Audience Feedback of my Music Video (1)

After finishing my music video I have asked around for feedback of what is good and what is bad, trying to find out the positives and the negatives of my video.

The positive feedback stated that I used good transitions meaning that the edits between clips and the effects used stood out in a good way.
Good use of lights and locations, this is stating that the lighting of my music video is clear and good enough to show the artist and location effectively.
Good acting which means the artist is believeable within his performance of the music video meaning it gives a positive look to it.

The negative feedback is about the lip synch which appears to be a bit off meaning that some of the clips his mouth isn't moving at the correct time.
Could've used more people was another negative however I don't take this feedback as offensive as my main intention was making a music video with just the artist performing a performance and narrative.

My Final Video!

Evaluation!

My Evaluation

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This is a quick picture of me on my blog site, doing some blogs looking rough as hell.

Audience Research Answer 4

Question 1) Male

Question 2) 19

Question 3) Rock and Electro, because it's gives me a great feeling and I can normally relate to lyrics around that genre along with their style and up beat tempo also allowing me to feel energetic and active.

Question 4) I prefer a bit of both however Narrative I feel can be very crucial to a music video

Question 5) It varies depending on the locations however I'd say roughly 3-5

Question 6) The artist and characters within the music video as well as what is happening, along with good cuts and a unique sense of style

Question 7) It depends on the type of music, and what the music video is containing, so No

Audience Research Answer 3

Question 1) Male

Question 2) 21

Question 3) Rock because it's the emotions without loud noises

Question 4) Narrative

Question 5) Doesn't bother me

Question 6) Characters and Story

Question 7) Yes

Audience Research Answer 2

Question 1) Female

Question 2) 17

Question 3) Hip Hop, Because it cheers me up and Jazz cause it's relaxing

Question 4) Bit of both

Question 5) About 4 or 5

Question 6) When there's so many cuts between different close ups or interesting things that relate to the song or lyrics.

Question 7) No, not necessarily

Audience Research Answer 1

Question 1) Female

Question 2) 16

Question 3) Rock, I guess because it's more appealing to me

Question 4) Narrative

Question 5) 3

Question 6) The song and the clothing of the singer

Question 7) Not necessarily

Audience Research - Questionnaire

These are my questions in my questionnaire I am using to help me find out what interest audiences and their view on music videos and the main attraction to it within the different age's.

Question 1) Is Your Gender Male Or Female?

Question 2) What is your age?

Question 3) Favorite music genre and why?

Question 4) What do you prefer within a music video? (Narrative or Performance)

Question 5) How many different locations do you expect to see within a good music video?

Question 6) What makes a music video stand out to you?

Question 7) Do you think the music pace should be the same pace as the music video for it to be successful?

Link to group blog

http://jeimuzuvlahos.blogspot.co.uk/
This is the link to my group blog even though I'm working alone I felt the need to slightly get another blogger as if I'm working in a group.

Problems faced when editing

Whilst editing I encountered certain problems such as finding possible clips for each part as there are certain words in which he does not mime correctly in any of the clips I had filmed, so luckily I had backup clips of him roaming around and doing productive stuff to slot in when all things turned to doubt.

Other problems when editing was coming to terms with the Final Cut programme which took me some time in learning how to control it productively, however I had gotten used to it pretty quickly and got straight into editing as I was running short of time, however I managed to finish on time and felt a lot of stress lifted off my shoulder and proud of what I had achieved alone as most may have no conquered it.

Props

The props being used to film my music video and which is within the music video are varied slightly, such as the little things on the artist is;-
Leather Jacket
Studded Belt
White/Greyish Jeans
Black Cowboy Boots
The reason in which I used these props for the artist is to make his figure stand out and give him a more elegant classy look whilst performing the song.

The props I used within the music video that wasn't on the artist was also varied slightly such as;-
Mirror
Bed
Messy Female Room
Door
The reason for using these slightly limited props is to show a rather creepily perv stalker image as it relates to the song quite smartly I feel and gives an effective look to the music video's paste.

Personal Diary

Day 1 - I met up with my fellow friends on a Saturday early in the morning, 11am giving us time to prepare and get idea's of how everything being done shall be done. However there was a slight problem as my friends had appeared but my brother did not return home due to not being able to make it and failed to communicate to tell me til later on the day. As him being the chosen artist for the music video this left very awkward tention within the group until we decided we should just take some test shots of me performing, having low confidence I realised that I was most deffinately not set out for the task of taking the lead role of artist so we decided to wait till my brother can make it.

Day 2 - Sunday was a restful day and my brother having returned we discussed on what we shall have to do and when is the best time to do it, then he told me he had free day's off work within the weekdays and luckily I only had a short day of school we decided that we will film what we can on that day and see how much of it can be used and how good it will turn out. The day we had chosen was Thursday.

