The Doors - People are strange (music video idea 2) (j)

My second idea for The Doors - People are strange is a concept idea set in a hotel.

The main protagonist will pull up to the hotel in a car, with the weather being very dull and raining, to link in with the lyric 'faces come out of the rain'.

When he gets out of the car a farmer is walking past and the main protagonist puts up his hand in a friendly gesture, but the farmer comes right into his face and mimes 'people are strange'

When he gets to the hotel, the main protagonist is then waiting at reception when the reciptionist goes very close to his face miming 'people are strange', which is the main concept of our video.

He then walks to his bedroom and passes a bride who is clearly drunk and goes into his face and once again says 'people are strange'.

Once he gets into his bedroom, a cleaner walks in and walks straight up to him and mimes 'people are strange' again.

After this, he then heads to dinner where he sits down and the waiter comes right up to him and mimes 'people are strange'

He then looks around at different people, some of them with food filling their mouths and clearly try to say 'people are strange' to him again.

He then heads back to his room but on his way past a window a ghostly figure in the window mimes 'when your strange'

A video with the idea of a hotel is 30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill

JB - Doors-People are strange Idea 1

Concept idea.

My first idea was to have the main protagonist walking down a lonely dark street, but with digetic sound of footsteps as though he is being followed.

A chase then follows but the audience does not get to see who is following him, or if anyone actually is.

People on the street are looking at the main protagonist in a way that would signify that they are unsure of why he is running, which links to the lyrics people are strange.

The main protagonist will finally hit a dead end, with a slow panning shot to show the person behind him, but then it will turn out that there was nobody there at all and it was just him being paranoid.

JB - Doors: History

This is my research and a brief summary of The Doors background history.

• The Doors are an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California 
• The bands members were vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger
• They got the name The Doors from Aldous Huxley's  book 'The Doors of Perception'.
• RIAA say The Doors have sold over 32.5 million albums in the US alone, with 80-100 million albums worldwide
• They had a record label with Elektra
• 1967 was their breakthrough year with the single 'Light my Fire' becoming the first single for Elektra records to reach number 1 in the billboard hot 100 singles chart, selling over 1 million copies.
• The Doors were seen as a very controversial band, due to Morrisons wild, poetic lyrics often having a lot of relevance to drugs
• Their controvery later followed by Morrison being the first rock artist to be arrested by the police, following the incident in New Haven which he argued with a police officer then followed to belittle the police on stage as for why he was late

Coursework Pitch - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Morning Lights

Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly are an Indie Rock band and my idea for this song is a concept idea of a teenager walking down a busy city street on his own in the morning. The concept is that nobody is taking any notice of anyone else at this time, as they are just focused on their own destination in life. This can be filmed by showing the contrast between business men and women and people that are having to live in the street, as thought the main protagonist is in the middle of these, so nobody takes any notice of him as he is not unique. At the end of the song he then wakes up and gets out of bed, then ticks off another day on his calender, as though its just one thing after another in life.

A problem with this idea would be the busy street in which it is filmed, and also having people take no notice of you if you are filming them.

Gary Numan 'Cars'

My idea for this music video would be a teenager in a suit , signifying his wealth and importance. I would then include many shots of the inside of the car, such as dice and an air freshener, to appeal to a youth audience. I would have this set in a slow motion, to show a build up to something, then include different shots such as gold spinners on his wheels, different patterns of paint on the car, then move onto the setting around the car, instead of the actual car. The setting around the car will include many shots of other cars, but then a large machine that looks as though its use to crush things. Then the establishing shot would be used and you finally see the car, an old car made to look good, being driven into a car impound ready to be crushed.

The Doors 'People are strange'

We heard this song in class without looking at the video, then had 6 minutes to think of how we would go around directing this music video.

My idea was that a group of very different people would be standing at the entrance to a shopping centre, including a Clown, a Magicion, a footballer, and a teenage 'Hoody', to show the variation. It would start off with an establishing shot of the whole shopping centre, then quick cut shots to the people entering shots they normally would not have, for a comical aspect. From this, It would keep on cutting at a fast speed until the end where special slow motion effects would be used exiting the shopping centre, all together with their arms around each other, to show the bond between completely different people.

Feminism and Post Feminism

Feminism is an ideology that women should be equal to men. Post-Feminism is a new ideology that say women have acheived that and are not being exploited by men. An example would be the music video 'Bad Romance' by Lady Gaga, where she appears to be prostitute being bought by men. Feminists believe she is being exploited by men for record sales, although Post-Feminists believe she is in control. In our video we have a lack of women, but we have decided on this due to the difficulties of casting on the day, and also it reflects that there are actually no women in the band, which may be percieved as sexist but we try and stick to conventional aspects of the band.