This image shows how i am proposing to shoot my animation.

Cut out letters and images jumbled together, when animated they will represent the lyrics.

Mise en scene: Locations, Costume and Make Up, Props and objects - (unfinished, photos to follow)

The Locations of my filming are the
1) the grapes gig venue in sheffield
2) my house.

Simply, my animation is shot in my house and the Live shots of the band Jack and the beanstalks is shot in a venue in sheffield.
Props would be the images i use for animation, cut out letters, people ect. I will animate these in my video.
Costume is what the band will wear in the proformance shots.

Written Treatment - unfinished

My music video is a combination of stop motion animation and live shots of my band.
I will shoot my band shots at a live show in a venue in Sheffield. I will piece together many photos in order to make my stop motion titles and scenes. These will be put together in adobe flash and combined with the shots of the band in order to make my final video. It links fairly closely with the Blitzen Trapper video called Furr. What will make it effective is the use of both animation and video. The way that my images will link to the lyrics will make my video. This concept is original and different. It isn’t really influenced by anything other than the song, and the joke that the song is influenced by. I took literally all of my ideas purely from listening and reading through the lyrics in order to gain an understanding of what is happening.

Narcissism

Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
The name "narcissism" was coined by Freud after Narcissus who in Greek myth was a pathologically self-absorbed young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth. Andrew P. Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual's perception of his needs to be balanced in relation to others.
Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
The name "narcissism" was coined by Freud after Narcissus who in Greek myth was a pathologically self-absorbed young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth. Andrew P. Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual's perception of his needs to be balanced in relation to others.
Narcissism is the personality trait of egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
The name "narcissism" was coined by Freud after Narcissus who in Greek myth was a pathologically self-absorbed young man who fell in love with his own reflection in a pool. Freud believed that some narcissism is an essential part of all of us from birth. Andrew P. Morrison claims that, in adults, a reasonable amount of healthy narcissism allows the individual's perception of his needs to be balanced in relation to others.

unfinished..

A music video that is similar to the video i propose to shoot is Furr by blitzen Trapper.
The titles of the music video are almost identical to the way i was proposing to shoot mine where by the band name is cut out in letters and then the letters are jumbled and re order themselves to spell the title of the song. I am animating it in a very similar way so that it flows perfectly into two seperate titles.
The rest of the video is fairly similar in the way that images are used and cut out in order to visually explain what is happening. In most stop motion videos the images are taken on a normal camera of people, places ect. The difference in my video is that i have used picutres ( like the Furr video) to create my video. Other parts of the video are of the band live, as there are fairly large parts of the song which are repetitive, especially the chorus and the bridge. The images explain the narrative of the lyrics and follow with the story of the song almost identically, to tell a story if you will. The narrative of the song is based on the common joke about a man who has an orange for a head.

I felt that animation really was the best way i could depict the song in a video.

First Draft Story Board.

This vague story board is the way in which i am starting to see my ideas unfold.

The majority of the video is filmed with stop motion animation and the remainder will be live shots of the band playing, mainly in the guitar solos or during the bridge. The narative based lyrics are all played out usuing words and characters based around those in the song.

Annotated Lyrics