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Music Video Analysis: Sinéad O'Connor's - "Nothing Compares 2U".

Monday, 25 March 2013

Saturday, 16 March 2013

(Draft unfinished) Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Question 1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

(draft)

Unfinished

Been finding question 1 hard to understand - been using my notes but it's still 50/50 here and there.

This is what I have so far:

Final response will be presented as a powerpoint.




Music Video:

My chosen track  is of the folk-pop genre.

The theme of loneliness, directionless and exile was used throughout my music video, by doing so I used a convention of the folk genre by specifically focusing on a subject matter within my music video.

Many folk tracks range from discussing war, working, civil rights, economics and love in the artist's/band's track. 

A real media text which uses such conventions is Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues", as it touches on the subjects of social discontent - "Twenty years of schoolin'/And they put you on the day shift", drug use - "The phone's tapped anyway/Maggie says that many say/They must bust in early May/Orders from the D.A", civil right protests "Better stay away from those/That carry around a fire hose" and fighting against authority "Don't follow leaders/Watch the parkin' meters".


The locations used within my music video use and develop the conventions seen in a thriller. The use of urban sheet-lit roads and dark mise-en-scene is similar to those seen within "The Third Man". 

The Third Man

My music video


(draft) Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback?

(draft)

I will upload part 2 (about music video) when I have finished editing it.






Thursday, 7 March 2013

(Revisited) Question 2: How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product with Ancillary Texts?

(Revisited) Question 2: How Effective is the Combination of Your Main Product with Ancillary Texts?

I am aware there is information needed for the middle panels (2/3) and more added for the back, but as my design is mostly the same throughout, I've chosen to wait for some feedback from my surveys.

With some feedback, I'll have to rearrange it a little. But this is what I currently have:




Wednesday, 6 March 2013

(Powerpoint) Question 4: How Did You Use Media Technologies in the Construction and Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?



Question 4: How Did You Use Media Technologies in the Construction and Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?

Draft V3.




It has come to my attention that a slide with the Russell Howard's Good News example isn't appearing. So I'll have to list the hyperlink and the video below:

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


Completed Music Video

Completed Music Video


Question 1 - Notes Taken in Class

Question 1 - Notes Taken in Class
  • Relate images from print + video to music text
  • Aspects of mise-en-scene
  • Goodwin
  • Screenshots from music video
  • Reference both productions
  • Explain points. pee
  • "My music video is ____ genre".
  • Real production, how you where informed, relates to, intertextual.
  • Popular culture (costume)
  • Representation of gender, examples.
  • Performing - male, conventional representation, focus on male performance - MUST.
  • Locationas, screenshots needed, dark, cold, norwich market place, urban - challenges convetion of folk, 60's movement, civial rights protests.
  • Props - guitar.
  • Objects within the mise-en-scene. Newspaper = simlar to Bob Dylan's music video.
    - market place, cars, THE PUBLIC, shopping bags.
  • Artist looking at the camera, Goodwin, addressing the audience.
  • Music video theory:
    - City, shopping. Kress, Goodwin theories - challenges, the majority of people don't want to be with The Big Issue, challenging the "people inspire to be", what aspects of the self.
  • What would you compare your music video to?
    - This is England
    - Representation of youth
    - Alterative worlds, poor, struggling.
  • Digi packs:
    - Use, develop and challenge print productions.
    - Pick one + explain how you have used it.
    - No repeating from/in Q3

Friday, 1 March 2013

Print Production - Final Panels and Magazine Advert

Print Production - Digipak and Magazine Advert

Panel: 1



Panels:
2
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Panel: 4








Magazine Advert: