There is throughout the
genre a theme of being dark, emotional and meaningful. This is shown
through the dark lighting in videos and photoshoots and heavy, meaningful
lyrics with a strong sound. Often, the colours black and white will be used to
connote seriousness, and emotion.
Long and/or wide camera
angles are normally used to allow the whole band to be seen and to show music
instruments being played.There are also close ups of the artists playing the
instruments, this is to show the members individualy and to create an intense
feel to the video.
The Performance in most
videos shows the band playing together and somtimes shoows each
member plain separately, or in some videos the band are shown to be
playing separately untill the last chours then they come together to give
the video a more dramatic ending.
The
costume of the band members are typically seen wearing black with leather
jackets and ripped jeans and boots. this is to give the band a more powerfull
look. they would also sometimes have lots of jewellery even more typically
they have messy black/long hair as this is used to create a larger head banging
effect. they also typically have lots of tattoos showing as this is a
connotation of being strong and also tough.
The song we have chosen is of mice and men - back to me. Even though there is an official video it is a montage of live performances of the band on tour. We plan to have a live performance within our video but also have a narrative running through of a young girl going through some personal and finding her way back to someone who she can trust to look after her, and help her through her hard times. The songs lyrics are very powerful and create a strong emotion behind the song.
Upon this feedback sheet i can see that the issues apply to me. I need to vary the way my posts are created this will make my blog more interesting as there will be different ways the audience can view it. I will also need to keep up with blog postings as I have fallen behind dramatically, I will go into more detail and work harder to create a better blog to view.
Jordan Tuck, Alex Stone, Jesse Axen, Ace Mckinnon and Tom Bane are five best friends from California Sacramento that
have bonded over their love of music and performing. since they met in high
school they have played in concerts throughout the years with a band they
formed in year eight called ‘Where The Sun Goes’. in 2014 the band split as
they left high school some of the members went to collage others got jobs,
however they promised to make music together in their spare time. in January 2016
the best friends formed a new band called ‘THE WATCHMEN’, the band has a rock/metal sound with some nu-metal influences creating a sound people can rock out too. The band caught the eyes of Sumerian Records - A large independent recond label with a kean eye for good rock artists - When performing at a local club. the label signed a contract with the band in march 2016, This gave them the opertunity to create an full album, with their single ‘Back To Me’ due to be
released late 2017 they are deffenatly on their way to the top.
The band are heavily influenced by rock artists
such as: stone sour, bring me the horizon, linkin park and royal blood.
Jordan Tuck is the vocalist of the band, Alex Stone plays guitar , Jesse Axen plays backing guitar, Ace Mckinnon plays bass and Tom Bane plays drums.
The oxford dictionary refers to post modernism as "a style and concept in the arts characterised by distrust of theories and ideologies and by the drawing of attention to conventions."
"Postmodernism is said to describe the emergence of a social order in which the importance and power of mass media and popular culture means they govern and shape all other forms of social relationships"- Striate 1995:224
cinema:
'Its argued to be postmodern because it goes further than recycling the recent past, making films which are merely imitations of other films rather than reflections of social reality" Striate 1995:230
in short postmodernism becomes the new by referring to the old
