Music Video 2

Destiny's child- survivor
This music video is called survivor by Destiny's Child. The band that sing it are female, who are very succesful in the music busines. They are three extremely dominant, strong females that set and amazing example to all typical stereotypes about women. The music video does nothing but express how strong and powerful they are with many different codes and conventions representing the feminist theory throughout it. This music video is based in an isolated island with a beautiful beach and woodland, with the blazing sunshine. At first thoughts i thought this wanst very R&B however, what R&B often trys to conote is the royalty settings the expensive settings the things that other people cant do because their not quit as good as us. Beign on an isolated island is an accomplishment for anybody, this is why i believe that this is a good setting for them and it has a lot of iconography that relates to the music video and then R&B genre as a whole.

Music Video 1

Neyo... Closer
This music video is by Neyo singing closer it has a very sophisticated link between the music and the video. With every movement, sound and beat all insink with oneanother, it does put everything we are going to have to do for our music video into perspective. This music video has a very fast pace to it, their is no eeryday settings as everyting is done with a green board and computer generated imagery.

Music video analysis

Choosing what msuic videos i was going to analyse was a difficult job, their are hundreds of differnt types of music videos that all have different ways in attracting the audience. Not to mension the different amounts of money and technology that is used to support the different videos. I have decided to use as much of a variety as i can, using different types of singers and bands, different types of music and diferent types of video's.

CD cover 6

The final cover i analysed was of another girl group Destiny's child. This group were known as the best selling female R&B group of all time, being a grammy award winners and selling 50 million albums worldwide. They have been a huge success all over the world, showing how they are a powerfull, dominant, young successfull women, which was a very succesful portrail as people loved them, people loved what they represented for women. They are a typical feminist theory icon. I chose to anaylyse one of their covers because of everything they represent, the one i choose was one that i belived they didnt just look independent and strong but they also looked happy. I found the cover was generally quit a plain cover with dull colours and not much enthhusiasm about it however, this made the three band members stand out and look very bright and cheerfull.

CD cover 5

This cover is selling a male artist that has been successful for almost 20 years, he has sold over 40 milllion albums world wide and won 5 grammy awards. We know him as Usher, the male solo artist with a massive successful career. This CD cover was harder to analyse than the others due to the back of the cover. I couldnt quit find a reason for why it had been set up in this way, then i slowley realised it was centering usher to the very middle of the cover, generally showing how important he is. One of the main conventions of the cover is how it is all about the glamour, fame , the bright lights and a genral theme of royalty. This all conotes how amazing this artist is, also feeding the audience with this story of how fanatastic this album and artist is.

CD cover 4

This cover is another Music DVD cover, i have used this because i again i want to get a wide variety of different results for the research i am putting together on the R&B genre. This cover is for the Pussycat dollz, group of strong inderpendent women that have a very distinctive trait about them, this allows that to be unique in the market and as of yet their isant any other girl group that are quit like this group. This band has many top tens and a few no. 1s. They are a very popular girl group that has a massive audience targeting mainly women, however, they may be a girl group traditionally aimed at women but this group does have a large fan base of men also. This cover is the most sophisticated cover i have analysed, although it doesnt have many computer generated imagery the way everything has been put together such as mise en scene, the icongografy, the setting and characters used has all been very well presented. Allowing this cover to have a persuasive and attractive selling technique.

CD cover 3

The third cover i decided to analyse was of an extremely popular female artist Christina Aguilera, who has been around in the charts for 10 years, having many no.1's. I decided to analyse one of her DVD music covers so that i could have a mixture of the different ways in which putting the covers together can be affective. This cover was very different to the others i have analysed, there are valid reasons such as it is a much older RnB cover than the others however, I believe that this cover has a lack of appeal within it, and doesn’t have anything different about it to make it stand out. This relates largely to technological convergence, showing that throughout time with more technology coming together, it has allowed the music industry to advance in many ways, as in this case allows for better outgoing CD covers to allow for more selling.

