Time Schedule

Millie and I got together last week and scheduled our filming/meeting up in preparation for our music video. Here's out timetable with a lovely bit of Millie in the background.

Practice filming

Here's a short practice film we did to test out if our split screen running would look effective. With using steadier filming, I personally think this could look quite good.
We used the left hand side to show Millie's P.O.V, whereas the right hand side to show my P.O.V, with Millie in my back shot. We used our location to film when I would turn my head, so when we got to the pink house I would turn my head, allowing us to have the shots turning at the exact same point to look effective.
We got this from a real media text of J.Cole's 'lost ones', although it's from a completely different genre and used for completely different theme which is heartbreak, I believe it works just as well for the both genres.

RichMix Trip

Many interesting topics were spoken of in the media conference. First half was Pete Fraiser giving top tip's and taking us through the history of music. He ran through a method of analysis for music videos.

    Method of analysis by Andrew Goodwin

• Genre characteristics
• Visuals relationships with lyrics & music 
• Need to sell artist as a star
• Voyeurism/looking 
• Intertextuality 

I particularly found the history of the music video's quite intriguing. I underestimated the real history of music video's and how far back they actually originated from. The video's from the first music video by Len Lye shows the simplicity although the creativity of the artist, which generated the first music video's.

The birth of MTV in 1981 was also a break through, allowing black artists to start broadcasting video's worldwide. This then led on to Michael Jackson becoming the well known phenomenon that he sitll is today, also rappers like 50 cent, Jay-Z etc, allowing music video's to expand and allow other genre's to broadcast on television worldwide. The video below was the launch of MTV
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I also look in to an advertisement The difference of advertisements also shows the advance of technology in the 30 years MTV has been broadcasted. The HD camera's to the imaginative idea's to advertise.

Stuart Hall's theory

Stuart Hall developed the concept of audience positioning as a result of examining news reports on industrial strikes; He claimed that media representations established a framework for possible responses - this is like setting an agenda for issues to be raised with audiences. 



Oppositional Readings: - Audiences reject the way the narrative is constructed, question & challenge the points of view implied.
Negotiated Readings: - Audiences partially accept the way the narrative is constructed but can see both points of view the dominant and oppositional readings.

Aberrant Readings:- Is an additional interpretation: where the text is read in a deviant & largely unanticipated manner, the preferred reading not being recognised at all.

Twitter account

Hopefully finishing out storyboard this week, and getting our equipment to start filming.
We'll be filming our target audience in the next couple of weeks in hope to get feedback for our video.

In other news, today we made our very own twitter account, @BacciAndFilter, it's going slow with only 1 follower but it will be an easy way to get 'fans' and keep on track. Our target audience is a big user of twitter, which is obviously a way to get ourselves a fan base. We're following other bands/artists that are an influence to us in hope their tweets can inspire our achievements.

HEY!!

Location

Permission

Andrew Goodwin's theory

Andrew Goodwin has identified a number of key features in music videos. They are:
- A relationship between the lyrics and the visuals, with the visuals illustrating, amplifying or contradicting the lyrics.
- A relationship between the music and the visuals, with the visuals illustrating, amplifying or contradicting the music.
- Genre-related style and iconography present.
- Multiple close-ups of the main artist or vocalist.
- Voyeurism often plays a major part, especially in relation to females.
- Intertextual references to other media texts may be present.

Andrew Goodwin’s Theory

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Pitch

Brand and similar artists

Here's the video of Example and Ed Sheeran. This seems like the start of Ed Sheeran becoming a likeable character from seeming so close to Example. The song became quite popular for the teenager age group, although it wasn't an actual song.


Azealia Banks is a prime example for us. She's in our genre of music, and has a simple use of locations for her video. She doesn't use a male gaze to attract her audience, she uses her choice of clothing to promote her genre, and make her brand seem quite quirky. Similar to Banks, we used outfits and locations to get across our point to our audience rather than use a Male gaze to attract a male audience.

Genre and Our use of it

Band Name

 So Millie and I have come up with band name 'Bacci and Filter'. Not only because the lyrics are from the actual song but we believe the whole brand and genre are suited with the name.

This is a screen shot of Frank Ocean's video for 'Novocane'.
The song is simply about him numbing pain, 
and his use of smoke allows his audience to feel 
they can relate to him through 'numbing'
the pain.


