The Scene Tish Will Direct

In the scene the lights will be off, you’ll hear noises of someone panicking, heavy breathing, maybe some speech for example “Hello, where am I?”

The lights will be turned off then on, a quick shot of the light then moving the camera angle down to focus on a man with his head covered by something a bag maybe. Close shot but also getting in a bit of the chair that he’s sitting on to show that he is tied up. In the background, there is a well built man looking intimidating. Then the bag is removed from the man’s head to show that it is Joel.

The setting will be a small room which will look cramped to symbolise Joel being suffocated or just plain panic in this situation. There will be nothing but a chair and obviously the people in the room. There will be someone holding a fire arm to intimidate Joel.

Idea for the scene when another crime boss approaches Joel

This is just an idea of the scene where Joel is approached by a crime boss in order to be recruited, then leading into the final scene which will be Tisha's Scene.

In the middle of a “job” Joel is running away from something or someone with a bag of (something valuable maybe money), and he is intercepted by one of the crime bosses, (probably me) and he goes on to say that
“You don’t do what you’ve done in this business without getting noticed.. how would you like to work for me? I’ll pay you double what (cousin’s name) is paying you”


Joel is a bit hesitant and then he smiles and approaches the crime boss you only see the two of them face off kinda just staring each other down then the scene will cut to Joel shaking the crime bosses hand.
Soundtrack gets louder,

Something bad happens to Joel, like he’s attacked when working on a job or is just snatched from the street, this is to set up Tisha’s scene of him being captured and interrogated with the potato sack over his head.

Planning; Poker Scene

The Poker Scene:

Need any number between 4 and 10 players for the poker scene including the protagonist.

Have a couple clips of them playing Poker

Have the main character winning most of the hands

The have him get cocky and go all in with one hand

He has a straight Flush,

As he goes to take the money

Someone else has a Royal Flush

Through the transitions have breaks between the clips and also have text going through such as…

*Clip 1*

(Black Screen)

*Text: What happens*

*Clip 2*

(Black Screen)

*Text: When you bet it all*

*Clip 3*

(Black Screen)

*Text: And lose?*

Mise En Scene:

The lighting will have to be as dark as I can make it to represent all the crime bosses and unsavoury characters that do dark deeds regularly. Also I will have empty bottles of Jack Daniels (if possible) also with bottles of vodka (if possible) around the table.  If not a substitute would be apple juice in clear glasses, a couple small bags of flour to give the illusion of drug abuse. Finally cigars or cigarettes.

Sound will just be them laughing at talking or alternatively depending on the camera at hand we’ll just have the soundtrack dubbed over.

Skip to next scene which will most probably be the confrontation between the protagonist and his Cousin.

This is the storyboard of the Poker Scene. I thought since most of the sequences happen at the same time just drawing one large picture for the storyboard and making notes about the camera angles and shots would be better than drawing loads of different shots of essetnailly the same thing.

This is the set we were using to the poker scene. In the image we were currently getting it ready so there were still bits and pieces to take away and add but this was the overall feel we were going for in the whole scene.

Proposal For Film Trailer

For our film trailer we decided if we came up with the idea for a film it would make the process of making the trailer much easier. We came up with an idea for the plot of the film which basically is that an 18 year old who just finished Sixth Form/College wants to go to University but he can’t get the money for the tuition fees so he goes to his cousin we’ll call him Jay. Jay is crime boss and is well known in the criminal underworld but he is also mentally unstable. Jay decides to enter the protagonist (we’ll call him Joel) in a Poker game that a few of his crime boss associates will be playing; he even gives him the entry fee. Once Joel is in the poker game he does well for himself and earns enough money to pay off his tuition fees and pay back his cousin but he doesn’t know when to stop and gambles it all away and loses it. Joel goes back to Jay to tell him that he lost all of his money and Jay threatens to kill him if he doesn’t get his money back in 48 hours. Joel tries to get the money but in the process botches a bank robbery and goes further in debt and eventually he ends up working for Jay to try and pay off his debt in the long run. Joel becomes well known criminal and other crime boss start to hire out his services and obviously Jay in his unstable mental state doesn’t like this and tries to get Joel killed. That is the basic idea behind our film.

We will then be making our trailer based on this plot and film enough to give the audience the basic idea we are trying to get across. For this trailer we will be using a lot of props which we will get ourselves and we need these props mainly to set the scene and make what we are trying to portray more believable and realistic.

