Monday, 17 November 2014
Thursday, 13 November 2014
Conventions Of Form & Genre
House music is a genre of electronic dance music, the instruments used within this industry are as followed;
Drum machine,personal, computer,sampler, sequencer,synthesizer,turntables and keyboards, this is because its an electronic type of music that gets people going and more upbeat to your standard hip hop music. the type of clothing that are associated with this type of music are things like skinny jeans, long line t-shirts, snap backs, high tops, things like that. on the other hand if i was to compare House music to Heavy metal they would be in comparison with two totally different inner qualities, such as the heavy metal fashion would be totally different for example they would be wearing long black leather jackets and black clothing skater shoes, plenty of piercings and things like that. the instruments that are used in heavy metal compared are different; heavy metal use things such as: Electric guitar, bass guitar,drums, vocals, keyboards, this is so they can get a heavier, higher volume towards the crowd, this is there way of getting the crowd going. the cinematography within the house music videos fluctuate from the crowd to the artist, this is so you get the effect that the crowd is getting pumped up.
What makes a good music video?
A good music video will include things such as;
- A good narrative giving the audience chance to realise what the song is about easier.
- good actors who are willing to perform to the best of their ability to make your music video look good.
- the music video linking to the genre to show that you know what genre you are working with, for example heavy metal you will see dark things/black, this would also include things such as drums guitars and long hair.
- fashion takes a big impact within the music video as you will have to have a smart/correct appearance towards the video's genre.
Monday, 10 November 2014
Narrative
Narrative
Basically within the
music video, black widow, the story line is based in an American diner which
features 2 ladies and 1 man, this is because the man is extremely rude and
disrespectful, within this he is wearing his American cowboy boots and he steps
on a black widowed spider, this then gets into an argument which ends up with
the waitress getting stick, she then goes in the kitchen to cook him a better
sandwich, this then leaves her day dreaming about her and Rita Ora going out to
kill the man as he’s been disrespectful on both of their parts, this shows us
that he is the antagonist and the two ladies (Iggy Azalea and Rita Ora) who are
the protagonists, this is shown as they are black widows on the hunt to kill
the man. They have a set amount of
targets to do this and how long they have to do it.
They’re wearing a
body suit to connote that they’re super heroes and they’re out to kill the bad
guy insinuating the guy at the start who kills a black widow and treats the two
girls like muck on the floor. The antagonist character is the male because of
how he acts throughout the music video; the protagonist is the two ladies who
are out to kill the bad guy.
The story takes place in a real world, like an everyday
lifestyle with real scenarios so it makes the music video look real and the
narrative look real. The first part of the music video looks real then we get
interrupted by Iggy having a dream of what she would do if she was a superhero,
she would go out and kill the bad guy, the dream does not look that real but is
put there as an effect. Todarov,1977
tells us that the video goes in stages… the stages are as followed,
stage one is where everything takes place as where in reality which would be 2
people going into an American diner, and getting service by the waitress. Stage
two is as followed as there is a disruption within the clip; this is where she
has a dream that she is going to be a superhero. Stage 3 following the dream
would be that she gets action involved within the dream, this is where they’re
playing cards and Rita kicks the guy off his chair this is also when they find
out that the targets the guy. Stage four is where they defeat the bad guy and
become successful, and stage five is where she comes back into reality and knows
where she is as this is where stage one left off. Kate Domaille
(2001) says that every story ever told can be fitted into one of eight
narrative types. Now the black widow is fitted into the Candide: The
indomitable hero who cannot be put down, this is where the two lady superheroes
are that skilled and have so much skill that they will never be killed as
you saw at the end when the guy had a gun and they had swords and they still had a way to defeat him.
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