Research Notes
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Leave a Comment I’ve put the 3 pages of research into one to keep them all together – Matt
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwO-wo892pI&feature=related … cool to watch 
Matt:
Smashing Pumpkins – Today – Nice use of degraded video, filmed with poor quality equipment on purpose. Also really good distorted guitar sound made by layering various parts, up to 40 in some of their songs. Heathens cite these as an influence, which I interpret as their guitar sound.
Air – Sexy Boy, Lemon Jelly – Nice Weather for Ducks – More animation-like, but some inspiration for what we could do in after effects with green-screen footage.
Massive Attack – Unfinished Sympathy – Urban Deprivation, and
RATM – Sleep Now in the Fire – Spencer mentioned Rage Against the Machine as an example of a sense of chaos and so on in a video. We can’t exactly close down the London Stock Exchange for the day but if we decide to go down this route then this is pretty apt.
LCD Soundsystem – Daft Punk is Playing at my House – Interesting and good connection between song and video timing wise.
Nirvana – In Bloom – I saw this and had the idea about perhaps setting the video in various different eras, flipping through the decades as the song goes on, I think it’d give us a lot to work with, and could be mainly green-screened if done carefully.
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Tom:
Following on from our discussions about the feel and type of video we might want to produce , I’ve put together a few video links that I think fit the ideal.
Animated colour block idea
Sony Bravia TV ads
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLUAbkRUvVQ – the most interesting and closest to what im thinking
Smarties TV Ad mid 90’s
Interesting mix of live action and basic computer animation
Robyn ‘With Every Heartbeat’
XTM-Fly on the wings of love
Dire Straits – Money For Nothing
Gritty on the streets idea
The Beatles – Free as a bird
Rolling Stones – Like A Rolling Stone
Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
Anyway see what you think and we’ll take it from there. Tom.
Music Video Marketing/ The History Of Audio Visual Notes
Music Video Marketing/ The History Of Audio Visual
VJ Theory
Steve Miller – Pure Data Programming
Chose a video to critique.
Don’t Fall into the Narrative Trap!
http://vjtheory.net/ ‘Modulate’
Discuss Colour Palette
Think about Symmetry
Nazi Stormtrooper Vjing?
‘Vod Pod’
Research Experimental Films
Peter Greenway Zoo
‘the manipluation of light – the prime constituent of cinema’
Hanz Ricter
Paul Klee
Stan Brakhage
Kenneth Anger
No Domain
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General Agenda Points
Agenda:
Camera And Lighting:
1. Bring Ideas, Music Videos, Influences To Friday Meeting
2. Discuss portable green screen
Multimedia Content:
Back End: Test back end on tuesday.
Front End: Bring Ideas, Mock-up, content. Friday Meeting
Audio Work:
Listen to Heathenz tracks and their influences
1. Finalise the rehearsal date tick
2.Decide On The Song!!!
3. Demo of the song – basic timings got
4. Agree Visual Identity
4. Logo
Listen to the band rehearsal
Get a copy of the chosen track
5. Book Photoshoot. kinda
Ring Peren
Click
Marc/Spencer
Find out thats a cracker lyrics
Multimedia Meeting:
Blog:
Website
Promo Videos
Extra Content
Content from Inside Local Music, Simon Neild.
Draw up some designs.
Content:
Biography – Contacted The Journo
Gallery – Chris – Behind The Scenes Photos/ Mock-ups for the shoot
Social Networking Links
My Space
Facebook group.
You Tube
Video Player – Johnny’s Dead
Rehearsal Footage
Audio Player
Gig Guide
Press Section – High Resolution Content
Contact Information.
Website Tips:
Be Succint
Write to scan
pick out key words and phrases.
don’t use the phrase click here!
Prioritise the content you write
Check Accessibility
Lift colour elements from photos to tie elements together.\
Stock Photos.
Stock Libary
Stock Exchange
Fotllia
The Stock Expert.
bouchies – possible location
Ask about Heathenz spelling.
Heathenz!
The Meeting Tonight:
Print out mock-up logo.
Talk to Chris about dates free.
Recording Studio:
Audio:
We need to get a list of their equipment.
Mics
How have they recorded in the past.
Re-amping – Comprimise.
Perin. Or Premier Kit.
Insurance:
Editing:
Alter Ego, living in a certain. Discovering another side of yourself.
