Tuesday 16 November 2010
Changing of music videos of Female Artists
If we were too look back of the earlier 'music videos' we see a massive difference from what we see now. For example the jazz musician Bessie Smith when she made her 'music videos' or as they where called then short films to accompany her popular songs it mainly focused on her and the song not so much as to what you could explain through a video, as time went on we started to see a change in how female artists are shown through there video's. For example Marylin Monroe- Diamonds are a girls best friend we see more of a theatrical approach where there has been more thought of to how the singer will be portrayed. We also see her acting more provocative and focusing on how she looks. As we look later on we see that it has been taken to the extremes of how female artists were seen as provocative. This is seen in videos such as Lady Gaga- Pokerface.
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Study of Music Videos
Katy Perry- Firework
Voyeurism:- The stories inside the music videos that are being told seem as if we aren't meant to be there, for example watching the two children watch there parents fighting.
Inter-textuality:- The video had taken some ideas from Christina Aguilera - Beautiful video but a lighter version and was kept more upbeat.
Selling the Artist:- At the start of the music we see a mid short of the artist, in her past videos we see her in skimpy wear and brightly coloured hair, we see a lot less of that in this video, she wears a floor length dress in the beginning like the company is going for a different look because the deeper meaning of the song. She still has streaks of bright colour in her hair.
Visuals and Lyrics/Music:- We see fireworks in the sky and coming out of the characters who 'stood up' for themselves as this is the name of the song. There is a line 'still a chance' and we see a young cancer patient sitting on a bed referring to the fact that there is still a chance for this girl. Further on in the video we see a woman playing a violin on the street along with the music.
Genre Characteristics:- There was a cause- effect motivation in this video as we see everyone upset in the beginning of the video and then in the end we see everyone happy. There was a scene at the end when there was a massive group of people dancing.
Mike Posner- Cooler than me
Voyeurism:- We see from the artist view every time he puts on a different pair of glasses everything that he see's this gives and impression of seeing something that we shouldn't. We also see a voyeuristic way of looking at women.
Inter-textuality:-
Selling the Artist:- He is on stage performing in the first part of the video then we see a voyeuristic part of him in a car going somewhere after his gig. We see in other parts of the video where he is on top of a roof singing parts of the song and the camera either followed behind the artist or in his view.
Visuals and Lyrics/Music:- In the lift the camera looks down to see his brown shoes which he refers too in the chorus of his song. Also we see the main focus of the video is him looking through different peoples glasses to see what it is like to be them and this is also mentioned in the chorus.
Genre Characteristics:- There is a lot of party scenes and dancing, a lot of women in the video. The editing of the video nearer the end has been done to the beat of the song.
Voyeurism:- The stories inside the music videos that are being told seem as if we aren't meant to be there, for example watching the two children watch there parents fighting.
Inter-textuality:- The video had taken some ideas from Christina Aguilera - Beautiful video but a lighter version and was kept more upbeat.
Selling the Artist:- At the start of the music we see a mid short of the artist, in her past videos we see her in skimpy wear and brightly coloured hair, we see a lot less of that in this video, she wears a floor length dress in the beginning like the company is going for a different look because the deeper meaning of the song. She still has streaks of bright colour in her hair.
Visuals and Lyrics/Music:- We see fireworks in the sky and coming out of the characters who 'stood up' for themselves as this is the name of the song. There is a line 'still a chance' and we see a young cancer patient sitting on a bed referring to the fact that there is still a chance for this girl. Further on in the video we see a woman playing a violin on the street along with the music.
Genre Characteristics:- There was a cause- effect motivation in this video as we see everyone upset in the beginning of the video and then in the end we see everyone happy. There was a scene at the end when there was a massive group of people dancing.
Mike Posner- Cooler than me
Voyeurism:- We see from the artist view every time he puts on a different pair of glasses everything that he see's this gives and impression of seeing something that we shouldn't. We also see a voyeuristic way of looking at women.
Inter-textuality:-
Selling the Artist:- He is on stage performing in the first part of the video then we see a voyeuristic part of him in a car going somewhere after his gig. We see in other parts of the video where he is on top of a roof singing parts of the song and the camera either followed behind the artist or in his view.
Visuals and Lyrics/Music:- In the lift the camera looks down to see his brown shoes which he refers too in the chorus of his song. Also we see the main focus of the video is him looking through different peoples glasses to see what it is like to be them and this is also mentioned in the chorus.
Genre Characteristics:- There is a lot of party scenes and dancing, a lot of women in the video. The editing of the video nearer the end has been done to the beat of the song.
Monday 1 November 2010
Themes
Our group looked into the past styles of Paloma Faith herself and we found that she dressed as if she was in the 50's, she is very glamorous in the way she does her make up and hair down to her clothes. We thought that going with the fact that her styles is 50's we could use this in our own music video. 
We have also looked at her current album cover for more of an insight as to the look of her we find she has a quirky style and that this could help us come up with more of an idea of where to stage our video.
The look of her album cover made us notice that we cannot shy away from that fact that she is a modern artist, we found that she only takes elements from the 50's so we would have to add more of a modern feel into the video.
As we had done more research into the 50's era we had found these images by the artist Anne Taintor we liked the way she took the type of tasks or the way women where portrayed in the 1950's and twisted it so that it had shown it in a negative light.
We defiantly want to include the 1950's theme in our media video.