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Welcome to my blog, my name is Emma Hagstrom and this is where I will be recording my research, planning and progress of my A2 Media Coursework. Hope you enjoy!
Monday, 31 October 2016
Thursday, 13 October 2016
Existing characters
For music videos with a strong narrative, characters can be a quite an important aspect. However, some music videos choose to simply use visuals to illustrate the song that is playing. Characters in a music video can help the audience connect and relate to a song; and for some bands the same characters are used in several videos to create a concept album.
False Alarm - The Weeknd
This...
Wednesday, 12 October 2016
Targets for A2
My main targets for A2 are; to improve and develop my practical skills such as filming, creating successful mise en scene, and creating album covers using skills I have learnt last year in Graphic communication. I also want to improve aspects of my research and blogging skills to communicate ideas in interesting and different media. Pretty much all our aims and targets for our A2 coursework...
Monday, 10 October 2016
Existing Narratives
What is a narrative?
'The way a story is told so that the elements are structured and ordered in such a way that it makes sense to the audience. It has also been described as how events are unified in space and time.' (Leanne Gelder).
How does narrative work in relation to music video?
Often the narrative will relate to the lyrics of the song, I think this is really important, the narrative...
Friday, 7 October 2016
Decisions
What coursework brief are you going to complete?
We are doing a music video. This is because we had done a music video for our preliminary and felt we could effectively build on this. Furthermore, we were all big fans of music and watched music videos regularly, therefore we had better knowledge of the style and conventions of a music video, where as we were more unfamiliar with short films...
Thursday, 6 October 2016
Conventions in music videos for various genres
Pop
. The main conventions of pop music videos is that they are very upbeat, rather eccentric and tend to revolve around the singer themselves, usually with a sexualised objectification of the women, fitting the 'ideal' body image of women we often see within the media. Although after saying that I would say the same is often done with men in the videos - a lot seems to be just about being...
Research Into Existing Music Videos - Student-Made
This video appears to follow several characters, yet still maintains clarity. These characters of course cross paths. The fight scenes seem carefully choreographed and filmed with detail paid attention to in each shot. The camera quality itself adds to how dynamic each shot is; placing focus on just one aspect of a composition can be quite intense - this matches the theme of the music video. This...