We got given a pamphlet that natcoll had sent out. We then had to re-design it but focusing mainly on having lots of layers for our backgrounds.
I had heeps of fun donig this!
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Composition V2
A music video that I enjoyed
A music video I have watched recently that I liked was the newest song from Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom.” I liked it mainly because of the graphics not because of the music itself, to be plainly honest I didn’t like the song.
It was able to show off the latest style of animation, through using many special effects. They first recorded what the actors (or singers) were going to be doing; they then made rough sketches, followed by doing the main editing on the computer. I almost feel sorry for the ones that had to go through the old style of making videos. Because all they did was record with only a little if no help from a computer (computers didn’t even come out till a few years after the first music videos).
Their outfits were great, they had flashy clothes and really over did it when they got Fergy (lead girl singer) into an outfit which made her fingers look long and pointed. The editors after went and made long, thin lines appear from the tips making it look like she had streamers coming from them. On top of that they made sure to have the song and video working together. For example when the main bass part happened they added an effect which made the screen look like when you drop a rock into water and it ripples.
Music really has come a long, long way from when it first began. Other than the few down sides of it being more for show and selling the CDs than it is about the music itself. I think the Black Eyed Peas really did do a good job. Thumbs up to the editors and team who worked on it and here is hoping more and more people join into this newer type of music.
A music video I have watched recently that I liked was the newest song from Black Eyed Peas “Boom Boom.” I liked it mainly because of the graphics not because of the music itself, to be plainly honest I didn’t like the song.
It was able to show off the latest style of animation, through using many special effects. They first recorded what the actors (or singers) were going to be doing; they then made rough sketches, followed by doing the main editing on the computer. I almost feel sorry for the ones that had to go through the old style of making videos. Because all they did was record with only a little if no help from a computer (computers didn’t even come out till a few years after the first music videos).
Their outfits were great, they had flashy clothes and really over did it when they got Fergy (lead girl singer) into an outfit which made her fingers look long and pointed. The editors after went and made long, thin lines appear from the tips making it look like she had streamers coming from them. On top of that they made sure to have the song and video working together. For example when the main bass part happened they added an effect which made the screen look like when you drop a rock into water and it ripples.
Music really has come a long, long way from when it first began. Other than the few down sides of it being more for show and selling the CDs than it is about the music itself. I think the Black Eyed Peas really did do a good job. Thumbs up to the editors and team who worked on it and here is hoping more and more people join into this newer type of music.
AS90030 V2
Album-Orientated Rock
Originally designed to describe a radio format that emphasises various album tracks rather than hit singles only. When broadcasters began to apply structured formatic techniques to the co-called “free form” underground radio of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the result was the more commercial and more profitable album-orientated rock. The format became even more restrictive, scrapping the various-album-tracks approach in favour of concentrating airplay on one “emphasis track” at a time from an album, and the term album-orientated rock was replaced in the ‘90s by “rock” or “rock tracks.”
Album-orientated rock has also come to describe a certain style of rock, usually the mainstream or “corporate” brand as opposed to more extreme styles. A caution – British writers frequently interpret the acronym to stand for “Adult-Oriented Rock,” and thus misuse album-orientated rock to describe pop artists whom Americans would more commonly describe as “adult contemporary” or even “middle of the road.”
Music Television
The first full-time music video network on cable television, signed on in the United States in 1981. Music television immediately made the visual image of an artist as important as the music itself, resulting in huge success for groups that were telegenic enough to appeal to viewers. Duran Duran, Culture Club and George Michael were some of the first performers to feel the impact of music television on their careers. In the long run, videos became an essential promotional tool for virtually all rock artists, and many artists embraced video as another avenue for artistic expression.
Detractors, however, say that pervasiveness of music videos means that listeners no longer conjure up their own images when listening to songs; the images have already been conjured for them, eliminating the pleasure – and responsibility – of using one’s imaginations.
Source © 1996 Microsoft Music Corporation and/or its suppliers.
(still can not put pictures in)
Originally designed to describe a radio format that emphasises various album tracks rather than hit singles only. When broadcasters began to apply structured formatic techniques to the co-called “free form” underground radio of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, the result was the more commercial and more profitable album-orientated rock. The format became even more restrictive, scrapping the various-album-tracks approach in favour of concentrating airplay on one “emphasis track” at a time from an album, and the term album-orientated rock was replaced in the ‘90s by “rock” or “rock tracks.”
Album-orientated rock has also come to describe a certain style of rock, usually the mainstream or “corporate” brand as opposed to more extreme styles. A caution – British writers frequently interpret the acronym to stand for “Adult-Oriented Rock,” and thus misuse album-orientated rock to describe pop artists whom Americans would more commonly describe as “adult contemporary” or even “middle of the road.”
Music Television
The first full-time music video network on cable television, signed on in the United States in 1981. Music television immediately made the visual image of an artist as important as the music itself, resulting in huge success for groups that were telegenic enough to appeal to viewers. Duran Duran, Culture Club and George Michael were some of the first performers to feel the impact of music television on their careers. In the long run, videos became an essential promotional tool for virtually all rock artists, and many artists embraced video as another avenue for artistic expression.
Detractors, however, say that pervasiveness of music videos means that listeners no longer conjure up their own images when listening to songs; the images have already been conjured for them, eliminating the pleasure – and responsibility – of using one’s imaginations.
Source © 1996 Microsoft Music Corporation and/or its suppliers.
(still can not put pictures in)
Posters - Disney
Over the past month we have done many posters in practise for one of our NCEA exams at the end of the year.
Out of all the posters we did, the one I enjoyed the most was the Disney one. Like all the others we had to do many layers - which is sometimes quite hard.
Follow this link to see my poster:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39370864@N04/3617348335/
Out of all the posters we did, the one I enjoyed the most was the Disney one. Like all the others we had to do many layers - which is sometimes quite hard.
Follow this link to see my poster:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39370864@N04/3617348335/
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