"Watch Over You"
0:11
Leaves are on the ground
Fall has come
Blue skies turning grey
Like my love
0:33
I tried to carry you
And make you whole
But it was never enough
I must go
0:55
Who is gonna save you
When I'm gone?
And who'll watch over you
When I'm gone?
1:30
You say you care for me
But hide it well
How can you love someone
And not yourself?
1:51
[Chorus]
2:25
And when I'm gone
Who will break your fall?
Who will you blame?
2:36
I can't go on
And let you lose it all
It's more than I can take
Who'll ease your pain?
Ease your pain
3:03
Who is gonna save you when I'm gone?
Who'll watch over you?
Who will give you strength when you're not strong.
Who'll watch over you when I've gone away?
3:48
Snow is on the ground
Winters come
You long to hear my voice
But I'm long gone
4:09
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Evaluation
For my video I chose to create story based on the genre of alternative rock. I have tried to create some codes and conventions into my video and I think they work nicely with my song the story.
The song I have chosen is ‘Watch Over You’ by Alter Bridge. It is a very slow and slightly depressing song; I tried to incorporate that into the video. The music and visuals go well together, but the lyrics and visuals do not however (although there are a couple of instances which they do, but it is not all the way through). As the song is slow the main character is shown walking slowly down an empty path throughout the video. At various points three flashbacks showing the low points of his life are shown.
The post-production stage was pretty simple. The only complications really were the effects which were used on the flashbacks. The whole video is shown in a sepia effect, which I decided looked better than the original idea I had of black & white. As I went through all of the potential effects on the Avid Liquid Pro system, only one stood out and that was ‘Edge Softness’. This allowed the main shot of the character walking to be shown behind each flashback as those clips are shown. To complete the flashback effects I played around with the times (slowed them down and sped them up) and reversed a couple of the clips. This gave a different view for the audience as they see each flashback again throughout the video. The flashbacks were repeated three times over.
My target audience will be anyone who are fans of Alter Bridge or just fans of the song itself, and even though there are not many I know I feel the video will make people listen to the song and make them think about everything close to them.
I would choose to exhibit my video in a place that was dim or dark and somewhere which makes you feel uncomfortable or alone, because I feel that is what the video represents.
The song I have chosen is ‘Watch Over You’ by Alter Bridge. It is a very slow and slightly depressing song; I tried to incorporate that into the video. The music and visuals go well together, but the lyrics and visuals do not however (although there are a couple of instances which they do, but it is not all the way through). As the song is slow the main character is shown walking slowly down an empty path throughout the video. At various points three flashbacks showing the low points of his life are shown.
The post-production stage was pretty simple. The only complications really were the effects which were used on the flashbacks. The whole video is shown in a sepia effect, which I decided looked better than the original idea I had of black & white. As I went through all of the potential effects on the Avid Liquid Pro system, only one stood out and that was ‘Edge Softness’. This allowed the main shot of the character walking to be shown behind each flashback as those clips are shown. To complete the flashback effects I played around with the times (slowed them down and sped them up) and reversed a couple of the clips. This gave a different view for the audience as they see each flashback again throughout the video. The flashbacks were repeated three times over.
My target audience will be anyone who are fans of Alter Bridge or just fans of the song itself, and even though there are not many I know I feel the video will make people listen to the song and make them think about everything close to them.
I would choose to exhibit my video in a place that was dim or dark and somewhere which makes you feel uncomfortable or alone, because I feel that is what the video represents.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Monday, January 19, 2009
Music Genre
1. What similarities do you observe in the videos you have looked at? Both feature performances. Both feature the whole band.
2. How is your chosen genre different from another? I’ve chosen ‘rock’ genre and the sub-genre of ‘post-grunge’. It is different from another as bands labeled as such are rock bands that are influenced by grunge. Their music may often incorporate the distorted guitar, angst-filled lyrics and "loud-quiet" dynamics of grunge, but employ more commercial or 'radio-friendly' production and mastering.
