BETC Media Homework!
- Narrative
This video is about a man sitting in a hotel the possible storyline could be
Stage1) Man sitting down hears funky music and starts to dance
Stage2) goes through parts of the hotel dancing along to the music.
Stage3) He stats to magically fly around, after coming out of the elevators
- Treatment (concept)
This video is a dance/performance video because it has a man which starts randomly dancing in a hotel. The over all feel of this video is great it makes you want to get up and dance along in a weird and ridiculous way. I don’t think this video has any emotions apart form the emotions shown in his dance moves which are quite relaxed and free at all times.
- Connection to the song
- Misses En Scene (what the camera sees)
- Clothes/Make up- Make-up which is on the dancers face
- Locations- different parts of a building which I am guessing is a hotel.
- Props:
1) Flower Vase
2) Loads of Chair’s
3) Towel Rack
4) Lamps
5) Plants
6) Curtains
7) Bell
8) Escalators
9) Massive Painting on the wall
10) More Tables and chairs
- Lighting- It was a really bright lighting
- Actor movements/expressions- lots of running and dancing to the beat of the music, the actors expressions were dull and happy at the same time/
- Camera shots/types/movements:
There were lots of Long shot, close-ups in this music video mainly because the actor was moving a lot of the time, but overall it had shots where there are some High shots, low shots and tilt.
Historic, Social and Cultural Context:
Funk legend Bootsy Collins helped write this song and played on it. Collins played bass for George Clinton's Parliament/Funkadelic, and has worked on many side projects, including The Bootzilla Orchestra and Deee-Lite. And did you know In David Lynch's film adaptation of Dune, Paul Atreides says to his mother (82 minutes into the movie): "If we walk without rhythm, we won't attract the worm." This is the likely source of the lyrics, "Walk without rhythm, it won't attract the worm." (thanks, Jason - Sydney, Australia)
The video features Christopher Walken dancing. Walken is famous for playing an evil psycho in movies like True Romance, The Deer Hunter, Sleepy Hollow, and Pulp Fiction, which made for a very interesting video because it turns out Walken is a great dancer. He danced in musicals at the beginning of his career.
The video was shot over 2 days in the lobby of a Marriott Hotel in Los Angeles shortly before Christmas in 2000.
This won a Grammy for Best Short Form Music Video. Collins accepted the award with Slim.
The video won 6 MTV Video Music awards: Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Choreography, Best Art Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography.
