Pros and Cons of song choices

These are the 3 songs that we chose when thinking what song to do for our A Level music video.

When looking at these songs, we all liked them but had to only do one and understood that there could be some problems when coming to film some of them so here are our pros and cons for the 3 songs that we chose.

Chance the rapper-Angles

PROS

• It is an upbeat song that many people would enjoy and like to listen to.
• Respected rapper that many people know 
• Isn't signed to a label.

CONS

• We Realised that after watching the video that he did himself, it was going to be pretty hard to beat as it was so good.
• not everyone in our group thought that the song was that good to do.

Tyler the Creator-Bastard

PROS

• Very good song that people don't know much about
• the lyrics are worded very well
• hes a lyrical genius

CONS

• Has some very rude words in the song 
• He is signed to a label but also to himself.
• Its hard to get an idea of how to film the video because he hasn't released one himself.

Tyler the creator-Yonkers 

PROS

• We all liked the song 
• We all had good ideas of how we could film the video
• Good beat to it
• We had the right props and people for the video to make it look legit.

CONS

• Has a lot of swearing in the song
• May have to sensor some of the words 
• People who don't get the meaning of the song may think its awful

Initial Ideas for Magazine Ad

These are the typical conventions we would see in advertisement for an album and we will be using these conventions as well.

• Title
• Name of band
• Picture of Artist / Band
• Album design
• Release Date
• Website
• Reviews
• Record label

Our initial ideas for our album our; 

• Dark colours
• Personalised 
• Contrasting colours
• Alter ego personality 

Magazine Advert Research

Magazine Research

Magazine Advert Research

CD Digipak Initial Ideas

These are words I associate with our artist and our song called 'Yonkers'. This will help me to come up with a concept for our CD digipak.

Deconstruction of Lyrics

Deconstruction of lyrics from Kelechi Okorie

In Depth Analysis of Music Video

Bruno mars grenade from Kelechi Okorie

Case Studies of Iconic Directors

Iconic director- Simon Cahn from Kelechi Okorie

Case Studies of Iconic Directors

Mark Romanek

Mark Romanek is a three time major grammy award winning American director. He has performed extremely well many times within the music videos which he has created. The most symbolic and iconic music video was a cover of the song "Hurt", this was sung by Johnny Cash who was a big musician to be working with Mark. This was the last music video that Johnny ever did. Knowing this, Mark created what seemed to be a very simple but effective video that had a lot of personal meaning to it. The video was up for 6 nominations in the 2002 MTV music video awards and managed to win best Cinematography. In 2004, after directing Jay-Z's 99 problems music video, Mark won best director, just one of the 4 wins in which the video succeeded in. Mark Romanek has won 19 MTV awards and i believe he is great at what he does.

Below shoes a screenshot of all the music videos that Mark directed. He has directed some famous musicians show below such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Red hot chilli peppers and Taylor Swift. This shows that people do respect him and his work because of the names that he's worked with and how well those music videos came out.