3. Can you define in your own words the audience type for this genre? The audience type for the ‘rock’ genre would be in the age range of 18-30 year old males.
2. How is your chosen genre different from another? I’ve chosen ‘rock’ genre and the sub-genre of ‘post-grunge’. It is different from another as bands labeled as such are rock bands that are influenced by grunge. Their music may often incorporate the distorted guitar, angst-filled lyrics and "loud-quiet" dynamics of grunge, but employ more commercial or 'radio-friendly' production and mastering.
3. Can you define in your own words the audience type for this genre? The audience type for the ‘rock’ genre would be in the age range of 18-30 year old males.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Music Video History
• Music and moving images have long gone together
• 1920s and 1930s experimental film
• The musical as a film genre
• The ‘Soundies’ – early US jukebox
1960s Promos
• ‘Hard Day’s Night’ and other ‘rock’ films.
• Lots of artists made little films
• Many were drug-influenced
1970s Promos
• Top Of The Pops started to use them
• Substitute when band on tour
• Still very experimental
Beginnings of MTV
• Artists began to take need for promo for every release seriously
• Changes in technology and gap in the cable market
Multi-channel Music TV and Beyond
• Growth of genre-based channels
• Black music at last broke into the market
• Other companies set up channels as spin-offs from other products e.g. EMAP: Smash Hits, Q
• Growth online in non-professional music videos e.g. Myspace, Youtube etc.
• 1920s and 1930s experimental film
• The musical as a film genre
• The ‘Soundies’ – early US jukebox
1960s Promos
• ‘Hard Day’s Night’ and other ‘rock’ films.
• Lots of artists made little films
• Many were drug-influenced
1970s Promos
• Top Of The Pops started to use them
• Substitute when band on tour
• Still very experimental
Beginnings of MTV
• Artists began to take need for promo for every release seriously
• Changes in technology and gap in the cable market
Multi-channel Music TV and Beyond
• Growth of genre-based channels
• Black music at last broke into the market
• Other companies set up channels as spin-offs from other products e.g. EMAP: Smash Hits, Q
• Growth online in non-professional music videos e.g. Myspace, Youtube etc.
Music Video Timeline
1941: A new invention hits clubs and bars in the USA: The Panoram Soundie is a jukebox that plays short videoclips along with the music.
1956: Hollywood discovers the genre of music-centered films. A wave of rock 'n' roll films begins (Rock Around the Clock, Don't Knock the Rock, Shake, Rattle and Rock, Rock Pretty Baby, The Girl Can't Help It, and the famous Elvis Presley movies). Some of these films integrate musical performances into a story, others are simply revues.
1960: In France a re-invention of the Soundie, the Scopitone, gains limited success.
1961: Ricky Nelson's Travelin' Man video is shown on television.
1962: British Television invents a new form of music television. Shows like Top Of The Pops, Ready! Steady! Go! and Oh, Boy start as band vehicles and become huge hits.
1964: The US-Television market adapts the format. Hullabaloo is one of the first US shows of this kind, followed by Shindig! (NBC) and American Bandstand; The Beatles star in A Hard Day's Night
1965: Bob Dylan films Subterranean Homesick Blues as a segment for D. A. Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back, with two alternate takes.
1966: The first conceptual promos are aired, for the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" and "Rain".
1967: The Beatles ground-breaking promotional films for for "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" are released.
1968: The Rolling Stones collaborate with Jean-Luc Godard on Sympathy for the Devil
1969: Easy Rider features one of the first uses of rock music to accompany sequences in a dramatic film
1970: The record industry discovers these TV-Shows as a great opportunity to promote their artists. They focus on producing short "Promos", early music videos which started to replace the live performance of the artist on the TV-stage. Also, the Atlanta-produced Now Explosion starts a 26-week run in syndication.
1973: The first of forty-six different Schoolhouse Rock music videos begin airing during Saturday morning cartoons on ABC.
1974: the pop shows Sounds and Countdown premiere on Australian television; Russell Mulcahy makes his first music videos for Sounds.
