The music video has always been a big factor the success of musicians and their songs. Many people say the origin of the music video was from an Australian TV show called countdown, where songs would be introduced with smalls snippets and clips of the band. Even before MTV existed there was a American TV show called "video concert hall", the first music video dedicated show.
1981 and the MTV generation begins; launching a 24-hour channel purely for music videos. 1983 and the most popular and influential music video ever was released; Micheal Jackson's 14 minute thriller video. Within five years music videos had become a big part of any single, this in turn meant more money was being spent on this promotional videos saw the release of Micheal Jacksons- scream costing $7 million and Madonna's-bedtime costing $5million ( two of the three most expensive music videos ever)
The 90's saw MTV go global launching in Latin America in 93 and then India and China later in the decade. In more recent times MTV shows more reality TV on it's array of channels rather than music videos. In turn this has been replaced by many other music channels usually being specialised in a certain type of music for example kerrang showing rock, AKA mainly grime and urban UK songs etc.
Friday 12 November 2010
Friday 15 October 2010
Questionnaire results
What influence your music? Ballard rock, heavier rock and contemporary pop
Who would you compare your music to? They said as a group that they arent really like anyone else.
How long have you been creating your music? Variety of answers, most answered from a young age.
Could you ever see yourself being succesful? The whole band pointed to frontman Conner, insinuating he will be.
What influenced your band name? The band name, Distraction was a disicion made by the group.
Have you ever preformed (live)? They had 1 live preformance at the Gardiners arms pub.
How do you promote your music? Using posters
Would you say music is a big part of your life? The group as a whole said music was a very big part of their lives.
what influences your stlye musically? the group said that frontman Conner's passion influenced their style.
How long have your band been together? The band said they have only been together a month and a half, but have all been in previous bands.
Who would you compare your music to? They said as a group that they arent really like anyone else.
How long have you been creating your music? Variety of answers, most answered from a young age.
Could you ever see yourself being succesful? The whole band pointed to frontman Conner, insinuating he will be.
What influenced your band name? The band name, Distraction was a disicion made by the group.
Have you ever preformed (live)? They had 1 live preformance at the Gardiners arms pub.
How do you promote your music? Using posters
Would you say music is a big part of your life? The group as a whole said music was a very big part of their lives.
what influences your stlye musically? the group said that frontman Conner's passion influenced their style.
How long have your band been together? The band said they have only been together a month and a half, but have all been in previous bands.
Meeting the band
As a group we put together ten questions to ask our band upon first meeting them.
What influence your music?
Who would you compare your music to?
How long have you been creating your music?
Could you ever see yourself being succesful?
What influenced your band name?
Have you ever preformed (live)?
How do you promote your music?
Would you say music is a big part of your life?
what influences your stlye musically?
How long have your band been together?
What influence your music?
Who would you compare your music to?
How long have you been creating your music?
Could you ever see yourself being succesful?
What influenced your band name?
Have you ever preformed (live)?
How do you promote your music?
Would you say music is a big part of your life?
what influences your stlye musically?
How long have your band been together?
What makes a good pop promo?
Any good pop promo has to be eye catchcing and memorable, to do this there are a number of things you can employ.
Font- You can use different sizes and styles for different needs for example if you were promoting an unkown rock band you would use sterotypicaly rock/grundgy fonts that are big and bold etc.
Colours- The same story goes for colours keep it simple there is no need to overcomplicate things, simple plain things often come over more stylistic so if you were promoting a classical album for example compaired to what you would use for pop.
Imagery- Imagery is the key to a pop promo, images and pictures stick in your mind much better than any word or lyric could, making the actuall video side of the promo the most important. The stlye and imagery of the video rely heavily on the genre so what makes a great video for a rap song could and probably would be terrible for say a heavy metal band.
Font- You can use different sizes and styles for different needs for example if you were promoting an unkown rock band you would use sterotypicaly rock/grundgy fonts that are big and bold etc.
Colours- The same story goes for colours keep it simple there is no need to overcomplicate things, simple plain things often come over more stylistic so if you were promoting a classical album for example compaired to what you would use for pop.
Imagery- Imagery is the key to a pop promo, images and pictures stick in your mind much better than any word or lyric could, making the actuall video side of the promo the most important. The stlye and imagery of the video rely heavily on the genre so what makes a great video for a rap song could and probably would be terrible for say a heavy metal band.
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