There have been many members come in and out of the band,
these being mainly backup vocals, 20 people have come and go, however as to
main knowledge the main band members have stayed the same, their most popular
song was Teenage Dirtbag, previous members include; Vanessa Jimenez, Michael
Bellar, Michael Tully and 17 more. The current band members are Brendon B.
Brown, Mathew Milligan, Karlie Bruce, Gabrielle Aimee Sterbenz, Mark Palmer, and
Leo Freire.
They as well come under several types of genres not only because
of the music they release but also because of different times have changed…
·Alternative Rock
·Pop Rock
·Power Rock
Many labels have also gone to sign them on including…
·Song BMG Music
·Entertainment
·Montauk Mantis
History
The band itself originated from Northport in New York, it
started in 1995 but the only originally band member Brendon B. Brown, who made
the band with his brother. Peter Brown was on Drums, Rich Liegey who was originally
on Bass and Vocals, and Philip A. Jimenez on various percussion instruments, keyboards,
harmonica, providingsamplesand special effects. The name
of the band has been formed after Brendon and Peter took note of the nickname
their father often gave them.
Since
starting they’ve had multiple hits songs, however there first and largest hit
was Teenage Dirtbag which had debuted at number 2 in the UK Single Charts,
since then came a number of successful songs and several albums…
Michel Gondry is a French independent film director,
screen writer and producer. He is known for his in creative visual style and
unique operation of mise-en-scene. In 2004 Michel Gondry had won an
Academy Award for Best Orignal Screenplay as one of the writers of eternal
sunshine of the Spotless Mind, which was also ranked one of the best films in
the 2000s.
He's well known for his music video collaborations
with Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Bjork and The White Stripes.
Michel Gondry has been directing videos with artist
that are known world-wide; such as Daft Punk, directing the song ‘Around the
World’, Foo Fighters directing ‘Everlong’, Wyclef Jean ‘Another One Bites The
Dust’; also directing a music video for one of the world’s most known band, The
Rolling Stones directing ‘Gimme Shelter’
Michel Gondry had the use of closeups when directing music videos, mostly
closeups of the artists face which will identify who he is to the audience, as
well as using closeupson the products used in videos such as Wyclef Jean in
'Another One Bites The Dust' which is promoting the products as well as the
artist himself.
In the music video of ‘P Money’
Wiley has a variety of different dance moves but all match the beat of the
music and the style of dance goes with the music itself; for instance when the
beat drops in he begins to rather step to the beat or jump up and down to it,
this tells me that the genre’s characteristics are in their case ‘hyped’ or
being ‘active’. This shows that the type of people to this will do the general
things that are happening in the video, being going to a mc battle or going to
a house party.
During the music video as well as
dancing to the beat of the music, his hand gestures and body language match
with the lyrics that he’s saying; for instance when he’s talking about being a
pro he mentions Hullet known to be a legendary footballer and how he was like a
bullet and does the hand gesture of a gun. He does this throughout the video,
as well as all of his other videos he tries to match his actions with his
lyrics as well as matching the dance to the beat of the music.
The genre grime always has the
use of rather a track with a lot of base and treble, which creates excitement
in the atmosphere; as the tracks have the use of bass and treble this can
create an adrenaline for the audience, especially if the music is loud it
affects the audience as a result of jumping up and down a lot, or everyone
performing a dance where they’re all synchronised and in time with one another.
In this music video the use of
close ups show the dance moves he’s performing, mostly throwing his arms around
but moves them to the beat of the music, but the dances that are performed in
the video is a dance that every fan does that watches his music videos; in all
of his videos he has the use of dances that involve his hands going to the beat
of the music if not jumping up and down.
In most of his music videos he uses lyrics that
a high percentage of people know about, meaning he’d create lyrics that have
been heard from the news, talking about famous people or even making lyrics
about another former MC. They do this because this brings the audience
hype, making them think that there may be a clash battle occurring soon about
the two MCs, things brings a lot of attraction to the two MCs as this is
something that can also be a joke that sometimes continues on to other music
videos and gets them more fame for what they’re doing.
The early 2000’s were an era for pop punk, as teenagers
around the world related to the rebelliousness that the type of music portrays
in the music videos. This is also relatable to bands such as Sum 41, and their
song ‘In Too Deep’ which is still often played today. The rebelliousness of the
band is in theory what drew the audience in and it portrays itself in the music
video as well.
The characteristics of a pop punk music video are simply…
·Particularly All Male Band
·Rebelling against the stereotypes
·Live Band playing
·Doesn’t always have a link to the song
·Large area of people
The music video ‘In Too Deep’ ticks almost every single one
of the characteristics to the pop punk music videos codes and conventions,
there are multiple moments during the music video where you can see the
rebellious attitude come off of the band members, and while there is a more
closer link to the song itself and the music video, there aren’t many moments
when this link is clearly visible, and may even only spot it if you are paying
close attention.
