Monday 25 January 2010
Thursday 21 January 2010
Double Edge
This is brilliant example of a film title sequence. Everything in this piece is to a very high standard. The idea, camera work, editing, script, acting and music is all superb. This is the sort of work you need to make to achieve a top grade.
Wednesday 20 January 2010
AS foundation portfolio to do list
- create a label list
- make sure all posts are labelled correctly
- create a link list
- add a link to: http://fordlcmedia.blogspot.com/2009/12/g321-as-foundation-portfolio.html which is the course schedule
- read the schedule and make sure you are up to date
- access this sheet (audience profile) via scribd http://lcasmedia.blogspot.com/2010/01/audience-profiling-sheet.html and complete.
- upload your completed audience profile to scribd and embed in your blog.
- create a short term (one week) to do list and add a to be completed by date
It is really important that you don't fall behind. You all have a lot to do and a clearly defined period of time to do it in. You need to use your own time more productively to ensure all tasks are completed.
Monday 18 January 2010
Girl Talk: Everyone Borrows Intellectual Property, Even Kings of Leon
Remix master Gregg Gillis of Girl Talk doesn't buy into the traditional notions of copyright and intellectual property and says that even Kings of Leon are recycling when they borrow their sound from Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Girl Talk-Feed The Animals
Still Here
Like This
Two remix videos to go with two of the tracks from Feed The Animals by Girl Talk.The videos themselves are visual examples of sampling (from the origianl band/artist promos) and work beautifully with the music.
AS coursework schedule
Sunday 17 January 2010
Who Sampled
Who Sampled is a database of sampled music and covered songs. This will be useful when researching various elements of postmodern music.
David Bowie 1970s discography
The Man Who Sold the World (1970)
Hunky Dory (1971)
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Aladdin Sane (1973)
Pin Ups (1973)
Diamond Dogs (1974)
Young Americans (1975)
Station to Station (1976)
Low (1977)
"Heroes" (1977)
Lodger (1979)
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Friday 15 January 2010
Postmodern music
Be clear about why this artist is postmodern. Use lots of examples from the research you conduct.
I will post the examples linked to David Bowie that i talked about in Friday's lesson.
Fight Club
In what ways can Fight Club be considered a postmodern text?
- Identify the postmodern aspects of the text.
- Who (audience types) would categorise this film as postmodern?
- What other readings of the text could one make?
Monday 11 January 2010
You Got The Love … but have you got all the mixes?
The XX's terrific, chilly two-step remix of Florence And The Machine's You've Got The Love is one of the defining tracks of 2009. It's also probably the only ever example of a remix of a cover version of a refix of a mash-up of an a cappella of a song originally written for a diet video.
You Got The Love is the anthem that refuses to die. Every few years, someone finds a new way of throwing their hands up in the air and saying, Lord, they just don't care. It's now raided the UK top 40 in four different guises, been covered by everyone from Joss Stone to Kasabian, and soundtracked the series finale of Sex In The City; a far cry from its original setting, accompanying footage of a morbidly obese man waddling along a beach.
Candi Staton was one of the leading female singers of the disco era, but by the mid-1980s, her best days were reckoned to be behind her, which is probably why she agreed to lend her vocals to a song for a video about the world's fattest man trying to lose weight. Penned by a songwriting team calling themselves the Source, the original You Got The Love is a perky disco-pop track, generous with the slap bass, although Staton's gospel-tinged wail carries it. The song was released as a 12-inch on Streetwave, but an a cappella version also surfaced on Source Records, becoming a favourite tool for UK house DJs in the late-80s. Paul Simpson was first to use it, layering it over his own track Musical Freedom, although it was DJ Eren – a resident at London house night Solaris – who first twinned the You Got The Love a cappella with the instrumental version of Your Love, a Chicago house track credited to Frankie Knuckles (later discovered to be the work of a lesser-known producer, Jamie Principle).
This mash-up's potential was spotted by DJ John Truelove, who pressed it on to vinyl in 1989, retaining the name The Source Featuring Candi Staton. It was a slow-burner, but You Got The Love's status as a guaranteed floorfiller saw it stumble into the UK top five in February 1991. "They were calling saying I had a number one record in England," Staton told the Guardian in 2006. "I said, 'What song? I haven't released any.' When they told me it was You Got The Love, I said I'd never made a record called that. Then I got off the phone and realised – it was the one from the diet video! Which was never supposed to be a record."
Truelove developed a close relationship with the song, recording a more euphoric backing track in 1997, taking it back into the top five. This was the version covered by Florence (who oddly felt compelled to correct the title's charming grammatical sloppiness).
"It's cool that Florence has been able to take the song somewhere else again, in a very positive way," says Truelove, reflecting on You Got The Love's enduring power to unite crowds in end-of-the-night exaltation, "it certainly has led a charmed life."
The Guardian, Saturday 28 November 2009
Sam Richards