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Tom

You've addressed some of the tasks set for prep but you haven't completed it as requested. There should be some feedback on your timeline indicating what changes were required before you moved on to the storyboard stage. Also, you were expected to evaluate the CD covers chosen in order to discuss their effectiveness as influences.

These two elements must be added.

James

cd cover research

music instructor

swedish house mafia

daft punk
these three CD covers are from artists like ours, they all have indie rock styles of music with heavy synthesisers in it. these are more mainstream versions of does it offend you?yeah.
'Swedish House Mafia' CD cover i think is very good as is has elements of fun and clubbing but also mystery from the sunglasses and power from him holding up the ball. the daft punk cd cover shows the technology as it has the cartoon robots on it. the music instructor cd cover show a robot DJ'ing this shows fun and techno dance music. with a club feel. i feel our cd cover would be like these cd covers probobly most like daft punks cd cover.

The pop video content was based around the lyrics. The few lyrics that are in the video hit on the subject of technology and communication using computers, phones and websites such as facebook, myspace, bebo etc. So the group decided to use the idea of technology and how it is growing and becoming more advanced. We decided to use the idea of a guy looking through a set of picturtes for the girl he met the night before. The idea that the day after a party pictures and comments are on social networking sites and participants of the party and more look through these pictures to see what happened and what bits they missed.

We based our narrative on a man who meets a girl at the party which is said to be the best party of the year. He looks at his memories which he manages to put up on to a huge screen and he looks through pictures, documents, and websites and so on till he finds her (this is going to be technically advanced and futuristic) – shown through the perspex furniture that we will be using. This action comes in and out of the video while the rest of the video is at the party.
Within the video we are going to have various rooms set up, all with different visual effects. The band are playing in a performance room and we have various different shot types in that room. Again we are brought back to the man looking through these pictures and then to a new room. We have in total four different main and unique rooms, then a couple of plain rooms around a house plus the man and the screen.

The performance room - Here the band will be performing in a very plain white room, purely to help the band stand out as they will be dressed in quite dark clothing.
UV room - Here there are some dancers covered neatly in patterned glow paint to make the stand out.
The lighting room - It has been given this name due to the fact it has flashing white lights in it. It also is called the dry ice room as the floor is covered by dry ice to give the swirl effect of the smoke. In this room the band occasionally play as well as the dancers, dancing in there.
The mirror room. This room has several different mirrors in it all over the place whether they are on the wall or the floor and is lit up by flashing lights and hopefully lasers beaming of the mirrors.

This is the overall content of our pop video.

timeline

This timeline was written out and then disscussed with our media teachers. After being disscussed it changed when it came to putting into a storyboard. We changed around what sme of the rooms look liked and even added a couple of rooms in. This changed the order of our shots including getting rid of some and adding new ones in. We Gave the timeline an overall change instead of just changing specific areas of it.

Feedback

You've made a start in the identification of your initial ideas and of the hypothetical band who will be the basis of this project, but this is disappointingly brief and text heavy. There is no research evident into real artists/bands who might illuminate the creative choices you need to make and no illustration of the kinds of image/visual style you are aiming for. You will need to start investing much more time and effort if you are to benefit from the coursework process at A Level.

James

hypothetical band/artist

Name of artist/band: mr sneeze
Track: tissue
Star image:mr s. is the star, he is a one man DJ. his genre is techno/minimal. he produces club music for 18-27 year olds male and female. he is called mr sneeze because he did toon much cocaine in his youth. he is single so has sex appeal for female listeners. he is 29 years old.
Treatment:sillouetted womens named bodys on screen, colours changing with the beats. body paint ( like in raindrops video by basement jaxx) kaleidoscope camera effects, fast cuts montage high saturation and lots of colours. shots of the mix board and decks. flash cuts of screaming fans underground until the bassline drops, then a wide shot of dancers and mr s shots.

Name of artist/band: cashmere
Track:syrian knights
Star image: ambient hippie rock, the band are all vegans, appeal to a spiritual, hippie like audience, male and female. aged between 17 and 25. the band is aged 29-35 with the lead singer bieng 40. unusual instruments. indian inspired music with a light techno influence. pure band members. no hard drugs, no rock and roll.
Treatment: opium den type set, shesha pipes everywhere, bellydancers. smoke rings. sitting on pillows. walking through slums helping the poor. lots of jewellry, robed clothes. camels outside in desert.

Name of artist/band:the bearded lumberjacks
Track:
Star image:
Treatment:

members of does it offend you, yeah?:
James Rushent – lead vocals, bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer
Rob Bloomfield – drums, bass guitar, guitar, synthesizer, backing vocals
Dan Coop – synthesizer
Matty Derham - guitar, backing vocals
Chloe Duveaux – bass guitar, backing vocals

does it offend you, yeah? is a british electronic rock band from reading, Berkshire, england.

they fit into a number of genres next to the genres i have given examples of other bands in these genres:
Dance-punk - the rapture, yeah yeah yeah's
Electro house - paris avenue, bodyrox
Indie rock - modest mouse, MGMT
Synthpop - owl city, phoenix
New Rave - shitdisco, new young pony club

does it offend you, yeah? is compared to muse by nme as they have a heavier more 'live' sound.
they are also compared to bands such as justice and daft punk.