hey guys, Now that the film dates are beginning to materilise and we are coming to a finish on the website, album cover and storyboard, we have to put up some safety analysis, becuase we are going to smashing up overhead projectors, controllably of course..
SETTING
We have a backyard space at one of my family members, where ther is plenty of space, with no houses, or dangerous surrondings nearby.
METHOD
We will be using a mallet which has a rubber/wooden head, just to 100% guarauntee there will be no electrical related danger.
The head of the mallet will come down through the plastic top so that all shards fall into the projector itself
PRECAUTIONS
We will be wearing safety goggles to guarantee that no damage will come to our eyes.
We will film from approximately 10 metres away a we are working on getting a thin sheet of perspex to protect the camera.
After using the overhead projectors we will clean up and all debris will be taken to the local dump.
If any injury is sustained, every participant has parents informatioj to get hold of and transport to a hospital will be availible if necessecary.
All parents/guardians are happy with us doing this and permission will be in written form.
EDIT
If there's anything we've missed, just let us know miss b :)
JOSH OUT
ohyeahtextualanalysisoutsoon
Friday, 27 November 2009
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Not quite the end of Radiohead video
I have just now as I was packing up my note into my folder come across some other notes on Goodwin's six, Postmodernism and themes throughout the video. Some of these I have already mentioned in the other 2 parts.
Goodwin's Six
Intertextual reference of religion
Concept based with bit of performance (some vocal parts)
conventional of the artist (Radiohead)
Star status - Thom Yorke
Postmodernism
Challenging reality
Non diagetic & diagetic sounds
Religious theme
Style over substance/standard
Unmatched vocal syncing
Imagery
Layering/super imposition
Brickolage
No purpose - sake of the visuals
Experimental
Dream-like
Themes
Abstract
Animals
Black and white
Slow motion
Space and time
That now finally (hopefully) should be it.
Goodwin's Six
Intertextual reference of religion
Concept based with bit of performance (some vocal parts)
conventional of the artist (Radiohead)
Star status - Thom Yorke
Postmodernism
Challenging reality
Non diagetic & diagetic sounds
Religious theme
Style over substance/standard
Unmatched vocal syncing
Imagery
Layering/super imposition
Brickolage
No purpose - sake of the visuals
Experimental
Dream-like
Themes
Abstract
Animals
Black and white
Slow motion
Space and time
That now finally (hopefully) should be it.
Radiohead part 2
Sorry I didnt finish Radiohead yesterday- we got a film through from lovefilm so we watched that instead. Anyway heres:
Lighting
There is heavy use of non natural lighting throughout the video. My impression is it was filmed at night time (because of the black sky) but thinking about it the audience cant really tell because its in black and white. However the lighting is too strong just to be natural even if it was filmed in the daytime so some unnatural lighting is used. This is definitely apparent on the close up of Thom's face during the blurry face close up scenes, their is heavy use of the light and shadow effect. On some occasions the light is moving from 1 side of his face to another.
Editing
Throughout the whole video the editing generally follows the rhythm, the cuts happen on a beat. Because some of it is in slow motion in some parts of the video the speed of editing is slow. However there are other parts where the speed is high. The whole video follows the reverse/ manipulation/ confusion of time and space styles of editing. It is all over the place. There is no continuity and is not in order apart from the first falling part and then the end rising up part. These two bits are the start and the end and actually appear at the start and end. There is use of normal speed, a variety of slow motion amounts(sometimes really slow, other times only slightly) and sped up bits all mixed up. Sometimes in the video some bits are slow down but other bits are normal speed, for example when Thoms running(hes in slow-mo) but the boy is at normal speed or when the backgrounds in slow-mo but the foreground is not. The only way this could have been done is with the use of greenscreen/bluescreen. There is also the layering of Thoms face over another shot of his face already mentioned. Finally one very interesting edit is the slowing down of Thom singing so the vocals in the music dont match with the vocals shown being sung. This is very unique and I have never seen this done before.
