Music Video Research - Artist's

Music Video Research - Artist's

Kings of Leon

Pyro
- Located at an American bar.
- Pyro is short for Pyromaniac which is defined as an obsession with setting things on fire.
- The lyrics link well to the music video.
- The dress cose is very redneck/country type.

Supersoaker
- Old fashioned in terms of colour, lighting, costume, makeup, location (1950's).
- Performance based like a lot of their other videos.

Back Down South
- Members of the band are brothers and cousins.
- The dress code is very red neck/ country type, jeans, leatherjackets and boots etc.

Similarities
- All three videos feature the band together playing instruments and singing.
- All feature women barely dressed.

Differences
- The concepts of the video lining to the lyrics.

Gotye
- Born on May 21st,1980 in Bruges, Belgium.
- Making Mirros is the name of his first album.
- In 2010 he set up a recording studio in his parents barn.

Somebody That I Used To Know
- Mixture of narrative and perfomance based.
- The video itself is not telling us the story but the lyrics are.

Easy Way Out
- A panning shot is used throughout the video. This shows what the man does in his everyday life.
- Animation is used.

Eyes Wide Open
- Animation is used throughout the whole video.
- Gotye's face appears in the video.
- The lyrics do not really match with the video.

Owl City
- American electronica project created in 2007.

Fireflies
- The artist is in his room filled with toys.
- He is singing the lyrics to the song and playing the piano whilst the toys start dancing.

When Can I See You Again
- Written for the film 'Wreck It Ralph'.

Alligator

The Script
- An Irish Rock band from Dublin.
- Nearly all of their music videos are performance based.
- Their videos usually contain dull colours.
- The lead singer 'Danny' is usually in the video himself.
- Some of their videos are completely in black and white.
- Many of their videos were created by Digifish.
- Some of their videos were directed by Mark Sheehan.

Adele 

Chasing Pavements
- Was released in 2008 as the second single from her first studio album '19'.
- The video features two views.
- Narrative based as it tells a story about a couple who were in love and happy but the woman has another lover.

Rolling In The Deep
- Was released in November, 2010 as the first single from her second studio album '21'.
- Directed by Sam Brown.
- Adele is in the video, like a lot of her other videos.
- Pyrotechnics are usedin the video at the climax of the song.
- The use of sudden light at the end portrays that the artist has hope.

Someone Like You
- Was released in January, 2011 as the second single from her second album '21'.
- There is a shot of a path and the length of it could represent how long it will take to get over the breakup.
- She looks as is she is dressed for a funeral which could portray the death of her relationship.

Bruno Mars
- Performed in his family band at the age of four.
- His passion for retro/old fashioned videos comes from his childhood of inpersonatingbElvis Presley.

The Lazy Song
- One of his first videos and is probably his most popular/well known videos.
- Directed by Bruno Mars himself and Cameron Duddy.
- Bruno is in the video himsef, like a lot of his other videos.

Locked Out Of Heaven
- Directed by Bruno Mars himself and Cameron Duddy.
- A lot more serious than 'The Lazy Song' video.

Treasure
- Directed by Bruno Mars himself and Cameron Duddy.
- The video is retro themed (costume and effects).
- The video itself is distorted and unclear like 'Locked Out Of Heaven'.
- They have choreography and move in sync. 'They' are known as the 'Hooligans'. He has them with him in a lot of his videos.

BMTH
- Changed their style from Deathcore to Electronic Metal.
- The lead singer 'Oli Sykes' has his own clothing line called 'Drop Dead'.

Shadow Moses
- Jerky camera movements are used and go along with the beat of the music.
- Cold, snowy, icey setting.
- Storyline of the girl walking around the different place, going nowhere like the lyrics say.
- A mixture of narrative and performance based.
- They're performing in the middle of nowhere.
- Oli Sykes  moves to the beat of the music.

Sleepwalking
- The band are in the video themselves, like a lot of their other videos.
- Camera mainly focuses on Oli Sykes.
- The band perform in a pub which is an unfitting scene.
- A mixture of narrative and perfomance based.
- Oli Sykes screams 'Wake Up' at the girl.
- The girl is sleeping, she wakes up at the end.