Spencer need to give us the lyrics.
Jeykell and hyde style.
Guys whos lonley, running away from himself.
Evil is Johnny
Stop fighting yourself
Teddy Boy lost at a rave.
Hippy at a teadance.
All of them are lost in time.
Everyone gets together.
Hair metal in blitz.
Verses in a dark allyway.
Teddyboy being chases by chavs.
check out Bowie’s website.
Circus type font./????
Intro
verse
bridge
verse
chorus
verse
extended chorus
outro
fade in fade out. discussion
Recording Studio
Plan Music Video
Organise a seperate shoot
Monday Meeting Agenda Points
Bouchies – Vertigo
3d Studio
Costumes
How much CGI?
Decide Music Video Fiming Date
Finalise Idea, Eras.
Logistics of recording
Audio people need to meet with steve.
Must do background before greenscreen.
Progress Report.
Clarify 30 seconds of the band.
Spencer would like Rehearsal on friday, about 12:00 ?
Like to lay down the harmonies
check steves availability. – Booked Steve, Friday 1:30 – 16:00
Tell Spencer to 12:00.
Speak to Steve bout Saturday. Will he come and help?
Tuesday’s Meeting 20/10/2009
How do you define a successful music video?
What is the external clients wants?
Need the drum kit friday morning
Don’t come in Friday
We need to know if the gig. Matt Said he’d go with you.
Marc going to
recording 10:00
Video Ideas
Some more video ideas following on from are discussion earlier today
Honda Accord Commercial
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyN9y0BEMqc
- random video montage ideas examples
David Bowie & Pet Shop Boys – Hallo spaceboy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdssHTfPJQ
BEE GEES – YOU WIN AGAIN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATIOguCFwxM
keep an open mind – see what you think, tom.
Notes On Discourse
Jaquues Lacan On Discourse. Video Number 366.
A kind of social bond, which we will call and agreement. The speaking being that’s a pleoism.
It’s as though the fact he speaks makes him a being.
Thu the speaker. The speaker that you all are believes himself to be.
It’s enough to believe in ones self.
The thing that holds us together is a language which I call Discourse.
This means the social bond between human beings functions.
Your right to believe your going to die, it sustains you. If you didn’t believe it, could you bear life?
Neologism – New Words. Shorthand.
Loui Althusser.
Interpellation – the process by which we are ideologically constructed as subjects.
The feeling of being spoken to. We are being writen by that which we see.
The knowledge inside of you.
We are all skitzopheric
Deleuze + Guattarii
Semiology. – Saussure – Barthes.
Semiotics – Pierce
Judith Williams
Syntagmatic – How a sentence is constructed.
Paradicmatic – How can these words be changed
The +Cat +Sat +On +The+ Mat
The things that have been used
The things that could have been used.
How you have been constructed. Break out who you are re-construct yourself.
A Dog In Basket.
Order of the real / Symbollic Order.
The Powers of Horror – Judith Kristeva
Machiavellian – The Prince
The symbiolics, the iconic and the index.
Oniosm – masturbation
metonym – something that stands in for the whole, red indicates passion.
The Consumer Society – Book!
Micheal Foucu. – Discourse = Power.
Language
Jecain says we are linguistic. The basis of humans.
Norman Sheffield Is Interested?
Norman Sheffield is apparently interested in recording the bands album, once they have a good recording they can send him. Norman lives locally and continues to produce lots of music.
Stolen Picture From Freddie Mercury Website
Norman with his brother Barry opened one of the most successful and pioneering recording studios in Soho. Trident studios opened in 1967 and was the first studio to have 8 tracks instead of 4 as well as one of the first to have Dolby Sound Technology. Because of this many labels sent their artists to record at Trident. Ranging from Manfred Mann to the Beatles who recorded Hey Jude at the studios.
Queen even recorded their first album during downtime at the studio between 3 am and 7pm. The Heathenz are obviously influenced by Norman’s Production.
Don’t get too excited though it may not be this Norman, though it could be. Check out these links, which will give you way more information.
Matt
B207 – 210 Music Marketing Unit Guide
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Leave a Comment B207-210 Music Marketing Project
This assignment requires you to devise a marketing strategy for a musical act of your choice. While the central focus of this project will be a music video of a single track of your chosen performer(s), you should consider and realise a supporting web presence which will be designed and developed in your Web Production sessions with Matt Collins.
