1. Calvin Harris
Calvin Harris birth name/real name is Adam Richard Wiles he was born on the 17th January 1984 in
Dumfries, Scotland. He was a footballfan and aspired to be like Steve McManaman who was a
professional footballer. Harris says “But I never had curly hair, so I got into music. If I'd had curly
hair, things would've been different." He was first attracted to electronic music in his teens and was
recording bedroom demos by 1999. According to an interview with News of the World, while he was
discovering music and producing it he became very anti-social which affected his personality. His
earliest success was when he was twenty-one with the songs "Da Bongos" and "Brighter Days" they
were released as a 12" club single and CD-EP by the Prima Facie label in early 2002 under the name
Stouffer.
Calvin Harris released a
song called ‘ Ready for
the Weekend ‘ in 2009.
It was his second single
from studio album
Ready for the Weekend’
. The song features the
female vocalist British
singer Mary Pearce. The
song made world debut
In 12 June 2009 as it was
played on the famous radio
station BBC Radio 1 by Pete
Tong. It was also featured as
the song of the day on
Popjustice on the 13th
July
2009. Harris then went on
to perform the song at the
Itunes festival on the 18th
July 2009 in London.
The song then got into the UK Singles Chart at number three on 16 August
2009.

2. Track listings
UK CD single and iTunes single[11][12]
"Ready for the Weekend" – 3:37
"Ready for the Weekend" (High Contrast Remix) – 5:42
UK iTunes EP[13]
"Ready for the Weekend" – 3:37
"Ready for the Weekend" (Fake Blood Remix) – 5:40
"Ready for the Weekend" (High Contrast Remix) – 5:42
"Ready for the Weekend" (Dave Spoon Remix) – 6:21
"Ready for the Weekend" (Dave Spoon Dub Remix) –
6:35
UK 12" single[14]
A1. "Ready for the Weekend" (Original Version) – 3:37
B1. "Ready for the Weekend" (Dave Spoon Remix) – 6:21
B2. "Ready for the Weekend" (Fake Blood Remix) - 5:40
Chart (2009)
Peak
position
Belgian Tip Chart (Flanders) 2
Belgian Tip Chart (Wallonia) 7
European Hot 100 Singles 11
Irish Singles Chart 9
Japan Hot 100 97
Scottish Singles Chart 32
UK Singles Chart 3
UK Dance Singles Chart
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During an interview for The Sun on 10 April 2009, Harris commented on the songsaying ;
"It's different to the first single. It's still happy, dancey, with more singing. The hook's sung by a woman
called Mary Pearce, who's a diva. She's got this great big voice and it's like a nod to an old dance
classic. I love underground dance music but I also have an extreme love of commercial dance music.
But only the good stuff."
The music video for the song was directed by Ben Ib and premiered on the British channel T4 on 4 July
2009 at 11:00 am. FHM model and TOWIE star Lauren Pope makes an appearance in the video. Several
dancing females appear wearing red leotards to match Harris' magic portal, shirt and furniture. They
next "change into blue and yellow zip-up bathing suits, expanding the palette and multiplying
endlessly, just in time for the weekend."
On 23 July 2009, it was reported that the video was removed from YouTube due to a copyright claim
from another party. Harris stated that he was upset it had occurred and believed that the British
Phonographic Industry had prompted the removal.

3. Director
The director of this music video was Ben Ib. He is a music video director and CGI artist living and
working in London he also runs a design+ animation studio specialising in concert visuals as well as
directing Music Videos and TV Commercials.
He has directed music videos for Kylie Minogue, The Ting Tings, Roni Size, Goldie Lookin Chain, Mr
Hudson, Stateless, and has created live tour visuals for Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Robbie
Williams, Kylie Minogue and The Smashing Pumpkins.
Ben Ib studied Art at Leeds University and started out by creating club visuals in the Faversham,
Leeds, where he was Creative Director. His first digital short "Collapse", created as a 3rd year
University film won the 'Video Positive' award in 1996 and was screened on Channel Four's "Digital
Underground' series. His early digital work was screened at The Hanover Film Festival, The AVE
festival (Arnhem, The Netherlands), One Dot Zero, Cinefeel and the Edinburgh Film Festival. In 1998
Ben came to London and worked as a 3d artist in various Post Production Houses, eventually moving
into the direction of commercials for music artists such as Madonna, the Manic Street Preachers and
the Beach Boys. It was from here that he began his career in Music Videos.
Camera Work
The video opens with a close up of a circle that calvinharris is holding in front of him.
The camera then pans out revealing calvin standing next to the river thames in London.
The camera then shakily wobbles away , as it looks like a outtake or a mistake. But it just
gives it a quirky and realistic feel.
The camera then zooms out so far that it shows another red circle which seems to be a
window.
The main camera technique in this video is handheld as it wobbles around the screen.
There is also a lot of panning when it goes onto another scene or shot.
It looks like there are no cuts in the video from where the camera tilts to another scene. Yet
it has just been edited very well.
Genre
The genre of this music video is synthpop which can also be known as also known as electropop, or
technopop it is a genre of popular music that first became prominent in the 1980s, in which the
synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by
the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco.

4. Lyrics
The very beginning of the song there is someone singing ‘ooo’ twice and whenever they say ‘ooo’ a
circle comes up this only happens twice at the start of the video. I then realised the lyrics ‘And I
make her bleed’ when this is in the music video a hand punches through the wall and the walls are a
deep blood red. It then goes on to say ‘We find the nearest girl and ask her to dance’ it then zooms
in to the model Lauren Pope that Calvin Harris was currently dating at the time of the music video.
‘This reflection in my mirror’ Shows Calvin placing a circle on a wall to show a shot of a of a town and
then panning up to show a plane. ‘When I tilt it towards the sunlight’ The background for the first
time is a dark night black but the circle he is holding has a bright sunlight reflection on it . He then
sings the lyric ‘You fall out of view’ while he is jumping down into a black hole and for the first time
in a outside location.