Mr hudson

Supernova by Mr. Hudson

"Supernova" is a song by British singer Mr Hudson. It was both co-written and co-produced with hip-hop artist Kanye West, who is featured in the song. The song is a performance and narrative cross the first shot you see is a woman in bed of posh hotel or a big house. There is a slow moving tracking shot that suggest that this is his prize almost. Mr Hudson is shown in the next shot, shown to be dressed in white clothes and he is looking smart. After the first shot Mr Hudson is shown heavily in this music video and the directors of the video have used aspects of Goodwin 6 where the artist is used to promote the music video. This is an aspect that we can use in our video; we can use a main character in the shot at all time or most of the time and have a performance narrative cross. The woman in the shot is shown climbing all over Hudson, this therefore shows that he is some sort of sex god and that he is and leads on my earlier point of her being his prize. When the chorus comes in a special effect shown Mr. Hudson as a supernova this shows his importance in the music video. When this effect is happening he is all alone and he is in a dark room, this suggest that he is very important and he creates light in a dark place.  At this point kanye west is introduce with no special effects on like Mr. Hudson this shows that he is less important this is due to it being Hudson’s and he cannot be more important than the main character. The music video uses aspects of dark and light for example in the beginning where he said “and I feel like taking off, let me be a supernova” there is a white room with a woman in bed. This part of the song is uplifting and a happy beet. However when it goes to the second verse Mr. Hudson is in a dark corridor and singing about how other people have more things than he does. He is also singing about how this is wrong this is suggested because. “Out on the lawn we pretend where having tones of fun in this world where we all belong”. First impressions of this music video suggest that it is a happy one, however as the song leads on there is a hidden message which shows that other people have more.

William groom

The three most landmark music videos out of the top 100 are:

‘Thriller’ by Michael Jackson, directed by John Landis

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

‘Vogue’ by Madonna, directed by David Fincher

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

‘Smells like teen spirit’ by Nirvana, directed by Samuel Bayer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUavMTrW0Aw

David Fincher

David Andrew Leo Fincher (born August 28, 1962) is an American film director and music video director, known for his dark and stylish thrillers, such as Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Fight Club (1999), Panic Room (2002), and Zodiac (2007). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Director for his 2008 film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. His latest film, The Social Network (2010), has received critical acclaim.

Fincher directed big budget music videos for artists such as:

· Madonna (including "Express Yourself", "Vogue", "Oh Father" and "Bad Girl")
· Billy Idol ("Cradle of Love")
· Paula Abdul (including "(It's Just) The Way That You Love Me", "Straight Up", "Forever Your Girl" and "Cold Hearted")
· Aerosmith ("Janie's Got a Gun")
· The Rolling Stones (including "Love Is Strong")
· Nine Inch Nails ("Only")

first idears

This is a brain storm of one of the songs which we where thinking of using for our music video. The brain storm contains ideas for settings, target audience's, shot types to match the song and tempo, camera ideas, staging and a idea of performance, concept and narrative elements.

John Landis

John David Landis (born August 3, 1950) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. He is known for his comedies, his horror films, and his music videos with singer Michael Jackson. John Landis’s directed music video ‘Thriller’ (1983) has been named as one of the top 100 music videos of all time.

videos

Shorts films for Michael Jackson:
Thriller (1983)
Black or White (1991)

For B.B. King (from film B.B. King "Into the Night"):
My Lucille
Into the Night
In the Midnight Hour

For Paul McCartney:
Spies Like Us (1986)

Michael Benjamin Bay

Michael Benjamin Bay

Michael Benjamin Bay is an American film director and producer. he is best known for his high budget films for example transformers, where every part of the robots have to be made piece by piece and then to add to the difficulty they all have to change into cars and other stuff which is very cool. He is also well known for his attention to detail which show in his films. His films, which include Armageddon, Pearl Harbor , the Bad Boys and Transformers series, to show how popular his films have been he has made profit of over 3 billion pound . He’s also part owner of the special effects house Digital Domain, this again reflects on his music videos and his films. he also part owns Platinum Dunes. This is a production house which has remade horror movies such as Friday the 13th, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and A Nightmare on Elm Street.

Some of the music videos that he has made

2001 "There You'll Be" Faith Hill Theme from Pearl Harbor

1997 "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" Aerosmith 

1994 "Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are" Meat Loaf 

1994 "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" Meat Loaf 

1993 "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" Meat Loaf 

1992 "You Won't See Me Cry" Wilson Phillips 

1992 "Do It to Me" Lionel Richie 

1992 "Love Thing" Tina Turner 

1991 "I Touch Myself" Divinyls 

1989 "I'll Be Holding On" Gregg Allman from the movie Black Rain

1989 "Angelia" Richard Marx 

1989 "Soldier of Love"

The history of a music video.

Many musical artists made their careers a success by using music videos. As an important part of the music industry, music videos not only showcase an artist's singing talent, but also how they perform. The history of music videos shows how the use of the videos transformed the music industry.Premiering in 1974, the Australian TV show 'Countdown' played an important role in the development of the music video industry. Music video clips were used as a method of promoting acts that were to appear on the show. As the popularity of the video clips grew, the music industry began to realize the marketing potential of these music clips. One of the most notable video clips features was the AC/DC hit, "It's A Long Way to the Top." During the 1980s, 'Countdown' aired in 22 countries.In 1980, the New Zealand group Split Enz became one of the first bands to create an entire set of music promo clips and market them on video cassette for each song on their album, 'True Colors.'Predating MTV by almost three years, 'Video Concert Hall,' was the first nationwide video music program on American television. Premiering in June 1981, one of the first US programs to play music videos was the USA Cable Network program 'Night Flight.' Night Flight predated MTV's launch by just a few months.In 1981, the U.S. video channel MTV was launched and it began the age of 24-hour music television. They launched the channel with the video, "Video Killed the Radio Star." Throughout the 1980s, MTV expanded to become an important tool used in music marketing. Singers like Madonna not only used music videos to promote their albums, but to create their images. In 1983, the almost 14-minute-long video for Michael Jackson's song "Thriller," was released. It became the world's most successful and influential video in music video history.In 1985, MTV launched the channel VH1 which featured softer music for an older audience than the typical young MTV audience. In 1987, MTV Europe was launched and in 1991, MTV Asia was introduced.In 1988, the MTV show, Yo! MTV Raps was launched. The show helped to bring hip hop music to a nationwide audience. Two of the videos that are most famous for being two of the three most expensive music videos of all time are Michael and Janet Jackson's "Scream," which cost $7 million to produce, and Madonna's "Bedtime Story," which cost $5 million. "Scream" is still the most expensively video ever made.

