Eminem - Stan

"Stan" is the third single from The Marshall Mathers LP, by American rapper Eminem featuring Dido. It peaked at number one in the United Kingdom and Australia. It is also included on Curtain Call: The Hits, performed with Eminem and Dido on track 5 and on track 17 as a live Performance from the 2001 Grammy awards featuring Elton John. The song was produced by The 45 King, and uses a slightly modified break from Dido's "Thank You" as its base sample. The track also samples the opening lines of "Thank You" as its chorus. Coincidentally, both songs were released as singles in late 2000. "Stan" has been called one of Eminem's best songs and is considered one of his signature songs. Rolling Stone magazine ranked "Stan" at #296 in their list in The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The song was also listed at #15 on VH1's list of the greatest hip hop songs of all-time. In April 2011, Complex magazine put together a list of the 100 Greatest Eminem songs, ranking "Stan" at #2. The song was also performed with Elton John at the Grammys

Idea Time

Today Charlie and I sat down in our free lesson and wrote down on several pieces of paper some specific ideas of what we want in our video.

Greatest Music Videos 40-31

40. Missy Elliot: Get Ur Freak On
39. Pulp: Common People
38. Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice
37. Guns N Roses: November Rain
36. Red Hot Chili Peppers: Give it Away
35. Sinead O'Connor: Nothing Compares 2U
34. The White Stripes: Fell in Love with a Girl
33. U2: The Sweetest Thing
32. Chris Isaak: Wicked Games
31. Eminem: Stan

Our Survey (SurveyMonkey)

Here is the link to our survey, we are hoping to collect a lot of responses which will help us find out what sort of thing people will want in it.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/73685LY

Hereis the link to our song; http://www.unsigned.com/thebighurt please listen to this before completing the survey.

Detailed Outline of Ideas

Today in class we decided that we nneded to knuckle down and get some ideas together. So what we did was sit in class isolated from everyone else and came up with ideas we thought would work, we then wrote down the good ones.

The purpose of this was to make sure we knew we could get ideas and actually make a music video out of the song we chose. Because although we think it is a good song we might have struggled to put some ideas in to make a good video, this would save us a lot of hassle at later dates in case we needed to change songs. However we believe we have sufficeient ideas and will make an awesome video.

Copyright

As we are going to be using somebody else's music there are certain copyright laws that we have to abide by. Here is the idea of the copyright law;

"Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other, related rights. Copyright initially was conceived as a way for government to restrict printing; the contemporary intent of copyright is to promote the creation of new works by giving authors control of and profit from them. Copyrights are said to be territorial, which means that they do not extend beyond the territory of a specific state unless that state is a party to an international agreement. Today, however, this is less relevant since most countries are parties to at least one such agreement." 


(www.wikipedia.org)

Kylie Minogue - Cant Get You Outta My Head

"Can't Get You Out of My Head" is a song by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue, which was released from her eighth studio album Fever (2001). The song was released worldwide as the lead single from the album, which was released on 8 September, 2001. The song was written and produced by Cathy Dennis and Rob Davis. "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" is an uptempo dance-pop song, containing elements of nu-disco and a slow house beat.

Greatest Music Videos 50-41

50. Paul Simon: You Can Call Me Al
49. Jamiroquai: Virtual Insanity
48. Johnny Cash: Hurt
47. The Prodigy: Firestarter
46. Adam & The Ants: Prince Charming
45. Aerosmith: Crazy
44. Kylie Minogue: Cant Get You Out of My Head
43. Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
42. Bjork: Its Oh So Quiet
41. The Spice Girls: Wannabe

Fatboy Slim - Praise You

Praise You" is a song by English big beat musician Fatboy Slim. It was released as the third single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby, in 1999. It reached No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in January 1999 and No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States on 11 May 1999. It also reached No. 2 on the Modern Rock Tracks.

Greatest Music Videos 60-51

60: Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
59. Abba: Knowing Me, Knowing You
58. The Cure: Close to Me
57: Meatloaf: Id Do Anything for Love (But I Wont Do That)
56. Eminem: Without Me
55. Fatboy Slim: PRaise You
54. Daft Punk: Around the World
53. Wham: Club Tropicana
52. Massive Attack: Teardrop
51. Run DMC & Aerosmith: Walk This Way

Storyboard Animatic

Here is a storyboard we made. We made this so when out to film we know exactly what were going to be doing and don't waste any time. Also we needed to make one so we could find out what props we might need and where we are going to film it. Overall this animatic has been very useful and thankfully we made one before we are going out to film.

Music Video Success Criteria

What is the purpose of a music video?

Them, some of these purposes could be:

There are many different types of music video and they all have a different purpose behind

• -Advertisement
• -Draws attention to the music/song
• -Illustrates the song
• -Appeals to a visual audience
•  Express an individuals emotions
• -Tells a story
• -Markets an image
• -Promotes the artist/single/album
• -Persuade audience to buy/download the song
• -Raises the audiences awareness of the artist
• -To make an artistic statement
•  Product placement

How can we measure the success of a music promo video?
There are many ways in which we can view music videos and this has changed a lot, mainly the way in how we can judge if a music video can be considered successful. Some of these ways could be:

• views on youtubeSales of the song
• amount of requests on a music channel-
• position in music charts
• Word of mouth
• Newspaper/Tv reportsAmount of publicity-
• Downloads (Legal/Illegal)
• Awards

Productive Team Meeting

Today the group and I got together and listened to our song repeatedly, whilst listening to it we each wrote down our individual thoughts at what should be in our video and what the song could represent. We each did this separately so we could all get our own ideas across without being influenced in any way, we thought this went very well for us.

Aphex Twin - Windowlicker Analysis

Greatest Music Videos 70-61

70. The Police: Every Breath You Take
69. Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Two Tribes
68. Madonna: Ray of Light
67. The Beastie Boys: Sabotage
66. Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
65. Aphex Twin: Windowlicker
64. Bjork: Human Behaviour
63. George Michael: Outside
62: Blur: Parklife
61: The Prodigy: Smack My Bitch Up