Youtube Evaluation

Finalised Products

Our Music Video

Our Music Poster

Our Website
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Final Music video Draft

First draft of our music video

Below is our music video, well our first draft, we are currently awaiting feedback from the audience so as that we know what needs changing and what is good or bad about the music video. as by doing this we can improve aspects of our music video that are not up to the best standard possible. Please comment if you have any views that you want to share with myself or the group about the music video

Band Album Poster

Here is our finished poster, this poster is simple and with simple colours. the poster was created to represent the humbleness and simplicity of the band as a whole. The poster we originally created was too flashy and would typically be used for a hip hop band which we are not we wanted to a create a simple poster with a simple colour scheme that people can look at with a deeper meaning.

The poster is a type of homage to the music poster of the band The Buggles who created the poster below for their album "Video Killed the Radio-star" by doing this we are adding an element of post modernism into the coursework which is something we are looking at for the flip side of this Unit. By adding this element to the poster we are creating a deeper level and meaning to our poster rather than leaving it bland and uninteresting.

The poster is symbolical as it shows a cartoon style faces of our two band members myself and Jack, as these cut outs are what our band members are most typical seen at by people, as people see jack with his medium length hair and his beard without taking notice of his eyes or any other feature, the guitar is placed in front of him to show what matters most to him, same with the microphone as it is directly in front of my face as if i was singing but with no facial features to actually do so. The text located on the poster is simple as to not draw attention away from the band but still in the audiences attention due to the colour red being used as red is a colour that is transferred very quickly by the brain.

Group Blog Reflection

The Blog posts i have been doing on my Group Blog has been significantly greater than the posts done on my personal Blog, Its hard to time manage between the two Blogs as-well as finding time for other lessons, the group Blog work currently is mainly about looking at certain aspects of music videos that we as a group enjoy and each writing what we think we could replicate from one video and recreate this into our own music video. For example, I have currently been looking at music videos that contain transitional pieces which are often used to waste time and to show dramatic scenes such as a time lapse, The Fray you found me is a music video I am currently looking at which I think uses this editing feature well as these edits can last between 2-7 seconds and keep the audience enticed within the music video as they are in awe at the beautiful scenes. After this current Blog work is done (meaning looking and researching videos) the next phase is to find locations which we will be able to film and add into parts of the music video that we have already completed. The pictures used show the detail put into just five seconds with of footage in some music videos, the text will also give brief detail as to how we plan to recreate these scenes with setting plans also.

Unless you have amazing eyesight its probably hard to read the text in the age shown above for a better viewing experience follow the link below to our transitions  Blog post on our group website where we will have everything shown in the images below with larger writing, also we will have more detail and further images, Thanks!

 http://chchsmediagroup4.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/snow-patrol-chasing-cars-transitions.html

The Effects Debate

The Effects Debate revolves around media censorship and the way that media is able to manipulate its audience in a negative way and that there is a need to be able to control media in order to protect its audience. People who come up with the "things" that need regulating are categorised into 3 groups:

People who voice their concerns for danger within the media without having any real or true evidence, people such as Politicians, The Media itself and Campaigning groups.

People who have conducted research into effects on the media and whether things have positive or negative effects on the audience

The audience itself who are subjective to the debate, this is typically teenagers who are just experiencing a whole new world of media , the studies usually revolve around violence games such as Grand Theft Auto.

The censorship of media that is a big factor in The Effects Debate is often misunderstood and confused with similar terms such as Regulation and Classification.
Regulation is very political and is most typically put in force by government this is called State Regulation, regulation exists within media and the media in order for some things to just not be allowed within media, also media itself puts its own version of regulation onto certain pieces of media. For example video games are often given an age rating, to say what ages each game is suitable for people to play, this is known as Self Regulation.

Classification is the restriction of access of media material based on age, the main and best example of this is the BBFC who are responsible for film classification which means putting a restriction on the age of a film so as that anyone below this age is strictly not allowed by law to view this film. This is covered on all formats of film may that be Cinema, DVD or any other format.

Censorship is the most post-modern type of restriction of all the three conceptions, censorship is when people with power may that be the media or someone high up in authority control what we as the audience see, hear, say, touch and whatever else within media products

There are two philosophical approaches to this theory,  Psychological and Sociological.
 Psychological focuses on what is happening in the brain of the audience. Sociological look at the impact on the person itself and the wider look such as the effects on society, the two go hand in hand together as if a person is affected on a psychological level this could also affect a number of other people meaning it affecting a number of people meaning the effect will exist on a sociological level. An example of this is a young boy playing an extremely violent video game this is just a psychological issue at the moment as it only affects his own mind personally but if others play this game and it becomes social then that is where sociological issues come into play meaning society may suffer problems such as an increase in violence, there is no 100% way to prove this theory but there are some good and related theories that people link together such as massacres blamed on rock music etc. The effects debate is kind of like a brief insight into the other theories without going in depth or beneath the surface. The video people shows how media is sometimes blamed without any real evidence for sociological issues, Marilyn Manson was pinpointed as a cause of a mass school shooting in Columbine, USA. Without any real evidence the media highlighed him and his music as a cause of the shootings and stated that the murderers were big fans of his music which turned out to be a lie. This again brings censorship into play, as the media control what has been said, what we see without getting the true opinions of people.