Collage of Rihanna

I made this collage, from top left is shows the start of Rihanna's career to the bottom left where she is now. She has completely changed her image from an average r'n'b singer with attitude to a sophisticated women, to a almost grunge image with te amo and disturbia. Her recent image with the bright red hair has tried to make her uniue and have her own style that people will follow.

A collage i found on the internet which i had already been made is the one of all her albums.

Evaluation of first day of filming

We have started are filming and although we did not get as much done as we would of liked i think we got some quality shots done.
We managed to film the shots which are in the forest, park and in the cafe. These are three of the scenes. We still need to do the ones in the house, the street, wall shot and possibly the one on the bus.

I found it interesting how actually being at the scene made us come up with new ideas and although we have still kept to the basic storyboard we have changed little things such as them sitting on a park bench.

I think we all worked well in a group; the only issue was that i am keen on using post modern conventions in are music videos, however not all the group are sure on using them as they don't believe in having them in a narrative video. Although i do understand this to a certain extent i believe they should be in there as post modernism is in everything these days including whole movies. Also it would therefore give us more of an evaluation in the coursework and also the exam.

filming day sorted

Because of a few problems with technical and people availability we have had to wait this long until filming. However we have now set a specific date for Wednesday 16th. We have got all the video cameras and still cameras rented out for this specific date. Although i wanted to have tuesday and wednesday in order to try and get most of it done in 2 days put together. I believe if we work efficiently we should be able to get a substantial amount done therefore leaving us with only a few shots needed to be done on are next filming times.
It is good to finally have a date set as for over a month now we have had all are storyboard completed.

Changes in the music industry

Now the internet has become accessible to the general public it has incorporated media industries especially music. It has made music from every culture available in most countries in the world.

Most music is now available on the internet legally via Itunes. This has made music cheaper and means that you will always be able to purchase it as they won't run out of copys as it is electronic. There is competition from other internet sites such as amazon, eMusic, napstar (now becoming legal), rhapsody. This therefore means there is competition between these websites once again lowering the price of music.



With youtube becoming a global success people are now watching music videos more often then ever before. You can easily chose what video you want to listen and watch whenever you are on the computer for free.Although it was made illegal for a short while as it was a breach of copyright.

However then Vevo came along and paid the music record labels to play the videos and make the money back by advertising products on the account. VEVO offers music videos from three of the 'big four' major record labels: Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and EMI. Vevo not only focuses on youtube but also, ipod applications, launched a channel on google television, android phones and have promised that applications for over phones will immediatly follow.

This shows another way the internet has been used successfully to make more money in the music industry and create new jobs.

All the major radio stations realised that more and more people and spending more and more of time on the internet and have all got an internet website where you can listen live on the radio and also catch up on any shows you have missed from the past week. For the radio station Kiss this is called the 'Kisskube' capital, heart and all the others also have the listen live. This has meant that they can stay in operation even if analogue radio no longer lasts in the technological age.



Therefore we can see that the internet has made a massive change to the way music is distributed to us the audience. It has made it more accessible and affordable; however the internet has also meant that it is easier and now free (as you now don't have to pay for the cd's) to illegal download.

Costume

We have decided upon are costumes. We settled quite easily with what each character should wear. The only major discussion was that for the wall shot i believed that Sam should wear tracksuit bottoms with a plain top on as this would make sure he was not doing anything and would suggest missing his girlfriend. Sam opinion was that he wanted to wear jeans as he thought this would look better and not give a 'gangster' image.

I thought that it was important that he was not wearing jeans to often and as this was an important shot and he should be wearing something different to make it stand out. 

We have therefore decided that we shall try and shoot the shot twice one with the tracksuit bottoms and one with the jeans on. We will then have the other two (Becca and John) to have the final decision

Star Image- Katy Perry

I found it very hard to think of someone who i could investigates star image. I did not want to look at Cheryl Cole as her rise to being a star has been covered by thousand of people before and i did not want to look at Lady Gaga due to the fact that she is so different to everyone that most people would be looking at her star image without realising that they don't want there star to be like Lady gaga and if they did the star would probably be heavily criticised for copying a style that has become renowned as Lady Gaga's.

Katy Perry was born Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson. After failed attempts with one record label she changed her stage name from Katy Hudson and To Katy Perry as it was felt it would be hard to get her own identity with the famous actress Katie Hudson having such a similar name and people may associate or think of Katie Hudson when hearing Katy Hudsons name.

Katy Perry has shown an almost rebellious side to her which has built on creating a likeable image. Raised by strict a strict christain family with both of her parents being Pastors. Yet her first break through song went against the ideology of the church being named 'I kissed a girl' with themes of the song consisting of cheating, lesbianism and a sort of promiscuity which means that she will kiss a girl without any feelings about it or regret. Katy Perrys outfits  have also caused some controversy with being rather "revealing" and "sexy".

As Katy Perry has become more famous she has made her own image with her wild and exciting dress sense. She often dresses up in outfits. Her relationship with Russel Brand caused instant coverage all over the world. Russel Brand is also seemed to be one of "tele's bad boys" yet they have tried to keep the coverage of there relationship quiet and are believed to be happy together. It is believed that Katy has calmed Russel Brand down.

Katy Perry writes all her song this way allowing her to show her emotions through her songs such as "teenager dream" which represents her dreams of being a pin up girl. It also allows her audience to feel a connection with her . “You’re getting a pure connection to the artist,” Katy says. “You’re not getting some idea of what that artist should be, you’re getting a direct voice.”

She’s also a popular television draw, appearing on talk shows, presenting and performing on the Grammys living, she also became famous serving as a guest judge on “American Idol,” and X factor. She went on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” for celeberity giving her money to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She has won Best New Act at the Europe Music Awards, Best Pop Video at the MTV Japan Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the Brit Awards

Eliza Doolittle- Skinny Jeans. How to create sex appeal in a music video

Although our group has not decided if we are going to use any sexual images to try and engage the audience i thought it would be beneficial in order to see what was available to us whilst not being to explicit. I saw this video about a month ago on a music channel and it striked me at how well the sexual references

were made.

These shots are close ups of the female body most are of erotic places. The one with the legs in the air is repeted several times although we do not get to see the rest of the women in the shot. This could lead to the audience thinking that the girls next to Eliza are naked once again created a sex appeal. The shot with the 3 girls is used more than once in the video seeing 3 girls like this makes the audience feel that it is a room with more women than female. The extreme close ups of the 1st to add to the erotic nature of the video.

This to photos are signifying a male orgasm. The one on the left is actually a champagne bottle maybe also showing the audience that it was good. The second is milk this is used in many erotic music videos such as Rhianna ft Drake- Whats my name. 

Both of these images are phallic images. The one of the light switch is very obvious and is meant to be obvious to the audience to see the sexual connotations however the one where the women is rolling the blue dough is a lot more hidden and you have to read the image rather than being told straight away. This makes the audience constantly think.

These photos signify male genitalia

This is clearly symbolic for the actual act of sex. It is clearly meant to represent this and is only in the video for this reason as it serves no over real purpose as there is no link between the characters and other shots with it.

Throughout the video the mise en scene has to be kept sexual throughout. Without the mise en scene the other sexual images would just look out of place and many people may find it harder to read the sexual and erotic connotations.

Although I have looked at all of these I will discuss with my group if we think it is a good idea to use sexual images in our media product or not.