Monday 22 January 2018

Music Video Analysis

L/O: To apply media terminology when analysing music videos    22nd January 2018


The vamps: Someone to you

Narrative style and performance elements:
They are singing about how they want to be somebody special to the girl they like so they are narrating how they feel about her but it is a very weak narrative as its performance video.

camerawork (shot type, angle and movement)
They do full body shots with the group of boys and the group of girls but with Demi Lovato they only do portrait shots. They move the shots sideways, backwards and sometimes forwards.

sound (diegetic and non-diagetic etc)
They have guitars and drums playing with the vamps singing whats quite masculine. Its diegetic sound as you can see them playing on the beach and singing and also to set the scene at the beginning.

Mis-en-scene (hair, makeup, costume, props, locations)
They are wearing quite casual clothing, clothing you would normally wear on a holiday somewhere hot. the girls are wearing makeup. the location is a tropical like island on a beach. The props are inflatable animals in the pool, the glasses they were wearing. 

Editing (cut type, length and speed, transitions, graphics)
theres no graphics as its naturalistic throughout. cut type goes from one scene to the next, it goes at site a slow pace then when the music starts to go faster the scenes transition faster. 


Little mix: Black Magic

Narrative style and performance elements:
Its a performance style video with also a very weak narrative. The lyrics go on about how they made a potion what makes any boy fall in love and how all the girls in there block are knocking on there door asking how to make it but in the video they are in a high school trying to impress a boy.

camerawork (shot type, angle and movement)
They do full body shots then when they are doing a solo they do portrait shots of the people doing the solo. They pan out over the crowd that forms around the four girls.

Sound (diagetic and non-diabetic)
The only diagetic sound is the school Bell at the beginning then all the singing etc is non-diagetic. 

Mis-en-scene (hair, makeup, costume, props, locations)
In the beginning of the video the four girls are geeks with not much makeup then when they turn into the attractive girls they were wearing allot of makeup. the location was a high school.

Editing (cut type, length and speed, transitions, graphics)
They used graphics for the magic. The speed goes with the beat of the music and whenever one of them is doing a solo they change to a portrait scene of them singing. 










Monday 8 January 2018

Mock Feedback

L/O: To review mock exam questions and make improvements

Question 1

males aged 25-50 who's social grade is ABC1 and like rock and also alternative rock

Question 2

you need to make sure for this question you use is correct when answering a question e.g. masthead, fonts etc. representation = stereotypes. 

specific examples from Dave Grohl cover: 

  • it has a very mixed colour pallet with the use of colours like blue, yellow, white, red and black
  • the photo type of Dave is a medium closeup shot
  • They have David Grohls name in bold 
  • they use san serif font on there front cover
  • they use a light blue for there background 
question 3

Media language = masthead, cover lines, puffs, main image, colour palette and typography 

using correct terminology 
identify genre conventions of rock and alternative music magazine used/subverted 

link to target audience and representation 

How David Bowies front cover is different:
  • The title is in the middle of the front cover
  • it doesn't have a wide range of colours 
  • David is wearing a bit more makeup than a normal artist does

Thursday 4 January 2018

Music based case study

Thursday 4th January 2018 

Narrative based video
A narrative music video is a music video that narrates a story using music

Concept based video
A concept based video is based on a single idea or theme

Performance based video
A performance based video is when the artist/band are performing

Pair 3: Little mix Black magic and The Vamps Somebody to you

Name of artist/group: The Vamps
Genre: Pop
Date song was released: 18th May 2014
What is the song about: They are singing about how they want to be somebody important to the girl they love
Type of music video: Performance
Describe what happens: They are staying in this Beach resort where they meet this group of girls that they like then they sing to them about how they want to be that special man in there life.
Who is featured in the video: Demi Lovato
How is the group/artists represented as: 


























In the Video how are they represented: They are represented as young lovers who have good fashion style who are staying in a resort on a nice beach.

Name of Artist/Group: Little Mix
Genre: Pop
Date song was released: 21st May 2015
what is the song about: Them using black magic so boys fall in love with them
Type of music video: Performance
Describe what Happens: They have a crush on this guy but he doesn't like them then in the library they find a magical book and the magic makes whoever you want fall in love with you so they use it and get the boy they like to fall in love with them.
Who features in the music video: Just Little mix
The artist/group are represented as: 


























In the video the Artist/Group is represented as: In the beginning they are represented as Geeks but halfway through they are represented as attractive young women.