Showing posts with label christina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christina. Show all posts
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Update
To make the most of the muisic video production, Hayley and I have deicded that we are going to use the same footage that we have either acted in or directed; but we are going to edit t differently.
Friday, 3 October 2008
Target Audience
Our target audience is aimed at mixed gender music fans who do not necessary know of Howie Day's music but yet enjoy a light rock/country genre who are interested in meaningful songs which are of a quiet tempo, as there is quite a lot of emotive language and the lyrics and story that Howie Day is trying to explain are both rather emotional. I would aim the song at older teenagers to young adults, as in our video it is of a love story which teenagers and young adults could associate with and also as there are scenes of uncomfortable nature with the girlfriend (me) dying; I feel that aiming the video at a younger audience maybe too sensitive as a similar case happened before with one of Britney Spears video's called 'Every time' where throughout the video she is severely depressed and then at the end she drowns herself in a bath.
This was controversial as her target audience is predominately females age between 8 - late 30's. As her target audience includes children, she had to alter her video so that at the end it showed her coming out of the bath so she didn't die. This is why we are able to have scenes of me dying in a car accident because the target audience is of an older age.
What we are doing in the lesson today...
Today, we are editing part of our footage from the park scene where Waq and I are playing with a frisbee and showing memories of our relationship together. We have already cross dissolved the shot of me and Waq having a picnic; which has allowed us to incorporate this shot into the next chronological shot being of Waq singing, leaning on a tree so that it looks like it is part of the same shot, (even though it is really two shots of which he is both in.)
In part of our footage, we have managed to crop the image and colour correct it to give the impression that some of the footage is made to look aged. Cameron has cut all the footage that we have filmed so far into shorter clips so that they will be easier to syncronise with the lip syncing and so that our timing will be perfected as it will be easier to recognise when a shot fits with a certain part of the song whether it be a chorous, bridge, or verse.
We have also been colour testing; the point of this is because the memory scenes need to be in a different colour so that our narrative is still clear, as to the story being about a boyfriend and girlfriend and the boyfriend looking back on the good times they shared together until the inevitable ending where the girlfriend dies in a car accident. We have also put in a transition which helps the audience understand that the boyfriend is looking back on the past.
In part of our footage, we have managed to crop the image and colour correct it to give the impression that some of the footage is made to look aged. Cameron has cut all the footage that we have filmed so far into shorter clips so that they will be easier to syncronise with the lip syncing and so that our timing will be perfected as it will be easier to recognise when a shot fits with a certain part of the song whether it be a chorous, bridge, or verse.
We have also been colour testing; the point of this is because the memory scenes need to be in a different colour so that our narrative is still clear, as to the story being about a boyfriend and girlfriend and the boyfriend looking back on the good times they shared together until the inevitable ending where the girlfriend dies in a car accident. We have also put in a transition which helps the audience understand that the boyfriend is looking back on the past.
Monday, 22 September 2008
Homework (Analysis of Music Video) By Christina Rankin
"Pink - So What"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXfO09me3v4
I have chosen to analyse the music video "So What" By pink. I chose to analyse this video because of two reasons, firstly; it is one of my favourite videos as it is extremely catchy and I feel that the lyrics represent Pink the vocalist as a person, her whole image gives off a persona of a person that is going to do whatever they feel like and they don't care about other peoples opinions or attitudes. Pink is going to rebel when a negative situation arises; for example, in the first line of the first chorus, the lyrics are "I guess I just lost my husband, I don't know where he went." Pink's response to this is an I don't care attitude and this is how she turns a negative situation into a positive situation; with the lyrics and making the video look fun and enjoyable to make. Pink is not a very serious person, as when she says that she doesn’t know where her husband is, there is an element of slapstick humour, as we see in the video, he is actually behind her, covering her eyes so that she cannot see him.
