MUSIC VIDEO CONCEPT IN DETAIL

MUSIC VIDEO - FINISHED CONCEPT

Establishing shot: My establishing shot will contain my lip syncing to the intro of the song, whilst cutting back and forth to me texting a girl saying 'we need to take a break' signified by the lyrics 'im sorry that I let you down' showing that im not putting any effort in, and that school is my only priority. 

Main idea/overview: I want this video to be of a lonely kid who hasn’t found himself and he needs to find some light at the end of the tunnel. By this I mean that he is going through a lot at school and being bullied, and he goes to the woods to find himself.  I will have some shots of me being made fun of and being bullied at school.  Mid way through the video (roughly) I will visit the Claremont woods. This will represent how small and insignificant my life is. 

After this, there will be a cut scene of me sitting at home doing prep on my laptop and I get a connection error, and out of anger I throw my pen down and I slam my laptop. After this I will seemingly take a break from everything, and try and go away from school work. As the song progresses, I get anger lip syncing which expresses how stressful school is getting, being the sameslow repetitive cycle that it is.

The final shot will consist of the sky cutting back and forth to me lip syncing with a crane shot. But in this instance, the sky is slowly zooming down towards me, and in the final 'let you down' of the song it pans to me with a close up, singing the final words.

THE OBSERVER MAGAZINE

 Q.5 Analyse the representation of gender on the front cover of The Observer. Give two examples from the extract. [5 marks]

This Observer cover primarily focuses on men. One example is that there is a picture of five police men surrounding a police woman. In terms of representation, it symbolises the men as powerful and strong, protecting the women in the middle from danger. Secondly, the skybox shows a story about a dad proudly and lovingly holding his son.  It is an article about Clive James and his son, who suffers from a disorder. This symbolises and represents the strength and love that men have for their children. From this, we can draw the conclusion that men are represented on the front cover as strong and powerful, but also loving and caring at the same time.

Q.9 In this question you will be rewarded for drawing together elements from your full course of study, including the theoretical framework and media contexts.

How far does the media language on the front cover of The Observer. reflect genre conventions? [15 marks] I have explained terms a bit to guide you!

In your answer, you should:

• analyse the media language, using specific examples 
• make judgements and draw conclusions about how far the media language reflects generic conventions (= looks like a quality broadsheet front cover) or other areas of the theoretical framework (= meets audience needs) and media contexts (= looks like a typical Observer production, bearing in mind its target audience and its ethos).

The Observer has lots of conventional broadsheet features on its front cover. For example, the first article you see in the central splash is about covid-19, which is probably the most relevant thing currently in the world. This is a feature of a broadsheet as it is hard news and not all bright and colourful like the tabloid conventional features. The Observer front, when you take away the skybox, looks very plain and bland.  This is typical of the olden days, compared to today's 'joy' that you get from tabloid newspapers. The seriff font makes it look very old style, especially in contrast to tabloid's colourful and modern fonts. The main Observer article contains information about Boris Johnson and how he is going to shift the rules about covid as the polls have had a drastic change, and the front picture shows a soldier that was killed a few days ago. Both are serious news articles.  This draws the conclusion that The Observer contains  many conventional broadsheet aspects to it.

This edition of The Observer also has some conventional tabloid features on the front cover. One example of this is having news that covers world events and interesting and exciting stories that hook a reader in. Some examples of this include sports news, celebrity news, and human interest stories about emotion. For example, in the skybox it has the story '20 autumn recipes' which is a typical story for a tabloid.  In addition, there are lots of colours and bursts at you, whereas the skyline has a economic story about covid that people can also read. The Observer also has the same structure of a newspaper to that of a tabloid. One of the reasons for this is because a few years back newspapers used to be double the size of normal papers but were then shrunk to save space and to do less harm to the environment due to wasting paper.

In conclusion, this Observer front cover contains both aspects from a broadsheet and tabloid conventions.  However, I think it has more focus towards a broadsheet, as the tabloid aspect only shows in the skybox and article about the dad and son. 

 Advice for 10 marker media language

Make 1 point per sentence.

Talk about the font, the text, the structure, how both people are shown.  

You can also talk about the brightness and how cluttered it is/how busy it is. 

For example, they both have title mastheads that spread from left to right. But one is a punchy as clean font where the other one is a formal seriff font. The mise en scene could not be any more different. For one of them, she is holding an instrument.

In conclusion, there are probably more different then similar. It is clear that they are music magazines because they have central splash, the artist in the main bit, and they are given a name tag. However, they are pushed towards different audiences.

If you have no time, write a conclusion. It is an easy 5 marks

MAGAZINE PREP - WRITE ABOUT REPRESENTATION AND LANGUAGE

For my magazine, I have chosen a June 2020 Queen magazine. The main vibe we are meant to grasp from the central splash is that it is a very dark and a sinister kind of band. In the central splash there is a class font with 'Queen' on it, telling us maybe that they are not a big and fisty rock band. There is also a pull quote saying 'we are special boys',  telling their audience that they are an invincible band that cannot be touched. There is also a triple deck layer of quotes at the bottom right, with celebrities expressing their thoughts on Queen and how hard they work.