And finally Camerawork
Firstly the film stock used/quality of the film used doesnt seem to be the average used. It is slightly lesser quality which gives the video a slight grainyness, only slightly but is noticeable. THis will have been done for effect, it makes it look older. Also even though we get lots of close ups of Thom's face he rarely looks at the camera- getting away from the direct address to the audience/ performance conventions, a play on his star status maybe. There a mix of various shot distances(close ups, mid shots, long shots etc) and a mix of angles and views, for example from up above looking down at Thom. There is also hardly any camera movement (eg pans, zooms). There are a couple of tiny tiny bits, ie a bit on the close up of the dog and a bit on 1 of the nun close ups. These two are hardly noticeable, so much so originally i thought there wasnt any but then thought surely there must be and I went through slowly and very closely. The only noticeable bit of camera movement is right at the end where Thom rises up, however i have my suscions that it is not the camera moving but because of greenscreen it is just the background moving upwards which come to think about would have still had to be filmed but its definitely not Thom moving.
And thats the end of my analysic of Radiohead's street spirit (fade out).
Lighting
There is heavy use of non natural lighting throughout the video. My impression is it was filmed at night time (because of the black sky) but thinking about it the audience cant really tell because its in black and white. However the lighting is too strong just to be natural even if it was filmed in the daytime so some unnatural lighting is used. This is definitely apparent on the close up of Thom's face during the blurry face close up scenes, their is heavy use of the light and shadow effect. On some occasions the light is moving from 1 side of his face to another.
Editing
Throughout the whole video the editing generally follows the rhythm, the cuts happen on a beat. Because some of it is in slow motion in some parts of the video the speed of editing is slow. However there are other parts where the speed is high. The whole video follows the reverse/ manipulation/ confusion of time and space styles of editing. It is all over the place. There is no continuity and is not in order apart from the first falling part and then the end rising up part. These two bits are the start and the end and actually appear at the start and end. There is use of normal speed, a variety of slow motion amounts(sometimes really slow, other times only slightly) and sped up bits all mixed up. Sometimes in the video some bits are slow down but other bits are normal speed, for example when Thoms running(hes in slow-mo) but the boy is at normal speed or when the backgrounds in slow-mo but the foreground is not. The only way this could have been done is with the use of greenscreen/bluescreen. There is also the layering of Thoms face over another shot of his face already mentioned. Finally one very interesting edit is the slowing down of Thom singing so the vocals in the music dont match with the vocals shown being sung. This is very unique and I have never seen this done before.
And finally Camerawork
Firstly the film stock used/quality of the film used doesnt seem to be the average used. It is slightly lesser quality which gives the video a slight grainyness, only slightly but is noticeable. THis will have been done for effect, it makes it look older. Also even though we get lots of close ups of Thom's face he rarely looks at the camera- getting away from the direct address to the audience/ performance conventions, a play on his star status maybe. There a mix of various shot distances(close ups, mid shots, long shots etc) and a mix of angles and views, for example from up above looking down at Thom. There is also hardly any camera movement (eg pans, zooms). There are a couple of tiny tiny bits, ie a bit on the close up of the dog and a bit on 1 of the nun close ups. These two are hardly noticeable, so much so originally i thought there wasnt any but then thought surely there must be and I went through slowly and very closely. The only noticeable bit of camera movement is right at the end where Thom rises up, however i have my suscions that it is not the camera moving but because of greenscreen it is just the background moving upwards which come to think about would have still had to be filmed but its definitely not Thom moving.
And thats the end of my analysic of Radiohead's street spirit (fade out).
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Radiohead- Street Spirit (fade out)
Hi, here is my first textual analysis (the 1 ive been promising for ages but havnt yet put up). I wrote this up in the pc room during todays lesson aswell as the kings of leon webpage analysis, but Radiohead first.
