Friday, 9 May 2008
Wednesday, 23 April 2008
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Glossary of music video terms
Amplification
In this context, to add to the meaning of the
lyrics through a visual interpretation which
may be quite removed from them.
Animatic
An animated storyboard, often used in
advertising, as well as in music video, to give
a better idea of the planned project.
AOR
Adult-Oriented Rock, the dominant, white,
mid-America music form in the early 1980s.
AVID
A professional, industry-standard digital
editing system used by many filmmakers.
BARB
Broadcastersʼ Audience Research Board,
which researches UK audience data for TV,
producing reports for subscribers, with basic
statistics available on its website.
Brief
The original requirement from the client given
to the creative team, via the commissioning
editor.
Capture
The act of transferring footage from camera
to computer.
Chromakey
A feature allowing material to be shot against
a plain blue or green background which at
the edit stage can be replaced with a
pictorial background (eg to show a character
in an impossible environment). Also referred
to as blue-screen technology.
Client
Commissioning editor
The person employed by the record
company who offers contracts for music
videos.
Continuity editing
The dominant editing system in film and TV,
in which spatial and temporal continuity is
maintained for the comprehension of the
audience.
Cutaway
A shot of an object, person or detail, which
can be inserted at any time in a sequence
(usually to give extra narrative information to
the audience) without breaking the continuity
of a sequence.
Demographic
Particular socio-economic or geographical
features of the audience, eg working-class
males, aged 16 to 25, in the north of
England.
Director
The main creative interpreter and organiser
in charge of the production process.
Distribution
The means by which a media product
reaches its audience, including all
promotional and marketing activity.
DP
Director of photography, also known as
lighting cameraperson, in charge of camera
and lighting teams.
Exhibition
The point at which audiences view media
products.
Form
The structuring conventions of a media text,
such as generic, narrative or ideological
framework.
Genre
The categories into which media texts may
be divided according to similarities of form
and content.
Hybrid
A combination of different genres or styles.
Iconography
Specific visual features associated with an
artist or genre, such as a costume or style of
dress, particular jewellery or other objects
such as cars, guns, etc.
Ideology
Systems of ideas, values and beliefs we hold
as individuals or share as groups, which
inform the way we interpret and construct
representations of the world. In Media and
Film Studies, this concept is sometimes
referred to as Messages and Values.
Intertextuality
The process of creating meaning through
reference to other media texts.
Lip-synch
The process by which mimed performances
of songs are matched up to the original
soundtracks in editing.
Mise en scène
The combined effect of a series of visual
elements within the frame of a visual text,
such as costume, props, decor, figure
placement.
Montage editing
A style of editing in which the juxtaposition
of different elements creates impact and
meaning.
Niche marketing
Where a small specific audience is targeted,
not a mass one.
Ofcom
The Office of Communications, the UK
organisation now charged, under the 2003
Communications Act, with responsibility to
oversee issues of regulation in all electronic
Glossary
media. Its predecessors for TV were the
Independent Television Commission (ITC)
and the Broadcasting Standards Council
(BSC).
Offline edit
The basic edit to be viewed by the artist and
record company prior to any effects being
added.
Online edit
The final edit where effects are added and
the tape produced to broadcast standard.
Overages
Costs which were not in the original project
budget but which have been agreed by the
client while the video was in production.
Panarom
Early American video jukebox.
Pitch
Topresent ideas for a creative project to
producers in order to secure funding.
Post-modern
An aesthetic category, often applied to MTV,
which can mean a mixture of an
abandonment of linear ways of telling stories
and the eclectic ʻstealingʼ of ideas and
images from other sources.
Post-production
The stage where effects are added.
In this context, to add to the meaning of the
lyrics through a visual interpretation which
may be quite removed from them.
Animatic
An animated storyboard, often used in
advertising, as well as in music video, to give
a better idea of the planned project.
AOR
Adult-Oriented Rock, the dominant, white,
mid-America music form in the early 1980s.
AVID
A professional, industry-standard digital
editing system used by many filmmakers.
