Group Meeting -
In class, we were organized into groups and tasked with speaking of our projects. If I were asked before, I would've cowered away before sharing anything about my project. Now, however, I learned that it wasn't a bad experience, I started the activity with my very real comedic personality (I result to making jokes to keep people away, a bad habit I'm trying to break). I began the conversation by speaking about the process of picking my song and the challenges I had to face.
The conversation led on about their projects and plots. I ended up showing them notion, an organizing application and website I use to organize my thoughts and Ideas about the project. I also gave them advice with casting and plot issues. At the end When I told them my own plot, they didn't really give me pointers anything but I don't have an issue with that because I'm not having any plot issues. They understood my idea and that means more to me, because if they didn't I'd have to change it.
I finally chose a song!!!!!!!!!! Yipppeeeee! The song is called User139. It's about how the singer is watching this girl, User 139, that she's in love with be hurt by a guy called User 603. What I hope to do with the music video is to add a little postmodernism and start the story from the singers pov. The singer is watching User 139's life via a screen. And from the screen the camera can zoom in and the scene turns into what looks like the real world. (I'm having trouble to explain it, but trust the process and let me cook.)
I hope to tell the story of User 139 instead of the singer's narration. I'm super excited about using this song. User139
my excitement - it looks menacing, but im harmless i swear.
Music Video Research
Two years ago, I was in the Film three honors course. In said course, I made a music video to one of my favorite artists, Joji. After the video was done, I was upset, It didn't turn out how I wanted it. So I redid the storyline, went back to my research of camera angles and lighting. After that I went to re-film and I got pretty far into the production but I never finished it.
Nonetheless, I also made a presentation for this class, analyzing Joji's music videos, what story are they telling and how they do it. Specifically, Gimme Love; due to the fact that I was speaking about it my technical notes aren't on the slides. Besides that, Gimme Love's music video follows a storyline portrayed in an editing technique of tiny snippets of clips that make no sense on their own but put together create a story.
I really admire this technique and may use it my project. The video is embedded in the presentation for viewing.
I have thought about the social media and branding of my very 'real' artist. My artist has decided to be faceless, or not show her face on the media. Her name is Seven... because why not? The number seven is a sign of good luck and if you think about it, seven is all around. Seven continents, seven seas, seven days, seven sins, there are many more indications of seven but it would take too long to explain. Seven is also 'her' favorite number.
Media text: Yeat (rapper)
Social media tool: Instagram/youtube
Description of types of posts:
Instagram:
- Very minimalistic, has only six posts in the last two years but posts multiple at a time.
- His post vary from pictures of himself to pictures of behind the scenes in a music video; to album covers and promos.
Youtube:
- only a handful of music videos, but all follow the same mix of abstract/promo
Description of how branding is developed (or not):
His branding is hard to miss, Yeat dresses himself in unusual masks and coats, the editing in his videos is very futuristic and abstract. Yeat has also been promoting the number 2093 in every story or post. He's had 2093 in his bio for months without explaining. We all just expected the next album was going to be futuristic.
Analysis of how you will use this to develop your own social media presence:
Media text: BNYX (producer)
Social media tool: Instagram/Youtube
Description of types of posts:
Instagram - He post much more often than Yeat; he post his collaboration with other artists and celebrates his chart makings.
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| BNYX collab with Yeat |
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| BNYX Collab with Quavo |
Description of how branding is developed (or not):
BNYX doesn't have much of a branding besides being a rap producer with a good vibe. His post represent that, he's easygoing and good at what he does which makes him so desirable.
Analysis of how you will use this to develop your own social media presence: I'll definitely use of the humor he uses to promote and increase collabs.
Media text: Metro Boomin (producer)
Social media tool: Instagram
Description of types of posts: Promotional, couple times a month. Posts of his works, himself, key art, and collaborations.
Description of how branding is developed (or not):
Branding is very clear especially by his instagram where he posted and pinned teasers and trailers of his albums. His brand is superheroes and villains shown in key art posted.
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Analysis of how you will use this to develop your own social media presence:
I would enjoy doing teasers or extra clips of bloopers to upload.
I had finally given up on finding an artist and decided to use one of my friend beats or a non-copyright beat I found online. The reason I chose this is because I am focused, scratch that, infatuated with a story in my head, one that I've seen happen to me, my friends, online, and in a novel.
Unfortunately for you, I will not reveal such story line in this post. I'm writing this post because I cannot sleep until the idea is planted and deep-rooted in my brain for later purposes. What I will reveal is the themes in my story. Situationships and Soul ties.
Situationships are complicated and hard to define. Here's my definition, its when two people have official feelings for each other but cannot commit to a labeled relationship.
Soul-ties are easier to explain but harder to display on film. A soul-tie is when one or both parties in a relationship have a deep rooted connection that allows them to feel each others feeling at a given moment when the other is most likely calling out to them or thinking of them. For example, people have spoken out about ear ringing and other noise cancels out when soul ties activate. They are easier to notice when in a social gathering with other people, the talking fades and all you can hear is ringing and you suddenly feel different. The feelings vary and are often irregular to how you should feel in the given moment. At a party, if it were to activate and you were to start feeling sad and/or empty, most likely those are not your feelings that you are feeling.
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| heartbreak |
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| cold sweat |
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