Star Studies- Slipknot

Comparing two songs and seeing how Slipknot have changed as a band since the first one...
The songs I have chosen represents Slipknot in a heavy way and lighter more universal way. Everyone chooses to see Slipknot in the first way. This individuality is why is why I like them so much.  

1.  Duality- 
   The first song I have chosen is duality. It is a heavy song which follows the style of slipknot well.
   The music video is a performance.    

   

   How they first started out

   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fVE8kSM43I&ob=av2n   
   
   
   2. Snuff-  
       My second song is snuff, it is a much lighter style of music which is unusual for Slipknot,   they received a lot of abuse and discrimination from their fans because they detoured from their favourite style. The video is in a narration style.  
    
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   They also changed their masks with the style change, this shows a marked change.  
   
   
   
   
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Genres of Music video

This is just a basic introduction to the Genres of music video we are studying in this course...

• Spectacle: This is a music video that relies on its editing, special effects and transitions to make it look good. An example of this is Bloc Party's 'I still Remember'  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziDdEAmsNBE

•  Sexual: This is obviously based upon the human body, Male of female (generally female).   An example of this would be Britney Spears' 'Toxic' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9kVZ1Zperc&ob=av2e

• Performance: The word performance refers to the band/ artist playing their instruments and/ or singing in the music video. An example of this is Incubus' 'Are you in?' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXMFEvwwfoM&ob=av2n  

• Narrative: A narrative Music Video is one where there is an story background in it. An example of this would be Lionel Richie's 'Hello' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ILDFp5DGA

• Hybrid: A hybrid is a mixture of different genres, for example a spectacle and a performance... U2's 'Vertigo' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98W9QuMq-2k&ob=av2e

Johnny Cash- Hurt

In our Media Lesson, we looked at the 'Nine Inch Nails' song Hurt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvJKVKglIRs&ob=av2e

We then looked at the cover by Johnny Cash...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

Then we wrote up an analysis of The cover...

Johnny Cash- Hurt

· Directed by Mark Romanek- Famous Music video director. Also directed audioslave, beck and David Bowie’s music videos.

· Nine-inch nails originally wrote the song in 1994, where Johnny Cash then covered the song ‘Hurt’ in 2002.

· The genre of this music video is a hybrid of -Spectacle, - A performance of him playing guitar, and Narrative of him telling a story of his past life.

· The effects in this video are limited but instead, clips of him in the past are displayed. His lyrics are about ‘going back and doing it all again’ meaning life. Switching back and forth to good and bad film quality achieve these effects. So when he is filmed singing the song the camera quality is good. There is either a close up or a mid shot of him with a bright yellow light coming through a window. When the old video of him in the past is played there is a range of shots, with natural light placed within the frame.

Not Today- Lyrics

We are doing a music video of the song "Not Today" by the band 'Derek's Neighbour'. Here are the lyrics:

Derek’s Neighbour- Not Today

V 1

What an earth is going on inside my mind

You can’t you don’t, you can you won’t rewind

Not everything has seemed so black and white to you

You push you pull you try to power through

Bridge

Traffic jam inside my head

Thinking of words, that I should have said

I get frustrated

I get so mad.

Chorus

Caus I can’t look back, what if I lose my way

I need you here, come what may

We can work it out, but on another day

I scream and I shout, please don’t run away

V 2

I know that I don’t always finish what I start

Could be down to why I protect my heart

It makes me laugh it also makes me want to cry

These times those times our times will pass me by

Chorus (outro)

Caus I don’t look back

I have you here

We have worked it out

I don’t scream, I don’t shout

Pitch- Derek's Neighbour: Not Today

In this Part of the blog, We are to make a presentation of The band we have chosen, and with our ideas of our upcoming music video, make a pitch for it. Here it is...

DEREK’S NEIGHBOUR Pitch

By Bates ‘n Veira

Genre of Music Video

We are aiming to create a performance/narrative music video with the song ‘Not Today’ by Derek’s Neighbour. To do this we are planning to use a boy meets girl story line. The lyrics in the song will help us to create the emotion of the story. The song is from a boy’s point-of-view and connotes a feeling of being unable to commit to a serious relationship and therefore puts things off.

Audience

Our target audience is a slightly older than teenager who may have experienced a serious relationship with someone they really like. This is so they can relate to the lyrics in the song. As the music is quite universal I feel that our target audience could be anyone. Because it would not contain content which is inappropriate for young children or OAP’s.

Props, Actors and Locations

We have chosen to shoot our video in multiple locations. The main bulk of the video will be shot on top of a building with epic landscapes, it will also be shot in an urban location possibly a flat. In terms of props we are going to use instruments for the band.

Actors include the band (Matt, Dan and Nick) and the couple in the Narrative.

Stay tuned for more information from Bates n' Veira's Music Video.

A2 Music Video Coursework

Ah yes, A new start, a new blog. It just so happens that we are now studying Music Videos...

And When I say "we" I mean Thomas Bates and Myself.

We will be updating our blog as regularly as possible, giving you information about the course we are doing and what we are doing in the lessons.

All we can say is that we hope you enjoy the read,

Peace out y'all.

Bates 'n Veira x

Evaluating the preliminary Task

What we were asked to do and how we prepared for it?

We were asked to create a short movie using the techniques that we talked about, such as the 180 degree rule,match on action shot and shot reverse shot. We prepared for this, planning where we would film, what the situation would be and what techniques we would use.

Filming...

• My role of the movie was a student asking another student if they had a hole puncher that I could borrow. With my entrance we used a match on action of me reaching for the handle, pushing it down and then going into the room.
• We used the match on action shot as we wanted to show the entrance of walking into the room itself so that the viewers could see where my character was going. We also used the shot reverse shot for the conversation me and Tom had. We used this as it was easier to see that me and Tom are having this confrontational conversation.
  
• The frames we used for pushing the handle down was a very close up. Then of me walking across the room was a long shot. Then for Tom sitting at the desk, we used a medium close up. Then when we were having our conversation we used medium close ups.
• We made sure that the positioning of the actors on the screen was not too close and but not too far away.

Editing...

• In Conclusion, I feel that the final result was a successful one as we managed to match the needs of what we planned to film. I also felt that our techniques we used worked well and that they were clear as to which technique was which.
• What our group could have done to improve the sequence was to make sure the camera wasn't too close to the match on action shot on the door handle as it was slightly unclear what had happened. I think that we could have also given it more time. The match on action was a bit too quick for the viewers to watch. I think that the shot reverse shot technique was good as it showed different levels of Tom sitting down and me standing up. However the dialogue could have been slightly more appropriate for the angles we were filming in.
• I think that, as a group, we worked very well together. I feel that we made joint decisions and came up with good ideas to help the continuity of the sequence.

I personally feel very confident using both the camera and Imovie. I feel the camera is easy to use as all you had to do was point and film, using the tripod or holding it hand held. Imovie was hard to use in the beginning but as the course went on, I started to become fluent and worked out how to import clips and to mix clips with editing effetc and transitions.