Job Roles

Job Roles

Peter- Jewett Thomas

• Story Bored Designer
• Co-Director
• Cinematographer
• Lighting Director
• Co~Marketing Director
• Editor

 

 Why

I have been allocated the role of storyboard designer because I am able to draw sufficiently accurate drawings for the planning process. I am creative so this is task I can take on. I am also one of two Co-directors as I am organised and took a share of directing responsibility for our last production. Similarly I am one of two cinematographer as I have experience in this from last years production. As a result of being creative I will have good ideas for shot composition and framing. This links in with being the lighting director as if I am operating the camera it follows that I should look into the lighting states as I can see what shows up well and suits the tone of the song. Each of us are taking on the role of Co-marketing director. 

Marcus Riley

• Shot List Designer
• Co-Director
• Co- Mise-en-Scene Director
• Set Designer
• Co-Marketing Director

Why

I have chosen to take on the role of shot list designer because this one of the roles I did in last years production, so have a good understanding on how it should be done. This is also one of the many reasons I one of the Co-directors, as this was my main job on the day of filming in our last production. I am the Mise-en-scene director and set designer because I own the location we are filming in and I did the budget list, therefore I know exactly what needs doing for the set, costume and props. We have agreed that all three of us will be one of the Co-marketing Directors because we feel that marketing is something we can do well as a group.

Conor Durrant

• Co- marketing
• Co- Lighting director 
• Mise- en- scene director
• Set designer
• Editor

I have chosen to be the editor because I believe last year I played a big part in editing a long side Pete so me and him will take up the editing side just like last year because we work well in a team and are affective together. The marketing side of the project will very important therefore we have decided to all work together with marketing because non of us in the group are better than the rest so with the marketing we will share it.


Harry Sandall

• Prop Director
• Co- Marketing
• Co- set designer
• Co- Cinematographer
• Actor

I have chosen to be the prop director just because last year I was good at understand what props need to be on set and which props meet the conventions of our target audience, and it would be sensible if I took on the role of doing props again. Also I am the co- cinematographer because when Pete is needed else where I am the second best in the group at working a camera therefore it was also a sensible idea to put me Co- cinematographer. My main role in this group is being the actor this is a role that I did last year and part of the reason why our production last year was so successful.

History of the musical genre

Pop

 

A term that originally derives from an abbreviation of "popular”.The genre popular music originated in its modern form in the 1950s, deriving from rock and roll.The term "pop song" is first recorded as being used in 1926According to Grove Music Online, the term "pop music" "originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influencedChambers Dictionary mentions the contemporary usage of the term "pop art"Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical music.Some of the most well known names in history such as; The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Therolling Stones, ABBA etc…

 

Origins Of Pop Music

Pop music, which accounts for the majority of the music onto days charts, is an a genre which includes a mix of many different styles of music which vary from jazz to country; rock and roll to rap; be-bop to hip-hop. Sheet music was a big thing with pop music, as it literally written song notes, which would get families together and then played on an instrument.Publishers of sheet music set up companies to meet the demand of those desiring their products, and would often scout out new composers and have their music made available in printed form for sale.

 

Features Of Pop Music

The most significant feature of the pop music industry of the late18th and early 19th centuries was the extent of its focus on the commodity form of sheet music “Pop music is generally described as very commercial friendly, marketable and memorable, with either vocals, lyrics, instruments, or a combination of all three creating catchy choruses or verses. The goal is to automatically create visual content in responses to the feature extracted from the music. To give a visually coherent representation of the sound.

 

 

50's

Elvis Presley emerges as one of the worlds first rock stars. With so many hit songs, he was referred to as the king of rock n roll. He is one of the best-selling solo artist in the history of popular music.

 

60's

American country singer Patsy Cline becomes a mainstream pop music hit. Cline was the first female vocalist who adapted to the change and became a successful pop singer.

 

70's

 

Michael Jacksons first solo hit "Ben" reaches No. 1"Ben" is a number-one hit song recorded by the teenager Michael Jackson for the Mo town label in1972. The song, theme of a 1972 film of the same name, spent one week at the top of the U.S. pop chart.

 

80's

 

The red hot chilli peppers were formed.1983: Michael Jackson popularizes the moonwalk. The moonwalk or back slide is a dance technique that presents the illusion that the dancer is stepping forward while actually moving backward.