BARB
Broadcastersʼ Audience Research Board,
which researches UK audience data for TV,
producing reports for subscribers, with basic
statistics available on its website.
Brief
The original requirement from the client given
to the creative team, via the commissioning
editor.
Capture
The act of transferring footage from camera
to computer.
Chromakey
A feature allowing material to be shot against
a plain blue or green background which at
the edit stage can be replaced with a
pictorial background (eg to show a character
in an impossible environment). Also referred
to as blue-screen technology.
Client
Commissioning editor
The person employed by the record
company who offers contracts for music
videos.
Continuity editing
The dominant editing system in film and TV,
in which spatial and temporal continuity is
maintained for the comprehension of the
audience.
Cutaway
A shot of an object, person or detail, which
can be inserted at any time in a sequence
(usually to give extra narrative information to
the audience) without breaking the continuity
of a sequence.
Demographic
Particular socio-economic or geographical
features of the audience, eg working-class
males, aged 16 to 25, in the north of
England.
Director
The main creative interpreter and organiser
in charge of the production process.
Distribution
The means by which a media product
reaches its audience, including all
promotional and marketing activity.
DP
Director of photography, also known as
lighting cameraperson, in charge of camera
and lighting teams.
Exhibition
The point at which audiences view media
products.
Form
The structuring conventions of a media text,
such as generic, narrative or ideological
framework.
Genre
The categories into which media texts may
be divided according to similarities of form
and content.
Hybrid
A combination of different genres or styles.
Iconography
Specific visual features associated with an
artist or genre, such as a costume or style of
dress, particular jewellery or other objects
such as cars, guns, etc.
Ideology
Systems of ideas, values and beliefs we hold
as individuals or share as groups, which
inform the way we interpret and construct
representations of the world. In Media and
Film Studies, this concept is sometimes
referred to as Messages and Values.
Intertextuality
The process of creating meaning through
reference to other media texts.
Lip-synch
The process by which mimed performances
of songs are matched up to the original
soundtracks in editing.
Mise en scène
The combined effect of a series of visual
elements within the frame of a visual text,
such as costume, props, decor, figure
placement.
Montage editing
A style of editing in which the juxtaposition
of different elements creates impact and
meaning.
Niche marketing
Where a small specific audience is targeted,
not a mass one.
Ofcom
The Office of Communications, the UK
organisation now charged, under the 2003
Communications Act, with responsibility to
oversee issues of regulation in all electronic
Glossary
media. Its predecessors for TV were the
Independent Television Commission (ITC)
and the Broadcasting Standards Council
(BSC).
Offline edit
The basic edit to be viewed by the artist and
record company prior to any effects being
added.
Online edit
The final edit where effects are added and
the tape produced to broadcast standard.
Overages
Costs which were not in the original project
budget but which have been agreed by the
client while the video was in production.
Panarom
Early American video jukebox.
Pitch
Topresent ideas for a creative project to
producers in order to secure funding.
Post-modern
An aesthetic category, often applied to MTV,
which can mean a mixture of an
abandonment of linear ways of telling stories
and the eclectic ʻstealingʼ of ideas and
images from other sources.
Post-production
The stage where effects are added.
Music video show in Focus Group Wednesday morning
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
DJ Mehdi - Signatune
Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
Menomena - Wet and Rusting
Young Buck - Get Buck
Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
Laid Back - Bakerman
Dirty on Purpose - Car No Driver
DJ Mehdi - Signatune
Tom Waits - Come On Up To The House
Menomena - Wet and Rusting
Young Buck - Get Buck
Hadouken! - That Boy That Girl
Laid Back - Bakerman
Dirty on Purpose - Car No Driver
Tuesday, 15 April 2008
task
Research Music Television Channel’s
Add links to your blog
And text about what they do (style of music)
and who would watch that channel (their audience)
Add links to your blog
And text about what they do (style of music)
and who would watch that channel (their audience)
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
EXAMPLE TREATMENT – 99 PROBLEMS
shot entirely in 35mm, black-and-white, the video will not look like any
other rap video currently on the air.
