PLANNING: FINAL SONG CHOICE

During our most recent lesson, we continued trying to decide what song we were going to use for our music video. Elliot, Max and I looked through the possible songs we had already trialled and came to the conclusion that Californication by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers was the song we'd use. 

We all had heard of the song and admired the lyrics and the song itself which was a bonus because we were struggling to find a song that we all agreed on. The song 'Californication' delves deep in to the darker side of the Hollywood image and that, not everything from Hollywood is special and desirable. Californication speaks of the manufactured products that

we produce today and how progressively its getting worse and worse and creating horrible examples to younger people in general, and that as human's we all find it necessary to follow the crowd whether its with music, television, films or material goods such as clothes and other luxuries. It also speaks of how 'we' as people only like these material goods and find it necessary to buy them because of how much they cost, and the image buying these things set for us. As the song progresses it expresses how the world is beginning to deteriorate directly in front of us and concern is expressed. With the Red Hot Chilli Peppers forming in Hollywood, we can understand that their insight into the world and people of Hollywood most likely, has some truth to it. With plastic surgery being mentioned in the song, we continue to understand how the Hollywood scene is seen as fake and not real and far from desirable with lyrics such as "Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging". 

The song has a lot of potential for us to take idea's from the deeper meaning of the lyrics which will definitely help us when it comes to actually planning what we are going to shoot and where, with what props etc. With all three of us learning or have learnt to play an instrument it is going to be exceptionally easy to make a shoot of a band playing their instruments look realistic, with me on the drums, and Elliot and Max playing the guitars. 

Another thing we learnt about during this lesson was about a man called Theodore Adorno who shared some similar views to the Chilli Peppers. Adorno stated that we produce all of this manufactured products of the culture industry in order to distract us from the other important things in life, like questioning social matters. Something he said was very similar to what the Chilli Peppers said in Californication relating to material goods and he called it Commodity Fetishism which basically meant we only liked the goods we buy due to the price they are and the image it represents us as. Adorno also states that these products that we create in places like Hollywood, whether its music, film, tv etc distract us from the problems we have in life and allow us to delve deep into something else before returning to our usual lives and facing our true questions and problems. Theodore Adorno's beliefs play a big part in how we can delve deeper in to the meanings of the song and also help us produce more idea's for the music video itself, when we come to shoot each scene.