Kings of Leon Album Denotation + Connoataion

Denotate -

Broken light bulb

In the process of samashing

Black

Text - Name of band and title of album

Photograph

Album cover

Shatterd Glass

Connotate -

Damage

Ruined

Idea (ruined/damaged/shatterd)

Shatterd dreams

The light in the room being put out

left in the dark

goin blind

destroying something beautiful

power

rage

pain

Massive Attack - Angel

Massive attack's video for angel is clips from a film from the film "Vampyr" from 1932. The video is clearly based on the film so it is also based on death and vampires.

The first time i watched this video i wasnt sure what was happening, well to be honest im still not sure but i think, that the man in the coffin is a vampire and they are burrying him to get rid of him and it is from his perspective and like a fly on the wall perspective. When looking from his point of view you are seeing what he can see out of the coffin, like watching the sky and the trees go by. At the end of the video you see a grave being opend and a man hammering a long metal pole into the body in the coffin, however i do not think the body in that coffin is the "vampire".

The song is steady and relaxing, i think this goes well with the video because it is almost like the music is playing inside the "vampire"s head, he is waiting to be burried. This links to my story board for stretched on your grave because that is also about death and graves. I could possibly do somthing like they have, the point of view from the burried persons grave.

Marilyn manson - The beautiful people

The Video for marilyn mansons the beautiful people is, i think, i ironic because all the people you can see are not exactly beautiful. The costumes and the make-up have been done to make them look odd, to make them not look human. There are alot of wierd costumes in this video and alot of wierd props.

There are alot of flashing images in this video, especially at the beginning, the first 30 seconds of it is just flashing images of strange things.

The images in this video are shocking, because they're a bit disturbing and gurungy, it doesn't show things you see every day, is more like something from a nightmare or a horror film. That kind of idea links in with my idea for "stretched on your grave", the title is a bit shocking and i was to incorporate that into my storyboard.

I think visually the video is attention grabbing, because it is just in you face strange, you don't want to look but you have to sort of thing. I think how the colours are used is a main factor, the colours are minimal and dark. Theres only like black, grey, white, red and green used, obviously there are variations on these colours used also.

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

This music video was made in 1986. It is a stop motion animation that shows image referances to the lyrics, for example in the first verse of the song it says

"You could have a steam train If you'd just lay down your tracks You could have an aeroplane flying If you bring your blue sky back"

The images shown in the video are timed to appear when those lyrics are being sang. As you can see in the images below there is a train, a plane and a blue sky.

This video is relevant to this topic because the theme is music, we have to create 2 story boards and 4 final images for our own music video, this is helpful because i was thinking of maybe doing a stop motion animation for my video.

I like the fact that this is a stop motion video because, well to be honest i didn't think people in the 1980's even knew what stop motion was so i was impressed. I was also impressed by the amount of effort that has been put into it and how the images throughout relate to the lyrics. There are alot of different materials used, i like how there is face paint used to make the video fit in more with the lyrics like on the last image above, they have used face paint there and the clouds move across his face like in real life.

If i were to create a video like this i wouldnt change it, it would be different and have better resorces but thats only because times have changed and so has technology so i think it would just have better materials to work with.

Symbol research

Emotions

Time

Memories

Intimacy

Reminicing

Grave

Earth

Death

Weather

Faith

Nature

Funeral

Andy Warhol - Marilyn Monroe

Andy Warhol was made famous for work as a painter, filmmaker, record producer and author. Art like this was known as pop art. His art was mass produced using a procedure called silk screening, silk screening is enlarging and transfering a photo on to silk, then a variety of colours are printed on to the screen with a rubber squeegee to create the block colours.

He used a lot of everyday objects for his art and a famous painting he did was of campbels tomato soup. He was known as "the pope of pop"

There is an Andy Worhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Andy Warhol Museum is one of the biggest museums featuring only one artist in the world. The museum features more than four thousand works of art by Warhol. His works of art include paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, films and videos. In addition to Warhol's artwork, visitors can find information on Andy Warhol's life.

N.E.R.D. - music video research

WATCH THE VIDEO!

