Generic conventions =)

For this section I will be researching two musical genres.

The two Genres I have pick is Classical and Rock. The reason for this is that I think these two genres have many differences. “Even if you are not an established musician, you can easily distinguish rock music from what is termed as classical music. There are several large differences between Rock and classical.

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Both Genres are different but they are the same form of art. People see painters and sculptors as two different forms of art, but both are forms of visual art yet are different sub form, you can not say “this one’s better”, they’re two separate Genres. It comes down to a matter of taste, you either like it or you don't. There are great artists in both rock and classical.

The differences are show below....

Classical	Rock
Instruments that are used	Rock is much freer musically
Music adheres to a strict set of rules	Has recently been introduced to the music industry
Music is mostly harder than rock	With stands time equally
Is and has been in the music industry for longer	Is loud mainly attracts teenagers
Withstands time easily	Has many electrical instruments
Is clamming and soothing	Mainly attracts teenagers
Has a rage of followers (rage as in age range)	Has a wider range of audience

A Rock band that you might know is 'Train' and the classical music which was made by Beethoven.

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The genre I would like to focus on is the genre 'Rock'. With this genre and all other genres there are particular things that lets the audiences know what type of genre it is such as location, costume, colour, camera, movement, editing style and instruments. But Rock is more of an obvious genre, In rock videos you tend to have a dark atmosphere with a lot of electric base instruments, their music tends to be louder than the singers voice and has a fast tempo. We can also tell from the locations because the rock music videos are mostly set in dull dark and smoky bars with little room and is usually very hectic, there camera movements are very sharp depending on the song and sometimes moves with the tempo. And the colour and costume are also very dull with blacks, greys, whites and greens, I think these colours are used to show sadness and darkness relating to the devil and so on. Their costumes are usually black basic clothing, hair is usually all colours and tends to be long and maybe covers some artists faces.

An example of a rock video is shown below.....

Sweding Task- Britney Spears

For the Sweding task we were give a music video, the music video was the famous Britney Spears song 'Hit me Baby.' We all got split up in a group of 4-5 people after we had watched the video. Our teachers then gave every group a section of the video to do a very detailed story board on, once we had finished our story board all the story boards were mixed up and given out to each of the groups to go out and film what we thought was happening.

At first I thought making a video is much harder than trying to recreate one but it seems that I was wrong. It may have been due to others lac of vague story boarding but it's also very possible that it was just much harder to get positions of the shots perfect and the timing correct.

Even though everything had been made much easier for us I still believe that the time that was given to us was just not enough for the filming half of the project. We had taking a lot of takes when we had started off but then the group started to get the hang of thing. One other problem that there was, was that the actress that had to be Britney Spear

s had a few difficulty in understanding what position we needed her to be in it may have not all been her fault due to inaccurate directions, but it did all start to work out as every one started to get comfortable.

Editing the video, well when it comes to sweding a video, we had to make sure the song had fit in with the video, so all the words had to match and look as if the actress was singing the song. this by far had to be the hardest part of the project. Editing was not one of my strengths because I had no practise but once I had got the hang of things I started to realise that it just needed a lot of attention rather than it being a quick process. Editing actually took longer than the filming it's self it also helped us fix many mistakes through the mac program rather than us going out and shooting a whole new shot.

Once every group had finished their section the video had been put together and came out better than the original =).

No, everything had been put together and I think that when the classes realised that we made a good remake of the original and in just 2 hours.