficult surroundings, the films main theme is Family and Love. The film is about "It's the Christmas season. With her mom's help, Lynne, a girl of perhaps eight, dresses up; her younger brother Steven plays with a toy car. The children leave with their dad, who's affectionate with them. They walk down a railroad track where an unkempt woman waits with two children, about the same age as Lynne and Steven. The children go with them. They're all headed to a holiday party at a pub. Lynne notices that the girl acts all too familiar with her dad. What's going on".

Ratcatcher is set in Glasgow, 1973. The city, despite its Victorian grandeur, has some schemes with the poorest housing conditions in western Europe, such as no running hot water, no bathing facilities and no indoor toilet. The city is mid-way through a major re-development program, demolishing these schemes and re-housing the tenants in new modern estates. The problems in these schemes are somewhat compounded by the binmen going on strike, creating an additional health hazard and a breeding ground for rats. The main character, James, is a 12-year-old boy, growing up in one of these schemes, which is gradually emptying, as the re-housed tenants move out. James, with the rest of his family, two sisters, one older, one younger,his mum and heavy-drinking father, patiently waits to be re-housed.


Due to Lynne being brought up in Glasgow she sets a lot of her work in Glasgow and uses children to create a sense of innocence in her films. She incorporates what life was like back when she was a child and re-creates it in her own artistic way through the eye of a camera lans.

Thursday, 11 June 2015

Music Videos

Christian Metz's - Model of Genre Development (1974)
Christian Metz in his Book 'Language and Cinema' explored the development of Genre Film and Suggested that Genres pass through four phases of existence:
1) The Experimental
2) The Classic
3) The Parody
4) The Deconstruction

1) By Experimental we mean the phase of early films which explored and experimented with Horror Films in its narratives. Because they helped formalize the narrative conventions of the Horror Film in its earliest phase
The German Expression after World War 1

2) by Classic we mean the phase of films which established the narrative conventions of the Horror Genre in its most successful and and defining periods

3) by Parody we mean films that have mimicked the Horror Genre in some comical way

4) By Deconstruction we mean films which have taken the generic elements of the Horror Genre and Amalgamated them into varying Sub Genres.

Music Videos - Model of Genre Development
1) Narrative based Music Video - (Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia) + (Avicii - Hey Brother)
2) Performance Based Music Video - includes Band, Single Artist and Live Performance (Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody) + (The Beatles - If I Fell)
3) Abstract/Artistic (Surreal) - (Gotye - Somebody That i Used To Know) + (Radiohead - Karma Police)

My Examples of:
Experimental - The Beatles - Love Me Do
This is a Live Band Recording with the band performing on a Stage. Lots of different Camera Shots have been used with multiple shots of the singers (Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison) There are also lots of insight shots of the musicians each having part of the footage to their performance. This Video would come under Performance Based

Classic - Aerosmith Ft Run-D.M.C - Walk This Way
This video starts off with Aerosmith Jamming to Walk This Way and Run-D..M.C in the other room complaining about the noise which ends up in a music battle between the two groups. The Video ends with a live Band Performance on a stage in proper Classic Rock Style. The Video has multiple shots including Dolly Shots, Close-Ups, Hand Held Shots, Low/High Angles and Tracking Shots. Lighting has been used Thoroughly with added shots of the Audience. This Video would come under Performance/Narrative Based

Parody - Weird Al Yankovic - Smells Like Nirvana
The video starts off with the band performing with fat cheerleaders and Weird Al Yankovic pretending to be Kurt Cobain. The video is set out exactly like Nirvana's Smells like Teen Spirit video but have added comedic elements within the video like people's heads being torn off in mosh pits, people headbanging in smart attire while eating a sandwich and a basketball team playing basketball while the band are performing. This Video would come under Performance Based

Deconstruction - Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
The video starts with a man strapped to a hospital bed who looks like hes about to be operated on with a saw, the man is wearing restraints and is being dragged through a dirty and abandoned hospital. A priest is present next to him who looks like hes performing an exorcism on the man on the bed. The video is about everything this man can see in his head, we as the audience can see mental people in the hospital and we can clearly see that there are many horror elements used in the video. the video is like the song, a Nightmare. This Video would come under Narrative Based/Performance Based.
 


Binary Oppositions

Binary  Oppositions

Claude Lévi-Strauss (28th November 1908 - 30th October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist. He has been called the 'father of modern anthropology', He came up with the Binary Opposition Theory. Levi-Strauss was influenced by several leading media theorists including Saussure, Mauss, Marx etc.

What is a Binary Opposition?
A binary opposition is a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning. In structuralism, a binary opposition is seen as a fundamental organiser of human philosophy, culture and language. An example of Binary opposition theory includes (Rich/Poor, North/South, Black/White, Up/Down, Slow/Fast, Good/Evil etc. Binary Oppositions have been said to create balance within the world. Without them, the world would be unbalanced.