Friday, 27 April 2012
Evaluation Question - 2
Evaluation Question - 4
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Evaluation Question - 4
Evaluation Question -3
Evualtion - Question One
Construction: Advert
This is the advert that I have created for the promotion of the album for my artists Dexter. I did several versions of this advert but this is the one that I have settled on for my promotion. I feel that the interetextualty of this image and how powerful the image is, is all that is needed for this advert because it is subtle and doesn't need any think fancy. I asked several of my peer if they understand what this advert is selling. They said they liked the colours and how much the artist stands out and they said that they feel it is very obvious what the advert is trying to sell to the audience.
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Construction: Ancillary Tasks
These are my ancillary tasks for my album. These are my final versions for my digi pack, i took lots of different advice from some of my peers to get them to where they are now. The other versions of my digi pack were quite subtle and that artist didn't stick out form the back ground. i had to change lots of effects of the images so that the artist did stand out from the background.
i also have tried to follow lots of the codes and conventions of an album with the small print on the back of the album, the logo of the record company that produced this album and the barcode on the back. i think these small things make this album more professional. i also used similar shots of the artist that you may see in the music video. i did this so that the audience would be able to create the relationship between all of my ancillary tasks
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Saturday, 7 April 2012
final version of my music video
this is my final cut of my music video, i tried to incorporate all of the feedback that i received from my first rough cut. Some of the things that were suggested to put into the music video was difficult to do, but i tried to show as much of the down to earth pop artist that is my artist.
Friday, 6 April 2012
First version of my music video
asked some of my class mates for their opinions on the video and what they
thought would be a good think to change. A lot of ideas were suggested here are
some of them:
- My girl actress looked a bit angry so maybe a different happier looking actress
would be good to use. - Breakup some of the footage with images of cartoon superman.
- Some of the lip syncing was not perfect so that needs to be changed.
- Also create a heading at the beginning of the video, with the songs title and the artists name.
it more interesting and would hopefully portray more of a conventional music
video.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Reflective analysis of my anamatic
Sunday, 4 March 2012
My anamatic
When creating my anamatic, I realised that some of my initial ideas were unrealistic and would just take to long to film. So I have changed my idea and now only are using areas that are near to were I live so it will be easier to film and will be easier for my actors to get to the places that I want to film from.
Friday, 2 March 2012
Reflective analysis of lyric deconstruction and audience profile
My audience profile has made me clear on what exactly my audience wants and what there likes. It also shows me what kind of props that I can use that will relate to the audience and that they would like to see in the music video.
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Research: Audience profile

These pictures all show what I think my audience would be in to and what they are like, I have also explained what each image means and how they relate to my audience.
- Ellie Goulding, this is a female artist that I think my audience would relate to and would aspire to be like them.
- Public transport, the audience would be a non-driver and are happy to use public transport.
- IPod, there are very into music and are artistic in the sense of the types of music they like, they would much prefer to listen to music rather than watch TV.
- Jason Mraz is a similar artist to Joe Brooks this artist is another artist that my audience would enjoy to listen to.
- Ryan Renyolds , is the type of man that my audience would like to be their ‘superman’ in relation to the music.
- Festivals would be one if my audience’s favourite pastimes and really love the summer, it’s their favourite season.
- Twitter would be my artist favourite social networking site because they have lots of idols that are celebrities and are interested in their lives and thoughts.
- Hugo boss perfume, the audience for this song like to look good and are conscious about their appearance.
- Dominos would be a main food in my audience as they are teenagers they like to eat junk food and want to eat what they want and not what’s good for them.
- Cocktails are a big drink for my audience as they like the summer and cocktails are connoted with the summer. Also because they are 18 years of age, they like to try new things and cocktails come in all different varieties that are all different.
- Cosmopolitan magazine, Cosmo magazine is a very friendly magazine and talks about aspects of an 18 year olds interests and queries about their life.
- 90210 would be the sort of TV programme that I think would appeal to the audience of my artist because it’s about teenagers and what they get up to, so they would be able to relate to the programme.
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Research:Lyric Deconstrustion

