Cd cover analysis of Girls Aloud-‘Can’t speak French’
The colour and what it indicates:
The colour of the whole Cd cover is neutral colours, which could show it’s an innocent and harmless song.
The 5members of the band are all wearing similar colours which could show they all clash and are close in some way.
The positioning:
The name of the band ‘Girls Aloud’ is horizontal and is underlined.
The name of the song is in blue and is also horizontal and central.
Each member of the band is doing different positions which could show there all individuals.
Expressions:
The girls are doing a ‘tease’ look, so they want their audience and supporters to see there a hot band.
All members are looking directly at the camera.
The band name:
The band name is in a white font and is underlined.
It is in capital letters, so they want it to stand out to the people.
The title of the song:
The title is also in capital letters, but the font colour is in a baby blue.
It is horizontal and central to the Cd cover.
They want to show the difference between the name of the band and the name of the song so they have changed the colours of them both so they don’t clash.
Clothes:
The clothes are Marie Antoinette/ Victorian Style.
They are an R’n’B band but the genre isn’t clear in the Cd cover.
Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Music video research...Girls aloud
Analysis of Girls Aloud- ‘I can’t speak French’
Lyrics:
The lyrics to this song show how someone is afraid to tell the person they love that there the one for them.
So by speaking in ‘French’ it indicates love, as Paris is known to be the love-guru place.
Name of the song:
The name of the song is in-different, by just looking at the song name the audience wouldn’t understand what the song was going on about until they heard it.
Music:
The music is ‘funky house’.
It has the same beat through out the song but at different speeds and tempo.
There are drums and pianos that make the beat up.
Shots/Camera work:
Each shot lasts for only a few seconds.
It is designed to be a vintage video there are elements of Marie Antoinette style in it aswell.
The beginning shot is a long shot of the entire band and the actors involved.
It is situated in a castle so various shots of the actual place can be seen.
The song gradually becomes quicker when it hits mid-point.
Genre:
There are many genres in this video, the main one is ‘funky house’
and R’n’B.
Also pop, electric pop and dance.
Clothes used in the music video:
The clothes have elements of Marie Antoinette style and Victorian style.
There short and show a lot of their body of, which shows that they want to be seen as a sexy band.
Who Girls aloud are:
Girls aloud are a girl group that was created on the ITV1 talent show- Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.
The group consists of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh.
Girls aloud success:
They have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles (including four number ones), two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for four BRIT Awards, winning Best Single in 2009 for ‘The Promise’.
Girls Aloud hold the record for the shortest time between formation and reaching number one in the UK Charts and have since become one of the few UK reality television acts to achieve continued success, amassing a fortune of £25 million by May 2009.
Guinness World Records lists them as ‘Most Successful Reality TV Group’ in the 2007 edition.
They also hold the record for ‘Most Consecutive Top Ten Entries in the UK by a Female Group’.
Lyrics:
The lyrics to this song show how someone is afraid to tell the person they love that there the one for them.
So by speaking in ‘French’ it indicates love, as Paris is known to be the love-guru place.
Name of the song:
The name of the song is in-different, by just looking at the song name the audience wouldn’t understand what the song was going on about until they heard it.
Music:
The music is ‘funky house’.
It has the same beat through out the song but at different speeds and tempo.
There are drums and pianos that make the beat up.
Shots/Camera work:
Each shot lasts for only a few seconds.
It is designed to be a vintage video there are elements of Marie Antoinette style in it aswell.
The beginning shot is a long shot of the entire band and the actors involved.
It is situated in a castle so various shots of the actual place can be seen.
The song gradually becomes quicker when it hits mid-point.
Genre:
There are many genres in this video, the main one is ‘funky house’
and R’n’B.
Also pop, electric pop and dance.
Clothes used in the music video:
The clothes have elements of Marie Antoinette style and Victorian style.
There short and show a lot of their body of, which shows that they want to be seen as a sexy band.
Who Girls aloud are:
Girls aloud are a girl group that was created on the ITV1 talent show- Popstars: The Rivals in 2002.
The group consists of Cheryl Cole, Nadine Coyle, Sarah Harding, Nicola Roberts, and Kimberley Walsh.
