Monday, 29 April 2013
Wednesday, 24 April 2013
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Most music videos have clips of the band performing the song, with cuts to the narrative. There are usually many cuts back and forth between the performance and narrative. By showing clips of the band performing it helps to make the viewers feel more connected to the band.
On my music poster I added things that would usually appear on a typical music poster such as a rating of the album from a music magazine, a picture of the albums front cover and mentioned two other songs from that album. They also included a 'download on iTunes' logo as well as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the Fueled By Ramen logo.
I have attempted to use the conventions of the real "pop/rock" music genre by using fonts and colours that are linked to the genre. The font used for the album name and the tittle of the song we chose is a font that is very much like smashed glass and in red as the colour is associated with war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire and love. We decided to use a darker red which is associated with rage, anger, courage, longing, malice and wrath. The font for the name of the band is black, this colour is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery, fear and the unknown. It also gives the feeling of perspective and depth, and using the 'urban jungle' font which contains an outline of a city is also showing us depth and a perspective that 'Paramore' is above a city's highest buildings.
The clothing that the band wears is usually fashionable but not as revealing as in pop videos but not as dull and dark as those in rock videos. Our band members are dressed quite casually, in jeans and shirts. They are fairly laid back and the passion they have about their music is clear by their facial expressions and emotion in the singers eyes, also the close up we used show how passionate they are about the music. Bands in pop/rock music videos are normally seen performing in a studio, stage and sometimes outdoors, we used a dance studio with spotlights on all 3 members of the band.
There is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals and this is something I have consistently tried to create throughout my music video by using certain clips at certain times. For example, the lyrics 'I think we have an emergency' were sung after we saw in the narrative how a young woman had woke up in her bed with empty alcohol containers surrounding her also she stumbles out of her bed and down the stairs. I also tried to create a relationship between both the music and the visuals by editing clips with the beat, such as the jump cuts that are in time with major drum beats and the singer landing from a jump on time with the drum beat. I tried to create a connection between the audience and the actors by the singer of the band and the female protagonist frequently looking directly into the camera, as well as the singer pointing to the camera when she sings the word 'you'.
Most music videos have clips of the band performing the song, with cuts to the narrative. There are usually many cuts back and forth between the performance and narrative. By showing clips of the band performing it helps to make the viewers feel more connected to the band.
On my music poster I added things that would usually appear on a typical music poster such as a rating of the album from a music magazine, a picture of the albums front cover and mentioned two other songs from that album. They also included a 'download on iTunes' logo as well as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the Fueled By Ramen logo.
I have attempted to use the conventions of the real "pop/rock" music genre by using fonts and colours that are linked to the genre. The font used for the album name and the tittle of the song we chose is a font that is very much like smashed glass and in red as the colour is associated with war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire and love. We decided to use a darker red which is associated with rage, anger, courage, longing, malice and wrath. The font for the name of the band is black, this colour is associated with power, elegance, formality, death, evil, and mystery, fear and the unknown. It also gives the feeling of perspective and depth, and using the 'urban jungle' font which contains an outline of a city is also showing us depth and a perspective that 'Paramore' is above a city's highest buildings.
The clothing that the band wears is usually fashionable but not as revealing as in pop videos but not as dull and dark as those in rock videos. Our band members are dressed quite casually, in jeans and shirts. They are fairly laid back and the passion they have about their music is clear by their facial expressions and emotion in the singers eyes, also the close up we used show how passionate they are about the music. Bands in pop/rock music videos are normally seen performing in a studio, stage and sometimes outdoors, we used a dance studio with spotlights on all 3 members of the band.
There is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals and this is something I have consistently tried to create throughout my music video by using certain clips at certain times. For example, the lyrics 'I think we have an emergency' were sung after we saw in the narrative how a young woman had woke up in her bed with empty alcohol containers surrounding her also she stumbles out of her bed and down the stairs. I also tried to create a relationship between both the music and the visuals by editing clips with the beat, such as the jump cuts that are in time with major drum beats and the singer landing from a jump on time with the drum beat. I tried to create a connection between the audience and the actors by the singer of the band and the female protagonist frequently looking directly into the camera, as well as the singer pointing to the camera when she sings the word 'you'.
I watched a lot of music videos before we started filming to get some idea of the conventions in other music videos and there were a few that I used, such as the close ups of the singers mouth, the drummer being slowed down on a major beat, the clip of the drummers foot pedal, and the clip we sped up in the narrative while 'the lost girl' stood still as everyone around her was moving. This indicates that everyone around her knows there path and she doesn't so people are to busy on their path therefore not noticing that she is lost.
Friday, 19 April 2013
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