Wednesday 30 September 2009

Chosen Song

One Way Or Another

One way,or another, I'm gonna find ya;I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya;I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna see ya;I'm gonna meet ya meet ya meet ya meet ya!
One day, maybe next week,I'm gonna meet ya, I'm gonna meet ya, I'll meet ya!
will drive past your house,And if the lights are all down,I'll see who's around...
One way, or another, I'm gonna find ya;I'm gonna get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna win ya;I'll get ya! I'll get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna see ya;I'm gonna meet ya meet ya meet ya meet ya!
One day, maybe next week, I'm gonna meet ya;I'll meet ya! Ahhh
And if the lights are all out,I'll follow your bus downtown,See who's hangin' 'round!
One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya;I'm gonna give you the slip!
A slip of the hip, or another;I'm gonna lose ya, I'm gonna trick ya!
I'll trick ya!One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya;I'm gonna trick ya trick ya trick ya trick ya!One way, or another, I'm gonna lose ya;I'm gonna give you the slip!
I walked down the hall,Stand over by the wall,Where I can see it all
,Find out who ya call!Lead you to the supermarket checkout,
See speacials on rackThen get lost in the crowd!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!
One way, or another, I'm gonna get ya;I'll get ya, I'll get ya get ya get ya get ya!

MoodBorad


Possible band name

Tanited Reality

The Manhattans

Tanited

Fallen Angels

These are some of the band names that we liked. However we have choosen to go with Tanited Reality as we feel it represents the kinda of badn we want to create.

Saturday 26 September 2009

Target Audience

Now we have created our band, we have now decided on our target audience in which our band will appeal to. Since we decided to go for a more rock girl band instead of the typical pop girl band will feel this will appeal to a different type of audience as there aren't many rock girl bands in the industry at this particular time. In addition to this to feel that we will still appeal to the normal girl band audience as we will still represent some of the same forms and conventions that a typical girl band does. Our main audience is teenage girls and young adults as we feel they are the mostly likely people that our music will appeal to and listen to. We would like also to grab the attention of the male audience which our girls will appeal to. Will we keep our target audience in our mind in the process of filming and editing our video so we acheive this.

Friday 25 September 2009

Creating Our Music Artist

  • Name: Tainted Feality
  • Genre:Pop/Rock, Electropop and Dance
  • Brief Description of Artist: Me and my partner are creating a girl band that contains 5 members all range between the ages 18-23. The girls would be attractive with their own individual style and voice
  • Biography: The girls come from around the U.K and all have amazing but unique voices. Two of the girls are able to play the guitar and have know each other for years. The 5 members were all friends before forming a band. They are massive fans of Bannanarama, Bangles who have heavy influenced their music. They performed a number of charity concerts and have been a supporting act for Pink's recent U.K tours. Through this they have gain a wider fan base and now brunching out to do their own U.K tour. The dates are yet to be confirmed but will be put up on their website. The band have many upcome magazines interview and T.V appearances at award shows. they are also signed up for interview with T4 and two popular radio stations. A CD signing is arranged for when their single is released.
  • How the artist's image will be constructed: The girls all have individuals style but all link within each others. The overall image of Tainted Reality with be sexy but with a sense of serious about the music. They write and produce their own music as they are passionate about their work.
  • How will you use web-space: Tainted Reality will have their own website they advises their latest music and also gives the audience a chance to get to know the members. As well as this they will have a twitter page for each individual member that allows fans to follow them.
  • Other gimmick and PR stunts: T.v appearnces on GMTV and Channel 4 and chances to record with other well know artist like Justin Timberlake and several others.
  • Tainted Reality started by playing local gigs to gain a fan base once astblished they went on tour to support Pink they made their fan base grow. Now doing performances on Award shows and T.V
  • There targert audience will be aimed at young girls to young women ranging from 13- 20 year old. Although their music may appear to many different people.
  • With each indiviual CD a promontional code will be given to access the website, which will enter a fan into a draw to win front row tickets to upcoming tours. Also the digipack will have a singed photo of each memeber, song lyrics and band information.

