Music Video Corrections

1. Not enough footage to fill - Cut down to 3 mins
2. Not enough performance footage - Need to shoot actress in school, photo studio, close ups, dress actress in what character used to be like
3. Change the idea- her being given drugs (over and over again) that influence her flashbacks. Dress up man in white coat (doctor)

Re-Cap on Ideas

Falling onto hospital bed:

Giving tablets over and over again:



Close-up of eyes:



Filming Locations

• Photo Studio
• Medical Room

Final Music Video Draft

Weather and Recce Report

Music Video Comparison

This video that I found would be similar to a video concept that our group would like to do. Like our video concept, this video is outside and features lyrical indie music. The video is set outside in the woods which would be another idea to set our music video in. Like our song choice, this song enabled the creators of this video to be creative.

 

Email to Artist

Album Remake

Here are the before and after images of the album covers:

Beyonce - Empress

Lady Gaga - The Fame














Disclosure - Settle



Ed Sheeran - +

Emeli Sande - Our Version of Events

Goodwin Analysis 6

Metallers/Emo/Goth music example:

Goodwin Analysis 5

Hipster music example:

Goodwin Analysis 4

Ravers/ Nu-Ravers music example:

Goodwin Analysis 3

Hip Hop music example:

Goodwin Analysis 2

Chav Music Example:

Goodwin Analysis 1

Scene Kids example:

Teen Subculture

Each Teen Subculture has their own distinct styles, behaviors, and interests. There are 8 different subcultures. These belong to a certain type of music such as Pop, Heavy Metal, Punk etc.:

1. Scene Kids
2. Chavs
3. Hip Hop
4. Ravers/ Nu-Ravers
5. Hipsters
6. Metallers/Emo/Goth
7. Punks
8. Skaters

Scene Kids

Scene Kids take pride in their overall image and believe that their style is not only a fashion statement but an overall lifestyle. 

Typical genres are punk rock, dubstep, hardcore, post-hardcore, screamo, classic rock, emo, crunk, metalcore, deathcore, pop-punk, and even hip-hop or rap. 

Most scene kids listen to unknown and local bands. They won’t listen to mainstream music such as pop.

Chavs

The word chav is defined in the oxford dictionary as: a young lower-class person which has subsequently lead to the increase in the term chav subculture. They often look to rebel due to tough upbringing and street life. This shows in their music choice as often agressive and fast-paced.

The music that they would usually be interested in would be rap, hip hop, R&B, dupstep, drum and bass.

Hip Hop

The term hip-hop also refers to the speech, fashions, and personal style adopted by many youths, particularly in urban areas.

The popular subculture of big-city teenagers, which includes rap music, break dancing, and graffiti art.

Ravers/ Nu-Ravers

The rave culture is often supported by large groups who listen to house, trance, techno, drum and bass, hardcore, hard-style and other forms of electronic dance music.

The outfits often incorporate neon colours to match the nightclub scene with glow-in the dark accessories.

Hipsters

Hipsters are a subculture of men and women typically in their 20's and 30's that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics, an appreciation of art and indie-rock, creativity, intelligence, and witty banter.

Hipsters tend to steer towards alternative music that doesn't follow mainstream conventions.

Metallers/Emo/Goth

Goth = an avid fan of goth rock that participates at least a little in the music subculture. (Goth rock also came out in the late 70's and actually came out of punk and post punk. Goth rock was more introspective than punk, and often dealt with dark themes, nihilism, romanticism, gothic horror, or various philosophies.)

Emo was originally a music subculture in the early 80's that died out... then a new subculture (mainly based around the band fugazi) started back up in the early 90's only to die out at the end of the 90's... But the current group that is mainly made up of people imitating the clothing style of the emo music subculture of the 90's, and claiming that emo is about being emotional. The actual emo name was an abbreviation of the music genre, emocore... or emotional hardcore punk. 

Metallers are an avid fan of heavy metal, and its various subgenres, that participates at least a little in the music subculture. (Heavy metal is normally characterized by loud distorted guitars, dense bass-and-drum sound, forceful rhythms, and strong/active vocals.)

Punks

The punk subculture, which centres around punk rock music, includes a diverse array of ideologies, fashions and forms of expression, including visual art, dance, literature and film. 

The subculture is largely characterized by anti-establishment views and the promotion of individual freedom.

