In our lesson, we watched a number of Michael Jackson videos and compared them, to see how one of the greatest entertainers in the world took his ideas to his music videos.
Leave Me Alone
Animated, cartoons, spaceships, Michael Jackson flying around.
Lyrics closely related to the video
Shows shots of news articles about him, allegations made against him in real life featured in his video, said to be a response to the media.
Scream Feat. Janet Jackson
Features his sister Janet Jackson
Video in Black and White
Space Theme
Simultaenous dancing with his sister
Lyrics are a response to child abuse allegations
Billie Jean
Starts off in black and white
Animated
Has a crime scene theme
Special effects- Floor lights up when he walks on it etc
Thriller
Has a storyline of horror film for the first 4 minutes
Michael Jackson is watching himself act in the cinema, and then goes outside and starts the song
Simultaneous dance with zombies
Special effects
Black or White
Starts off at the begining with a mini story line
Star cast, including Macauly Culkin, someone who was very famous at the time (Home Alone).
Includes many different cultures including Indian, Black, Chinese, Russians and many more
Shows number of famous of people such as Tyra Banks
Monday, 20 July 2009
Monday, 13 July 2009
Brentford CLC
On two occasions so far we have visited Brentford CLC to use there facilities to aid our media work.
They have Apple Mac computers, which have excellent software for creating and editing videos.
The first week we went there we learnt the basics, how to play around with the different video effects and just got a general feel for it.
The next week, after having shot our ''Busted'' music video, we took what we had filmed to Brentford and put it together on the macs. We had not fully recorded everything, so therefore put together what we had recorded so far, and learnt how to use IMovie with the help of an assistant at Brentford. I learnt how to edit clips and shorten them, and get them in sync with the music so that our mouthes were moving in time with the singers voices.
The next time we went to Brentford, we went with the finished clips, and incorporated them into what we had done the previous time. I successfully managed to finish the video and had the privelidge of having it put up on YouTube.
Here is the link to our remake of Busteds ''What I Go To School For'' edited by myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMXgyeH5gs
They have Apple Mac computers, which have excellent software for creating and editing videos.
The first week we went there we learnt the basics, how to play around with the different video effects and just got a general feel for it.
The next week, after having shot our ''Busted'' music video, we took what we had filmed to Brentford and put it together on the macs. We had not fully recorded everything, so therefore put together what we had recorded so far, and learnt how to use IMovie with the help of an assistant at Brentford. I learnt how to edit clips and shorten them, and get them in sync with the music so that our mouthes were moving in time with the singers voices.
The next time we went to Brentford, we went with the finished clips, and incorporated them into what we had done the previous time. I successfully managed to finish the video and had the privelidge of having it put up on YouTube.
Here is the link to our remake of Busteds ''What I Go To School For'' edited by myself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RMXgyeH5gs
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Spike Jonze
American Director of music videos and commercials. Is an Academy award nominated director and producer.
He is also a co-producer of famous programme Jackass on MTV.
He has been involved with music vidoes with artists such as Fatboy Slim.
Michel Gondry
French film, commercial and music video director, and an academy award winning screenwriter.
He began creating videos for a french rock band in which he was also a drummer. The style of his videos attracted attention of a music artist called Bjork. He went on to produce 7 music videos for him. He also pioneered the ''bullet time'' technique later adapted in the Matrix.
He has been involved with films such as Human Nature, Eternal Sunshine, Be Kind Rewind and The Science of sleep. Hes also done over 50 music vidoes, many french, but has worked with big people such as The Rolling Stones, Wyclef Jean, Kylie Minogue, Daft Punk and The White Stripes.
Tuesday, 9 June 2009
9/6/2009
In todays media lesson are learning outcome was to understand the conventions of music videos and to gain knowledge of the history of music vidoes, and also try and analyse a variety of music videos.
5 Key Dates in the history of music videos are:
1962- British television introduces music programmes such as ''Top of the pops''
1981- MTV launched
1984- MTV presents its first music video awards
1995- Release of the most expensive music video over- Scream by Michael and Janet Jackson
2007- Musicbox is launched by Sony BMG, this is an online portal, being the first streaming effort
A music video we looked at was Subterranean Blues- Bob Dylan where the music video is all in one take, and had no narrative and the artist did not feature.
Another one we looked at was Dead end street- The Kinks which was clearly old, as it was in black and white, and had a lot of cut shots but otherwise standard camera angles such as medium shots. However at the end they used a special effect of wiping a character out as if he dissappeared.
A music video that clearly started to explore the creativity in music video is Space Oddissey by David Bowie in which there is use of special effects, change of costume constantly etc.
1)How has music video changed over time?
In todays media lesson are learning outcome was to understand the conventions of music videos and to gain knowledge of the history of music vidoes, and also try and analyse a variety of music videos.
5 Key Dates in the history of music videos are:
1962- British television introduces music programmes such as ''Top of the pops''
1981- MTV launched
1984- MTV presents its first music video awards
1995- Release of the most expensive music video over- Scream by Michael and Janet Jackson
2007- Musicbox is launched by Sony BMG, this is an online portal, being the first streaming effort
A music video we looked at was Subterranean Blues- Bob Dylan where the music video is all in one take, and had no narrative and the artist did not feature.
Another one we looked at was Dead end street- The Kinks which was clearly old, as it was in black and white, and had a lot of cut shots but otherwise standard camera angles such as medium shots. However at the end they used a special effect of wiping a character out as if he dissappeared.
A music video that clearly started to explore the creativity in music video is Space Oddissey by David Bowie in which there is use of special effects, change of costume constantly etc.
1)How has music video changed over time?
- More special effects
- Used as a marketing strategy
- More colour
- More money is being spent on them
- More movement
- A story/narrative occurs
2) What is the impact of new technology on music video?
- Internet
- High Definition
- Ipods
- Portable Media Devices
3) What are the conventions?
- Song
- Artist
- Lip-syncing
- Short-not longer then avergae 4 minutes
- Narrative reflects song
- Range of camera angles and shots
- Fast editing
Music Video Conventions
Most Music videos contain:
Music
Vocals
Artist
Cast of characters if a storyline follows the video
Camera Angles
Editing
Mise En Scene
One of the earliest music videos is 'House of the rising sun' by the Animals. This was made in 1964. This near enough set the conventions for a music video, listed above, as it is one of the first.
A music video that i have seen that does not completely follow the conventions is a song called ''Clint Eastwood'' by the Gorillaz for it is a cartoon, with the characters singing the song and the real artists are background singers but not seen in the video.
Music
Vocals
Artist
Cast of characters if a storyline follows the video
Camera Angles
Editing
Mise En Scene
One of the earliest music videos is 'House of the rising sun' by the Animals. This was made in 1964. This near enough set the conventions for a music video, listed above, as it is one of the first.
A music video that i have seen that does not completely follow the conventions is a song called ''Clint Eastwood'' by the Gorillaz for it is a cartoon, with the characters singing the song and the real artists are background singers but not seen in the video.
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