Treatment

The Killers are an American rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada that formed in 2001. The band consists of Brandon Flowers (vocals, keyboards), Dave Keuning (guitar, backing vocals), Mark Stoermer (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Ronnie Vannucci Jr. (drums, percussion). An alternative rock band, The Killers draw some of their influences from the music styles of the 1980s. The group's debut album, Hot Fuss (2004) brought the band mainstream success. The Killers' second album, Sam's Town, was released in 2006, and compilation album Sawdust containing B-sides, rarities, and new material, was released in 2007. Their third studio album, Day & Age, produced by Stuart Price, was released in 2008. Daddy’s Eyes is featured on the Sawdust album and has not been released as a single by the band.

Our video will be amplification and not follow a storyline, after watching ‘Somebody told me’ also by The Killers it gave us ideas on how we want to produce our music video. Instruments will be visible throughout the shooting, close ups of the drumbeat and guitar will be seen during the video. Trance/techno lights will be played on the background along with a video of the band. The majority of the video will be shot within the studio however the background video will be done out of the college.

Risk Assessment

Before I start shooting for my music video I need to undergo a risk assessment. This is to make sure I know what to do incase any unwanted circumstances pop up. I made a small list of possible risks that could injure the actors or hinder my filming, and then listed the ways these can be solved.

Call Sheet

A2 MEDIA MUSIC VIDEO

CALLSHEET

TRACK: THE KILLERS-“DADDYS EYES”

LENGTH: 4 MINUTES 16 SECONDS

SHOOT DATE:

LOCATION: Hartlepool Sixth Form

Blakelock Road

Hartlepool TS25 5PF

Tel: 01429 294444

Call Times: Everyone 09:00-18:00

CREW/CAST: ADAM STEPEHNSON adamstevo218@hotmail.com 07736518927

CREW/CAST: NIALL SMITH dj_niall2k4@hotmail.com 07834274600

CREW/CAST: GRAHAM READ graham_hufc_25@hotmail.co.uk 07932445783

CAMERA Sony HD Camera

EQUIPMENT: Sony Battery Charger

Velbon DV-7000 Tripod

LIGHTING TV Studio Lighting

EQUIPMENT:

PROPS: Microphone

Guitar

Drums

WARDROBE: Costume (Graham)

White Shirt

Black boe tie

Black Trousers

Short beard and moustache

Breakdown of lyrics

I'll tell you what you wanna know (0:11-00:13)
But boy you better listen close (00:15-00:17)
People gonna tell you lies (00:19-00:21)
Don't let it come as a surprise (00:22-00:25)

That woman's on my back again (00:26-00:28)
I know she's got the best intentions (00:29-00:32)
but you began to realize (00:33-00:36)
You know got your daddy's eyes (00:37-00:39)

And there's something I wanna say (00:40-00:43)
I love her too (00:44-00:47)
And all of this has got nothing to do with you (00:48-00:52)

And I'd like to stay but I can't because (00:53-00:57)
I've been fooling around (00:58-1:00)
And I know that you called because (1:00-1:03)
you never even knew that it was hurting me (1:03-1:06)

When you put it on the other hand (1:09-1:11)
when you're old enough to understand (1:13-1:16)
That glove will bring it all to life (1:17-1:19)
I didn't say that made it right (1:20-1:22)

cause that woman's on my back again (1:24-1:27)
I know she's got the best intentions (1:28-1:31)
when you begin to realize (1:31-1:34)
You know you got your daddy's eyes (1:35-1:38)

And theres something I wanted to say (1:38-1:41)
I love her too (1:41-1:46)
And all of this has got nothing to do with you (1:46-1:50)

And I'd like to stay but I can't (1:51-1:55)
because I've been fooling around (1:56-1:58)
And I know that you called (1:58-2:00)
because you never even knew that it was hurting me (2:01-2:04)

And I'd like to stay but I can't (2:05-2:09)
because I've been fooling around (2:10-2:12)
And I know that you called (2:12-2:14)
because you never even knew that it was hurting me (2:15-2:18)

