Finished shot list - Still needing to be edited a bit.

Shot one: The music Video opens in black and White with the generic opening shot to a silent film (A telescopic shot) The miss-en-scene shows a girl sitting at a table looking at a Box.

This relates to Alice in Wonderland, Pandoras Box and the earliest footage for a colour film.

Shot two: We see the girl open the box from a high angle shot, this confirms her original status within the video, as she opens the box colour returns to the shot, she removes several animal toys and begins to play with them. This shot ends with the colour increasing until the screen is white and nothing can be seen.

Shot three: Dissolve back into a point of view shot from the girl, The girl is now in a large field and she is looking up at a large Human Bunny (This relates to the toys she was playing with before). She gets up and runs from the Bunny.

Shot four: Cut between tracking shots of the girl running through the fields and shots of the animal masked men appearing from the earth to follow her. (This relates to the evil that exists within Pandoras Box and that once the Box is opened there is no true escape)

Shot five: The girl, now dressed differently to show her changing status is shot at a low angle as she starts to run through a forest. The animals still follow her in the distance and are shown to have more control over their limbs as each shot passes.

Shot six: The forest comes out onto a bridge and the girls costume has once again changed, she is now walking into the city which shows her changing environment and the idea that the true evil that escaped from the Box was social control.

Shot seven: the girl is shot from low angle shots with large tower blocks and industrial buildings behind her, this shows that she is trying to over power the new world. The creatures are shot from high angles now to show their power weakening outside the forests. The city is shown to be a second evil to escape the Box and the girl is torn between two worlds.

Shot eight: The Masked men are slowly approaching the table where the girl is located sleeping, cut between the girl running back across the bridge and the animals approaching the girl.

Shot nine: The girl tries to undo what she has done by opening the Box and attempts to awaken from her sleep by returning to the field. We start once again to see colour fade from the shots

Shot ten: The girl runs back through the forest and into the field, the shots are becoming dimmer and dimmer as she does so. We dissolve between the girl running and the masked creatures lowering a mask onto the sleeping girls face.

Shot eleven: The girl is shot standing in a field wearing a mask, the shot slowly turns to colour as the bunny from the first shot walks over to her. The two grasp hands and the bunny leads the Masked girl forwards.

Shot twelve: the mood has lifted and the shot pans out from the image of the bunny and the girl lying happily together in the field. The shot fades out and when it fades in we see the doll of a small girl being lowered inside the box, the lid of the box is then closed and a Bunny mask is slowly lowered on top of the lid. The shot dissolves into black and the video ends.

Africa Shox

'Africa Shox' by Left Field

The first thing we notice is the bands name, Left Field, this instantly connotes to their political position and the idea that they are part of the left wing parties. The video shows that the band believe racism and inequalities are far too prominent in the US and that New York is in  fact the opposite of the Utopia  it is usually portrayed as.

The opening shots show many large metallic buildings, this represents the depression and the idea of New York being an un-natural environment that is hard to survive in. The buildings also create the sense of being oppressed, the strict grey colours link directly to the idea of New York being a Dystopia.

From the beginning of the video we see the genre (Electronica) shining through, in the first shots we see a police car with its sirens blazing, this could represent the strobe lighting effect used in most clubs and connotes again to the culture behind the music.

The main character is a homeless black man who is isolated from everybody within society, the confusion on his face and the stiff gestures of his body language show that he is new to the environment and that he is suppressed more than the other members of this society. The atmosphere created seems like hell and throughout the video the further he walks to more he begins to die, being literally shattered by society.

The use of a black actor relates to the slave trade and the poem 'Limbo' which references the Slaves being packed on top of each other in small gaps when boarding the slave ships. The word limbo also relates to being between Heaven and Hell and once again relates to the political spectrum with the idea of one political route being Heaven whilst the other is Hell.

As the video progresses the main character steeps even lower within society, we see this when the main characters arm is broken off by a random pedestrian. This connotes two things, firstly the idea that the chains of slavery were removed but that the black community is still treated with the same lack of respect. The second being the idea of his soul being broken by the white community in New York and that anything which goes against the Norms of the city should be removed.

Near the end of the video (once the main character has had most of his limbs broken off) we see an underground car-park with three white middle aged men break dancing. This shows that LeftField is aimed at a small proportion of the population and that the audience for the video is a small sophisticated niche group.

The idea that the black man shatters throughout the video relates to the idea that black culture is falling apart and the idea that the black man trips and shatters into hundreds of pieces connotes to the idea that the suppression on the black community is increasing throughout new york.

Creating masks

Lyndsey and I decided to use masks in our music video. Due to the lack of vocals on our track we has the possibility to create a small story. We decided to show the escapades of a young girl opening up a small wooden box and finding toys inside, as the girl studied and played with the toys life size models of the toys came to life. This is a link to pandoras box and adds to the back dated theme we intended to set.


Animal masks seemed like the best idea and we decided to mould our own masks on the masks used in the 1973 film 'The Wicker Man.'
We decided to make several
masks, so that we had a variation in animals.


The Bunny, Cat, Mouse and Pig were chosen due to the fact that my younger sister has some small toys that would work well for the toys inside the box.

The intertextual references between our music video and 'The Wicker Man' do not stop there, when working on the climax of the video we realised that the masks could be worn by anybody and that the video could end with the Small girl putting one of the masks on. This links to the idea of the policeman in 'The Wicker Man' being stolen away by primitive people and the temptations that surround Pandora's Box.

Potential plot.

- A young girl dressed in a out dated (vintage) costume (dress) is stationed in a large field completely alone.

-She takes toys out of a small wooden box and begins to play with them in the grass. (This will be a close up shot of her hands and will quickly cut to an overshoulder shot.)

- Cut to a split screen with the young girl dominating most of the screen whilst two ( of the four in total) masked men (dressed with animal masks to look like human versions of the girls animal toys) are appearing from the taller grass in the other two sections of the split screen.

-Cut between several different shots showing the escapades of the masked men as they recreate the actions the girl is creating with the toys.

The shots included in this particular scene will be:

-Extreme close ups

- low angle tilts

-high angle shots

-close ups

-tracking shots

-panning in and out shots

- The cuts between each shot become shorter and shorter as the toys (masked men) proceed to get closer to the girl

- A split screen will be used as the masked men reach the girl and pull her from the shot

The shots included in this particular scene will be:

-birdseye view of the girl

-close up tilt of masks

-tracking shot of the hands of the masked men as they reach towards the girl

- The previous scene fades out for 2 seconds and fades into a close up of the feet of one of the masked men. The camera then pans up to the torso and head of the masked men to reveal the wooden toy box in the one of the mens hands. A toy of the girl is placed inside the box and the lid is closed.

- End on a shot of the toys returning to their orignal locations in the field