 

90's

Various famous groups made pop music more popular Grunge rock was formed in Seattle, Backstreet Boys and Black street were formed, the movie "Titanic" and the song "My Heart Will Go On," became popular.

 



Audience Profile

Joint Honours

Lifestyle & Job

The lifestyle of the type of people that listen to our chosen song are people that are always happy and will live a busy lifestyle but also are very chilled out as well. the job these people would have wouldn't be office based 9 till 5 jobs it would be more outdoors and more freedom maybe in the civil services. They would probably have a stable family background and will have a family of them own and will bond well with their kids.



Hobbies & Interests

The type of interests that people that listen to this type of music would be interests such as football and also they might have a strong passion towards music and this certain style of music. Also there hobby might be going to watch football and they would like spending time with the kids as much as possible.

 

Age

19-40

 

Gender

Male

 

Socio- Economical Class

C class- a very settled job and a paid back lifestyle.

 

Contatcing the band

when we first spotted the band and song we liked our first step was to contact the band to see if we would be able to use there song. when we picked 'Joint Honours' we found their website and with all their details on how to contact them. this is a screenshot of their contact page on their website.

this is the email that we sent to the band and also the conformation email back which we got of 'Joint Honours' saying we have permission to use their song and how they would like us to send them the finished video as well.

Genre Of 'Joint Honours'

Our Chosen Genre

Chosen Artist: Joint Honours

 

Song: Windows

 

Genre: Pop/ Rap

 

 

Pop-rap (also known as pop rap or hip pop) is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes, which gained mainstream popularity during the 1990s. The lyrics are often light hearted, with choruses similar to what's heard in pop music. The influences and roots of pop rap trace back to late 1980s hip hop artists, such as Run DMC, LL Cool J, and Beastie Boys.

 

 

 

The original Pop/ Rap genre was really been put into the lime light by artist such a Run DMC and successful songs such as 'U Can't Touch This' this song really did get the Pop/ Rap genre going and publicised it.

 

The genre is also a very good genre to make a music video out of, most music videos in the pop/rap genre are very disjunction. I believe this is easier to make because you can let your imagination run wild.

Group Artist/ Track Chosen

Joint Honours

Joint Honours is the band that we have chosen to do our music video on. The track we are using from Joint Honours is a song called 'Windows'.

Joint Honours are a band which seem very organised this is one of the reason as to why we picked this band to do our media production on.

"Joint Honours are a pop/rap band that came together in Derby and bring fantastic melodic rap fused with choral harmonies.

They have recently received national airplay after featuring on the BBC Radio Six playlist. Their track ‘’Coming Together’’ was also included on Tom Robinson’s Freshnet New Music Mixtape in May 2014. They have performed at London’s O2 Arena, Y-Not Festival, Bearded Theory and featured at Derby’s Olympic Torch Parade"

This is a picture of their website

They have 4 members which make up the band:

David Jackson- Vocals/ Keys
Simon Marles- Guitar / Vocals
Adam Stone- Bass
Max Chambers- Drums

 The reason why we chosen this song was because we believe as a group it'll be easy to make a music video and will turn out to be a good music video because the conventions of the song will be easy to replicate into a video.

This is the song called 'Windows' in which we are going to chosen for our music video.

Artist/ Track Chosen

Track chosen

"Following a run of successful gigs in London and the North West to promote their self-titled debut album in 2010, Saddleworth rock and roll trio The 99s (Johnny West, James Loughlin, Adam Quigley) decided to retire back to the hills and plan how to take their brand of catchy, sun-kissed melodies to the next level.

Dozens of songs had already been penned for the follow up album, but the new songs demanded a much larger sound, and the three instruments just weren’t filling the gaps. The boys landed on their feet when fellow Oldham troubadour and multi-instrumentalist Jay Moran became available to help create a fuller sound, and an extra voice to add to the already Byrds-esque harmonies."

The track I believe which will be a good song to use for our media production would be '[What A Night] To Be Alive. This is the song I believe would be good to use but I am yet to speak to my other team about this song because we decided on researching our own song then at the end all coming together and deciding on the best song to use, this is the song I believe is the best to use.

The reason why I chose this band is because it sounds like an good song and a song which is also easy to make a music video out of as well by the sounds of it. I also believe the key to a successfully music video is it has to be up beat and happy which this song is.