Sometimes people get tired (2:18-2:22)
And I woke up a little too late to lie (2:26-2:31)
Dreams should last a long time (2:33-2:38)
This is not what I'd call goodbye (2:40-2:49)

*Guitar Solo*

And I'd love to stay but I can't (3:17-3:19)
because I've been fooling around (3:19-3:22)
And I know that you called (3:23-3:25)
because you never even knew that it was hurting me (3:26-3:29)

And I'd love to stay but I can't (3:30-3:33)
because I've been fooling around (3:34-3:37)
And I know that you called (3:37-3:39)
because you never even knew that it was hurting me (3:39-3:43)

Me… (3:43-3:45)

I love her too… (3:56-4:00)

Research into Jason Mraz

After looking at Jason Mraz CD cover and Website you can see that he has carried the theme on both with the man sketched with a trilby hat on. Also the links down the left hand side of his website to navigate to the other pages are in the same font as the writing on his album. At the bottom left of the page you can see it says voice, music, silence, you can select any of these which you prefer. If you select his voice, he talks to you about the site and the mouth on the sketched person moves to the words. His type of music is rock and soul and aimed at teenagers and over as it’s not really quick and dance music.

As you can see the theme carries on within the site, from page to page. On each page he has different sketched drawings to symbolize what you are looking at, this site is very creative and has used many technologies to make it as it is.

Initial ideas

Here is my initial ideas that I have designed, I have made this to show brief ideas of camera, special effects, setting and mise en scene, that I have up to now, as this is only my initial ideas they may change when i come to produce my video as my ideas will alter due to more in depth research.

Deconstruction of Arctic Monkeys

The Killers are an indie rock band so I have decided to analyse a video, CD cover and website of the Arctic Monkeys.

The Arctic Monkeys are an indie rock band. I am going to analyse their music video “fluorescent adolescent”. This video completely subverts the expectations of everyone as everyone would expect to see the long shaggy hair which is shown with most indie artists and the instruments are not shown in the video whereas those would be expected to be shown. Most indie rock bands have bits with them performing in but the Arctic Monkeys seem to prefer the narrative and in this video the narrative shows a group of clowns and a group of non-clowns fighting at an old warehouse, there are flashbacks showing that the leaders of each group used to be friends as young kids. Both leaders attempt to kill each other throughout the video. When the video comes to an end the non clown leader attempts to run the clown leader over, the clown leader then see’s that the car has been leaking petrol and then drops his lighter to see the car with his former friend in burn up in flames. In the lyrics at the end it says “ took a left off last laugh lane” and I think this refers to when the guy tries to run over the clown but then the clown gets the last laugh when he burns the car down and he also says “ and your not coming back again” which shows the guy isn’t coming back because he’s dead. Other than this the lyrics don’t reflect the video, which means the relationship between the lyrics and visual is disjuncture.

The font for the CD cover is not exactly the same but it is the same style (Fancy distorted text) as on their website.

On the releases tab on their website there is a list of their albums and the cd cover I chose is also there as shown above. On the CD cover it is just shown as a plain usual street but then there is bright psychedelic colours in the windows to make it stand out and to make sure the cover doesn’t look too plain. On the website at the top there is a silhouette of the full band which blend in with the text also.

Kooks CD Cover Analysis

•  What genre is the production?
The genre for the kooks is indie.

•  How is the genre established?
The kooks are representative of indie by their long, shaggy hair, acoustic guitars and the style of clothes they wear.

•  How does the mise en scene support the
Genre?
The acoustic guitars support the indie genre as most of their songs are played with those guitars and also their clothing they wear show they are quite indie.

•  How will the generic elements of the
Production appeal to the audience?

The target audience would be mainly older teenagers and young men and women as they are the stereotypical groups that are known to like indie music.

Questionnaire

What do you think about the image of this band?

Which genre(s) of music would you place them under?
Indie Rock Pop Hip Hop Soul Classical

Which images do you think associate with that genre?

Which bands would you associate with the same style as The Killers?

What do you like to see in a typical music video?

When you hear the words “Daddy's Eyes” which images come to mind?

Permission

This screen shot is proof of the the email that we sent to The Killers asking for their permission to use their song for our A2 Media project.