What is a music video?

A music video is a video produced by a working artist/band. These videos help them to promote new songs or singles, and are also often used to help promote new artists/bands to make them popular. Music videos will be often concept, narrative or performances based or even a mixture depending on the target audience, for example. A rap music video often includes the rapper(s) directing the camera like they would in a performance based video, but the setting and props will nearly always be concept based i.e. performing in a play ground or from the back seats of a limo.

Jonathan glazer

After studying theatre design at Nottingham Trent University, Glazer started out directing theatre and making film and television trailers, In 1993 he wrote and directed three short films of his own witch was excepted and he joined Academy Commercials. He has directed popular campaigns for Guinness, the most famous one of his whole career. This is the one where the men go surfing with horses and Stella Artois. Since the mid-1990s he has directed a number of music videos, and was named MTV Director of the Year 1997.

these are some of his music videos

"The Universal” by Blur (1995)

"Street Spirit” by Radiohead (1996)

"Virtual Insanity” by Jamiroquai (1996)

"Cosmic Girl” by Jamiroquai (1997)

"Into My Arms” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1997)

"Karma Police” by Radiohead (1997)

"Rabbit in Your Headlights” by UNKLE ft. Thom Yorke (1998)

"A Song for the Lovers” by Richard Ashcroft (2000)

"Live with Me” by Massive Attack (2006)

"Treat Me like Your Mother” by The Dead Weather (2009)

Spike Jonze

Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel; October 22, 1969) is an American director, producer and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Charlie Kaufman, which include the 1999 film Being John Malkovich and the 2002 film Adaptation, and for his work as director of the 2009 film Where the Wild Things Are. He was also a co-creator and executive producer of MTV's Jackass. He is currently the creative director of VBS.tv He is also part owner of skateboard company Girl Skateboards with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll.

points taken from a Spike Jonze music video.

The Breeders, Canon ball, directed by Spike Jonze.
· Performance and concept video, concept of the rolling canon ball.
· Cuts on the beat
· Use of a fish eye lenses to match a face with a canon ball, also used in a bowl of water
· Performance is directed to a mirror not a audience.
· Shots match action and sounds i.e. tapping on the drum stand matches with coins being dropped in a jar
· Singer directs the camera in places.
· Lots of use with the idea of bubbles in water.
· Music picks up and the cuts are sharper and faster
· Use of changing colures
· Shot taken through studio equipment i.e. shots taken through a ladder.
· Filming of the band through a mirror.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpoqzt2EHaA

Daft Punk, Around the World, directed by spike jonze

· Every musical element has a physical element on the stage
· Dancers move around the set matching the lyrics of around the world
· As the music picks up more musical elements are added
· Lots of bright lights in the back ground
· Camera focus on visual elements with specific musical elements
· Bird’s eye view with a camera rotating in the opposite direction
· Cut on the beat
· Zoom out showing a concept of space
· Contrast matches tempo of the music i.e. faster tempo brighter lights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4

30 Seconds to mars

30 seconds to mars

This is war

'This is war' uses the conception that light and dark can be paralleled with good and evil. However this idea is confused. In the starting scene the band walks down a white corridor, they are all dressed in white, this gives the connotation that they are good. Conflicting this though, a red gun is shown on the lead singer`s jacket. This is linked to postmodernism, through confusing the mixture of good and evil. This shows although they are represented as good innocent people at the start that have evil or a lust for blood. Now this lust for blood is either violence or revenge because the song is about the end of the world or a time to fight for it (climate change).  The climate change problem is show as they are in a dessert then going to the arctic.

This line is sung “warning to the good and the evil, this is war” there is a mixture of people in white and black. The lead singer is saying that everyone is to blame for climate change, he doesn’t take sides, this is shown in the different shots where he is dressed in black and then white.

War is also a key factor of this music video, “to the solder the civilian” and there are images of people with guns, who when they start fighting, the music starts to pick up as the violence increases. At this point in the music video, you start to understand that it’s about what we have done to our planet and how war is part of society and we just acknowledge it as the norm.

There is a part where a city scape is in the shot, covered by a red cloud of smoke. This connotes that what we have created is bad; however this is contradicted by the lyrics as it says “it’s a brand new world”. Again this has postmodernism ideas because it is being stated whilst a damaged world is highlighted.

A final point in this music video talks about religion ,“to the leader the prior to the victor the messier” this shows how religion has created so much war and instead of fixing the world it’s made it worse and the singers are ready to fight all of them. To do this they are represented as powerful people in the music video. This is shown when they enter a Chinese temple and the entire compliament soldiers (all in armor) step aside and let them in.

A good final discussion point is that Edouard Salier, seen in the video served in the Special Forces. The irony being that certainly a large part of the music video is about war/ conflict and destruction, and I’m sure that his personal experience had cosiderable influence in the creation of this music video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gObAYrK6QzM

William groom