Friday, 16 November 2012
Thursday, 8 November 2012
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Locations
This is the email that I sent off requesting permission to use the school locations our group would want to use for filming. It is essential that we get the permission we need in order to film since we will be using someone else's space and can cause disruption and inconvenience by being there. We also need to know when/if the the rooms will be free for us to film in, the person in charge of the room may already be using the room and we will need to know so we can organise a new location to film.
Saturday, 20 October 2012
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Monday, 8 October 2012
Roles
My group role for our music video will be in charge of the technical aspects of work and editing. I will take charge of Photoshop for our Digipaks and editing the music video in whatever way we need to. As a whole group we will take the role of a director, working together to decide what we want to show in the video, the style of it and all the different shots that we want to include.
Technical Tutorials
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| This is the CD cover we created using Photoshop CS3, this is an experimental cover which allowed us to test out different tools like Gradient, Magic Wand, Text, Crop and more. |
Final Song Choices
For our Final Song Choice we needed to choose between two songs, "Cigarettes In The Theatre" by Two Door Cinema Club and "A Girl Like You" by Miles Kane.
The song by Two Door Cinema Club was one of the first choices for a song since we needed to narrow it down as previously we had more than one option for a song but now we have at least 2 songs to decide between. The Two Door Cinema Club song we analysed seemed to give us more of an option for an illustration sort of music video based on the lyrics, some parts of it can be made to be amplified.
However for "A Girl Like You" sung by Miles Kane this leaves more space to become a bit more creative and make an amplification music video. The music video would not particularly fit the Indie Rock genre if it was made an illustration video because of the lyrics, (e.g. "crawling crawling on the floor"). This would not work well if we had filmed it.
In the end we decided to go with the song "A Girl Like You" once all of our group listened to the songs again and compared them to decide which was better.
The song by Two Door Cinema Club was one of the first choices for a song since we needed to narrow it down as previously we had more than one option for a song but now we have at least 2 songs to decide between. The Two Door Cinema Club song we analysed seemed to give us more of an option for an illustration sort of music video based on the lyrics, some parts of it can be made to be amplified.
However for "A Girl Like You" sung by Miles Kane this leaves more space to become a bit more creative and make an amplification music video. The music video would not particularly fit the Indie Rock genre if it was made an illustration video because of the lyrics, (e.g. "crawling crawling on the floor"). This would not work well if we had filmed it.
In the end we decided to go with the song "A Girl Like You" once all of our group listened to the songs again and compared them to decide which was better.
Monday, 1 October 2012
Initial Group Ideas
This Mind Map presents the initial ideas our group came up with when we had discussions about what to do for our music video project. Our intial idea was to go with the pop genre and make a music video towards that as pop is the most popular genre today however through further discussions we decided that perhaps Indie Rock would be better. Indie Rock has become increasingly popular lately however it is still not a greatly known or listened to genre so this gives our group a range of different ideas and possibilities for our group to take when planning our videos.
Once we had chosen to go with the Indie Rock genre we had to put in research to many different bands from the genre in their style, their performance, their music and videos so we can get a deeper understanding of Indie Rock.
Sunday, 30 September 2012
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Audience Research 2: Results
This is a slideshow to present graphed results of my Audience Questionnaire. These graphs provide a more visual presentation of the results and have in fact shown me more about what an audience is used to seeing or expects to see.
The majority of the survey takers were female with a few males and almost all those who took part in the survey were in their 16 - 20s. This is a good age range to have as this is the sort of age that is more likely to listen to Indie Rock; this is our target audience.
The survey had shown us that most people were aware or familiar with the Indie Rock genre, something that is important because if our genre was not recognised then that tells us that not only will most people be unfamiliar with the music but we would need to concentrate of giving the genre and the artist a lot of exposure in our piece so they become recognised. Most of the people in the survey had stated that they casually listen to Indie Rock music which once again is good as these people will definitely be more familiar with the Indie rock genre and have heard the music rather than just know of the genre.
When asking what the audience expected to see in any music videos they all seemed to want a balance between dancing, costumes, band performances and costumes. However when asking what it was that the audience would want to see in an Indie Music Video they sai they would enjoy the same things as any other video but they wanted to see a lot more shots of the singer. Therefore what our group can take from this is that when we make our music video we need to include not only a narrative, some dancing, costumes and the band but also we need to make sure that the audience gets an eyeful of the singer.
When asking what the audience expected to see in any music videos they all seemed to want a balance between dancing, costumes, band performances and costumes. However when asking what it was that the audience would want to see in an Indie Music Video they sai they would enjoy the same things as any other video but they wanted to see a lot more shots of the singer. Therefore what our group can take from this is that when we make our music video we need to include not only a narrative, some dancing, costumes and the band but also we need to make sure that the audience gets an eyeful of the singer.
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Tuesday, 25 September 2012
Monday, 24 September 2012
CD Cover Research
The Vaccines: Come of Age (2012)
This is the album cover for The Vaccine's latest album "Come of Age". This would be the second album released by the band. From looking at this album cover related to the name it is immediately clear how they link, though the band consists of 4 adult males they use young girls who represent each of the band members. For anyone who is fans of or at least aware of the band they can make this link to each member. This album colour has been put into black and white minus the bold red font of the band. This band seem to have not included the actual name of the album onto the front cover, perhaps because they wanted the image itself to let the name and the message come across itself about "Come of Age".
Two Door Cinema Club: Tourist History (2010)
This is Two Door Cinema Club's first full album named "Tourist History". The colours on this image are quite dull and not very vibrant, it features an image of a cat with extremely large pupils and is mainly hidden behind the exceptionally large font for the band. The band's name is a lot larger than the title of the album as this is their first album it is more important that the band themselves are recognised by their name since not a lot of people will know who they are. Based on the image and the name of their album.
SBTRKT: SBTRKT
This is the self titled album by artist SBTRKT. The album cover for this artist is in fact an image of Dj SBTRKT wearing this mask which he always wears in his live performances so this would be something that fans of SBTRKT would recognise to be him. The CD cover does not have any text to say the name of the artist or the album name perhaps because SBTRKT had been releasing singles and EPs since 2007 that by the time he released this full album in 2011 many fans of his would already be aware of who he is. The colours of this album cover seem dull and wash out except for his mask, the mask appears to be the only part in colour and once again it is probably because it is something his fans will recognise most about him.
Sunday, 23 September 2012
Monday, 17 September 2012
Song and Genre Ideas
The genre that my group are looking into is the Indie Rock Genre. For this we are looking into different bands for songs which would sound good and something we believe we can work with for our music video. These are our initial ideas for songs:
Two Door Cinema Club
• Do You Want It All
Bombay Bicycle Club
• What You Want
The Vaccines
• Under Your Thumb
• Wolf Pack
• All In White
SBTRKT
• Wildfire
Two Door Cinema Club
• Do You Want It All
Bombay Bicycle Club
• What You Want
The Vaccines
• Under Your Thumb
• Wolf Pack
• All In White
SBTRKT
• Wildfire
Friday, 14 September 2012
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Saturday, 1 September 2012
Monday, 13 August 2012
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Monday, 16 July 2012
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Monday, 2 July 2012
A2 Media Studies - Brief
For my A2 Media Studies course I will be looking into Music Videos and to observe and note the conventions of popular and successful music videos across different genres of music.
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
Thursday, 14 June 2012
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