From Bing to the Beatles:
1940's: Bing Crosbry was a famous 20th century world star, famous for his bass-baritone voice. His singing style was so good it later influenced many other popular singers, but the only ways his fans could see him was in films. For an example White Christmas.
Although in the 1950's Bing Crosby was replaced by Frank Sinatra who was a young talent which the girls loved compared to other famous singer who were mostly older. Frank began he career in the swing era, this is where he found his success. Frank Sinatra is still one of the best selling artists of all time, as he has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.
However, Elvis was the birth of Rock and Roll. He was one of the first to popularise rock and uptempo songs, which he mixed with country and rhythm&blues. He later became a leader of rock and roll in the 1956 with a number one hit. His way of dancing which was energised and sexually provocative made him controversial and popular.
An example of his music is in the film Blue Hawaii.
1960's the Beatles were the first to make pre-music videos that were popular. In 1966 they were sick of touring due to their fans screaming so loud and the music not being heard. Which lead to 'Top of the pops' being aired on BBC1 so that British fans could see their music.
Rather than appearing live the also made short films to promote their double record 'paperback writer' and 'rain' . This was the first pop video ever, and also the lyrics also echoed their lyrics.
Friday 26 September 2014
Monday 15 September 2014
Foo fighters - The Pretender
We as a class had to watch around 40 seconds of the Foo fighters - The pretender music video. Every time a shot would change, no matter how quick it was, we would draw it and write down how long the shot lasted. We then took pictures of each individual shots we drew and uploaded it into Adobe Premiere to make our animatic. A video of the actual song and the music video was put into the bottom right side of the animatic, so we could use the seconds to sync the music with the drawing timings.
We learnt how to use Adobe Premiere as well as how to precisely sync music to a video without the sound messing up. As some of the shots were about 1.5 seconds, which could have made it harder to sync the aniamtic with the music.
Editing a music video is harder then editing a thriller. As with a thriller the video and sound is already attached together so its quicker and easier to edit. While with a music video the video and the sound is recorded separately. This means that the sound and video would have to be synced later while editing which is harder than editing a thriller.
Friday 12 September 2014
Types of music
Artist can be split into two different categories.
Organic - Used to describe to describe bands where the music comes first. Then they may be signed by a record label.
Synthetic - X factor methodology and it is the record label that drives them to fame.
The Beatles are an example of an organic music. They were an English band which they formed themselves in Liverpool clubs in the 1960's. Their first hit in the Love Me Do made it in the top charts and made them popular in the UK. Then they later made it in the US charts as the 'British invasion'. They broke up in 1970, although they all had good music careers. The Beatles were the best selling artists in the US with 177 million units. They topped the Billboard and hold the record for the number of number one hits, as well as 10 Grammy awards.
The Monkees are an example of synthetic music. They are a American band that released music in the 60's and 70's. They were made by Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider for a TV series The Monkees. Which was a TV show about the lives of a band, although it wasn't really successful so then they turned into an actual band and their music began to sell.
Organic - Used to describe to describe bands where the music comes first. Then they may be signed by a record label.
Synthetic - X factor methodology and it is the record label that drives them to fame.
The Beatles are an example of an organic music. They were an English band which they formed themselves in Liverpool clubs in the 1960's. Their first hit in the Love Me Do made it in the top charts and made them popular in the UK. Then they later made it in the US charts as the 'British invasion'. They broke up in 1970, although they all had good music careers. The Beatles were the best selling artists in the US with 177 million units. They topped the Billboard and hold the record for the number of number one hits, as well as 10 Grammy awards.
The Monkees are an example of synthetic music. They are a American band that released music in the 60's and 70's. They were made by Robert Rafelson and Bert Schneider for a TV series The Monkees. Which was a TV show about the lives of a band, although it wasn't really successful so then they turned into an actual band and their music began to sell.
