Research into the House Genre

House music originated in America in the early 1980's in the American city or Chicago. Early house music was generally dance-based music characterised by repetitive beats over and over again which meant that the repetitive rhythm of house was more important than the song itself. House music today, while keeping several of these core elements has changed drastically where by now you get less vocals used in the songs and when you do get some lyrics its only either for a short length of time or is repeated over and over again.

House music also varies a lot in style and choice range, which ranges from the soulful and atmospheric deep house to the more quite slow moving house. Today house music is getting more and more popular and this first started out when iconic pop artists at the time liked and linked their music talents up with some of the house DJ's to collaberate mixes. Some of these artists such as Madonna, Janet Jackson, Björk, Aretha Franklin and Steps all found them selfs mixing into the house genre at the early stages of its existance.

Shoot 7

For this shoot we went to Georges house in Keighley and for this shoot we had some of the footage from the care home to film and a scene of the old man on the DJ decks and we managed through some set dressing to be able to achieve the realistic view of a club scene. However we did come up against a minor hurdle along the way due to us not being able to gain access to the care home we did however manage to get the 'club' scene filmed so it was a beneficial shoot
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Audience Feedback 4

Below is the audience feedback we were given by our media teacher as well as useful points from the class. This helped us with the creation process as it was vital element to improving our video. With the feedback we then made changed and adjusted the video to fit the points given by the other students and teacher.

Shoot 6

For this shoot we finally went to the care home and shot the scene that was needed from the care home to add continuity to our music video and improve the narrative of the music video. Where by the narrative can start now at the care home which was planned and then it can also end at the care home to add and fit in with the Altman theory of intellectual puzzles where by it leaves the video on a sort of a lift hanger.

We came up against a few problems when shooting at the care home and these problems were that we had to wait an hour to eventually get in due to the care home not being suitable at that time in the room that we wanted to shoot in. Also we had the factor of the rain in the windows which wasn't on previous shots so we had to wait until it had stopped raining for us to do the shoot and then when we did start shooting we realised that there was a slight slit in the masks mouth so with the framing and placement of the character we managed to get that sorted.

We did however manage to do some set dressing where by we manipulated to chair in the care home to be able to be looking at the TV in the room so we could then use an idea of putting some relevant images on the screen when editing the footage.

Audience Feedback 3

Below is another audience feedback  given by our media teacher, class students and a second media teacher. This helped us again with the creation process as it was vital element to improving our video. With the feedback we then made changed and adjusted the video to fit the points given by the other students and teacher.  

Shoot 5

For this shoot we went into Ilkley to shoot the remaining footage needed to develop a full rough cut and for this we used the locations which were Ilkley town centre, Keighley and also various parts of Leeds such as the trinity center and briggate. We took into consideration the light and how it wouldn't be the same as the light on the other shoots so we had to add slight effects when editing the sequence where by we added a few minor tints to the screen.

I feel that this shoot was rather successful as we got a lot of the major dancing footage shot and this will then help us with the amount that we did shoot to create a decent enough rough cut to get some feedback on from our target audience and peers a like and for somewhat of our secondary audience. In this shoot we got lots of shot variety and good use of the different settings to cause that sense of verisimilitude and diversity which all good music videos need to have within them

However in this shoot we did not get the care home scene filmed due to it being unavailable for our use at this time

So we have now devised another time for us to film this key part of our music video. We also feel that the way our editing is going we have developed a minor narrative to our music video rather than predominantly a performance and dance based video which we will be able to achieve when we do film these vital scenes from the care home.

Shoot 4

In this shoot we went to Leeds to shoot this time. We managed to get a lot filmed on the train and at the station on the way there and on the way back. And on this shoot we managed to get most of the dancing scenes done. This was key due to the public reactions which the old man got whilst he was dancing in the streets. This adds to the verisimilitude of the music video and adds a sense of realism to the video. However on this shoot we didn't manage to gather images of the shoot but we have enough footage for the video its self so we will be able to assemble a good rough cut to put together to gather enough audience feedback.

Also on this shoot we managed to add different effects to the camera so that the filming of this would increase the uses of technology used and editing techniques used to achieve a greater grade and sense of what we would need to hoot on the next shoot where by we would analyse the footage shot and decide from there.

However for the next shoot that we do we will need to get the footage of the care home done and the footage of some more dancing in and around some urban areas so then it follows the original artists themes and his type of editing and specifics.