Easy listening Songs:
Lykke Li - Possibility
Fleetfoes-white winter hymnal
The xx?
Islands
Pop/rock Songs:
Plastic Bertrand - Ca Plane Pour Moi- no video available
lost prophets where we belong -
Dance/Electronica
Crystal Castles
Celestica -
Tuesday, 9 November 2010
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Ancillary texts
Amy Mc Donald.
This popular Scottish artist arrived in the top 3 of our music charts in Christmas 2007, with her single 'this is the life' following this you may have recognised another of her popular songs 'Poison Prince' Which as a group we were contemplating using as our song choice for the music video task, because of it's upbeat rhythm and its folky undertones. However the song didn't have the kind of texture to it that we wanted, when creating our first music video, and so it not going to be used. However it is useful to look at her website, to help us when we create ours, as we will be working with a similar genre.
When looking at her website http://www.amymacdonald.co.uk/gb/home/ we can see that the colour scheme complements her pop indie/folk genre: a mellow creamy, grey, and black. A conventional photo of the artist blended onto the home page. Clear font matches the blurry photograph edges. Generally, neat and clear, with easy access to useful links including: News, Music, Live, Biographys, Galleries, Videos, Lyrics, Music store, Merchandise, Mailing list, and forum. Everything a fan would want to know about this artist available under one roof. Throughout these links the style and aethetics all match, with plenty of photos or videos of the artist round every corner. The page even comes with 8 discreet links to pages of the artist in other languages, catering for a multitude of fans. There are also links to highly popular platforms such as Fackbook, bebo, ilike and more.
All these things combined makes for a highly sucessful webpage. We can learn alot from such a good example.
This popular Scottish artist arrived in the top 3 of our music charts in Christmas 2007, with her single 'this is the life' following this you may have recognised another of her popular songs 'Poison Prince' Which as a group we were contemplating using as our song choice for the music video task, because of it's upbeat rhythm and its folky undertones. However the song didn't have the kind of texture to it that we wanted, when creating our first music video, and so it not going to be used. However it is useful to look at her website, to help us when we create ours, as we will be working with a similar genre.
When looking at her website http://www.amymacdonald.co.uk/gb/home/ we can see that the colour scheme complements her pop indie/folk genre: a mellow creamy, grey, and black. A conventional photo of the artist blended onto the home page. Clear font matches the blurry photograph edges. Generally, neat and clear, with easy access to useful links including: News, Music, Live, Biographys, Galleries, Videos, Lyrics, Music store, Merchandise, Mailing list, and forum. Everything a fan would want to know about this artist available under one roof. Throughout these links the style and aethetics all match, with plenty of photos or videos of the artist round every corner. The page even comes with 8 discreet links to pages of the artist in other languages, catering for a multitude of fans. There are also links to highly popular platforms such as Fackbook, bebo, ilike and more.
All these things combined makes for a highly sucessful webpage. We can learn alot from such a good example.
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Postmodernism.
THE MIGHTY BOOSH
I chose to analyse the Mighty boosh simply because i love it.its funny, its uptodate, the songs are -in my opinion- clever and incredibly catchy, and above all its as random as it can possibly get
This halarious comedy tv series by the BBC also icludes near enough everything postmodernism should be: very hyper concious - the sets and props don't hide the fact they're made out of cardboard or that the moon is a man with cream on his face, Eclectic there are identifiable references to other influences especially within their songs , which is similar to another post modern comedy show 'flight of the conchords', narcissisic everything vince and howard do are narcissistic just listen to their lines, a little nostalgic this refers to the eclectisim they celebrate past influences, it acts against modernism nothing within the show is predictable or conventional, includes parody again the eclectisim, very intertextual vince and Mick jagger, an active audience they are expecting that the audience will recognise their references to other texts.
Within Strinati's conventions of postmodernism, the mighty boosh includes:
The breakdown of the distiction between high art and popular culture: The two characters howard moon and vince noir represent the battle between high art and popular culture, howard enjoys jazz while vince likes the rolling stones, howard dresses more conventionally while vince dresses in feather boas track suits and crazy hats. This friendship between the two blurs the lines as the two can be very similar, and are constantly together. they defy class differences between high art and popular cuture and throw them under one roof.