Swedish group ABBA pioneer the use of "Promos" with their clips, directed by Lasse Hallström. These contain innovative effects, camera angles, and a less static look than is the norm at the time. The band continue using such videos throughout the 1970s.
1975: "Bohemian Rhapsody", a groundbreaking video released by Queen, marks the beginning of the video era and sets the language for the modern music video. The video is considered one of the first to use advanced video effects.
Tommy, the Ken Russell film adaptation of The Who's rock opera is released.
1979: Devo releases "The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise", which is the first music video to include computer animation, as well as traditional animation.
Another 1979 video with computer animation is "Computer Games", by New Zealand band MiSex.
UK filmmakers Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton direct the innovative animated clip for the single "Accidents Will Happen" by Elvis Costello & The Atttractions
1980: "Ashes to Ashes", considered a groundbreaking video, is released by David Bowie.
1980: "Coming Up" All instruments on the video are played by either Paul McCartney or Linda McCartney.
1981: MTV, the first 24-hour satellite music channel, launches in August. Initially few cable TV operators carry it, but it rapidly becomes a major hit and cultural icon.
"Shock Treatment" is released in theatres.
1981: Michael Nesmith wins the first ever music video Grammy, for Elephant Parts.
1982: Pink Floyd The Wall is released in theatres.
1983: Night Tracks debuts on Superstation WTBS (later known as TBS) with up to 14 hours of music videos each weekend by 1985. This allows nearly all U.S. households with Cable TV to view music videos regularly, as MTV still isn't widely available at this point in time compared to WTBS.
1983: Friday Night Videos debuts on the NBC television network, allowing nearly all U.S. households to view music videos regularly. Michael Jackson's Billie Jean video is released on TV, and for the first time a black artist's video is featured in heavy rotation on MTV with the video for his Beat It hit single.
1984: Laura Branigan's video for her hit song "Self Control" is refused airplay by MTV, who demand certain cuts be made to remove content they find objectionable.
1984: Prince releases the movie Purple Rain, and its soundtrack is nominated for an Oscar. The soundtrack album sells 15 million copies.
1984: Michael Jackson's short film Thriller is released, changing the concept of music videos forever. The Making of Thriller home video is also released in 1984. It is the first ever video about the making of a music video and it becomes the best selling VHS to date.
1984: Van Halen's 1984 album comes out with famous video hit like "Hot For Teacher", "Jump", and "Panama".
MTV presents its first Video Music Awards, hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler.
The Grammys award Best Short Form Music Video, as well as Best Long Form Music Video.
1985: a-ha find instant stardom with their hit song "Take On Me", significantly due to heavy rotation play of the song's video, which features a combination of live action and rotoscoping animation. The groundbreaking video wins several awards and is consistently rated as one of the best for decades to come.
1985: Madonna's video for her hit single "Material Girl" is released. It is largely based on Marilyn Monroe's performance of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes A huge storm of interest explodes for the video. The video is considered one of the most memorable and always comes up in "The Best Videos" lists.
1986: "Sledgehammer", the groundbreaking video from Peter Gabriel, furthers the revival of animation in music video, utilizing stop-motion photography and winning several awards.
1989: MTV renames its "Video Vanguard Award" the "Michael Jackson Vanguard Award" in honor of the pop star's contributions to the art of music video.
1989: Madonna's controversial video for "Like a Prayer" is released.
1990: MTV bans Madonna's "Justify My Love" video. It is released as a video single, the first of its kind.
1991: Nirvana release the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, catapulting Kurt Cobain - and the grunge genre - into the American and Worldwide mainstream.
First use of the now-familiar morphing special effect in a music video, with Michael Jackson's "Black or White" (directed by John Landis), from his album Dangerous.
1992: MTV begins to credit music video directors.
1995: Release of the most expensive music video ever "Scream", from Michael Jackson's HIStory album, a duet with his sister Janet.
1995: TLC's video for their hit song Waterfalls becomes a groundbreaking video for Girl groups and received massive airplay on MTV.
1996: Pop-up Video is first aired on VH1.
