here it is, took me a while haha =)
Wednesday, 8 October 2008
Monday, 6 October 2008
Sven E Carlsson theories
Music video is a multimedia communications system that carries both music and TV pictures to emphasise a point. There are three main types of clips used in a music video:
• Standard --> shows a singer/ artist singing while also acting out a part of the story. For example, Take On Me by Aha. This is used mostly to balance the performance with a story, although this also helps viewers emphasise and identify with the singer/ artist.
• Performance --> this shows the singer/ band in more than one place performing the same song. For example, Drive by Incubus. Many conventional rock music videos are song and instrumental performances. The dance performance tends to connote to pop music. This type of clip is where the artist/ band are made into a selling item (in a sense).
• Conceptual --> this is usually mixed in with a performance clip. For example, the video Dirty Harry by Gorillaz is all animated; there is no real performance but the story is conceptual and can be understood. These clips usually create a more artistic effect.
A good music video contains more than one of these clips. i shall incorporate both performance and conceptual clips into my music video; there shall be a storyline and a band performance that isn't actually related to the story. The supposed story is mostly conceptual, but can be easily understood (i hope).
I decided on a simple yet effective method of portraying happiness and love-struck behaviour; the boy would have a wandering imagination (displayed by the moving pictures) and also behave like a little child would...by jumping in puddles, off swings, and generally having fun in his own little world =D
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• Standard --> shows a singer/ artist singing while also acting out a part of the story. For example, Take On Me by Aha. This is used mostly to balance the performance with a story, although this also helps viewers emphasise and identify with the singer/ artist.
• Performance --> this shows the singer/ band in more than one place performing the same song. For example, Drive by Incubus. Many conventional rock music videos are song and instrumental performances. The dance performance tends to connote to pop music. This type of clip is where the artist/ band are made into a selling item (in a sense).
• Conceptual --> this is usually mixed in with a performance clip. For example, the video Dirty Harry by Gorillaz is all animated; there is no real performance but the story is conceptual and can be understood. These clips usually create a more artistic effect.
A good music video contains more than one of these clips. i shall incorporate both performance and conceptual clips into my music video; there shall be a storyline and a band performance that isn't actually related to the story. The supposed story is mostly conceptual, but can be easily understood (i hope).
I decided on a simple yet effective method of portraying happiness and love-struck behaviour; the boy would have a wandering imagination (displayed by the moving pictures) and also behave like a little child would...by jumping in puddles, off swings, and generally having fun in his own little world =D
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Friday, 26 September 2008
Plug in Baby by Muse.
amazingly interesting video. i love watching them perform =D and i love the effects on this video too XD i am inspired by the way similar shots are used to creat different effects, and how the band are portrayed so positively throughout thier performance.
i will attempt to use the same edit for my band performance, to show them as energetic and playful, although the song style is different to Muse.
i will attempt to use the same edit for my band performance, to show them as energetic and playful, although the song style is different to Muse.
my pitch
yeaassss, its FINALLY here!
i tried putting this on my blog yesterday, but it wouldnt work. which was annoying.
the other reason it took me a while was that i couldn't find someone to play the main character. so i greatly thank the little boy that agreed to this part =)
Monday, 22 September 2008
my band performance shoot
i had two shoots, in which the second one was more successful. the chosen location was in my back garden, and we used balloons for effect...
the official band members:
Jack Ford- vocalist
Jack Cooper- guitarist
Steph Woodward- bassist
Will Couper- drummer
and a massive thank you to all of them for being so patient with me- they really helped me out.
they came up with the idea of using balloons to make the setting cheerful, and most of all, they provided such laughs i will always remember haha! =D
so really, thanks
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the official band members:
Jack Ford- vocalist
Jack Cooper- guitarist
Steph Woodward- bassist
Will Couper- drummer
and a massive thank you to all of them for being so patient with me- they really helped me out.
they came up with the idea of using balloons to make the setting cheerful, and most of all, they provided such laughs i will always remember haha! =D
so really, thanks
=)
Monday, 15 September 2008
Andrew Goodwin's theories.
What is a music video?
• Scenes and pictures incorporated to music. the main use of a music video is to promote the band or the single that has been released, which in turn promotes the album. Can have a highly complex narrative that has personal meaning to either the viewer or the band members.
• There is quite often a significant use of intertextuality.
• “It always offers something to look at and something upon which we need to reflect.”~ Andrew Goodwin
• Theorist Michael Shore concludes that music videos consist of the following: “recycled styles…simulated experience…information overload…vanity and the moment…speed, power girls and wealth…album art come to turgid life…clichéd imagery”
• A music video contains performance clips (when the artist/ band are performing) and/or conceptual clips (where something else is shown through the duration)
• The three main factors that make a music video are: music, lyrics and image.
• Music --> the other two factors are often tied down to the beat of the music.
• Lyrics --> can create a poetic experience. The greater the leap between the content of the lyrics and the imagery, the more difficult for viewers to understand and interpret this context.
• The image must be understood to understand the music. The director creates ideas that are often repeated and emphasised through lighting, colour, clothing, footage etc etc.
... =)
• Scenes and pictures incorporated to music. the main use of a music video is to promote the band or the single that has been released, which in turn promotes the album. Can have a highly complex narrative that has personal meaning to either the viewer or the band members.
• There is quite often a significant use of intertextuality.
• “It always offers something to look at and something upon which we need to reflect.”~ Andrew Goodwin
• Theorist Michael Shore concludes that music videos consist of the following: “recycled styles…simulated experience…information overload…vanity and the moment…speed, power girls and wealth…album art come to turgid life…clichéd imagery”
• A music video contains performance clips (when the artist/ band are performing) and/or conceptual clips (where something else is shown through the duration)
• The three main factors that make a music video are: music, lyrics and image.
• Music --> the other two factors are often tied down to the beat of the music.
• Lyrics --> can create a poetic experience. The greater the leap between the content of the lyrics and the imagery, the more difficult for viewers to understand and interpret this context.
• The image must be understood to understand the music. The director creates ideas that are often repeated and emphasised through lighting, colour, clothing, footage etc etc.
... =)
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