Mise-en-scene
The first thing you see when watching this video is Thom Yorke(the lead singer). This straight away draws attention onto him and shows the audience who is the main person from the band. This is known as 'star status'. Thom is positioned in a cross bearing manner and then on the cut of the music coming in he starts to fall. This is an intertextual reference to religion and is a running theme throughout the video. He stays in the same position even after he has fallen when he is on the lying on the roof of the car. This star status of Thom is hevily present throughout- the number of facial blury close ups of Thom during the video is surely over 100 and is easily the most used shot. Also there are a lot of shots of the whole band (Thom positioned front like expected) together like you would expect when they play live yet they have no instruments or gear (eg amps, microphones). This is pretty unique, a lot of videos have some aspect of performance. The location (a trailer park) is also an interesting choice- theres no link between it and the music/lyrics- it seems random. Another shot which appears regularly is nuns jumping. This runs with the religion theme and they seem 'angel-like'. The first time they appear is the same time as the violin comes in, another example of a action at the point of the music changing like when Thom starts falling. The reference to a dreamland is apparent- mainly through all the random things which occur in the video and also down to the fact that much of it is in slow motion. For example the 1 random shot of a tree with the night sky in the background which focuses on the exact moment a triangle instrument is struck. There are also 2 other examples of a shot representing a change in the music- the first 1 is the dogs chain moving on as the bass comes in and the final 1 is the smashing of the glass near the end which occure when the notes played on the guitar change slightly- the glass shows the climax of the song. Right at the end, just the same as the beginning Thom is shown in a cross bearing position but instead of starting to fall like at the start- he starts to rise up- signalling the end of the song and that it has gone full loop.
Sound
At the start their is no musical sound just diagetic sound. This is a wind howling/thunder noise but it blends out as the music come in. The use of the howling wind immediately suggests that he is high up. All the instruments come in as something is shown happening, I have already mentioned this above but another example is the running or jumping shown finishes at the same time as the vocals finish. There isnt much link between the lyrics and the visuals - the only 2 being after he says the line 'before we all go under' the next shot is of him swinging a stick under another him who is in slow motion. The stick is going under him. The other use is when he sings 'i fade out' and a close up of his face is shown but is layered over by another close up shot of his face. Technically the shot doesn't fade out- it is layered over the top of the original.
Right this takes longer than i thought- even just to elaborate on and copy up from my draft I did at school today. Ill put up editing, lighting and camerawork later. Ive also got some stills fro this music video to post up so you can see some of the aspects I have been talking about. Oh also I almost forgot- this is why you couldnt find me Mrs Bannon during todays lesson- i was putting my analysis's into order/note form and then looking for stills.
Mise-en-scene
The first thing you see when watching this video is Thom Yorke(the lead singer). This straight away draws attention onto him and shows the audience who is the main person from the band. This is known as 'star status'. Thom is positioned in a cross bearing manner and then on the cut of the music coming in he starts to fall. This is an intertextual reference to religion and is a running theme throughout the video. He stays in the same position even after he has fallen when he is on the lying on the roof of the car. This star status of Thom is hevily present throughout- the number of facial blury close ups of Thom during the video is surely over 100 and is easily the most used shot. Also there are a lot of shots of the whole band (Thom positioned front like expected) together like you would expect when they play live yet they have no instruments or gear (eg amps, microphones). This is pretty unique, a lot of videos have some aspect of performance. The location (a trailer park) is also an interesting choice- theres no link between it and the music/lyrics- it seems random. Another shot which appears regularly is nuns jumping. This runs with the religion theme and they seem 'angel-like'. The first time they appear is the same time as the violin comes in, another example of a action at the point of the music changing like when Thom starts falling. The reference to a dreamland is apparent- mainly through all the random things which occur in the video and also down to the fact that much of it is in slow motion. For example the 1 random shot of a tree with the night sky in the background which focuses on the exact moment a triangle instrument is struck. There are also 2 other examples of a shot representing a change in the music- the first 1 is the dogs chain moving on as the bass comes in and the final 1 is the smashing of the glass near the end which occure when the notes played on the guitar change slightly- the glass shows the climax of the song. Right at the end, just the same as the beginning Thom is shown in a cross bearing position but instead of starting to fall like at the start- he starts to rise up- signalling the end of the song and that it has gone full loop.
