Wednesday 3 September 2008
Sunday 13 July 2008
possible songs
Futureheads- Man Ray - 2:19 minutes
This song relates to photographer called Man Ray. his photography started in the 1920s for about 20 years. Aswell as photography in later years, he also directed a number of influential avant garde short films, working on experimental, innovative and entertaining work. I feel this song would be good to produce a video for as we could include scenes influenced by his photography and cinematic works; therefore trying to produce a video that uses the same ideas he wanted for avant garde short films; entertainment, experimental and innovative!
Royworld- Man In The Machine
more to come!
This song relates to photographer called Man Ray. his photography started in the 1920s for about 20 years. Aswell as photography in later years, he also directed a number of influential avant garde short films, working on experimental, innovative and entertaining work. I feel this song would be good to produce a video for as we could include scenes influenced by his photography and cinematic works; therefore trying to produce a video that uses the same ideas he wanted for avant garde short films; entertainment, experimental and innovative!
Royworld- Man In The Machine
more to come!
Saturday 12 July 2008
video analysis
im going slightly mad- Queen
I am analysing a music video that is called ' I'm going slightly mad' sung by Queen and directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher. The video was filmed at Wembley studios, London in February 1991. This video encompassed every aspect of this tongue in cheek track. The genre of music is glam rock but I feel that the video doesn’t necessarily follow the whole 'live performance' look for rock, but on the glam side of things I feel the monotone video gave the right atmosphere.
The lyrics and visuals have a very strong relationship due to the costume used i.e. the kettle hat on roger Taylor being worn, relating to the lyrics sung by Freddie mercury being “this kettle is boiling over”. This helps illustrate most of the lyrics being sung through the visuals giving a visual interpretation of it. I feel that the illustration helped exaggerate the tongue in cheek matters that Freddie mercury and queen were trying to push across in the song. Another example of illustration being used is where the lyrics are; “I think I’m a banana tree” and Freddie mercury is bearing a bunch of bananas on his head.
The lyrics and visuals have a very strong relationship due to the costume used i.e. The kettle hat on roger Taylor being worn, relating to the lyrics sung by Freddie mercury being “this kettle is boiling over”. This helps illustrate most of the lyrics being sung through the visuals giving a visual interpretation to the song.
The relationship between music and visuals- the solo instrumental pieces have the same visuals as with lyrics shown, showing consistency with visuals. I think that editing is rather swift which follows the whole of the video with a swift rhythm of music and actions. For example; in the first chorus, the word ‘happened’ is repeated and as they are, three of the band move up on the sofa each time away from the lead singer. This here shows a connection between the rhythms of the music with the actions.
The record company are looking to sell this track by the surrealism of the video as it is quite memorable with the illustration and costumes. The entire band is dressed up, like in most of their music videos, this expressing their extension of variety in themes of their music and song lyrics. The image that comes across is mysterious as the video is all in monotone apart from the feathers at the end of the video; also giving a sense of fantasy. The video, I think gives an idea of not change, but a reminder that Queen are who they want to be, rather than what people i.e. managers and critics want them to be.
There are no intertextual references within this music video making it completely unique and one of its own.
The video is mainly narrative based due to the fact it has many visual matches to the lyrics. There is real no sign of performance based apart from the lip syncing for the lyrics, but apart from that the whole video is made up and presented as a surreal piece of drama.
I am analysing a music video that is called ' I'm going slightly mad' sung by Queen and directed by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher. The video was filmed at Wembley studios, London in February 1991. This video encompassed every aspect of this tongue in cheek track. The genre of music is glam rock but I feel that the video doesn’t necessarily follow the whole 'live performance' look for rock, but on the glam side of things I feel the monotone video gave the right atmosphere.
The lyrics and visuals have a very strong relationship due to the costume used i.e. the kettle hat on roger Taylor being worn, relating to the lyrics sung by Freddie mercury being “this kettle is boiling over”. This helps illustrate most of the lyrics being sung through the visuals giving a visual interpretation of it. I feel that the illustration helped exaggerate the tongue in cheek matters that Freddie mercury and queen were trying to push across in the song. Another example of illustration being used is where the lyrics are; “I think I’m a banana tree” and Freddie mercury is bearing a bunch of bananas on his head.
The lyrics and visuals have a very strong relationship due to the costume used i.e. The kettle hat on roger Taylor being worn, relating to the lyrics sung by Freddie mercury being “this kettle is boiling over”. This helps illustrate most of the lyrics being sung through the visuals giving a visual interpretation to the song.
The relationship between music and visuals- the solo instrumental pieces have the same visuals as with lyrics shown, showing consistency with visuals. I think that editing is rather swift which follows the whole of the video with a swift rhythm of music and actions. For example; in the first chorus, the word ‘happened’ is repeated and as they are, three of the band move up on the sofa each time away from the lead singer. This here shows a connection between the rhythms of the music with the actions.
The record company are looking to sell this track by the surrealism of the video as it is quite memorable with the illustration and costumes. The entire band is dressed up, like in most of their music videos, this expressing their extension of variety in themes of their music and song lyrics. The image that comes across is mysterious as the video is all in monotone apart from the feathers at the end of the video; also giving a sense of fantasy. The video, I think gives an idea of not change, but a reminder that Queen are who they want to be, rather than what people i.e. managers and critics want them to be.
There are no intertextual references within this music video making it completely unique and one of its own.
The video is mainly narrative based due to the fact it has many visual matches to the lyrics. There is real no sign of performance based apart from the lip syncing for the lyrics, but apart from that the whole video is made up and presented as a surreal piece of drama.
Friday 11 July 2008
Individual Planning - Album Covers
news of the world album cover- queen
here this queen album cover for news of the world is actually an old science fiction drawing. the colours used are quite muddy and dull to depict a rather dull, negative mood
blur- greatest hits
here the greatest hits album cover was designed and drawn by julian opie, an artist, and this cover shows off his style or art very easily. it uses blocks of colour (green, pink, blue and yellow/orange) showing a pop art style picture resembling an interpretation of the band individually in this style of art. it depicts their features in a simple form though it is still recognisable to be them. the colours used are bold and bright possibly to reflect the music featuring on the album
david bowie-aladdin sane
a medium close up on the artist to focus on him rather than the title which is relatively small compared to the artist. The colour of the album title is faded blue to orange and centre bottom, but doesnt stand out dramtically from the white background. the artists name is in the same font and colours as the album title but place in the right top corner. this has no picture behind, as if to make the name of the artist seem more important than the title. a white background has been used to make david bowies colour of make up and hair stand out from the cover. his eyes are closed as if to add mystery for the veiwer, as it doesnt appear that he knows we are looking at him, almost like we are stumbling across him, not knowing whether we should look or not. the colours suggest otherwise, telling us to look at him. the zigzag style makeup is a trait of his former identity being ziggy stardust, thus keeping part of his past with him in this new album.
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