Friday 14 January 2011
Sunday 21 November 2010
ZZ Top- Tush
Tush
The video starts off showing the classic ed ZZ top car (1948 Pontiac Silver streak) driving down the road, the sun glinting off the bonnet. You can only see a vague figure in the car. The road is in Texas, there is cacti lining the roads and a cow skull on the right of the camera, the shot is of a hazy road, The Shot changes so that it is looking from the right of the road, the car zooms past smoke coming from it, roaring, leaving behind zz top doing the classic movement, they then disapear. The car then drives past a column of female prisoners, wearing skimpy clothes bending over breaking rock and chained together, this is an example of voyeurism. There is a shot from the cars perspective showing the women winking and wiping off sweat.
The shot changes to a ranch in Texas, with women riding horses, and a woman falling off a rodeo bull in slow motion, this is again voyeurism. The shot then changes to Hollywood with lots of glamourous women in frocks. There is then the iconic shot of a blonde woman standing over a vent, highlighting her bottom. This is an intertextual reference, she then runs off to the right, with Frank Beard Chasing after her.
The scenery completely changes to Heaven, with the band playing on a cloud dressed as Angels with white beards, white everything really. This shot is front on; all the clouds around them morph into dancing women, the band become distracted and as a result god zaps the cloud and the band then falls through the cloud, with a camera following them, as they fall their clothes will fall off revealing their original clothes.
There is a shot of an average American Bar, every single person in there is a woman. There are table dancers and wet t shirt competitions going on. The band falls throught the ceiling onto a table, they stand there for a minute lokking bermused, the bands instruments then fall from they sky, they stand up and start performing, all the women go mad, the camera sweeps round right to left getting higher. The camera then zooms out through the roof, staying at the top off the roof. It then shows the band leaving with lots of women. The camera then zooms down and on to the women, it then bounces up to heaven and shows God with cloud women all around him, God then winks, it then zooms out suddenly, and goes into a little circle in the middle of the screen, like an old fashioned tv being turned off. It then shows the band sitting in a smokey room, with beer, there is no sign of women in the room.
The video starts off showing the classic ed ZZ top car (1948 Pontiac Silver streak) driving down the road, the sun glinting off the bonnet. You can only see a vague figure in the car. The road is in Texas, there is cacti lining the roads and a cow skull on the right of the camera, the shot is of a hazy road, The Shot changes so that it is looking from the right of the road, the car zooms past smoke coming from it, roaring, leaving behind zz top doing the classic movement, they then disapear. The car then drives past a column of female prisoners, wearing skimpy clothes bending over breaking rock and chained together, this is an example of voyeurism. There is a shot from the cars perspective showing the women winking and wiping off sweat.
The shot changes to a ranch in Texas, with women riding horses, and a woman falling off a rodeo bull in slow motion, this is again voyeurism. The shot then changes to Hollywood with lots of glamourous women in frocks. There is then the iconic shot of a blonde woman standing over a vent, highlighting her bottom. This is an intertextual reference, she then runs off to the right, with Frank Beard Chasing after her.
The scenery completely changes to Heaven, with the band playing on a cloud dressed as Angels with white beards, white everything really. This shot is front on; all the clouds around them morph into dancing women, the band become distracted and as a result god zaps the cloud and the band then falls through the cloud, with a camera following them, as they fall their clothes will fall off revealing their original clothes.
There is a shot of an average American Bar, every single person in there is a woman. There are table dancers and wet t shirt competitions going on. The band falls throught the ceiling onto a table, they stand there for a minute lokking bermused, the bands instruments then fall from they sky, they stand up and start performing, all the women go mad, the camera sweeps round right to left getting higher. The camera then zooms out through the roof, staying at the top off the roof. It then shows the band leaving with lots of women. The camera then zooms down and on to the women, it then bounces up to heaven and shows God with cloud women all around him, God then winks, it then zooms out suddenly, and goes into a little circle in the middle of the screen, like an old fashioned tv being turned off. It then shows the band sitting in a smokey room, with beer, there is no sign of women in the room.
Wednesday 17 November 2010
Ready Steady Go
Ready Steady Go! or simply RSG! was one of the UK's first rock/pop music TV programmes. It was conceived byElkan Allan, head of Rediffusion TV. Allan was assisted by record producer/talent manager Vicki Wickham, who became the producer. It was broadcast from August 1963 until December 1966. It was produced by Associated-Rediffusion the weekday ITV contractor for London , called Rediffusion-London post 1964. The live show was eventually networked nationally
The show went out early on Friday evenings with the line "The weekend starts here!", and was introduced by The Surfaris "Wipe Out" - later replaced by Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" (later replaced by Manfred Mann's "Hubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble"). It was more youth orientated and informal than its BBC rival (from 1964), Top of the Pops. Owing to the scheduling of local news in parts of the UK, several ITV regions joined the show part-way through.
Initially it was all mime, 1965, all live performances
The show went out early on Friday evenings with the line "The weekend starts here!", and was introduced by The Surfaris "Wipe Out" - later replaced by Manfred Mann's "5-4-3-2-1" (later replaced by Manfred Mann's "Hubble Bubble, Toil and Trouble"). It was more youth orientated and informal than its BBC rival (from 1964), Top of the Pops. Owing to the scheduling of local news in parts of the UK, several ITV regions joined the show part-way through.
Initially it was all mime, 1965, all live performances
Monday 15 November 2010
Kid Rock- All summer long- Analysis
Kid Rock- All summer long
The Song and music video i have chosen to write about is, Kid rock all summer long. This was released it 2008, this song is actualy a mix of two other songs. Werewolves of london by Warren Zevron and Sweet Home Alabama By Lynyrd Skynyrd, Warren Zevron providing the backing music and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
This rock/pop song shows classic elements of this genre, fast cars, fast boats, alcohol, women and good weather. It is mostly performance based, although it does show a little performance about half way through. This video also shows an intertextual reference to Apocalypse Now, when he artist is seen to be dancing on the same stage that is used in the film for the Playboy Models. Also this music video has flashbacks which shows us what he is singing about. We know they are flashbacks because the video goes a little grainy, this shows that it was filmed a while ago, therefore showing it is a flashback. The video fits very well with the music, it is all neat and tidy, and the video cuts in time with the song. Also when there is a little instrumental bit, it cuts to a video of either women dancing or a boat powering across the lake. Kid Rock plays the main part in this song, both the narrative part, and the performance part. He is the first person you see when the video starts, it shows everyone waving at him, this makes him look very popular, also it shows him as a sexual figure as it shows scantily clothed women, practically worshiping him. This video is very similar to his other music videos, it starts off by showing a lovely scene of Sunny America, then it sweeps to Kid Rock standing on a shoreline. The theme of water is continued.
Wednesday 10 November 2010
Dire Straits-Money for nothing
- amazing intro, looking at tv
- Very basic graphics
- Performance and narrative based
- Shows them playing through tv
- very bad coulour effect on band
- Bad effects on intruments, glows, flashing
- Eyes, headbands
- narrative acts out song
- Split screens
- Could have influenced gorrilaz, other such bands
- Video acting out song, very popular now
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