Friday, 18 November 2016
Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Just a Quick Update
Just a quick update up to where im at. Im finding media a lot easier lately as im getting back on top of things in lesson and out and have been blogging/posting from the comfort of my own home which i enjoy because i am doing my work and progressing in my own time. i haven't been as stressed and can honestly say doing these more hours after school has helped me progress and calmed me down a lot because i know i am improving even if only a little, but hey its better than nothing.
The group work for the music video is working and i am paying my contribution to it, i emailed apple corps today to see if i could use the song A Day In A Life by The Beatles for our music video with Dan and Marcus which is challenging to be honest but very enjoyable and i think it has brought us together more as friends and peers at the same time so it is really a win win.
Although i do have to go on the group blog and but my initials on the post i have put up today of the screen shot of the email i sent to apple corps as i had forgotten to in lesson which was a bit careless.
My next post will be about album covers i find connote the genre of music it is associated with and what the cover and songs on it are trying to portray to the target audience, i am going with the album "London Calling" by The Clash because of Joe Strummer (lead vocals and rhythm guitarist) who died a few years ago, may he rest in peace the legend, but yeah i am going to do that album because of Joe Strummer smashing his guitar on stage and how much that portrays the aggressiveness of punk as a sub-cultural ethnicity and overall background of punk as a whole.
So things are going well at the minute, id like to thank Mrs Mcdonald for giving me a kick up the backside when needed haha.
The group work for the music video is working and i am paying my contribution to it, i emailed apple corps today to see if i could use the song A Day In A Life by The Beatles for our music video with Dan and Marcus which is challenging to be honest but very enjoyable and i think it has brought us together more as friends and peers at the same time so it is really a win win.
Although i do have to go on the group blog and but my initials on the post i have put up today of the screen shot of the email i sent to apple corps as i had forgotten to in lesson which was a bit careless.
My next post will be about album covers i find connote the genre of music it is associated with and what the cover and songs on it are trying to portray to the target audience, i am going with the album "London Calling" by The Clash because of Joe Strummer (lead vocals and rhythm guitarist) who died a few years ago, may he rest in peace the legend, but yeah i am going to do that album because of Joe Strummer smashing his guitar on stage and how much that portrays the aggressiveness of punk as a sub-cultural ethnicity and overall background of punk as a whole.
So things are going well at the minute, id like to thank Mrs Mcdonald for giving me a kick up the backside when needed haha.
Thursday, 10 November 2016
You Know Me - Robbie Williams - Intertexuality
You know me is the second official single from British hit sensation and ex Take That member,Robbie Williams. Released on the 6th of November 2009 and was directed by Phil and Olly also known as Diamond Dogs. Robbie is dressed in a white rabbit suit like the one from Lewis Carroll's Alice in wonderland from the novel and film. this creates intertextuality between the music video and the film or novel itself. He uses his facial expression to imitate that of a rabbit to get into character more and make it more psychedelic. The rabbit is linked to Alice in wonderland of course but there has been many twists on Alice in wonderland very drug related. i thought this might relate to Robbie Williams as he was addicted to drugs. The psychedelic feel of this video has gave our music video group. Ideas such as the very big flowers and animal costumes. Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Auteur Comparison Video Link
https://www.blogger.com/blog-this.g?n=Autuer+Comparison&source=youtube&b=%3Ciframe+width%3D%22459%22+height%3D%22344%22+src%3D%22https://www.youtube.com/embed/uucwD681Kss%22+frameborder%3D%220%22+allowfullscreen%3E%3C/iframe%3E&eurl=https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uucwD681Kss/hqdefault.jpg
This is the link to my auteur comparison video on the two songs.
This is the link to my auteur comparison video on the two songs.
Friday, 4 November 2016
4 Album Covers : The Exploited Beat The Bastards
The Exploited. One of the heaviest and amazing punk bands every to exist producing songs like Sex And Violence, Punks Not Dead, Blown To Bits and Sid Vicious Was Innocent. All songs that contribute to the punk rock style of the 70s and today. They made a brilliant early album called Beat The Bastards which contributed to their success.
One thing I liked about the album cover when I first saw it was obviously the skulls because of how amazing they looked with bone Mohawk's coming out of their head. It really appealed to me as no one had really done that or thought about it before. The idea for the album cover was illustrated and thought up by lead singer Wattie Buchan a very loud and punk Scotsman who has a large hatred for Margaret Thatcher.
The background really contrasts with the bright red font that is the exploited logo and caught my eye straight away which was already a good sign. It is absolutely fantastic and worth a view. Another thing I like is the idea that Wattie had of the sharp bone teeth protruding from the skulls mouth it really caught my eye and sent chills down my back because of how edgy and scary looking they are which connotes to the aggressiveness of The Exploited as a band, their views and the punk lifestyle they live.