Reflective analysis of brainstorm, pitch board and directors pitch activity
For my brainstorm it made it obvious for me what props I need to organise and what shots that I was thinking of doing. It also pin pointed my exact thoughts and ideas and made it obvious to see what exactly I wanted to include.
For my pitch board, it made me think about Mise en scene and what sort of imagery I want for my album cover and for my advert. Also it made me more creative and made it easy for me to see exactly what I wanted to include and what sort of shots exactly I wanted, this was made easy by imagery.
Sunday, 19 February 2012
Analysis: Directors pitch activity
Monday, 6 February 2012
refelctive analsys of initial album and advert ideas
For the initial ideas for my album cover front and back, I thought long and hard what sort of image I would use, and decided that the best sort of image it should be. I decided that the best image for my front cover would be strong image of the artist face with him looking mysterious and intense at the person looking at the album cover. For the text I think it should be strong bold and relate back to the colour of superman i.e. red.
For the back cover of the album I am planning of having an image of the sky with the artist at the side so the song titles can stand out from the back ground.
Initial advert design
For the initial advert design there are two sorts of layouts I could go for, I could either do an advert to advertise the new release album or an advert to advertise the tour that the artist is doing. For my initial idea I used the advertisement to advertise the new album release. This has made me think about what sort of advert i want to create. i have decided to do an advert on the album realise this is because my artist isn't big enough to necessarily have any sort of tour.
Sunday, 5 February 2012
construction: Initial Advert design

Construction: Initial album cover designs


Friday, 3 February 2012
Advert Analysis : Olly Murs
The picture used in this advert is used to incite the audience for Olly Murs. Olly Murs target audience is teenage females. This image of Olly Murs is mysterious and soldering. This is good because young teenage girls like mysterious and soldering males; this is a good way of keeping Olly Murs’ target audience involved.
Also the use of the arrow in the advert, direct s the audience’s attention back to Olly Murs. This shows the audience of Olly Murs how important he is in the making of the music.
The autography looking writing by ‘Rizzle kicks’ is a way that the advert makes the audience feel more special to Olly Murs and Rizzle Kicks. This is done as the autograph would make the audience feel as though the advert is for them and them alone. This is a good way of Olly Murs making his fans feel special and needed.

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Reflective Analysis of Biography's
Monday, 30 January 2012
Biography - Dexter
Dexter started his musical career when he was in secondary school because he was in a a rock band with some of his friends. He then decided that maybe a rock band was not exactly what he wanted to pursue, so he left his band and become a solo artist and that’s when he started to create music of more of a pop rock genre instead of a heavy rock genre.
When he raised up the money from doing odd jobs round his neighbours he could afford a recording kit, that’s when his first singles started to make it onto YouTube and MySpace. ‘I just uploaded one song, then went back the next day and there was already 100 views and it just increased from then on. I was so shocked that people actually liked my music.’ Dexter was approached by two different record labels but didn't feel he was ready to be signed to a particular record label. ' I just want to keep my feet on the ground and don't want to get wrapped up in the music world, i want to just figure out what i want, before i sign away my life to a record label'.
Dexter started out just writing songs, ‘All my music is full of feeling and most of the songs that I have written are from experience from my life.’ Dexter’s music is a mixture between acoustic and pop rock. His most recent song that he has written is ‘Superman’, this song has not been realised as a song quite yet, but will be soon and it is the title of his first realised album.
Watch out for Dexter’s new music video to Superman!
This is Dexters biography which will be found on his Facebook and MySpace page and he will also be found on Twitter.



Sunday, 29 January 2012
Analysis of Biography: Joe Brooks
Analysis of Biography: Olly Murs
Saturday, 28 January 2012
Refelctive Analysis: analysis of music videos and Album covers
After analysing both the music videos and album covers that can be related to my artist’s genre, I have realised that most videos of the pop rock genre include musical instruments; this is an aspect of music videos that I will get include in the final product of my music video. I would also need to think about the other conventions of a pop rock music video, to make it more believable for my audience. Realistically of all the music videos I analysed, Teddy Geiger’s ‘For you I will’ video is the most compatible to the ideas I have for my own music video, although I would like to incorporate speeding up the background like shown in Ed Sheeran’s ‘A Team’ video.
In regards to the album covers, I would love my artist to eventually be able to use Coldplay’s ideas of an album cover. But at the stage in which my artist is in his musical career, he will need to have his picture on the front of his album cover as for his fans to recognise one of his albums. Also this album is my artist 1st album so it would need to be able to be recognised by the the audience in which he has.
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Analysing a album cover
Coldplay are such a well known band that they don't need to have their pictures on their album. they don't need to prove themselves anymore they have such a wide fan base that they don't need to win over any more fans.
Coldplay have done several videos different album covers that look very random. this has become of of their trademarks, so they don't even need to have their name 'Coldplay' on their album covers because their fans would recognise one of their album covers even if it didn't have their name on it because of the miss match of color and bold background.
In comparison to my artist that i am using they would not be well know so this is not a route for a album cover that i would be able to pull off. But in future that is what i would want my artist to be able to do, to be have a recognised trademark that could be used on their front cover without having to have their face or name on the album cove.

