Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
In today's lesson, Ellie, Max and I continued our planning of the music video on the song Californication by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers. We spoke to our teacher for advice on what we could use for idea's and to try and get a better picture of what California was actually like, considering she had visited there with her family. She showed us many pictures of her holiday and it gave us a real insight of what we had to try and represent in our music video. This included clear, sandy beaches on a sunny day, beach huts and clear views. The song itself speaks of how California, Hollywood is a place of dreams and how some area's remain the same, whilst the majority of Hollywood is fake and manufactured, therefore, we need to take the lyrics of the song into account and represent the manufactured side of Hollywood as well, otherwise the music video will contradict the lyrics and therefore won't make much sense.
We came up with the final idea today, that we would have Ellie (girl in our group) running through a 'dreamlike state' through what would appear to be Hollywood. However, as she runs through this dream like state and place she is blocked by many obstacles in her way, and these obstacles and objects represent some of the issues raised in the lyrics of the song, mainly about the fake and manufactured side of Hollywood, California. For example, she could be stopped or chased by a person dressed in all white, in a surgeons costume with a scalpel in hand, symbolising the plastic surgery in the song lyrics to beat the natural process of ageing. The reason we chose the idea of Ellie running through a dream like state was because Hollywood is represented as a dream to most people, however, when you actually live the dream you come across some nightmares, and the objects Ellie gets stopped by, are the nightmares.
'Pay your surgeon very well
To break the spell of ageing'
We also talked about having an overweight man seen in the video wearing a Hawaiian shirt, to also represent the Hollywood image. The fat man could be anyone we wanted to use as it isn't hard to get hold of a Hawaiian shirt, however it will be hard to find a volunteer who is willing to come to a beach with us to film a couple of minutes worth of shots. The drink 'Mojito' is also very popular in California, Hollywood according to our teacher and therefore we decided that the man should be drinking a Mojito during the shot and that it would really represent the Hollywood image well.
This moved onto the next point which was, that we needed to find time to perhaps visit a beach and film some shots there to represent the California beaches that are supposedly exceptionally dreamy. Upon looking at pictures of the Californian beaches, provided by our teacher, we decided that we definitely needed to visit a beach in order to show the Hollywood, California, image. We decided that we would either go to West Wittering, or Brighton. We probably are going to go to West Wittering due to the fact that West Wittering has sandy beaches, whilst Brighton is 99% pebbled beaches and wouldn't represent the Hollywood image well enough. Looking at pictures its also vital we try to go and film on a sunny day before winter strikes.
We are still currently brainstormed new ideas, however so far this is all we have and it is going very well. We already knew that we would have band scenes cutting between shots as that seemed pretty obvious and essential with all three of us being able to, or have played an instrument in the past, with two of us being guitarists whilst the other has briefly played the drums.
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