Abigail Hollands

Michel Gondry is a French director, screenwriter, and producer known for his inventive visual style and distinctive manipulation of mine-en-scene. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay as one of the writers of the 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , a film he also directed.  Other films: The Science of Sleep (2006), Be Kind Rewind (2008), The Green Hornet (2011), The We and the I (2012), Mood Indigo (2013). Well known for music video collaborations with Daft Punk, Donald Fagen, Radiohead, Björk, Beck, The Chemical Brothers, Kylie Minogue, and The White Stripes.  Gondry's vision and career began with his emphasis on emotion.  His career as a filmmaker began with creating music videos for the French rock band Oui Oui , in which he was also a drummer. The style of his videos for Oui Oui  caught the attention of music artist  Björk, who asked him to direct the video for her song "Human Behaviour". The collaboration proved long-las...

History: 1958: Jack Warner founds Warner Bros. Records as a soundtrack factory for Warner Bros. movie studios. 1960: Warner Bros. gets its first No. 1 hit, Bob Newhart's Button Down Mind of Bob Newhart. Frank Sinatra founds Reprise Records and names Mo Ostin to lead it. 1963: Warner Bros. and Reprise merge. 1964: Jac Holzman sounds Nonesuch Records as a licensee of classical music. 1966: Seymour Stein and Richard Gotterher found Sire Productions, which is later renamed Sire Records. 1967: Seven Arts buys Warner Bros. Studios, renames itself Warner-Seven Arts acquires Atlantic Records. Seven Arts Records of Canada established. 1969: Steve Ross' Kinney National Co. acquires Warner Seven Arts. 1970: Elektra and Nonesuch become part of Kinney National. Kinney National becomes Warner Communications and forms Warner-Elektra-Atlantic (WEA Corp.), the first major music distribution company in the U.S., marking the origins of the Warner Music Group. 1971: Nesuhi Erte...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NJqUN9TClM How are the [different] audience/s positioned to respond and interpret the representations/messages and values/ideologies that the music video offers the audience? Live life to the fullest, because you never know what day will be your last.  Be more open to advice and listening to people. Appreciate what you have.  How have the social and cultural contexts affected the representations on offer in the music video? She has taken an Arthurian/early medieval cultural idea of a funeral and set it in a more modern era within which she is living. How has the music video’s version of reality been constructed through the techniques of re-representation? Interpretation of Tennyson’s poem  The Lady of Shalott . Repetition of petal picking by different loved ones (mother, boyfriend) and anchored by the scenes in the boat reflecting the chorus.  How do the representations in the music video chosen by the...

Music Video Reflection Through filming and creating this music video, I have learnt that to be able to create the video you need to have enough footage but also that you need more footage than the length of the video. I have also learnt that you need a strong plan to follow. For my plan, I included the different camera shots I would use to make it easier for me to remember when filming. When it came to editing the video in iMovie, I found it quite difficult at first as I have never used it before, but eventually got the hang of it as I started putting my footage together. I still need to work on my editing skills and make the transitions between shots sharper as well as the lip synching as it was not always in time with the song. To improve I could watch tutorials on how to edit videos and maybe get more footage of the lip synching part of the songs so that I have more flexibility when it comes to editing that part of the video in order for it to be more in time with the song.

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