Tuesday 15 September 2009

Rough Trade



An independent record label that I have researched is Rough Trade founded by Geoff Travis in 1978. Its started as a small music shop that grew and grew as they gained respect and audiences attention within the music industry. One of the main reasons why Rough Trade became so successful was that they targeted individual audiences and released unique music. This small audience gradually grew into a larger audience as the music started to appeal to a variety of people. The label originally specialised in European post-punk and other alternative rock bands which was different to what the other major record labels were releasing in the late 1970s.

Towards the end of 1979 a number of bands well-known to be with Rough Trade Records started to release successful albums such as Scritti Politti and The Raincoats. The success of the label which was now distributing many products from independent record labels was growing far to big for its small premises. This resulted in them having to move and so in December 1980 the label moved to Blenheim Crescent. Soon they signed the legendary 'The Smiths' which brought the label into a whole new direction in 1983 and explored onto the main steam music. However the success of 'The Smiths' eventully got to much for the label to handle and in 1991, the label and rights to the name Rough Trade were sold off in attempt to pay of distribution debts. After making through bankrupcy, Rough Trade was eventully relunched in 2000 porducing some of the most successful artists in the music industry such as Duffy. Who has become a senstional success and enabled Rough Trade to get back on it's feets.



Some of the bands which are signed to Rough Trade are:

Babyshambles
Duffy
The Libertines
The Raincoats
Scriiti Politti
The smiths





Thursday 10 September 2009

Music video directors

There are so many noted music video directors but i can only look at a few and so for my first study i have choosen a director who suits my tastes. Chris Applebaum has done over 100 music videos most of which are completely Mainstream, All American, Pop music. An area in which I am hoping my research and music video will go in. In order to study Chris I will provide a short bio that shows his transistion into pop music video and the look at a few of his more memorable projects.

BIO

Chris Applebaum studied film at hampshire university in amhurst massacusetts and began his career directing videos for alternative new rock bands. One of his early videos was seen by an MTV exsecutive and he was signed up at the young age of 19. Following this he became the youngest director to ever sign with a division of The Legendary Properganda. since this he has created 2 videos that have been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame; semisonic's 'closing time' and fountains of wayne's 'stacys mom.' he has also helped establish many artists music careers such as Kelly Osborne and Hillary Duff and has continued the success of some mega star artists such as Britany Spears. His most recent award was the 2007 MTV Video of the year award for Rihannas Record breaking number 1 'Umbrella' and though still directing music videos Applebaum has also moved onto to comercial adverisments for high profile companys Covergirl, John Freda and Hugo Boss.

Here are some of Applebaum Fantastic videos.

Rihanna's UMBRELLA




This particular video of Chris Applebaum is highly stylised and shows that it was a multimillion dollar video to produce. He uses many special effects within the video to achieve this highly stylised look such as gold rain, Glossy appearance, sharp editing and blurring of shots. it is these special effects that make the music video appeal to it's audience. Rihanna is always the main focus within the frame and gives off alot of sex appeal within the outfits she had choosen to wear and choreographed dance routines. This parituclar music video is very different from her preivous ones and is very images based. It is the frist video from her 'Good Girl Gone Bad' album and trying to change her good image to an edgier one. Chris shows Rihanna's draker side by using muted colours such as grey and gold. This music video really launched Rihanna's career even though she was popular beforehand, this partiular single made her a megastar.






Another music video that he director was Natasha Bedingfield however he was asked to director the U.S version of her song Unwritten which also helped launch her career in the U.S. This partiular video is extremly different from Rihanna's music video and to Natasha's orginal version. Natasha herself appears to very much be the main focus of this video showing her close up in clear lighting. There is a small narrative within the video of the different people in the elevator but this is cut into shots of her on the grass. This video appears to be showing Natasha off to the American audience and introducing her into the U.S.


Some of his music videos include Britney Spears 'Rock and Roll' , Jessica Simspon, Vassena Hugens, Mandy Moore and Pussycat Dolls.