Michael Jackson - Thriller Music Video

This song is highly regarded as one of the best music videos of all time. The video lasts for about 14 minutes and follows a narrative based story of Michael Jackson taking his girlfriend to watch a scary film. The song doesn't even start properly until it shows them both walking home. The main performance starts with Michael Jackson as the lead dancer with a number of zombies in the background. This video was released in 1983 which shows what can be done with a video at this time where they were just taking off. The video was extremely popular at the time and gained renewed popularity when Michael Jackson died in 2009. The video follows a narrative structure where it allows the audience to wonder what will happen in the middle of the video. This is more like a movie as it has end credits to show the director and the writer of the song. The non diegetic sound of the voiceover makes the video more interesting as with the mise-en-scene to create a scary mood. Even though this is highly regarded as the best video of all time there isnt really any exciting camera angles but we do see some mid shots and close up to show the emotion of Michael Jackson and his girlfriend. The main focus is the dance routine is the zombie dance routine which is well choreographed. This is probably to promote the artist as well as the song because now Michael Jackson is thought of a very highly skilled performer. The target audience are probably people who already like Michael Jackson and people who like pop music.

Vampire Weekend - A-Punk Music Video

The ideas are slightly concept based relying on a heavy performance based video to create effect. This video is very simplistic with the four band members doing a performance against a white wall. This can be linked to our video performance where there are four band members playing in front of a black background. The video doesn't really use any narrative or fancy editing. The camera movement focuses on the band from the front with a fade occuring to indicate night and day. Another type of editing is used to speed up various parts of the video to make it more interesting. Many videos of a similar genre use this type of performance in their video. Personally I think that this video is a sucess due to the simple idea of a band performance. The target audience are people who like Vampire Weekend and probably people interested in performance based videos. The use of mise-en-scene to indicate winter months as well.

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Close ups show personal emotions of character this links to the emotional song, slow panning shots also work with this, always laying down in odd locations not normally linked with sleeping shows he is in some sort of trance like state but at the end is resolved by sleeping in a natural enviroment his bed this follows Todorov's theory

Michel Gondry.

Michel Gondry (born May 8, 1963) is a French film, commercial and music video director and an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He is noted for his inventive visual style and manipulation of mise en scène.
His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui, in which he also served as a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui caught the attention of music artist Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". The collaboration proved long-lasting, with Gondry directing a total of seven music videos for Björk. Other artists who have collaborated with Gondry on more than one occasion include Daft Punk, The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers, The Vines, Steriogram, Radiohead, and Beck. Gondry has also created numerous television commercials. He pioneered the "bullet time" technique later adapted in The Matrix in a 1998 commercial for Smirnoff vodka, as well as directing a trio of inventive holiday-themed advertisements for clothing retailer Gap, Incorporated.

Here is a list of some of the music videos that Michel Gondry:

1. Open Your Heart" - Mia Doi Todd (2010)

2. Too Many Dicks On The Dance floor" & "Carol Brown" (unofficial videos) - Flight Of The
Conchords (2009)

3. Soleil du Soir" - Dick Annegarn (2008)

4. Declare Independence" - Björk (2007)

5. Dance Tonight" - Paul McCartney (2007)

6. Cellphone's Dead" - Beck (2006)

7. Anysound" - The Vines (2006)

Gondry was an Artist in Residence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 and 2006. Later directing the music video for the Paul McCartney song "Dance Tonight", in which Gondry makes a cameo appearance. Gondry directed of "Unnatural Love," the fifth episode in season two of HBO's Flight of the ConchordsInterior Design one third of the 2008 anthology film Tokyo! was next for Gondry. Interior Design was based on the comic book "Cecil and Jordan in New York" by Gabrielle Bell but was adapted from New York City to Tokyo for the film.

By Callum Balding

Collision Course Initial Ideas

List of Roles
We included many actors and band performers and here are their names.
Peter (disabled husband) - James Gray
Ashleigh (deceased wife) - Laura Stoker, Saskia Bryan and Lauren Gibson
Drummer - Adam Connon and Matthew Latus
Singer - Lawrence Scott
Guitarist 1 - Jonathan Gill
Guitarist 2 - Callum Balding

Ideas Pitch

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