The genre we are trying to portray with our film trailer is action-crime, the key genre employed will be crime. The distribution methods we will use will most likely be multiplex cinemas having the trailer shown before similar films or films of the same age range. We will be aiming the film to a more mature audience because of the use of violence, guns and illegal narcotics so the age range will most likely be 18+. There will be various key points in the trailer, such as the poker game the crimes and the last shot where the protagonist is captured and tied up. The film studio we chose to produce our film will be Universal Studio or Paramount Pictures, because they are both well known and recognised companies. Finally the marketing points we will use will be the stars and the director, we will be making up names and give them achievements to make them seem successful. For example, “ From the Director of ‘Raindrops’ “ This is a fake film name we came up with for the film trailer.   

Analysing A Film Trailer

The Avengers Trailer.

The title of the film is seen near the end of the trailer. This is a good selling point because it mixes in characters from different films and productions into this trailer so the fans of the franchise will know what the trailer is about and what film is being promoted. Although the fans of the franchise will have a very good idea what they are watching when they see the trailer there will always be that doubt until they see the name of the film which is being promoted and by leaving the title of the film till the end, it will leave the audience in suspense and entice them to wait till the end of the trailer to keep people watching.

The elements of the trailer that enable the audience to recognise the genre range from the type of shots used to the music and even down to the dialogue spoken by the characters. For example, you can tell this is going to be about action and heroism when Samuel Jackson steps out of the helicopter and the shot used was a low angle shot looking up at him in that shot it made him look powerful and in charge and basically ready for action, which is what this genre is about, it’s an action film. The music used fro the trailer was a Nine Inch Nails song. This type of music is generally associated with films which are going to have a lot of action in them because the music is fast paced and somewhat heavy which is why this type of music was chosen to be in this trailer. Finally, the dialogue of the characters clearly indicates which genre the film is trying to be for example when Robert Downey Junior said “If we can’t protect the earth, you can be damn sure we’ll avenge it!” The trigger word there being avenge is enough to clearly show what type of genre is being presented here.

It is important for the distributor to make sure the genre of the film is clearly shown in the trailer because if the film’s genre is misleading then the audience they are aiming for might not go and watch it and the people expecting the genre it misrepresented will be disappointed in the film and the film will most likely get bad reviews and lose money. Also, making films is a very lengthy and costly process and if they make a bad film then all that time effort and money would have been for nothing.

There are two companies distributing this film. The first company distributing the film is Marvel Studios and also Paramount Studios. The logo for Marvel Studios is simply Marvel in a red rectangle background. The Paramount Studios logo is a mountain with stars coming around it.

The stars used in this trailer are all A-list celebrities such as Robert Downey Jr., Samuel Jackson are used to attract an audience because when you hear two or more heavy hitting film stars people would be more inclined to want to watch the film. These people have made a name for themselves individually and when put together along with other A-list celebrities it give the audience the mentality of “This film just can’t fail” and this might have been what the director was going for.

Another person highlighted in this trailer is Scarlett Johansson. She is highlighted because she is a main character to the story but also she is used as a sex symbol mainly for the male audience. She was voted as a peerless sex symbol so the trailer might be playing on the idea that sex sells because of the skin tight leather outfit she was wearing and how in whatever scene she was in there was a clear shot of her face to the extent that the camera would stop and do a medium shot of just her standing still and looking at her upper body and face.

There is additional information conveyed by the music and even the dialogue. The music and the dialogue both work together to build tension and drama to the trailer.



The voice-overs in the trailer are used to tell the sub-plot and to set the mood, such as the dialogue of “If we can’t protect the earth, you can be damn sure we’ll avenge it!” It sets the tone of a serious action packed motion picture. This voice-over makes the film gain a sense of excitement as opposed to it just being explosions and people getting ready to fight.

The film trailer’s language appeals very well to its target audience, which is from 12 upwards. The lighting fits the purposes it is used to fin many ways, for example the lighting around the villain is dark and shady at times, but when the heroes are on screen then the lighting is usually bright and you see them very clearly. The camera angles used when the heroes are on screen are low angle shots looking up this allows them to be perceived as being powerful and always standing tall. The editing also adds to the language the film trailer is trying to portray also which fast clips of action and a lot of cuts the parts with explosion or when things are moving very fast this reinforces the type of genre which is trying to be portrayed in this as an action film which can be enjoyed by people from the ages of 12 and above and even children below that age. The fast clips and the fighting can relate to the 12 year old boys because they will be interested in the action and other things happening on screen such as explosions etc but it shows it can also be enjoyed by older audiences because of the themes being shown on screen on the trailer.
Overall the film’s media language fits its target audience well but didn’t focus so much on just that target audience that the film can’t be enjoyed by people outside this audience.



