Group Blog

This is a link to our group blog.  This is the blog that will share all the research and work that myself and my other group members John, Graham and Liam are all contributing towards. On the blog we will have things such as a questionnaire aimed towards a wide range of audiences so that we can find out what different people are looking for from a music video from the genre that we are using Pop/R&B.  On this blog we will show our...

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Andrew Goodwin's Music Video Theory

Andrew Goodwin's Music Video Theory Andrew Goodwin in his book "Dancing in the Distraction Factory" has wrote about what he defines as the characteristics of music videos. Goodwin has six different conventions and characteristics when looking at a music video. 1. Music videos should demonstrate genre characteristics,(e.g. People dancing/having fun in a Dance music song, dance routine for a pop girl band) Since my music video is to fit...

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Semiotics Theory - Music Video

Semiotic Theory In music videos Today in our lesson we have been taught about the semiotic theory and how it is used in music videos. What is a semiotic theory? Semiotics signs and meanings - According to Morris, Human action involves signs and meaning in three ways: The perception stage - The person becomes aware of the sign The manipulation stage - The person interprets the sign and decides how to respond to it. The consummation stage...

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Group Music Research

We have been assigned our groups for our group work and have set up a group blog, in lesson we decided to look at some examples of music videos and tried to decide on a song we all agreed with. We have all decided that we will participate in the music video and each do our part for it. The main genres we have looked at are Pop/Rap and Indie The songs we looked through are:Eminem - Lose Yourself Tupac- Ghetto Gospel  Olly Murs -Dance With Me...

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Album covers

Task 1: Album covers. What are album covers?  Album covers are one of the main reasons in why audiences are attracted the buying a album. Album covers are the front packaging of a commercially realised audio recording products. Since the mid-1990s, the CD has become the most popular type of physically distributed music products. Packaging formats vary, including the very common plastic jewel-case, and the popular cardboard...

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