background info on the media industry

When I was younger I used to work a lot in television productions, eg appearing in tv programmes, films, and adverts. I recently found an advert I was part of back in 2005 when I was 11. It is quite funny to watch myself back over. Ever since I was that young, appearing in a variety of things to do with the media has engaged me more into becoming involved in the media when I am older.

Genre Research

Genre's
Genre is a critical tool that helps us study texts and audience responses to texts by dividing them into categories based on common elements.

Daniel Chandler ( 2001) - The word genre comes from the French (and originally Latin) word for "kind" or "class". The term is widely used in literary theory and media theory to refer to a distinctive type of text.

Sub Genres
Barry Keith Grant (1995) - Within genres there are sub-genres which allows music to have the same basic elements, but different components. Genres are divided up into more specific categories that allow audiences to identify them specifically by their familiar and what become recognisable characteristics.

Steve Neale (1995) - "Genres are not 'systems', they are processes of systematization" i.e. they are dynamic and evolve over time.

All genres will have similar mise-en-scene which helps us identify what genre the song is allocated to.

Jason Mittell (2001) - Genres are cultural categories that surpass the boundaries of media texts and operate within the industry, audience and cultural practices as well.

Discarded songs

Magnetic man - Perfect Stranger


Katy B - On a mission







Rihanna and Eminem - Love the way you lie

Song Lyrics

Here are our lyrics to the song, we have some lyrics we are going to expand on and possible use in our video. For instance, Example talks about a girl in a red dress, so we are going to try and wear a dress. Also when he says 'How can 10 hours feel like 10 years' Here we were going to green screen a calender and have the main guy walking across the calender. We was also going to green screen poleroid pictures of different times of the year.
Also another key lyric is when it says 'watch the sun come up' Here we are going to film a panning shot ot the sun coming up and also going to reverse the shot back down as he sings it.
SONG LYRICS

Hey, good morning
Hey, it's calling
Hey, good morning
Watch the sun come up
It's calling
I want another day with you

How can I explain it scratchin my brain
How can 10 hours feel like 10 years?
I cry 10 men’s tears as it disappears
With the passionate atmosphere
Took your glove as a souvenir
Left the other on the pillow as I stroked your ear
One last breathe of your hair, stared for a second
Then the doorway beckoned
I’m a lover not a fighter
So I didn’t fight the fact that I more than liked ya
Didn’t matter we were under influence
Made sense this was more than lust
I don’t own you, you don’t own me
One night only, if only
I could take you back and just show you off
But I guess if I did that, the magic is lost

Pre chorus:

Believe me I wanna stay
But I'm off and away

Chorus:

Hey, Good Morning
Watch the sun come up
It’s calling
I want another day with you

Verse 2:

You and that red dress - What a pairing
I kept staring, you couldn’t have said less
Cant let my head rest, thinking about ya,
Really wanna look into your catwoman eyes
Turn back time, cause it flies by
You know, them Marty mcfly vibes
Example Watch The Sun Come Up lyrics found on http://www.directlyrics.com/example-watch-the-sun-come-up-lyrics.html
See, I can picture the bright lights
Sights and night skies and boats go by
I don’t why it happened so fast
When I tried to speak your language I'm happy you laughed
Cause I’m hardly a linguist
Spoke through kisses you didn’t speak English
And It was hard to distinguish
Love at first sight or holiday romance?
Don’t care I was lost in the moment
I really shoulda missed that flight

Pre Chorus:

Believe me I wanna stay
But I’m going away

Chorus:

Hey, Good Morning
Watch the sun come up
It’s calling
I want another day with you
Hey, Good Morning
Watch the sun come up
It’s calling
I want just one more day with you

Middle 8:

I don’t think I could be dreaming I felt your touch
No I remember you breathing when I woke up
Now all I have are these memories I can't trust
Just one day, wont be enough

Chorus:

Hey, Good Morning
Watch The Sun Come Up
It’s calling
I want another day with you
Hey, Good Morning
Watch The Sun Come Up
It’s calling
I want another day with you










Watch The Sun Come Up lyrics

Chosen Song Choice

We have finally chosen our song after a long hard thoughtful week. We initially was going for the Hip Hop/Rap genre, but with much thought and consideration we decided that the song choice we wanted to use was too demanding and it seemed more like a short story rather than a narrative and performance. So its goodbye Rhianna and Eminem's song 'Love the way you lie' and hello Examples song 'Watch the sun come up'.

We decided on our original idea of using the artist Example as he has meaningful lyrics and the story we have come up with matches his lyrics and could potentially work really well. Hopefully this idea will work and we will be able to include all the idea's we have made and include them in the song successfully.

