Week 2 : The name has been chosen

Choosing our band name:

At the moment we got our band idea all set up and ready to go. The first thing we need to do is think of a band name.

We had a choice about 2 names on our band

1. Parental Advisory 
2. Rogues Gallery

The reason why we chose these names is that they show our rebellious behaviour of our band as these or the meanings of the band names 

Rogues Gallery: 

Parental Advisory: The meaning is its  not appropriate for the young generation , this means that we target the older generation similar to our age  who have the similar life style , for example , alcohol.   

How we got our results ? 

We went into the public and asked 41 different people who from their image would listen to our music, when approached we asked if they listen to similar bands such as oasis and Kasabian. If they replied 'Yes' we told them about out band brief and the meaning behind the two names. Then when they got there answer , they  told us which is the better name and then we record their answer in a tally chart.
We then inserted the results and produced a pie chart to see the results more clearer which is shown bellow.

OUR BAND NAME IS OFFICIALLY:  

ROGUES GALLERY 

Music Video Analysis of Tenacious D - Tribute

Tenacious D - Tribute Music Video

In this essay , i will be analysing Tenacious D music video of their song 'Tribute' applying Godwins theory. We had to pick from this or Jay Z '99 problems'.
I chose to do Tenacious D due to this band is more similar to our genre of rock so we could use this as a example and get ideas for our band.

Links Between Lyrics and Visuals 
 
Links Between Lyrics and Visuals Here I will be talking about how Tenious D Applied one of Godwin's theory of the lyrics matching with the visuals. The music video starts of with Tenacious D walking down a long road in the Desert trying to hitch-hike. The lyrics state this saying ‘ We was Hitch-hiking down a long long road’. Also , they sing ‘ all a sudden their Shined a shiny demon’ and a demon appears in the road which is shown in the image to the left. Godwin had this theory of that the visuals of the music video match the lyrics to the song. And this shown in tenacious d music video through out as they tell the story of what happened that night.







Narrative

 This music video is a story told by these two brothers which happened to them one night. The whole music video is a story , therefore the music video strongly implies Goodwin's theory of that music videos have a narrative running through the song. Straight away you can tell that the music video is going tobe narrative based as one of the brother states ‘ A long time ago me and my brother was walking down a long road’ this shows that in this song they are going to be telling what happened that night though music.





 Star Power – Close Ups

 The record label that produced this song , applied godwins theory of close ups of the band to promote their star power. Through out the music video both men are shown in close ups. Godwins theory was that close up used to market the band. Sell the artist to the public. In this video close up are used on the double act. However , the close up are not of them individually , only very rarely. Throughout the music video , they are shown in close ups together , this symbolise the bong they have together , and how close they are. The record label is not selling them individually but together as tenacious d.













Genre Characteristics

 Genre characteristics of rock are followed in this music video. They are shown by showing the rock genre through the instruments of guitars used. Furthermore , the clothing is rocky with the way he has his un button shirt which is similar to what can be described as a punk. They don’t come across as the typical rock stars through their image , but you can take into consideration some rock characteristics they have used . However Tenacious D seem to be unique and different than other rock bands.













What did I get from this video to use in our music video?

1. In the Tenacious D video , we took the idea of their video of having a strong narrative throughout. Tenacious D engaged the audience through having their music video tell the audience a story , and we like that idea and in our music video , we want our music video to tell a story through out for the audience to be engaged.
2. Another idea we want to apply in the music video is to indicate the type of genre we are through props we use , for example we want to have band equipment  in our music video such as guitars drums ect  
3. In addition , we will use close ups of the band member to show star power and promote our band. 

Artic Monkeys - Music Video Analysis

Week 2 - We Changed Our Idea

A2 Media Studies
Week 2 - Changing our idea

ATTENTION !

We have changed our idea from the rap genre to a rock/indie band.

We feel like although that rap/hip hop is our strongest knowledge of the genre as that is the music our group listen too , we do not look like rap/hip hop artist ourselves. Together as a group , we look like a rock band from feedback given to us. The task is to create a digi pak , with adverts and a music video and they need to look as realistic and professional as can be.  So we have to go with what looks the strongest selling point and that is a rock band.  Our day to day image of us together  is at the moment we have  long hair but we have a ruff look to us with our facial hair ect , making us swing more to the rock side of music , rather than the main stream ,clean cut, typical boy band like One Direction.

We feel like with this change of idea , this is a positive move for our coursework as it will look more realistic which is key to achieve a good grade . Research is needed on the genre as this genre of music is not what we really listen too so we need to understand the genre before we can start production work. A good in depth research will be in place and  put up on my blog in a couple of days on the code and conventions of the genre and similar bands and music videos of our genre for us to get a understanding of rock .

Back panel first draft

This is my first draft of my digi pack back panel design.

As you can see it is a very basic design and a design I am not proud of. This example does not show my creative and unique approach I want my digi pack to give off.

How I created this design?

I got the image taken of a blank lined sheet of paper and I uploaded this onto photoshop , applying the text on top of the lines to give of the feel as if it has been written on top of the sheet of paper.

What I need to do to improve?

Firstly I will change this whole idea concept to something more creative, Me and my group lack photos so we have a few up and coming photo shoots which i can use an image of their for my back panel design. If i was to improve this , Firstly their is no record label concept at the bottom and no barcode which makes this panel feel even more un professional.

Music Video Analysis 1

The kooks from Dan Kelly

Week 1 - Brainstorming

Week 1 - Brainstorming

A2 Media Studies 

Rap/HipHop Genre 

In this brainstorm we took what we discussed in the other lesson , and took the ideas which we had about the Rap/Hip Hop genre and looked at the genre in more detail . The idea of choosing this genre came due to the rap/hip hop genre was the genre was what we new more about as its our favourite type of music , so we feel that this would be our strongest genre to secure a good grade. 

We looked at similar artist and studied there image and took down some idea of what we need to look like. 

Furthermore , we noted down similar band to us which we can research into.

In the brainstorm , we started to write some ideas for our music video such as locations and story ideas ect.

Here is a summary of our progress so far.

The Image of the band:

The clothing we are going for are typical 'modern gangster' with tracksuits and chains ect associating the clothing with plain dull colours  such as black white and grey , we believe the band come from a lower class background such as a estate and all new each other from the estate they grew up in. Due to a lower class background , they need to look lower class so oversized clothing ect , ruff looking ect. 

The music video:

The music video ideas we had flowing was ideas such as the following:

we wanted to go for a strong narrative possibly a true story of someone.

Ideas of the story could be about a boy growing up in the estate , with each band member telling their own story of what happened to them. 

The music video we feel like has to be dark , possibly create shadows as we feel that what suits the genre to create a dark atmosphere for the audience. 

And locations of the video need to be in run down places such as the streets or estates.