Girls aloud success:
They have been successful in achieving a string of 20 consecutive UK Top 10 singles (including four number ones), two UK number one albums, and having been nominated for four BRIT Awards, winning Best Single in 2009 for ‘The Promise’.
Girls Aloud hold the record for the shortest time between formation and reaching number one in the UK Charts and have since become one of the few UK reality television acts to achieve continued success, amassing a fortune of £25 million by May 2009.
Guinness World Records lists them as ‘Most Successful Reality TV Group’ in the 2007 edition.
They also hold the record for ‘Most Consecutive Top Ten Entries in the UK by a Female Group’.
Music Cd cover analysis...the saturdays
Cd cover analysis of the Saturdays-‘Issues’
The colour and what it indicates:
The background colour is in black and white.
The only bit of colour is on part of the dresses.
These colours are all different, this could show they have different personalities and are different individuals.
The positioning:
The name of the band ‘Saturdays’ is horizontal and bold.
The name of the song ‘Issues’ is slightly tilted and smaller than the bands name, this could show they want everyone to know the name of the band rather than the name of the song.
All five girls are doing the same position but in different areas of the album, which could show there in this together.
Expressions:
The girls are going for a hard look image, so there face expressions are all strong.
Some of the girls are looking at the camera while others are looking away from the camera.
The band name:
The band name is in a large font, and is the colour white.
It’s in capital letters to show they want to stand out.
The title of the song:
The title of the song is in italic and with a font colour of white.
This is to show the difference between the band name and the bands song.
Clothes:
The clothes are dresses and are sexy, so they want the audience to know there a hot band as well as good singers.
The colour and what it indicates:
The background colour is in black and white.
The only bit of colour is on part of the dresses.
These colours are all different, this could show they have different personalities and are different individuals.
The positioning:
The name of the band ‘Saturdays’ is horizontal and bold.
The name of the song ‘Issues’ is slightly tilted and smaller than the bands name, this could show they want everyone to know the name of the band rather than the name of the song.
All five girls are doing the same position but in different areas of the album, which could show there in this together.
Expressions:
The girls are going for a hard look image, so there face expressions are all strong.
Some of the girls are looking at the camera while others are looking away from the camera.
The band name:
The band name is in a large font, and is the colour white.
It’s in capital letters to show they want to stand out.
The title of the song:
The title of the song is in italic and with a font colour of white.
This is to show the difference between the band name and the bands song.
Clothes:
The clothes are dresses and are sexy, so they want the audience to know there a hot band as well as good singers.
Music video research...the saturdays
Analysis of the Saturdays video- ‘Issues’
Lyrics:
The lyrics to this song show how someone can fall in and out of love.
How a relationship can be deceiving.
Name of the song:
The name indicates that this song is a problem song ‘Issues’.
Music:
The music video for ‘Issues’, was directed by Petro and filmed in late 2008.
It is a mid-tempo pop song.
There are various instruments used such as a guitar. This gives a soft harmony for the background music.
Shots/camera work:
The video features the group signing on a beach with colorful umbrellas and inside a beach house. The video begins with the group wandering inside a beach house. They are then shown walking along the beach. The video concludes with scenes of the group standing in front of a white picket fence, holding umbrellas and singing to the camera.
Each shot lasts about 3seconds.
Genre:
The genre is pop and R‘n’B.
The genre is portrayed through music and costume.
Clothes used in the music video:
There are different costumes used during the process of this video.
When all 5girls are in the house, there in neutral colour dresses, but when the shots are outside, there in different colour coats.
This could show they all have different personalities and there all different individuals.
Who they are:
The Saturdays are a pop girl group formed in Britain in 2007, comprising of Vanessa White, Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman. Both Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman had previously worked together in the band S Club 8. The Saturdays made their recording debut in 2008 under the record label Fascination Records, a sub-division of Polydor Records.
There success:
‘Issues’ debuted on the UK singles chart on 13th December 2008 at number eighty-four.
The song reached its peak position at number four on 24 January 2009 and spent 18 weeks in the charts overall.
In Ireland, the track reached number fourteen and remained on the singles chart for eleven weeks.