The breakdown of the distiction between society and culture: The two characters are based upon the actors themselves.as the clip says 'howard and vince are probably 10% exaggeration when we first started to write we thought "ah well lets just be ourselves" (noel) was obsessed with clothes, stupid haircuts; julian was obsessed with jazz, nabokov, and playing hamlet.' we can never be sure while watching, how much is the actors and how much is character.
The decline of the meta narrative: nothing in the program, hints at following a meta narrative such as religion, marksism or anything of the sort. quite the opposite, the characters live by thier own passions such as jazz and Mick Jagger. creating a sense of hyper reality within the program as well as intertextuality.
Confusions over time and space: we are contantly loosing ourselves within the show, even at the begining we hear the narrator say 'come with us now on a journey through time and space' we have no idea when its set, and where howard and vince are on thier adventures.
Emphasis of style over substance: Vince is a character compleatly representative of style over substance, 'what are you bringing to the table vince?' 'well right off the batt i'd say style' he's constantly changing his surroundings or his dress to suit his style, with no consideration of substance or meaning. This is usually when howard becomes jealous and fails himself. the mightmere of milky joe is a classic example. The Mighty Boosh appears to commend style over substance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQGjuUyK95c&feature=list_related&list=SL&playnext=1
I chose to analyse the Mighty boosh simply because i love it.its funny, its uptodate, the songs are -in my opinion- clever and incredibly catchy, and above all its as random as it can possibly get
This halarious comedy tv series by the BBC also icludes near enough everything postmodernism should be: very hyper concious - the sets and props don't hide the fact they're made out of cardboard or that the moon is a man with cream on his face, Eclectic there are identifiable references to other influences especially within their songs , which is similar to another post modern comedy show 'flight of the conchords', narcissisic everything vince and howard do are narcissistic just listen to their lines, a little nostalgic this refers to the eclectisim they celebrate past influences, it acts against modernism nothing within the show is predictable or conventional, includes parody again the eclectisim, very intertextual vince and Mick jagger, an active audience they are expecting that the audience will recognise their references to other texts.
Within Strinati's conventions of postmodernism, the mighty boosh includes:
The breakdown of the distiction between high art and popular culture: The two characters howard moon and vince noir represent the battle between high art and popular culture, howard enjoys jazz while vince likes the rolling stones, howard dresses more conventionally while vince dresses in feather boas track suits and crazy hats. This friendship between the two blurs the lines as the two can be very similar, and are constantly together. they defy class differences between high art and popular cuture and throw them under one roof.
The breakdown of the distiction between society and culture: The two characters are based upon the actors themselves.as the clip says 'howard and vince are probably 10% exaggeration when we first started to write we thought "ah well lets just be ourselves" (noel) was obsessed with clothes, stupid haircuts; julian was obsessed with jazz, nabokov, and playing hamlet.' we can never be sure while watching, how much is the actors and how much is character.
The decline of the meta narrative: nothing in the program, hints at following a meta narrative such as religion, marksism or anything of the sort. quite the opposite, the characters live by thier own passions such as jazz and Mick Jagger. creating a sense of hyper reality within the program as well as intertextuality.
Confusions over time and space: we are contantly loosing ourselves within the show, even at the begining we hear the narrator say 'come with us now on a journey through time and space' we have no idea when its set, and where howard and vince are on thier adventures.
Emphasis of style over substance: Vince is a character compleatly representative of style over substance, 'what are you bringing to the table vince?' 'well right off the batt i'd say style' he's constantly changing his surroundings or his dress to suit his style, with no consideration of substance or meaning. This is usually when howard becomes jealous and fails himself. the mightmere of milky joe is a classic example. The Mighty Boosh appears to commend style over substance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQGjuUyK95c&feature=list_related&list=SL&playnext=1
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Valkyrie- textural Analysis.
Directed by Bryan Singer Written by Chris Mc Quarrie and Nathen Alexander
When i researched thriller into IMDB the name that came up was Valkyrie. It is a very popular film and although perhaps not immediatly thought of as a thriller it certainly holds the conventions: trying to destroy the plans of a villain, torture or violence, hero, heroine, this film 'thrills' its audience and includes questions such as 'what did the colonel do wrong?' 'where are they?' etc.
