After doing some research into our genre alternative /progressive rock A name that keeps coming up is Nirvana so I thought i would research them a bit more.
They were one of the first major alternative rock bands to make a name for themselves in the early 90’s. They released their first album in 1989. Although they are sometimes classed more as ‘grunge’ the originated in Washington state America but made a name globally. They worked there way into the mainstream and continued gaining popularity throughout their career. Grunge music is defined by slow tempos heavy guitar strong drumming and simple repetitive phrases or lyrics. The lyrics themselves are always about quite big issues love hate anger and frustration.
Kurt Cobain lead singer often felt the public had misinterpreted their music despite being referred to as the spokesman of a generation kurt cobain didnt like the media attention.
the band fell apart following the death of Kurt but Nirvana inspired a lot of bands and still is a very popular band even today catering for audience everywhere.
Nirvana's videos are similar to the lost prophet video i analysed early most rock videos follow the theme of switching between narrative and performancein nirvana's video they conform to this in some ways by switching between them performing and what looks like a janitor/cleaner an then to a crowd they are playing to. this crowd also switches between being seated like in a school gym linking to the name smells like teen spirit by filimg in a school gym, and a crowd jumping around and pushing like the type of crowd you would find at a normal live performance.
the lighting again was fairly dark using spotlight to illuminate where it was needed.
they use teens in there videos and to show that the also used cheerleaders a typical american teenage activity for girls.
the crowd seem fairly 'normal' but they also have the typical grunge look linking to what is now there genre expectations and links to their audience.
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Types of rock
The band we're doing cover three types of rock; rock, progressive rock & alternative rock. So I this post will try and clarify each (sub) genre.
Rock has been around for years. Its derived from rock and blues, rhythm and blues and country music. The genre often includes the electric bass & guitar, drums and more recently, synthesizers and keyboard instruments.
Some examples:
Alternative rock submerged from rock in the 80's. It consists of various artists that belong to independent music companys, and have emerged from that scene. This is what The Croft (our chosen band) have done, being a home grown, underground and independent band creating their own form of rock.
Some examples:
Progressive rock, again submerged from rock, but in the 70's. "Progressive rock and art rock are two almost interchangeable terms describing a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." This claims that progressive rock is mostly british, so it wouldn't be unsuitable if The Croft were trying to achieve that look. Progressive rock tries to incorporate sounds that rock and alternative rock may not try to do, such as classical, jazz and world music.
Some examples:
Rock has been around for years. Its derived from rock and blues, rhythm and blues and country music. The genre often includes the electric bass & guitar, drums and more recently, synthesizers and keyboard instruments.
Some examples:
Alternative rock submerged from rock in the 80's. It consists of various artists that belong to independent music companys, and have emerged from that scene. This is what The Croft (our chosen band) have done, being a home grown, underground and independent band creating their own form of rock.
Some examples:
Progressive rock, again submerged from rock, but in the 70's. "Progressive rock and art rock are two almost interchangeable terms describing a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." This claims that progressive rock is mostly british, so it wouldn't be unsuitable if The Croft were trying to achieve that look. Progressive rock tries to incorporate sounds that rock and alternative rock may not try to do, such as classical, jazz and world music.
Some examples:
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Delivering to the target audience
Music videos are essentially used to make profit and so the video would not contain content unsuitable or irrelevant to the genre and audience it's trying to target. Except for the exception of parody, although within parody, reference to, snippets of, and links to the genre are still shown. Therefore I will discuss what we may need to do and incorporate in our video, to deliver to our target audience.
Our genre: Rock/ Progressive rock
I watched the video "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters to have a look at an existing rock video, maybe extract some ideas, and also analyse any techniques they used.
Link to the video (Embedding disabled by request otherwise I would have embedded the video)
We learn that the music video is set in some kind of warehouse, with the band present, but no audience. It could be suggested that they are carrying out some form of "band practise" an idea that has come accross our minds, when discussing what we are going to do for our music video. An interesting concept that comes into the video is that, to some element, the "band practise" merges in with the narrative. Many policemen or the riot squad, come into the scene to form a line, and it appears they are hostile towards the band, and it now seems as though the band are singing at the riot squad.
As the video goes on, the riot squad prepare and charge the Foo Fighters. The backdrop behind the band then shatters, and an unknown substance unleashes which hinders the riot squads charge and unstabilizes them, even pushing them over, a powerful force that they can't cope with. However, with their backs to this, the band overcome the force and play their song through it as if it's not even happening. This makes them seem powerful and above the law, could be implied that the band are rebelling. All this, is associated with the rock genre, powerful, strong, rebellious etc.. so some genre expectation is created there.
Also, I forgot to point out that the band are wearing typical, rock associated clothes, jeans, standard t-shirt, black shirt, and the drummer and lead singer both have long hair. The setting also shares the same colour scheme, black surroundings, red back drop, white floor.
Our genre: Rock/ Progressive rock
I watched the video "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters to have a look at an existing rock video, maybe extract some ideas, and also analyse any techniques they used.
Link to the video (Embedding disabled by request otherwise I would have embedded the video)
We learn that the music video is set in some kind of warehouse, with the band present, but no audience. It could be suggested that they are carrying out some form of "band practise" an idea that has come accross our minds, when discussing what we are going to do for our music video. An interesting concept that comes into the video is that, to some element, the "band practise" merges in with the narrative. Many policemen or the riot squad, come into the scene to form a line, and it appears they are hostile towards the band, and it now seems as though the band are singing at the riot squad.
As the video goes on, the riot squad prepare and charge the Foo Fighters. The backdrop behind the band then shatters, and an unknown substance unleashes which hinders the riot squads charge and unstabilizes them, even pushing them over, a powerful force that they can't cope with. However, with their backs to this, the band overcome the force and play their song through it as if it's not even happening. This makes them seem powerful and above the law, could be implied that the band are rebelling. All this, is associated with the rock genre, powerful, strong, rebellious etc.. so some genre expectation is created there.
Also, I forgot to point out that the band are wearing typical, rock associated clothes, jeans, standard t-shirt, black shirt, and the drummer and lead singer both have long hair. The setting also shares the same colour scheme, black surroundings, red back drop, white floor.
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