tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46486460943946582122024-02-19T03:13:34.923-08:00Sam Gendler Music VideoWest Hatch Media Studies A2 Level 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/02100163659517057519noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-69784073350760336872011-05-11T02:42:00.000-07:002011-05-11T02:44:37.677-07:00Creating Artists Website/Fan Page<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCVITDI4WD-sTCe2LtKQCYUjRuClYu1nQRmftjWWyZYfLPudq5GQT_yFqOLv0SXRmpumGaXDNycKu0x84YRMkx8frPSYLTWwyUX0HUwQx3I4L31ZDnq-yJwS7uiXMRuPRtnfymXQzw1We/s1600/Picture+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYCVITDI4WD-sTCe2LtKQCYUjRuClYu1nQRmftjWWyZYfLPudq5GQT_yFqOLv0SXRmpumGaXDNycKu0x84YRMkx8frPSYLTWwyUX0HUwQx3I4L31ZDnq-yJwS7uiXMRuPRtnfymXQzw1We/s320/Picture+5.png" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wanted to make my artists website through a social networking site so I made a choice between Facebook and Myspace. I made this choice due to the fact I feel Facebook is more respected in the world today. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creating the page was fairly simple I uploaded my artists picture and entered information about my artists into the personal and biographical section. After this information was secured into the page, the option is given to promote your artist and inviting people to the page is an option. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ashh/122900164456804%C2%A0">Ashh Fan Page</a></span>West Hatch Media Studies A2 Level 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/02100163659517057519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-10586201369837651682011-04-28T01:53:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:54:12.933-07:00About Me<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My name is Sam Gendler, I'm 18 years old and I live in Loughton. I am a sixth form student at West Hatch High School. I study English Language, Media and Drama. I really enjoy media as a subject, I think that media affects the world in many ways, I also have a passion for music, this latest project gave me a lot of enjoyment due to the content I was able to research. </span>West Hatch Media Studies A2 Level 2011http://www.blogger.com/profile/02100163659517057519noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-41594598463249682432011-04-07T09:27:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:37:58.745-07:00Original Story Board<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw84p_BBKLNXCZoGxDJmYepjZVk7VwhYd-6A9-sIbTEbzCGKQYa7bTsLmIU5fvncQcYQdpfL2XOkioFv1uwPdHSEEJfN39hgRnJgfGvGpBp9cvQo9qK8MgAlz-I1EFCIx66M7rGoVtpoY/s1600/storyboard+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw84p_BBKLNXCZoGxDJmYepjZVk7VwhYd-6A9-sIbTEbzCGKQYa7bTsLmIU5fvncQcYQdpfL2XOkioFv1uwPdHSEEJfN39hgRnJgfGvGpBp9cvQo9qK8MgAlz-I1EFCIx66M7rGoVtpoY/s320/storyboard+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is our original story board. We haven't truly stuck to the original plan with the actual final video coming out a bit differed compared to the original plan. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Still the basic idea of the actual narrative came through successfully. We knew that when drawing this up some aspects would have to be changed due to timing or location.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This the back cover to Angels Should Hide, my artists album. I decided to go for a very simple layout i feel its most suited to the front sleeve. I added a bar code to stick to normal conventions. I used the same font used on the front cover, but a slightly different colour scheme on the back.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-59476997873878907452011-04-07T06:58:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:37:58.746-07:00Album Front Cover Design Ash<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXcJuBAWwKLMXwBjIDOverY_O2sA9xfynhH9yU5uo34VmdrUwT4H3BNyYpUbP9oGFg3IxOV_ri3yWkluNxCQfCRD1N8H_WTwJknWP_SWeGx8L6CpyEHetHJ39H9t75ePWCiD_rdEXcQo8/s1600/ash+ting+ting.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXcJuBAWwKLMXwBjIDOverY_O2sA9xfynhH9yU5uo34VmdrUwT4H3BNyYpUbP9oGFg3IxOV_ri3yWkluNxCQfCRD1N8H_WTwJknWP_SWeGx8L6CpyEHetHJ39H9t75ePWCiD_rdEXcQo8/s320/ash+ting+ting.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The album is entitled Angels Should Hide, I have completed this as my final design for my artists album cover. I used an acrostic for the lettering on the album, Ash being the name of the band, being the beginning letters of the words, the name of the album. I made the artist name and the album name different colours so it is easier to depict.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-10635850855471865132011-04-07T02:16:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:37:58.746-07:00Inspiration behind track choice<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The song we chose to use in our music video was a track by Jessie J entitled Casualty of Love. Jessie J is a very popular and upcoming artist, this would be the main reason for our choice. Her style is very unique in fashion and music, she was discovered on youtube which is where we originally found her. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We debated upon a few songs we could use, we wanted to pick a song with the right amount of emotion to successfully portray a narrative. Other songs we were considering using were 'Big White Room', 'Who's Laughing Now' and 'Mamma Knows Best'. In the end we decided on using 'Casualty of Love' it had enough emotion and lyrical influence to think of ideas for a narrative. The flow and tempo of the song seemed very effective to edit to. Some of our original narrative ideas related into the title of the song, we considered using an ambulance and possible a death in the video, however this proved to be tricker than we expected because of losing the element of realism we wanted. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Looking back Im not particularly happy with the choice of the track, i personally would of chosen something more up beat and fun, the narrative we created would necessarily appeal to me but the none the less i feel its a very effective narrative in itself. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-16051715372765548102011-04-06T16:16:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:37:58.746-07:00Album Artwork Analysis - The Strokes - Angles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qIe99J_ihxQURyFK04z7gULvT1Rp4nkCtoFiqnoss7jkNhYf8qBg9ty1xYjvJ4NKucNm5kRqC1BPUhx643hN-EHlxo-333Dy5VOvyjqeaxjeaJ3EG4iA5aWfn90nMe1hrKIBOiTd_RU/s1600/The-Strokes-ANGLES-cover-472x472.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-qIe99J_ihxQURyFK04z7gULvT1Rp4nkCtoFiqnoss7jkNhYf8qBg9ty1xYjvJ4NKucNm5kRqC1BPUhx643hN-EHlxo-333Dy5VOvyjqeaxjeaJ3EG4iA5aWfn90nMe1hrKIBOiTd_RU/s320/The-Strokes-ANGLES-cover-472x472.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is The Strokes album Angles it was released March 22nd 2011. This is The Strokes fourth studio album.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Immediately as an audience you are drawn to this album cover. The bright colours and patterns engage you to notice the album cover. The actual picture seems to be an optical illusion, which if you are a fan of the band you would notice seems to be theme to the bands album covers. Previous albums have also included similar ideas with optical illusions. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The album is entitled angles and actually looking at the picture it is visible to see it is at an angle, leaning towards you. The cuboid structure in the is made into 3D which cohesively fits with the checkered optically illusive floor. The structure in the centre is also stands out once more with its florescent use of gradients of tone the pink, purple and blue used is really effective colour scheme.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall I think the album is extremely effective, in actual fact its doing all an album should, draw the audience in with its artwork, in some cases people might just buy the album because it looks interesting. The album ticks lots of creative boxes whilst still keeping within the normal conventions of an album cover with displaying the band name and title of the album clearly on the front.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-68120012408286359912011-04-06T15:58:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:37:58.747-07:00Evaluation of the first day of filming.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After finally getting a date to film when we were all available including the actress, we began filming. I think its fair to say we would of had liked to get more shots than we did but the shots we did get came out really well. We managed to get successful shots of the forest, park and the cafe, we have more to get but we found ourselves experimenting with shots while we were filming, rather than what we had previously planned. I think actually filming, changes the shots you envisioned on a story board, and you look at actually filming the shots in a different perspective. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More ideas were being thought of when we shot on location, however this wasn't the ideal location we thought about shooting at but none the less I think its really effective now.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a group we worked well all pitching in with different ideas, actually filming and taking pictures of us working, also actually directing the video. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-41941618462422445142011-03-29T03:57:00.000-07:002011-04-28T01:37:58.747-07:00Star Image - Arctic Monkeys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5j9cxSF2aNX4a0juknxwxsmXTKYab0IGQZjFjcAFT82OA8ek6BNCY6rFwvZz7sNJPOkjWt7jx6wU3SzAvdMorWWxQFnhL8NdGwYNBe61Mah1PmOYKYBUZhWtt7i7ip53xGQknmZ4eZQg/s1600/Collage+.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5j9cxSF2aNX4a0juknxwxsmXTKYab0IGQZjFjcAFT82OA8ek6BNCY6rFwvZz7sNJPOkjWt7jx6wU3SzAvdMorWWxQFnhL8NdGwYNBe61Mah1PmOYKYBUZhWtt7i7ip53xGQknmZ4eZQg/s400/Collage+.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It took me a while to decide on my star image as I am not necessarily interested in the typical and obvious icons in the music industry, for example lady Gaga and Cheryl Cole who are clear style icons. I chose the Arctic Monkeys because I am interested in Indie and Rock music and this band has always stuck openly to its image.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As soon as you see this album artwork it is immediately eye-catching. The lead singer of The Maccabees, Orlando Weeks saw an artists work on a front cover of the magazine Art World. The name of this artist was Boo Ritson. She is a very unique and impressive artist, she paint people but not on canvas or a board, she literally coats people in paint. Her pictures are presented as photographs, the portraits in this case a group portrait is a double masquerade. Her subjects are coated in a sticky disguise which reveals the wet skin look. This look creates a statuesque effect and a plastic toy look.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So the band had to all be painted by Boo after discussing costume and composition the lead singer made a blog on the whole experience. As for the aesthetics of the album cover i think the look is exceptionally effective, an original piece of album artwork has been created successfully. The plain white banner with the Bands name and title of the album is clear to read and cohesively fits into the theme of the whole cover. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-66021837317872077342011-03-02T03:41:00.000-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.747-07:00The Impact of The Internet on The Music Industry<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The internet has had a gargantuan effect on the music industry, ultimately changing so many aspects of how its runs, works and actually distributes records. This change was never really predicted or adapted to quick enough. The whole concept effects record companies the most, they are the people who are worried especially the ones that appeal more to the younger markets, like those with rock bands. Nobody can even predict what the situation will be like even in five years time. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Record labels and their associations like the RIAA and BPI blamed the internet for basically beginning the destruction of the industry. It began with illegal peer to peer file sharing networks where people downloaded their music for free. Different organisations began to pursue excessive downloaders and prosecute them with large fines. There was false hope when they believed discouraging would halt the decline and reversal of record labels fortunes. The sales of CD's have decreased each year. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However an ultimatum came along which revived hope, with the rapid increase of the popularity of the MP3 and personal music players like the ipod, legal downloads have become more popular being led by Apple through their global online music store itunes, although there is other competition. None the less illegal downloads have decreased due to this. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although this is all positive CD sales are still declining particularly within the rock music genre which once was the most successful selling genre. Legal music downloads are helping record labels the traditional models are still in decline. People no longer just buy albums they are more enticed to buy the separate songs alone which is another factor thats changing the industry and affecting the record labels. I believe some sort of system will sort the situation out sooner or later but for now its not working that well. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-32455494464895210122011-02-07T01:31:00.001-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.748-07:00Album Cover Design 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGbHFH0FEn-4Dv8zwoeeWnhc-uLda4PQwEBstOKS_w_Pn84aTxasXU8kGK5DgG0NPaGBj6weFTTgTH31RzqzvJu3s4OzRJA3IdCavmBk1rd-p8xHd3zIlf7znTf0O4g1hI5jG9BjXDhY/s1600/Album+Cover+deisgn+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGbHFH0FEn-4Dv8zwoeeWnhc-uLda4PQwEBstOKS_w_Pn84aTxasXU8kGK5DgG0NPaGBj6weFTTgTH31RzqzvJu3s4OzRJA3IdCavmBk1rd-p8xHd3zIlf7znTf0O4g1hI5jG9BjXDhY/s320/Album+Cover+deisgn+2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-179265635423107082011-02-03T01:46:00.000-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.748-07:00Our Group Lip Sync Video - Beyonce/Halo<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SM5t6LhVtfc" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is our groups first lip sync video, in practice for our actual video to come. I think it was very effective doing this, as a group we learnt a few things.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I benefited from this personally by getting to grips with editing, I think I got the hang of it quite quickly and managed to help my other group members into understanding it. This now means when it comes to editing the actual video we shouldn't have too much trouble. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Overall I think the video was pretty successful for a first attempt, I look forward to making the actual video. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-50098535852827508682011-02-03T01:35:00.000-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.748-07:00Music Video Analysis - Rhianna/Only Girl In The World<iframe allowfullscreen="" class="youtube-player" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pa14VNsdSYM" title="YouTube video player" type="text/html" width="640"></iframe><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have decided to analyse this video as it is similar to our groups chosen song for out own video to be made, Jessie J Casualty of Love. Jessie J being a new artist, i found it slightly more difficult to find an artist that follows the same themes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The video begins with a mid-shot of Rhianna in a windy field, all we can hear is the sound of the wind and no music which is normally a convention of a narrative video. However this video does not display a narrative. The first few shots reveal a beautiful colour scheme, a soft pink with a mixture of other colours creating a psychedelic effect to the video. Rhianna's costume also backs this up also with her loose 70's styled hippee dress and headband.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This follows onto the use of a series of mid-shots, quick edits in sync with certain layers of the song. The first few edits sync with the drum beats, as the video progresses their some edits in sync with the synths used in the track. There are many effective edits in the video which all break the narrative, they make the audience aware that they are watching a music video.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The video itself is fairly minimalist, never exceeding three main settings. The colour scheme stays the same throughout but is very effective. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Further more discussing edits, many effects are used throughout the video. There is a moment where flower petals are rising up in front of Rhianna in a reverse falling motion, which clearly it has been edited in reverse, I feel this type of shot would be deemed post modern. One edit speeds up, fast forwarding the action on screen. Another effective edit is where Rhianna jumps like a video has got stuck and then back into normal playtime, this also syncs into the music. A use of zooming and defocusing are noticeable as well. Finally more edits at the end are reversed when the fireworks explode in reverse.</span><br />
