From this video we see that it is all performance, there is not a narrative going through the video itself, but they do refer to cultural codes; shown in the way that Lady Gaga is dressed, elegent gown and in my opinion she reminds me of old jazz singers. This is also connoted in the type of mics that they are using, as the older jazz singers used to use them in their bigger more grand performance, as well as people such as Dianna Ross, when she was filming her videos, she would also use those mics - especially in her live performances.
The reason i was looking at this video was to see what type of genre it was, and whether there were any similarities with the Michael Buble video that i was planning to create for my A2 music video. The genre of this music was very similar, as they are both jazz singers and Michael Buble has performed alot of jazz styled songs on his albums, such as 'Come Fly With Me' which helped for me to see what different music videos for jazz styled songs were like; also allowing me to find ideas of what type of set and lotcation i should or could be using.
If i compare this music video with 'Crazy Love' by Michael Buble, we see how it is very similar in the way that the camera angles only focus on the artists, as there is not a narrative to be connoted, so the audience will find it a simply video to follow, whereas if they were to add a narrative, would it take away the affect that the song has on the audience and the meaning? By using a all performance video i am able to create a narrative of my own, which gives me the freedom of using the lyrics to create a narrative that would fit with the music. As i would not be doing an experimental video to this song, because there is not need when there is a narrative in the lyrics. The difference between the two videos is that 'Lady is a Tramp' is more of a professional styles video with the costume arrangement being smart and glamorous, compared to 'Crazy Love' where Michael Buble is alone in the studio, wearing casual clothing and all of the equipment needed to create the piece around him.
Friday, 28 October 2011
Monday, 17 October 2011
Research - Comparing Media Texts
Research - Comparing Media Texts
From analysing my own text to a horror movie text i found that the Codes and Conventions where not completly different, expecially in the range of shots that i chose to use. We can see the match on action shots on the left, which are my own creation, and then i found a shot from the horror movie 'Dawn of the Dead', found on the left, where they also used a match on action shot of the hands. This connoted the terror on the real text, whereas in my own the murderer was searching information online. From my research, i found that match on action shots were very common in Horror and Thriller films, as it represents the hecticness of the scene - Dawn of the Dead she is slamming the door to get away from the little girl who has the infection, which makes the shot of the door being locked powerful to the audience as they can understand her fear.
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From analysing my own text to a horror movie text i found that the Codes and Conventions where not completly different, expecially in the range of shots that i chose to use. We can see the match on action shots on the left, which are my own creation, and then i found a shot from the horror movie 'Dawn of the Dead', found on the left, where they also used a match on action shot of the hands. This connoted the terror on the real text, whereas in my own the murderer was searching information online. From my research, i found that match on action shots were very common in Horror and Thriller films, as it represents the hecticness of the scene - Dawn of the Dead she is slamming the door to get away from the little girl who has the infection, which makes the shot of the door being locked powerful to the audience as they can understand her fear. Friday, 14 October 2011
Research - Barthes Media Theories
Barthe has five main different ways to define a narrative, through narrative codes, proving why an audience is hooked to the piece, but also why they are able to bring their own understanding to it. This is not only in films as it can also happen in music videos as well; the five codes that Barthe used were Enigma, Action, Semic, Symbolic and Cultural.
Enigma Code: An enigma code makes the audience think about what is going to happen, and what they need to know to figure it out, allowing them to use their own knowledge to figure it out - offering a puzzle. For example in murder mystery films, they use a dilemma to distract the audience and make them think it is one person, when really that was just a distraction to put obstacles in the way of the final result. A way of looking at it in a music video would be Rolling in the Deep by Adele, she is found alone in a dark room, with nothing around her connoting isolation of the feeling of being alone, explaining the lyrics, but why is she there in the first place?
Action Code: This is where a series of different events happen that all connect, in one way or another, to then show the outcome to the audience - or in some cases they can predict what is going to happen in the end before it even happens. This code is intended to help the audience understand what they are trying to show in the narrative. A music video which uses this code to an extent would be Grenade by Bruno Mars, this is shown when he is pulling the piano up the hill on a sunny day it is resembling the pain and weight on his shoulders from the relationship that he has just come out of, we know this as there is a crack in the photo of them together.
Semic Code: This is where the audience receive their own opinions and make assumptions of their own due to the props and characters during the piece; for example a shot of Big Ben tells us the narrative setting is London.
Symbolic Code: When looking at this code, it is using conflict between two opposite forces, which is therefore similar to Binary Opposition. This is where two characters are show together, but are completely different in their mannerisms, and they are shown this way to define the difference to the audience. The way you make me feel By Michael Jackson is one way that a symbolic code is used, due to the way that Michael's character is completely different to the 'gang' of men that were in the street; connoting the binary opposion of Michael getting the girl and the 'gang' saying that he wouldnt.
