Thursday, 19 December 2013
Ancillary Tasks - Conventions of album adverts
Conventions of album adverts
Before I start to think
about making an album advert, I need to find out what the main conventions of album
adverts were.
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- The main image is
normally the focal point on the album advert
and should follow the same theme as the digipak cover, sometimes copying it completely.
This is usually because the photos will be taken on similar types of photo
shoots.
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- The digipak/album
cover will also have a very similar colour scheme so everyone knows that the
two link together.
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- Adverts generally
have a list that shows what the album includes, sometimes other music artist’s
names who feature in songs, other tracks on the album or bonus features.
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Includes the artist’s
website address
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It may include the
record label
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The album advert
might have tour information
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- Might tell the reader
where you can buy or download the album
·
- The date of release
should be clearly shown
·
- Sometimes they have
positive comments or reviews in a small print at the bottom
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- Big bold titles
(artists name and song title)
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- There should be a
linking style throughout the whole album advert and digipak
Tuesday, 17 December 2013
Monday, 16 December 2013
Monday, 9 December 2013
Production - Problems I have encounted
Problems I encountered
During working on my music
video production I have had some problems.
- I originally
planned to film my music video during the summer holidays because there are
many people that are free as there are no college or school commitments, also
because the daylight hours are longer meaning there are many hours that I can
film in. However this didn’t go to plan, I filmed half of my music video using
one of my friends, Emily; however her family got a late booking cheaper holiday
so they went away meaning that I couldn’t film the rest. When we went back to
sixth form I did more planning for the music video and me and Emily both got
jobs meaning the days and times we could film in were very few, and I wouldn’t
be able to film the rest of the footage I needed in this time. I decided to
change the actress in my music video, however this meant that I had to do all
the makeup and outfits and some of the planning again because it wouldn’t have
worked quite the same and this took a lot of time as I was redoing work that I
had already done. However because of this, the daylight hours changed and it
started to get dark very early, again shortening the amount of time that I had
to film. The weather also was quite bad in October, it rained heavily and
constantly for nearly the whole month, meaning that I had to film in-between
rain showers as my music video is based outside. November was incredibly cold
but was bright and dry so I actually re filmed most of the footage that I had
filmed in October because it looked better.
- I have also had some problems with uploading to blogger
because I can only upload my work at school and there has been many occasions
where my computer has crashed or blogger has crashed or the internet has
stopped working, causing some of my work to be uploaded way after I have done
it.
Area’s that have gone well
I have finished all the
planning for my music video, all I need to do is upload some of my work to
blogger. I have also completely finished filming my music video and have
started on the editing of my music video.
Production - Reminding myself how to edit
Editing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3z-3kmkmrg
Because I knew that I wanted
to change a view of my video clips to fast motion and slow motion, I decided to
quickly have a look on youtube to find a tutorial that taught me within a few
minutes. I found this video the best.
Pre- Production - Prop list and mise en scene notes
Prop list and mise en scene
notes
Throughout my whole music
video I don’t really need many props, for the instrumental parts I need to find
a park where I can have my actor and actress laughing and joking with each
other, keeping the music video quite casual, I need this as in my instrumentals
will be the memories that they had together which will be put into slow motion
for more effect.
For the end of the song I
also need a fence which I have found, this is because at the end of the song
the boy will be sitting on a fence.
Apart from that all I need
is a camera and tripod to film with and my actor and actress in the correct
outfit and the correct makeup for each scene.
Pre- Production - Ellie Goulding - Only You lyric meanings
Lyric Meaning behind Ellie Goulding – Only You
In Ellie
Goulding’s song, Only You, there is a very strong resemblance to this song
being about a man and how he's the only person that can make her feel helpless,
in pain, the line; "only animal I couldn't fight" tells us that
because she is so in love with him, he has complete control over her.
The line "I'm on my knees" is in no way dirty, it's him hurting her and having so much effect on her that she's forced to fall to her knees from the impact of him.
The line "I'm on my knees" is in no way dirty, it's him hurting her and having so much effect on her that she's forced to fall to her knees from the impact of him.
The verse;
Only you can be the aching in my heart
My enemy, the only animal I couldn’t fight
You hold me in the dark when storms arrive, only you
Is saying that she describes this man as an “animal”, he is protective, but he is also threatening, predatory.
The other songs on the album can’t help but convince us that this “animal” motivated their lyrical content too. All of the songs on the album Halcyon are written in the second person, addressed to a “you.” This makes the album more appealing and relatable.
Pre- Production - Research into Ellie Goulding
Research into Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding is an
actress, singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from England, she got
signed by Polydor Records in 2009 with her manager Jamie Lillywhite.
Ellie Goulding is influenced
by Bjork, Imogen Heap, Lauryn Hill and Kayne West, Ellie Goulding is recognized
for her emotive songs and emotive delivery.
Her genres of music is a
quite wide range, including indie, pop, synthpop, folktronica, indietronica and dream pop. She is known best for her vocals
and guitar playing even though she can also play the keyboard, the bass, the
drums, the percussion and the clarinet. The record labels that she’s with are
Neon Gold, Polydor, Cherrytree and Interscope. The people that she is
associated with are Tinie Tempah, Calvin Harris and Skrillex. She has also worn
a mix of awards.
Her album Halycon which her
song Only You, which is the song that I’m creating a music video for, is known
as a break up album. It was released on 5th October 2012 by Polydor
Records and it was recoded between 2011 and 2012. This album received generally
positive reviews from music critics who complimented Ellie on her more
aggressive showcase of her voice and the album has been called “luxuriously
epic” by critics
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Pre- Production - Timings of each lyric line - Ellie Goulding Only You
Monday, 21 October 2013
Monday, 14 October 2013
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