Saturday 17 December 2011
Saturday 29 October 2011
Research Into Potential Music Channels
MTV Base
A 24-hour music and general entertainment channel from MTV Networks International. The channel focuses on music from genres of R'n'B, hiphop, reggae, soul and urban. The MTV Base brand first launched in the UK in1999, MTV base is available in theUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Republic of Ireland, Kenya and South Africa. The channel was previously available in the Netherlands, Germany and other European countries but was replaced by MTV Dance in some territories from March 2009.
Q
Is a UK music channel based on Q Magazine, launched in October 2000. It is operated by Box Television. Usually focusing on genres such as indie, rock and alternative.
It is available in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.
The channel is also called Q The Music (queue the music), because that is the slogan's name.
The channel plays a wide variety of music, predominantly bands like Snow Patrol, Coldplay, and Stereophonics.
4Music
Is a music and entertainment channel launched in August 2008 in the United Kingdom and available on some digital television providers in the Republic of Ireland. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen. The channel replaced The Hits. The music shown on the channel is predominantly Hip Hop, pop, Dance, RnB and rock. Their slogan is 'Music and then some!'. Q's sister channels include: Channel 4, Film4, E4, More4, Kerrang!, Kiss, Magic, Q, Smash Hits!, The Box.
A 24-hour music and general entertainment channel from MTV Networks International. The channel focuses on music from genres of R'n'B, hiphop, reggae, soul and urban. The MTV Base brand first launched in the UK in1999, MTV base is available in theUnited Kingdom, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, the Republic of Ireland, Kenya and South Africa. The channel was previously available in the Netherlands, Germany and other European countries but was replaced by MTV Dance in some territories from March 2009.
Q
Is a UK music channel based on Q Magazine, launched in October 2000. It is operated by Box Television. Usually focusing on genres such as indie, rock and alternative.
It is available in the UK, Ireland and South Africa.
The channel is also called Q The Music (queue the music), because that is the slogan's name.
The channel plays a wide variety of music, predominantly bands like Snow Patrol, Coldplay, and Stereophonics.
4Music
Is a music and entertainment channel launched in August 2008 in the United Kingdom and available on some digital television providers in the Republic of Ireland. It is the only channel within the Box Television Network to be branded under Channel 4 and the only channel in the network to be broadcast in widescreen. The channel replaced The Hits. The music shown on the channel is predominantly Hip Hop, pop, Dance, RnB and rock. Their slogan is 'Music and then some!'. Q's sister channels include: Channel 4, Film4, E4, More4, Kerrang!, Kiss, Magic, Q, Smash Hits!, The Box.
Narrative breakdown of the composition of the video
The stage- 0:00 – 1:23
Verse 1- Here we will be keeping to the technique of using performance based; focusing on the main vocalist on stage, singing through the microphone. We will be using lighting to focus on the main vocalist, as many soul/jazz music videos usually do, for example Adele and her music videos. The location we have decided for this scene is the school hall.
1:23
At this point of the song she begins to walk toward the exit door, exiting into an unknown alleyway where she begins to walk, this is when the chorus starts.
The chorus ends at 2:09 where she reaches the main road and begins to walk on the street. At this point we will be hearing a guitar solo which plays for 43 seconds, during this time we will be showing shots of the street.
The camera will then go back to the main actress, focusing on her for 16 seconds.
Verse 2 – Actress walks through the streets for 15 seconds and then picks up some balloons from a man selling them and carries on walking.
3:33
Chorus plays again. Here she is walking up a hill, when she gets near the top she lets go of the balloons and the camera focuses on the helium balloons floating.
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The idea of this song focuses on her wandering around feeling isolated from the strangers that walk past her, feeling lost in this world, not knowing where her place is.
Shooting Schedule.
Shooting Schedule - 14th November - 20th
January 21st - Coffee shop sceneJanuary 21st - Street Scenes
March 12th - Park scenes
22nd March - Stage scenes
Lyrics of 'Floating Around'
0.00-0.15 - intro - slow music
verse1 : 0.16 - 1.33
Wondering, round this old town
it's being washed up with the rain
walking in the shoes of strangers
people I will never meet
lost and found I calm myself down
not being bound, floating around
following the patterns of the street
unfamiliar flow of things
getting lost in this old town, is there any way out?
Chorus: 1.34 - 2.07
Lost and found I calm myself down
not being bound, floating around
lost and found, I calm myself down
not being bound floating around
Wondering, round this old town
it's being washed up with the rain
walking in the shoes of strangers
people I will never meet
lost and found I calm myself down
not being bound, floating around
following the patterns of the street
unfamiliar flow of things
getting lost in this old town, is there any way out?