Sound
At the start their is no musical sound just diagetic sound. This is a wind howling/thunder noise but it blends out as the music come in. The use of the howling wind immediately suggests that he is high up. All the instruments come in as something is shown happening, I have already mentioned this above but another example is the running or jumping shown finishes at the same time as the vocals finish. There isnt much link between the lyrics and the visuals - the only 2 being after he says the line 'before we all go under' the next shot is of him swinging a stick under another him who is in slow motion. The stick is going under him. The other use is when he sings 'i fade out' and a close up of his face is shown but is layered over by another close up shot of his face. Technically the shot doesn't fade out- it is layered over the top of the original.
Right this takes longer than i thought- even just to elaborate on and copy up from my draft I did at school today. Ill put up editing, lighting and camerawork later. Ive also got some stills fro this music video to post up so you can see some of the aspects I have been talking about. Oh also I almost forgot- this is why you couldnt find me Mrs Bannon during todays lesson- i was putting my analysis's into order/note form and then looking for stills.
prop list
seeing as im not at school today i thought id tackle 1 of my 3 textual analysis.
im going to do my textual analysis of a music video by a band called Blink-182 called 'Adams Song'.
mise-en-scene
The video starts off with a wide shot of the band walking towards the camera with the city in the background and cars driving past. this shot establishes to the audience who the focal pooint of the video is and also gives the band some recognition. the way that they are walking, slouching, and the clothes/hairrstyles , hands in pockets, cap turned backwards, all these indicates to the audience what the target audience, and allows he audience to relate to them as the average teens that share the teen angst that all teens do
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after this 8 seconds of footage, a photo is taken of them and zooms out to reveal the photo stuck to a wall of a room which the band are playing in.
however its not until the band start playing that we here lyrics, this would be linking the visuals with the music. the room that the band are playing in has an industrial feel to it. i think its an empty mulit story car park which has quite a dingy depressing feel to it, links to the depressingness of the song. theres also lots of pictures on the wall which are very roughly placed and accompanied with the wires averywhere,the whole set is given a very raw atmosphere.
im going to do my textual analysis of a music video by a band called Blink-182 called 'Adams Song'.
mise-en-scene
The video starts off with a wide shot of the band walking towards the camera with the city in the background and cars driving past. this shot establishes to the audience who the focal pooint of the video is and also gives the band some recognition. the way that they are walking, slouching, and the clothes/hairrstyles , hands in pockets, cap turned backwards, all these indicates to the audience what the target audience, and allows he audience to relate to them as the average teens that share the teen angst that all teens do
.after this 8 seconds of footage, a photo is taken of them and zooms out to reveal the photo stuck to a wall of a room which the band are playing in.
however its not until the band start playing that we here lyrics, this would be linking the visuals with the music. the room that the band are playing in has an industrial feel to it. i think its an empty mulit story car park which has quite a dingy depressing feel to it, links to the depressingness of the song. theres also lots of pictures on the wall which are very roughly placed and accompanied with the wires averywhere,the whole set is given a very raw atmosphere.
the video then proceeds to show various different shots of the band playing in this set and a couple of verses of the song, the camera zooms into a different photo in the background and this changes the scene as the photo comes alive so to speak and we are now taken into a crowded hallway that appears to be a house party, which is typical of 90's americans teens. after going through the hallway we are pulled back and meet with the band holding their intruments. were then pulled out of the same picture and back into the carpark where the second chorus is played. this song is relativley depressing and this feeling is enforced by use of dull depressing colours aswell as unimpressed emotions on the bands faces. at one point in the song theres another party scene, these are promanent in the video, there is a close up of the drummer Travis, and his 'look' really sums up their audience by the things that he wears: 
SOUND
the sound in any music video is the most important aspect as a video is initially just promoting the song. 'Adams Song' starts with a dull repetative riff that eventually kicks in with a drum beat as the photo is taken in the begining. the drum beat gets more upbeat as the camera zooms out to reveal the band. and as soon as the whole band is in sight, the lead singer starts singing. this song is all about teenage angst and the lyrics which supprt that idea would be "im too depressed to go on, youll be sorry when im gone." for example. throughout the song the lyrics "i never thought id die alone" are repeated which has been done for impact. another reason i beleive this song to be abouut teen angst is theres one lyric that says "give all my things to all my freinds, youll never step foot in my room again" this sounds like an instruction to a parent and it sounds as though this guy still lives with his parents, indicating that hes still a teen. he also mentions his mum quite alot in the song, another indication of teenagers.