The colour in the background works well as it is a murky colour of green and grey and looks like a sort of fog or mist which is quite rarely seen on punk albums as they are normally really bright and hectic and all over the place but this one seems to capture the nice and mysterious background put still manages to capture the horrible and extreme punk attitude with the bleached bone coloured skull which the sharp bone teeth protrude from the mouth of it.
One thing I liked about the album cover when I first saw it was obviously the skulls because of how amazing they looked with bone Mohawk's coming out of their head. It really appealed to me as no one had really done that or thought about it before. The idea for the album cover was illustrated and thought up by lead singer Wattie Buchan a very loud and punk Scotsman who has a large hatred for Margaret Thatcher.
The background really contrasts with the bright red font that is the exploited logo and caught my eye straight away which was already a good sign. It is absolutely fantastic and worth a view. Another thing I like is the idea that Wattie had of the sharp bone teeth protruding from the skulls mouth it really caught my eye and sent chills down my back because of how edgy and scary looking they are which connotes to the aggressiveness of The Exploited as a band, their views and the punk lifestyle they live.
The colour in the background works well as it is a murky colour of green and grey and looks like a sort of fog or mist which is quite rarely seen on punk albums as they are normally really bright and hectic and all over the place but this one seems to capture the nice and mysterious background put still manages to capture the horrible and extreme punk attitude with the bleached bone coloured skull which the sharp bone teeth protrude from the mouth of it.
4 Album Covers : Skrewdriver Boots And Braces
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The Skrewdriver album "BOOTS AND BRACES" was a very controversial album but still very appealing to me. The reason people didn't like it was the fact some songs have very strong right wing white supremacy connotations but my work is about the album cover and not the songs on the record. The album cover appeals to me purely because of how simply and well done it is. It gets straight to the point. It is an album cover designed to attract Skinheads because of the way the Doc Marten boots are positions as if they are stood on someone and wanting a fight like every skinhead seems to like.
The font of the band name seems very distorted and gets to me as the skinhead life style is a very smart look with cropped hair big boots braces sta press pants or Levi jeans. All very smart clothes. However the title and band name looks very chaotic overall and quite edgy to a new viewer of the album as it isn't what you would expect from a skinhead band.
For example I am in a skinhead band and play some Skrewdriver songs from this specific album and our logo is very smart and professional as a skinhead should look and be so for Skrewdriver to have a fuzzy and edgy title for the album denotes that of skinhead culture which I respect and I believe it looks pretty cool.
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This is my bands Logo, it looks very smart and professional. My band consists of 3 members, 2 skinheads and a mod (an early version of a skinhead) I play bass guitar and adopted lead vocals when our singer Connor (a hard-core punk) left out of personal reasons. My best and good friend Tom Harvey is our brilliant guitarist and Bebe (the mod) is our drummer.
The band came about because we wanted to be like the bands we listen to such as Cockney Rejects, Sex pistols and Cock Sparrer. We have adopted the attitude they uphold as a band and have an intimidating look about us. We all dress very smart in sta press pants, fred perry polo shirts, a smart jumper, braces and a pair of doc marten air wair boots preferably above 8 holes high, I like either 10 eyelet or 14 eyelet as they look smart and intimidating which kind of defines our attitude and what we sing about.
We do, admittedly, try to get a reaction and annoy people out of our songs with our first single being a song called "I HATE MANCS" so it fall in well with what we are about yet again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By6KeqBzObo
That is a link to our band playing Victimised by Chaos UK, the quality is poor overall but I don't mind also like our band on facebook.
4 Album Covers : Motorhead Snakebite
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Snake Bite Love: Motorhead
Despite Snakebite Love being one of my least favoured albums by my favourite band, Motorhead, I cannot fault the amazing artwork put into the album cover. It is fantastic.
Normally the common Motorhead symbol is Snaggletooth (the big with the spiked helmet and the horns around its nose) but this time it was adapted into a reptilian like figure what looks like lives in a volcano or somewhere with a lot of fire and molten lava.
It heavily appealed to me by the cool array of colours and the two smaller cobras coming off of the bottom of it. What also appealed to me is the simplicity of it with the font used as it is the common font used on every album from Ace Of Spades to Bomber to Overkill to Orgasmatron, the font has stayed the same and nobody has gotten bored of it evidently as it has stayed on every cover.
The name of the album heavily connotes to the artwork on it who has been fabulously illustrated by Joe Petagno who has contributed and made the Snaggletooth pig head what it is today and how well he has adapted it onto Snake Bite Love and the whole serpent idea instead of a rough looking fighting pig.
