Abbie Hallam A2 Advanced Porfolio

 Hey guys! We were given the task to take a range of 'band/artist' photo's behind a consistent background and have a go at editing them. For the shots we just used an iPhone 6 and the images below show the before and after editing them with Photoshop. Here's a few: 

Personally I think that this video is very interesting, as it seems to have no story line throughout as such, it still seems to captivate me every time I watch it. I like the parts in the music video where only one shot is used, however some parts are in slow motion and other parts are in real time such as when Thom Yorke is singing and there is a person behind him running in slow motion. I also like the idea of the whole video being in black and white, as it gives the whole look of the video some sort of edge.  Camera shots/angles Within the video, a lot of mid shots are used throughout and mainly  the camera is usually straight on looking at each character of the music video with no angles used. The opening shot of the music video, just before the music starts there is the use of thunder sound effects and in the background lightning can be seen when Thom, (the singer of the band) can be seen falling from the caravan to the floor. This relates with sound, and how it creat...

In the article above the author talks about some of the most controversial music videos watched, 'Bitch Better Have My Money' in particular. The article unpicks every detail of the music video, giving a negative impression through sarcasm, when words and phrases such as, 'self-regarding, hubristic and flamboyantly expensive' and 'if you missed it, it's not that complicated'. In the article he discusses the main issues within the video, which are nudity, drugs and death.In the seven minute clip. the pop star kidnaps and torments the wife of an accountant for bilked her, dismembers the accountant and then lounges, naked, covered in blood, in a box of money. "When a musician starts to use the phrase 'mini-movie' to describe a video, it's time to quit" is the quote that really caught my attention. This quote from Dave Ghrol, who is the lead singer of the foo fighters. From this quote it is quite clear to say that Dave doesn'...

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So this is our finished storyboard for our one minute music task, it was rushed a little and that's why the drawings are a bit rubbish! Apart from that, take a look!

24th December 1900 - Invention of the gramophone. 1933 - Choreography involved within movies e.g. West Side Story. 1940 - The Disney film 'Fantasia' came out, was the first musical film. 1952 - Musical films were introduced. 1960 - Elvis Presley was introduced, singer/ dancer. 1972 - Music artists adapting a persona , a prime example of this would be David Bowie with multiple different personas. 1981 - The first ever TV station to show music videos on their channel, MTV. 1983 - Michael Jackson made the first ever mini- movie for his song, 'thriller' . 2005 - The introduction of Youtube, a site where you can stream music videos anywhere. 2014 - Beyonce introduced a full album with music videos for each of the songs. The music videos all told a story and was seen as a movie. She also did this with her another album 'Lemonade' in which she made an entire movie at the end with the music included.

John Hartley (1994) - Argues that 'genres are agents of ideological closure - they limit the meaning/potential of a given text.' – This suggests that genre acts are a straightjacket, limiting creative potential.  Robert Hodge and Gunther Kress (1988) – say that genres ‘control the behaviour of producers of such texts, and the expectations of potential customers’ – also again suggests that genres can limit the creativity and often merely conform to the audience expectations.  John Fiske (1987) – asserts that generic conventions ‘embody the crucial ideological concerns of the time in which they are popular’ -suggests that genres tell us something about the ‘way of the world in the time of which they are popular’.  Rick Altman – argues that there is no such thing as “pure” genre anymore. Genre is progressive, and that it will always change. He says that generic conventions are very much a thing of the past. His theory suggests that audiences, in general have become tir...