Summer Blog Post 1

The Killers Mr Brightside video is a very strange music video that plays with the emotions of the lead singer, it seems to evolve around him and we see through his eyes what hes seeing, with his brain being tortured due to his feelings for the girl in blonde in the music video.

The music video shows a performance and a story simultaneously mixed together, to make us feel apart of it and for us to have an emotional bond with the artist rather than just watching them perform without any story line being played out.

In my opinion the music video reminds me of the movie Moulin rouge in a way due to the way they are both portrayed also the colours are quite similar, but the setting is definitely similar. shown below

There are scenes in this music video to show sparks of interest between the two main characters, such as when they are standing on the balcony fireworks can be seen this connotes a spark between them and love. The men just sitting around being mesmerized by the women connote that they see the woman purely as a object of beauty rather than dancers or entertainers. The storyline transfers into the future to make us feel a connection between the two characters, but all in all the music video isn't very strong and isn't extremely powerful as the band is already well known and the song on its on already has a strong sense about it so adding them together is a good mixture and lets the audience have both good senses from visual effects and hearing from the song itself.

Parody and Pastiche

Pastiche:

Is different to parody but the two concepts are not far from each other, pastiche is a somewhat copy of an original, below is an example of pastiche, The original (Silence of the Lambs) was created to show the evilness in the character played by Anthony Hopkins, the "Mask" shows just how dangerous the character is. Next to him shows Mr Burns who is somewhat of an evil character himself, on the outside people would say it represents a parody but looking closer shows the evilness of the character rather than mocking the original  it copies it.

My own opinion: In my own opinion I think that pastiche is a more serious style concept rather than parody and it has a deeper meaning rather than just a joke of an original.

Parody:
Parody is a deliberate exaggeration for comedy effect to please the audience, parody can be formatted on a number of different types of media and it can also be used to parody a lot of different serious things such as people, movies, and TV shows. Below is a definite example of parody, it shows the comedy genre and it shows the actor in the video (Jack Black)  playing to the audience and twisting the harmless actions shown in Spider man into other actions. There is also no seriousness in it due to the light hearted tone of the voice of the actors.

A music video that is an example of a parody is the one shown below as although the sound is the exact same and he is just miming he is still mocking her. Greg James although very funny has in no way praised or rewarded Miley Cyrus, it is essentially an act of disrespect in order for more people to compare the two songs as it brings fans of Miley Cyrus over to watch the music video and due to the mass size of social network it will be tweeted and shared all over the place creating a larger fan base and music video population

Samuel Bayer Auteur

Samuel Bayer is a well respected music video director, who had created music videos for many highly respected artists such as Madonna, Justin Timberlake and Nirvana.

Samuel Bryer tells a story through the music video to give the audience something to focus on and give them more visual effects along with a strong audio backbone. His music videos require little light and tend to be focused on one or two colours to keep the effect continuous his music videos  are powerful and have led the way for other younger directors to follow in pursuit of his style.

Below is a  Nirvana music video created by Samuel bayer, you'll notice how something is always happening on the screen to keep the audience interested and enticed.




Samuel's work artistry also includes:

. Green Day- American idiot


. Justin Timberlake- What goes around comes around


. Robbie Williams- Angel


His work is probably the most famous out of the three "Auteurs" I have studied he has done work for the bigger stars and created the more well known music videos which shows he certainly fixed the category

Michel Gondry Auteur

Michel Gondry is certainly an auteur as he has created a totally different style to fit in with the post modernism world we live in now. Michel created a documentary style music video in the Bjork- Declare independence music video -(shown below)-  their is certainly a dark twisted element about his music videos almost as if they are trying to make the audience thing about the actions being shown rather than the song actually giving off the message.

Famous works of Michel Gondry include:
Bjork- Declare Independence
The White Stripes- Fell in love with a white girl

Michel Gondry shows off messages with objects that may seem random to the audience the objects give off the "Amateur" effect rather than the "Auteur" effect but never the less his style is very memorable and stays in the mind of those watching it.

Music Video Auteurs

Chris Cunningham

He is a music director and an established one at that. His work is well known and he has been labelled as an auteur due to what he has created via his directing.

His music videos contain dark concepts with little light, this could be to give off a dramatic effect to the audience and also to promote the horror genre to the audience and give them a kind of scare.  The music Videos are meant to unsettle us and make us worried about what will come next while it also follows the beat of the music and the lyrics involved.




Below is a still from the music Video "Frozen" which Chris Cunningham directed again this shows the dark un colourful "horror style" theme. Full of sadness due to the lack of colour and the posture shown  and the facial expression also.

Music and Me: Class Discussion

We had a conversation (me our class and my teacher) about songs that represent our life. Mostly peoples music taste from what I've heard is derived from their parents and family. my music tastes are extremely different compared to others who have a strong attachment to heavy metal and loud rock and roll music.

These statistics show that we differ in terms of our preferred genre of music but as you could see from the class all the music was mainly recognisable and enjoy from everyone who heard it.

The person below seems to have done the most effort in creating their Music and Me post, they have clearly had a lot of thought going into it and have included significant music videos that represents important things about them.

http://chchsmediasbraziera2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/music-and-me.html

Post Modernism Key Terms

Post Modernism key terms definitions 

Simulacra:- a term coined up by Jean Baudrillard in 1981, is an image or representation, which in basic terms mean something in the world of television that no longer has an original. Baudrillard basically explained that simulacrum is substituting the signs of the real for the real. Such as the McDonald's logo being essentially representing a place of food without any guarantee of food. Other examples of this include a kings crown which represents all of the kings power and importance but its still just a crown which doesn't truly mean power or importance.

Simulation- an act or something that does not actually occur in real life such as a fake world an example of this is disneyland as Baudrillard argued that Disneyland was neither real or fake as it is physically real but it is a made up and "de-real" place as it was created artificially such as Nemesis in Alton Towers representing an alien world we know its not really an alien place but it is created to do so.

Hyper Reality- Baudrillard argues that pure reality is non existent and that everything we do is controlled. Such a higher authority such as the illuminati, Baudrillard wanted to expose the "Open Secret" which was furthered on by a man named Mcdougan. Both philosophers were very controversial as people were very close minded and refused to believe that there whole existence could be a false reality.