Friday, 1 October 2010
Initial ideas
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Guardian videos
The promotion videos I like are the Cee Lo Green video (video 6). I like this video as it is quite funny and
so attract the attention of people, some of which may not
particularly like the music. I like the video as it has a good
narrative of a boy growing into a man, still wanting to do the same thing. I also like the video as
it can appeal to people from teenagers to people in the
ir 20’s or 30’s, but not to anyone younger than that due to
the swearing in the lyrics. I like the way the video has been put together as well because the smoothness of each transition and pan, etc makes it look very professional and with a video as well made as this, people will most probably appreciate it more. The look of the whole video is good as it is
bright and has a lot of vivid colours and memorable text that is very hard to forget.
I also like the Radiohead-
Live in Praha (video 7). I like this video as it has been captured with cameras/ phones from the perspective of the audience which I think would relate well to people watching it as it shows what and where they might be when and if they go and see one of their concerts. I like the
video as well as it looks very misty and quite pale, almost like
the music and behind the performers, there are screens that show moving images (or short video clips) of the performers, either performing or re
cording something. (If it does show them recording som
ething, it would be the song that is being played).
Charts for Questionnaire




Looking at these results, I will try to make my music video open to people of 16 to 30. I will try to make my music video a narrative with some performance in it, depending on the genre however as some genres have a narrative, some just have random bits of video and imagery. I will make sure the music can be one that could be played in clubs, a dance track possibly. I will also try to make the music video available to watch online.
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Magazine adverts
This poster has a very dark atmosphere, however the group and music (or the potential music shown by the band) brightens and livens it up slightly. This shows almost rebellious people in a group that looks like they play or perform late at night (seeing that there are many lights on in the buildings behind) and that they like to play loud and almost be antisocial (however music is for everyone else). the positioning of the band shows that they do not play on rooftops but play at our level, where we, the audience can go and see them almost face to face.
Tuesday, 21 September 2010
Record labels to Drum and Bass
Full Cycle Records-
Based in Bristol, England. Has a sister label which is V Recordings, owned by Daniel Kausman (DJ Die), Paul Southey (DJ Suv), Keith Thompson (DJ Krust) and Ryan Williams (Roni Size). The label was set up in the mid 90's to showcase their own work.
Promotional material:
Memories, Prioritios
Artists from here:
DJ Die
DJ Krust
DJ Suv
Bill Riley
Surge
Roni Size
I Kamanchi
Tali
DJ Clipz
Scorpio
J-Raq
D Product
Thirdface
The label's first release was in 1993.
The label's latest release was in 2008
Ram Records (UK)-
Monday, 20 September 2010
CD analysis
There are many different energetic lines and designs coming from the CD cover. It has very vivid colours and the energy relates to the style and the speed of drum and bass music.There is slight humour in the top right text showing that this music is top. There are many volume/ speaker symbols with the volume up which shows that the music is loud and in your face all the time. On many drum and bass CD covers, there are interesting graphics showing the energy of the music.

