Micheal Buble is the 4th most popular jazz musician in the world and is a great pop artist as well. Haven't Met you yet is a great song and is very popular with a lot of age groups but mostly baby boomers. he is also most popular with women as this song is romantic towards him and a women. This song is mostly set torards younger groups like Millennials as they are young enough to still be looking for love.
Stereotypes
This music video is probably presented towards the working class, as they have lots of shots of cashiers, butchers and cleaners in this dancing. The age group it is probably appealing to the most are young millennials as it is about young people falling in love.
Sax is a song written and performed by Fleur East, a runner up for the 11th X Factor. It is a great song that was inspired by Uptown Funk but more 'Brassed up,' even though the saxophone is a woodwind instrument, also the song is ironic because there are no saxophones playing in this song! Anyhoo, the director of the song was Colin Tilly and the style of this music video is quite abstract. The conventions of this music video are:
-In this video there is no relationship between the lyrics and the video
-There is a relationship between the lyrics and the music with the different scenes and colours.
-It is pop and therefore has a lot of dancing in it
-There are a lot of close ups in this video.
-Fleur’s iconography is that she is fun and dances a lot.
-There is no use of voyeurism in this video.
-There is no intertextual references but the song was inspired a lot by Uptown Funk.
As I said before Fleur East’s iconography is her having fun and dancing a lot. She wears a lot of modern clothes and has an Afro as a haircut. There aren’t really any locations due to the green screen. There are special effects like a green screen and Fleur is doubled.
Here is a closeup of Fleur East.
Here is a long shot of Fleur East.
Here is an extreme long shot, these are quite rare in music videos.
Here is a long shot of the dancers and also shows the special effects of them dancing.
The name of my next song and music video is MR SAXOBEAT by Alexandra Stan and published in 2011. The song was written and produced by Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nermirchi. The style of this song is quite rebellious as it is set in a police station and they are brought in, in handcuffs. The music video conventions that are in this video are:
-There is a relationship between the lyrics and the visuals for example when she is seducing the incompetent police officer to free her.
-There is a relationship between the music and the visuals, one example after each beat in the instrumental there are close ups when they dance as well as at the start with the sax solo on every beat.
-Alexandra Stan has her own iconography in this video as a rebellious person that the police struggle with.
-In this song there are a lot of closeups in this video and they appear on every beat now and again.
-In the video there is no use of voyeurism or Intertextual references.
The genre of this song is pop, so there is a lot of dancing as it is common in pop songs. Alexandra also sings while she is performing.
As said before she uses iconography as a rebellious person and also shows she is independent.
There are three main locations in this video, there are the main police office, the interrogation room and the cell. In the main police office, this is used for the intro and outro of the song as she comes in chains and comes out free. The interrogation room is where she is costing the police a lot of time and annoys them. Then there is the cell where she is locked up and becomes free by seducing an officer.
The use of camerawork in this video is great with how the shot changes on every beat. There are a lot of close upshots but aslo a lot of long shots, there are a few mid shots as well.
This is a close up shot in the interrogation room.
Hello everyone, my task for this week is to fully analyse three music videos so hear is my first one.
'Who could it be now?' is a rock song published in 1981 by the band Men at work and the director is Tony Stevens. The style of the video is quite comedic as the band members dress up in some quite funny costumes, for example; a suit with no trousers, an alien, and also JUST a blazer.
Music Video Conventions:
-The is a relationship between the lyrics and the video
-The artist has his own Iconograhpy (A suit with no trousers)
-There are a lot of close ups of all the members of the band
-There is a use of voyeurism (looking through the peephole of the door)
-There is and alien in the video that could be an intertextual reference.
The genre of this song is rock so it is conventional to have the actual band playing in the video for the end of the video. Also there is a saxophone in the band which is quite rare today in modern rock bands but they where quite popular in rock bands of the 80s.
