I chose a synthetic and an organic artist and took one of their album covers. I then annotated the images to explain what they may be suggesting in the picture and their album.
RIHANNA IS THE SYNTHETIC ARTIST AND BIRDIE IS THE ORGANIC ARTIST

Lip Syncing Video

Lip Synching exercise

On Thursday 20th June we had a block session in the morning of a lip synching course where we got into groups of 6 and we filmed part of a music video to the song 'GET LUCKY' by Daft Punk. There were different backgrounds for us to film in front of and it was an action packed activity where I learnt lots about the rolls that people need to play during a filming session.

The different backgrounds were

-a green screen, where we can place an image ( but you need to stand at least a metre away from the green screen to illuminate the shadows.)

-a paper Mache wall that looked like a cave setting, where we filmed using a dolly and a camera

-a bed sit (a set of a room with a sofa,walls and windows)

 
On the floor there were different rolls for people to play, there was
-the floor manager who made sure everything was in order and everyone was ready to film when the music started,
-there was the playback person who played and paused the music, -the camera man who kept zooming in, sharpening and focusing on image
-the people in the video acting and singing and
-the director of the music video who told people what to do in their group.
My group started on the green screen. Xenia and Alicia were on set doing the singing and dancing infront of the camera, Ivo was camera man, Liv Ellie and I were directing the video telling the girls what to do. This is where we learnt that you have to stand at least a metre infront of the screen.

We then moved onto the paper mache set up, we did tracking shots on a dolly. Whoever the camera man was on this set had to sit on the dolly, with the camera. When putting the tracks down you have to make sure the lines are straight on the floor otherwise the camera will go wiggly which could make the shot shake and out of focus.the Bed Sit was a very different set up. We had three people singing infront of the camera, two on the sofa and one standing behind the sofa. This gave us a variety of shots and things to cut to and from and we just filmed this with a tripod (the same as the green screen) we didnt use a dolly

Once we had filmed all the footage we took it upstairs to the editing sweet and sorted it all out. We edited using the software 'Final Cut Pro.'

1. We had to seperate the clips into folders with the different sets
2. Then we selected a clip and dragged it down to the time line
3. At the same time you drag the song down to the time line, and lock it so you cant accidently delete it
4. Then we deleted the clip and its backing noise from the shoot
5. Found the clip we wanted to start with and we lip synced it by the beginning 3 beats of the song. On the clip we liked we would mark it on exactly the 3rd beat on the sound track, then when we found the 3rd beat on the clip and clicked 'I' for In and dragged the clip down to the time line, then you check if they are on time. Once they are and you are happy with it,you delete the audio track from the clip.
6. Once we had done this with about 4 clips, we then started to edit it all together by clicking 'B' for blade to cut up the clip when we wanted to cut to a different clips and 'A' when we wanted the Arrows back to move the clips. With this you can move the clip back with the clip still being in sync with the music so it didn't too complicated!

The reason we did this activity was because we are making music videos soon, so we need to learn how to edit the footage with the music and the lips in synch-which by the way, is quite difficult!!

 

The Bearing poster

This is my poster that I have made for my opening title sequence 'The Bearing.'
It is eye catching and tells you a little bit about what the film could possibly be about and the mood of the film.

Timeline of a career artist- BEYONCE

Beyonce singing at the age of 8 where she began singing properly and professionally.
A picture of Beyonce and her dad who helped her career from an early age


Beyonce's first recorded song at age 10.




Beyonce was 15 years old when she was first put into Destinys child. They waited to have an album to realeased and so in the in the videos they looked older and more marketable.

Destiny's child grew bigger, sexier, and better. They realeased lots of albums and tracks one of their most successful tracks being 'Say My Name' which was one of my favourite songs when I was younger.



By the time Destinys child decided to split there were only three left in the group. They split up because all 3 of them wanted to pursue a solo career. 
Beyonce was in a relationship with Jay- (another artist) and when she split with the group one of her first solo songs kicked of with a duet with her boyfriend


Her first solo album was called 'Dangerously In Love.' One of her songs was called 'Baby Boy' and was a massive hit to hit of her solo career. Everything suddenly became very personal and sexy when she was ina relatinship with Jay - Z in her solo career. Her target audience was late teens and early 20's.



Beyonce's albums


Beyonce starred in a film called ‘Dream Girls’ with another singer Jennifer Hudson

Beyonce films video for her song ‘Countdown’ and they try and hide her rumoured baby bump by making her wear loose clothing

She then announces her pregnancy with husband Jay-Z and they have a baby girl called Blue Ivy

Beyonce releases a documentary about her pregnancy and the life style she led when she was pregnant

Beyonce puts career on hold for a while to spend time with her family and do what shes always wanted to do....be a mummy.

NEGUS THEORY OF ORGANIC AND SYNTHETIC IDEOLOGY

The Start Of A2

We have officiallly started our A2 course for Media Studies. We have been introduced to the music industry and this is going to be the focus of our second year coursework. 
At the moment my favourite music video is Daft Punk ft. Pharrell 'Get Lucky'. This is also one of my favourite songs at the moment and I think It is going to be my summer song. I love all types of music- R&B, pop, dance and alternative. 

This is the music video for 'Get Lucky'

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=daft+punk+get+lucky+&oq=daft+ou&gs_l=youtube.3.0.0i10l10.697.2041.0.3450.7.6.0.1.1.0.76.398.6.6.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.rtiS-GKcvpc



I also really like Ben Howard and this is one of his songs called 'Only Love'


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7sVoZcSKdc



We have been starting to study a series of artists like Kylie Minogue and Amy Mcdonald. We have learnt about two major theorists called Negus and Richard Dyer.
Negus believes that artists can either be synthetic or organic , and that the industry categorise different artists. Synthetic means that they have an image that is chosen for them and they are not raw artists,whereas organic is when an artist has an image that looks like they havent changed from the moment they first stepped foot in the studio on the first day and they are raw artists.

Richard Dyer suggests that artists have an image which represents their target audience and they have a team of stylists around them at all times, however this is not them and not real.

For example --- Beyonce

• She DOESN'T walk around her house with dark smokey eyes every day
• She DOESN'T walk around her house with massive hoops on
• She DOESN'T walk around with a leather dress on
• She DOESN'T walk around with her hair perfectly made up

• She DOES walk around her house with a messy bun on her head
• She DOES walk around the house with minimal makeup on
• She DOES walk around the house in a plain t-shrit
• She DOES walk around the house with her baby being 'mummy'