Key conventions are used in this video, with star image, there are a lot of close ups of Pink, and body shots. The first shot is a medium, central shot to show that the video is going to be about Pink as she is the main character and the first shot we see is of her. With it being a medium shot, she takes up the whole screen; which emphasises that the narrative of the video will have something to do with her. The second shot is a close up of Pink driving a sit-on lawnmower, the immediate shot after is a long shot of Pink driving the sit-on lawnmower on a public road, with queuing traffic behind her and a man in the background in the car behind waving his arms, looking annoyed; implying that Pink is rebellious, choosing the sit-on lawnmower as her mode of transport on the road, instead of a car.
With the video being about pink telling a story that she is over her husband, voyeurism is incorporated into the video, as there is a lot of footage of Pink herself, she is the main focus. Panning is used with a zoomed shot of Pink on the lawnmower, to show that she is holding a can of beer in her hand. Lyrics and visuals are also used here as Pink says “So I'm gonna drink my money” and then it shows her drinking her can of beer. This also happens when Pink uses the lyrics “I wanna start a fight” and then she has a fight with a man in a guitar shop.
The genre of the video is pop, mainstream, with a slight edge of rock, the conventions of a pop video are rather minimal in this video, as there are not any choreographed dance moves; matching outfits, and the song itself is not about happy- go-lucky people, however, there are other elements of pop with one of the shots where pink is being photographed by journalists which is similar to the pop video by Britney Spears called “Everytime” where Britney Spears is being photographed by journalists. This also expresses intertextuality with the shot from the Britney Spears video. With the conventions of the rock genre, there is a shot where Pink throws a guitar on the floor, which is stereotypical of a rock artist.
There is a shot which expresses music and visuals, where Pink uses the lyrics “drum boy” and then there is a medium shot of a man using saucepans as drums and teaspoons as drumsticks and the sound of a drum in the background is heard.
There is an extreme close up of Pink when she says “fall” and then she falls to the ground, showing that sub consciously she is affected by her husband leaving her. Towards the end of the video Pink is reunited with her husband but they just fight showing that the video is still about them and there relationship enhancing the music and visuals together as the tempo is rather upbeat and the shot switches from long shot, to a medium shot (to show both Pink and her husband) and then an extreme close up to show their facial expressions, to allow the audience to see that they are annoyed with each other. Towards the end of the video, Pink then sings on stage which is often a characteristic of her personality, as in most of her videos there is a part where she shows herself singing on stage, or shows a clip of her performing live on stage in some part of her videos like her video for “Leave me Alone (I'm Lonely).” This is both conventional of her and of the genre pop/rock. There is an extreme close up of her face to show that she has attitude when she sings “So, So what, I’m still a rock star.” Her rebellious streak is still highlighted in the video where she has a pillow fight at the end, which would seem rather immature of someone who is in their mid twenties.
The last shot is a medium shot of her and her husband, with her leaning on his arm to imply that she is not that mad at him for leaving her, and then the final shot is of her sticking out her tongue to basically suggest that the video was just a tongue in cheek, fun video to make, although there is a narrative of her husband leaving her she explains that she is still a rock star and that it hasn’t affected her too much.
By Christina Rankin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXfO09me3v4
I have chosen to analyse the music video "So What" By pink. I chose to analyse this video because of two reasons, firstly; it is one of my favourite videos as it is extremely catchy and I feel that the lyrics represent Pink the vocalist as a person, her whole image gives off a persona of a person that is going to do whatever they feel like and they don't care about other peoples opinions or attitudes. Pink is going to rebel when a negative situation arises; for example, in the first line of the first chorus, the lyrics are "I guess I just lost my husband, I don't know where he went." Pink's response to this is an I don't care attitude and this is how she turns a negative situation into a positive situation; with the lyrics and making the video look fun and enjoyable to make. Pink is not a very serious person, as when she says that she doesn’t know where her husband is, there is an element of slapstick humour, as we see in the video, he is actually behind her, covering her eyes so that she cannot see him.
