My final decison for the song I want to do as my video piece, is MC hammer 'Can't touch this'. I have chosen this becuase I think it will be a challenging process, but I think the outcome will look really good. Here is the link to the Original 'Can't touch this' video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKlPKsJ2Vj0
This is my plan for my creation of this song:
Performers - I would try to ask a range of different people to feature in the video. Some of which will dance in the video and others will do the lip syncing. There will not be one main performer to act as the artist becuase I think it will be better if lots of people do the lyp sync, it will give a better effect and that way I can edit the video in differnt ways a dbe more creativ with it.
Costumes - for the performers that are mainly dancing, I would want them to wear dance/hip hop clothing as the sng is big dance number. Then for the other performers I would want them to wear bright coloured clohing so it brings more colour into the video. I would also want one or two people (boys) to wear a nice looking suit to go with another idea that I had which is part of the narrative of the video.
Location - For this video I would do a variety of loactions so the video doesn't stay on one location for too long and get boring. A studio would be a good location becuase that way I can change the backdrops to different colours and edit the different shots into differnt places in the video. I could also shoot some of the video in a house, with the performers dancing in the fron room to the television to look as if they are dancing along with the video that is being played on the tele. I was also thinking about filming some in a dance studio as the song has a massive dance feel about it. I would also film some scenes in the street with either lots of people dancing or just a few poeple.
Narrative - This song doesn't have a clear narrative, so I thought I would make one by having a male performer walking down the street (of town maybe) dresses in a nice suit and then other performers walking out the way as if nobody can touch him. I would also do scenes of poeple dancing that. As the people dancing is a bit like the original video, I would cut between the man walking in the town, the daners, the lip sync and other locations so that it is more creative. Also I could get another narrative so that it would be someone listening to the song through their headphones and suddenly bursting into dance, than as other poeple see the performer dancing, they will go ad join in as well. (a bit like one of the T-mobile adverts). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM
Camera Angles - I would use a variety of camera angles in this video. I would do close ups and extreme close ups when the performers are lip syncing. I would also do some close ups of the performers while they are danicng for example the feet. I could do a close up of the performer walking in the town/streets feet, then do a tilt with the camera so eventually the viewers will see the rest of the perfomer in the street, or do the same but zoom out so it goes into a long shot of the person walking away. I could do various wide shots of the performers dancing too, and also film the dancers from different angles, for example the side, behind, above (high angle), below (low angle) etc.
Editing Styles - to makethe video more interesting, I could do split screens of the dancers. I could also mix the split screens up, for exmaple one side of screen have dancers and on the other have the performer walking away in the street, or some people's reactions to the man walking in the street. I could also be more creative and split the screen into more screens and have close ups of different people's lips singing the song lyrics. Also I would keep a fast but steady pace throughout the video so it is constantly changing scenes and locations. I also thought about maybe adding special effects to the video. This being a moving line of color running through the differnt scenesof the video and canging colour as it goes into a different scene or location. I think this would be effective becuase it will give ore interest to the video and will make it more colourful.