  

 As our genre is the hip-hop/pop mix it suits and is quite a quirky name. The reference of cigarettes is used in a strange 'cool' way in today's music. The majority of our target audience use smoking to lose themselves and feel good in some way, which is also what we hope our artist will bring to our audience but obviously just by our music.  

On the other hand we used this as you always need the bacci with the filter. For this song to work, you need the rapper and the singer, as well as the serious and the humorous which we both have. It all fits together for a nice modern band name.

This is a screen shot of Snoop-Dogg's album 
cover. Here the smoke from his mouth is
clearly the main focus of the advert.
To promote himself to look 'cool' to his 
audience. Throughout his video's he 
uses a male gaze and lyrics of explicit nature
to also appeal to his audience, whereas we 
are using smoking without trying to create 
it in an explicit nature.

Here Arctic Monkey's; an English successful
 band use smoking on their front cover.
This is used all for image which also proves how
 smoking is quite a focus on the youths of today.

   

All three artists are using smoking 

to appeal to the same audience 

that are hoping to attract. Through 

using the idea of smoking, we're

 conforming to other artist's, as 

we're all competing for the same

audience to buy in to our brand.

Both Snoop Dogg and Arctic

Monkeys use a stage name rather

than their real name, to again create

a 'cool' image to their target audience

in which we have done to

promote ourselves.

Brand Images

All of these images give me some 
inspiration for our music video. 
I really love the idea of some sort of face paint.
 As our idea is more of a story in a story, 
which is Millie and I being a band duo 
who are trying to make it, but my character
 is not as serious about our career as
 Millie's character is, therefore this is 
where the facepaint could work, 
as it's a quirky childish aspect to the video
 giving good colours.

As much as I dislike Cher Lloyd and her music; I really like the colour sceme to this video. It suits our pop-alternative genre. The colours would be appropriate for us, and it I enjoy the continuation throughout the video of the colours. I wouldn't really think about the use of balloons as it wouldn't really suit our narrative although in this video it does look quite effective.

I like all these pictures as they all have some sort of relevance to us. The colours make me think closely about the type of shots and the colours we could bring in to the video. It's quite an old indie themed collage of photo's which probably doesn't suit us but as our song brings in so many different themes with the indie music and rapping it all can be bought in in to one. The above vintage photo is the type of colours we are looking in to doing our video in. It brings a sense of youth and age in to one video, which could be interpreted in many different ways by our target audience.

I like how this band (OFWGKTA) use a bicycle. It's quite a humourous and quirky prop. It could easily fit our theme and we could get some great shots from it too, which I've already thought about.

Inspirational shots

Whilst watching inception, this shot caught my eye and I thought how we could use something similar which still involved water. I love how the slow motion water blends well.

Voyeurism

Funnily enough, Rizzle Kicks use voyeurism in their video. They start with using the boombox and putting their own track in to it with a video of themselves. It shows how they're listening to something they've produced.

It's also used in this video, which is once again; Rizzle Kicks. The use of the record is the voyeurism in this as they're some what looking at their own track.

Voyeurism is seen in quite a few videos, mainly more upbeat tracks like the two above. Cher Lloyd uses voyeurism in two of her video's which brings quite a quirky feel, as it shows she's listening to herself. The same phone is seen in both video's, it could show a catchy continuity theme for her audience to notice in each video.

Lyrics

Yo, you might hear me make a racket like Wilson
Cause I love summer no Rachel Bilson (YES)
The winter will come,
We just have parties inside it's still fun,
(We're jammin') pump this (We're bangin'),
Chase your boyfriend let's 'av him,
We're rowdy, girls make our judgement cloudy,
but when the sun comes up we're still alcys,
We don't wanna be lowsy, or shameless,
but we're running round like we're brainless,
now I've got grass stains on my brand new white trainers
(ON MY BRAND NEW WHITE TRAINERS)
Ummmm... I know a few guys hate us,
they're as compelling as neighbours so laters,
it's blaters we've got our own sound, you know now,
so go wild and get hosed down, n-no no

Chorus
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets (x4)
WHAT
Let's get down with the down with the (x3)
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets

When I get down,
I get respect now,
and when our tunes drops,
you know it makes your head bounce,
yeah I move with the flow,
and when I enter the room it shows,
I move sick (WHEN I DANCE)
then chicks (WANNA DANCE)
move in and move quick (WHEN I DANCE)
at risk (WHEN I DANCE)
just be careful you don't lose your chick (WHEN I DANCE)

that might just happen,
so listen deep,
stick with your madame,
or she might just leave

