Righty
This diary is going to have a main purpose over the next nine months. It's going to be the working diary, log, and general blatherspace for my honours project. I may post stuff about other shit in here, but as I really doubt I'll have a lot of time for outside projects once this really kicks off (other than finishing up ones I've already started -_-) it'll be purely honours project based. So. I'm going to give a brief catch up on the other projects, and then I'm going to launch into telling you all about that.
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First off, the computer is broken again. Parts should be arriving shortly to fix it. Hopefully tomorrow. System drive went this time, so obviously this has meant the machine will take a short while to get up and running. But obviously I'll be doing that post-haste, as the laptop really can't cope with the workload I am demanding from it.
So. Once that's running:
I'm going to see what I can recover from the Deathboy stuff (hopefully all of it, if not, I am going to cry a lot, as I have 3 backups, ONE of them has to work...) and really, I am going to finish it. Fucksake. I'll rehash the initial cut I think, as there are one or two synchs that I didn't get quite right. I've been thinking of changing the colour scheme so it more easily fits in with the shades of Scott's ex-basement also, because the blues really, really did not work properly in my mind.
No Dany, I have not forgotten it! ;) In fact, Ari and I were over in Tayport last week, and I believe I have found a great set along the beaches there. So I'm going to start work on this. So much the better if I can incorporate it into some area of le projet (yes, projet). I have photographs if you want to see :)
The biggy. This is my final year at university, so we do one colossal project that lasts us pretty much the entire year. It's a dissertation with a practical addendum that shows how much the research sank in ;). I want to study aesthetical relations with culture and musical genre, and where the cultural influences have come from in the music video sense of the word. For the practical, I want to take a few music videos, and snap maybe a minute long clip out of each one, then make two versions of said clip. One focussing on working with standardised conventions with that genre and whatever culture it links with strongly, again, whether it's linked with a subculture, i.e. goth, dance, pop, or whether it's with a country, i.e. India, Korea, France..., and then do the same clip of song with another visual idea, one which obviously does NOT follow conventions, but hopefully still works as a music video to the song. Along the way I'll be studying the history of music videos, the promotional relationships they have, and in more depth what team it takes to make the video. If possible, I'd love to be able to put together at least a skeleton team and try to direct over it. I need some experience there. Working with Deathboy was a real first timer for me, and I think it showed, although the guys were incredibly professional, and helped me out a lot - despite the fact it was their first experience with it aswell. As a result, we worked together incredibly smoothly. Luff.
So. That's the idea. I have a very basic proposal (not pruned, hammered into a fine line, or really hugely developed) which I'll post on another entry in a moment. It'll eventually be expanded into an 8-12 page document and presented to the formal panel on 7th October.
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The current status on the project is that I'm trying to decide which songs to use. By that, I mean which songs I can get hold of permission to use that I feel I can work with on the two different levels I've mentioned. I want as wide a variety of genre as possible, rock, pop, rap, dance, goth, whatever. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to search out information to contact a label in Korea and maybe another in Japan with the hopes that they'll say "sure"...otherwise by our laws I can't show the results anywhere, (apart from in a showreel, and even then it's very dicey) which would make this entire project a waste of time.
The book I'm currently reading is "Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics & Cultural Context" by Carol Vernallis.
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First off, the computer is broken again. Parts should be arriving shortly to fix it. Hopefully tomorrow. System drive went this time, so obviously this has meant the machine will take a short while to get up and running. But obviously I'll be doing that post-haste, as the laptop really can't cope with the workload I am demanding from it.
So. Once that's running:
I'm going to see what I can recover from the Deathboy stuff (hopefully all of it, if not, I am going to cry a lot, as I have 3 backups, ONE of them has to work...) and really, I am going to finish it. Fucksake. I'll rehash the initial cut I think, as there are one or two synchs that I didn't get quite right. I've been thinking of changing the colour scheme so it more easily fits in with the shades of Scott's ex-basement also, because the blues really, really did not work properly in my mind.
No Dany, I have not forgotten it! ;) In fact, Ari and I were over in Tayport last week, and I believe I have found a great set along the beaches there. So I'm going to start work on this. So much the better if I can incorporate it into some area of le projet (yes, projet). I have photographs if you want to see :)
The biggy. This is my final year at university, so we do one colossal project that lasts us pretty much the entire year. It's a dissertation with a practical addendum that shows how much the research sank in ;). I want to study aesthetical relations with culture and musical genre, and where the cultural influences have come from in the music video sense of the word. For the practical, I want to take a few music videos, and snap maybe a minute long clip out of each one, then make two versions of said clip. One focussing on working with standardised conventions with that genre and whatever culture it links with strongly, again, whether it's linked with a subculture, i.e. goth, dance, pop, or whether it's with a country, i.e. India, Korea, France..., and then do the same clip of song with another visual idea, one which obviously does NOT follow conventions, but hopefully still works as a music video to the song. Along the way I'll be studying the history of music videos, the promotional relationships they have, and in more depth what team it takes to make the video. If possible, I'd love to be able to put together at least a skeleton team and try to direct over it. I need some experience there. Working with Deathboy was a real first timer for me, and I think it showed, although the guys were incredibly professional, and helped me out a lot - despite the fact it was their first experience with it aswell. As a result, we worked together incredibly smoothly. Luff.
So. That's the idea. I have a very basic proposal (not pruned, hammered into a fine line, or really hugely developed) which I'll post on another entry in a moment. It'll eventually be expanded into an 8-12 page document and presented to the formal panel on 7th October.
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The current status on the project is that I'm trying to decide which songs to use. By that, I mean which songs I can get hold of permission to use that I feel I can work with on the two different levels I've mentioned. I want as wide a variety of genre as possible, rock, pop, rap, dance, goth, whatever. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to search out information to contact a label in Korea and maybe another in Japan with the hopes that they'll say "sure"...otherwise by our laws I can't show the results anywhere, (apart from in a showreel, and even then it's very dicey) which would make this entire project a waste of time.
The book I'm currently reading is "Experiencing Music Video: Aesthetics & Cultural Context" by Carol Vernallis.