Documentary Evaluation

Research

Before I started planning my documentary, I first watched the award winning 'One Day In September'. I thought it would be a good idea to watch this documentary first because the only documentaries that I have seen before have just been ones about Astronomy and I needed a different perspective on the documentaries as a whole. From watching this documentary I found that they generally stick to the theory and it is easy to identify how certain parts of the documentary relate back to the theory. In summary, when looking at the theory and an actual documentary they relate heavily to each other.

My perception of documentaries didn't alter much because as I mentioned before I watched Astronomy documentaries so I had a reasonable idea of how documentaries worked. That being said, I wasn't aware that documentaries could be filmed with a thriller feel to it such as One Day In September.

Planning

When I was planning this documentary I essentially wanted to focus on just the locations I was going to be using and the music which would fit in with what I am trying to represent.

I wrote out all of my plans on paper, because of convenience this time instead of  drawing out a storyboard I decided to do a flow chart as an experiment to see which worked better and which I preferred. 

All of my planning is below. 

Production

In the production process we weren't able to stick to our filming schedule because we kept running into problems. The first being, when we arrived up town for the first day of filming it was apparent that the camera we were given it's battery was nearly dead and we only managed to film about 1 minute or 2 on that day so we essentially lost a day of filming. 

The next lesson we had we couldn't shoot any footage because the camera we were using didn't have any power in its battery so we spent the lesson charging the battery. At this point the deadline was fast approaching so we went out and filmed what we could with what little power we had left in the camera and took the pictures we needed on our phones. 

When dealing with the continuity it might have posed less of a problem if we had used out original plan but due to technical difficulties we had to rush our original plan and we ended up shooting long continuous shots with the intention of adding voice overs and music to the shots and so we added 'fades' so the continuity would be less obvious.

The roles in the group were allocated depending on what needed to be done and who would be the best person for the job, by using the person's strengths and appealing to them.

As I mentioned before, we had a few problems with the camera specifically the battery. This turned out to be a major hinderance for my group and I. This then overflowed into out time management which wasn't good on this project and should be better kept in the future because I realised how important good time management is.

We did encounter a problem besides the camera and its battery, by which I mean we weren't allowed to take pictures or film inside the Harvey Centre but this wasn't too much of a hinderance because we had a back up plan which was to focus more on the Water Gardens and the High Street. 

Post-Production

The editing process was more time consuming than we had previously anticipated. Mainly because since we had improvised the actual production we then has to rethink how we were going to edit the work. But other than that the editing was a smooth process and went of with generally no problems. We had all the material we needed we in fact had too much and had to leave out about 2 minutes of footage.

The post-production skill were fairly new to me but once I understood the basic concept everything was pretty self-explanatory. However we did have a small problem adding stills for the montage, the pictures kept showing up upside down for some bizarre reason and we had to use a lengthy process to get them up the right way which is why we didn't have many more stills in our video. 

As for time I wish we had managed our time better because towards the end we were rushing to get it finished and so it looks rushed.

The skills I learnt from this project were a better understanding of the post-production part of it all, I learned new and better camera work and these two skills are crucial for progression and for me to actually enjoy my coursework. Although I do still need to work on time management and also need to work on planning for the unexpected and always have a back up plan, whether it's due to technical difficulties or restriction of filming, I should always have a back up plan. 

Pre-Research and Planning

For my documetary;
I intend to add a very simple dialouge/ voiceover of describing where Harlow is and such other facts such as that tell you a bit about Harlow.
I have started to research how I am going to make the documentary. I also have a good idea about the script and I have started to put pen to paper, I will be taking pictures of my planning and research as I go along and posting them on my blog.

More On The Story As It Develops

We have no started planning a new project we are currently working on, which is the production of a documentary. My group and I were asked to do a documentary entitled "Harlow, Shoppers Paradise" 
We will be mainly focusing on the Town Centre and various places around the Town Centre.
I will be posting the plan, link to the video and evaluation when everything is completed. 