The boldness and rugged look of the font style enhances the audiences perspective of the artist that is Teddy Geiger. this is because the way he is dressed is very causal and not what you would expect for an artist to put as their as the front cover of their album is one of the initially impression of them. but because of the type of artist that Teddy Geiger is its audience knows hes a young rough and rugged artist and don't expect him to wear anything but what he is wearing.
As well as this the simplicity of background of the album cover, shows just how important the music is to Teddy Geiger's fans and how they don't want any fuss, all they want is to be able to recognise the album cover and buy the album.
Analysing a Music Video

There are lots of examples throughout this video of Goodwin's theory that there is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. One example throughout the music video is in one of the last scenes of the music video where Teddy Geiger is in a typical American house party, and when he sings 'Cannonball into the water' he does a cannonball into the pool. This is done to relate the lyrics of the song to the visuals that the audience sees. There is also another part of the music video when there is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. This is when Teddy Geiger sings 'I could fall asleep on those eyes' and it cuts to the actress playing his love interests eyes. This enhances the lyrics and what they mean to the audience.

there is a shot in the music video which helps to show how Teddy Geiger is trying to be sell this track by showing how he has grown as an artist from a very young age. in this shot there is a picture on the wall of Teddy Geiger as a young child with an electric guitar in his hand and he walks past it and there is a moment when the audience can see how much he has changed from when he started having an interest in music.

Friday, 20 January 2012
Analysing a Music Video


'Lights will guide you home' this is one of Goodwin's theories being that there is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals. The lyrics combined with the shot from behind the artist following some lights (lamp post) helps to illustrate and amplify the lyric that is being sung by the artist. Also the next part of the music video is the artist running to his band. 'Lights will guide you home' these lights he is following is taking him home, home to him is on stage in front of a crowd with his band.

Half way through the song, the artist stops singing and then a guitar solo starts and the music starts to get louder. This is a good example of Goodwin's theories that there is a relationship between the music and the visuals. This change in music combined with the artist running and the quick cuts, shows the change in pace of the music. This is before the performance part of the music video, this is a way of the directer creating more excitement in the music video.



Overall, Coldplay are such a well known band that they don't need to do an amazing video to impress their audience. Their audience likes them simply because of their music and Coldplay, play up to this by doing a simple and stripped back video, nothing fancy just them performing to them its all about the music.
Analysing a Music video
The music video for 'The A Team' is narrative based focusing on a homeless prostitute who lives on the streets of London. The story starts at the end, when the girl has seemed to have taken an overdose of drugs, this shot fades out starting from the beginning of the day. The faded shot is connecting to the story because the shot zooms out as well and connotes the feeling of her leaving her body and going up to heaven. Also one of the last shots we see is the same as the first shot, this helps the audience to understand that this is a narrative based video, and this girl in the video has died.


Throughout the music video there are lots of scenes where by the surroundings of the main girl in the video is speeding up, this is done to show passing of time. It can also show how the world is going by so fast around her. The shot is also taken from behind her, this gives the audience the sense of voyeurism (a theory devised by Foucault) as they are watching her watch the world go by. This edit is one that I would like to incorporate in my music video, that is why i chose to analyse this music video.
'Class A Team' this phrase is said several times through the song, this can be portrayed in two different ways, the audience could take it as her being addicted to class A drugs, in tern being in the class A team. Also the audience could see this as the girl being not in the class A team. People tend to think class A would mean the best, looking the best and having the best. This lyric backed up with the images of the girl can show the audience how she is not class A as she has nothing and looks dirty, with greasy hair and smudged makeup. This is a link between the lyrics and the visuals which is one of Goodwins theories.


There is lots of scenes in the video where there is a relationship between the visuals and the lyrics a theroy of Goodwin. Throughout the music video when the song says 'angels to fly' in the back ground there is a station called angel, and also a sign that says 'Improving the angel'. These are done to enhance and illustrate the lyrics that are being sung by Ed Sheeran.


Ed Sheeran appears in the video at one point, he gives the girl money for what magazine she is selling. This is done to show Ed Sheeran image and star motifs.

Overall I think this video is a very powerful narrative video. I think this because of the powerful message that it is trying to portray and the way the camera shots and the music make the audience feel sympathy and emotion towards the main girl because they can tell how sad she is because of all the close ups thought the music video.


















