Monday 21 October 2013

Videos

Pop Rock Videos;

Demi Lovato - Here we go again.


Shakira - She wolf.



The Killers - Day & Age Album.


Maroon 5 - Overposed.


Rita Ora - R.I.P


McFly - Shine a Light 

 
 

Michael Jackson - The way you make me feel.

 

Avril Lavigne - When you're gone



Billy Ocean - When the going gets tough.




Madonna - Like a virgin.


Album Covers.

These are a few album covers which are all Pop Rock genres.










Audience Profile.

Audience Profile.

Pop Rock is a music genre which incorporates a catchy pop style and light soft lyrics, which is more of less a guitar based song, there is quite a few variations of the word 'Pop rock' going from a slow and mellow form of rock as apposed to authentic rock, the detractos of pop rock tend to say its slick and a commerical product.

The song we are researcing also as influences from new wave and synthpop, new wave is an ambiguous catagory of pop or rock, which was established in the 1970s to mid 1980's and came from ties of punk rock, it was classed as the same until it was identified as its own genre incorporating electronic, experimental music, mod subculture, disco and pop music. Common characteristics of new wave music, apart from its punk influences, it includes the use of synthesizers and electronic productions. Synthpop also known as electropop, or technopop is a genre of popular music that first became established in around the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic art rock, disco and particularly the "Krautrock" of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late-1970s to the mid-1980s.

Pop Rock audience is for all ages, it has a wide range of artists which sings in this style the most recent in 2010,  Maroon 5, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, P!nk, Demi Lovato and  Lawson, it also goes to Nickleback, matchbox twenty, Ashlee simpson, Christina Aguilera, Michelle Branch, Elton John, Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and Wings, The Knack and Olivia Newton-John, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Stevie Nicks and Phil Collins. At the start of the decade, Queen, Bryan Adams, Tina Turner, Cher, Sheena Easton, Def Leppard, Roxette, Billy Ocean, George Michael, Phil Collins and Madonna, Shakira, Sixpence None the Richer, October Project, The Cranberries, No Doubt, Hanson, Everclear, 4 Non Blondes and Gin Blossoms and many more artists as you can tell it goes from Billy Ocean right through to Demi Lovato which is a wide spectrum which appeals to all ages.

 

Monday 7 October 2013

THE KILLERS - HUMAN RESEARCH.

APPEARANCE; In our groups we have got certain things we have to research about our songs it includes, the background of the group, the appearance of the group, the positions they all play, the lyrics, location, research covers of which people have done of the song, the different points of views people have about the song and which way people take them, also the change of tune so like the ways they change there clips to go with there tune difference.

We chose to do a few seperate ones ourselves so we didnt waste time doing them all so we are going to bring are work together and make a overall large background info biography of The Killers, i chose to do the appearance of the killers so we had a rough idea of how we need are actors to look in are video and what not to make them look like.

The Killers Appearnce on a whole; they all are relatively thin with a smart casual look all well kept and dont look like your typical band/group because they are slightly older then most bands and not that great looking compared to some of the more recent upcoming groups/bands which are young, energetic and very casual looking.

Brandon Richard Flowers = always wearing a jacket/blazer, all the images of brandon are of him looking very smart even when there on stage, he has quite a few trade marks he often wears slick, stylish, and sometimes abstract formalwear during concerts, hes very expressive with his hands and body movements during gigs, he also frequently jumps up and sings atop the stage speakers during live shows.

Ronnie Vannucci Jr = Ronnie also has trade marks he has a handlebar mustache,
 also enthusiastic/stylish arm movements and facial expressions while drumming in concert. Hes half italian and half german, he seems to be the most childish of the band due to the quote he said, 'My band mates are boring, they are kind of unable to get really drunk.'

Mark Stoermer = Mark is known for his very deep voice, hes also is the tallest and quietest member of the Killers, he is sometimes referred to as the band's "gentle giant". coming in at a whopping 6'5'' he has shoulder length hair with a short bearard, he has been compared to a picture of jesus, with the similar appearance of which they have, hes always in jeans may not be jean coloured but is always seen in jeans.

Dave Keuning = Daves known for his Long, shaggy hair, hes the second tallest in the band, he has a clean shaven face.