Documentaries Theories and Conventions, Scot John Grierson, Michael Renov and Techinques

We are now beginning work on our second filming task which will be a documentary. We began with a bit of theory work then watched a documentary by Kevin Macdonald called 'One Day in September' which is about the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.

The Scot John Grierson (1898-1972) is regarded as the founder of the documentary movement in Britain and Canada. Grierson defined documentaries as "the creative treatment  of actuality"
Q:What is meant by actuality?
Q: Think of the phrase 'creative treatment'. List ways in which documentary makers can treat real events in a creative manner
Q:Is it possible to capture the real world on film?
Q:Do you think it is ethical to stage real events  in a documentary?

Four Distinct (sometimes overlapping) Purposes of Documentary film (As suggested by Michael Renov)1-to record, reveal or preserve
2-to persuade or promote
3-to analyze or interrogate
4-to express

Can you think of documentary films or television that fit into these categories? How might these different motives intersect? Are there any other purposes that documentary film might seek to fulfill?

One way of categorising documentaries is by the degree of creative treatment of recorded material. Three sub-genres are:
1-Realist documentary: imposing minimal treatment on recorded material e.g. "Fly on the wall"
2-Formalist documentary: imposing on a particular narrative structure on recorded material e.g. "Fly in the soup"
3-Subjective documentary: which express the filmmakers vision.
Any one documentary can mix these techniques.

Common Conventions of Documentary
1-Interview techniques
2-Film techniques
3-Title sequence
4-Titles/effects (subtitles, names, information)
5-Images
6-Sound
7-Transition

Interview Techniques
-Show the interviewer on a screen to give authority to him/her
-Enable the interviewee to stare straight at the audience to engage the audience with them
-Film the interviewee from behind or above to underscore the validity or otherwise of their statements.

Film Techniques
- Use of 'cutaways' to disguise times in the interviews where interviews had to be re-shot. In conventional interviews there is often a cut away to the interviewee that disguises such manipulation of the recorded material
-Establish recognisable settings for each of the people we see interviewed
-Filming subjects in clear-cut environments is one way of making them memorable however fleeting their appearances.


Title Sequences
- A good introductory sequence will set the pattern for the whole piece
- It should be immediately apparent to the viewer what the documentary is about 
- Clarity of purpose is all important 


Titles/Effects
- Use of captions and highlighted words
- This can be an effective way of producing information that is not immediately apparent (names and positions of interviewees, place names facts and figures)
- These often fulfill a role at the end of a production and allow the audience to recap what they have seen.


Thinking about Images
- Still images often play a very important role in the unravelling of a narrative or theme. Images in newspapers and magazines often features in the documentary alongside other archive material
- When planning you need to establish the connotations that the images might contain


Sound
- The choice of music track needs to be very carefully considered
- A voice used in voiceover must have the correct 'weight' for the subject maker
- Interviews need to be recorded in the best available conditions for clarity of sound.


Transitions
- You can add audience interest by using transition cuts from scene to scene.






Documentary Modes
- The Poetic Mode ' reassembling fragments of the world' a transformation of historical information/material into a more abstract lyrical form usually associated with 1920's and modernist ideas


- The Expository Mode 'direct address' social issue assembled into an argumentative frame, mediated by a voice-of-God narration associated with 1920's - 1930's, and some of the rhetoric and polemic surrounding WWII 


- The Reflective Mode demonstrates consciousness of the process of reading documentary, and engages actively with the issues of realism and representation, acknowledging the presence of the viewer and the modality judgements they arrive at. Corresponds to critical theory of the 1980's  


- The Performative Mode acknowledges the emotional and subjective aspects of documentary and presents ideas as part of a context having different meaning for different people, often autobiographical in nature. 

Priliminary Task Evaluation, Reflection and Lessons Learnt for the Future.

Media Video Evaluation


After filming and editing our video I had a chance to see all the components and elements come together and I had a chance to refer it back to Andrew Goodwin’s theory from his book “Dancing in the Distraction Factory”. 
Firstly, the relationship between the lyrics and the visuals is simply contradictory, for example when the lyrics would say “The blues they send to meet me won’t defeat me” and the visuals were of the protagonist walking downhill into a dark underpass. This represents his descent into darkness after his girlfriend breaks up with him. There were a few close-ups of the protagonists face but that was not done with the intention of selling the image of the vocalist or the band. There were no real references to voyeurism mainly because the song doesn’t warrant for any type of voyeurism.