The mode of address and iconography is of the band is quite silly and comedic as i said before, its meant to show the anxiety of the singer as he doesn't want to be bothered by anyone late at night. The fact that he is wearing a a formal suit with no trousers could mean how he is not confident and quite anxious about life and this links quite well with the lyrics.
The main locations in the video are the living room, the corridor to the front door and outside the door. There is also the dining room and the room where the band plays at the end but these are less prevalent.
Here is a Long shot from the start When the lead singer is telling the person at the door to go away.
Here is an example of voyeurism as the camera is looking through the peephole of the door.
Here is an example of a close up and this is in the video because record companies are in demand of course closeups.
Here is a long shot of the entire band at the end of the song.
Quite a while ago in 1992, an American theorist, Andrew Goodwin wrote that there are 7 key characteristics of a Music video. Im going to talk about how 3 of these characteristics may show one music videos I posted for Video Style.
This song is of course 'He's Funny that way' by Andrea Motis and originally Billie Holiday. In the music video there isn't that much relationship between the performance and the lyrics except for that she is singing when she is performing. There is relationship between the music and the visuals though and it is how she is talking about her partner and also the fact that the colour comes out of the trumpet when she plays it. In the video there is some iconography with her and how she having a good time all the time.
In this song there is no lyrics but in the music video of 'Lily was here' the music has a relationship with the performance as there are clips from a movie that link with the relationship between the lead sax and the lead guitar.
Hello all, right now I have a clear image of what I want my music video to be like. I have decided that I want to make a music video for 'I cant believe that you're in love with me.' This is a great jazzy song written in the 1930s by Billie Holiday, a great jazz musician that has wrote many great jazz songs.
This may have been a bit too soon but because I am sure what song I'm gonna play I have already asked for auditions online, on sites like Whatsapp and Snapchat. So far I have 23 applicants for the roles of Guitarist, Singer, Pianist, Trumpeter, Drummer, Actors and Saxophonist (which will be me because i play the Sax). I have told them all to listen to the song and see if they can start practicing for they'er part. I told actors that they will just be getting filmed holding another actors hand and pretending to be in a couple. When I have got the sheet music sorted i will make a group chat on Whatsapp and tell them to upload their auditions on to the group to stay safe from Covid 19.
Here below are different versions of the song that I have taken inspiration from for the song but please note that these are not really music videos as they are performed live mostly. I have taken inspiration of Andrea Motis's Music video of 'He's Funny that way' also by Billie Holiday, the video is great as it is in black and white for the first part of the song until she stars playing the trumpet.
For my third task I was told to review this Student made, music video and overall this is a great video with a lot of resources and good editing. In this video it shows how a man is trying to fix this old car but he struggles a lot until he gets a mate to help him out and then they manage to drive the old car. This shows that when you work as a team everything gets done quicker and better and so the lyrics go quite well with the video. There are also a lot of scene where you see the band play, this is a common technique used by many artists.
Hello Everyone, today i will show the differences between 3 different music videos.
This song is called 'I can't Believe that you're in Love with Me'. It was filmed in a concert and videoed a bunch of people dancing while they where playing. In the video theres is also footage of people playing there instruments as well.
This song is called 'He's Funny that Way' This Music video is a lot different to the last one due to it has been edited a lot more and is filmed in black and white for the start of the video (except for the colour of the dress of course). The video doesn't link that much to the lyrics but it does about how she talks about how her partner is funny and she is in different spots talking about it.
This song is called 'Lily was here' it has been filmed in a black room where you can only see the musicians, the video also shows clips from the Film it was played for. This song has no lyrics and is not jazz like the others but it has scenes of the the film it was played for as it was about love. The song shows a vast amount of repeating and that is why I like it as it has a great mix of guitar and sax.
Hello Everyone, my name is Jack Mountcastle and I am a student at Ilkley Grammar School, this is blog showing my future progress in A level media. I am also a cadet in the local Air cadet squadron and here is a video of me playing in a marching band for the National drill and ceremonial Camp.