Blessed With A Curse
- Jerky camera movements are used, like in a lot of their other videos.
- The band members are in the video themselves and the camera mainly focuses on Oli Sykes.
- The band are performing in a plain setting surrounded by unusual things.
- Elizabethean style could represent curses and how bach then people believed in curses.
- Weirdness?.
- Same girl dressed in black is the same girl in the Elizabethean scene.
- The girl is 'stuck'.

Editors
- British alternative rock band based in Birmingham, formed in 2002.
- A lot of their videos are perfomance and narrative based.
- A lot of their videos are in black and white.
 Papillon
- Meaning 'Butterfly' in French.
- Directed by Andrew Douglas.

A Ton Of Love
- The song is a statement to describe the passion that people around the world share in their own beliefs and that we have a desire to be affected by what others  do and what they believe.

Munich
- The band appear in the video themselves, like a lot of their other videos.
- This video  sshows a man and a woman being put through their paces in several types of exercise and show how they react to it and who is the more stronger willed and who is fragile.
- Reference to WW2.

Railing

Railing

Each letter standing for the Key Concepts that we use in Media to analyse any media text.

Music Video Research

Music Video Research

Jake Bugg - Broken
- Starts outside club/bar, walks in as two performers are finishing off their song.
- Walks up on stage but is hardly noticed, recieves a small round of applause. Arguing can be heard in the background.
- He walks off stage to zero applouse.
- The people in the club/bar seem to reflect the representation of the song and lyrics.
- The sound from the club/bar can be heard whilst he is performing, makes it seem as if the song is being played live.

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (2012 Version)
- Perfomance based like a lot of AC/DC's videos.
- The video does not match with the lyrics of the song.
- The song is fast paced and this is shown in the music video. - The band members in the video are wearing their typical clothing that they would wear for most of their concerts.
- Fans are seen wearing red, flashing devil hornes.
- Similar shots and camera angles are used.
- Repetition of the colour red, the 'AC/DC' logo, the devil horns and the shots on the lead singer.

Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop
- Goes from Hannah Montana to MIley Cyrus - new identity.
- Representation of a typical US party.
- Aimed at younger people in an attempt to make the video 'viral'.
- "Doing whatver we want".
- Reference to drug usage - 'Molly'.
- Directed by Diane Martel.
- "We run things they don't run me!."
- Actors in the video make up the people at the party that is spoken about in the song.
- Video show Miley Cyrus in several types of clothing (or lack of clothing).
- A lot of symbolism in the video.
- Miley Cyrus is in the video.

1975 - The City
- The whole video is in black and white = Monochrome.
- Directed by Tim Mattia.
- Mixture of narrative and performance.
- 'The song is about finding your place in whatever city you're from'.
- The lyrics go with the video.
- No background, it is just black and white.
- At the end of the video there is a shot of each of the bandmembers.
- The 1975 create awareness of the real issues in society for example sexuality.
- Tim Mattia is known for his use of symbolism in his videos.
- Most of the 1975's videos are monochrome.

Kings of Leon - Use Somebody
- Alot of shots are focused on the main singer.
- Some parts are in colour and other parts are in black and white.
- The shot at the beginning is an aerial shot of an illuminated city. This shot refelcts their life style - busy and always on the go.
- Each band member is shown in the video.

Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice

Media Presentations

Media Presentations

 

Presentation for: Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did in The Dark (Light Em Up)

 

  

Presentation for: Disclosure You & Me ft. Eliza Doolittle
Target for this presentation: Look at the artists in more detail. Go into further detail about the artists and write more about  representation.

 

Presentation for: Demi Lovato

Target for this presentation: Use more Media terminology.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A2 Media Coursework

A2 Media Coursework

This blog is for my A2 Media Coursework. All of my Media Coursework will be on this blog including my work, notes and homework. This year I will be working in a group. I will be working with Annabel Hawkins, Louise Champion and Shazida Begum.

This year we are completing:
 
- A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:

- A website homepage for the band.
- A digipak (CD Cover) for the album’s release.
- A magazine advertisement for the digipak.