Wednesday, 20 January 2010
Idea for Digipack cover
Here is one of my initial ideas for my digipack cover. I need to find a better fitting font for the album name at the bottom, as its not easy to read and blends in with the image too much. This idea will appeal to our target audience, 15-24 y/o males, as its an interesting and new design, which catches your eye. This was made using images i found on the internet, so i will have to re make it with my own.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Music video analysis
Muse Hysteria - Music Video Analysis
Muse are one of the most successful current rock bands in the world, whose songs have won many awards including The NME Award, Kerrang! Award and MTV Award, all very honourable achievements. They’ve currently released 3 chart topping albums, and Hysteria is one of my favourite songs of theirs, because it has a very catchy tune and is well written and played.
The video starts off with an eye zooming into the screen. This could be your attention drawing to the video, but could also represent you becoming the camera of the video. I see this as the camera is the viewer’s eyes, which in a state of ‘Hysteria’ is watching the band, which ties into the song title.
We see a distorted, unlit view of the band who are about to play, silhouetted in front of a projection screen. Again, the distorted lighting links with the title of the song.
Suddenly the rhythmic music starts, and each beat is synchronised with a new shape on the screen behind them. For the first 20 seconds, all we can see are these quickly appearing blobs, and the distorted silhouettes and highlights of the band and their instruments. We recognise more and more shapes as the music builds. This again is an unnatural, distorted view of the band which almost makes us feel like we’ve gone crazy, as there are so many flashing lights and blobs, we don’t know what to look at.
As the main chords are played by the lead guitar, we see a ripple effect that shakes as the chord bends. The ripples then form the rings of speakers, which pulsate with the heavier chords, this is clever imagery which’s dream like quality keeps to the distorted theme.
As the vocals start, the camera flickers and shakes, with a collection of short, fast shots of the band flashing on the screen. The images of speakers start to turn like a record as the singer says, “twisting me around”. Then light moving images form on the screen, which twist and shape into different things, giving the impression of turning inside out, as said in the lyrics. As the song bursts into the chorus, with a surge of instruments and iconic lyrics, the singer raises his arm and cloud shapes rush towards the camera. This emphasises the power of the song, and almost makes us jump. As the singer says, “lose control” a surge of what looks like red blood cells are pumped through instead of the clouds, which could be the effect of losing control kicking in to someone in a state of hysteria.
We see images of nerves, water, lightning and stars flashing and moving around the band, which again gives a distorted and surreal edge to the video, making you feel like you’re hysterical and that the band is dream like.
Then for the first time, a blood red colour flows down behind and below the band, as the music builds again for the last chorus, which makes us see them in a different way; it makes them look more menacing and gothic, which relates to the genre. The red forms generic gothic images like graveyards and dark eyes, with the band member’s head banging and holding up their guitars, in the instrumental.
It finally zooms out to the same eye, at the end, as the song and hysteria is over.
This song has a sort of narrative structure in the way that it shows you what they may seem like in a hysteric state, and it shows its viewer going into and falling out of this state, at the two ends of the song. The images on the screen behind them relate to the lyrics that are being said, if you were in this sort of state, you would hear people saying words but see distorted images and not what’s really there.
Muse are one of the most successful current rock bands in the world, whose songs have won many awards including The NME Award, Kerrang! Award and MTV Award, all very honourable achievements. They’ve currently released 3 chart topping albums, and Hysteria is one of my favourite songs of theirs, because it has a very catchy tune and is well written and played.
The video starts off with an eye zooming into the screen. This could be your attention drawing to the video, but could also represent you becoming the camera of the video. I see this as the camera is the viewer’s eyes, which in a state of ‘Hysteria’ is watching the band, which ties into the song title.
We see a distorted, unlit view of the band who are about to play, silhouetted in front of a projection screen. Again, the distorted lighting links with the title of the song.
Suddenly the rhythmic music starts, and each beat is synchronised with a new shape on the screen behind them. For the first 20 seconds, all we can see are these quickly appearing blobs, and the distorted silhouettes and highlights of the band and their instruments. We recognise more and more shapes as the music builds. This again is an unnatural, distorted view of the band which almost makes us feel like we’ve gone crazy, as there are so many flashing lights and blobs, we don’t know what to look at.
As the main chords are played by the lead guitar, we see a ripple effect that shakes as the chord bends. The ripples then form the rings of speakers, which pulsate with the heavier chords, this is clever imagery which’s dream like quality keeps to the distorted theme.
As the vocals start, the camera flickers and shakes, with a collection of short, fast shots of the band flashing on the screen. The images of speakers start to turn like a record as the singer says, “twisting me around”. Then light moving images form on the screen, which twist and shape into different things, giving the impression of turning inside out, as said in the lyrics. As the song bursts into the chorus, with a surge of instruments and iconic lyrics, the singer raises his arm and cloud shapes rush towards the camera. This emphasises the power of the song, and almost makes us jump. As the singer says, “lose control” a surge of what looks like red blood cells are pumped through instead of the clouds, which could be the effect of losing control kicking in to someone in a state of hysteria.
We see images of nerves, water, lightning and stars flashing and moving around the band, which again gives a distorted and surreal edge to the video, making you feel like you’re hysterical and that the band is dream like.
Then for the first time, a blood red colour flows down behind and below the band, as the music builds again for the last chorus, which makes us see them in a different way; it makes them look more menacing and gothic, which relates to the genre. The red forms generic gothic images like graveyards and dark eyes, with the band member’s head banging and holding up their guitars, in the instrumental.
It finally zooms out to the same eye, at the end, as the song and hysteria is over.
This song has a sort of narrative structure in the way that it shows you what they may seem like in a hysteric state, and it shows its viewer going into and falling out of this state, at the two ends of the song. The images on the screen behind them relate to the lyrics that are being said, if you were in this sort of state, you would hear people saying words but see distorted images and not what’s really there.
Monday, 4 January 2010
My music video analysis
Im having trouble with getting word files on here, i'll talk to Mr Seal about it when we're back.
My music video analysis was of Muse: "Hysteria"
My music video analysis was of Muse: "Hysteria"
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