As for the actual music video the video starts with the protagonist (me) being dumped by his girlfriend played by Tisha. I then start walking aimlessly, this is to represent that he is lost in the world without her, and he is looking for a sense of direction but can't find any, as he walks down into the underpass this is supposed to represent his descent into darkness and him just sitting on a bench is to show that he is just going through the motions and the amount I look back it is to represent me looking back for a way for things to go back to how they were in the past, but as I soon find that my friend is now with my ex-girlfriend, I then go on top of a large building and look over the edge as if I wanted to jump, the final scene is of me walking off into the darkness, this was left ambiguous on purpose to let the viewer decide whether the protagonist was in a darker place or if he actualy ended his life. 

Upon inspection (and peer reviews) of the final scene it isn't as ambiguous as we intended, it wasn't really clear that he could of ended his life, in retrospect I could have made the protagonist fade away in the final scene to represent that he actually ended his life rather than have him walk off in to the darkness. This would have given it a feel that he isn't really there anymore instead he is just a distant memory now slowly fading away. The intro scene was the break up scene, I think this scene was pretty well done and came out better than I had thought it would, however at some points the camrea could have been a little bit steadier but that is just something to look out for in the future. There was a problem I noticed about continuity, at one point it was night time when the protagonist was walkign away and the next scene it was late afternoon then turned to dusk and then went back to being night time. However this was because we didnt film the video in order we filmed the locations at convenience. The rest of the music video was fine and I have to give credit to Tim for his camrea work which was well done eventhough this was his first time doing it.

What I learnt from this preliminary task is that it is better to have to have too much footage than too little, such is the case when we first filmed and we didn't have enough footage so we had to redo the video and add more footage than we needed. I aslo learnt that it is hard to film a moving shot with it being stable but I am going to ask my teacher if there is a way for me to overcome this obsticle. I also learnt that we need to make the meaning behind our videos more obvious rather than leaving it up to the viewer to decide what the meaning. Finally it is better far better to have a very detailed plan than have a brief outline because with a well detailed on it is easier to see what will work and what won't.  

Here is a link to our music video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TAgsZPvDck&list=LLMK6lGxNT3iDUbd6PqXl5tw&feature=mh_lolz

Storyboards, Planning, Creative Differences and other such things!

My group and I started planning the music video for our preliminary task. The song we are making a video for is 'Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head' by B.J. Thomas, written by Hal David and Burt Bacharach. We started shooting the video but due to creative difference we decided that the original video we had planned and written out was too convoluted so we went back to the drawing borad or should I say storyboard haha... I'm hilarious! Anyway we decided to start agian and we are going to scrap the previous film we did and start fresh.


Here's part of the new plan...

The basic idea we have for the music video is that we will show the protagonist dumped by his girlfriend and then walks around trying to cheer up but he can't seem to cheer up or rather get over his ex girlfriend. He then begins walking around with no destination in mind and this is to represent that he is simply lost in the world and he is confused and without direction he looks back a couple times and this represents him trying to see if he can go back to how things were but he soon finds out that he can't because his girlfriend is in a relationship with his friend, so then the protagonist goes on top of a large building and looks over the edge the final scene is music-less and of the protagonist walking off into the darkness. In the plan we left this ambiguous because we wanted to let the viewer decide whether the protagonist took his life over the events or is simply in a darker place.

This is the full storyboard:

Andrew Goodwin, Dancing in the Distraction Factory, POWER, Kanye West, Closer to the Edge, 30 Seconds to Mars, Smack my B*tch Up and The Prodigy are all words featured in this blog post

Andrew Goodwin wrote a theory on music videos, in which he decribes key features which distinguish the music video as a form. The several key features which he distinguishes a music video are

1. There is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. (With visuals either illustrating, amplifying or contradicting the lyrics) The visuals either illustrate, amplify or contrast the music.

2. Particular music genres may have their own music video style and iconography. ( Such as live stage performances in heavy rock)

3. There will be a demand on the part of the record company for a lot of close-ups of the main artist or vocalist (usually done to sell the band/artist's image)

4. There is likely to be reference to voyeurism, particularly in the treatment of females but also in terms of systems of looking. (screens within screens, binoculars, cameras etc)  This generally fits into the saying "sex sells".

