Monday, 8 November 2010
Video analysis
Here is a song by Kesha called Tik Tok. It is a narrative based music video. This is because throughout the music video she is explaining what she is doing as well as showing it whilst she is singing. In some respects this video could possibly also be performance based but I believe it is more narrative based.
Above is the video for the Ok-Go's here it goes again. This music video would fall under the concept based music video following Goodwins Theory of music videos. The reason for it being concept based it because the music video doesn't really make any sense and is no way relevant to what they are singing about as you can see they are just moving around on treadmills.
This music video is Blink 182 and the song is called Rockshow, it is a performance based music video. This is because Blink 182 feature in the music video and are performing a lot in the music video.
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Ancillary tasks
As part of our project we have been set the ask of designing and creating ancillary tasks from the following:
-Creating a digipak
-Creating an advert for a magazine
-Create a front page our bands website
The two that we have chosen to do is the digipak and the advert. My intentions for my digipak are to take lots of different interesting photos and edit them using photoshop and other editing software. I have decided to make the digipak 4 sides of which I have been given the dimensions for so it perfectly fits an album cover case. For the advert my aim is to try and sell the band as well as I can, as if I were to promoting the band.
Planning our ancillary Tasks
The idea of our ancillary tasks were to make our album cover out of a clip similar to that of in our music video. We thought that the most scenic area that we had used in the music video was the underpass so that is where we have decided that is where we are going to take our photography for the front cover.
Inspiration for our ancillary/analysing other existing work
The first idea of how to see what other magazine adverts looked like was to search it on the internet. Once searching this from just google images alone there was hundreds of different varieties. Below are a few that caught my eye and give our group inspiration:
Above are three good adverts to try and enhance sales of albums and live performances of each artist. The reason why they are good is because they all have a brand identity, this is what we have to try and achieve if we want our album cover to stand out from the crowd. As you can see they are all every different from one another.
Our idea is to use a particular location shown in our music video as both the front cover of the album and also for the face of the magazine advert. This will help us to create a brand identity as we will always use the same house colours in all of these projects. We have the idea of using the underpass which is used in our music video as being the backdrop for both of our ancillary tasks.
The reason for us choosing the underpass is because it is the most interesting location that we have decided to film at during filming. As this location is going to appear in all of our artists work, it will be easy for the audience to realise that they are all linked together, thus hopefully creating a good brand identity.
Below are two images that we are working on as being our front/back cover for our album cover.
Final Front/back covers:
Inside of the album digipak:
Below is an image of our final magazine advert for the second half of our ancillary tasks.
We decided that it would be a good idea to use the same location but a different style of shot to make the magazine advert. The reason for this was because we believed as a group that it would help the audience to recognise our band because of the brand identity that we had used throughout our project.
-Creating a digipak
-Creating an advert for a magazine
-Create a front page our bands website
The two that we have chosen to do is the digipak and the advert. My intentions for my digipak are to take lots of different interesting photos and edit them using photoshop and other editing software. I have decided to make the digipak 4 sides of which I have been given the dimensions for so it perfectly fits an album cover case. For the advert my aim is to try and sell the band as well as I can, as if I were to promoting the band.
Planning our ancillary Tasks
The idea of our ancillary tasks were to make our album cover out of a clip similar to that of in our music video. We thought that the most scenic area that we had used in the music video was the underpass so that is where we have decided that is where we are going to take our photography for the front cover.
Inspiration for our ancillary/analysing other existing work
The first idea of how to see what other magazine adverts looked like was to search it on the internet. Once searching this from just google images alone there was hundreds of different varieties. Below are a few that caught my eye and give our group inspiration:
Above are three good adverts to try and enhance sales of albums and live performances of each artist. The reason why they are good is because they all have a brand identity, this is what we have to try and achieve if we want our album cover to stand out from the crowd. As you can see they are all every different from one another.
Our idea is to use a particular location shown in our music video as both the front cover of the album and also for the face of the magazine advert. This will help us to create a brand identity as we will always use the same house colours in all of these projects. We have the idea of using the underpass which is used in our music video as being the backdrop for both of our ancillary tasks.
The reason for us choosing the underpass is because it is the most interesting location that we have decided to film at during filming. As this location is going to appear in all of our artists work, it will be easy for the audience to realise that they are all linked together, thus hopefully creating a good brand identity.
Below are two images that we are working on as being our front/back cover for our album cover.
Final Front/back covers:
Inside of the album digipak:
Below is an image of our final magazine advert for the second half of our ancillary tasks.
We decided that it would be a good idea to use the same location but a different style of shot to make the magazine advert. The reason for this was because we believed as a group that it would help the audience to recognise our band because of the brand identity that we had used throughout our project.
Brand Identity
For our project we have been asked to create a brand identity, this is where the band that we have chosen has particular things that people can relate to so they know who it is when they see it. For example they may have a logo or a particular photo to show people who the band is and the audience will automatically know who it is without seeing or hearing them.
We as a group are also going to attempt to create a brand identity for our band "The Nites". We have attempted to create a logo and also a picture but as of yet we haven't come to a final decision on which one we are going to use.
