Friday, 7 November 2014
Beyonce's Album Box Set Inspiration
I was browsing on the social media app called Instagram when I stumbled across what seemed to be Beyonce's New album box set! I must say I was in absolute shock.
After going off and doing some research I found out that a representative for the singer Beyonce has confirmed that the pop star will in fact release a platinum edition boxset of her 2013 self-titled album, including two brand new songs and a disc of live performances.
This method of design for an album is very inspiring to me and I would love to interpret the idea into my album cover when the time comes. Yet so, I have taken into consideration that I will be designing an album cover and not a box set, however if I can incorporate some of the features and ideas into my work and redesign it to make it my own, I would most definitely do so.
Maroon 5 -Animals Analysis
After the
release of Maroon 5 new video, they have been
heavily criticised for their "Animals" music video, with support
groups claiming it promotes violence against women.
In
my point of view the video is a very interesting that can either be loved or
cause controversy.
In
the video, Adam Levine's wife is stalked by his sinister character, a
sociopathic butcher who takes secret photos of her and stores them in his meat
locker.
At one point, he breaks
into her apartment and lies beside her while she sleeps.Covered in meat blood, Levine fantasises about having sex with her before approaching her in a club and creepily touching her shoulder. Then there are explicit blood-soaked sex scenes.
After watching the video, I thought to do some research to see how the audience reacted to such a strange video. After all, this is a different side to Maroon 5 which I think shocked many people.
Unsurprisingly, sexual assault support groups are disgusted by both the track and its video, a group called RAINN (Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network) released a statement of concern over the "dangerous depiction of a stalker’s fantasy".
A member of the group stated; "The trivialisation of these serious crimes, like stalking, should have no place in the entertainment industry."
I do agree with that particular statement as I believe that funnily enough the music video encourages activities such as stalking, which is seen as a crime.
I was also shocked at the amount of sex scenes in the music video, I immediately started to think about the younger viewers who may watch this particular video online as there are no age restrictions as to who can watch it. This has definitely made me consider the context of my music video and what type of audience I would like it to be for.
Thursday, 6 November 2014
Ed Sheeran-Thinking out Loud Inspirational video
I was watching different music videos online and stumbled
across this new video by Ed Sheeran, I must say that I found the concept very
interesting and thought to look deeper into behind the scenes of the video.
Below is a quote from Ed Sheeran explaining the concept clearly.
"My original concept was to have a
couple walk in and do some made ballroom dancing, at first I was going to get
two talented dancers but as was the idea was formed, I thought hmm
maybe I should have a crack at this."The video particularly grabbed my attention because of the smoothness and elegance that ran throughout. The choreography was so perfectly done, it created a rhythm with the song, not to mention the perfect camera angles that showed chemistry between the two. In addition to this I also really liked the choice of lightings used, the tones of warm yellow lights really set a romantic theme to the location of the video which seems to be a hall where a wedding reception would take place.
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