Research into Genres

Art Music

• Art music primarily refers to classical traditions including modern as well as historical classical music forms, or others forms like from different parts of the world, which focus on formal styles, and require the listerner to have full attention of the piece of music.  
• Strictly art music is considered primarily a written musical tradition, preserved in some form of music notation, as opposed to being transmitted through voice, by rote, or in recordings like popular and traditional music. 
• Art music is normally instrumental, and when vocals are included they have very poetic, political, or religious overtones.

<-- This is an example of art music which is develved to sounding modern as the are not plainly clasical sounding instromnets like in this song theres a voilin but there is also a beat which makes it sound not in the clasical genre but more on the techno theme. 

Popular Music

• The usual representation of "popular music" is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are accessible to the general public and are disseminated by one or more of the mass audience. 
• The very distinction between classical and popular music has sometimes been blurred in the border regions, for instance minimalist music and light classics. 

Traditional Music

Traditional music is the term increasingly used for folk music that is not contemporary folk music. Other organizations have made similar changes, although it remains common to refer to traditional music as "folk music".

• It was Transmitted through oral tradition 
• The music was often related to national culture.
• They commemorate historical and personal events.
• As a side-effect, the following characteristics are sometimes present:

- Lack of copyright on songs.

- Fusion of cultures

- Non-comercial

(Source) ^for Above^


List of some of the most popular genres:

Lady Gaga

• Pop (Popular)

- Popularity: Continuous worldwide since emergence

- Origin: 1950's UK and US.

- Sub-Genres: Baroque pop, Bubblegum pop, Christian pop, Dance-pop, Electropop, Europop, Indie pop, Operatic pop, Power pop, Soundtrack, Sophisti-pop, Synthpop, Space age pop, Sunshine pop, Traditional pop and Teen pop.

- Characteristics: 

• an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology.
• an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities.
• an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, over live performance.
• a tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments.
• much pop music is intended to encourage dancing, or it uses dance-oriented beats or rhythms. (Source)

• Indie (Independent) 

Vampire Weekend

- Popularity: Mainstream in UK in late 2000's
- Origin: Early 1980s, United Kingdom, United States and Canada
- Sub-Genres: Garage punk, riot grrrl, indie pop, emo, garage rock/post-punk revival, noise pop, dance-punk,New Weird America, Baroque pop, lo-fi,sadcore, C86, math rock
- Characteristics: 

• Indie rock, derived from "independent", describes the small and relatively low budget labels on which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved. 
• Although distribution deals are often struck with major corporate companies these labels and the bands they host have attempted to retain their autonomy, leaving them free to explore sounds, emotions and subjects of limited appeal to large, mainstream audiences.
• The influences and styles of the artists has been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, rock and country.
• The terms alternative rock and indie rock were used interchangeably in the 1980s, but after many alternative bands followed Nirvana into the mainstream in the early 1990s it began to be used to distinguish those bands, working in a variety of styles, that did not pursue or achieve commercial success. (Source)

• Rock

- Popularity: Extremely mainstream worldwide, since 1950s 
- Origin: 1950s and 1960s, United Kingdom and United States
- Sub-Genres: Alternative rock, Art rock, Baroque pop, Beat music, Britpop, Emo, Experimental rock, Garage rock, Glam rock, Grindcore, Group Sounds, Grunge, Hard rock and more.

Iggy Pop

- Characteristics: 

• The sound of rock is traditionally centered around the electric guitar, which emerged in its modern form in the 1950s with the popularization of rock and roll.   
• The sound of the electric guitar in rock music is typically supported by the electric bass guitar pioneered in jazz music in the same era, and percussion produced from a drum kit that combines drums and cymbals. 
• This trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of others, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. 
•  A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group and typically consists of between two and five members. Classically, a rock band takes the form of a quartet whose members cover one or more roles, including vocalist, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer and occasionally that of keyboard player or other instrumentalist. (Source)

Chosen Genre:

I have chosen Indie-Rock as my genre for this music video project

The History of Music Videos

 This is my Prezi (Below) of the history of Music Videos, information from Article written by Pete Frasier ('Teaching Music Video' BFI 2004) Editor Vivienne Clark

Music Video on Prezi

Preliminary Task

Task outline and real video
The Preliminary task involved reconstructing 1 minute and 20 seconds of the Britney Spears music video 'Hit me Baby (One More Time)'. Shot for shot filmed in college for two weeks, before the research from the music video project started. The entire class had to be involved in the different parts of recreating this music video in front of the camera acting (dancing and lip- syncing and behind the the lens (filming and directing).

The task involved:

• Lip Syncing
• Learning Dance Routine
• Getting Costumes
• Having Props
• Filming different shot

This is the video from YouTube.com of the Britney Spears - Baby One More Time



Planning

For planning we needed to create a storyboard of each of the shots in the video, we did this by taking screen-shots of the Britney Spears video on YouTube and then paste it on a word document labeling the time of each shot. Also we needed to make a list of costumes and props needed for the part of the music video we created.

<<<< This are the sheets we created with the storyboard and some description at the side as in the time, what is happening and the type of shots.




Filming
For filming everyone in the class took part in the filming of the music video, filming a section each of the video. Some people filming parts of the dancing, the first scene and the sections in between in front of the lockers when lip-syncing. To film we had the song playing in the background from another room and the person filming was telling to start the music from the specific part.

Editing
For editing everyone had to be involved in producing the whole start 1 minute 20seconds , we are paired and each group go a 20 second section to edit to then be joined together. Editing involved joining and cropping the video clips and then planting them on the timeline and placing the actual sound to make the video in time, by looking at the actual video and matching the actions to the song.

(Below is a screenshot of editing the section in Adobe Premier)









My groups part of the editing (below)





Final Product

The final product is linked from the different groups come out well because the shots were almost accurate and the lip-syncing and the music synchronisation was accurate and was in time with the track.


(Above) This is the video from the final product.



My Contribution

Everyone in the class had to contribute in every stage of the task and I contributed in this task for the three parts of the production of the music video, some parts in front of the camera by lip-syncing in front of the lockers for two sections in between the dancing and was involved in the dancing section in the hallway and in the first part. Also I was involved in filming a part of the dancing scene in the hallway, I filmed in close-up, mid-shot and long-shot. At the start I was involved in some of the planning I was in charge of identifying the props and costumes we had to have to make the video look like the Britney Spears video.







This is the part of the film that I filmed


Evaluation

Overall I think that this starter task came out well, a part of the success of this prelim task is that we had to work as a team, with different members of the team had to be in charge of roles in the production and construction of the music video, this was effective as different input and for different members of the group as the locations and the lighting.
This small task was a good indication of the process of making a music video, like the stages and some of the conventions. And for me this was important as I did not know the differences between a thriller and a music video, as in the shots, the speed and duration and an indication of how many different shots.