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</div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This album art can be deemed as pop art, art that emerges from popular culture and high art. Peter Blake is the artist who designed this album artwork, Blake is famous established, british pop artist. This album artwork is viewed as a revolutionary creation it broke boundaries of a work of art with its collage of famous figures. The flowers displaying the bands name relates to the time and lifestyle, the hippee nature of peace and love. The bass drum towards the back reveals circus writing which gives an element of fun, the drum itself codes music. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">A large statement is made with The Beatles wearing vibrantly coloured military uniforms. This is actually mimicing the establishment. It defies and undermines the military ways. The bands actual positioning establishes their cult significance, in front of the many famous figures in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Finally the actual background is a blue sky representing happiness; freedom; summer of love; exotic; peaceful; heaven; hope. And a palm tree that signifies the idea of an island, the band being untouchable, escaping the british norm and the sense of exotica. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-24713277902478076262011-01-19T03:39:00.001-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.749-07:00Album cover design draft 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0nSwsadMS3eYWGDJqU1cVzJB_8q6aIrFdh2GGSKUxiKEP4Zz9LS_cEm3P0g6UyJ7tXHIe8yULo7GLAbJUOBorhwbrk3RhkxkekJ623LlgRIswoTRA9aWoXF243G58wNS1ykNmCGEihzE/s1600/Album+Cover+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0nSwsadMS3eYWGDJqU1cVzJB_8q6aIrFdh2GGSKUxiKEP4Zz9LS_cEm3P0g6UyJ7tXHIe8yULo7GLAbJUOBorhwbrk3RhkxkekJ623LlgRIswoTRA9aWoXF243G58wNS1ykNmCGEihzE/s320/Album+Cover+1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-50935042176034439822011-01-12T03:26:00.000-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.749-07:00Album Cover Art Analysis<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The album cover design establishes the genre of the music.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It establishes the identity of artists.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It established credibility of the artist and the album itself.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It seeks to attract audience attention through striking imagery.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It acts as a persuasive device drawing the audience in.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cover can be original, Inventive, Innovative, Unique or conventional depending on what is sought.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The video falls under the genre of horror and this is revealed clearly as soon as the title screen appears, with font colour</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"> being red to symbolise blood and slashed lettering. The opening scene shows the mise-en-scene to be realistic, dark, eerie setting with diegetic sounds of crickets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Micheal Jackson is dressed in his iconic costume including the white socks and rolled up trousers. The opening continues by entering some non diegetic music which isnt the actual song and we are then shown the short film before the videon even begins which is one of the reasons for video being revoloutionary, this had not been done before. We are shown a series of close ups that convey Micheals characters transformation with the mise-en-scene fitting the genre once more, dark forest surrounded by fog. Once again this was so revoloutionary as it the audience were watching a film within a film, something that defied typical conventions of a music video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">The setting changes again into deeper fog ending the short film and merging the world of the song and the narrative. The song becomes a vehicle for the video, ultimately inverting the music video. The people in the narrative join in with the song when the zombies begin to dance which is the iconic dance that people still imitate. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Finally the video ends with actual credits once again using a convention of a film, supporting the idea of the merging of genres. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-66133456928045990402011-01-06T01:50:00.000-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.749-07:00Carol Vernallis Music Video Theory<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is clear from my detailed research is that the music videos synchronise the images with the rhythm of the music itself, Vernallis states that the videos exhibit, "quick cutting or editing on the beat". This is evident in a number of videos i have analysed, for example in Tupac - Ghetto Gospel it follows this theory various times throughout. Specifically showing the effect in a fairly fast montage.</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"...the editing in a music video works hard to ensure that no single element (the narrative, the setting, the performance, the star, the lyrics, the song) gains the upper hand".</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4648646094394658212.post-20076643927599607212010-11-17T02:46:00.000-08:002011-04-28T01:37:58.750-07:00Music Video Analysis - 2pac - Ghetto Gospel<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/q-l-Ja5ItAY" title="YouTube video player" width="480"></iframe><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Narrative is explained effectively through a montage, flashes of different periods of time throughout the characters day simultaneously telling the story with success. There are key points made through short flashes throughout, indicating aspects of the characters life that are vital to the story. One being drug deals or some type of dodgy deal, a close up focuses in on the hands exchanging money which clear codes that type of deal. The video is ultimately a cycle it starts and ends at the same point with temporal leaps, the overall time span of the video is a day.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