This video os set at a party/gig and is showing clips and pictures taken from the party. There is split screens showing videos of girls walking in and out of the toilets, this links in with the song title and lyrics, also at parties its said that girls spend most of the time in the bathroom, liessss. Another split screen thing is pictures showing from the party every so often, it looks like it should be a social network site because by the end of the song all the pictures have been taken off b the user because theyre either really drunk in them or doing somthing they find embaressing. All these thing link in together with the song.

Music Video Research

I chose this video because it uses alot of basic video editing techniques. It was made in 1991 so the technology wasnt as advanced as it is today.

In the video there is alof of split screening/mirroring. I like it in the video when the bass is being played at the top of the screen but you can see all the band members dancing and playing instruments below in the background.

Also it is black and white which is a simple video editing technique, the whole video seems pretty low budget but it fits with the song, the lyrics "give it away" were inspired by an ex-girlfriend of Anthony Keidis (singer) who once told him if you give more things away it makes other people happy and you feel happy for making them happy and the world will be a better place, So the video isnt fancy and sparkly its simple but effective. Also they arnt wearing alot of clothing in the video so that also links in with the lyrics.

Poet research - Hilda doolittle

HEAT

WIND, rend open the heat,

cut apart the heat,

rend it to tatters.

Fruit cannot drop

through this thick air--

fruit cannot fall into heat

that presses up and blunts

the points of pears

and rounds the grapes.

Cut the heat--

plough through it,

turning it on either side

of your path.

LETHE

OR skin nor hide nor fleece

Shall cover you,

Nor curtain of crimson nor fine

Shelter of cedar-wood be over you,

Nor the fir-tree

Nor the pine.

Nor sight of whin nor gorse

Nor river-yew,

Nor fragrance of flowering bush,

Nor wailing of reed-bird to waken you,

Nor of linnet,

Nor of thrush.

Nor word nor touch nor sight

Of lover, you

Shall long through the night but for this:

The roll of the full tide to cover you

Without question,

Without kiss.

ORCHARD

SAW the first pear

as it fell--

the honey-seeking, golden-banded,

the yellow swarm

was not more fleet than I,

(spare us from loveliness)

and I fell prostrate

crying:

you have flayed us

with your blossoms,

spare us the beauty

of fruit-trees.

The honey-seeking

paused not,

the air thundered their song,

and I alone was prostrate.

O rough hewn

god of the orchard,

I bring you an offering--

do you, alone unbeautiful,

son of the god,

spare us from loveliness:

these fallen hazel-nuts,

stripped late of their green sheaths,

grapes, red-purple,

their berries

dripping with wine,

pomegranates already broken,

and shrunken figs

and quinces untouched,

I bring you as offering.

PEAR TREE

ILVER dust

lifted from the earth,

higher than my arms reach,

you have mounted,

O silver,

higher than my arms reach

you front us with great mass;

no flower ever opened

so staunch a white leaf,

no flower ever parted silver

from such rare silver;

O white pear,

your flower tufts,

thick on the branch,

bring summer and ripe fruits

in their purple hearts.

Poet research - John Cooper Clark

I first heard about John cooper clark when i was in year 9, we had to do research on one of his poems called "I wonna be yours" and from then on i have loved him. He performed his poems live to audiences and made albums of them, some of them are songs/poems.

...the day the world stood still

deafening whispers loud and clear
the sound of nothing meets my ears
i get the message - i know the drill
this is the day the world stood still
 the day the world stood still 
o traffic noise or sparrows t
the day the world stood still
nrill from the dead flowers on the window sill 
irror stand and stare like i figure n
this is the day the world stood still  in the
mobody there time to spare time to kill this is the day the world stood still  
d to the overspill no trouble
the day the world stood still the day the world stood still from the undergrou
n not even at the mill this is the day the world stood still  specs of dirt and static flies 
orld stood still  the day the wor
in spacelike spots before my eyes a cup of coffee and a couple of pills this is the day the
wld stood still the day the world stood still the big freeze-up gimme a chill no sense in feeling ill 
helf i couldn't pay i had my fingers 
this is the day the world stood still  i got the whole town to myself i clear the drugstore shelf by
sin the till this is the day the world stood still  the day the world stood still the day the world stood still 
falling from the top of my voice i wre
drink and drugs and a thousand thrills from now on it's all downhill this is the day the world stood still  i'm
ck the vehicles of my choice a rolls-royce a coupe de ville this is the day the world stood still  the day the world stood still 
  i'm driving in a company ca
the day the world stood still the last train to clarkesville ran off the rails nobody killed this is the day the world stood stil
lr i'm jiving in the tango bar i'm dining at the luxury grill this is the day the world stood still  the day the world stood still 
still 
the day the world stood still no trouble not even at the mill at the end of the day i pay no bills this is the day the world stood
 

I wanna Be Yours...

