Taking on board the critique we received after the screening of our animatic, I looked at various different music videos and eventually came across 'Kill The Director' by The Wombats. This video heavily focuses around the theme of parody, something that we are interested in due to the involvement of our pop video 'cliches'. After being told that we needed more of these filtered into the video, this was an ideal video to watch as it features many of them being parodied to great effect. One that I saw and intrigued me was the use of falling rain, commonly used for dramatic visual effect in pop videos. However, this might not be feasible for us due to the density of electrical equipment that would be on stage during the last 30 seconds of the track such as neon lights. However, another archetype they parodied was the use of a wind machine. This is something that has been replayed in music videos for decades with the lead singer having their hair blown by a huge industrial fan as they perform. Not only does this fit our concept in terms of its irony, but it may also look visually effective on screen. Whether it is fully in-keeping with the tone of the song is another matter, but it is certainly something to consider. Furthermore, I noticed that like our idea this video also exploits the concept of purposely bad green screen for effect. This is in use throughout the video before it cuts out at the end to reveal a colossal green screen and studio set up. Phil mentioned to us in our most recent meeting that we had to make it clear in the video that the green screen was ironically bad, as opposed to just being bad. A method of doing this would be to at some point have the image cut out, leaving simply a green wall. This would perfectly convey the shambolic effect that is having in the video and may act as a point of comedy also.
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