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<ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Believes in ultimate experimentation.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Broke boundaries that were previously set in all different art forms.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elitist - appealing to the elite- most educated.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Only the educated would understand abstract and advanced art.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1900's, particularly 1940's and 1950's.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taking things to the extreme.</span></li>
</ul><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><u>Postmodernism</u></span></div><div><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In theory the end of originality.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bricolage/Pastiche - Definition: Taking things from different sources. Media term - Taking pieces of what's been done before and placing in a new context. (Eclectic art form).</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Highly self referential- wanting the audience to understand that it is engaged with a text.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Allusion - reference to another text - Intertextuality. </span></li>
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<ul><li>The album cover is quite conventional in terms of adhering to the central features expected.</li>
<li>The band name appears at the top.</li>
<li>The band themselves are featured.</li>
<li>The album name also appears at the top.</li>
</ul><div><u>Codes</u></div><div><ul><li>There are numerous codes at work with this album art.</li>
<li>They are used in order to establish the bands importance, confidence, musicality and Identity.</li>
</ul><div><u>General Analysis</u></div></div><div><ul><li>Photograph of Manchester city football player in a frame- Establishing they are from Manchester.</li>
<li>Glass of wine placed on the floor- Sophistication, living life, party scene, rock+roll.</li>
<li>B+H Gold cigarettes- Strong cigarettes, working class.</li>
<li>Liam Gallagher- Lying down centrally, main focus, arrogant, establishing himself as a front man.</li>
<li>The actual room- Upper class but still keeping the working class heritage in mind.</li>
<li>Noel Gallagher- Holding guitar, establishing himself as the musician, songwriter, natural, laid back.</li>
<li>Other Band Members- In the background, less focus.</li>
<li>Globe- They have the world, ambition, opportunity.</li>
<li>Watching Tv- They are everyday people, confident, happy, also the unity of the band in a family living room.</li>
<li>Front style of the Band name- Simple, tabloid, black+white, equality.</li>
<li>Album Title- Hand written, personal touch.</li>
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Music video’s consist of various codes and conventions, which makes them both recognisable and effective. There are a diverse set of rules and techniques used to ultimately create a successful music video.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jump Cuts<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When the camera angle remains static (doesn’t move) but there’s an edit in the filming. Music video uses jump cuts for effect.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">30-Degree Rule<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When you break this rule you have a jump cut. This is when you move the camera 30 degrees or more so the audience moves with you.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jump Cuts in Music Video<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Jump cuts are used frequently in music videos for specific effect. This is to jar the audience, Surprise them and take notice. This is to make the audience conscious that they are watching a music video. If you have a jump cut in a narrative it looks fake, it looks like a mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">180-Degree Rule<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The audience has a certain position you orientate the audience. If you break this rule you disorientate the audience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Graphic Match<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When you have a cut to something a similar shape or colour, this is used frequently in music video to create fluency or links.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Match on Action<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Shouting the same action but other people do it in different shots. This creates an idea of ongoing action.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Low Angle Shots<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Used much more in music videos than they are in films, this can make someone look like they’re performing. It also adds significance to the artist.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><br />
</span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Intertextuality<o:p></o:p></span></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">When a media text makes an explicit reference to another media text.<o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0