research album art tyga

This is an album art from the artist Tyga. As an artist Tyga sees himself as someone big, royal in the music industry, this is why he made this album named 'careless world, rise of the last king', his name was placed largely onto the top right corner of the album with a gold plated effect, this indicates wealth & power. the image of the album is a picture of Tyga the artist sitting on a big gold royal chair, ones that you would see kings sitting on but in this case he is the king so he has included the king chair but made it into his vision of a king chair, this was gold and bigger than other chairs. there is the same chair on either sdes of him however these chairs were smaller and empty. this shows that he is the last and only king, this reflects back to the album title.

digi pack research adele

This is an album cover from the artist Adele. they is very little colour on the front cover, she has used a grey scale effect for the whole piece however part of the album name is highlighted green, she most probably wanted this part to stand out after all it is the album name and you want everyone to remember the name. everything else has a grey scale effect, this is because of the songs she has included within the album. The majority of songs she has included are about love broken, loneliness and being unhappy. you could gather this from the image she has included on the front of the album. The front image is a picture of her self looking down with her arms crossed. her facial features and jesters  makes her look fed up and hurt.

This is the back cover of her album, this is very much like her front cover of the album cover, howver we see a picture of her staring at the audience. adele still looks sad and fed up but this is the feeeling she wants to give off.

digipack research

This is the front cover of 50 cents front CD cover. as you can see he included him self as the front cover, mid shot of him holding a gun towards the audience. the gin and the clothes he is wearing resembles his lifestyle during the period of his song. if you've heard 50 cents songs, most of them are about guns and living the gangster life. the image he used for his front cover he reflects of the songs he has written for this album

The text style is a stamp like text, this fits into his gangster background. the colour of his name is in red, this indicates blood which reflects to most of his songs.

angel go in go hard ft wretch

I have chosen to analyse 'angel when i go in' music video. this is also the video my group are re-making.

the music video starts of with various 1 second shots then long shots to medium shots to both artists, this is to introduce both artists. there are panning shots of them and camera shots where the camera is free held with a waved motion to the artists, this is because of the rhythm of the song as it is set fast paced. camera shots need to follow the beat. thoughtout out the whole music video, the camera never stops moving, no still shots. the camera moves very freely. there are a lot of panning shots, high and low shots. i would describe the camera shots were all over the place but works very effectively. 

the lighting the director used in the music video was natural day lights and stage lights. these were in two different settings, the first one was a stage with flashing stage lights and the second was outside mostly on a roof where there was natural day light.

there were quite a few settings in this music video, firstly the stage. then there was a roof that was reguraly shown. there was also a studio.

music video director

MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTOR

How to be a good music video director?

Writing

it’s important to learn to write. Having a good sense of story is invaluable.

Crew Selection

A small crew travels fast, so use as few crew members as possible. Hire those that are diverse in their talents and can work several jobs simultaneously.

Shooting

instruct the singer to sing properly – no half-hearted singing or, worse, miming. If they mumble or mime, it will not look right when you lay the shots against the song, because the tension and movements of the face and body will not be consistent with the sound of the song. They must sing as if you were making a real recording of the song.

Organize

On the day of the shoot be prepared and organized. Keep a record of shots you’ve made; it’ll make editing much easier. Always allow plenty of time for shooting – the finished shot may only last 10 seconds, but could easily take several hours to set up and shoot. When you’re happy with a shot, if you have time, shoot it again. You can never have too much footage, and the retake may capture something that you hadn’t noticed first time round. You’ll have your plan and storyboard to follow, but remember that some of the best moments in a video can be unplanned.

B-Roll

You really have two choices when it comes to B-roll for musical performances. You can mix multiple camera angles and show various shots of the performer performing, or you can cut away to show shots of images related to the theme of the song. These related images can be full-motion video, but they don’t necessarily have to be. Still photos often work well in music videos. Search old photo albums to see if the images you want are already there. You can use still photos to create a video montage, with the music in the background.

Stock Footage

Short-ends or buy-back (leftover film stock from other shoots) are good ways to purchase film stock cheap. You can purchase such stock directly from shoots that are nearing completion or from film, Sometimes Kodak and Fuji will donate film or give discounts to students and young film-makers.

Editing

A nice trick I have used to edit a music video efficiently is to place all the clips on the timeline, one above the other on stacked video tracks. They must all be in their correct positions relative to the song, i.e. they must all be synchronized – except for the cutaways, which can be placed wherever you like.

Have Fun

When thinking about making videos, we ask ourselves, what would be fun to do for a few weeks? That’s where our ideas stem from.

A music video director is a film director who directs the film making of a music video.

Some music video directors are:

• Jonas Åkerlund
• George Ant
• Chris Applebaum
• Tim Armstrong
• Michael Bay
• Samuel Bayer
• Benny Boom
• Alan Calzatti
• Roman Coppola
• Chris Cunningham
• Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
• Gregory Dark
• Director X
• Shane Drake
• David Fincher
• Bill Fishman
  
  

A music video director Julien Christian  

Julien Christian Lutz was born in 1975, better known as Little X, X or Director X, is a canadien music video director  He also has his own clothing line X Fit.

Director X has been noted for his high-budget, visually distinctive music videos for popular music singles, ncluding videos for R. Kelly, Usher, kayne west, Jay-Z, Korn, David Guetta, Sean Paul, Justin Bieber, Drake, Nicki Minajand the Wanted.

questionnaire

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this is the questionnaire  i made to give to a range of people. i gave it to both genders and to a lot of different ages. i will be uploading the feedback very soon.

Name : ______________

Age : _______

Gender : male / female

Please circle your race :         White      Black         Asian         Other _______________________

What type of music do you listen to? Please circle

RnB     Pop      Grime     Rock      Hip Hop       Rap        Soul       Garage     Other ___________

                                                                                                                                                ___________

                                                                                                                                                ___________

Why are those the genre(s) you listen to?

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When do you listen music?

____________________________________________________

How do you listen to music?

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From a scale to 1 to 10, how long in your day do you listen to music?

10 being very much, 1 being not very much

1           2         3         4           5           6          7           8             9           10

Which one do you prefer? Please circle

               Music videos                            just the track

Who is your favourite artist and why?

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diary

i just finished my story board  for the whole group. i followed our plan and drew all the pictures with description alongside. i also made logos for our production name and artists names. i have scanned them, just need to upload it to our blog.