‘Issues’ reached number twenty-one in Europe.
Lyrics:
The lyrics to this song show how someone can fall in and out of love.
How a relationship can be deceiving.
Name of the song:
The name indicates that this song is a problem song ‘Issues’.
Music:
The music video for ‘Issues’, was directed by Petro and filmed in late 2008.
It is a mid-tempo pop song.
There are various instruments used such as a guitar. This gives a soft harmony for the background music.
Shots/camera work:
The video features the group signing on a beach with colorful umbrellas and inside a beach house. The video begins with the group wandering inside a beach house. They are then shown walking along the beach. The video concludes with scenes of the group standing in front of a white picket fence, holding umbrellas and singing to the camera.
Each shot lasts about 3seconds.
Genre:
The genre is pop and R‘n’B.
The genre is portrayed through music and costume.
Clothes used in the music video:
There are different costumes used during the process of this video.
When all 5girls are in the house, there in neutral colour dresses, but when the shots are outside, there in different colour coats.
This could show they all have different personalities and there all different individuals.
Who they are:
The Saturdays are a pop girl group formed in Britain in 2007, comprising of Vanessa White, Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman. Both Frankie Sandford and Rochelle Wiseman had previously worked together in the band S Club 8. The Saturdays made their recording debut in 2008 under the record label Fascination Records, a sub-division of Polydor Records.
There success:
‘Issues’ debuted on the UK singles chart on 13th December 2008 at number eighty-four.
The song reached its peak position at number four on 24 January 2009 and spent 18 weeks in the charts overall.
In Ireland, the track reached number fourteen and remained on the singles chart for eleven weeks.
‘Issues’ reached number twenty-one in Europe.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
Music Cd cover research analysis....the ting tings
Cd cover analysis of the ting tings-‘that’s not my name’
The colour and what it indicates:
The colour is bold and bright, so it catches people’s eye.
The two singers are in black and white, which could show they want to be the main focus.
The positioning:
The girl is more in the picture and is closer to the camera, which shows she may have more power over the boy.
The name of the song, ‘That’s not my name’ is slightly tilted and is in a different colour to the actual name of the band, this could be to show the differences between the two.
Expressions:
The expressions on the singer’s faces are unusual.
The man in the left hand corner is looking cool and not looking at the camera.
The girl who is positioned closer, is again not looking at the camera, she is doing a more thinking than looking cool shot.
The band name:
The band name contrasts with the background colour.
It’s in capital, bold letters, with a black and white background to it.
The title of the album:
The title is bold and in capital letters.
It has a white background with black writing so it stands out to the audience.
It is slightly tilted to show that it looks like it has been stuck on.
Clothes:
The clothes are indie-like, which shows it is going to be dance-punk music.
The colour and what it indicates:
The colour is bold and bright, so it catches people’s eye.
The two singers are in black and white, which could show they want to be the main focus.
The positioning:
The girl is more in the picture and is closer to the camera, which shows she may have more power over the boy.
The name of the song, ‘That’s not my name’ is slightly tilted and is in a different colour to the actual name of the band, this could be to show the differences between the two.
Expressions:
The expressions on the singer’s faces are unusual.
The man in the left hand corner is looking cool and not looking at the camera.
The girl who is positioned closer, is again not looking at the camera, she is doing a more thinking than looking cool shot.
The band name:
The band name contrasts with the background colour.
It’s in capital, bold letters, with a black and white background to it.
The title of the album:
The title is bold and in capital letters.
It has a white background with black writing so it stands out to the audience.
It is slightly tilted to show that it looks like it has been stuck on.
Clothes:
The clothes are indie-like, which shows it is going to be dance-punk music.
Music video research...the ting tings
Analysis of the ting tings video- ‘That’s not my name’
Lyrics:
The lyrics to this song shows how alone someone can be and how being lonely and quiet can be portrayed to others.
By not knowing her ‘name’ and not noticing she even exists.
Name of the song:
Instantly by the name of the song you know it’s not going to be a happy, loved-up song.
It’s the main focus of the entire song and everything evolves around it.
