Location Planning 1

One location that was decided to use was a certain characters house; to reflect the average mundane lives of the characters and provide a stark contrast to the fame and fortune that was about to behold them. For the purpose of easiness I have decided to analyse my room.

The first signifier of a waning for a rock 'n 'roll lifestyle is the door- a Rolling Stones poster making connections with the rock genre icons that have influenced our video. Another is the scrawling D.I.Y lyrics on the door- taken from the Manic Street Preachers' song 'Faster' of their 1993 album 'The Holy Bible'- reflecting the punk rock ethic that that has influenced our video.

The Jimi Hendrix poster is also a signifier for the excessive lifestyle the video represents; with Hendrix dying of affixiating on his own vomit at the young age of 27. The unmade bed also shows a scruffy, mundane, lazy lifestyle just waiting to be transformed. 

Another signifier are the guitars in the room- representing a wish to replicate the achievements of those shown throughout the room. This is also shown with items such as biographies of British punk band 'The Libertines' and Joy Division's Ian Curtis: with the former representing the rock n roll lifestyle of excess and the latter a sorry reminder of the frequent young-aged deaths that this lifestyle can claim. Song tabs can also been seen throughout the room- another signifier of the wish to replicate what the characters heroes have achieved.  

Excessive lifestyle signifiers  are not only represented in musical decor, posters for the film of Scarface also connotate the lifestyle and the plot shown in the video: with Scarface rising to become the biggest drug baron in California before losing it all due to his excessive lifestyle before being killed in the end of the film.