First lesson..

Yesterday was our first lesson and introduction to A2 media studies. We were told that our focus would be on making a music video; we had the choice of using mainstream music or underground music.

Throughout the lesson we watched clips of A2 students
(including our yr 13’s video) music video and watched videos on YouTube.

For the next weeks I am planning to:

·       Find a local music band or singer – using local acts is better for communication as we have more of an opportunity to meet up and easier access to copy rights permission for using their music whereas using someone like Florence and the Machines music and trying to get a copy right would take weeks maybe even months and they could also refuse. In addition it could be very expensive.

·       Research into what type of genre of music I will be using.

·       Researching other schools blogs and videos

 

   

      

                          

   

     

                       And some underground UK artist 

 

   

On the 12/7/12 my group looked into a range of mainstream artists, who have been successful in the music industry and across the world. People like …

 

Due to the fact that we live in Enfield and the reason for creating a music video is for educational purposes, it would be incredibly difficult to gain access to these musicians. Therefore we started a search for local singers/bands as it’s much easier to access them.

We decided to use Linkin Park as our band. Here is the copyright permission letter we sent:

The Rock Music Genre

Here are some sub-genres in rock music:

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Alternative Rock e.g. Linkin Park

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Hard Rock e.g. Aerosmith

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Electronic Rock e.g. The Prodigy

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Acid Rock e.g. Pink Floyd

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Pop Rock e.g. David Bowie

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Heavy metal Rock e.g. AC/DC

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Blues Rock e.g. Guns ‘n’ Roses

<!--[if !supportLists]-->·         <!--[endif]-->Britpop e.g Oasis

Rock music is a genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in America during the 1950's and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960's and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940's and 1950's rock and roll which was also heavily influenced by rhythm and blues.

Rock has been centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with bass guitar and drums; but the genre has become extremely diverse and common musical characteristics are difficult to define. The dominance of rock by white, male musicians has been seen as one of the key factors shaping the themes explored in rock music.

Rock music has also embodied and served as the vehicle for cultural and social movements, leading to major sub-cultures including mods and rockers in the UK and the hippie counterculture that spread out from San Francisco in the US in the 1960's. Similarly, 1970's punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures.

By the late 1960's, referred to as the "golden age” period, a number of distinct rock music sub-genres had emerged, including hybrids like blues rock, folk rock, country rock, and jazz-rock fusion and glam rock, which highlighted showmanship and visual style; and the diverse and enduring major sub-genre of heavy metal, which emphasized volume, power and speed.

In the second half of the 1970's, punk rock both intensified and reacted against some of these trends to produce a raw, energetic form of music characterized by overt political and social critiques. Punk was an influence into the 1980's on the subsequent development of other sub-genres - alternative rock movement.

From the 1990's,  alternative rock began to dominate rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Brit pop  and indie rock.