1996: Smashing Pumpkins releases the video for their song "Tonight, Tonight", based upon Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon. This video was one of the first to be based upon an early film.
1996: M2 is launched as a 24-hour music video channel, as MTV has largely replaced videos with other content.
1999: M2 is renamed to MTV2.
Making the Video, a series chronicling the production of a music video, premieres on MTV.
2001: Björk releases the video for Pagan Poetry which was controversial for its depictions of sexual acts and body piercings.
2002: MTV Hits is launched, as MTV2 is gradually showing fewer music videos (now virtually non-existent on MTV).
2005: Grandaddy fan Stewart Smith releases unofficial "Jed's Other Poem" music video online along with the source code that created it. It is the first open source music video and is later sanctioned by Grandaddy's label, V2 Records.
2007: Musicbox (URL: musicbox.sonybmg.com) is launched by Sony BMG. This online portal signifies the first free streaming effort owned and operated by a major label.
2008: The first 3D video ever is made by Dave Meyers and Missy Elliott for her single Ching-a-Ling / Björk also makes one for Wanderlust.
1956: Hollywood discovers the genre of music-centered films. A wave of rock 'n' roll films begins (Rock Around the Clock, Don't Knock the Rock, Shake, Rattle and Rock, Rock Pretty Baby, The Girl Can't Help It, and the famous Elvis Presley movies). Some of these films integrate musical performances into a story, others are simply revues.
1960: In France a re-invention of the Soundie, the Scopitone, gains limited success.
1961: Ricky Nelson's Travelin' Man video is shown on television.
1962: British Television invents a new form of music television. Shows like Top Of The Pops, Ready! Steady! Go! and Oh, Boy start as band vehicles and become huge hits.
1964: The US-Television market adapts the format. Hullabaloo is one of the first US shows of this kind, followed by Shindig! (NBC) and American Bandstand; The Beatles star in A Hard Day's Night
1965: Bob Dylan films Subterranean Homesick Blues as a segment for D. A. Pennebaker's film, Dont Look Back, with two alternate takes.
1966: The first conceptual promos are aired, for the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" and "Rain".
1967: The Beatles ground-breaking promotional films for for "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields Forever" are released.
1968: The Rolling Stones collaborate with Jean-Luc Godard on Sympathy for the Devil
1969: Easy Rider features one of the first uses of rock music to accompany sequences in a dramatic film
1970: The record industry discovers these TV-Shows as a great opportunity to promote their artists. They focus on producing short "Promos", early music videos which started to replace the live performance of the artist on the TV-stage. Also, the Atlanta-produced Now Explosion starts a 26-week run in syndication.
1973: The first of forty-six different Schoolhouse Rock music videos begin airing during Saturday morning cartoons on ABC.
1974: the pop shows Sounds and Countdown premiere on Australian television; Russell Mulcahy makes his first music videos for Sounds.
Swedish group ABBA pioneer the use of "Promos" with their clips, directed by Lasse Hallström. These contain innovative effects, camera angles, and a less static look than is the norm at the time. The band continue using such videos throughout the 1970s.
1975: "Bohemian Rhapsody", a groundbreaking video released by Queen, marks the beginning of the video era and sets the language for the modern music video. The video is considered one of the first to use advanced video effects.
Tommy, the Ken Russell film adaptation of The Who's rock opera is released.
1979: Devo releases "The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprise", which is the first music video to include computer animation, as well as traditional animation.
Another 1979 video with computer animation is "Computer Games", by New Zealand band MiSex.
UK filmmakers Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton direct the innovative animated clip for the single "Accidents Will Happen" by Elvis Costello & The Atttractions
1980: "Ashes to Ashes", considered a groundbreaking video, is released by David Bowie.
1980: "Coming Up" All instruments on the video are played by either Paul McCartney or Linda McCartney.
1981: MTV, the first 24-hour satellite music channel, launches in August. Initially few cable TV operators carry it, but it rapidly becomes a major hit and cultural icon.
"Shock Treatment" is released in theatres.