2 mins into opening: we see German writing that is then translated into english this happens twice one saying 'this is based on a true story' the other 'Valkyrie' but in different fonts. We then hear men shouting promises in German but we don't see them we see only the words they speak translated onto a red faded and moving background which turns into a corner of the swastika.
next we have a pan moving from right to left from the weeks of an army truck and subtitles inclosing the devision and where they are based. the pan continues onto army tents, and we hear German voice over. English subtites appear below. Fade out and into the inside of the tent where we see actor Tom Cruise dimly lit by a gas lamp writing at a desk in full army gear.This shot is side on half shaded by the tent curtain. Close up of gas lamp, the voice over and subtitles continue. Close up of fountain pen writing onto what we assume to be a diary...or perhaps letter? the light flickers on it. Mid shot left side filled with subject and right with desk. over his shoulder we see the night and some men unloading things from the truck we previously saw. Extreme close up of hand paning onto his face. The voice over language is now fading from German into English and the subtites have stopped. His monologue was about his and others defiance towards Hitler.
When i researched thriller into IMDB the name that came up was Valkyrie. It is a very popular film and although perhaps not immediatly thought of as a thriller it certainly holds the conventions: trying to destroy the plans of a villain, torture or violence, hero, heroine, this film 'thrills' its audience and includes questions such as 'what did the colonel do wrong?' 'where are they?' etc.
2 mins into opening: we see German writing that is then translated into english this happens twice one saying 'this is based on a true story' the other 'Valkyrie' but in different fonts. We then hear men shouting promises in German but we don't see them we see only the words they speak translated onto a red faded and moving background which turns into a corner of the swastika.
next we have a pan moving from right to left from the weeks of an army truck and subtitles inclosing the devision and where they are based. the pan continues onto army tents, and we hear German voice over. English subtites appear below. Fade out and into the inside of the tent where we see actor Tom Cruise dimly lit by a gas lamp writing at a desk in full army gear.This shot is side on half shaded by the tent curtain. Close up of gas lamp, the voice over and subtitles continue. Close up of fountain pen writing onto what we assume to be a diary...or perhaps letter? the light flickers on it. Mid shot left side filled with subject and right with desk. over his shoulder we see the night and some men unloading things from the truck we previously saw. Extreme close up of hand paning onto his face. The voice over language is now fading from German into English and the subtites have stopped. His monologue was about his and others defiance towards Hitler.
From first cut to final.
As you can hopefully see, there are many differences between our first cut and our final. Most noticably the music. (check out Ren's blog for more details) We also added little inserts of clicking noises that contrast with the silence, exaggerating the false pretense of being home alone. One other music addition was adding an undertone to the villain's appearence to make it clear who he is. The editing has had nips and tucks to make continuity as good as possible.Sorry its taken so long to upload this, we've had a few problems with internet steaming, and navigating round youtube. thankyou for your patience. you can also find the first cut version on youtube.
Monday, 22 March 2010
Textual Analysis: The Secret Window:
The Secret Window:
The film begins with a close up on the character's face as he sits in his car. We then hear his thoughts as his conscious argues with himself. The camera then pulls out and we can see that he is it a motel and goes into a room with a couple sleeping together. Some music then rises in volume as their voices fade out as they scream at each other. The camera then pulls out to give us an establishing shot of the motel rooms. This scene builds tension very well as the audience are full of questions: Why did he go back? Was the woman his wife? The scene then fades into the next one of a camera flying over the ocean as the title's roll up. This opening is very effective as it does not give away too much of the story before the film really starts to begin and this is a theme that we, Hannah and I, have tried to do with our Thriller opening.
The film begins with a close up on the character's face as he sits in his car. We then hear his thoughts as his conscious argues with himself. The camera then pulls out and we can see that he is it a motel and goes into a room with a couple sleeping together. Some music then rises in volume as their voices fade out as they scream at each other. The camera then pulls out to give us an establishing shot of the motel rooms. This scene builds tension very well as the audience are full of questions: Why did he go back? Was the woman his wife? The scene then fades into the next one of a camera flying over the ocean as the title's roll up. This opening is very effective as it does not give away too much of the story before the film really starts to begin and this is a theme that we, Hannah and I, have tried to do with our Thriller opening.
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