Record Company Research

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is the second largest global recorded music company and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America. The record corporation first was founded in 1929 then later it was established as SME. The company is located in New York and the operating income is $469 million. Under the name of Sony Music Entertainment, there are other music labels such as, Epic Records, RCA label group and many more. 
Sony Music Entertainment is a worldwide music company with a roster that includes both local artists and international superstars. 
Sony Music Entertainment has created different convergence in which audiences can get their music. Music is unlimited on the following products; Android mobile phones, Blu-Ray disc players and on any computer. SME has thought of every way to distribute their music across to people. 


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Change of Song!!!

Now we have changed our song to: ‘I’m still here’- Cady Groves. We worked as a group to come up with the ideas (ON THE MAIN GROUP BLOG- media13b1.blogspot.com). Everyone agrees with this idea and we thing it would work better than our first one.

This song will not have any problems because we only need 2 people to record this.

Our idea:

·         The girl comes to an empty house where her and her boyfriend used to live.

·         She puts the keys on the table

·         Cuts to her playing guitar

·         Pictures on the wall of the couple

·         Drinking coffee and looking outside the window

·         The main performance is done in Richmond park hill at night (her playing guitar)

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Problems we faced...

Our idea was very difficult in terms of recording, we needed:

·         About 15-20 people for the house party- this was a problem because this could disturb the residents around the house. Also the matter of getting the people is someone’s house could create lots of problems.  E.g. cleaning up after them

·         We had a shot which involved the group to go outside the house for recording- we could face the same problem with the residents having a problem.

·         More than one camera- problem because there are other people who are recording at the same time as us and there are not enough resources for us to record.

·         Also the whole process of us outing up the lights outside on the street which is difficult.

·         Main problem is coming up with dance steps for the song.

·         Also the whole concept seemed a little child-like so we had to change it.

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Idea-part 2

As a group, we expanded on our first idea and decided we will have a house party and have more than one camera so we can record the scene in different angles. That would have worked because we decided we could use some of the shots as cut-away (as all music videos contain a lot cut away).

We also decided that we will record scenes in London for some extra footage that could also be used as cut-away. As the song upbeat, we wanted to make out music video upbeat too. As a group, we decided that we would record as much footage as possible for the editing later.

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Our first idea for our main task

For our main task, our main idea was to do the song ‘Put Your Hands Up’ by Alex Root who is an unknown artist. Here are our ideas for that particular song:

·         Starts with the girl in her room, singing on her bed.

·         Gets out the house and two of her friends join her (we have dance steps for the up beat music)

·         Different location: - Central London, Home (bedroom scene), outside the house (high street), Richmond park.

We also decided that we were going to these songs to pick out scenes and shots that inspire us to do ours:

·         With your love

·         Boys and Girls

·         Girl’s just wana have fun. Etc…

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Music Video Directors: David Fincher

These are some of the top directors worth knowing about;

·         Jake (Wynn) and Jim (Canty)

·         Tim Pope

·         Lindy Heymann

·         Hype Williams

·         John Landis

·         Ben Unwin

·         Michael Gondry

·         Spike Jonze

·         Janas Akerland

·         David Fincher

David Fincher (David Andrew Leo Fincher) was born in August 28, 1962 in Denver, Colorado.  Fincher is known for his dark and stylish thrillers such as, Seven (1995), The Game (1997), Panic Room (2002) and many more.
       

·         Inspired by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Fincher began making movies at age eight with an 8 mm camera.

·         After this, Fincher’s career kicked off to a great start.

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Timeline of music video history

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