Artist and Album Name Selection

So today in class my team and I decided to have a proper discussion when finalizing our Artist's name. We knew and had established that Indie Bands have very peculiar names, therefore it was important that our artist's name reflected the same indie spirit which would help solidify our project. In the group discussion we all pitched in odd and absurd names that could qualify as a band name while keeping in mind a vague idea of the type of theme we wanted to follow. Names ranged from 'Nuclear Family to Female Despondency'.

Then we voted for a name which was best liked by all three of us team members! In conclusion we chose the name "RedTide Rats" which best fit our future planned colour theme for our album and cover. We originally chose the name Blue Water Rats but ironically that had already been assumed by a real artist, showing us that we were at least on the right track and following codes and conventions admirably.The name also gives us some creative space to play around with the nouns presented. It overall gives a "toxic" and "sickly" vibe to the band with the mentioning of the "RedTide" phenomenon which ends up disrupting and killing Shore life. "Rats" which are commonly associated with disease. We have the option to incorporate these themes into our project or we can utilize it in a more positive manner. We'll be discussing these themes more in our future planning.


A messy Checklist

For deciding our album name we wanted something clever and catchy. We tried a similar process to when we were deciding an artist name but were having a slight difficultly coming up with good album names that got our energy right. We finally came across the name "Sarah Tonin" and we unanimously agreed upon it. It is a clever word play on "Serotonin" a neurotransmitter that is important for feeling happiness. Which in our opinion best fits our Band's themes of struggle for happiness.

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Second Cut (Final Music Video)

Once the first cut was done all the footage was laid out in the required order, the second cut was for adding all the effects and animations to make the video more visually pleasing. While shooting we relied on the sunlight as our main source of lighting and since the shoot took place over three shooting days with varying levels of light on certain scenes, this lead to some unpleasing discoloration to certain sections of the footage where the camera picked up odd muddy tones instead of the vibrant primary colours. In this first half of colour correction Mahnoor basically tried to match all the footage to a equal level of brightness and correct all the discoloration and try to match them on intensity and saturation of colour as well. In the image above you can see her correcting the dull greenish hues on the original video to a the required soft vibrant yellow. She wanted to match all the colours so when she would further apply filters there would be no miss match. After basi...

Creative Critical Reflection

Now that we've wrapped up our advanced portfolio its time to reflect on our project through the focus of certain questions. Q.1 How do your products use or challenge conventions and how do the represent social groups or issues? The genre me and my team picked for our final products was indie pop. Indie as a genre in general breaks tonnes of conventions and creates new ones mostly due to the freedom allotted to the artists. Rather than having set conventions the indie scene works in trends which emerge with time, which is what we've based certain aspects of our products off and what we've gone against to showcase some of our own artistic ability. In a country like Pakistan, which is mostly over run with remastered coke studio versions of old songs, releasing an indie pop album and music video is unconventional as it is. Similarly, due to the creative freedom the genre allows us, we were able to represent social issues which we may not have been able to if we were to be...

Intertextuality

Intertextuality refers to when one media text incorporates another media text and in the process alters said media text. Intertextuality has many sub types such as: Pastiche: Pastiche is when a media text imitates another media text or style in a positive way. Marina and the Diamonds' music video for 'Shampain' is a pastiche of Micheal Jackson's 'Thriller' music video as a bunch of undead girls join her for a choreographed dance sequence. The music video for 'Gives You Hell' is a pastiche of a typical 50's neighbourhood, with the 'family oriented' side of the warring neighbours dressing in typical 50's fashion too. Parody: In a parody a media text often uses references from another media text to to mock it. Bo Burnham's 'Repeat Stuff' music video parodies Justin Beiber in parts of his music video as a way to poke fun at the unoriginal and vague music they produce which plays of...

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