CD Cover analysis Tinnie Tempah

A CD cover that I really like and think is really good is the album by Tinie Tempah 'Disc-overy' I really like the main image which is an image of Tinie Tempah holding a city in his arms and alot of different special effect graphics around him. This is very reflective of Tinie' personality and his type of music because although he is a grime artist he has a very 'Funky' feel to his music which is why the way his album cover has been made is successful.

I think that the CD cover that I make will be similar to this with an image of the artist from our group having alot of editing around him to grab the viewers eye and make them want to buy the album

By Tinnie Tempah having not only buildings of London in his hands and also having buildings from New York City, it shows that is trying to take over other major cities or countries not only England..

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Picture Analysis

In the images in this JPEG the mise-en-scene is not really part of the grime/rap genre. The reason for this is because we are sitting in school on a little bit of stairs in the playground. This looks more like a boy band image and that is not what our genre is. For us to make this look better and part of our grime/rap genre we should really be using locations like flats or using public locations like parks or the underground where other famous grime/rap artists use in their music videos.

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Sway - Konvict Record Labels

Konvict Muzik is a record label founded by Melvin Brown and R&B singer Akon. Other then Akon there are other popular artists such as Kardinal Offishall, Kat DeLuna, Lady GaGa, American Yard, Brick & Lace, T-Pain and Sway signed to the label. At the beginning of most Konvict Muzik artists' songs there is the sound of the clank of a jail cell, followed by Akon uttering "Konvict". Sway signed to Konvict Record labels in 2007, being the only UK artist signed to the label. Konvict Muzik was founded in 2005 covering genres of R&B, Raggae, Hip Hop and Urban. Konvict Muzik is American located in Atlanta, Georgia.

Interscope records is the distrubutor of Konvict Muzik. Interscope records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as one third of UMG's Interscope-Geffen-A&M label group.

Konvict Muzik records is a label being parented by Universal Music Group. It is the largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry. It is the largest of the 'big four' record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations.

Columbia Record Label

Columbia records is an american record label owned by sony music entertainment, and operates as an inprint of the columbia/epic record label group. Columbia records was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company - successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. From 1961 to 1990, its recordings where released outside the U.S. and Canada on the CBS records label before adopting the Columbia name in most of the world. Steve Barnett and Rick Rubin are the co-heads of Columbia Records.

http://www.columbia.co.uk/

Columbia records are also the record label of many other famous bands and artists of different genre's such as:

• Avril lavigne
  
• Calvin Harris
  
• Foo fighters
  
• Good charlotte
  
• kesha
  
• kings of leon
  
• AC/DC
  
• Bullet for my valentine

Dirtee Stank

Dirtee Stank; Dizzee Rascal.

Dizzee Rascal has his own record label called Dirtee Stank, however both of his albums have been produced and released by XL Recordings. Dirtee Stank has a MySpace page that suggests that the label is bringing many different genres together such as indie, majors and the street in order to reach all audiences.

After XL Recordings released Dizzee’s first two albums, the song “Dance Wiv Me” featuring Calvin Harris, was released by Dirtee Stank. Other songs such as, bonkers, holiday were then released by the label and his latest album “Tongue n Cheek” were also released by the label.

There are other artists registered to the label, these are; Newham Generals and Smurfie Syco.

XL Recordings is an independent British record label, and was launched by Tim Palmer, Nick Halkes and Richard Russell. This was done with Beggars Banquet Records in 1989. This was because they wanted to release their rave and dance music. The label has now grown as one of the most commercially successful record label in the UK.

XL Recordings has many successful artists signed to them such as;

- The Prodigy

- Peaches

- M.I.A

- Giggs

- Friendly Fires

- Dizzee Rascal

- Basement Jaxx

- Adele

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Our Genre

As a group we have decided that the genre we are going to do as our video is UK Grime. We have looked at many different videos that relate to this and many famous artists that this genre relates to. For example we looked at videos from tinie tempah including pass out, frisky and miami to ibiza. In miami to ibiza, tinie tempah collaborates with the swedish house mafia which are a drum n bass band. Here are some images from this video. In our video we will use similar images to this as it will suit our genre of UK Grime.