5. There are likely to be intertextual references, either to other music videos, film and TV texts.

POWER - Kanye West

The music video for 'POWER' was directed by the artist Marco Brambilla. Kanye West describes it as a 'moving painting' rather than a music video, which would make sense considering how the video is only a fraction of the actual song. The video starts with a portrait-view headshot of Kanye West staring intensely into the camera with illuminated eyes and wearing a large, low hanging gold chain with an equally large pendant of Horus. The large  low hanging gold chain represents iconography in this genre because most rappers wear large chains and a lot of them, so this is pretty common within the rap community. As the music begins, the camera slowly pans out in one continuos take to reveal West standing at the end of a hallway of black columns and surrounded by partially-dressed female characters . Some kneel before him: embrace: four figures wear ibex-like horns; and some are inverted, pouring water that flows upward. Two horned, staff bearing figures loosely resembling interpretations of Isis and Hathor, stand on either side of West: each strikes slowly the ground with their staff in time with the music. The sword of Damocles hangs over the rapper's head, while other slow moving figures appear ready to strike West with blades. The song's lyrics amplify the visuals by showing the rapper in a place of 'power' and as the lyrics say 'No one man should have all that power' you are shown the looming sword of Damocles above the rappers head and the two slowly approaching figures attempting to strike West. This song isn't too different from others in its genre however the video itself is one unlike any other, not only in its genre but in any other genre, the video style is best described as 'a moving painting'. there is a close up of the rapper at the beginning of the video but I don't think thats to sell the rapper's image but to rather have the rest of the picture emerge slowly and to match the music. In this video there is a lot of intertexual references, they are all mainly to do with Ancient Egyptian culture as represented by the Horus around West's neck and the two staff bearers this scene represents the rapper as God which refers back to the name of the song "POWER". There is also a slight mix of Ancient Roman culture as depicted by the looming sword of Damocles. Also there are references tarot cards such as "The Lovers" which is a scene of two women embracing each other, and this is also a reference to voyeurism. All of this was referenced and compared to Andrew Goodwin's theory found in his book 'Dancing in the Distraction Factory'.

Closer to the Edge - 30 Seconds to Mars

This video was directed by Bartholomew Cubbins. The video contains concert footage from about 30 performances during their world tour. The full version video shows each location played at until a certain date, fan commentary and some backstage footage. At certain intervals of the music video there are lyrics that come on screen the lyrics are transparent but still visible. The lyrics are put in time with the music either when the fans are saying "No" or when the main vocalist, Jared, is saying "Closer to the Edge". This amplifies the lyrics' intensity and thus amplifies the visuals also. Music videos by some rock bands are of the bands playing at concerts, this video shows multiple concerts the band were playing at and reference to a sense of iconography as well as Jared jumping into the crowd and surfing the crowd which is iconic in this type of genre. Crowd surfing is seen multiple times over the course of this video and it shows that the video stays true to its genre. This video does sort of try to sell the band to the audience by showing frequent close-ups of the frontman Jared's face since he is considered to be the most attractive of the group as said by Goodwin in his book 'Dancing in the Distraction Factory'. There is no reference to voyeurism in this music video because all of the people being filmed are aware that they are being filmed, there is also no intertexual references in this music video either.

Smack My B*tch Up - The Prodigy

The only lyrics in the entire song and music video were "Change my pitch up, smack my b*tch up" and those lyrics amplified the visual of misogyny. The viewer is lead to believe that the song is about misogyny with the visuals and the lyrics "smack my b*tch up" but at the end of the video it is revealed that the main character whom we have been following through the entirety of the video is actually a woman herself so the concept of misogyny is diminished and replaced with the viewer re-thinking the lyrics to mean to do something intensely, like being on stage or they reference the use of heroin or to attempt to generate shock value. The video doesn't follow any other, in fact it was heavily criticized for its explicit use of alcohol, drugs, sex and for this fact it has no intertexuality in the sense that it doesn't  reference to any other music video, film, TV or text. The video is filmed entirely through a first person view so there is no close-ups of a direct reference to Goodwin's theory found in his book 'Dancing in the Distraction Factory'. The video to "Smack my B*tch Up" is directed by Jonas Akerlund. The video depicts a night  out in the city filmed from a first person perspective, portraying drinking and driving, snorting cocaine and a hit and run incident. The protagonist takes a stripper home and has sex with her. As the stripper leaves with her things, the protagonist glances in the mirror, is revealed to be a woman and passes out on the bed.