Matty Muncey/ Media Blog

My second music video idea would be using the song 'Electric Feel" by MGMT. The original music video for song was actually nominated for the 2008 VMA's Best Art direction and the narrative is essentially 'Earthlings' discover the moon as their home planet, and they use a special rocket to get up to there. There is also use of animation and animals in the video, which support the common description as it representing an ecstasy or acid trip, while some argue it as being a depiction of specific biblical stories from the Book of  Genesis.  After the rocket takes  off  and they arrive at the  moon, there is an  explosion  that kills them all. MGMT, the band that  perform the song, are an American psychedelic rock band formed in 2002 at Wesleyan University. It currently consists of Andrew VanWyngarden  and Ben Goldwasser. For my music video concept, I have a music video that gave me inspiration for the shots I would wan...

For my first concept I would use the song '99 shades of crazy' by JJ Grey & Mofro: This music video is about a baseball game that turns into a fight after two of the parents watching, start arguing. There are also shots of the band in a different location with low, dull lighting. Whilst the center of focus is on the baseball narrative, the band have a lot of screen time and it gives the video some contrast, making it more engaging. For my music video, I would use a similar theme and have a main narrative that carry's the music video throughout and a sub narrative that helps give the music video a more versatile feel with two different things happening. My main narrative would involve a middle age man that has problems with his marriage. The music video would start with him at home having an argument with his wife that leads to him storming out. He goes to a pub and starts drinking. He then realises he has no money to pay and he gets thrown out. By this ...