Day 3 - Thursday came round quite quickly and as planned we did it, I finished my school lessons and asked the Media department if I could take out the camera and tripod and they allowed me to as we was getting close to the deadline and I was finding this project much harder then anticipated, However after arriving at certain locations we found what we needed and went for it, My brother was first very uncomfortable having not done this before and miming proved difficult however we just went for it and got what was needed in making a music video.

Day 4 - Due to having forgotten to take photo's of the location, we have decided to go back to the main location dressed as he was and to take some quick photos as evidence, Also having to make an album cover this comes in very useful as it gives me time to find an effective image for the cover.

Filming Schedule

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Locations Used

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Artist

My Brother Ryan Vlahos .........

Asking Alexandria - The Final Episode Music Video Analysis (3)

1. Institutional/Reference Information
I am analysing Asking Alexandria's music video "The Final Episode". The reason why is because of it's creativty on following the beat of the music and genre and how he varies his voice for each part of the lyrics to give it a unique feel to it, It is directed by -
2. What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?

3. What is the relationship between music and visuals?
The relationship between the music and the visuals is very much exact, as it appears to always keep on track with the music and maintaing the speed and beats even when it is showing items fall in slow motion, It also gets faster with more cuts when the song speeds up and gets heavier. Which it also does the same when the music is abit slower, however it is still very quick paced and heavy. The visuals show them head banging in their own unique form of style, along with the drums and guitars as well as the vocalist, their inside a garage looking place showing it's private and their free to go wild just like the song can be considered.
4. Are there close-ups of the artist and star image motifs?
There are plenty of close-ups of the artists and their star image, which is long styled hairm dressed in black and some tattoo's, It also shows close ups when it goes into the vocalist singing his lines and head banging, it also shows slow motions close ups of the guitarists whilst playing entertaingly, The camera also likes to track itself forward and backwards into their faces.
5. Is there reference to the notion of looking?
There is not really any sexual displays at all however they have their own image of notion for looking as I'm sure plenty of girls may find someone in the band attractive and like what they see if their into that sort of boys so the notion of looking is dependant hugely on the individuals, however there is nothing at all sexual about this video just wildness.
6. Are there intertextual references?
This music video is perhaps related to many other rock genre based music videos as they it's known for performance in areas which are slightly abandoned and have no one around meaning they can perform widly without worries and have full effect of the band being viewed. Also the style of tattoo's and hair and clothes may also be common along a certain sterotype known as emos or goths.
7. Is the music video performance-based, narrative-based or concept-based?
My view on this music video is that it is highly performance based and not really anything else , As in the music video they appear just to be going wild and singing as if it was a live show with no one turning up to watch it.

Black Veil Brides - Fallen Angels Music Video Analysis (2)

1. Institutional/Reference Information
The Music video I'm analysing is Black Veil Brides, Fallen Angel which is directed by (Name).
The genre that the music belongs to is most deffinately rock and that is shown in it's characteristics of the music video which is both scenery and individuals as the scenery is based around a location set in fire and out in no where showing asteriods hitting the earth, Also the way that the band and also other people who are just within the music video but nothing main are all dressed in a rockish unique way with war paint painted over them and crazy hair styles along with sense of clothes.
2. What is the relationship between lyrics and visuals?
There is deffinately links between the lyrics and the visuals, these however could be tricky to find for some as it is done in a smart way, such as "We are the fallen angels" and there are asteriods hitting the earth resulting in people who could be considered as outcasts to some, resulting in the lyrics Fallen Angels. The lyrics "We scream,we shout, we are the fallen angels" also define that they are proud of who they are no matter what their judged by people, it also shows this by a huge crowd of people in make up dressed emoish and rockish with war paint all over them that they do not mind being outcasted for who they are. "Take joy in who you are, we know that our wings have flown" These lyrics also back up their voice of being outcasted for their style and interests however their joyful and feel free to do it.
3. What is the relationship music and visuals?
The relationship between the music and visuals too are also very similar , as they like to stick to their beats and their hardcore instrumentals which maintain a quick and heavy pace but the music video's visuals manage to keep up with it making it look effective and entertaining and very interesting. Also when the guitarist has his solo, it shows plenty of clips of him from many different angels and cuts playing his guitar whilst the camera is always moving.
4. Are there close-ups of the artist and star image motifs?
Yes there are plenty of great effective close-ups which is filmed amazingly capturing awesome image's, it also shows the bands own look which is very rocky looking and perhaps emoish, however it looks amazing. The close-ups vary widely of each band members facial expression and instrument such as the lead singer has the most close-ups but generally has the camera on him mostly, The lead singer throughout the entire song always has quick close-ups whilst he's singing, and at the very end it quickly goes over all of the band members faces with a close up, then after showing them all individually it shows them all together representing their individuals but in a band and each have their own look.
5. Is there reference to the notion of looking?
There is most deffinatly the notion of looking, it would be hard not to with such an amazingly filmed music video which looks very exciting and effective in the way that it looks very unique and I would say that there is easily no other video which looks like this one, which means even if your not too into the music and prefer different genres that you' still find the music video very interesting.

