Evaluation

Edits-Music Video

Here are some funny edits I put together form when were shooting our performance part of our music video:

Final-Music Video

Here is the pretty much final product of my music video, I have done some very minute tweaking the end with some flashes when the morph men change colour but apart from that here it is :

Decision- Song and Why we Chose it

Decision- Song and Why we Chose it

We chose Over and Over as our song because of a number of reasons.


First off all we all liked the song and felt it had a good bass line and a rhythm to which we could o a number of good edits to and a good build up at the end with which we could have a good performance to as we now do.


We also all liked the genre of music so therefore we were all more passionate about making our genre of music looking good, this made us want to perform well within the end of the performance section of the music video which paid off the create a good finale and build to the song.

Another reason why we chose it was because of the songs lyrics. We thought we could easily link there lyrics to images such as the the lyrics over and over where we put in the edit of me repeatedly stamping in the work place.  This was code for the repetitive life style of people who live in the city.

This was another idea, the narrative is about the boring life of city workers lower down who feel like they are maybe stuck in an endless job and who feel like they are just another small minority within a multinational company and they would't even be noticed if they left because of the enormous size of the business and the employees.

Analysis-Album Art- Codes and Conventions

Analysis-Album Art- Codes and Conventions

Here are the typical codes and conventions you would see within a album art, most albums will have these on the front:

The album art will typically represent the album or the band themselves

It will try to draw their specific target audience by employing techniques using colours or text that will attract the attention form the specific target audience.

It will establish the album and the artists name, along with the style or genre of music they produce

It will have persuasive elements in it to persuade the audience to buy it for example it may have a promotional offer.

The album art will try to be creative through text and imagery it may employ.  It will try to be original, individual and also have an artistic element to it.

Codes within these album covers are used to them communicate to the audience whatever message or ideology that they may want to get across.

Conventions are all things such as the band name, picture in the typical style of the artist or continuing on form previous album artwork, album name, imagery/art, price, explicit sign if the lyrics are extreme, and then a list of the songs on the back.

Analysis-Album Covers- Sergeant Pepper

There are the typical conventions of an album cover shown here.  There is the album name and the band name.  At the time this album cover was iconic as it was completely different to any other.  It was maybe a revolutionary way of making art for your album cover at the time.

It was one of the first album covers to turn art into others form of pop-art, by using these album arts in association with the band their art was another part of what defined them as a band.

In the album art there are lots of flowers.  This is a code for summer and 'summer of ' which is associated with this era as it was the 1960's when people were about free love and peace and freedom, so therefore there values comes through in these artists  album cover.

The drum is code for music .  It also has connotations with the circus.  The drum obviously shows them as the musical artists they are but also the circus connections shows the style of music which is fun, lively, colourful and entertaining.

The main people in the centre of the album cover are dressed in military esque clothing. The clothing however is very bright and colourful.  This has therefore undermined what a uniform stands for being in line with rules and regulations, instead it shows they have rebelled against this and done what they want and been unique as a band.  This may be what they want you to think of their music that it is unique and revolutionary. 

The other people in the picture look as if they could be famous people, such as the lady standing there with the elegant dress and the long blonde hair.  She looks Marilyn Monroe esque.  The could be a homage to these people showing how important these people are to the band or maybe showing the style of people/audience they feel their audience should be involved in or follow.

The back ground has a clear blue sky.  this is usually a code for freedom and tranquility. It is also code for a tropical place which could suggest they are in a tropical place, because the flowers are also very bright colours.  There is also a palm tree.  This is an important part of the album art.  This palm tree is usually associated with the Caribbean and desert Islands.  Therefore this is code for the band breaking away from the British persona.  These people whom are famous and who are artists who feel they may be better than us in some way have separated themselves from the norms of society and have gone to an exclusive Island separate from us as if they are some kind of Legends in their own right.

Analysis- Album Art- The Prodigy- 2

This album art is similar to their other album art.  Their use of black and white highlights the different areas on the album cover.

Such as the black and white around the bold prodigy text at the top of the album cover.

The image of the man screaming again like the other album cover could be a code for their style of music, and how the lyrics are very in your face and explicit.

The image of the mans face is behind what looks like a cloth.  This could be a code for the artist maybe feel trapped or the situation he is in he feels trapped.  The image also looks like it could be done in concrete as this also is code for being trapped as concrete doesn't move.

The caption underneath the face suggests that the audience/ target audience age group is a generation who are callous and who are quick on their feet at making decisions.  They are a generation who don't take no for an answer and want to speak out against the authority, as the imagery is showing in this album art.