Introducing Identity

1) What or who does Buckingham say identity "implies a relationship with a broader collective or special group of some kind".




2) According to Buckingham Identity is also "about identification with others whom we assume are similar to us in some significant way".







3) Why is Identity becoming more prominent (more important and visible) according to the sociologist Zygmunt Bauman?
as it becomes more problematic.







4) Also according to Bauman, "Identity is almost infinitely negotiable."







Identity Formation: The Psychology of Adolescence

5) How does G. Stanley Hall define the period of Adolescence as?

storm and stress.





6) How does Erikson see Adolescence?








7) Also according to Erikson, what needs to happen for a young person "to arrive at an integrated, coherent sense of their identity"






8) How does Susannah Stern (from the same book) suggest that the internet and online activities can help this process?







Youth Culture and the Sociology of Youth

9) According to Buckingham when was the category of the Teenager invented?






10) What other categories does he state that "crucially blur the distinctions between children, youth and adults" ?

Music Video: Planning 3

Over the weekend, Lewis has visited the Richmond Park to find a location where we would film our music video and suitable for the music.

He has taken some photographs:

PHTOOSS S S S S S 

We all agreed to decide to film in this location as it is the most suitable location for us to film.

Survey Monkey Questionnaire response

Ben has made a questionnaire which we have asked students to complete so receive a response. So far we have received 40 responses. 

Question 1:

 Question 2:

 Question 3:

 Question 4:

 Question 5:

 Question 6:

 Question 7:

 Question 8:

From the questionnaire, we have established that teenagers do not particularly listen to the genre of  "alternative" and this suggested that teenagers will probably not like "Woodkid" either, as from the comments, most of people who has participated either did not like the bands which were mentioned in question 7, or don't know them. One commentator has said they enjoy Eminem which suggests that teenagers enjoy rap music more over alternative genre music. We also understand that teenage audiences enjoy watching music video which has a narrative. By understanding this popular opinion, we are glad that teenagers enjoy wtahcing a music video with a narrative, as our music video will be also narrative. 

However we have also found that some do like the artists mentioned in question 7 because "They have different types of songs which makes them more unique", "Upbeat and uplifting" and also as some has seen them live in a concert. 

Music Video: Planning 2

In today's lesson we are focusing on Framasson's first album name and the names of the 15 songs in the album.

Album name - Sons of Progress

Name of the songs:

1. Iron

2.

3. The Blue Light District

4. Cardigan Dreamland

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

Our group has also discussed more about the music video I depth, like the setting/location we are going to shoot, who is responsible to buy and bring in the props on the day to film and deciding who to use as actors in the music video.

We came to a solution that I will bring in the make up, Ben is responsible for the drum, and Lewis is responsible for the costume. I can bring in some old make up which I don't use, Ben has the access to the drums as his parents are in the music industry and Lewis will buy the costume via Amazon.

We have also started off to draw out the storyboard.

I have come up with an idea that if there are any parts which will be hard to film or missed out, we can film the pigs head being burnt in the end, finishing filming the music video and edit the scene of the pig being burnt into the missing parts.

The story board will later on be analysed with the timing of when the video will be played in the music video.

Another discussion which was made was the actors we are thinking to use in our music video. All together, we need 6 male actors (4 17 year olds and 2 14 year old) and Lewis will contact them to see if they wouldn't mind being in the music video.

As for location, we are all thinking to film in Richmond park as it is big and is like in the woods which will set the scene of grunge. Lewis will travel to Richmond Park on Sunday so we will know where to film exactly.

Lewis has come up with the idea of using red filter on the camera lens as we want to film during the day but make it look like it's dark and shot during the night. We thought of this idea because if we do actually film in the dark, there will only be like an hour to film as it will get dark real quick.

Rick Altman

Rick Altman introduces 3 resolution to describe what genre is.

