POSSIBLE POINTS OF INFLUENCE:
ACT: David Bowie
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- This is an example of how music videos are still released after the full album, so there is less interest in the new music and more in the visualisation, and I also want to hint in my music promo package's website and social media that there are more music videos to come, which will also be intertextually referenced in my digipak artwork
ACT: David Bowie
TRACK:
Valentine's Day
DIRECTORS:
Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri and Markus Klinko
MAIN
AUDIENCE: Bowie hardcore fans, as the wave of interest garnered by the general
public will have decreased as this is five months since he released the album
proper
NARRATIVE
The title and the romantic sounding sound plays to
expectations that the song is about the theme of the romantic event.
INTRO + OUTRO
There is a diegetic outro as the camera tilts down, and then as we track forward to Bowie the track begins. There is no extra sound at the end.
INTRO + OUTRO
There is a diegetic outro as the camera tilts down, and then as we track forward to Bowie the track begins. There is no extra sound at the end.
TEXTUAL ANALYSIS
Opening shot is a tilting shot going down from a temple. We then
cut to inside the temple and see a figure in white with the back turned. Narrative
enigma is created, although the
core audience and also secondary audience
will guess it is the singer, as he does star in his own music videos
prominently. The audio from the song then starts with the opening drum beat,
called up by the raising of a long object, revealed to be a guitar, as we close
in to a tilt shot going down from the head to, as it reaches medium close-up
the guitar gets started to being played. The camera then turns to
its left around the singer, at the side he looks slightly restrained, gasping
breath and restrained, his head going down as we have come to a medium side
shot.
Camera facing Bowie now fully revealed in medium
longshot. His facial expression turns into a puppy-like face. Then switch back
to medium close-up with Bowie looking down first after having stopped playing,
then looks up when he continues playing and starts singing the lyircs. MLS to
MS of playing at side again, 0’32
BOWIE FANSITE
It’s a curse on his adopted country, a place in which the regular, random slaughter of children is considered the equivalent of some unavoidable act of nature, like a tornado. Hence the song’s title: a day meant to commemorate lovers is some grubby fanatic’s day of indiscriminate judgement.
REACTIONS TO NRA REFERENCE
- http://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/david-bowie-takes-on-the-nra-charlton-heston-767129
- http://www.wnyc.org/story/307257-david-bowies-hidden-agenda/
- http://samuel-warde.com/2016/02/david-bowie-valentines-day-takes-on-nra/
- https://lacksalot.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/david-bowie-and-the-nra/
- http://www.last.fm/music/David+Bowie/_/Valentine%27s+Day/+wiki
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Most of your posts at this stage are TBC
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a TBC tag can be useful - untag each post when fully updated
your blog is set to a US time; to publish comments (it should be to moderate, so you read and click before any are published)
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