Mood board for genre

Mood Board Finish

Potential songs to use

Last week my group and I wrote out a list of potential songs to use in our music video. They are;

Example - Kickstart
- Watch the sun come up
- Last ones standing

Rusted Root - Send me on my way

Ellie Goulding - Lights

INXS - I need you tonight

Professor Green - Just be good to green

Cee lo Green - Forget you

Rihanna ft Eminem - Love the way you lie

Kate Nash - Foundations

Meeting Log

Date of Meeting: 15th September

Venue of Meeting: School Library

Attendees: Elle & Sophie

Minutes and Actions: Thought about the narrative video, and the storyline behind it. Also the song and genre of the song

Video Analysis

Research on youtube

When i got home from school I began looking on youtube at last year's A2 music video's and come across this really clever video. I love how the drawings move and the words are cut out. Great idea to think about for our video.

Music Video and Genre choices for our song

We have decided our groups genre is going to be 'Rap/Rnb' as we are very fond of the idea of using Eminem and Rihanna's duet "Love the way you lie" as it fits our storyline perfectly.

Miming

To make sure our video does not go horribly wrong and look cheesy, we wanted to focus on a performance video rather than narrative, although including some shots of narrative. To do so we thought of the idea of using long shots and wide shots so that the movement of the mouth isnt so clear.

We also thought that by making the rapping more exciting, we could use a number of mouths, male and female to rap parts of the song, like Black Eyed Pea's did on their single 'Where is the love' and Example's 'Kickstart'. This could be a really effective technique to use.

Lastly, at the start of the song 'Love the way you lie' we were thinking of filming the flashbacks of the two different couples fighting, or possibly just show one couple at a time, to save confusion of the audience, and only when Rihanna's singing part of the first chorus comes in, the couples or girl depending, begin to reminisce over their good times, and so the plot of our performance starts in our video. (As we want to focus more on the happytimes of the story to contrast the songs lyrics and make it feel more upsetting and depressing that this is how the couples have turned out.)

I have been researching loads into different music video's my group can use, and found that it was a lot harder than we thought! There are so many different types of genre's and storylines we could use, but we managed to get a rough idea of what our video can be about.

We watched Example's video of 'Watch the sun come up' and loved the idea of the scenes with a girl, walking and talking randomly, and just being happy. We also loved the arguements and fighting in Eminem's video 'Love the way you lie' as it is very meaningful and powerful.

We want to encorpertae both happy and sad moods into our video, juxstaposing eachother.

Our idea of 'love' is looking promising, as we have written bullet points on a plot of a story to do with 2 couples, 2 different girls, but both in the same situation and in the same location( possibly a cafe or leaning on a tree on two opposite sides) as they reminise their previous fighting and arguing, along with their goodtimes, possibly looking through photo's of memories, or their memory in their head. The girls could start off at the cafe or the park and either reminse what's just happened in a flashback or, during the flashback at the end it goes through all the happy times repeating the arguements from the start of the music video and then showing the two girls leaving in fury and making their seperate ways to the starting location, using different routes, but finding comfort in this one place where they can think. We would focus on the two girls situations by using a zoom in editing technique either into the cup of coffee, or the girls themselves, and using a split screen later on in the video to show the girls similar situations and how they are both handling it.

We was also thinking, to show the difference in the flashbacks and real life, to use a date and time on the screen indicating the location and the fact it is earlier that day or even the previous day.

Narrative or Performance?

We are more than 80% sure our narrative will be about love, preferably a couple either having arguements or a couple that are happy and looking over memories. We think this would be a good choice as many artists nowdays are about love as it is such a big part in people's lives, and so we need to find the right music to match this.

We will be including performance in our video, but not too much as we do not want to over do it and make it look unprofessional, as a lot of artists, such as Rhianna, and Example, have a storyline and a few shots of them actually singing. We would like to do the same.

Genre's and song choices

We are currently debating which music genre to choose. We have had a number of idea's, ranging from indi/rock to pop. We want to focus on a narrativee music video as we like the idea of a storyline going on during the singing. We want to stay away from using too much performance video as it could come across as being quite cheesy.

We found a song from the film Matilda - written by Rusted Roots - 'Send me on my way'



We have also been looking at Examples songs; Kickstarts and Last one standing as both have an upbeat rhythm which we could easily do a narrative video with. They also have meaningful lyrics.

Groups- We're Back!

For my group, we have decided to all stay in the same groups from AS as we are all ocmfortable around eachother and know eachothers likes and dislikes whilst making a film. Last year I was the main actress in our film, and so this year, depending on the music choice we choose, we are all debating whether to all take part in the music video, as it is also our last year of the A2 course.