CLC Trip - To Learn Garageband

I found this learning experience very interesting. We were taken to a near-by media learning center, to be introdcued to Apple's program, 'Garageband'.

It enabled us to create our own music, which would not only open up a new world of interest and possibility for us, but would help us get around the current situation with Copyrights.

I created layers of tracks; making use of instruments that are commonly used in Indie/Alernative music. I introduced Keyboards, Guitars, Bass, Drums, and Synths.

The outcome was, as you can expect, not very impressive (as I have never practiced music production!).



Although I enjoyed the experience, I don't think the quality of the song I would create would be worth the effort. I think that spending time trying to make an effective song, along with lyrics, would hinder the standard of my music video.



THUS. We must find other ways!

Real Media Texts- Other Indie Music Videos

Colin Munroe, Fatboyslim, Justice vs. Simian, She & Him, Vampire Weekend, Peter, Bjorn & John, First Aid Kit, Simian Mobile Disco, Bats for Lashes, Bats for Lashes, Empire of the Sun, Cinematic Orchestra, Dos Buratinos

http://uk.video.yahoo.com/playlist/3717903

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zo1-XlazvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XC2mqcMMGQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51V1VMkuyx0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLScc2padyc&feature=player_profilepage#t=31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iDdQ0nOn4o&feature=channel

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfjVT1-mwY&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimgRedLkkU&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F1RVXfiWEE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fzrm-thPlzc&feature=channel_page

Gender Representation in a Music Video.

Women: -
*Used as sexual objects ; treated as pets (this shows their lack of control in the situation: ideology of Men taking control, women obedient and subverted) ; shown to be vacuous (no signs of intelligence, though, humour, nor realistic emotion); shown to only care about 50 Cent, sex, and money; Playboy-life style (unrealistic ability to accept to share the man they 'adore').
*Clothes: White lingerie and white high heels; White=purity + heavenliness. False impression, as they perform 'wrong' things... Thus, they portray something 'wrong' as 'right' and virtuous.
*Camera Angles: Low angles used to gaze up dresses (a degrading way to emphasise the idea of women as sex symbols); Close ups of women's limbs, breasts and bottoms. Long shots to show their whole body, usually brushing up against a man in a lustrous way, or to display her form as she walks.
*Body Language: Sexy; Eyes are averted from camera allowing viewer a voyeuristic relationship (you can look, but you can't touch).

Men: -
*Stereotyped ideas about 'blackness'/'black men'; they promote and occupy a world of status symbols ('bling' and 'suited and booted'); represented as a 'survivor of the Ghetto (been shot 9 times, former crack dealer); shown to only care about sex, girls, his 'boys' and money.
*Camera Angles: Mainly close-ups or mid shots to show their dominance in the video (and thus acts as a statement of their dominant gender)


Beneath, see a video dedicated to The Male Gaze, and The Female Gaze.



Notes

Scopophillia: Latin for The Love of Looking. The term refers to the predominantly male gaze of Holloywood cinema, which enjoys objectfying women into mere objects to be looked at (rather than subjects with their own voice and subjectivity). The term, as used in feminist film criticism, is heavily influenced by both Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis.

Pleasure in looking has been split between active male / passive female .....
WOMEN'S APPEARANCE = MALE DESIRE

A male character becomes a powerful ideal ego booster, which creates a sense of being almighty within the viewer.

Making a Start

Welcome to my Ideas Space! I'm Claudia Pickett and I am studying Media at A2 Level. We have been breifed to produce a promotion package for the release of an album.

Main Task: Produce a music promo video

Ancillary Task One: Produce an advertisement for the band's album

Ancillary Task Two: Produce a CD/DVD cover for the release of album as part of a digipak.


Meet The Team:

Myself....

Tara












Billie













Rebecca













I'll be using this blog space to document my ideas on topics we cover in class about representation in Music Videos- but ultimately, to display my research, planning and (eventually) evaluation of the project at hand.