This is the end of our A2 music video blog, which covers all of the things we did since we started the subject. We have included all our research and planning, and have put various drafts from our video and ancillary products on.
Signing off,
Mark and Catherine
Friday 28 January 2011
Thursday 27 January 2011
Final Evaluation- Question 2
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Final Evaluation- Question 1
The music videos we researched as our real media texts were:
· Peter Kay’s animated All Star band
We were going to do intertextuality based around the fact that ‘Accidentally in love’ is in the Shrek 2 film but we decided that it would be too hard and there would have been copyright issues. Peter Kay’s video is an example of the use of animated characters which links with Shrek being an animated character.
· Smash mouth- All Star and I’m a believer
These videos and ours share the same format i.e. scenes of the band playing/ singing the songs mixed in with scenes showing the songs narrative. It’s been done before and it works and we have reuses that format. The songs narratives from the Smash mouth All Star video and I’m a believer shows us comical elements and we have tried to emulate this with the scenes from our songs narrative. I think that there is a very strong and coherent relationship between the narrative and the performance of the song in our music video, for example when they play the drums and guitar and sing they show their emotions and this links with the way they feel about the girl (Steve Archer’s theory).
· Angels and airwaves- call to arms
This video has very loose narrative. In the end our narrative was more structured and we used the format from the smash mouth videos.
· Manic street preachers- your love alone
With this video we were looking for ideas for shots to use in our video. We used a few mid shot and quite a lot of close ups in a small enclosed space. We have taken some of the ideas for camera angles such as the close up side shot of the lead singer.
On the surface we didn’t think much of our album song names but we found that they had a much heavier meaning than we thought they did.
On the whole we decided to develop the conventions of our genre because we felt that any alternative that we could have come up with wouldn’t of created as good as brand image than if we had stuck to the conventions.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Friday 7 January 2011
Evaluation Feedback- questions 1 and 2
For question 1 you're going to need to be far more specific. Of the videos you listed as influences can you pick out elements which you've copied? For example you've tried to emulate the comical elements from Smash Mouth (as well as the performance element), the use of a loose narrative from Angels and Airwaves etc. Obviously you cannot just say that, you'll need to compare the exact elements you've copied.
For question 2 again you're going to need far more detail. Look back over the notes you took when Mrs Somell taught this question, have you done any of the things she listed.
Finally what format are your responses going to take. Remember they cannot simply be written answers.
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