Famous CD Album Covers

 Here is some famous CD album covers produced by some of the biggest artists and singers in the history of music, this will engage with our own ideas when it comes to creating our own CD album cover. Enjoy!

Feedback on one page pitch

Recently our media teacher gave me and my group some feedback based on our 1 minute music video of Stronger by Kanye West which we created at the start of the school year. Our teacher suggested that in future we use a less known song, this would help avoid any copyright issues. The song we have chosen for our next music video is Day N' Night by Kid Cudi, although this may be a well known song we have decided to use the original version of the song which is not as well known as the famous remix. Further advice was given to us regarding the range of shots which need to be added as well as some reflection of theorists such as Goodwin's theory of the link between visuals and lyrics. Therefore in our next music video we will be adding this so keep an eye out! This feedback from our teacher will allow us to improve and be better at the production of our music videos, allowing us to improve on our overall media production.

Conventions of genres in music

Controversial Music Videos

Controversial Music Videos

Over the years there has been controversial music videos that have occurred online by various artists and singers which have had an influence on the audience to the point where debates and arguments happen in the media world.

 

In lesson we observed a few videos which were classed as controversial by the media's perspective which changed the future of music videos. An example of this is Frankie Goes To Hollywood by Relax, a song released in the 80's which had numerous of complaints for the homophobic message that it betrays and sends to their audience. The music video is the lead singer going into a gay bar and essentially telling all the men in there not to be gay. This was seen as a disgrace and people wanted the song to be removed from radios and music as a whole. One critic was a radio presenter, this critic refused to play the song on the particular radio due to their opinion on the song being so bias towards it being disgusting. Homosexuals in the 80's were looked down upon but was not discriminated by many, this is why the song caused the issues it did. The lyrics also try to persuade people, specifically men to not be gay by saying that you should think about your sexual orientation. This song caused controversy due to the way they demote homosexuals because it isn't right in their opinion.

In my opinion music videos should give their audiences happiness and joy so that they can listen to their favourite bands/artists on a daily basis rather than listening to abusive songs to parts of the community. No song should be abusive and opinions are your own for you to decide, not for other people to determine everyone else's opinions just because they have a strong view with a high amount of people who would back them up due to their popularity.

This is the link to the video: http://youtu.be/mCpz3LAjxek

Demoracy - My opinion

Democracy

I believe that democracy is a political view based on a country where the people have a right to vote for what they want within their own country. The Prime Ministers are the ones with the most power and actually decide what happens in the country. The public decide on who to vote for depending on whether they are left wing or right wing.

This means that they have different views on what they want for themselves, right wing people usually have a capitalistic view where they believe that the working class or society should essentially be separated from the upper class, therefore the rich will get richer and will greaten the difference between people in society.  

The left wing view is a socialistic view where people think that everyone should be treated equally and that people who do not deserve power should not be able to have access to this power because they will treat people unequally. Tony Benn is a person who agrees with the social view as he believes people are all born the same and everyone starts off equal.

In my own view I am undecided in terms of being left or right wing simply because there are some things that I like from both sides but also both sides have things that I don’t like therefore I am not fully persuaded to either side as of yet.

One Page Pitch

One Page Pitch

 Song ideas: Kid Cudi-day n night, Gnarls Barkley-Crazy, Diddy-I’ll be missing you

Genre/sub-genre: Hip-Hop/Rnb

Location: Chesterfield, quite a populated area with people

Overall effect: For the first two songs we want to make the impression that he’s living in a completely different word and things are in his head. The last song would be a more slow song and one people can relate to.

Why it is suitable for the artists/genre: We will be doing a fast paced video because this is what we as an audience expect to have in a Hip-Hop genre. The lyrics will most likely link to the visuals and the artists we have chosen are all similar in different ways so which ever song we chose their will most likely be similarities.

Who is appeals to: We want to appeal to a younger generation. We feel that our song choices and genres would appeal to them instead of older people because they might not get the message we are trying to give. Also we feel that the younger generation would prefer this type of music.

Skills we need: The skills we need to demonstrate in our music video is creativity. This is because we feel in this type of genre the video needs to be clever and imaginative. If we demonstrate this we know it will appeal audiences. Another key skill in which we need for any music video we create is organisation. It is key to be organised and set different roles for people so they we don’t get behind on our work. One final skill is teamwork, which we demonstrated in our thriller opening. If we work together as a team we will get things done and we know as a team we work well together.