“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.”-Hunter S. Thompson
As the famous pop music journalist Thompson says in this piece of gonzo journalism that he invented, pop music is business that is all about money. Our pop video had to gain an audience to get money. Our pop video also reflects in part Thompson's view of the human race. In the literal sense our pop video follows the idea that ‘thieves and pimps run free’. The narrative of the video can be seen as one where each is for their own. To survive as an individual, with no money, security or health. The progress of the blog explains this in many ways…
The blog from this year explains everything that I have created and how within that I have researched, produced and published it. It reflects how my ideas have developed and what I could have improved if I were to have repeated it. After seven months of hard work and motivation in the write up’s in the blog and the finished product of the pop video I have finally come to an end. It is one that I am relatively satisfied with and feel confident enough to use as my Media coursework. However, I have come across many minor problems, but one that I was more of an issue was to do with the location of the filming of the pop video. As a group, we had trouble in finding and securing a location for the shoot. Initially, we had a location but we were told that we did not have permission to shoot they for the day. Over and over again we found new locations that fitted our narrative and theme, but again we were rejected due to filming purposes, the amount of people who would be on location and the age of ourselves; these all discouraged many of the industries and councils and prevent
ed us from using the area. Finally, we found a perfect location on the same land as one of the boarding houses at school. In all of the locations that we found, this was probably the most accessible and easiest to film in. It was a two minute drive from school and we had all permissions guaranteed to film how ever we needed. Overall, the creation of the pop video, blog, digipack and advert it has been a long and painful piece of work. In retrospect I could have done it differently, but I am happy with the works as a whole.
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