im gunna do the camera work n editing at another occasion because Rob coker is here and i cba to to it all. xoxoxo
SOUND
the sound in any music video is the most important aspect as a video is initially just promoting the song. 'Adams Song' starts with a dull repetative riff that eventually kicks in with a drum beat as the photo is taken in the begining. the drum beat gets more upbeat as the camera zooms out to reveal the band. and as soon as the whole band is in sight, the lead singer starts singing. this song is all about teenage angst and the lyrics which supprt that idea would be "im too depressed to go on, youll be sorry when im gone." for example. throughout the song the lyrics "i never thought id die alone" are repeated which has been done for impact. another reason i beleive this song to be abouut teen angst is theres one lyric that says "give all my things to all my freinds, youll never step foot in my room again" this sounds like an instruction to a parent and it sounds as though this guy still lives with his parents, indicating that hes still a teen. he also mentions his mum quite alot in the song, another indication of teenagers.
im gunna do the camera work n editing at another occasion because Rob coker is here and i cba to to it all. xoxoxo
Sunday, 22 November 2009
An update from me
Hi, firstly i cant believe its been a month since i last blogged- the time has flown...... oops. Anyway the website has come on leaps and bounds. There has been so many problems and fustrations throughout the process but i really think its going well, and the pace of my working has increased enormously overe the last few lessons. I finally understand (most of it at least) photoshop and its array of impressive features. I have decided to ditch using iweb because of its lack of functions and am now wholely producing the webpage using photoshop.
I know I still need to put up loads of analysis to proove that i actually did carry some out for both the music video element & the webpage element. Over this evening I have added to this. Its all now in note form- it just needs to be written up and put on the blog- oh joy! Ive got a free period tomorrow morning so i will do some of it then. Below is a list of things I have analysed so far in the massive detail required:
I know I still need to put up loads of analysis to proove that i actually did carry some out for both the music video element & the webpage element. Over this evening I have added to this. Its all now in note form- it just needs to be written up and put on the blog- oh joy! Ive got a free period tomorrow morning so i will do some of it then. Below is a list of things I have analysed so far in the massive detail required:
- Radiohead - Street Spirit (fade out) music video
- Kings Of Leon website homepage
- Enter Shikari website homepage
I know i need to analyse 1 more music video but im not sure if it has to be linked in with our plan (eg same type of music or slow mo idea) so I will ask Mrs Bannon when I see her on Tuesday.
Hopefully post up at least 2 out of the 3 above textual analysis's (im sure thats incorrect) tomorrow. Over and out for now. Adam
Wednesday, 11 November 2009
TARGET AUDIENCE
So, i have just read jebs entery earlier in the blog and saw that we haven't made a poll about our target audience, but what we are really looking to do is to appeal to a wide range of both male and female consumers, between the ages of 14 and 19. 14 because the bands that we are using the music videos for don't allow teens under the age of 14 to go to the concerts, and 19 because of the niche genre of the music. We are however are trying to appeal to a younger audience, hence the smashig of OHP's and variuos cool slow motion effects, always gets the adrenaline going in a teens body.
Anyway i will be making a poll which will affect what we put in the music video. so we meet our target audiences demands. fellow bloggers and friends will be encouraged to participate in this poll because they are the agegroup we are looking to appeal to.
Josh out x
Anyway i will be making a poll which will affect what we put in the music video. so we meet our target audiences demands. fellow bloggers and friends will be encouraged to participate in this poll because they are the agegroup we are looking to appeal to.