The representation of the cover portrays Queen as something other then just a band. They are shown as a mysterious group of people that could be anyone doing anything, like villains in comic books. All their clothes are covered, they are all wearing black eyeliner and the lighting is driven towards their face exposing nothing else. This makes us think as an audience that they are a very stylish and dark band. Their facial expressions are all the same, with them seemingly staring directly at the camera like they are staring into our soul, ready to strike at any point. This further influences their mysterious and clueless vibe. Their positions are fairly similar except the band member at the top seems to overpower the other three in the band, possibly implying that he is the main leader. The main colours are black and white to resemble darkness and maybe power.

THE AVENGERS 10 MARKRER

 Today we watch the opening 7 minutes of our tv drama text on Clickview and relate what we learned last lesson about: 

• audience pleasures (why audiences enjoyed watching it). What is their relationship like?
• how Emma Peel is presented (including why her representation reflects the 1960s when it was made). Listen to what she reveals about herself.
• how John Steed is presented (including why his representation reflects the 1960s when it was made). How does he come across?

After the introduction to the characters and producers of The Avengers, there is a black screen, that briefly increases in opacity towards the main shot, which is a shot at the beach slowly panning over to the sea. In the sea there is a black mysterious object we can see drifting toward the shore of the sea. This creates a sense of mystery and interest as the audience wants to see what/who the floating object is. After this, the camera has a slow zoom towards the object, and fairly quickly something pops up from the object, leading us as an audience to realise that it is some sort is rusty bag. This further creates a scene of interest and focus as the audience are curious to see what it is. As the bag gets closer to shore, there is a shot that zooms in on a man's feet walking towards the shore. The shot quickly pans up towards the person in the bin bag's head. As the bag is ripped open, we can see a formally dressed, posh young man pop out of it, acting as if what he did was completely normal as he whips out an umbrella. This creates a scene of humour and confusion as the audience find it silly that a handsome young man is dressed in a bin bag and thinking nothing happened, but also makes the audience think, why was he doing that. This makes us as an audience want to keep watching as the mystery side of this initial shot has drawn us in. A short while after this scene we are shown a doorbell in which Steed uses his umbrella to ring with. We get a quick shot to a giant eye opening up and Emma's voice immediately speaking after it. This represents Emma very well, because by the way she dresses with her leather suit and her modern furniture she wants technology to be as futuristic as possible in her flat, as she is a very up to date person. This also creates a very good form of entertainment for the audience back then, as they may be confused or amazed with the future of their technology. 

After the door is opened, Steed is greeted by Emma practising fencing with her face mask on with her slick suit. Steed starts trying to create sexual tension by giving her instructions on what to do, and claims it is 'friendly advice.' This creates a good tension with the audience as they like the relationship they have together and their strong bond. Shortly after, Emma tells Steed that his coffee is 'over there' which shows us as an audience she does not want to be put down like that just because she is a woman, which was the stereotype back in the 60s. This makes us feel as an audience she is a very powerful women. Once they start fencing, Emma says she wrote an article for 'the science weekly'.   This shows her income and that she is very intelligent, which will further make us feel the connection with her as an audience.

MUSIC VIDEO RESEARCH

 MUSIC VIDEO RESEARCH

My top one:

NF - LET YOU DOWN

My possible songs that I have decided I could go for are:

Ball w/o: 21 Savage

Star shopping: lil peep

Tunnel of Love: ILYTommy

Ruthless: Lil Tjay

High up: Arizona Zervas

Deja Vu: Qiante

Duva: LAROI

My inspiration for my music video: KSI - Killa Killa

I have chosen Killa Killa for my inspiration because of the Sci Fi scenery.  I really like the effects used and the futuristic scenes make the music video really cool on a whole, however I would like to add my own twist to it.

My main idea is me being in a woods walking by myself all alone, and I slowly gain courage to be myself and I set fire to myself, and bring myself powers. The way it is going to work is I feel alone and out of myself, and I see something in myself, and put all my effort in, and give powers to myself.

RYAN AND JAKE INTRO - CUFFS PREP

 

How we introduced to Ryan and Jake (10 marks).

The introduction of Ryan begins within the first few seconds of cuffs.  Ryan is currently on a job to stop people at a nude beach from fighting, and he is getting out of his police car towards the centre of action. Whilst this is happening, a chief officer is speaking about how we represent our country through the badge we wear.  This makes the scene ironic because as he is saying this, Ryan is failing at his job. He is making a small amount of progress breaking up the people at the scene, but realises he is no match for them and follows the correct protocol by asking for backup.  As a one man team he does a reasonable job at stopping the fight, but in the end he gets put on the floor by a punch in the face. You can tell he has experience because he was following the correct protocols in the beginning scene, and he has a good understanding of the officer terminology that we often hear.

As I said earlier, a chief officer is talking about how we need to stand up for our country and how we hold the police badge with pride, whilst Ryan is losing a battle. This officer is holding a speech to introduce his brand new additions to his team of officers, one of those people being Jake.  He calls Jake to come up and join the police force. As he does this, you can tell that he is very confident, because he feels he has made his father proud. He also has a slight grin on his face, which shows that he is looking down at the police officers who are next to him whilst he gets his moment of glory. However, this will later show to be  inexperience as Jake is shown to be very unprepared for the day to day life as an officer, shown by his lack of skill and leadership. This is because as the chief's son, he gets slightly biased treatment compared to the other officers.