SMITH WESSON - GRINDHOUSE TRAILER (putting theory into practice)

Had a couple of days spare and made a short tongue in cheek Grindhouse Trailer in order to pratise my editing. Its made me realise that perhaps having Grindhouse appraoch to the music video might be extremely time consuming and it will need a lot of work in order for it to pull off. As a result I think that perhaps the boyband route is the way to go down, and after looking at Matt and Liam's test shoots in London it has made me realise that it could be an extremely apt location.

All the Grindhouse Trailers

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Here are all four fake trailers from 'Grindhouse', after watching these i'm thinking more about how interesting it would be to do a modern spin on one of these.

Evolving Ideas

After listening to Max's track idea with pendulum, I think that this could also work with my idea for 'Machete' as it slowly speeds up (the trailer to real life transition) and also has quite a reggae sound (link to blaxploitation). As well as this I'm beginning to consider having the whole music video as one large elaborate trailer, but this will need more thought and I will post more soon.

DJ Hazard - Machete (Treatment)

After todays meeting I have thought more of one of the idea's and have tried to elaborate upon it a bit more. This is extremely rough and is by no means the final idea by it makes the 'vision' I had clearer.

First of all the track itself has a collection of soundbites from a mock trailer for 'Machete', in the film 'Grindhouse' (Rodrigues and Tarantino, 2006). Therefore seeing how the track begins, we could start it like a 1970's exploitation trailer with a character very much like 'Shaft', a 1970's no nonsense cop with attitude (i.e. really playing upon stereotype). This could be shot with an extremely grainy effect, and literally show what the voiceover describes. Slowly the camera zooms out of the trailer, which we now see is being watched on a TV, then...

(Machete Trailer)

(Shaft Opening)

...The main character of the trailer looks at the person watching the trailer, in a non realistic manner, as if he has just realised he is being watched. He then walks through the screen (don't ask me how this will be acheived as I haven't researched it yet), and is brought into the real world.

The rest of the music video would then follow what happens next with this character and the clear clash of times and cultures. I thought this could be played out comically and the 'Film Character' could somewhat be similar to MR T.

Club Tropicana (another group idea)

Here's a link to the original video (embedding has been disallowed):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF_Jufp3s98&feature=related

So far we as a group are thinking of setting it at a pool with three band members. We would try and get the comedy out of the camp lyrics and with very camp performances. We intitially thought of using this track with another video.

At present current thoughts are:

1) A garden hose and perhaps a water fight

2) All jumping in the pool (perhaps some armbands)

3) Making cocktails

4) A BBQ

5) general sunbathing, preferably with a screen

6) Big Shades

7) tropical shirts/vests/speedos

Initial Rough Idea

(Iggy Pop - Wanna be your dog)

This is an idea that is still in its very early stages so at the moments, I'm just trying to compile images and clips that might help inspire me. The rough idea of the video is about a bunch of criminals wearing dog masks and perhaps in a police chase. At the moments I envisage it in black and white with subtitles nad it to be quite abstract in style.