One of the biggest links between the music video and song
are during the chorus, as its more than obvious they’re in a pool, while they
do a live performance, and the camera quickly switches to them diving into a
pool during a diving competition, the lyrics ‘Cause I'm in too deep, and I'm trying to keep, Up above in my head,
instead of going under.’ Obviously relates to the idea that they’re too deep
within the pool, or they’re getting deeper, which is why they are trying to
keep their head up above. In the music video they are also in an empty pool
near the shallow end, and diving off the boards.
‘Just as things were looking up, you said it wasn't good enough.But still we're trying one more time.’ This line is a link to the music video as
when they arrive at the swimming pool, the crowd was cheering for them. This
relates to the line ‘Just as things were looking up’ as the crowd was cheering for
the, the line ‘you said it wasn’t good enough. But still we’re trying one more
time,’ in the music video the other swim team was being booed and they were putting
down Sum 41, so more or less the band is trying one more time to rise above.
The last line that relates to the music video is ‘because I'm bending over
backwards to relate.’ This line links to the music video as
when the band sings in, one of the members is also doing a back flip off the
diving board, bending his back, linking it to the music video.
During the music video, it’s set up almost identical to All the
Small Things, by Blink 182. During the
music video there is a lot of close up’s of the lead singer mainly to show the
emotion on his face and to add to the rebelliousness of the band itself within
the music video, there is also a lot shots of the band when doing a live performance
in the pool, just like Blink 182 when they’re in the airport, there are also
close up’s of the band when they’re diving off of the board.
Amusic
genreis a conventional method of
categorising something that identifies itself with some pieces ofmusicas belonging to a shared tradition or
set of technical and symbolic media conventions. Music genres are distinguished
by themusicalform andmusicalstyle present in the musical material,
although in practice these terms are sometimes used interchangeably.
There are currently 1264 genres and sub genres of
music, amongst some of the most popular music genres in the world currently are:
In the music
video ‘Fatlip’ it shows the band themselves jumping around on the stage and
they sing with a bit of aggression in their voice like they’re shouting; the
dance hasn’t necessarily got a routine as everyone has a different dance,
whether its head banging or jumping around to the beat of the music; the video
shows a lot of energy as the scene is also at a street party from start to
finish.
The lyrics
match the music video in most parts of the video; as they state at the start
‘storming through the party’, and in the video it shows a smaller group of boys
barging through a load of people. Also throughout the whole video it shows
different people doing different out-of-control things, such as coming down a
hill in a box and falling out of it while trying to drink at the same time; the
music video contains party animals throughout, the lyrics match the actions
that are happening in the background of the music video.
The music
itself is very quick and loud and also has a range of noises at the same time;
the band has the use of three guitars and a drummer, this creates a hype for
the audience which leads them all to just jumping around, or being hyped
up/violent; watching the band themselves gives of an aggressive atmosphere as
well as being fun/happy; it shows everyone having a good time.
In every
music video they always have the same type of hair style, being long; scruffy
and spiked up or just really short. The type of clothing that they wear is
usually rather baggy, and most videos they are usually coloured dark or red;
which can represent the fact that they have a scruffy style and the colour that
often occurs can represent the fact that the band have dark thoughts, meaning
careless about the type of things that happen in the music video.
In some of
the music videos that I’ve watched myself some of the music videos link; for
example the song ‘Fatlip’ is the introduction of one of their songs ‘In Too
Deep’ which then suggests that the songs are linked in with each other, as well
as the videos; it’s like it’s sending out a message to the audience to have fun
and party wherever you go, don’t change for anyone else.
Punk music itself is known for how rebellious they are
against the stereotypical genre of pop, so for a pop punk band to release a
music video such as All the Small Things, people weren’t particularly use to
hearing this type of music. They were an all boy band who rebelled against the
stereotypical clean cut music video.
The characteristics of a pop punk music video are simply..
·Particularly All Male Band
·Rebelling against the stereotypes
·Live Band playing
·Doesn’t always have a link to the song
·Large area of people
Most music videos match up to the lyrics of the song that is
being played, for Blink 182 ‘All the Small Things’ this is a different
situation, they have minor characteristics to the video and song, this is most
likely because the type of music itself is often seen as rebellious, it’s not
hard to see they carried on this perspective and perpetrated it into the music
video as well. The only moments the song had really been linked to the music
video was round about half way through…
The lyrics ‘Late night, come home’ one of the
band members is lying on the floor, with a beach scenery behind him, and what
appears to be dark. This links to the lyrics as most people only consider the
time of day to be ‘late’ if it’s dark outside
‘Always I know, you’ll be at my show, Watching, waiting,
commiserating’ during these lyrics the band can be seen performing on various
stages, once in front of a mic, in a type of venue area, and in a dance studio,
this is all going on while the band play their music, and a group of fans is
screaming and shouting watching and waiting for them to play.
‘She left my roses by the stairs,’ while there isn’t much
of a visible link, the band member Travis Barker where’s a flower necklace
round his neck, while the scene itself is in black and white to get it a more
softer feel to the music.
With hit songs such as All the Small Things, it related to a
lot of pop punk fans, this means that during this era everything was amplified
and everything had a punk feel to it. Throughout a lot of the music video the
music was linked to the visuals, but there were moments when the visuals didn’t
have much to do with the visuals, for example when a lot of the main guitar and
drum’s moments are playing they’re at a one of their shows playing matching up
to what the music is making you visualise.