CHORUS
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets (x4)
WHAT
Let's get down with the down with the (x3)
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets

Ummm... how much sound from the brass to the air,
will it take, to put your bras in the air? (PARDON ME THERE)
just don't pretend that,
if I wasn't older you wouldn't wanna dance with me yeaaah
you're the last of my fears,
I was top boy of the class in my year,
well not really but I was half way there,
and I coulda been the headmaster so yeah
got vibes and charisma (lighter and rizla)
baccy and filter (shine for me mister)
I want the sun to (SH-I-I-INE)
till I'm looking at a bright blue (SKY-Y-Y)
yes, and we drop it like anvils,
bring your whole crew to a stand still, still,
stick us on at clubs and I
guarantee that no body would stand still

CHORUS
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets (x4)
WHAT
Let's get down with the down with the (x3)
YEAH YEAH
Let's get down with the trumpets

Change of mind

After a team meeting, we've decided to completely change our ideas. We've gone from an indie/rock artist to a pop-alternative genre.
We have the concept of not taking ourselves too seriously, as last year we came across as quite a serious group but this year we're hoping to get our humour through in our video with the quality of shots from our video from AS.



 The song has a quirky feel in which we like. The song has a british feel and the band has two artists. Millie and I are hoping to take on the persona of the two artists, but be quite humorous in doing so. As the artist is sung by two males, we're going to use being females to our advantage by conforming/going against different theorists for music video's.

Underwater Ideas

over the summer we discussed some ideas of making our music video different to others that have previously been done, we found that it was possible to film underwater with our flip so we're considering using the theme of water throughout our video. here's some pictures that gave me some imaginative thoughts.

Green Screen

Lyrics

here's the lyrics to the video we're most probably going to use.


What a night for a dance, you know I'm a dancing machine
With a fire in my bones and the sweet taste of kerosene
I get lost in the night so high I don't want to come down
To face the loss of the good thing that I've found

In the dark of the night I could hear you calling my name
With the hardest of hearts I still feel full of pain
So I drink and I smoke and I ask you if you're ever around
Even though it was me who drove us right in the ground

See the time we shared it was precious to me
But all the while I was dreaming of revelry

Born to run, baby run like a stream down a mountainside
With the wind in my back I don't ever even bat an eye
Just know it was you all along who had a hold of my heart
But the demon and me were the best of friends from the start

So the time we shared it was precious to me
All the while I was dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry

And I told myself boy away you go, it rained so hard it felt like snow
Everything came tumbling down on me
In the back of the woods in the dark of the night
Paleness of the old moonlight everything just felt so incomplete

Dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry
Dreaming of revelry

Song choices

After looking at different types of genres and songs Heather Millie and I have seemed to go in a more indie slower approach. Here's some of the songs we were looking at, but it seems as though we went more towards an indie side. It looks as though our favourite was Revelry by Kings of Leon as it suits the genres we were looking at but also has a drop that we quite like the sound of. We all have many ideas already for the song. The song doesn't have a video which makes sure all our ideas are original.



We like this song as it tells a story and the video doesn't seem to get across any sort of message or theme.

Introduction to A2

As an introduction to our A2 media course we had to look at 2 different themes and pick a music video for each. With the themes Controversial and Unusual here was the 2 music videos I ended up with;

Here's the video i chose for controversial. I chose it because it's different. It's in black and white for starters which isn't your normal music video and it's a very plain video. It's just a man sitting on a chair but the aspects are all very unusual and controversial. The shakey camera effects also create a disturbed theme. I don't think i've ever watched a video where someone throws up after eating a cockroach then commits suicide. It raises a lot of disturbing themes all in one plain video, but all in all I would say this is an effective video. I personally love how his head moves when the music and the beat drop, it looks really professional and in time with the song. The band OFWGKTA who sing this song are a very strange yet amusing group. Their music is very controversial as it's not just your usual music.




I chose Marilyn Manson's 'Saint' for unusual although this can be used for controversial. It has a good use of lighting which create a dark sense . It's got nude and explicit themes which obviously create a controversial opinion of the video. It's drug use and the quick snappy shots which go to the beat all fit in to make the video unusual and dark.