Friday, 19 March 2010

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Part one.

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1. This frame/shot represents the link between the song lyrics and the visuals. The relationship between the two is open to interpretation – The lyric is ‘i’m moving on, i hope you coming with me’ the visuals that connect to this is where our lead singer is in normal motion but our extra’s are in fast motion which suggests that she wants to move on and be at the pace the extras are at however she wants ‘you’ to go with her..

2. This shot displays the way in which the record company would want their artists to be represented – as you can see the lead singer is in front whilst the bassist and keyboardist are behind playing their own instruments creating the image that they are real and completely produce their own music.

3. This shot illustrates the band and the music genre - Au Revoir Simone are a keyboardist indie/pop band, so the use of a mid shot of the keyboard helps represent this. This shot is taken from the part of the song that’s instrumental and you can really hear the keyboards, which also helps emphasis this.

4. This is one of my favourite shots; it represents an intertextual reference, which is of course the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The shot has a table full of guests (all characters from alice in wonderland – including the mad hatter) with a faded close up of a teacup with glitter being poured into it over the top.

5. This shot displays the use of camera by showing how I used the auto/manual focus option on the camera to get the lights at our band performance out of focus coming into focus.

6. This shot shows our use of lighting in the video. Our most key source of lighting was in the band performance where we hung fairy lights in a tree, which looks effective and creates a fairy tale atmosphere we were going for.

7. This shot demonstrates our mise en scene highlighting our intertextual reference also as it shows a teacup and playing card (props) hanging in the tree (setting).

8. The video I looked at that inspired this shot was Vampire Weekend - Cousins, which from 1:48 to 2:01 they use a stop motion effect to change the band member singing. Here we have done something similar by using the stop motion to have our Wonderland characters change. This shot shows the first of our stop motion which is our Mad Hatter character.

9. This shot also repersents our stop motion effect inspired by 'Cousins'.

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