per jay-z, it will be a more artistic cinematic exploration, filmed in and
around brooklyn’s marcy projects.
the piece will have a tough, natural, documentary look – human, raw,
visually poetic.
the spine of the video will be jay’s performance of the song, filmed in
several highly visual locations (tbd).
only jay's 1994 encounter with a cop will be dramatized. (the lyrics will
not be performed here as “dialog”. the scene will be depicted in a
purely visual way.)
with the possible exception of a few high-profile cameos (e.g. rick
rubin) the video will make exclusive use of real people from the area.
it will avoid the clichés of “life in the projects." instead it will zero-in on
rarely emphasized details of neighborhood life, showing both positive
and negative aspects -- always with an artistic eye, never
judgmentally.
that said, since the track has a such a hard, old skool feel, the attitude
and tone of the piece will definitely emphasize many of the tougher
realities.
the final effect should have an unforgettable emotional impact. think of
it as “reality-tv” with soul.
© mark romanek / anonymouscontent | 01.14.04
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Polls links etc
Polls
Image Hosting & Web Graphic Resources
- BloggerBot
- Picassa
- FlickR
- Optimizing Web Graphics (helpful article)
- Set Up a Yahoo! Newsgroup
Hit Counters and Statistics
Tagboards
Guestbooks
Promoting Your Blog links
- Daypop Updated daily, Daypop offers top 100 lists as well as some intriguing indexing of most-linked-to news stories and blog posts.
- Technorati Indexing more than a million weblogs, Technorati also has a beta version of a blog keyword search. Their subscription-based 'Watchlist' service could be very useful to bloggers and commercial site owners alike. The Technorati "cosmos" feature is useful for seeing who is linking to who.
- Popdex This current-events news & link spider crawls more than 14,000 blogs every hour and generates a website popularity index based on inbound links and the popularity of the sites making those links.
- Weblogs.com A list of recently updated weblogs recompiled every five minutes. Though it's from the Radio Userland folks, it shows results for all weblogs set up to notify weblogs.com of new content.
- GeoURL Click on a world map and get links to blogs (and strangely enough, restaurants) within a 500 mile radius. The list of 7000 cities is helpful for the geographically-challenged. Multiple listings and commercial spamming appear to be having an adverse effect on the usefulness of this extremely interesting application.
- Blogrolling Add a list links to your favourite blogs on your own blog. Most popular blogging software supports this useful service.
- Weblogs Compendium This site offers a good selection of links to blogging resources such as blog hosting companies, tools, RSS information, etc.
- Blogdex A list of "the most contagious information currently spreading in the weblog community."
- BlogStreet Another site with a couple of Top 100 lists. The Top Books feature, decided by counting blog links to books on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Powells, is particularly interesting.
- Blog Census The NITLE weblog census is an attempt to find as many active weblogs as possible, across all languages.
- Blizg A searchable blog directory of about 2000 sites with the emphasis on metadata. It will become more useful if bloggers become more metatag-savvy.
- BlogMatrix Quite a few useful features here including geographic locations of registered blogs.
- Blogroots A companion site by the authors of We Blog, Blogroots offers a very comprehensive list of resources for bloggers and blog afficianados.
- Feedster Searching RSS feeds of over 63,000 blogs and independant news sites, Feedster is poised to become an indispensible resource both for bloggers and RSS consumers.
- The Ageless Project A directory of about 1700 blogs categorized by the birth year of the blogger. If it's all about age, why is named "ageless"?
- The Truth Laid Bear TTLB has an interesting list of average daily traffic to almost 900 blogs that use Site Meter for their stats. The New Blog Showcase is another interesting feature.
- Ehsany.tk Free templates for Blogger (English) and Blogsky (Persian).
- RSS Validator A useful tool for checking whether your RSS feed is readable by RSS aggregators and syndicators.
- BlogSnob Enables you to publicize your blog using text-based ads.
- Canuckster A Canadian search engine with over 25,000 sites listed. Free URL submission for Canadian sites.
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