Alphabeat, A History

Alphabeat is a six piece band from Denmark. they formed in the summer of 2002. they are signed to Copenhagen records. they have three UK singles, and are currently touring Europe.

student video analysis

There is a lot of visualization of lyrics in this video. The video starts with an arguing couple, who, in the narrative, then "get away" as is said in the song. The use of the beach symbolizes holiday and freedom, when the couple are there they get on. Some clever techniques are used in this video, as in where the guy at the start freezes while the singer continues.





location fits the genre of music. the greyscale effect goes well with the song, but with the lighting it makes the video hard to see. the shot of the ambulance was worked very good as the intro. the video was focused on performance.

Boxes

Boxes are square - Gareth

How very true, we may run into complications with the squareness of the boxes, we may have to abandon the original idea of painting each box side a different colour, due to the smaller sides of a few of the boxes. Also, the amount of paint may be an issue. However we will persevere.

What we need for monday

Monday is a day when we are filming at Tescos.

Who will bring what?
Alice- Costumes, Keyboard, Bass, Mic, people
Josh - Sooty, Glasses
Gareth - Guitar and Mic
Rian - Drums

Alice will go ask tescos today cause she's gonna be in town anyway

Not quite on subject....

While in the car I was having ideas for other music videos for the songs on the radio, for example, Baby it's fact - Hellogoodbye came on the radio and I suddenly got inspired to make a video where a couple are driving along with the song on and their car suddenly takes off and takes them to cloud 9. Interesting idea for 8 in the morning....

Plans - What we need to do, what has been done

Needs to be done:
Filming
finish costumes - paint the tights
Arrange a date for tescos
paint the boxes
find a 6
get the evil guys costumes ready
create a dance routine

Done:
Bought costumes (thanks go to alice for the cash)
rounded up 5 people to be super heros - alice, leo, josh, ollie, melissa (except alice,all friends of alice)
animatic
collected a few boxes, although, we don't know if it's enough for a wall.
taken pictures of possible location for the wall of boxes:









All in all, we need to get to get on with it!!!

GROUP 18 - Music Video animatic

Another video analysis

Brian, Top marks for not trying.

This is the video for the Arctic Monkey song 'Brianstorm' we took alot of inspiration from this due to having a dance infront of some bright lights which related to our dancing in front of boxes painted brightly.

Brainwave!!!!!

How about a superhero theme? With like, KAPOW signs and such! It would work and look cool. I think it'll be awesome!!!! So yeah, stuff like this.

maybe



and a bit of









Okay, that about sums it up. :)

Researched Music Videos.

I've been looking at a bunch of music video's that I have liked certain parts about, ranging from the whole feel of the video, to certain extracts.



Polysics - Electric Surfin' Go Go. I like the overral feel of this video, with the bright colours and use of animation.



I Monster - 'Hey Mrs' Once again, another brightly coloured video.

Pitchish

Well so far, our idea for Alphabeats Fantastic 6 involves lots of dancing and bright colours, we wanted to do a simple choreographed routine in some parts while in other parts we'll have performance. We are planning to acquire many cardboard boxes and paint them all different colours to make a backdrop. Also we will use other bits o' footage inter spliced in between sections of dance. Also we're gonna reference the superhero theme with some scenes where the "World police" save people. We also might have some people jumping through the walls of cardboard boxes.Paint will also be thrown around in a playful manner. Also we're gonna dress up in lots of costumes with lots of wigs and stuff. It's gonna be awesome. Fo Shizz.

Dancey Dance

I'm not sure this is suppose to exist but......

The original video for Fantastic 6:

Fantastic Lyrics

Ah-a-i-ah
Ah-a-a-a-a-ah
Ah-a-i-ah
A-a-a-a-a woo woo

Ah-a-i-ah
Ah-a-a-a-a-ah
Ah-a-i-ah
A-a-a-a-a woo woo

Sci-fic stars on the postcard skies,
White hair, black ties,
Riding in atomic jets,
Hi-Tech!

Ah-a-i-ah
Ah-a-a-a-a-ah
Ah-a-i-ah
A-a-a-a-a woo woo

They have crash helmets on,
Just like Major Tom,
They are the space troopers,
Super duper!

eins zwei drei
Weltpolizei (in english- one two three world police)
Twentyfour Seven
From Heaven
They'll be watching over all of us,
The international
Professionals.

Ah-a-i-ah
Ah-a-a-a-a-ah
Ah-a-i-ah
A-a-a-a-a woo woo

Hey you, what to do?
You're high strung,
Relax, ku-ku-ku-choo.
They'll do the tricks,
The Fantastic 6.

Ah-a-i-ah
Ah-a-a-a-a-ah
Ah-a-i-ah
A-a-a-a-a woo woo

Come on! Don't be hysterical,
It's the making of a miracle,
Everytime they save chicks,
The Fantastic 6.

Eins Zwei Drei
Weltpolizei
Twentyfour Seven
From Heaven
They'll be watching over all of us,
The international
Professionals.

Ooooo-o-o-o-o-ooh
Ooooo-o-o-o-o-ooh
Ooooo-o-o-o-o-oooo-oh
Ooooo-o-o-o-o-oooo-oh
Ooooo-o-o-o-o-oooo-oh
Ooooo-o-o-o-o-ooh

Eins Zwei Drei
Weltpolizei
Twentyfour Seven
From Heaven
They'll be watching over all of us,
The international
Professionals.

Eins Zwei Drei
Weltpolizei
Twentyfour Seven
From Heaven
They'll be watching over all of us,
The international
Professionals.

Fantastic 6

Live Performance!!!

R1 - MUSIC VIDEO CD TRACKS 2008/9

R1 - MUSIC VIDEO CD TRACKS 2008/9

1. You're My Flame - Sia 3:18
2. I Got Da Feelin - Sweet Tee 4:15
3. Bouncy Ball - Ladyfuzz 2:48
4. Don't Want To See You - Camera Obscura 3:17
5. Fantastic Six - Alphabeat 3:39
6. No Looking Back - Anti-Social Burn-Outs 3:09
7. Heroes - Hot Leg 2:44
8. Oh My Sweet - The New York Fund 3:39
9. Friends Are False - The Delays 4:10
10. Boston - Augustana 4:06
11. Back Against The Wall - Cage The Elephant 3:48
12. Harm's Way- Waco Brothers 2:42
13. Powers - Blackalicious 3:47

Welcome to GROUP 18