The stages of the production process for the music video component will be as follows:
1) Form production groups of four students, each of whom has a responsibility for a particular aspect of production (i.e. Production Management, Audio Production, Camera and Lighting, Video Editing and Post-Production; (Week One)
2) Identify musicians who will be willing to come to UCF to record a chosen piece of music (Week Two);
3) Work with the performers, as your external clients, to visualise a video from/for the music (Week Three);
4) Develop detailed storyboards, with notes, explaining the process of connotation, through camera/lighting/editing in relation to the visualisation (containing no more than thirty seconds of material showing in the artists) (Weeks Four and Five);
5) Record and mix the music (minimum duration of three minutes, maximum of four) for the video in Media Centre recording studio (Weeks Four to Seven);
6) Shoot the video demonstrating control of the connotative process (Weeks Five and Six);
7) Edit the shot material, with digital video enhancement if appropriate, in terms of the originally conceived outcome (Week Seven);
8) Complete the project within the timeframe and resources allocated/available.
In addition to the learning outcomes in their individual units, students will be asked to demonstrate ability to:
a) Negotiate visual ideas with the external client(s);
b) Convert ideas into images through storyboarding;
c) Create video material that is considered in any way that connotation is achieved, beyond obvious denotation;
d) Develop complex and considered relationships between music and images.
To familiarise you with the creative possibilities of Adobe After Effects, there will be sessions
with Pete Felstead in the Digital Production Suite on Tuesday October 6th as follows:
Group A – 09.30-12.30; Group B – 13.30-16.30
A further session on using keying within green screen will take place in the DPS on Thursday 15th October. Group A – 09.30-12.30; Group B – 13.30-16.30
There also will be a series of lectures and seminars from Brendan Byrne to raise critical and historical debates around music marketing. These sessions will take place on Wednesday for the first five weeks of the project (commencing October 7th) at the following times:
Lecture (all students) 09.00-10.00 DM Seminar M
Seminars (Seminar B) – Group A: 10.00-11.30; Group B: 11.30-13.00
All work relating to units B207-210, i.e. the finished music video artefact on Mini-DV tape and DVD and the additional material relating to your individual roles as detailed in your unit guides, should be submitted on another DVD to the Tremough Academic Office on Friday 27th November between 1 -2 pm.
B203 Web Design
The issues arising from your considerations of genre and audience in relation to the music video will, necessarily, be reflected in the design and development of the web presence. The web-site will host the video that you produce, alongside other content that you consider suitable. In doing so, it should deploy marketing techniques and modes of address appropriate to the music’s genre and target audience. This site should seek to engage fans in peer to peer interactions as well as with musicians to create and grow the fan base. This unit will be taught by Matt Collins: sessions will take place in the Media Centre Digital Production Suite on Mondays for 7 weeks starting on October 12th. Times are as follows:
Group A: 09.00-11.00; Group B: 11.00-13.00
Agenda 23/10/09
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Leave a Comment It was from this point, that we started on a dynamic agenda, which is always changing. This stopped the confusion of the old Agendas and what has been done.
Agenda 23 October. Meeting Commences 10:55
Present: Matt Stent, Aaron Tripplet, Andrew Cook and Aaron Tennant
The Idea: The Heathenz are part of a victorian freakshow which is part of an underground movement.
Camera And Lighting:
Vertigo – Possible Location for Restaurant/Bar.
Flambards – Possible victorian street location
The House Of Fear – Another possible street location.
The Music is the main element of the freak show.
Actors:
Possible Leads:
Aarons Mate – Luke
Filmcast Cornwall
Audio:
We need to get a list of their equipment.
Mics
How have they recorded in the past.
Re-amping – Comprimise.
Perin. Or Premier Kit.
Insurance:
Matt will contruct a mockup of the song Via Midi.
115 BPM – Check Breakdown.
Produce A Technical Floorplan of Recording Plans. Mic Placement IN/OUT Guide.
Recording Session:
Organise Food
Andy Send Group text to confirm recording time. DONE
Production Management:
Progress Report.
Clarify 30 seconds of the band.