1981: Michael Nesmith wins the first ever music video Grammy, for Elephant Parts.
1982: Pink Floyd The Wall is released in theatres.
1983: Night Tracks debuts on Superstation WTBS (later known as TBS) with up to 14 hours of music videos each weekend by 1985. This allows nearly all U.S. households with Cable TV to view music videos regularly, as MTV still isn't widely available at this point in time compared to WTBS.
1983: Friday Night Videos debuts on the NBC television network, allowing nearly all U.S. households to view music videos regularly. Michael Jackson's Billie Jean video is released on TV, and for the first time a black artist's video is featured in heavy rotation on MTV with the video for his Beat It hit single.
1984: Laura Branigan's video for her hit song "Self Control" is refused airplay by MTV, who demand certain cuts be made to remove content they find objectionable.
1984: Prince releases the movie Purple Rain, and its soundtrack is nominated for an Oscar. The soundtrack album sells 15 million copies.
1984: Michael Jackson's short film Thriller is released, changing the concept of music videos forever. The Making of Thriller home video is also released in 1984. It is the first ever video about the making of a music video and it becomes the best selling VHS to date.
1984: Van Halen's 1984 album comes out with famous video hit like "Hot For Teacher", "Jump", and "Panama".
MTV presents its first Video Music Awards, hosted by Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler.
The Grammys award Best Short Form Music Video, as well as Best Long Form Music Video.
1985: a-ha find instant stardom with their hit song "Take On Me", significantly due to heavy rotation play of the song's video, which features a combination of live action and rotoscoping animation. The groundbreaking video wins several awards and is consistently rated as one of the best for decades to come.
1985: Madonna's video for her hit single "Material Girl" is released. It is largely based on Marilyn Monroe's performance of "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes A huge storm of interest explodes for the video. The video is considered one of the most memorable and always comes up in "The Best Videos" lists.
1986: "Sledgehammer", the groundbreaking video from Peter Gabriel, furthers the revival of animation in music video, utilizing stop-motion photography and winning several awards.
1989: MTV renames its "Video Vanguard Award" the "Michael Jackson Vanguard Award" in honor of the pop star's contributions to the art of music video.
1989: Madonna's controversial video for "Like a Prayer" is released.
1990: MTV bans Madonna's "Justify My Love" video. It is released as a video single, the first of its kind.
1991: Nirvana release the "Smells Like Teen Spirit" video, catapulting Kurt Cobain - and the grunge genre - into the American and Worldwide mainstream.
First use of the now-familiar morphing special effect in a music video, with Michael Jackson's "Black or White" (directed by John Landis), from his album Dangerous.
1992: MTV begins to credit music video directors.
1995: Release of the most expensive music video ever "Scream", from Michael Jackson's HIStory album, a duet with his sister Janet.
1995: TLC's video for their hit song Waterfalls becomes a groundbreaking video for Girl groups and received massive airplay on MTV.
1996: Pop-up Video is first aired on VH1.
1996: Smashing Pumpkins releases the video for their song "Tonight, Tonight", based upon Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon. This video was one of the first to be based upon an early film.
1996: M2 is launched as a 24-hour music video channel, as MTV has largely replaced videos with other content.
1999: M2 is renamed to MTV2.
Making the Video, a series chronicling the production of a music video, premieres on MTV.
2001: Björk releases the video for Pagan Poetry which was controversial for its depictions of sexual acts and body piercings.
2002: MTV Hits is launched, as MTV2 is gradually showing fewer music videos (now virtually non-existent on MTV).
2005: Grandaddy fan Stewart Smith releases unofficial "Jed's Other Poem" music video online along with the source code that created it. It is the first open source music video and is later sanctioned by Grandaddy's label, V2 Records.
2007: Musicbox (URL: musicbox.sonybmg.com) is launched by Sony BMG. This online portal signifies the first free streaming effort owned and operated by a major label.
2008: The first 3D video ever is made by Dave Meyers and Missy Elliott for her single Ching-a-Ling / Björk also makes one for Wanderlust.
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