The Evoloution Of Lily Allen

Lily Allen on Prezi

Music Channel Research

MTV

Owned by - Viacom International

Formerly known as - MTV One

Other music channels owned by Viacom:

MTV Base

• Launched in the UK and Ireland on July 1st 1991
• Available in the UK, France, Belgium , Luxembourg, Switzerland, ROI, Kenya and South Africa
• Plays R&B music

MTV Hits

• American music video channel
• Launched May 1st 2002
• Plays all genres - has chart hit programmes (showing the daily/weekly chart of most popular music)

MTV Dance

• Plays Dance Music
• 24 hour music channel
• Launched 20th April 2001

MTV Rocks

• Plays Rock and Indie music
• Launched October 1988

MTV Shows

• Shows mainly TV programmes, documentaries and reality shows e.g the Hills and The City
• But does show music video's inbetween

VH1

• Owned By Viacom - MTV Networks
• American cable TV network based in New York City
• Launched - January 1st 1985
• Started targeting a slightly older demographic, focusing on the lighter softer side of popular music

4Music

• Music channel in the UK
• Replaced music channel 'The Hits'
• Air music/celebrity shows e.g Being N-Dubz
• Also show comedy shows that were once shown on Channel 4
• Some programmes are - Today's 4Music Top 10 (10 shows the 'biggest' and 'best' music video's of the day, This Weeks 4Music Top 20 (20 'biggest' and 'best' music videos of the week)

TEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF, BRUNO MARS - JUST THE WAY YOU ARE

This is the video for the song "Just The Way You Are" by Bruno Mars. The song was produced and writen by The Smeezingtons, Needlz and Kahli Walton. With the music video directed by Ethan Lader. The song falls into both the Pop and R&B genre.

Relationship between lyrics and visuals
There are many points in the video where the lyrics match the visuals. A few examples are when he sings the lyrics "her eye's, her eye's make the stars look like there not shining", he draws a picture of her eyes (with the tape wires); and also when he sings "her hair, her hair, falls perfectly without her trying" he draws a picture of the girl with her hair falling 'perfectly'.

 Relationship between music and visuals?

There is a relationship with the music and visuals and we can see this throughout the video. Near the begining of the video the, there is just music and we can hear a strong beat (0:27-0:32), but the visual matches this as Bruno Mars draws a drum and hits it to the beat.


Another example is when Bruno is playing piano in the video and the music we can hear on top of the lyrics is the piano. Also from 2:40-2:43, we can hear a bell being played which matches the picture on screen, where Bruno Mars is ringing the bell.


Star image motifs and screen shots
In this video and Bruno Mars' previous video (Billionnaire ft Travie McCoy) he is wearing a hat, this has become something he is well known for and one of his motifs.

Also the way he is styled is similar to that of his previous vide, going for the 'cool' look he is wearing an open shirt, converses and jeans and in his previous video he is wearing a shirt, jeans and once again the hat.



Reference of the notion of looking
The song itself is about a girl, the lyrics point out specific features on the woman that he finds attractive about her (eyes, hair, lips) and also uses the word 'sexy' to descirbe her. The picture again mirrors this and we see the close ups of her eyes, lips and hair. She is also wearing short shorts, showing of her legs (thought of as a sexual body feature). Also some of the shots used on her, do portray her in a sexual way; this shot shows one of them:

Chosen Track

After searching for and listening to various tracks, we (myself, Vinuir and Frankie)decided on this song; Jamelia - Numb. This is the BBC Live Lounge cover of the 2007 Linken Park track 'Numb'.



We were told that our chosen track had to be at least 10 years old if it was going to be an original; we found that there weren't as many songs from 10 years ago that we would realy like to use to make our music video. So we decided to look at cover songs from the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge; where artists cover released songs and make it there own, either changing some of the lyrics or changing the rhythm. Other songs i liked where Example - Tik Tok (cover of Ke$ha.)



With this song i really like the change of lyrics and the change in beat, the lyrics were a lot more comedic and the rhythm reminded me of a Run DMC song i like. But as a group we decided that the song we chose would have to be by a female artist as we already had someone in mind to act as the lead singer for us. Another few songs were Dizzee Rascals cover of 'Thats not my name' by the Ting Tings but again it was a male artist so wouldnt have been ideal for us.

Scouting For Girls - Famous

Scouting For Girls - Famous

This is the video for the Scouting for Girls song Famous.

Craig David - 7 Days

7 Days by Craig David (CD) was the second single from Craig Davids' first album, 'Born To Do It', and is his best seilling single to date.

This video follows the story of the lyrics, many video's arent like this (audio match visual), but this way the lyrics make more sense as not only are we hearing about it we are also watching it.

The song starts at 0:28, from 0:00 to 0:27 there is just acting (by CD) - introducing the character and setting the scene. We are first introduced to CD at the start of the video where we see a mid-shot of him at the barbers. He is talking to another character about how he has had "the strangest week ever", as the camera begins to slowly zoom out. The next shot introduces a knew scene, following on from what CD has said about his 'strange week', the knew scene (of CD's bedroom) is actually the visual of what has happend in that week (although he is just repeating the same days over and over again until he gets everything right). We start with an Extreme Close-Up of the clock, where we can see the day (Monday) and we see the time changing from 10.59 am to 11.00 am.




The video continues with the lyrics matching the story, but we keep cutting from the 'flash backs' to CD in the barber shop telling the barber his story.

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