In these photo's tinie tempah (the artist) is a stereotype of a typical grime artist. This is due to his clothes. For example he is wearing sunglasses and black leather jackets. This is what we will be using in our music videos. This does not just show the clothes that i want our artist to wear but also shows the poses and the cheeky 'swaggerness' we want our artist to have.

Professor Green ft Lilly Allen Analysis

Sound:

• Lip syncing
• Typical rap beat

Cinematography:

• Close ups of professor green; shows he is the main main of the video
• Lily Allen and Professor Green appear in same shot to show they are a duet

Mise-en-scene:

• Bright colours - relates to lyrics and high tempo music

Editing:

• Montage editing

Performance:

• Lip syncing
• Long distance cuts when the artists are singing on their own
• Eye contact with audience
• Lily Allen pushes over the other women is the concept of the story - she is getting the better of the other women.

2 videos for homework

The first video that i enjoyed watching was the video from Cee Lo Green - Fuck You. The main reason why i enjoyed watching this is because of the visuals in the video with the narrative. At first we see a young boy singing the song and it seemed to be as we got to a new verse he grew older until he grew to a man. I found this kind of funny when the little boy is lipsyncing the video as he is swearing and pulling funny faces.

The second thing i like about this video is how the lipsyncing is on time all through out the video. Also, the video matches the genre and rythem of the song. The video is set in a olden day setting and the costumes match everything about how the music is. The music is a bit funky and hip hop and everything in the video matches it.

The other video that i like was Erykah Badu Window Seat. This music video was actually kind of boring but i liked it because how basic it was. All through out the video all we see is a woman walking down a road taking different items of clothing off and now and then running.

The reason why i liked this is because it could be something that I could look at doing when i do my music video as it does not look like it was complexed it was just a easy, simple but effective idea.

Innotative and Contempory Videos

Chromeo - Turn the lights on

• A lot of close ups and midlength shots
• Tacking shots
• Lipsyncing
• Various Locations
• The shots change in line with the beat
• They are wearing smart casual clothing
• Long shots of the band
• They cut out the lights and only show the eyes
• The artists in the video are contempory because they are wearing sunglasses which is on modern music videos
• Only see the eyes when the lights are turnt off. This is playing with the song as people say you can see the light in someones eye
• Non linear equipment

Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck 'Heaven Can Wait'

• Having a massive robot walking her down the stairs
• Weird people in masks does not match the genre of the music
• The video was not boring, it included people wearing melons on their head
• Lipsyncing
• Close ups of Charlotte Gainsbourg & Beck
• Convention of video showing person playing the instrument

Jamie Lidell (Timothy Saccenti)

• Showing a woman with no mouth
• Lipsyncing
• Video mainly on the actor performing
• All the time there is two people in all black costumes with a white mask dancing around the performer
• White cubes where in every shot

M.I.A - Jimmy

• Bright colours
• Sounds like a funky retro song
• The pictures in the background go with the music as it has flashing lights with little figures of people dancing
• Close ups
• Change of costumes

Analysing 2 music videos

- The video is set in a mental home
- Sames clothes in the set
- When he is out of the mental home he's clothes changes
- Close ups of the artist
- These close ups show he's facial expressions
- Music is fast pace and the lyrics are in time with the beat
- Casual clothes to match the genre
- Long shots of the surroundings
- Quick cuts in line with the beat
- Montage editing
- Lip syncing



- Casual clothes
- Sunglasses for the classy look
- Performance
- Flashbacks of when he was younger
- Close us of the artist
- Close ups of his watches to show money and fame
- Long shots of the surroundings
- Lipsyncing
- Shots cut in line with the beat