Bands of a similar genre to our chosen band

The band we chose is a pop dance alternative band so I have researched similar bands and these are the results:

Panic! at the Disco

• Panic! at the Disco
• The ting tings
• The Prodigy
• New Order
• Jimmy Eat World
• Alphabeat
• The Hoosiers



Alphabeat

The Hoosiers




The Prodigy



The Ting Tings



New Order



Jimmy Eat World

Vox Pops

What is a Vox Pop?

A Vox Pop is a interview where you get random people off the street to answer a few questions in front of a camera to get there opinions and ideas.

This is what a good Vox Pop includes:

Good Questions

• What are your expectations when you watch  a music video?
• What is your favourite genre?
• What style of music video do you like best?
• What is your all time favourite music video?
• What conventions do you like to see in a video?
• What storyline do you like to see in a music video?

This is our Vox Pop

 

Q1) What's your favourite music genre?

A)  We got many different music genres such as classic rock, pop, country and R&B. We asked this to find out what people enjoy and what type of people enjoy certain kinds of music.

We wanted to find this out so that we can make sure we take what type of thing people like that has already been done into consideration. This is so that we can look at the popular techniques and apply some of the relevant techniques to our music promo if possible. This is so that our promo will be popular with our target audience.

Q2) Whats your favourite music video of all time?

A) We got a mixture of videos like Katy Perry 'Thinking Of You' and Arctic Monkeys 'Snap Out Of It'. We asked this to a) see what different genre of music include in their video and b) to see what people enjoy and it seems they enjoy a narrative in their videos.
We wanted to find this out to also find out what was popular so that we can make sure our production will be as popular to our target audience as these music promos are to their target audiences. This will help us make a more effective promo as we can apply a narrative to our video as well as performance to make the promo look good in the eyes of our target audience.

Inspirations

 

 

Post Modernisim and the Music Video

What is Postmodernism?

Postmodernism is when you take something old or cannon and play around to create something newer and different.

• sceptical or playful interpretations of culture
• Intertexuality - borrowing ideas
• reusing old styles
• satirising
• adding to past tradition - innovative
• transforming the past
• mixing genres
• plays with reality
• Avante garde with old school images
• remodelling the past

 

 

 

 

 

The 3 stages of genre

The experimental stage of genre attempts to establish trends
The cannon stage works within those trends to fix them into our cultural understanding
The post-modernism stage looks at trends, laughs at them, pokes them with a stick and adds something new in
Thereby creating a new experimental stage etc

Intertextuality

• Homage - Imitation is the highest form of flattery
• Pastiche - Using the imagery of one text ti make a comment about another one
• Parody - Taking the mickey 

Analysis of lyrics improved

 

Lyric Visuals

 

This song is about a break up and trying to get over the person you broke up with. The words that are repeated the most are heart and break which suggests that the song is about heart break and that we should try and work with this huge aspect with the song in our music promo

Timings for music track

Drums and guitar start at 00 seconds
piano/electric starts at 05 seconds
Vocals start at 10 seconds
pause in singing around 33 seconds
Chorus start at 36 seconds
Chorus ends at 1 minute and 6 seconds
Verse 2 starts at 1 minute and 10 seconds
Verse 2 ends at 1 minute and 35 seconds
Chorus starts at 1 minute and 38 seconds
Chorus ends at 2 minutes and 8/9 seconds
Verse 3/chorus starts at 2 minutes and 22 seconds
Verse 3chorus ends at 3 minutes and 8 seconds

This is a rough timing of when all the verses and choruses start and end.

The pace/tempo of the song is quite upbeat with a husky sort of voice and the overall atmosphere and emotion of the song is kind of sad.

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