Repentless To Goya
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This is the work of Francisco Goya and Slayers newest album Repentless. As you can see it looks quite based off of Goya's work with the whole idea of a shock factor to make the audience shocked and somehow stunned at what they are looking at. Slayer got away with putting a picture of Jesus being burned alive crucified and stabbed to death on an album which shows how far the music industry has come along as bands like Iron Maiden made albums such as Number Of The Beast which was a blatant reference to Lucifer and Satan or whatever name he has been given over the past years.
4 Album Covers : Slayer Repentless
Slayer Repentless:
Slayers newest album cover is probably to most scariest yet and contends with the album, haunting in the chapel which name even sounds as creepy as it looks. But the edge does have to go to Repentless purely because of how abnormal paranormal and scary it looks.
Evidently it is Jesus dying on the cross with his eyes completely blackened maybe to connote that he is being possessed and how much power the devil has over Jesus and God, well thats how i imagined it and what it meant as a viewer of the cover.
Even the T in the title is in the shape of an upside cross in which St Peter was crucified as he felt he wasn't worthy to die in the same way as the messiah which shows the illustrator of the cover (Howard Schwarzberg) has a good knowledge on religious history.
The album cover overall looks strongly linked to the work of Francisco Goya. I will post a picture of his work and show the resemblance of Goya and Schwarzbergs work on his pictures and the album cover. It heavily portrays the savage of man, madness insanity and heavily brings to ind schizophrenia in my opinion.
Evidently it is Jesus dying on the cross with his eyes completely blackened maybe to connote that he is being possessed and how much power the devil has over Jesus and God, well thats how i imagined it and what it meant as a viewer of the cover.
Even the T in the title is in the shape of an upside cross in which St Peter was crucified as he felt he wasn't worthy to die in the same way as the messiah which shows the illustrator of the cover (Howard Schwarzberg) has a good knowledge on religious history.
The album cover overall looks strongly linked to the work of Francisco Goya. I will post a picture of his work and show the resemblance of Goya and Schwarzbergs work on his pictures and the album cover. It heavily portrays the savage of man, madness insanity and heavily brings to ind schizophrenia in my opinion.
Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Music And Me
When I was little I used to listen to a lot of slower stuff such as the Beatles, Genesis and Pink Floyd. The first CD I was given was a Beatles compilation album with two discs however with age I started to grow out of the slow music and get into harder stuff so I would say that slow music was like gateway music.
My favourite band of all time is Motorhead lead by Lemmy Kilmister. Of course the first song I heard by Motorhead was the first song everyone hears by Motorhead which is the Ace Of Spades which is undeniably one of the most mind blowing songs in heavy metal that will get anyone's head jolting up and down. I had heard Motorhead during weekend I went to HMV to purchase my first album ever "Motorhead : Ace Of Spades".
As well as having the Ace Of Spades on it, it had other songs I got into after Lemmy hit his first bass note such as Fast And Loose, Jail bait and Love Me Like A Reptile.
I think my taste has changed for the better as I am so far into my music now I don't even look back and it has always made me happy and in a good when I listen to the likes of Motorhead, Slayer, The Ramones, The Clash etc.
I believe the person who influenced my taste was my best friend Tom because he was into Motorhead and he w "you should give these a listen yno they are class your stuff is too slow haha" so I gave them a listen and now they are my favourite band also the lead singer of Motorhead was a big influence because he just had that attitude of not caring and drinking and playing class music.
I have realized that this taste in music is with me for life now and I don't think its going to change anytime soon because I like what I like and thats all there is and ever will be to it and no one can change my opinion on something I feel passionate about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVecmhNYbuQ
My favourite band of all time is Motorhead lead by Lemmy Kilmister. Of course the first song I heard by Motorhead was the first song everyone hears by Motorhead which is the Ace Of Spades which is undeniably one of the most mind blowing songs in heavy metal that will get anyone's head jolting up and down. I had heard Motorhead during weekend I went to HMV to purchase my first album ever "Motorhead : Ace Of Spades".
As well as having the Ace Of Spades on it, it had other songs I got into after Lemmy hit his first bass note such as Fast And Loose, Jail bait and Love Me Like A Reptile.
I think my taste has changed for the better as I am so far into my music now I don't even look back and it has always made me happy and in a good when I listen to the likes of Motorhead, Slayer, The Ramones, The Clash etc.
I believe the person who influenced my taste was my best friend Tom because he was into Motorhead and he w "you should give these a listen yno they are class your stuff is too slow haha" so I gave them a listen and now they are my favourite band also the lead singer of Motorhead was a big influence because he just had that attitude of not caring and drinking and playing class music.
I have realized that this taste in music is with me for life now and I don't think its going to change anytime soon because I like what I like and thats all there is and ever will be to it and no one can change my opinion on something I feel passionate about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVecmhNYbuQ
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