Lyric Analysis Of Iiris Tigerhead

Here I have created a wordle for the lyrics for our main task from Iiris-Tigerhead.

Wordle is a program which is designed to generate “word clouds” from text that you provide. This program then organise words to give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently. 

From the wordle that I have created we can see that the most frequent used phrase is "Keep Real,  You will not fade away". This is the main lyric that our main task is trying to portray through the narrative of our music video. In our music video we are portraying how girls in society should keep real and not follow stereotypical views of how girls should act and dress. Therefore in our music video we show and assure our target audience that they can keep real because they will not fade away in society but will be unique in their own way.

Possible Locations For Iiris Tigerhead

As part of planning before hand I have took pictures of the possible locations we will be shooting in for our Music Video.

Stereotypically the Dream Pop genre usually has mystical and unusual locations in music videos. Are music video is based on a girl who is influenced by today's mediated society, therefore our music video is portraying how girls should not follow society but "Keep real, you will not fade away", the main lyric of our video.

Location 1 (South Park):

This is the first location we chose for our music video. The reason for this was because south park is very big and has loads of greenery and a good view of the sky. In our music video in the beginning we need a shot of the sun with trees surrounding it and we thought this would be an ideal location to gain this type of shot. Also our protagonist was going to wake up in a bunch of leaves as part of her unusual dream she is having. The reason we chose this idea was because green leaves denote simplicity and nature and this relates to our protagonists narrative she is trying to portray.

Location 2 (Folly Bridge):

This is the second location we chose which was folly bridge. The reason we chose this location was because we wanted the mis en scence to seem like she is on a big journey and this bridge has a very good leading lines composition for our protagonist to walk on. Also we needed a river because our protagonist is going to drop a green stone into the river as part of her identity because emerald green stands for the Month May and that is her birthday.

Location 3 (City Center):

This is the third location we chose for our Main task. This is Oxford City center, the reasoning behind this choice is that it is a busy place compared to our last mis en scene. We need to have contrasting locations to keep the audience engaged in the music video. In this location our protagonist will leave another part of her identity which is a "heart light". This prop represents that love breaks her down therefore she is leaving this part of her away and keeping real.

Storyboard For Our Main Task

I have sketched a storyboard for our Main Task. I have then scanned my work onto the computer and uploaded it to blogger.

In the image above, you can see we have repeated the same shots we have used at the beginning of our music video (of her asleep then waking up). This relates to the narrative theory of Todorov, indicating that there is now a resolution.

At shot 7 and 12, we originally wanted to use a dressing table with a mirror at the point where she pushes the items away. What we did in the music video was use a window, taking advantage of the natural lighting from the sun.

A short summary of our narrative:

1. She is sleeping
2. She has a dream of her being inspired to be who she really is. 
3. In the dream, she plays around, messes about and could be metaphorically searching for herself in the sense that she's walking around our chosen locations--town and Donnington Bridge.
4. She leaves her personal belongings in these different locations because she doesn't want them to be a part of her.
5. i.e. marble/ pebble symbolising a (green) filtered reflection of herself at the Bridge, rose portraying good vs. evil with the petals and the thorn, the ball (representing life as it rolls it is increasing in speed or age) at steps of the Ashmolean.
6. By doing this, we understand that she wants to strip away the bond between her and these objects to see if she has a real identity without them. 
7. At the end, she wakes up and we see her grab her bag and look inside it, and we see it's empty or we see her push the items away.

Shot List

I have created a shot list for our main task, which includes camera angles, composition, locations and props. I have designed this in order for me and my partner to be certain of each shot that we need. Making this plan will help us saving time of thinking on the spot.

1. Low angle shot of sun in the sky at south park (focus in and out)
2. Mid shot of protagonist laying on the grass (upside down)
3. Side mid-shot of protagonist lying on the grass in south park (closed eyes)
4. Close-up of protagonist opening her eyes
5. Mid shot of protagonists bag on the grass at south park
6. Extreme close up of the protagonists hand holding the bag
7. Close up of the protagonist fiddling with the grass
8. Close up pan shot of protagonist's shoes walking on logs at south park
9. Long shot of protagonist walking along the logs in south park
10. Long shot of protagonist standing with her hands out with her back facing the camera
11. Pan shot of her view looking around the park
12. Long shot of her jumping off the log in south park
13. Long shot of her spinning around and shot of protagonist holding the camera and spinning around
14. Long shot of donnington bridge
15. Mid shot of protagonist cutting corner into donnington bridge
16. Protagonist's back facing the camera walking over donnington bridge
17. Long shot of protagonist facing the camera walking over donnington bridge and touching her hair
18. Close up of protagonist holding the bridge's rail
19. Side mid shot of protagonist looking down into the river
20. Low angle shot of protagonist looking down
21. Mid shot of her looking in the bag
22. Shot of her taking an item out of her bag
23. Close up of item in her hand
24. Slow motion shot of the item falling out of her hand into the river
25. Low angle shot of item dropped in the river (splash)
26. Floor shot of her shoes walking, including the cars (back, front and side) 
27. High angle of protagonist walking into town from westgate back entrance
28. High angle of protagonist walking through donnington bridge pathway
29. Protagonist walks with bag facing camera looking around, bottom of westgate entrance towards town, long shot and pan
30. Back facing the camera, mid shot, walking in the street with ashmolean 
31. Long shot of protagonist crossing the road, looking for cars, pulling her bag up 
32. Close up of girl walking up, blurring shot 
33. Shot of protagonist walking up the steps and Protagonist swings her bag at her side, low angle shot 
34. Low angle shot of girl sat on the stairs opening her bag and looking into it
35. Closer shot of girl taking out the ball in foil and letting it bounce
36. Camera following the ball that bounces down
37. Walking around in town starting from st giles, different shots
38. Her walking up castle street high angle
39. She kneels down, front on shot of protagonist taking out rose 
40. Close up shot of her smelling the rose 
41. Then slow motion of her dropping the rose
42. Extreme close up of her (red lipstick?) lips of lip synching to the lyric ‘don’t be a b****’ when it comes up in the song
43. Slight low angle of her taking her sunglasses off to look at something in the distance