Heathenzs Halloween Horror Show:
Mark has confirmed the gig
Confirm Halloween Gig
P and PR: tell Inside Local Music
Editing:
Behind The scenes content & Rehearsal Footage
Multimedia:
Promo Video – Johnn’s Dead
Aarons Glide Cam Footage
Multi-Cam Footage Rehearsal
Andrew to get content from Inside Local Music
All group to mock-up their vision of website.
The end of next week
Content:
Andy to invite journo to the gig to do write up afterwards and get an interview later to make bio
Tell Chris About The 31st Gig.
Group to decide on photos from rehearsal.
Social Networking:
Look into open source blog software. negative may be less support.
Andrew to manage content.
Matt Stent to design.
My Space – Mark will give us password.
You Tube
Audio Player
Gig Guide – basic text
Press Section – High Resolution Content – Will Load Seprately
Group to do research on press sections.
Contact Information.
Check Accessibility
Assign Matt Stent And Andrew Cook to Graphic Considerations.
Graphic Design And Visual Idenity:
Agree Visual Identity
Motion: High Res Next Week
Discuss with Chris Photoshoot Times – Music Video Shoot
Get Lyrics To Johnny’s Dead.
Matt – Construct Blog Design
Andrew – Manage Content.
Visual Music Musings
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Leave a Comment Visual Music
Karen Eliot /Stuart Home
Lev Manowich – The Language of new media
Hans Ricter – Ghosts Before Breakfast [1927]
The beginning of Music Videos
1932 40 percent was American in origin
The Jazz Singer – Al Jolson
The black and white Minstrel Show
Till the clouds roll by.
The Panoram Video Jukebox. Soundie
Spike Jones And His City Slickers – Pass the Biscuits Marandy
Manufacturing Concent
Agenda 3 – 22/10/09
Agenda 22 October. Meeting Commences 10:55
Present: Matt Stent, Aaron Tripplet And Andrew Cook
Aaron Tennant At Dentist
Tom Missing In Action
Current Idea – Band travel through different eras.
Camera And Lighting:
Vertigo – Possible Location for Restaurant/Bar. – Richard Hammond Contact
Actors:
Possible Leads:
Aarons Mate – Luke
Filmcast Cornwall
Audio:
We need to get a list of their equipment.
Mics
How have they recorded in the past? How familiar are they with the recording process.
Re-amping – Compromise. Will allow us to alter the guitar/bass sound and for the band still to play live. Considering the restrictions of the recording studio. It would not be possible to record the musicians separately by screening them off.
Perin. Or Premier Kit.
Insurance: Are we covered if the band leave their gear overnight so the gear is set-up the night before.
Matt will contruct a mockup of the song Via Midi.
115 BPM – Check Breakdown.
Planning for Recording Session:
Organise Food: we are likely to be there for quite a while.
Andy: Send Group text to confirm recording time. – Mini Call Sheet.
Production Management:
Progress Report.
Clarify 30 seconds of the band footage.
Heathenzs Halloween Horror Show At 5 Degrees West. Organised by Matt. Will film the band live so we can use the footage.
Mark has confirmed the gig
P and PR: tell Inside Local Music -
Editing:
Behind The scenes content & Rehearsal Footage
Multimedia:
Promo Video – Johnn’s Dead – A Troubador
Aarons Glide Cam Footage – Shot during the band recording.
Multi-Cam Footage Rehearsal
Andrew to get content from Inside Local Music – Old Recordings/sessions
All group to mock-up their vision of website.
By the The end of next week
Content:
Andy to invite journo to the gig to do write up afterwards and get an interview later to make bio. – Add placed in the uni classifieds. Two responded, time constraints meant this wasn’t possible in the end.
Group to decide on which photos to use from rehearsal.
Social Networking:
Look into open source blog software. negative may be less support.
Andrew to manage content on all social networking sites. Facebook, My Space and Twitter.
Matt Stent to design the style of these sites.
My Space – Mark will give us password.
What needs to be included on the website.
You Tube
Audio Player
Gig Guide – basic text
Press Section – High Resolution Content -
Group to do research on press sections.
Contact Information.
Check Accessibility
Assign Matt Stent And Andrew Cook to Graphic Considerations.
Graphic Design And Visual Idenity:
Agree Visual Identity
Motion: High Res Next Week
Discuss with Chris Photoshoot Times – Music Video Shoot
Get Lyrics To Johnny’s Dead.
Matt – Construct Blog Design
Andrew – Manage Content.
