Title- The Jam "That's entertainment"
Directors- Tom Hartland and Forest Onderka-Lang
Starring- Tom Hartland on Bass, Dave Allen as Frontman, and Sean Cronin on the Drum.
I'm afraid the quality has somewhat dissipated during the file conversion to .mov...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Preliminary Idea
My partner and I have decided to re-create "That's Entertainment" by The Jam. It is quite a straight forward video to create and the lighting can be manipulated easy. To create the dark background and lighting we decided that we could use the Drama studio in school, as it has black walls and stage lighting. We have two actors to play the lead singer/acoustic guitar player and drummer, and I will be playing bass in the video. Good on-beat editing can be achieved too through synchronizing the strums of the acoustic guitar with the scene changes.
Saturday, 2 July 2011
Modern Punk video deconstruction- Sum 41: In too Deep
The video for In too Deep is very much typical of Modern Punk Rock. It hybrid video- but both the bands performance and the story is at the same location- A diving centre. The video focuses on Punk’s own style of “F**k you we’re not going to be how society wants us to be”. It features the members of the band in a diving competition with the “Jocks” of the diving world. The jocks signify how teenagers are manipulated to think they should be like- but as this is a punk video, the jocks get very much humiliated.
The start of the video is the 4 members of the band walking from their van to the diving centre- the first shot is a long shot with the members walking towards the camera, along with the stereo of their van playing another track from the album- “Fat Lip”. The members are dressed relatively normally, perhaps indicating they are normal teenagers, the camera pans the opposite way to the direction they are walking- and when they re-appear they are wearing gown with “Sum 41” on the back of them. This could be trying to empower the “normal teenager” by making them almost look like a boxer before a match.
When the vocals come in- the shot changes from the band walking towards the centre- to them standing in an empty swimming pool surrounded by hundreds of cheering people. The first shot of the vocals part of the video is a close up of the lead singer’s face leaning into the camera with a microphone- it’s reminiscent of the lyrics and style of singing in punk. In your face- aggressive singing. The video then focuses on the band walking in front of a large crowd who are cheering them, and occasionally going back to the shot of the band standing in the empty swimming pool performing the song.
After a while it becomes obvious that the video is focusing on a diving competition between the band, and four “jocks”, this is portrayed by the huddled team talks that the band have. The jocks are portrayed as vaguely homosexual- this could be part of the punk band “taking the mick” out of what society and the media tells them they should be like. You can see the homosexual portrayal by things like the members of the jocks group spanking each other. All through this video shots of the band performing are still being flashed every 5-10 seconds or so.
The beginning sequence of the video clearly is supposed to make you believe that the jocks are going to defeat the “normal” people, as the band aren’t taking the competition very seriously, so when the lead singer gets up to the diving board to do his dive, the viewer is surprised when he uses acrobatics to launch himself of the board, and complete a good dive. This could be a statement that people that rebel against the media, and their portrayal of the ideal teenager/person are just as capable, if not more so than those sequatious few that, for example, spend all day at the gym because calvin klein says they should.
It soon becomes apparent that the crowd, that could represent society, is backing the rebellious ones. They are holding up pickets that have “jocks” crossed out, and when the members of the band step up to dive, such as the guitar player, good looking women blow them kisses and what not. Towards the end of the video the crowd start to jump into the empty swimming pool during the performance shots, and the members of the band start to win the competition with the help of the crowd, this could connote a “call to arms” from punk- saying, go punk, say no to the government and media, and you will WIN!
A Brief Overview of My Genre.
The genre I have chosen to study for my music coursework is "Punk". Having been brought up having to listen to my dad's punk albums in the car- I have a good knowledge of the genre. Both myself and a few of my peers would agree that Punk music is more an attitude than an actual style of music. Where you could recognize "Blues" music by their use of pentatonic scales etc, you could identify a good Punk band by their lyrics, and their "F**k you society, ANARCHY!" style attitude.
Punk has evolved as a genre over the years, from the founders of Punk- such as the Sex pistols, Generation X, Talking Heads etc to bands such as Blink 182, Sum 41, and Green Day. You could argue that Punk originated in Britain, there were certainly more Punk bands around in Britain after Punk's birth, however, bands like "The Ramones" gave America too the anarchistic punk attitude.
In fact- you could say that Punk moved from Britain to America, as the majority of "modern" punk bands are American, the three most famous are the ones I mentioned earlier. Green Day's release of their album "American Idiot" was incredibly well recieved by both Britain and America. Indeed, Punk's target market, (Teenagers) were going mad over it's release, and so were much younger people too. When I was in Primary School almost the entire school was enveloped in Green Day fanaticism following the release of the hit album. Sum 41 and Blink 182 have been associated with the rebellious school party atmosphere for years. Widely due to their music being featured in films such as "American Pie".
So there it is- A brief overview of Punk rock, that it has evolved as a genre, it is the attitude that kids should be free from the shackles of society, and should be little rebellious anarchists. And of course, that the genre has moved from being centered in Britain, to America. Perhaps indicating that Punk bands are formed as a sort of- Plague on Governments of countries that are messing up royally. Below is a picture of my favourite modern punk band- Sum 41.
Punk has evolved as a genre over the years, from the founders of Punk- such as the Sex pistols, Generation X, Talking Heads etc to bands such as Blink 182, Sum 41, and Green Day. You could argue that Punk originated in Britain, there were certainly more Punk bands around in Britain after Punk's birth, however, bands like "The Ramones" gave America too the anarchistic punk attitude.
In fact- you could say that Punk moved from Britain to America, as the majority of "modern" punk bands are American, the three most famous are the ones I mentioned earlier. Green Day's release of their album "American Idiot" was incredibly well recieved by both Britain and America. Indeed, Punk's target market, (Teenagers) were going mad over it's release, and so were much younger people too. When I was in Primary School almost the entire school was enveloped in Green Day fanaticism following the release of the hit album. Sum 41 and Blink 182 have been associated with the rebellious school party atmosphere for years. Widely due to their music being featured in films such as "American Pie".
So there it is- A brief overview of Punk rock, that it has evolved as a genre, it is the attitude that kids should be free from the shackles of society, and should be little rebellious anarchists. And of course, that the genre has moved from being centered in Britain, to America. Perhaps indicating that Punk bands are formed as a sort of- Plague on Governments of countries that are messing up royally. Below is a picture of my favourite modern punk band- Sum 41.
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