Statement of Intent

My name is K Abdi and I am creating a blog to present my A2 Media coursework on music video and the products involved. I will be working my own and I will produce a music video, music website and cover magazine. However before I can start my project I must research the music industry looking at existing products and target audiences. I will also plan and organise the project to ensure I have a role to play and it gets complete on time.

I am doing this project as it is part of the A2 course in media. I have decided to continue doing media as I enjoyed the subject last year, producing a magazine and using the various technologies such as Photoshop and cameras. Also I enjoyed creating a portfolio to go along side my work, so I think I will enjoy creating a portfolio again this year.

Therefore I have chosen to use Blogger.com to create my blog as I found it very hard to use at first but now it seems simplest and easiest website to use out of the range I come cross. Although Blogger.com allows me to put in videos and images which is very important pieces in my coursework, Blogger.com was suggested to me to use for first time bloggers as it was very easy to use and had an organize layouts.

I will use a range of resources all through to the project to help in the different areas which I will use the internet a lot for research and publishing my video on my blog, YouTube and possible social network sites. This will help to get as much as pertinent information as possible.

My project will take no longer than 3 weeks as that is when the deadline is. I hope to get my project finished on time or even before the deadline. I also hope that I work well in my own and that I get a good grade at the end. I will ensure this happens by organising and planning well with my own and working hard.

mood Board

 

Today when I was In the lesson I Have though of doing mood board for my magazine mood board to help me what can shot's or images I would be using for the music video product. So I though of doing  2 different mood boards which I mad to try and detain what emotion I wanted to use in the video to represent. I also wanted to make a link between fantasy and reality with an element of confusion. I wanted to make my music video have a bend at the end. However this mood boards show the locations I want to film at and inspiration I have got from other music videos and films to help me to develop my story line further.  Although there is a reoccurring theme of clowns throughout the mood board as this is how I want one of the main characters to be dressed as a rock star is a major part in out final idea.

For the duration of the research and planning process I looked into the different sorts of music magazines and what genres they are connected to. I decided that I was going to create a magazine on my music tastes so that I would have a better understanding of my audience.

The magazine that I felt I would like to purchase were magazines such as: NME, etc…  So I decided to have a similar magazine to these. Following the clear conventions of music magazines, I have made many editorial decisions, such as the style of attend to of my themes, the colour theme, and the layout etc… The colours are neutral to encourage each gender to buy the magazine; this will make the audience also the reader knows that it is concentrating at one exact gender. I used straight style of attend to which would reason the reader to undergo as though they are involved in the magazine contents. By putting all of these conventions together I have created a magazine which I could be proud of.

 My Mood board represents the genre of Pop/rock. I used bright colours on my mood board as there is an iconology that pop is associated with bright and colourful colours. This is the first thing I think on when I think of Pop, bright Colours.The light, bold and bubbly colours represent the music of pop. I added a photo of mine and some of the images that I research on.  Although I have used Michael Jackson image because he is seen as the King of Pop music. With his image on my mood board it will be clear to the audience of the genre of Pop.  Also the image of Avril Lavigne is used as she is the most recent artist who sings the pop genre and is very successful.

Her video “anything but ordinary” is strong in the representation of the Pop genre due to the colorful and set.Penetrated “Pop Genre” into the Google search engine and found the image of pop/Rock this means that the pop genre logo and the symbol of the colour symbolizes the love for the genre of pop, which in fact stands for well-liked, which I bracket together with music that is well loved, therefore my choice for the using those image in my mood board as well as it representing the genre pop.I also included rainbow background with guiltier piece which makes stand out the pop genre it’s also because the greater part of the Pop fraction occupation are showed in colorful, which I think represent as part of the pop genre, owing to the image being colorful, which could be linked to a younger audience, This I thought reflected the thought that Pop is targeted at younger audiences owing to the fun, light, and colorful images which are associated with the genre.