Josh out x
Soo
Right, in time for a little update!
Unfortunately i haven't been on the blog in a while due to the american exchange and drama performances. HOWEVER its no excuse to keep active :)
So in class, we have begun to develop our emblem/symbol for our band to be put on the website, which this strange eagle we've made entirely out of different tools in a program on the macs, hopefully some pictures will be up for see the development of the picture. I really like the wings, we used this floral styled paintbrush, and at a specific angle, it looks like ruffled wings on this scraggly bird, raw.
adam is working on iweb in preperation for the website, but i'm going to go and help him after this post. also i am working on our final storyboard so we can show you what's ticking in our heads about this project.
obviously with the american exchange taking up ridiculous amounts of time, filming will not be planned until after that exchange, week beginning the 23rd november i think.
Until then, pre production is priority so we will be giving updates and images, maybe even a video in the mean time.
JUH-osh x
Unfortunately i haven't been on the blog in a while due to the american exchange and drama performances. HOWEVER its no excuse to keep active :)
So in class, we have begun to develop our emblem/symbol for our band to be put on the website, which this strange eagle we've made entirely out of different tools in a program on the macs, hopefully some pictures will be up for see the development of the picture. I really like the wings, we used this floral styled paintbrush, and at a specific angle, it looks like ruffled wings on this scraggly bird, raw.
adam is working on iweb in preperation for the website, but i'm going to go and help him after this post. also i am working on our final storyboard so we can show you what's ticking in our heads about this project.
obviously with the american exchange taking up ridiculous amounts of time, filming will not be planned until after that exchange, week beginning the 23rd november i think.
Until then, pre production is priority so we will be giving updates and images, maybe even a video in the mean time.
JUH-osh x
Friday, 6 November 2009
target age/gender n things.
Today im going to be talking about the target audience of the video were doing and ill also talk about shot lists, although i have a feeling that i may have already gone through that before. oh well.
Naturally we as a group are trying to attract the same audience as Enter Shikari do which tends to be teens age around 14-19 of either sex and have a taste for hardcore/trance/ravecore music. knowing this we then have to decide how to make our video attractive and appealing to that sort of market. now as it happens me josh n ahdum are between the ages of 14-19 and have a taste for hardcore/trance/ravecore music, so we knew what to do because we know what WE want!
we did a poll on the blog regarding what everyone thought our video should be like and how it should be done, and we listened. the song itself is very upbeat and fast past so the video had to do the same which means lots of quick cut editing and fast paced camera work, theses are all conventions of this genre of music, so thats all good. the thing is, the songs always come out before the videos, so the audience KNOWS the song, and the video wont exaclty juxtepose the video, it will conform and comply with the song e.g if the song is fast paced, then the video will be fast paced. what im trying to say is that if they like the song then the audience will like the video! iv now only just realised that im not ENTIRELY sure of all the shot that we want to involve in the video, so ill post this and then ill be back with a rehersed list of shots n stuff.
ciao x
Naturally we as a group are trying to attract the same audience as Enter Shikari do which tends to be teens age around 14-19 of either sex and have a taste for hardcore/trance/ravecore music. knowing this we then have to decide how to make our video attractive and appealing to that sort of market. now as it happens me josh n ahdum are between the ages of 14-19 and have a taste for hardcore/trance/ravecore music, so we knew what to do because we know what WE want!
we did a poll on the blog regarding what everyone thought our video should be like and how it should be done, and we listened. the song itself is very upbeat and fast past so the video had to do the same which means lots of quick cut editing and fast paced camera work, theses are all conventions of this genre of music, so thats all good. the thing is, the songs always come out before the videos, so the audience KNOWS the song, and the video wont exaclty juxtepose the video, it will conform and comply with the song e.g if the song is fast paced, then the video will be fast paced. what im trying to say is that if they like the song then the audience will like the video! iv now only just realised that im not ENTIRELY sure of all the shot that we want to involve in the video, so ill post this and then ill be back with a rehersed list of shots n stuff.
ciao x
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