Music Video regulation.

Here is a prezi presentation based on the rules of regulation of music videos and how inappropriate things are dealt with by the BBFC.

Mine and Emily's Picth

Here is mine and Emily's pitch that we will deliver on camera.

Charlotte and Emily’s pitch.

Charlotte: The song we have chosen to use is Adele’s ‘When we were young’. We originally selected an Ella Henderson song but we didn’t feel like we could create a video that would complement the song well enough in comparison to this song.

Emily: We have chosen this song because we both really like the artist and feel the song is more powerful which gives us more chance to be creative with our video.

Charlotte: We are still unsure exactly what will happen within the video but Emily will be lip syncing and then we will have several different shots of old and young couples from past and present and families to emphasise the meaning of the song, which is to make the moment matter and value every minute.

Emily: Our target audience is a broad range of teenagers-adults as the song can be interpreted in many different ways. Both genders can be included within our target audience depending on the genre they like.

Charlotte: We feel we are good time keepers because on a previous task we thought we’d have difficulty to complete it within the allocated time due to busy schedules but we managed to produce a finished product on the deadline as we used the time that we had effectively. 

Emily: We are also good team workers as we both put forward ideas and put the same amount of effort in as one another which is useful so it’s not just one of us working hard and the other doing nothing.

Charlotte: The equipment we will need for our music video is a DSLR (or a good quality camera similar to this one), a tripod, we will experiment with different lights

Emily: We feel people will be able to relate to this as many people value their family and the sense of belonging. Some people may also watch our video for escapism and for entertainment which is diversion.

Charlotte: The song can create personal identity as people can relate themselves with the context of the lyrics. We intend to film inside and outside but are yet to decide on the location but we do have a range of ideas which would be effective for our video.

 

 

We will post a video link to this post after we deliver this to our teacher.

Best CD covers of all time.

There are several iconic CD covers that always stick in your head for one reason or another. I want to explore the different meanings and interpretations on some famous album covers to identify why they were such a significant importance in the art work of CD covers.

The first CD cover I will look at is Van Halen's album 1984. This was quite popular as it shows something you wouldn't expect, something that would shock an audience and spark up conversation. It's of a baby/toddler with angel wings smoking a cigarette. Obviously, this isn't what we expect a young child to be doing, we expect them to be immature and playing with toys etc. This obviously made the band and album popular as it touched on some boundaries for e.g. religion and parenting.



The next album cover I will look at it is ACDC's Back in Black album. This was the first album released after Bon Scott's death (the lead singer of the band). They decided to go simple by having the album black and the name of the band and album faintly outlined on the top and the middle of the cover. This implies darkness or stereotypically rock/heavy metal music is often seen with the colour black. The album nicely fits the genre of music that the band creates.




This album cover caused a lot of debating within the band as it took them from being Blondie to just Debbie Harry and her band. The title was even written in what looks like pink lipstick, she's the only one wearing something different to the rest of the band, almost isolating herself from the band trying to show her dominance. In the end the band parted from their manager as he was the one who suggested the idea for the album cover.





The last album cover I am going to look at is Rammstein's Mutter (mother). This could easily be linked because it is unborn foetus (inside the mother) and it could be implied that the title is from the babies voice. It was kind of a turning point for the band as before this they were not taken as a 'serious' band and they wanted people to understand the messages they were giving out and the importance of some of their songs. It's pretty difficult as a English person to understand their messages unless they've been translated for you because all their songs are sung in German. However, this has not stopped the popularity of the band in fact the amount of people who like and support the band in the UK is growing each year. The music on the album is known to be haunting so they wanted a picture to match their theme and as awful as that sounds because it's only a baby the fact it's an actual picture of an unborn child is quite haunting so I feel this album hit all the targets they set out to do.

Controversial music videos.

I read through the article that was published in 'Q Magazine' about Rihanna's music video 'Bitch Better Have my Money'. It created so much controversy within the audience who watched it as some people found it disgusting and told people about it and some people found it inspiring because of how strong females were represented within the video. However, this did get people talking some people portrayed it as bad and others as good, this got people watching the video either way because of how much they'd heard about it.

  

A controversial music video that caused a lot of discussion was Nirvana's - 'Heart -Shaped Box'. It shows an old man climbing the cross that Jesus was crucified on wearing a santa hat which is seen as inappropriate from a parents perspective, it shows a woman with her insides painted on her body trying to pick foetuses off a tree which is again very inappropriate because the woman is meant to symbol an angel, but instead of having a halo and a light look about her she's got black, dirty wings and looks quite scary depicted from her facial expression. There is also a small child in the video, wearing what looks like similar to the Klu Klux Klan's dress code. It's a white cloak with a pointed hood, although it isn't covering the child's face it could still be implying the same meaning as if it was and they were wearing the hood properly, either way how awful is it to expose a child to any scene in the video and to make them wear possibly such offensive clothing??? 

I honestly am not surprised this video caused huge discussions and isn't exactly the favourite of some people. Besides all that I quite like the song and think it's a good listen but it's a shame the video is portrayed in such a bad way. Contrastingly, Nirvana could have wanted this video to be symbolic in a different way, in a way where they make a point, saying things and showing things everyone else is afraid to do and touching just below the line before it gets too explicit to some discriminating footage. Maybe not and maybe the just wanted to make a very very strange music video? who knows!