Rough Cut

Test Footage

Test footage from 24th September

This test footage helped us testing the different shots we are going to use, lighting, and helped Alfie to practice his miming skills.

We filmed this test footage outside long road school, which is not the location we are actually going to use, however we could not get to the location and back, and still have time for filming on the day as it was late into the lesson time had to do this.
The locations differ in that the street we are going to use does not have any cars, so it will not distract the audience from the main character. It will also have shops along the side to make it look more like a nice colourful street that matches the lyrics.

Shot List

Shot 1: Close up on a cardboard sign spelling out 'Curbside Prophet'.

Shot 2: Bus pulling up with the Alfie on, Alfie gets off bus, Kate Holding a sign Saying 'By Jason Mraz'.

Shot 3: Shot in front of actor turning on iPod to listen to the selected track, and starts walking down the street.

Shot 4: Tom Passing a guitar to Alfie, and follows behind Alfie as he walks down the street playing the guitar.

Shot 5: Close up of Alfie's face singing along to the lyrics, with people waking by.

Shot 6: When the lyrics ' now, now, now' is heard, the camera will jump in stages into a long shot of Alfie in the street will people around him, and this is when the audience is introduced to the first follower.

Shot 7: Close up of Alfie's legs dancing to the song, merrily, making it feel like a happy, upbeat song.

Shot 8: Alfie and his first follower, Tom, walking down a narrow street, camera shot from high above, to show the impression of others looking in on whats going on. And as the lyrics quote "amounts up to nothing in the end", Alfie will raise his hand up in the air, to show that its not going to get him down, because he's happy.

Shot 9: Shot from opposite side of road, will show that Alfie has gained another follower.

Shot 10: Shot outside a pub of Alfie Raising a glass, as the lyrics quote:"raise a toast".

Shot 11: Alfie will mime to "hop in the truck" lyrics to add more effect as well as Alfie singing.

Shot 12: To the chorus again and it will show 3 followers, and all of them following Alfie as he is singing merrily.

Shot 13: More miming to lyrics of the next verse e.g "with my guitar", close up of guitar and "my ghetto hats cocked right" Alfie will mime moving his hat to the right side of his head.

Shot 14:
All the ladies say,
“Yo, that kid is CRAZY!”
We got the backstage Bettie's takin’ more than they can get
They say, “whats up with M-R-A-Z?"
The line in the song sounds like an older woman singing it so we are going to try and find someone older to say it, if not we will have a group of girls all saying it together.

Shot 15: When the music starts to fade out.. Alfie will sit down on a bench and everyone who was following him will disperse and carry on with normal life as if it never happened e.g. people will walk of talking. Alfie, while sitting on the bench, will then take out his ipod, and the music will turn into background music.

Actual Music Videos

James Blunt-1973


This fits the genre by James Blunt walking down a street to a sad song like most of his other songs, and him looking back on old memories which he is sad about. The relationship between the lyrics and visuals, he singing about being in a club with a girl in 1973, and the video goes from old street to into a shop all colourful as it was in 1973 giving the feeling of warmth, and what it was like for him back then, which amplifies the lyrics to what it was actually like by using visuals too. The relationship between music and visuals is that is a slow quite sad song and the visuals look as if they have been slowed down, which is very effective to show it is a sad song and amplifies the effect of the sadness and slowness of the music in the background. James blunt always shows his face, and keeps the same amount of stubble in all of his videos, and the same scruffy hair, to keep his image the same and so the audience can realise who he actually is. Most of the shots are from in the shops in 1973 looking out at James Blunt singing like you are there looking at James singing, also there are shots from balcony's above James watching him walk down this dead street, as if you where there looking at him, maybe a bit voyeuristic of him. you also do get to see a good looking lady dance in a next to nothing on the breasts dress, which shows voyeurism of the female body too. This video has a little bit of intertextuality of the TV sitcom 'Friends', where they are always hanging in a coffee house, and in the video it cut to in a coffee house with lots of people inside, and he says "i will always be, in a club with you in 1973". which refers to 'Friends' when they are always in the coffee shop together.