1. Semantic - all of the codes

- Settings

- Props

- Characters

- Sounds

- Shooting Style

Example: Western Semantic codes 

Settings:

- California

- The wild west

- Bars

- Prison

- Frontier town with saloon

- Mountains

Props:

- Guns

- Beers/Alcohol

- Horse

- Cards 

- Whips

- Dice

Characters:

- Cowboy

- Marshall

- Town Drunk

- Bar Tender

- Indians

- Black Smith

- Homesteader

- Bounty Hunters

- Hooker

(Costumes:)

- Cowboy outfit (stetson hats, shoes)

Sounds: 

- Banjo

- Drums

- Piano

- Guitar

- Harmonica 

Shooting Style:

- Tracking

-   

2. Syntatic - Narrative
In a romantic comedy, we expect the potential lovers to begin by not liking each other, then end up together.

In a horror movie, we expect someone to die by a devil

Target Audience - feedback from fans of artists in our genre (alternative)

Each of us in the group were given a task by the teacher to understand more about the band and audience of the band.
I went on YouTube to investigate more about the band by reading the comments and the feedback given by the fans. I picked out the song 'Iron' as we are using this song for our music video.
Here are some examples of the positive feedbacks:

By reading these feedbacks, we have examined what the audience enjoyed about the music video, and we can apply their entertainment in to our music video to achieve more viewers.

whats important?
costume?
props?
location/setting?
actor?

Music Video: Planning 2

In today's planning, we discussed further about the props and costume and how we are going to purchase from where. Also thinking about who is going to pay for which props.

Costume:
Our aim of the music video is to create a grungy look. To meet this criteria we went on Amazon.com to see what kind of costumes we can purchase. 
We decided to purchase a black cloak for the actors who are the colts.
For the shoes, we are going to purchase some black plimsoles from Primark because if we just let them wear their usual snakes, it will ruin the appearance of "Grunge" and will look odd.

The main character will be wearing something casual but white because it will stand out from the crowd. We are thinking something like a plain white sweater and trousers. 

Props:
Timpuny Drums -

Pigs Head -

Goblet - 

Chalk Spray - 

Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke ft Pharrell Williams

This music video, Blurred Lines

Kanye West - Rolling Stone Magazine

The Rolling Stone magazine is a biweekly magazine which focuses on music and politics. The signature shade of red they use for their title and as the type of music they focus to write about is the rock genre.  This genre is enjoyed by an older male, educated audience.

This evidence is shown on the magazine cover above. There are 2 main stories: God's senator - inside the war room of the religious right" and "Battlestar galactica the toughest, smartest show on television." The first story talks about war and the religious right which is a political subject, which is aimed at older people (stereotypically). The second story includes the word "smartest" which shows that it is aimed at clever people. 

also the word "toughest" can relate to discipline, which educated people has as they were "disciplined" to work and become educated. 

Another example that the Rolling Stone magazine is aimed at older audience is the 3 artist at the top. Cat Power, James Blunt and Billy Joel. The 3 are all above their 40's which suggests the "old" audience are around in their young 30's who had listened to the 3 when they were teenagers, so they would know who the 3 are. The gold colouring appeals to these readers as the magazine appears classic and authentic.

However, as the main focus of this cover and the magazine article this week is on Kanye West, this separates the audience in to a secondary audience. The audience Kanye West has are young, "rough", and "thug". They are fans of rap and R'n'B music, which is completely the opposite to a rock music. Adding to this you can also say that the audience who may read this magazine will grow for this issue because both audiences are being targeted.  The gold colour has connotations of bling which is rap iconography.

Applying Stuart Hall's theories to this front cover. The preferred reading of this representation of Kanye is that he is a god in the music industry. The representation of how Kanye is shown as god is that Kanye is wearing the hat thing on his head, which expresses Jesus and also his religion, which is christianity so this will get attention from those who share the same religion as Kanye, and not only it expands their audience, it also reflects on how Kanye is portrayed by the industry and socially.

However negatively, strong christians may have disagreements with who this media text has represented Kanye as "god" and be upset with many reasons. First of all, Kanye's songs and lyrics are rude, swearing, sexist and cheap. For example from one of his songs "The bounce" and raps "girls call me a cock star" which you would not expect to hear from someone who is religious. This makes the Christians angry as they are against this rude behaviour and doesn't want their own representation or stereotype to turn negative, thanks ti Kanye. By this behaviour shown, it shows this cover can be a micky of christians. Also, as Kanye West has been written in red, christians believe the colour red represents the devil so why would their so called "God" be written in a devil colour font?