The name comes from the first name of a Chinese colleague of White at a shop who told her the name sounds like the pronunciation of "an old bandstand" in Mandarin.
Music:
It’s a very up-beat song.
It has a simple beat that continues throughout the whole song.
The beat is played on a drum and has people clapping their hands in the background.
The music is fast paced.
Shots/ camera work:
There are various shots of the singers.
There is no story in the background so the audience sees the instruments and the singers throughout the whole music video.
Begins with a white converse background.
Every time the main singer says ‘name’, the background colour changes.
Also the shots become quicker during this point.
This could show different moods of how the singer is feeling.
The shots are mainly profile-shots and close-up shots.
The first shot is a long-shot, and the name of the band can be seen with all the instruments and all the singers involved.
Each shot lasts at least 10seconds long.
Genre:
There are many different genres in this video; the main focus is rock and indie.
There is ‘new rave’, ‘indie pop’ and ‘dance punk’.
The genre in portrayed through the beat of the two singers, and there clothes.
Clothes used in the music video:
The clothes are indie in this video, this represents there genre of the music video, and who they are as a duet.
They are bright colours, which could show there indifferent to other groups of similar kind of music.
Who the ting tings are:
De Martino (the man in the ting tings) met White (the woman in the ting tings) whilst she was with TKO and again at Leeds University.
A few months later while De Martino was in Manchester, the pair bumped into each other, and after De Martino relocated to Manchester and went on to form the Portishead-influenced trio Dear Eskiimo who were signed to Mercury Records - but creative differences and the management style of the record label caused them to split. This earlier experience left White and De Martino with a distrust of the music industry, so with that common interest they formed The Ting Tings.
The ting tings success:
They have a label with Sony Music/Columbia/Red Ink.
They have been successful in most countries.
The band started out playing private parties at Islington Mill, Salford.
The Mill gigs ended up making them record deals, creating concerts for them and making them have a wider variety of members.
Lyrics:
The lyrics to this song shows how alone someone can be and how being lonely and quiet can be portrayed to others.
By not knowing her ‘name’ and not noticing she even exists.
Name of the song:
Instantly by the name of the song you know it’s not going to be a happy, loved-up song.
It’s the main focus of the entire song and everything evolves around it.
The name comes from the first name of a Chinese colleague of White at a shop who told her the name sounds like the pronunciation of "an old bandstand" in Mandarin.
Music:
It’s a very up-beat song.
It has a simple beat that continues throughout the whole song.
The beat is played on a drum and has people clapping their hands in the background.
The music is fast paced.
Shots/ camera work:
There are various shots of the singers.
There is no story in the background so the audience sees the instruments and the singers throughout the whole music video.
Begins with a white converse background.
Every time the main singer says ‘name’, the background colour changes.
Also the shots become quicker during this point.
This could show different moods of how the singer is feeling.
The shots are mainly profile-shots and close-up shots.
The first shot is a long-shot, and the name of the band can be seen with all the instruments and all the singers involved.
Each shot lasts at least 10seconds long.
Genre:
There are many different genres in this video; the main focus is rock and indie.
There is ‘new rave’, ‘indie pop’ and ‘dance punk’.
The genre in portrayed through the beat of the two singers, and there clothes.
Clothes used in the music video:
The clothes are indie in this video, this represents there genre of the music video, and who they are as a duet.
They are bright colours, which could show there indifferent to other groups of similar kind of music.
Who the ting tings are:
De Martino (the man in the ting tings) met White (the woman in the ting tings) whilst she was with TKO and again at Leeds University.
A few months later while De Martino was in Manchester, the pair bumped into each other, and after De Martino relocated to Manchester and went on to form the Portishead-influenced trio Dear Eskiimo who were signed to Mercury Records - but creative differences and the management style of the record label caused them to split. This earlier experience left White and De Martino with a distrust of the music industry, so with that common interest they formed The Ting Tings.
The ting tings success:
They have a label with Sony Music/Columbia/Red Ink.
They have been successful in most countries.
The band started out playing private parties at Islington Mill, Salford.
The Mill gigs ended up making them record deals, creating concerts for them and making them have a wider variety of members.
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