Key conventions are used in this video, with star image, there are a lot of close ups of Pink, and body shots. The first shot is a medium, central shot to show that the video is going to be about Pink as she is the main character and the first shot we see is of her. With it being a medium shot, she takes up the whole screen; which emphasises that the narrative of the video will have something to do with her. The second shot is a close up of Pink driving a sit-on lawnmower, the immediate shot after is a long shot of Pink driving the sit-on lawnmower on a public road, with queuing traffic behind her and a man in the background in the car behind waving his arms, looking annoyed; implying that Pink is rebellious, choosing the sit-on lawnmower as her mode of transport on the road, instead of a car.
With the video being about pink telling a story that she is over her husband, voyeurism is incorporated into the video, as there is a lot of footage of Pink herself, she is the main focus. Panning is used with a zoomed shot of Pink on the lawnmower, to show that she is holding a can of beer in her hand. Lyrics and visuals are also used here as Pink says “So I'm gonna drink my money” and then it shows her drinking her can of beer. This also happens when Pink uses the lyrics “I wanna start a fight” and then she has a fight with a man in a guitar shop.
The genre of the video is pop, mainstream, with a slight edge of rock, the conventions of a pop video are rather minimal in this video, as there are not any choreographed dance moves; matching outfits, and the song itself is not about happy- go-lucky people, however, there are other elements of pop with one of the shots where pink is being photographed by journalists which is similar to the pop video by Britney Spears called “Everytime” where Britney Spears is being photographed by journalists. This also expresses intertextuality with the shot from the Britney Spears video. With the conventions of the rock genre, there is a shot where Pink throws a guitar on the floor, which is stereotypical of a rock artist.
There is a shot which expresses music and visuals, where Pink uses the lyrics “drum boy” and then there is a medium shot of a man using saucepans as drums and teaspoons as drumsticks and the sound of a drum in the background is heard.
There is an extreme close up of Pink when she says “fall” and then she falls to the ground, showing that sub consciously she is affected by her husband leaving her. Towards the end of the video Pink is reunited with her husband but they just fight showing that the video is still about them and there relationship enhancing the music and visuals together as the tempo is rather upbeat and the shot switches from long shot, to a medium shot (to show both Pink and her husband) and then an extreme close up to show their facial expressions, to allow the audience to see that they are annoyed with each other. Towards the end of the video, Pink then sings on stage which is often a characteristic of her personality, as in most of her videos there is a part where she shows herself singing on stage, or shows a clip of her performing live on stage in some part of her videos like her video for “Leave me Alone (I'm Lonely).” This is both conventional of her and of the genre pop/rock. There is an extreme close up of her face to show that she has attitude when she sings “So, So what, I’m still a rock star.” Her rebellious streak is still highlighted in the video where she has a pillow fight at the end, which would seem rather immature of someone who is in their mid twenties.
The last shot is a medium shot of her and her husband, with her leaning on his arm to imply that she is not that mad at him for leaving her, and then the final shot is of her sticking out her tongue to basically suggest that the video was just a tongue in cheek, fun video to make, although there is a narrative of her husband leaving her she explains that she is still a rock star and that it hasn’t affected her too much.
By Christina Rankin
Tuesday, 9 September 2008
As the genre of the song chosen is quite a slow, and a rather depressive genre, we feel that it will be easier to create different transitions as the tempo of the song is not very upbeat so we will be able to perfect our timing as it will be easier to hear when we can add in transitions.
The lyrics are very clear which will help us to create voyeurism as we can understand clearly what the lyrics are implying and include these in our video, for example, when the artist sings 'summer dress' we can show a summer dress.
The song tells a story which will be beneficial to our video, helping us use it to our advantage as it shows that there is a narrative behind our video and there is meaning.
The lyrics are very clear which will help us to create voyeurism as we can understand clearly what the lyrics are implying and include these in our video, for example, when the artist sings 'summer dress' we can show a summer dress.
The song tells a story which will be beneficial to our video, helping us use it to our advantage as it shows that there is a narrative behind our video and there is meaning.
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