Our logo's and picture for our brand identity are to appear on our ancillary tasks when we design and create a digipak and a magazine advertisement.
Here is the logo for our band at the moment. It is also used as the front cover of their album, we as a group believe it isn't the most eyecatching album cover so our aim is to use this as an original idea but add to it.
We as a group are also going to attempt to create a brand identity for our band "The Nites". We have attempted to create a logo and also a picture but as of yet we haven't come to a final decision on which one we are going to use.
Our logo's and picture for our brand identity are to appear on our ancillary tasks when we design and create a digipak and a magazine advertisement.
Here is the logo for our band at the moment. It is also used as the front cover of their album, we as a group believe it isn't the most eyecatching album cover so our aim is to use this as an original idea but add to it.
Monday, 4 October 2010
Audience Feedback
The general audience feedback from when we did our presentation to the class was good. We had a lot of good comments as well as things that they said we could work on to make it even better. Comments included "Good interpreting on the lyrics". The reason why we got this was because they thought that our idea was good and was matched well with what the artist was singing at the time. Comments from our class that we said we could work on were "Ensure to vary transitions and shots", this was a fair comment because we didn't talk enough about it when we were presenting, but our intentions are to maybe use fast cut montage, high angles and lots of other different effects.
For this lesson we have learnt what we are going to do and what we are going to change when we come to the filming and editing stage. We are going to make sure that we use lots of different camera angles and shots, as well as lots of effects but try not to over complicate things.
Sunday, 3 October 2010
Whatever gets you through lyrics
Annotations are in bold
Here is the new lyrics to the new artist that we have chosen called "the nites". The song whatever gets you through.
The beginning of the music video starts in black and white, from black appears scene at dinner.
You say to me
That everything is okay now
but it's not-
For this part of the song the idea is that we are filming the boy and girl at dinner and we can see that things aren't going well between them.
You try so hard
To put on that brave smile that you ain't got
I don't care how long it takes baby
I'll be by your side-
At this point the camera is panning around the table and we see the girl putting on a fake smile to the boy and the boy is completely confused about the situation and what is going to happen with their relationship. Also during these lyrics the girl gets up and begins to walk down the road with the boy chasing after her, he attempts to pull her arm but she shrugs him off and walks into the distance leaving him standing there.
What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through
What ever gets you through-
* For all of the chorus' we are going to have the same clip which is of the boy and girl in colour instead of black and white like the verses in the video. This is to show that what is in black and white is the present and it is very dull and stale, but what is in colour is what it used to be when they were happy.
I know it hurts
But I can't pretend to make it be alright
Some day, some how
You're gonna make to the other side
Coz no matter what it takes I will
I'll be what you need-
Now we see a clip of the boy being very upset that his "gilfriend" is being the way she is as he is flicking through an old photo album of them two together.
What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through-
*
What ever gets you
I will listen, be your shadow
I will run to you
I'll never leave you behind
I'll hold you close
I'll let you go
I'll give you time x3-
Here we see the boy is determined to get his girl friend back so he is driving, perhaps to go and get her?
Yeah!
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do,
What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through
Through x4
Here is the new lyrics to the new artist that we have chosen called "the nites". The song whatever gets you through.
The beginning of the music video starts in black and white, from black appears scene at dinner.
You say to me
That everything is okay now
but it's not-
For this part of the song the idea is that we are filming the boy and girl at dinner and we can see that things aren't going well between them.
You try so hard
To put on that brave smile that you ain't got
I don't care how long it takes baby
I'll be by your side-
At this point the camera is panning around the table and we see the girl putting on a fake smile to the boy and the boy is completely confused about the situation and what is going to happen with their relationship. Also during these lyrics the girl gets up and begins to walk down the road with the boy chasing after her, he attempts to pull her arm but she shrugs him off and walks into the distance leaving him standing there.
What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through
What ever gets you through-
* For all of the chorus' we are going to have the same clip which is of the boy and girl in colour instead of black and white like the verses in the video. This is to show that what is in black and white is the present and it is very dull and stale, but what is in colour is what it used to be when they were happy.
I know it hurts
But I can't pretend to make it be alright
Some day, some how
You're gonna make to the other side
Coz no matter what it takes I will
I'll be what you need-
Now we see a clip of the boy being very upset that his "gilfriend" is being the way she is as he is flicking through an old photo album of them two together.
What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through-
*
What ever gets you
I will listen, be your shadow
I will run to you
I'll never leave you behind
I'll hold you close
I'll let you go
I'll give you time x3-
Here we see the boy is determined to get his girl friend back so he is driving, perhaps to go and get her?
Yeah!
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do,
What ever gets you through
I'll give you space
What ever you gotta do
to find your way
Baby you can cry, you can fall
You can break through it all
I'll be there for you
To do, what ever gets you through
Through x4
Complications
We have eventually after much discussion decided to change our song at the very last moment. Our reasons behind this were as follows: Firstly we were not sure if the examiners would have taken our previous song seriously, this was because it was a "joke" song, and this is exactly what we didnt want. We wanted them to see that we as a group take our media studies very seriously and wanted to make it a great success; secondly we thought that the song was too one dimensional as it only had one subject which would have limited us to what we could film and use in our music video; finally as it had some swearing in it we didn't think it would be appropriate to use as a school media project.