Friday 5 September 2014
Shot list
Shot List
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Scene
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Shot Number
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Description
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Scene 1 (shots 1-4)
Scene 2 (shots 4 - 8) Scene 3 (shots 9 - |
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1. Medium Shot, Michael at
home calling girlfriend breaking up with her. 2. Long Shot, Royce singing in a band room 3. Long/Medium shot Michael walking out of his house and towards the train station 4. Medium shot Switch back to Royce in the music room with instrument and microphone 5. Low Angle Shot of Michael coming out of the station looking around the surroundings 6. Series of close up, medium and long shots of Royce in the music rooms. 7. Long Shot and eye line match of Michael finding the person he was looking for in central London. 8. Medium shot of Michael in discussion with female he meets, apologetic and affectionate. 9. |
Record lables
Major record lables:
- Universal
- Sony music
- Warner brothers
- EMI
For example:
- Columbia records are an American record label which was founded in 1888, and is under the ownership of Sony Music Entertainment. Many artists are signed to Columbia records from Adele, Beyonce, Celine dion and J.Cole.
- Syco records was founded in 2002 under the trading name Simco Ltd. Syco records can sign on the winners and finalists of the X Factor and Britain got Talent before any other records. For example One Direction, Olly Murs, Leona Lewis and James Arthur.
- Island records
Some of there artists are Enrique Iglesias, Jessie J and Disclosure.RCA records is an American record label with Sony music entertainment. It is the second oldest record company in US history. It has artists such as Miguel, Alicia Keys, Whitney Houston and Chris Brown.
- Large numbers of small companies have little or no finical connection to the majors. They specialise in the niches in the industry.
- Domino Records are highly successful and are independent as they have no major record label behind them.
Thursday 4 September 2014
Looking for an artist
For a music video to be any good it would have to cover a couple issues.
1)Where to find artists
2)Copyright issues
3)The ideal track
4)Genres to avoid
It would be hard to find artists, although there are websites like unsigned.com and Soundcloud which could help me find various artists. We would have to ask for the artists permission tot use their song, but it would be easy if they aren't signed.
To avoid Copyright issues, i will avoid using well known artist like Adele, Beyonce and Sam Smith. This is due to them being less likely to say yes or even respond to our emails and messages. New bands and solo artists would be easier for our Media music video project.
Country
Rap normally has explicit language and sexual content
Rap- often contains bad language and sexual references and is hard to lip sync to as the tempo is often very fast. This also makes it hard to learn the lyrics.Country/western- due to the conventional setting of the rural landscape and props/costumes typical to that of a 'cowboy' it is difficult to create a music video this genre effectively. I live in a town with little access to a rural area and being on a small budget it would be hard to get the correct costumes. Dubstep/trance- this genre of music often has little vocals that are highly synthesized/edited. This would mean that my music video would have little performance and the lip syncing would not look as effective as it would for an indie/rock song where the vocals are not edited as drastically.
1)Where to find artists
2)Copyright issues
3)The ideal track
4)Genres to avoid
It would be hard to find artists, although there are websites like unsigned.com and Soundcloud which could help me find various artists. We would have to ask for the artists permission tot use their song, but it would be easy if they aren't signed.
To avoid Copyright issues, i will avoid using well known artist like Adele, Beyonce and Sam Smith. This is due to them being less likely to say yes or even respond to our emails and messages. New bands and solo artists would be easier for our Media music video project.
The music video is not meant to be any longer than 5 minutes but no shorter than 3 minutes. The music track has to be upbeat with a changing tempo. This is to make the music video different more interesting to listen to. This will make it easier for the music video visually in music video. It must have enough vocals to show lip syncing and performance.
Country
Rap normally has explicit language and sexual content
Rap- often contains bad language and sexual references and is hard to lip sync to as the tempo is often very fast. This also makes it hard to learn the lyrics.Country/western- due to the conventional setting of the rural landscape and props/costumes typical to that of a 'cowboy' it is difficult to create a music video this genre effectively. I live in a town with little access to a rural area and being on a small budget it would be hard to get the correct costumes. Dubstep/trance- this genre of music often has little vocals that are highly synthesized/edited. This would mean that my music video would have little performance and the lip syncing would not look as effective as it would for an indie/rock song where the vocals are not edited as drastically.
Tuesday 2 September 2014
Music video styles
- Dancing
- inter cutting
- change of location
- lip syncing
- story
- costumes
- hair and make up
- props
- microphones
- instruments
- extreme close up
- editing matching tempo
- variety of shot distance
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