Cultural Code: This is when the audience need to know something to understand the specific details, whether this is in a movie or a music video. An example of this would be the Scream films (1996-2000) where the audience need to have seen the first movie through to the last to understand the whole story, and how all of the characters relate; but not only that they would need to have seen the first one to understand where the story is following on from. This would also apply to 'spoofs' such as the scary movie films, as the audience need to know the movies that they are making fun of. An example of a cultural code in a music video is 1985 by Bowling for Soup, they show a clip of a girl 'dancing' on a car, which is used in Whitesnake's music video Here I Go Again.
Enigma Code: An enigma code makes the audience think about what is going to happen, and what they need to know to figure it out, allowing them to use their own knowledge to figure it out - offering a puzzle. For example in murder mystery films, they use a dilemma to distract the audience and make them think it is one person, when really that was just a distraction to put obstacles in the way of the final result. A way of looking at it in a music video would be Rolling in the Deep by Adele, she is found alone in a dark room, with nothing around her connoting isolation of the feeling of being alone, explaining the lyrics, but why is she there in the first place?
Action Code: This is where a series of different events happen that all connect, in one way or another, to then show the outcome to the audience - or in some cases they can predict what is going to happen in the end before it even happens. This code is intended to help the audience understand what they are trying to show in the narrative. A music video which uses this code to an extent would be Grenade by Bruno Mars, this is shown when he is pulling the piano up the hill on a sunny day it is resembling the pain and weight on his shoulders from the relationship that he has just come out of, we know this as there is a crack in the photo of them together.
Semic Code: This is where the audience receive their own opinions and make assumptions of their own due to the props and characters during the piece; for example a shot of Big Ben tells us the narrative setting is London.
Symbolic Code: When looking at this code, it is using conflict between two opposite forces, which is therefore similar to Binary Opposition. This is where two characters are show together, but are completely different in their mannerisms, and they are shown this way to define the difference to the audience. The way you make me feel By Michael Jackson is one way that a symbolic code is used, due to the way that Michael's character is completely different to the 'gang' of men that were in the street; connoting the binary opposion of Michael getting the girl and the 'gang' saying that he wouldnt.
Cultural Code: This is when the audience need to know something to understand the specific details, whether this is in a movie or a music video. An example of this would be the Scream films (1996-2000) where the audience need to have seen the first movie through to the last to understand the whole story, and how all of the characters relate; but not only that they would need to have seen the first one to understand where the story is following on from. This would also apply to 'spoofs' such as the scary movie films, as the audience need to know the movies that they are making fun of. An example of a cultural code in a music video is 1985 by Bowling for Soup, they show a clip of a girl 'dancing' on a car, which is used in Whitesnake's music video Here I Go Again.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Research - Narrative Genres
Performance - This is where the music video is all of the band or solo artist, hence the reason it is called performance, they are performing for their audience through showing their instruments or vocal talent. American Idiot is only one of many examples of a performance based music video, this is due to Green Day standing in what looks like an abandoned warehouse, with a green and white striped background. One other example of a performance based video is Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi, this is all about setting up before the show and then performing to thousands of fans at the live show!
Narrative - This is where the video itself is telling a story at all times, leading the audience on a journey that matches either the lyrics or the music. An example of this is The Final Frontier by Iron Maiden, representing a man who is going on a journey through outer space and encounters and alien but by the end of the video the audience find out that their savior dies.
Experiemental - This is when the video does not have a narrative or performance, and it can be completely random, where the artist has chosen to experiment with a video to match what they think their music is about. An example of this would be Move Your Feet by Junior Senior, they have no real purpose other than to entertain their audience. There is also a cultual code during this video as it is like old fashion video games; such as pacman, it also uses hypnotic colours which we can relate back to 'hippies'.
Theses genres can also be both used in one video this is called a sub-genre video. Alot of videos are found as sub-genres using Narrative and Performance in one!!
Narrative - This is where the video itself is telling a story at all times, leading the audience on a journey that matches either the lyrics or the music. An example of this is The Final Frontier by Iron Maiden, representing a man who is going on a journey through outer space and encounters and alien but by the end of the video the audience find out that their savior dies.
Experiemental - This is when the video does not have a narrative or performance, and it can be completely random, where the artist has chosen to experiment with a video to match what they think their music is about. An example of this would be Move Your Feet by Junior Senior, they have no real purpose other than to entertain their audience. There is also a cultual code during this video as it is like old fashion video games; such as pacman, it also uses hypnotic colours which we can relate back to 'hippies'.
Theses genres can also be both used in one video this is called a sub-genre video. Alot of videos are found as sub-genres using Narrative and Performance in one!!