Chorus: 1.34 - 2.07
Lost and found I calm myself down
not being bound, floating around
lost and found, I calm myself down
not being bound floating around
GUITAR SOLO ---- Guitar plays for 43 secs.
2.42 - 2.57
lost and found I calm myself down
not being bound, floating around
verse2-- 2.58 - 3.27
finding my way through this tangled up place
I may not or may deal with this maze
verse2-- 2.58 - 3.27
finding my way through this tangled up place
I may not or may deal with this maze
so I go picking up the pieces
of this puzzle I won't complete chorus-- 3.28 - 3.46
lost and found I calm myself down
not being bound, floating around
3.47-4.00- Instrumental - Ending.
The song can be found here:
http://soundcloud.com/chrisabington/floatingaround
Questions for vox pox.
1. What do you expect from a soul/jazz music video?
2. Do you prefer performance, narrative or concept based music videos?
3. How do you consume music videos?
4. Do you prefer to listen to a song first or watch the music video? Why?
5.What would you expect to see from a music video of our song?
2. Do you prefer performance, narrative or concept based music videos?
3. How do you consume music videos?
4. Do you prefer to listen to a song first or watch the music video? Why?
5.What would you expect to see from a music video of our song?
Graphs for questionnaire.
Gender?
This was the first question. I handed out the questionnaire to 30 people which you can see included 15 males and 15 females; I surveyed both males and females as I am targeting both genders.
Age
I surveyed people ranging from the age of 15-19 as that age range are more into music and I wanted to get their views.
This is an important question as it allows me to recognise the most popular genre and which i will be choosing to use. We can see that the top three were: Hip-Hop, Rap and Soul.
This question was placed in order to recognise how people mostly consume their music videos in order for me to know where would be most successful if I were to publish my music video. It is clearly shown that most people consume their music videos online from sites such as YouTube and MySpace
This question was placed in order to see people's views on music videos. As the majority have said yes, I will have to be careful with producing my music video in order to insure people are not put off when watching it.
This is an important question as with this information I am able to produce a successful music video to suit my target audience and to drag their attention. From the results, we can see that the majority liked narrative, a lot also liked performance based.
From these results, I will be able to produce a music video avoiding the elements that put people off from watching a music video. I will be making sure that the video relates to the song, I will also be avoiding inappropriate images and foul language.
Do you prefer a music video that adheres to stereotypes or differs?
The results here were close but the majority prefer a music video that differs to stereotypes therefore I will be trying to produce a video that differs to the conventional stereotypes of my genre.
Do you prefer a music video with bright lighting or natural lighting?
The majority prefer natural lighting, this links to an answer I got from a previous question where I asked 'what puts you off a music video?' one of the top answer was 'unrealistic'. From these results, I now recognise that people prefer a video to be natural and realistic which is therefore what i will be going for.
Do you prefer music videos with special effects or a simple music video?
This is an important question so I know whether to add effects to my music video or not in order to appeal to my target audience, allowing my video to be successful. The majority have said they prefer special effects, from gathering this information I will try and include this into my video.
This was the first question. I handed out the questionnaire to 30 people which you can see included 15 males and 15 females; I surveyed both males and females as I am targeting both genders.
Age
I surveyed people ranging from the age of 15-19 as that age range are more into music and I wanted to get their views.
What genres of music do you listen to?
This is an important question as it allows me to recognise the most popular genre and which i will be choosing to use. We can see that the top three were: Hip-Hop, Rap and Soul.
How do you consume music videos?
When watching a music video does it make a difference to the song?
This question was placed in order to see people's views on music videos. As the majority have said yes, I will have to be careful with producing my music video in order to insure people are not put off when watching it.
Do you prefer narrative, concept or performance based music video?
This is an important question as with this information I am able to produce a successful music video to suit my target audience and to drag their attention. From the results, we can see that the majority liked narrative, a lot also liked performance based.
What puts you off a music video?
From these results, I will be able to produce a music video avoiding the elements that put people off from watching a music video. I will be making sure that the video relates to the song, I will also be avoiding inappropriate images and foul language.
Do you prefer a music video that adheres to stereotypes or differs?
The results here were close but the majority prefer a music video that differs to stereotypes therefore I will be trying to produce a video that differs to the conventional stereotypes of my genre.
Do you prefer a music video with bright lighting or natural lighting?
The majority prefer natural lighting, this links to an answer I got from a previous question where I asked 'what puts you off a music video?' one of the top answer was 'unrealistic'. From these results, I now recognise that people prefer a video to be natural and realistic which is therefore what i will be going for.
Do you prefer music videos with special effects or a simple music video?
This is an important question so I know whether to add effects to my music video or not in order to appeal to my target audience, allowing my video to be successful. The majority have said they prefer special effects, from gathering this information I will try and include this into my video.
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