Our new plan overview:
Our new plan is to use a different artist called "The Nites" who are an Acoustic, Pop, Rock band formed of two members. The song that we are going to do is called "whatever gets you through".
Our new plan overview:
Our new plan is to use a different artist called "The Nites" who are an Acoustic, Pop, Rock band formed of two members. The song that we are going to do is called "whatever gets you through".
Friday, 1 October 2010
Location, actors and props
The first and most obvious place that we are going to film is in and around the nandos restaurant in Stevenage, this will be okay as long as we get their permission.
Our locations after this will vary very widely. As our song is a parody we can almost film anywhere as our video can be as random as we want it to be. I have an idea of filming in a park and using a roundabout for a good effect.
Another location that I we have thought as a group would be good for our music video is to leave our camera in a chicken coop for a few hours. We would the bring it out and when we got to the editing stage we could speed it right up so it looks like the chickens are just dashing about.
I also thought that we could film in town and with a little help from a chicken suit we can film peoples reactions as we secretly film as the person in the chicken suit does random things.
New idea:
Because of having to change our music video and song our location for filming has completely changed. As the song is about a boy and a girl who are going out, and the girl does no longer want to be with the boy we are going to show them on just an everyday day walking along and showing what happens. The boy is happy but it is clear that the girl isnt.
Our first location is of a restaurant where it shows through the window or inside the couple arguing and then the girl storms out of the restaurant with the boy chasing out after her and grabbing her arm as they walk down a well lit street. The girl shrugs him off and she continues to walk off into the distance whilst the we show the boy just standing still watching her walk away from him.
Our next location is of an everyday place like the boys bedroom where we show him upset about the ordeal, whereas we show the girl (in a splitscreen) having a good time out on a date with someone else whilst the girl and the boy are on a break.
Location Shots
Below are some pictures of the areas that we have filmed in at the moment, some of the images are missing as we forgot to take a stills camera with us at the time that we were film but we will upload those images very soon.
Actors
It has been very difficult to get the 'right actors for the job' during filming as it was either our group that was busy at the time that the actors could act or vica-verca so this left us with no choice for me to act in it along with another girl. It also meant that Olly (another member of our group).
Props
The major prop that we used during the filming stage was my car. The reason for this was because we needed a scene where we could show the boy on his own showing emotion that it wasn't going well with his girlfriend and he didn't know what was going to happen.
Our Artist
The Nites consist of Anthony (vocals) and Michael (guitar), two guys from South London, who met in 2004 and started gigging the acoustic circuit in and around London. Two guitars and a beat up amp, did them proud and helped them to gradually build up a close following, but after playing cover after cover, they now write and perform their own songs.
http://www.thenites.com/
Our locations after this will vary very widely. As our song is a parody we can almost film anywhere as our video can be as random as we want it to be. I have an idea of filming in a park and using a roundabout for a good effect.
Another location that I we have thought as a group would be good for our music video is to leave our camera in a chicken coop for a few hours. We would the bring it out and when we got to the editing stage we could speed it right up so it looks like the chickens are just dashing about.
I also thought that we could film in town and with a little help from a chicken suit we can film peoples reactions as we secretly film as the person in the chicken suit does random things.
New idea:
Because of having to change our music video and song our location for filming has completely changed. As the song is about a boy and a girl who are going out, and the girl does no longer want to be with the boy we are going to show them on just an everyday day walking along and showing what happens. The boy is happy but it is clear that the girl isnt.
Our first location is of a restaurant where it shows through the window or inside the couple arguing and then the girl storms out of the restaurant with the boy chasing out after her and grabbing her arm as they walk down a well lit street. The girl shrugs him off and she continues to walk off into the distance whilst the we show the boy just standing still watching her walk away from him.
Our next location is of an everyday place like the boys bedroom where we show him upset about the ordeal, whereas we show the girl (in a splitscreen) having a good time out on a date with someone else whilst the girl and the boy are on a break.
Location Shots
Below are some pictures of the areas that we have filmed in at the moment, some of the images are missing as we forgot to take a stills camera with us at the time that we were film but we will upload those images very soon.
Actors
It has been very difficult to get the 'right actors for the job' during filming as it was either our group that was busy at the time that the actors could act or vica-verca so this left us with no choice for me to act in it along with another girl. It also meant that Olly (another member of our group).
Props
The major prop that we used during the filming stage was my car. The reason for this was because we needed a scene where we could show the boy on his own showing emotion that it wasn't going well with his girlfriend and he didn't know what was going to happen.
Our Artist
The Nites consist of Anthony (vocals) and Michael (guitar), two guys from South London, who met in 2004 and started gigging the acoustic circuit in and around London. Two guitars and a beat up amp, did them proud and helped them to gradually build up a close following, but after playing cover after cover, they now write and perform their own songs.
http://www.thenites.com/
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