Greyscales and effects to signify the past and the present.
The narrative is an old man wandering around a seaside town. He is reminiscing back to the time when he and his lover wandered around the same town when he was much younger.
Gold Snafu features a 3 minute intro to create a setting and some context for the narrative during the actual song. We could do this too but on a much smaller scale, maybe for a few seconds before and after a song to give some context or narrative closure.
Throughout the song the visuals anchor the music. For example during the chorus when the piano high notes come in, the main character looks at the girl he’s infatuated with. This leads onto a rebellious act of throwing papers at 4:26 when the music becomes more powerful.
Sticky Fingers add in additional sound effects like the car screeching and the cricket playing on TV during the song too. To an extent we could try and use this technique too.
The continuous, comedic narrative is a style we could try to emulate as it doesn’t rely on a fast cutting rate or high production costs.
SHAME is a relatively minimalistic music video. It features 1 actor, 2 locations, a jacket as a prop and blood as prosthetics. The rest is acting, dancing and interesting cuts.
They show the name of the song in bold white writing in the first 3 seconds of the song. This and the way they cut to a black screen with the lyrics on to emphasize certain phrases like ‘is all you cunts can hold onto’ and ‘just got deadly’ I think is an innovative way to make a low budget production interesting and I think we should definitely use this technique in our production.
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