6. Are there intertextual references?

7. Is the music video performance-based, narrative-based or concept-based?
I'd say that the music was most deffinately mixed, It deffinately has a huge set of performance-based in their music video, as a lot of the time it shows the band themselves just together singing with passion and entertainment other then standing there together and just not doing much, But I'd also say it's very narrative-based also as it shows a lot of unique people who perhaps are outcast's in normal society if dressing like that which represents "we are the Fallen Angels"

Reasons for choice of artist

The reason's for why I am picking the artist Jeffree Star is because of he is a unique different type of artist and a unique indiviual who is not very known worldwide compared to many artists. This proves effective as the exam board said the choice of artist must not be to well known and I believe that even though Jeffree Star may well be known but it's only to a certain group of indiviuals so he is not massive world wide.

 Another reason why I have chosen Jeffree Star is because I like plenty of his songs and they are all pretty much heartfelt lyrics and have strong uses of words and meanings. Also the song I have chosen seems very narrative and can be used effectively to bring excitement and entertainment along with nice looking images and clips for the music videos, I also feel I could listen and work with this song without getting tired or bored with it which will be extremely useful when editting.

Black Veil Brides - Marketing Analysis

Black Veil Brides use a huge variety of ways in advertising their band and marketing themselves. Since there is a massive improvement within technology, that even downloading songs pirately for free the music industry have to attempt to counter it however even with piracy there are still huge amounts of sales, just not as much as there would be without downloading.

Black Veil Brides use the old ways of marketing their band such as advertisements when playing concerts or doing gigs, awareing people who walk pass or find it interesting and feel they would like to go see it they can see the time, date and how much and a picture of the band and where it's being performed. This is much more of a billboard, poster type of marketing for places which have a huge amount of people walking around such as in a high street.

They also have their own website and their own youtube account in which they publish their songs as they can make some income from views on youtube as people are going to listen to it freely on youtube anyway so they may aswell make a profit from it other then a loss from it being listened to  on someone else.

They also use technology to it's full ability on marketing theirself such as not only having their CD's in shops allowing them to be purchased, they also have their CD's on ITunes and websites such as amazon etc. They also have their own facebook page in which they keep their fans updated and allow others to see their page that are also interested. This allows fans to see when their doing concerts, merchandising clothing, accesories etc. They also interact with the fans by each memeber of the band owning a twitter account in which allows users to follow them and interact with the band, but also the band to post such that wouldn't necessarily be posted to the band page.

The band has become very popular winning Kerrang's Best International Band, Best Vocalist etc proving to be very sucessful in it's early rise to fame. So their marketing is paying off very well and their name is getting spread around.

Contacting Jeffree Star

This is me trying to contact Jeffree Star to gain permission to use his song Prisoner for my A2 Music Video.

Recent Problems

I've had some few recent problems in getting everyone available at the same time  for a good couple of hours so that I can accomplish a good amount of filming to make it effective and get as much done as possible within the day and a lot of footage to work with to avoid complications of getting everyone back together. However filming on the Sunday seems like the easiest option and I shall take it.

Jeffree Star - Prisoner (Lyrics Analysis)

 Looking at these lyrics written by Jeffree Star made a lot of images pop into my head almost instantly as I have already attempted a perfomance based music video and found it very difficult to accomplish effectively I decided to go into a much  more narrative approache. I feel this song is both perfect and unique and will allow me to follow the narrative in my own funky way giving it my own look to it such as imagery and apperance wise for the star.

A lot of the lyrics are more then manageable to accomplish in filming for my music video which should stick to the similar upbeat along with it. Also as there is a huge majority of the lyrics it allows me to keep a good flow without worrying about the artist may take a awkward silence with just the background music playing.

Lyrics along the lines of "I followed  you home and I waited till you were alone" "I crept into the room while you slept, And layed next to you", "But I'm just a lovesick criminal", "You can arrest me baby, I don't wanna leave, Lock me up throw away the key", "I'm addicted to your love, I'll be your prisoner, I'll be your prisoner tonight, I-I-I-I'm under your spell And I just can't get enough"

 All of these few lyrics picked out are very effective and easily narrative which allows me to create my own version on how it is portrayed and how it shall look which should be very interesting and unique, as well as entertaining and fun.

