Album Deconstruction: Madonna

In this album 'celebration' from madonna she wants to show that she can be the new Marylin Monroe, in copying her hair and especially her mole on top of her lip she is clearly refering back to M.Monroe.

The colours of the hair, lips and especially the eyes on the album cover are really 'funky', she wants to appear as a woman who can still have fun, thats why her album is called 'celebration' probably, she is doing disco music. Her facial expression is also exactly the same, its not the only picture or pose of Madonna where she tries to be like Marilyn Monroe. She tries to show with that album cover that she can be a glamour idol like M.Monroe.

Album deconstruction:

RUMER Season of m Soul

Creativity is an essential process in media coursework:

 Creativity is very essential process in media coursework. More than half the work we do is to do with creativity; this includes creating our music video which creativity is an essential element to it being successful.

For example, right at the beginning of the process of us creating our music video, we had top establish a song that we would use for our music video This meant that during the time we were listening to the song we had to imagine ideas of how we could use the song to represent something important to us, for us it was sexuality. From getting a song that we thought could work for us, we then had to think how we could show representation of sexuality, and we were thinking of how modern day society still does not accept homosexuality.

This lead us onto having two boys who were homosexual, and were not accepted by their parents nor their friends at school, we would show this by creating flashbacks of them arguing with their parents or being physically abused at school by other pupils. This had to be creatively thought up as we wanted it to be as original as possible, also so that we didn’t bore our audience as we wanted them to be glued to the screen while watching our music video, so that they leave the room having a different view on homosexuality.

 A quote of creativity "A process needed for problem solving...not a special gift enjoyed by a few but a common ability possessed by most people" (Jones 1993). We had to come up with lighting ideas, the locations of the shoot, who we thought would be suitable to cast as the two boys and what type of shots we were going to use to represent different points. This took a lot of creative imagination as we felt like a Music production company.

Part of this creative process in the media course, is the story board to the music video, as we had to draw on paper the images of how we wanted each shot to be, and this needs a lot of creativity as we had to think of the mise en scene, what shot was needed and what the characters would be doing in each shot. We also had to create a timeline for the music video; this meant we had to do a detailed description of what type of shot we had and where the characters would be in every second of the video.

Throughout the course we also had to deconstruct album covers, which took a lot of imagination and creativity as most of the images and colours in the album covers were more metaphorical than literal and meant we had to use creativity to understand what the image meant and what it was trying to say. “A picture is worth a thousand words” Arthur Brisbane.
Creativity is a style and is unique to every individual, it can only be imagined and thought to try and be out of the oridnary. This is what we are trying to implement into our Music Video.

Album Deconstruction: Robbie Williams

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Music Video Timeline:

MUSIC VIDEO TIMELINE                                          SHEET NO: __1___

TIME	LYRICS/MUSIC	WHAT DO WE SEE
00:01 00:03 00:05 00:08 00:10 00:12 00:15 00:20 00:23 00:25 00:27 00:30 00:35 00:37 00:42 00:47 00:52 01:00 01:03 01:08 01:10 01:11 01:14 01:16 01:21 01:26 01:29 01:32 01:35 01:38 01:39 01:42 01:46 01:48 01:50 01:52 01:57 02:00	Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Intro beats Beginning tune	Long shot from behind of two people on colourful bicycles. Cut to close ups of the wheel on the road. Close up of the faces listening to headphones of the song. Wide two shot one punches the air. Close up shot of the wheels on the road. Mid shot of them laughing. Wide shot of the crossing over on bikes. Close up shots of wheel spokes. Wide angle, stop at corner, served drinks. Extreme close up shot of drinking shots. Wide shot of throwing drinks on each other. Mid two shot of sat on pavement for a cigarette, have a break and chatting to each other. Close up of pedal as they get back on bikes. wide angle shot from behind as they cycle of in a drunk manner. Long shot of the two boys seeing how their sexuality affected their lives; Boy 1 being bullied by other kids. Boy 2 having an argument with his parents. We then see the 2 Boys being very affectionate with each other. They bicycle towards the club, they then lay down their bicycles and enter the club. Long Shot of doorman and girls waiting outside the club. The 2 boys walk past the people queuing, and are greeted by the big bouncer. The boys enter through the reception part of the club. The 2 boys walk through the door onto the dance floor. Establishing shot. Lots of people dancing, we see the bar and the DJ. We see the boy’s facial expressions. Tracking shot. We see the boys walking into the centre of the dance floor. Two shot, of the boys dancing. Close up of boy 1. Close up of boy 2. Two shot, seeing the boys dance. Boy 1 nods at boy 2, towards the toilet sign. Shot of the toilet sign. Wide shot entering into the toilet, it then pans around to see them going in separate pupils. Wide shot of looking at the bottom of the door and the two boys kneeling. Wide shot of the boys coming out of the toilet Extreme close up shot of Boy 1’s eyes, his pupils are dilated (suggestion of drugs). Point of view shot from Boy 2, they go onto the dance floor and start dancing closely with boy 1. Point of view shot from Boy 1, looking at boy 2 and getting closer together. Mid shot of DJ working on the music set (has headphones in).

Treatment for Music Video:

Media Treatment Powepoint

Music Video Pitch:

Media Studies - Pitch 2

Artists of a similar type:

The Prodigy:

Their fan site is http://www.theprodigy.com/.
Their record label is owned by themselves and is called Take me to the Hospital.
They are on facebook, myspace and twitter.

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The Shamen:

Their fan site is www.theshamen.tripod.com/.
Their record label is Moksha Recordings.
They are on facebook, myspace and twitter.

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Music Video Ideas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE0CrnA7kes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kE0pxRkMtQ



We like'd these videos because it was part of our electro ambient genre and part of our initial concept.

We also liked the point of view camera shot, which we would like to apply to our video.

We want a nghtclubbing scene.
- Dark strobe lighting
- Everyone having a fun time
- Shots of the DJ

What I expect fromn the A2 Course:

I expect an increase of the level of work that I produce and hand in. I expect more work to be set then in AS. I will be increasing my general knowledge not only specifically to Media Studies; I shall be learning how to direct and film a Music Video and to create an album cover for the Artist/Band. I will be increasing my performance in Editing and learning more about it, I also will get to feel how a real music production company works. This includes enhancing my written work and terminology for the A2 exam.

Introduction to A2

To the start of year and throughout it, I want to be punctual, cooperative and hard working during in and out of lesson time. I want to get an A* for my Media A level and shall accomplish this by concentrating in lessons and trying my best. I am not going to be turning late to lessons and handing all prep on time.