NME's top 10

1)Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Just because; the moonwalk is still ruddy amazing nearly 30 years after the fact. SHA-MO!
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2)Simian Mobile Disco - Hustler
Seemingly your typical tits and ass dance video, and then it turns into something much more sinister and thought provoking half way through. 'Sexy Time' gone a bit wonky.
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3)Lykke Li - Get Some
A bit of 'And God Created...Lykke' as Ms.Li sheds her little girl image and becomes a determined, cave-woman on an angry mission.
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4)Flaming Lips - Watching The Planets
Lots of hipster nakedness on show, on this before 'Born This Way' take on birthing a new nation. Wayne Coyne sneakily manages to keep his clothes on.
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 5)Jay-Z - Big Pimpin'
Like the song, the video from renowned hip hop director Hype Williams, is a celebration of excess and a wish fulfilment of Jay-Z's to be the biggest rapper in the game.
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 6)Blur - Parklife
At the time this felt like a brilliant mix of comic set pieces and social commentary, before they went too 'Lahandan'.
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7)Radiohead - Street Spirit
 A master-class of moodiness with it's black and white speed varying shots of a cast that includes a shut eyed Thom Yorke, some dancers, a small boy and a dog.
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8)Janelle Monae - Cold War
A lesson in economy. The camera stays on a close up of Monae’s face performing the track, channelling the spirit of both Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ clip and D’Angelo’s ‘Untitled’.
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9)Rage Against The Machine - Sleep Now In The Fire
It caused the New York Stock Exchange to be closed and Rage were taken from the scene by security after they tried to gatecrash the Exchange. Literally 'the Machine' being raged at.
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10)Madonna - Borderline
She would go on to make much more complex music videos, but this one worked because of the way it captured the spirit of early, downtown Madge. Post-feminist kudos too for spurning her boyfriend for the rich photographer dude.
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These videos were able to show and provided ideas that influenced our own production. However, as they are mass and we are aiming for an niche audience we have not used a consistent amount of intertextual references.

Recomended video

A music video I recommended was Take On Me - Aha. This reasoning I chose this was the fact that the song is amazing and additionally the music in terms of media skills is far ahead of its time. The video features a hand-sketched magazine, which follows with a frame by frame draw over of live action. The editing between live action and sketch is effortlessly blended, to create a memorable video, which is iconic and still impressive today.

In relation to our music video we wish to use editing on real life action through colouring of certain shots. I think this would be effective as it would significantly show a change in mood of the video, marking the moment.

I also think that Michael Jackson's Thriller is the best music video of all time. As well as being an amazing song by an amazing artist, and from an amazing album, the video has phenominal amounts of effort in various sectors such as the detailed costume and other mise-en-scene, the simple yet effective narrative, Vincent Price's awesome horror feature and iconic dance routine.

Nevermind Album

 

Nirvana - Nevermind

 

 

 

It is clear to see that there is a water theme present through the album that further extends in relation to the music of Come As You Are.  The inlay additionally consists of three photos of the band themselves to establish their identity. Additionally included is a lyric compilation of the songs featured on the album and additional songs not featured, this was the band's choice and again correlates with the water theme due to the font being presented with a 'wavy' effect. The band and the album's 'personality' is reflected through it's front and back cover art. The front cover features a three-month-old infant named Spencer Elden, the son of the photographer's friend, alone underwater with a US dollar bill on a fishhook just out of his reach. However, there was some concern because Elden's circumcised penis was visible in the image. Geffen records prepared an alternate cover without the penis, as they were afraid that it would offend people, but relented when Cobain made it clear that the only compromise he would accept was a sticker covering the penis that would say, "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile." The back cover of the album features a photograph of a rubber monkey in front of a collage created by Cobain. The collage features photos of raw beef from a supermarket advertisement, images from Dante's Inferno, and pictures of diseased vaginas from Cobain's collection of medical photos. The back cover also includes another musical intertexual reference, Cobain noted, "If you look real close, there is a picture of KISS in the back standing on a slab of beef." These images display the 'rebellious' image that the media label Nirvana, pushing the limit to create one of the most successful and iconic albums of all time.



Ancillary Fonts

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The song we have decided upon is 'High Hopes' by Kodaline. We decided to use this song as it fit the specific genre we were trying to achieve, we aim to keep our video a narrative throughput the verses. However, on the chorus’ we will have our actors lip-synching to the words.
This is one of our possible fonts as we aim to keep our CD front cover very minimalistic, using entire saturation on the picture. The black outline of the font makes it stand out over the high key picture; we have used this saturation because typical rock bands of this niche variety would keep it simplistic due to their limited budget. Not only do we believe that it will fit the genre but it will also correspond with our logo, which is also in black and white.

The logos underneath each fit this description however, we intend to do audience research on a group of our peers to find the most effective font.

 

 By BJacko