I got no regrets.
And I remember the day that we met.
There was no way that I could forget you.
So I followed you home and I waited till you were alone.

And I crept into the room while you slept
And layed next to you, and I knew
That I could never let you go.

I know this seems so wrong
But I'm just a lovesick criminal

You can arrest me, baby.
I don't wanna leave.
Lock me up throw away the key.
I don't care if I'm in trouble deep.
I'm addicted to your love.
I'll be your prisoner.
I'll be your prisoner tonight.
I-I-I-I'm under your spell.
And I just can't get enough.

You woke up to me staring at you in your sleep
Like a deer in the headlights, I couldn't see
Anything else but the way you breathe.
And you screamed at the top of your lungs,
You couldn't believe it. You thought you were dreaming
I knew I never wanted you to let me go...

I know this seems so wrong
But I'm just a lovesick criminal

You can arrest me, baby.
I don't wanna leave.
Lock me up throw away the key.
I don't care if I'm in trouble deep
I'm addicted to your love.
I'll be your prisoner.
I'll be your prisoner tonight.
I-I-I-I'm under your spell.
And I just can't get enough.

I wanna pay for all the consequences
Believe me, I have the worst intentions.

I wanna pay for all the consequences
Believe me, believe me.

I wanna pay for all the consequences
Believe me, I have the worst intentions.

I wanna pay for all the consequences
Believe me, believe me.

Never let you go...

You can arrest me, baby.
I don't wanna leave.
Lock me up throw away the key.
I don't care if I'm in trouble deep
I'm addicted to your love.
I'll be your prisoner.
I'll be your prisoner tonight.
I-I-I-I'm under your spell.
And I just can't get enough.

I'll be your prisoner
Tonight.
I'll be your prisoner
I-I-I-I'm under your spell,
And i just can't get enough

CHANGE OF SONG!

As I was finding it very tough and as an indiviual to work with the Adam Lambert "Whataya Want From Me" Song and producing the music video for it as a performance based video, I've decided to take a more narrative approache to a new song which I have listened to and have a lot of effective narrative lyrics to work with as well as a funky upbeat song.

Filming

As I got down to filming and everything was in place, it seemed as if it wasn't to go exactly like I planned. The reasons for this is partly because of the shots within the camera as filming never really looked exciting or as special as I was expecting it to and it did not suit the song. Another reason was the performer was reluctant to performing as it came to the time feeling very nervous and anxious also getting very self confident meaning I am in need to find another performer first and to make some changes to my ideas and plans.

Specific Album Art Analysis

Album Analysis 1 : Black Veil Brides - Rebels














This album art shows the audience procisely the sort of music there is going to be as the apperance of the person within the image looks like a rocker with his leather jacket and chains mixed with his long hair and masucline posture. Also the dark planet placed in the way he is facing also shows it could be some what dark or meaningful music with heart felt lyrics also the title of the alum placed on his jackets back "Rebels" indicate some sort of rebellion. It also is very effective in it's difference to other album covers.

Album Analysis 2 : Adam Lambert - Better Than I Know Myself (Single)                                              
 
 This single cover has the artist placed on the left looking to his right with a somewhat emotional thoughtful face dressed in black with his hair styled and spiked along wit his black earring showing he has a fashion sense. The Font to his name and the lyrics vary but showing some sort of funk or groove to it placed in front of the grey looking and yellow looking background showing it could relate to a thoughtful song.

Album Analysis 3 : Bring Me The Horizon - There is A Hell, Believe Me I've Seen it, There is A Heaven, Let's Keep It A Secret

This album cover of Bring Me The Horizon features no words but only a picture of a person placed in a mask however split into two showing a male on the left and a female on the right. The male on the left is holding a dagger and dressed in a black robe showing dirt and hair on his body. However the female on the right is dressed in white with dirt her arm holding keys showing somewhat as if they female is a prisoner to a male. Meaning the songs to this album could be dark and heartfelt as well as perhaps about experiences.
Album Analysis 4 : Asking Alexandria - Reckless & Relentless

This album cover show the audience that it is going to have somewhat heart felt lyrics as you can see the album cover is called "Reckless & Relentless" Already powerful words used to describe somewhat of a breakdown. Also the image of the lady in the image looking roughed up and torn dress sat in a manly way alongside a smashed TV as well as the image being in black and white it shows some level of Rock.

Album Analysis 5 :  Michael Jackson - Bad














This album cover is a old album of Michael Jackson, which the title of the album is "Bad" the image of the artist himself standing alone in a blank background looks with the word Bad shows he has somewhat decided to go for the stud looking person going for some sort of aggression shown in his facial expression and even though not much is happening it is very effective cause of the apperance.