Jason Mraz- I'm Yours


Chris Brown- With You

This is Chris Brown's 'With You', and like all his other videos, it is quite a heart felt song for a girl, which fits his genre of RnB. With him dancing in the street fits the RnB genre, with him dancing while getting his message through that he really likes this girl. The lyrics and visuals contradict each other because he is singing about being with a girl, and how she is his sweetheart and hes into her, but she isn't there with him to hear it. Though he could be singing it for her, and hoping she will hear it. With him dancing in the video, this amplifies what message he is trying to put across, showing he is in such a god mood about this girl, it makes him dance and sing when he thinks about her. The music and visuals go together well because it is a quite slow song, and the visuals are nice and slow, most shots are slowed down on him with things going faster in the background, so all focus is on Chris Brown. Cris Brown's record label must want a lot of close ups and mid shots of Chris singing and him doing some of his trademark dancing, which is very smooth and very entertaining to watch. Chris' dancing reoccurs in most of his videos creating a visual style for his videos, and it is expected of him to do his trademark dancing. In this video the cameras sense of "looking" is seen as you are a person who is with Chris, watching and listening to him singing for this girl.

Lyrics

Curbside Prophet- Jason Mraz

I’m just a curbside Prophet,
With my hand in my pocket,
And I’m waiting for my rocket to come.
I’m just a curbside Prophet,
With my hand in my pocket,
And I’m waiting for my rocket, ya'll.

Y’see it started way back in Nyc,
When I stole my first rhyme from the M.I.C.,
At A west end avenue at 63.
The beginning of a leap year, February, ’96,
With A guitar picked up in the mix,
I committed to the licks like a nickel bag of tricks.
Well look at me now,
Look at me now,
Look at me now, now, now, now.

I'm just a curbside Prophet,
With my hand in my pocket,
And I'm waiting for my rocket to come.
I'm just a curbside Prophet,
With my hand in my pocket,
And I'm waiting for my rocket, ya'll.

Well you’re never gonna guess,
Where I’ve been been been,
And I have no regrets
That I bet my whole checking account
Because it all amounts to nothing up in the end

Well you can only count on the road again
We’ll soon be on the radio dial
And I been payin close attention to the willie nelson style
Like a band of gypsies on the highway while
I’m one man pushin’ on the california skyline drive
Up the coast I brag and I boast
I’m pickin up my pace and makin time like space ghost
Raising a toast to the highway patrol with the most
Put my cruise control's on coast
Cuz I'm tourin' around the nation on extended vacation see
I got Elsa the dog who exceeds my limitation
I say, "I like your style, crazy pound pup!
You need a ride? [*woof*]
Well come on, girl, hop in the truck!"

I'm just a curbside prophet
With my hand in my pocket
And I'm waiting for my rocket to come
I'm just a curbside prophet
With my hand in my pocket
And I'm waiting for my rocket, ya'll.
I'm just a curbside prophet
With my hand in my pocket
And I'm waiting for my rocket to come on
I'm just a curbside prophet
With my hand in my pocket
And I'm waiting for my rocket, ya'll.

See I'm a down home brother, redneck undercover
With my guitar here
I'm ready to play
And I'm s a sucker for a filly
Got a natural ability I'm geared to freestyle
Look at my flexibility
Dangerous at the mike
My ghetto hat's cocked right
The ladies say, "yo, that kid is crazy"
The backstage betties taking more than they can get
They say, "what's up with m-r-a-z?"

Hey, hey, something's different in my world today,
Well they changed my traffic signs to a brighter yellow.
Hey, hey, something's different in my world today,
Well they changed my traffic sign to a brighter yellow.
I'm just a curbside Prophet,
Curbside Prophet now
Curbside Prophet now
Curbside
Come on, now.
Curbside Prophet.
Waiting for my rocket to come...