I wanna be your vacuum cleaner

breathing in your dust

I wanna be your Ford Cortina

I will never rust

If you like your coffee hot

let me be your coffee pot

You call the shots

I wanna be yours

I wanna be your raincoat

for those frequent rainy days

I wanna be your dreamboat

when you want to sail away

Let me be your teddy bear

take me with you anywhere

I don’t care

I wanna be yours

I wanna be your electric meter

I will not run out

I wanna be the electric heater

you’ll get cold without

I wanna be your setting lotion

hold your hair in deep devotion

Deep as the deep Atlantic ocean

that’s how deep is my devotion

The one below is my favourite, although it has alot of swearing, i think it is really celver.

TWAT

Like a Night Club in the morning, you’re the bitter end.
Like a recently disinfected shit-house, you’re clean round the bend.
You give me the horrors
too bad to be true
All of my tomorrow’s
are lousy coz of you.
You put the Shat in Shatter
Put the Pain in Spain
Your germs are splattered about
Your face is just a stain
You’re certainly no raver, commonly known as a drag.
Do us all a favour, here... wear this polythene bag.
You’re like a dose of scabies,
I’ve got you under my skin.
You make life a fairy tale... Grimm!
People mention murder, the moment you arrive.
I’d consider killing you if I thought you were alive.
You’ve got this slippery quality,
it makes me think of phlegm,
and a dual personality
I hate both of them.
Your bad breath, vamps disease, destruction, and decay.
Please, please, please, please, take yourself away.
Like a death a birthday party,
you ruin all the fun.
Like a sucked and spat our smartie,
you’re no use to anyone.
Like the shadow of the guillotine
on a dead consumptive’s face.
Speaking as an outsider,
what do you think of the human race
You went to a progressive psychiatrist.
He recommended suicide...
before scratching your bad name off his list,
and pointing the way outside.
You hear laughter breaking through, it makes you want to fart.
You’re heading for a breakdown,
better pull yourself apart.
Your dirty name gets passed about when something goes amiss.
Your attitudes are platitudes,
just make me wanna piss.
What kind of creature bore you
Was is some kind of bat
They can’t find a good word for you,
but I can...
TWAT.

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• I dont want to be nice
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Here he comes now....

The fast fingers, the expert eyes

And the same old 'how'd you do'

Disgust is just his dumb disguise

He wants a word with you

His problems are the end

His mouth needs exercise

The last thing I need is another friend

I don't want to be nice

I don't want to be nice

I think it's clever to swear

Better seek some sound advice

Better look elsewhere

Your face is an obvious case

You shouldn't put it about

This is neither the time nor place

To sort these matters out

What you see is what you get

You only live twice

A friend in need is a friend in debt

I don't want to be nice

No we never met before

I'm very happy to say

Far from perfect strangers

I'd like to keep it that way

I'm not your psychoanalyst

I'd rather talk to mice

You're so easy to resist

I don't want to be nice

I don't want to be nice

I think it's clever to swear

Better seek some sound advice

Better look elsewhere

Your face is an obvious case

You shouldn't put it about

This is neither the time nor place

To sort these matters out

What you see is what you get

You only live twice

A friend in need is a friend in dept

I don't want to be nice

Fine Art Artists'

Sandro Botticelli
"The birth Of Venus"
I think Sandro Botticelli communicated his painting of "the birth of venus" really well. He has used the colours to fit the occasion, nutral, natural, simple and pastel colours to make it look innocent which is probably what he was aiming for, becuase your not gonna make the birth of venus dark and gloomy, its a happy occasion, its new, sweet and innocent.

Hans Holbine

I am sure i have seen this before, i think it is pretty famous too with it being a portrait of henry the 8th. There is alot of detail put into this, like the patterns on his sleves and the detail in his face.

Marcus Harvey

I really like the idea of this how it looks pixelated but you canstill see what the image is. Im not sure who the image is of, it slightly looks like princess diana but i highly doubt it is. I dont know what tools he used to make this but its likely to be done with a paint brush obviously or a sponge and the paint is dabbed on.

Tang Yin

I love these sort of images. With the plain backgrounds or material backgrounds. It puts all the focus onto the image on the canvas and you understand what is happening in them more. The artist has done many paintings like this, and theyre all to do with his home town or heritage.

Paul Klee

I think this is supposed to be a town. Its very colourful but it hasnt used a wide range of colours, theyre all close together in the range. I think this makes it better, it looks like shading rather then loads of colours all placed together, that would complicate things and you wouldnt know where to look, this, i think, makes your eyes move from the bottom of the page upwards and take in the whole picture.

Francis Bacon

When looking through Francis bacons work i was drawn to this one straight away. Its very dark and slightly disturbing but it demands your attention because its just... so odd. But thats what makes it good, its different and you cant sus it out so you want to know more. It looks like it could have been done on photoshop because of the way the colours are overlapping and blending.

Joan Miro

This reminded me, at first glance, of a sort of bauhaus picture. With its simplicity and block colours and hard edges. However, it isnt like bauhaus because its not straight edges, its curvy and free.






Robert Rauchenrerg

I find it really funny how this is classed as fine art (well i hope it is) becuase its a load of mess, but a good mess. It has been made with material, it looks like a bed sheet or somthing along that line and maybe some cut up throw or covers and then paint spashed all over them. I would have this in my house, my own house, if i had one, my mum wouldnt like it.











Rogier Van Der Weyden
"Girl with the perl earring"

Im sure ive heard about this somewhere? or is there a book or a film called the girl with the perl earring? IM not sure. But i reconise the name so thats gotta mean somthing, it might be a famous peice? Just looking at it wouldnt surprise me if it was, its really good, not alot of fine detail but its striking.





Jenny Saville

I can remember mark showing the group this in a lesson once, i deffinatly iddnt forget about it. And im amazed at how big it is in real life, theres so much detail in it and clearly so much effort put into it to make it as big as it is. Its shocking, i would never have the patcience, the lack of being able to draw or paint is also a draw back. But i love it, i would have this in my house too, in a room all to its self, its amazing.

Music research - Crystal castles album covers

I was looking for information about electronic music and Daft punk sprang to mind, and then i rememebrd the album cover to Crystal castles album, theyre leaning forward and hiding their faces, and it made me link the two duo's. They both have kept their faces hidden, because daft punk wear those helmets.

Research - Crystal Castles advert

After doing some research into the band ihave chosen for my video-jocky project i found out that One of Crystal Castles songs was used in an award winning advert for Toshiba high definaition rage. Ironic how this video is really bad quality.

15 Illustrators

Grzegorz Domaradzki

I think Domaradzki is my favourite out of all the Illustrators i have researched. I love every piece of work of his i have seen, they just fascinate me. I just wish i could draw half as good as he does. I really like the piece shown above because it looks like it has just been drawn but still manages to look perfect. I know he hasn't just drew these he has also scanned in and improved them on photoshop. There will be a few layers to this as well, the outline and shading of the face will be on one layer, the colours on another, the text another, block colours another and background another, each placed together in the correct place will make an outcome as good as this.

I think he is aiming this towards anyone who is confused about their future, mainly students. I think he is trying to get across the point of being yourself, and putyting that into your work. the phrase "Create What You Are" is written twice on this image, the obvious is in the black circle and it is said all over the picture "create" is writen with the hair, "what" is written across the neck, "you" is part of the neck/hand area and you is at the very bottom, it is like subliminal messages.

Matthew Richardson

Unlike Grzegorz Domaradzki, Matthew Richardson hasn't drawn any of these images his self, i would assume anyway. This piece is called "Albertine Diaries (Financial Times)", you can sort of see that it has somthing to do with the financial world. I think it shows this fromt he buildings in the back ground and the dark clouds with objects falling out of the sky with the two people looking upwards worried.