CD cover 2

Again i chose another very successful artist with mutiple number ones in the UK. My second artist is Rihannah. This is a female artist in her early 20's, with a huge fan base of women and men. The album being analysed is called good girl gone bad, from the analysis i have done i believe that the album cover relates to the name of the album with secret messages throughout. This has been a very successful analysis as it has given me plenty of idea's for my groups final piece.

CD cover 1

After doing some further research i decided that my CD covers would be from very successfull artists in the industsy, i also decided that the artists were going to be very stereo typical R&B artists. The first CD cover i chose to analyse was by an artist called chris brown. He is a young male artists that sings the genre R&B, he has been a very successful artist in his career so far, and looks as though he has a long career ahead of him. Just by doing one detailed CD cover, it has given me many idea's in how and what needs to go into our CD cover and why they need to go in.

Audience research - CD/DVD covers

I started researching on the intenet for the most talked about CD or music DVD's , i came across a few interesting covers that would be very fascinating to analyse . However, their were no R&B covers that had this unushual and different effect, which is what i was looking for, this meant that the R&B covers that i decided to anyalse would not be as interesting as i first pressumed.

Audience research - deciding genre

As i had finished my audience questionaires analysis, my results showed R&B to be the most popular, as did two other group members. The fourth memeber had Indie as a favourite. However, we had to use the genre we had most research about so we decided on R&B which did give the most overall feed back and popularity. However, we did take into account that an R&B music video would be really hard to produce as many are filmed in clubs and with very in timed dances. So we also decided that the music video would be a slow R&B song, as this will make the production of the music video a lot easier. From now on all my research and planning is going to be on R&B. Overall this was a very useful thing as most of my Questionaire analysis was on R&B.

audience research- questionaires

I have analysed all of my questionaires, making graphs and analysing them. While making my analysis i realised that the mojority and most popular was R&B so from their on my main analysis throughout the rest of the questionaires was about R&B. I believe that these questionaires have helped and informed me a great deal as i am now able to see what it is that people want and dont want in their videos, what people like about different CD covers and what attracts them to magazine advertysment. While doing my analysis i have reaslised that it was very important to do a detailed questionaire as it does give you all the information you need for the whole of my your coursework. I also believe that the by putting the DVD/CD covers into the questionaire has helped me and my group by allowing us to realise the what and why some things will have to go into our CD covers.

Audience research -questionaire

All of my questionaires have been distributed and collected. I decided that i have to distribute it to as much a wide range of people as possible. Although it has been hard finding a mixed variety of ages i have tried. Although i do no that i have a larger audience feedback from the 14-17 which could cause an unfair response.

Audeince reseach- Questinaires

Looking further into my coursework objectives i have decided to not put CD covers in my questionaires, but music DVD covers instead of popular singers and bands. By using these DVD covers this will allow me to get an idea of what audience want and like on their covers.

Audience research--Questionaires

I have been looking at some CD covers over the net and comparing similar singers and bands to their CD covers. I am going to put some CD covers in my questionaires to get an idea of what people prefer on their CD's.

Audience research- Interveiw and questionaire

As i have finished and typed up my interveiw i can see that the detail in this interveiw is to a much higher standard of what i will receive from my questionaires. However, these questionaires are still very important as they will inform on who likes what and watches what, and what effects who. I started my questionaire earlier in class and now i am about to complet it.

Audience research- Interveiw

I decided to conduct a short interview to help with my audience research on the general aspects that will concern my course work of music, CD covers and magazine advertisements. The questionnaire that I have distributed will be unable to contain a large amount of detail, due to this I believe that by conducting this interview it will allow me to consume a detailed specific amount of information that I would not be able to obtain from the questionnaires. The person i interveiwed was a 19 year old male, who is very into sports, enjoys work and loves music.

Audience research- Interveiw

Today i started my audience research questionaire, while completing this i reaslised that their is some information that i cannot insure will be applied to the questionaires. Due to this i decided to do an interveiw with someone that i believed fit a profile of who could be a potential target audience. I belive that this interveiw will give me the detail i will need to carry on further in my coursework.