During the music video there’s a lot of close-ups of the
artist showing their face, including of them performing in a group. The main
shots are close-ups of the lead singer performing, and most of the things
relating to them, including of their dog in which he was previously seen with,
and a lad in a bikini holding a sign, that the drummer was with, this is
showing that they have an importance within the music video, the close-ups of
the artists are used to promote the record label by stating this is the image
they want to sell, the record label will show a demand of a certain style they
want the band to have, which can be seen throughout the music video itself as a
rebellious kind of fashion.
There are several references to the notion of looking in the
music video, especially during one particular part where the music video has a
reference by looking through a telescope at the lead singer and his dog on the
beach, however because the music video and song mostly focuses on the band
unlike many other music video there isn’t as much voyeuristic treatment that
can be seen to the female body.
Francis Lawrence is an American film director, film producer, television producer, television director and music video director. He is best known for directing three of the four films in the Hunger Games film series.
He has directed 109 music videos in his career, winning 8 award nominations for some of these.
Most music video directors have a certain style in which they direct, however Lawrence does videos that fit in with the song and artist.
He however does use a lot of closeups in his video, which puts the focus on the artist which makes them recognisable meaning they would be the focus of the video.
There have been
multiple people come in and out of the band, two people who are known to have
left are Scott Raynor, and Tom DeLonge, meanwhile, Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker
and Matt Skiba are still currently involved with the band.
The band
has been active for the years 1992-2005 and then took a short four-year break
starting up again in 2009 to the present day.
They come
up under several types of genre’s depending on the music that they plan on
releasing…
·Pop Punk
·Alternative Rock
·Punk Rock
·Skate Punk
They’re
managed under several record labels, or have once been managed by them…
·Cargo Music
·Grilled Cheese
·Kung Fu
·MCA
·Geffen
·Interscope
·DGC
·NMG
History
Blink 182
was originally formed in 1992, with the founder Tom DeLonge and Scott Raynor,
it’s said to be an American Rock Band, they originally came from the Southern California
Punk Scene, their lyrics are what is known as Toilet Humour, and they first
were known for their high energy shows.
They
originally toured with Cheshire Cat in 1995 and now have realised 7 studio
albums. They are said to be a key group in how pop punk has been developed and
was why the band received so much radio play as they had more radio friendly
music than rock bands. So far they have sold over 13 million albums just in the
United Sates and 35 million albums all over the world, and even have been said
to be the most influential pop band of the 1990’s by The New York Times. By Danniella Chapman
The people in pop videos would wear fashionable and trendy outfits. This could be because it is clothes that the main target audience would wear, which would attract the people who would enjoy the music. Artists are usually portrayed as happy; this could be because pop music tends to be uplifting, and so if they were not seen as happy it would not fit the music. Lyrics are usually about love or relationships; this could be because it is a worldwide theme that a lot of people can relate to so it may widen their audience. They often associate with teens, as that is the main target audience of pop. They also tend to follow the current trends, instead of doing something unique.
The way that the camera is positioned determines what type of
angle the shot will give; the types of camera angles vary in the production of
music videos, as this conveys different images. Examples of angles are:
Eye level – this
type of camera angle is commonly used, this is seen as the real world angle
that we’re all used to seeing, it’ll show matters that we’re used to seeing in
real life.
High angle– this angle shows the matter
from above, where the camera angle is facing down towards the artist or object,
which usually gives off the effect of making someone or something feel less
powerful, less significant or even submissive.
Low angle– this is where someone or
something is shown from below with the camera facing up; this angle gives of
the impression that the subject is more powerful or dominant.
Birds eye– this angle is where the subject
or the scene is shown from directly above looking straight down onto them, this
angle is usually used to create a more dramatic effect or showing it from a
different perspective. It can also show different actions, positions and
motions that the characters or object is performing, which therefor enables the
audience to see things the character may or may not see.
Slanted– this is when the camera is
slanted which is known as a Dutch angle where the camera is purposely tilted to
a side so the prospect is on an angle; this is a creative angle to use for
making dramatic scenes and effects. The Dutch angle is popular in the MTV-style
video productions, where an unusual angle and other camera movements play a big
part.
Camera angles play a big part when it comes to shooting a music
video, as they project the characters emotions and expressions. Other camera
angles that are more common in music videos are angles like close ups, which
usually shows the artist lip syncing, and extreme close ups where lyrics can be
linked to the visuals; the camera never usually stays in one angle for more
than 3-5 seconds.
There have been many members come in and out of the band,
these being mainly backup vocals, 20 people have come and go, however as to
main knowledge the main band members have stayed the same, their most popular
song was Teenage Dirtbag, previous members include; Vanessa Jimenez, Michael
Bellar, Michael Tully and 17 more. The current band members are Brendon B.
Brown, Mathew Milligan, Karlie Bruce, Gabrielle Aimee Sterbenz, Mark Palmer, and
Leo Freire.
