Elliott Slingsby: Task 1

Task 1:

Our current rough cut shows off some of Goodwin’s five points, below are the five points followed by how they’re portrayed in our rough cut.

1.       Lyrics and Visuals Relationship.

We portray this point by having a narrative to our video. The narrative at the moment is completely clear because our rough cut is unfinished, but the intention was to have the main artist follow along with the theme of the song, which is to go out and waste his time in the sunshine. Which you can see in our rough cut, when Michael, the main artist, puts on his hoodie and leaves the house to go outside.

2.       Music and Visuals Relationship.

This point was portrayed whenever we cut to the actual instruments being played every now and then. The band playing are playing the real band “One Night Only”.

3.       Genre Characteristics.

The genre characteristics for alternative indie rock can normally be put across with quirky editing and not so serious actions. We did this in our rough cut with the cuts of the main artist on the sofa, and we intend to add more quirky edits by using split screens.

4.       Focus on the Vocalist.

We did this by splitting the video into two parts, the narrative which features the main artist, and the band playing, which focuses on the band playing the music itself. By doing this we’ve made it so that the vocalist is focused upon for at least half the entire video. We also reassure this point by including a lot of close ups of the vocalist.

5.       Intertextuality.

We haven’t included any intertextuality as of yet in our rough cut.

If we could use another day’s worth of filming, then we’d use it to film the main artist walking around town again but in better weather. We’d do this because we currently only have the main artist walking around town in poor rainy conditions, and it doesn’t really suite the song.