Final Music Video

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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Wider Reading Summary.

B13-B18

This was all about the history of music videos

  • Close relationships between music tracks and visual material was traced back to the eary 90's in USA and Germany
  • It then follows on about how the visuals and music progressed: abstracts short films, cheap, song and dance, sexualised and females
  • Len lye and Scopitone experiments died out whe Tv arrived
  • Music video progressed through the 90's = music television
  • 1st actual music video- Queen- Bohemian Rhapsody
  • MTV began broadcasting on the Warner satellite feed in 1981
  • 1981-2003- predominant white male rock bands almost end of era before black artist broke through
  • Director Hype Williams led way for black artists#
  • Music video began to propel some acts to mega stardom
  • MTV-1984-owned by Viacom-brough MTV to major cities- made music come to life
  • Music Video Update from 2005-Youtube, Myspace, AOl, Itunes-internet primary growth income for record companies- web 2.0
  • Independant filmaking- Guerrila filmaking
  • Interesting music video directors eg: Spike Jonze, David Fincher
B27 - B33: Album art and design principles
  • Album cover became an art form in 1960's
  • 12 inch square-typically artist and protect CD
  • 1960's- pop music-record promotion became an industry in itself- marketing
  • The beetles- iconic
  • Pink Floyd-orignal
  • Gorilaz-massive success-comic strip
  • Album cover- have conventions
  • A CD must attract a buyer, covey the music,info about artist, orginal design, stand out
  • Key questions- artist, genre, name, audience
  • have to shocking enticing, iconic, co ordinated
B34 - Myspace/website checklist
  • This showed me what to include in the Myspace and typical conventions
  • We can be creative
  • Have to be customised
  • branding -key
  • album art
  • pics, videos, interactive
  • competitions
  • about artist
  • links- active -fb myspace twitter
  • viral marketing
  • shows , performances, gigs
  • friends etc
A1 - A7: Making a music video useful tips
  • This was really useful as it told as what to do and what to avoid
  • Research- look at theories, planning to deliver,genres, conventions etc
  • Group- working with people that will support me and not working with freinds who may distarct me- qualities if individuals
  • Choosing a track-musis that stimualates ideas, genre, loactions and performers, go for unknown
  • Pitch- simplicity, images, intentions,loaction, narrative
  • Timescale- IMPORTANT!
  • Storyboarding and checking- production- CD miming
  • Editing-lipsyncing, cutaways, good shots,compromises,transistions
  • Screening and Feedback-ask ques from peers, impressions, like and dislike, works well? what doesnt?
  • Writing- BE POSITIVE!
  • Filming = Creativity

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