Steven Harrington

I think Steven harrington created every part of this image his self. I think he did the pink bits first, he possibly used a circle template and put the paint on the edges of the car and blew the pain off in the places he wanted, then waited for that to dry, put a smaller circle template in the middle again and repeted the same thing and used a banans to print its shape as the mouth and then used a finger print and a "world" as the eyes.

Barton Damer

This is artwork for the band "wolfmothers" upcoming tour, i think that tour has ended now. it won 1st place in a digital arts award sponsored by things such as the computer arts magazine.

To do think i think alot of techniques are used. I think a little bit of photography, alot of drawing and deffinatly alot of photoshoping. And many many layers. This obviously wants you to think you have to go to see wolfmother on this tour, it makes it look as if it is going to be a cannot miss gig. And it is obviously aimed towards wolfmother fans and to hopefuy grab the attention of someone who is unnawear of who they are.

Yasmine Putri

Yasmine created this by painting it first and scanning it in to enhance it. Im not quite sure who this is aimed towards, ill take a risk and say chinese people because of the dragon in the background and the fact that it looks like a chinese celebration.

Robi Joeleht

This was created byt drawing first and then enhanced on photoshop, photoshop has added the shiny metal effect and all the buts and bolts to link in with what it is actually saying "never trust a robot". IM not sure if this even has a targeted audience, i think it appeals to anyone.

Jessica Walsh

This was drawn very precistly before scanning on to the computer to edit in photoshop. There is alot of graphical techniques involved in this, and it shows. It is very structured and preciste in mesurement. I actually cant work out what it says so i am really stuck to who its target audience is.

Peter root

On Peter Roots website it explains he drew this on graphics paper then digitalised it on photoshop. He has some other drawings like this on his website that i have linked above. I really like this because i thought i was the only person who did silly drawings on lined paper, but his are obviously better and have more time put into them then mine. It looks to me like the place in the pictureis like an airport or trainstation or somthing along those lines. I like how the people are all in colour but everything else is plain, i think this represents what it is like at place like theses, the surroundings are dull but all the people are colourfull, theyre going to be there on thair way on holiday, for work or to visit someone special, i think the colours represent their stories.

Matthew Hollings

I think for this it looks like he has edited over an image or maybe hes just really good at drawing and did it by hand first. It is clear he has used a wide variety of tools and brushes to get this to look how it has. The man in the image is Pharell Williams, he is a "rap/hip-hop" singer in a bad called N.E.R.D, infact thats why i chose this images cause i love N.E.R.D, anyway, the image i think fits in with Pharell really well because of how he is in music and all that goes with it and i think he is trying to communicate that to the viewers.

Ben Thomas

I was looking through a Computer Arts magazine the other day and came across Ben Thomas a few times but i diddnt take much notice because i was looking for somthing else. This looks like Photography and alot of photoshop work to me, putting each sperate bit onto different layers.

Notta Caflisch

I like the message this one has. It is about global warming, you can tell because, well its obvious, but because of the powerstation and the smoke coming out of it that has animals in it, it is showing that the smoke and damage that the smoke does to it affects the world. I think the simplicity of the photo also shows how easy it is to get ourselves into this mess. I thinkt he techniwue is the same for this as the others, drawn then edited on photoshop.

Victoria Topping

I like this one bcause it was made different to the others, finally!there has been soem scanning of materials and bits of drawing and paintings to create this. they will be layerd too. I think this is aimed to girls, because it is girly obviously and girls tend to like a wider variety of animals then boys, plus all of ther other work is pretty girly so im guessing she aims mainly towards the female side/

Natalie Brokett

After looking at natalies website i noticed she does alot of fashion pieces like the one shown above. I think she probably made it by editing a photograph on photoshop to get all these different effects and textures.

Chris seddon

The image about is an example of Chris' fashion illustrations. He gets the idea for them by drawing them by hand in coloured inks then adds more volume to them on photoshop. I like how this looks as if it oculd have origonaly been a photograph but still looks like a really good drawing. His fashion illustrations are obvioulsy aimed towards the fashion concious or people in or working their way into fashion.

Matthew dent

On matthews website i couldnt fnid any work like this, the work on his website was mainly photography things. I really like how he has drawn this, i like all the little details, there has been alot of time and effort put into this. I dont know who this is aimed towards or what he is trying tp communicate, it could be anything.