Research - Michael Buble Albums
The different types of album covers that Michael Buble uses do not have a great similarity, other than as he is a solo artist he is always on the cover. In his earlier albums he uses a blue tint on his face and hands,which would usually be related with pain or being lost, this can therefore relate to the songs on these albums such as: Home, Lost and Me and Mrs Jones. This songs are about wanting to find the one he loves, being with that person but finding it hard to cope being away from them, and speaking of where they first met and where they are now. On both of these album he has a sad and thoughtful expression, representing the colours that are used on the covers, but from both of these there is a slight chance of a cultural code being used, as the same colour scheme and style which is reconizable for the audience that he is attracting.
30 second Music Video
Filming the 30 second music video for the song Radar Love by Golden Earring
I have now finished filming my 30 second music video, filming the drums and guitar, as we have chosen to no include anyone singing due to us feeling that we show enough of a performance with the instruments alone! We filmed this in a music room, taking a range of different shots - from being a closer at eye level of the symbol to a over the shoulder shot of him picking up the drum sticks off of the drum. I found this particuarly tricky as we could not get the internet to work on the macbook that we had, which meant that we did not have the music for them drum along with, but we made do with the time and people that we had. From this we have now uploaded out music video clips onto the mac, and are editing it to fit with the music. We have found that alot of ur clicks fit well with the music, but we are going to struggle seeing as we do not have someone singing the vocals. We have planned to finish editing by next tuesday at the latest (17th october 2011).
I have now finished filming my 30 second music video, filming the drums and guitar, as we have chosen to no include anyone singing due to us feeling that we show enough of a performance with the instruments alone! We filmed this in a music room, taking a range of different shots - from being a closer at eye level of the symbol to a over the shoulder shot of him picking up the drum sticks off of the drum. I found this particuarly tricky as we could not get the internet to work on the macbook that we had, which meant that we did not have the music for them drum along with, but we made do with the time and people that we had. From this we have now uploaded out music video clips onto the mac, and are editing it to fit with the music. We have found that alot of ur clicks fit well with the music, but we are going to struggle seeing as we do not have someone singing the vocals. We have planned to finish editing by next tuesday at the latest (17th october 2011).
Muse Cd Cover Analysis
Both of these album covers are from the artist Muse, what i found from this artwork is that between the time span of the two albums they still decided to use a similar range of colours, this shows repetitive use of a colour scheme, which means that their audience will be draw to it and automatically know who the artist of that album is.
These album covers can also be seen as Cultural codes, due to the audiences that they are trying to appeal to, have to know what the covers look like before they can go out and buy them. Especially when the Muse logo itself is not as visible is some other artists.
Friday, 7 October 2011
The Vixens - Voodoo Child video analysis
During class we looked at the Vixen's media video, and analysed the good and bad points of the video as well as the research. From their research i found that they put a great deal of time and effort into what their ideas where and how they were planning to achieve it. The researched into the location, costume, make up, timetables, hair etc was in a great amount of detailed - which really showed that they had their heads around what their plans where and when they were going to do it.
Editing
- The lip syncing was in time with the lyrics, only minor details were out of sync
- The music matched the shot changes
- They haven't gone over board with the effects
- The use of letter boxing
- Match on action (locket)
Mise En Scene
- Props such as the mannequin and feather bower
- The bright clothing
- No stage or set
- Lighting, using the shadow by having two spotlights
Camera Shots
- Steady shots
- A range of shots and angles used
- Symmetrical
- Not alot of repetition
Sound
- The music track itself
- Each person dancing and singing in time (good synchronisation)
Editing
- The lip syncing was in time with the lyrics, only minor details were out of sync
- The music matched the shot changes
- They haven't gone over board with the effects
- The use of letter boxing
- Match on action (locket)
Mise En Scene
- Props such as the mannequin and feather bower
- The bright clothing
- No stage or set
- Lighting, using the shadow by having two spotlights
Camera Shots
- Steady shots
- A range of shots and angles used
- Symmetrical
- Not alot of repetition
Sound
- The music track itself
- Each person dancing and singing in time (good synchronisation)
Monday, 3 October 2011
Michael Buble
We looked at a range of different styles of songs, and decided that we were not going to use any of them, but found that they made us aware of other types of styles - such as jazz - that we had not looked into. After looking at Michael Buble's videos, we saw potential in using one of his songs due to them having more narrative in the lyrics, whereas the other songs we had researched did not have lyrics that we thought we could interpret. We settled on the song 'Crazy Love' to look into in more depth. By looking at the lyrics we saw that they could be about a relationship, being in love and just enjoying each others company.
'And when I'm returning from so far away
She gives me some sweet lovin brighten up my day
Yes it makes me righteous, yes it makes me feel whole
Yes it makes me mellow down in to my soul'
'And when I'm returning from so far away
She gives me some sweet lovin brighten up my day
Yes it makes me righteous, yes it makes me feel whole
Yes it makes me mellow down in to my soul'
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