Olivia's Media Blog

Research task: Dance music What makes all of these music videos from the dance music genre? All of the music videos from the dance genre contain dancing inside the video and show a happy and upbeat side to the video. They have done this so that the video appeals to the audience. In all of the music videos they use colour to make them stand out. Branded sportswear is worn in the music video to symbolise the sport aspect of the video, this also shows that the music can be danced to and also you can do sports to the music. Explore how the artists are using representation to appeal to their target audience in these three videos by picking out key frames from the video to analyse. In these music videos the artist has represented themselves to their target audience as being happy and 'free'. They are all free to do what they want with no one stopping them. They also are making other people feel free and happy (especially in the first video). What other music video...

Unfinished sympathy revision notes Who are they? Massive attack are an English trip hop group formed in 1988 in Bristol, consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall and formerly Andy "Mushroom" Vowles (Mush). The album 'Blue Lines.'      Released  8 April 1991 No. Title 1. "Safe from Harm"  (featuring Shara Nelson) 2. "One Love"  (featuring Horace Andy) 3. "Blue Lines" 4. "Be Thankful for What You've Got"  (featuring Tony Bryan) 5. "Five Man Army"  (featuring Horace Andy) 6. "Unfinished Sympathy"  (featuring Shara Nelson) 7. "Daydreaming"  (featuring Shara Nelson) 8. "Lately"  (featuring Shara Nelson) 9. "Hymn of the Big Wheel"  (featuring Horace Andy & Neneh Cherry) - The song and video 'Unfinished Sympathy.' The thing that launched their career as a mainstream band was in their debut alb...

Burn the witch revision notes: Burn the Witch  - Radiohead The band 'RadioHead' were formed in 1985 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.  Radio head's music genre is a range of: Alternative rock, progressive rock, experimental rock, electronica and Art rock.  The majority photos of Radio head are in black and white, and some of their photos are of them during different times of their career. The black and white images portray the band to have dark music and lyrics. Because t hey are an older band, so they have more of a fan base (cult) that are supportive. The track 'burn the witch' is on the  ' A Moon Shaped Pool album, which  is the ninth  studio album  by the English rock band  Radio head, released digitally on 8 May 2016.' The music video  uses  stop-motion animation  in the style of the   Trumpton   series, English children's television programme (also known as the  Trumpton Trilogy ).   The video was crea...

Analysis of the video As our first attempt at moving image the recreation of the H&M close the loop advert was a reasonable effort considering the period of time we were allocated and the variety of settings, props and cast needed. In our team I believe that we worked well and equally shared the job allocations. The unison of the group led to our successful product. The roles were allocated as so: Rebecca Timson- Director  Ben Black- Camera Operator Luke Castle-Jordan- Producer  Olivia Maclean- Sound manager  Throughout our video we used the non-diegetic music which was the original version of the song used in the H and M video titled 'Son of Fylnn' by Daft Punk. H and M slowed this track down however iMovie would not allow us to alter the track due to copyright reasons. We then recorded Ben for the voiceover which he used an american accent for, mimicking the voice of Iggy Pop.  Train Shot: In our interpretati...

Preliminary Production: Evaluating your equipment Nikon Camera photos: 'The following table compares general and technical features of  Nikon DSLR   cameras . Key: Only effective megapixels are noted Continuous shooting speed is maximum available at full resolution, using the stock body only (no detachable battery grip) Weight of camera is body only Dimensions are expressed in the form of width × height × depth and have been rounded up All cameras in the following table use the  Nikon F-mount ' colour- The colour of the image has a blue tone. lighting- we used the main lighting  overall quality of image- the quality of the image is grainy and it is not very clear. DSC Camcorder photos: 'SPATIAL RESOLUTION : The number of pixels used by a camcorder or video display. PIXEL : Picture element; smallest area of color in digital video picture. CHROMATIC RESOLUTION : The number of colors a camcorder or video display is ca...