Thursday 29 March 2012
Influences for planning and design choices - similar music videos
The influences tor the music video during the planning
process were a wide variety of different things from other music videos to art
pieces and even listening to others songs that enthused us in a particular way.
Most directly was the music video for ‘Don’t give up the fight’ by Racoon which
we took the opening scene and applied to our song. If you compare both videos
you can clearly see the natural forest area in which we filmed – the same as in
the music video. And also you can notice the panning upwards that we also took,
the only thing that is different is the lighting of the shot, in our one the
contrast in colours is more prominent because of the setting sun which creates silhouettes
of the trees and leaves. We also looked
at ‘Skinny Love’ by Birdy. The general lonely atmosphere of the video is what
we wanted to capture, we tackled this by using a muted colour pallet. Moreover
in both videos that we looked at there was a correlation with mature and
forests. Other things like the sound of birds first thing in the morning
inspired me to use light and dark in our work to replicate the rising sun when
the birds sing.
Wednesday 28 March 2012
Music video analysis - Racoon don't give up the fight
Throughout the music video the camera moves slowly and there
are very few short clips; most of the clips are long and linger on appealing to
a niche audience of people who enjoy music videos that are produced in this
way. The location of the narrative matches the sounds of the song. The string
instruments are associated with nature and wood such as trees and brown/ dirt
colours. This is because of synthesia and how we visualise sounds. The location
of the forest is contrasted with the depths of water where people are dancing/
drowning. On land light and friendly colours are used while underwater the only
colours other than black are the ones in which the light from above shines down.
Looking at the colour scheme it is predominantly browns and greens however with
an injection of red from the young boys’ hoodie. This sudden use of colour
keeps the audience’s attention and helps to progress the narrative because of
its obscurity against the rest of the colour scheme, the audience begin to
wonder WHY red is used for the hoodie and what it could signify. Looking
further into video it could be foreboding the meeting of the young girl and
represent love, however it can also illustrate the intertextualization of the
children’s story book ‘Little red riding hood’ but in a different and more
modern way. Long shots are abruptly cut by close ups of the characters faces.
There is a sense of intrusion because of this as there are no mid-shots which
are normal used to represent a typical distance in which you would stand in
front of another person. The jump from a long distance shot to a close up
instigates a feeling that the boy is being watched (long shot) and the close up
is from his perspective as he looks around. This music video is in ways illustrating
the music as the young boy is continually perusing the girl which matches the
lyrics and title of the song “Don’t give up the fight”, moreover the ‘drowning’
people in the water could also be interpreted as not giving up the fight for
life… To continue the ambiguity of the music video makes the audience want to
watch it over and over again as to try and see something that they might have
missed before in order to decode the narrative of the visuals. If I have to
rate this video out of 10, I would give it a 6 it was beautiful because of the
location and I though the use of water and movement was interesting and elegant
however the narrative was weak and didn’t really lead anywhere. More often than
not I was left thinking “where are those children’s parents?!”
Tuesday 27 March 2012
More images for digital media pack
Here are a two more photos that I have taken for possible digi-pack pages...
some pages for the digi-pack
Here are a few pages that I created FROM HAND for possible
pages of the digi-pack. For the back and while one I took inspiration from the White
Stripes music video for Seven Nation Army and also used an image from the film The Bride
of Frankenstein, out of all three that one is my favourite however I’m finding
it hard to create ideas that would go well with it for the other pages. The
drawing one is sweeter and would appeal more to girls as such it isn’t my
favourite one. The last one is a picture of my friend in Fara Charity shop in
Wimbledon. I cut out an image of a lizards head to put in the place of hers,
the image is bold and matches the poster for the gig however I think the mass
of colours doesn’t match the actual song Moon and moon…
Gig poster
After looking at a range of different images and posters for
older gigs I have finally produced my final idea. I took inspiration from the
Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama and in my poster I have replicated a photograph of
her which you can see on my previous blog post about posters and the digi-pack.
I took advantage of the spaces within the circles and wrote down the location
of the venue and the ticket prices. The venue I picked was XOYO a real cub in
London, I’ve been there before and found the location nice, moreover the venue
plays host to bands that are along the same lines as Bat for lashes (or in my
case ‘Spectrum’). I picked Friday the 13TH of April 2011 for the
date because it’s an interesting date and I’m sure it’ll catch people’s
attention. To create the poster I used tools that were available on iPhoto to alter
the saturation which changed the colour of the image. I also decreased the
noise of the image so that it would look softer and more fluid and professional.
In addition I slightly changed the contrast of the photo so that the colours
created by the saturation change would look more vivid and replicate the photograph
of Yayoi Kusama better. The only thing that I was upset was that I wasn’t able
to make the background black like the photo of Yayoi nonetheless I am very
pleased with my creation. I believe that this poster reflects what I wanted to
present. Listening to Moon and moon it sounds calm and melancholy however an
undertone of menace is felt by me, I wanted to play on the menace and express
what else you can expect from the rest of the (imaginary) album. Because of
that I believe that way I have presented the poster well.I also took a few other photos where I manipulated them for backups incase the red one didn't look as good. IMPORATNAT MESSAGE! THE POSTER FOR THE GIG IS
NOT REAL! THERE WILL NOT BE A SHOW AT XOYO FOR ‘SPECTRUM’ ON THE 13TH
APRIL!!
Monday 26 March 2012
Looking into album artworks and images for poster ideas
I’ve looked at a range of different album covers from a
range of different artists so to get a wide picture of what type of covers are
out there and what could fit in with the image of our artist. Here are a few of
my favourite which I believe I can incorporate some of the ideas into my own interpretation
of the album cover for the artist.
Miike Snow -Happy To You
Ladyhawke - Anxiety
Thomas White - Yalla!
For the poster I came across an image of and artist that I
love. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese pop artist who has a very impressive catalogue
of work from over 4 decades. Flicking though Google images I came across this
poser of her that I really liked. The whole colour scheme and boldness of the
design really appealed to me and I could image picking up a flying in a music
shop for a upcoming gig. Unlike the album cover I have decided on using this
image for the poster because I believe it would appeal to what I believe would
be the target audience; young and old alike, people who are into modern music the
style of the image reflects what type of music its promoting) alternative and slightly
on the side of macabre…
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