Skaters

Skater is the subculture of many skateboarders. Skaters often are similar to punk and skater punks are common. Skaters are opposed to police, and police action, however this is usually kept in the scope of keeping skaters from being hurt by police. They can be very creative in opposing police oppression, and unneeded skateboard bans.

Aphex Twin Video

MUSIC VIDEO BACKGOUND

In Come To Daddy, Chris Cunningham stages a miserable and surreal scene of run-down suburban tower blocks, in which an old woman walks her dog along a street strewn with litter. Camera and sound foster a feeling of suspense: the woman is not alone. In an adjacent car park something appears to be lurking. 

When her dog urinates on an apparently broken-down television, the contorted face of the musician Aphex Twin appears on the screen. The title-song begins, and a distorted voice screams out from the TV: “I want your soul.” The old woman is driven in terror and discovers a group of children in the car park, each with the grinning, grimacing face of Aphex Twin. The demon in the television calls out to the children the words of the song-title: “come to daddy.” Carrying their “father”, they run through the carpark, sending a car owner fleeing in terror – all the time wreaking havoc to the beat of the song’s syncopated rhythm.

The central scene of the work depicts the birth of the demon, who emerges naked and gaunt from the television. The editing is fast and he twitches to the beat. The contorted face again appears on the screen, but this time there is only one television: the one you are watching.

How did the director of this video Chris Cunningham, come up with his Visual Concept for this track?

This introduction to the world of Come to Daddy, however, is not accompanied by the song, Come to Daddy. When compared with the compact disc recording, the Come to Daddy song proper begins only after the distorted image of Richard D. James first appears in the TV set. Throughout the first minute and sixteen seconds, we hear an introduction section that appears either to have been scored specifically for this video, or at the very least to have been pulled from some unreleased Aphex Twin material . 

While the illustrated book that accompanies the Work of Director Chris Cunningham DVD makes no mention of the introduction section, the lack of any additional credits, along with the unique electronic style, would suggest that it was scored by Richard D. James. However, it does raise the interesting question of whether the music was composed for the visuals, or the visuals were composed for the music in this section, and also whether it really matters.

How do the images link to the Music and Lyrics?

Chris Cunningham in many of his videos manages to employ a sense of a narrative and which in some ways frustrate us ‘the viewer’ through the use of abstract imagery and unusual editing sequences. From a position of the viewer he also managed to place a video on television that is not seen as mainstream that does not relate to MTV era image. And creating an underlying theme of art, socialty and humanity these elements, and the terrifying Aphex Twin soundtrack, all contribute to the cult success of the Come to Daddy video release.

The video itself communicates many issues that were beginning at the time to make headline news and gaining more awareness in public. Issues of behavior, respect, community division and social problems within communities have been in the past seen as a national taboo or the issue that has been pushed under the carpet. This in someways has taken the issue onto the main stage.

Blur Inspired Artwork

How I Made The Artwork

To make this artwork inspired by Blur's album cover, I first outlined a picture of me and my sister by using the pencil tool on Photoshop. Then I filled in the skin colour and added shading for a less 2D look. I then outlined the facial features such as the mouths, nose and eyes. Next I shaded in the hair to match each hair colour and then shaded in any clothing that needed shading such as my jean jacket. Another detail that I added was to colour in the necklace my sister wears and put details on my teeth to show my braces.

Digipak

WHAT IS A DIGIPAK?

Digipak is a patented style of CD, DVD or BD packaging. Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside.

EXAMPLES OF A DIGIPAK:

Goodwin Anaylsis

In his book Dancing in the Distraction Factory, Andrew Goodwin points out characteristics and features that can be found in music videos. Below is the six characteristics he believed to be conventions of the music video genre.

1. Music videos demonstrate genre characteristics. (e.g. stage performance in metal videos, dance routine for boy/girl band, aspiration in Hip Hop). 
2. There is a relationship between lyrics and visuals. The lyrics are represented with images.(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting). 
3. There is a relationship between music and visuals. The tone and atmosphere of the visual reflects that of the music.(either illustrative, amplifying, contradicting). 
4. The demands of the record label will include the need for lots of close ups of the artist and the artist may develop motifs which recur across their work (a visual style). 
5. There is frequently reference to notion of looking (screens within screens, mirrors, stages, etc) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body. 
6. There are often intertextual reference (to films, tv programmes, other music videos etc).