Holt/Norwich Location.

We chose Holt as our location because wit was an good location for both of us to get to but as luck would have it the Christmas lights had been put up and they would have worked really well with the long exposure of the camera.

The only problem was that on the day we chose to film it rained heavily and therefore the shots would have been of a lesser quality and the camera wouldn't have stood up to the rain so we decided to try it out over at my house just to make make sure we had the right techniques etc. (Which luckily we did).





While Holt was an accidental location we did choose it originally even though we weren't aware the lights had been put up. We chose it because when it comes to the story of our song we focused it on how the boy 'Justin' only acted 'cool, calm, and collected'. So we would use the calm location of a quiet Norfolk town to highlight the hectic and crazy times that he usually pretends to have. As we can't film in Holt anymore we are going to use Norwich as we were planning to go there anyway and so now we will be doing the same thing but also just taking pictures.    

With our new location plan we think that we can re-create the calm part of town as it will be a friday when most teenagers will still be in school or college so it will be quiet enough in Norwich to create the mood in which we need to film.
We will then be re-creating the idea of all the times that 'Justin' pretends to be something he is not by filming during a party slash gathering that will be going on, on the last part of the friday off. This will contrast nicely to the calmness of Norwich, so the two will play off of each other.

Last Day Filming

This week we came together to try out our light photography and drawing techniques for use in our video and I'm glad to say that we nailed the basics of what we had to do, we found the hardest part was that we had a replacement photographer for the day as our original photographer forgot that we were doing it but sadly he wasn't as experienced as our originally chosen one but we made do and we now know exactly what we have to do. When we come together for the last time we know exactly what were doing. We will be going out into Norwich in the afternoon to which will provide us with the light that will help us represent the good side of 'Justin' and then later us and some friends are going to Becky's house for a gathering in which the darkness combined with the lights will help represent the darker side of 'Justin's' life.  These are different for our original plans but I think will actually work out better than we originally planned. For instance out video is inspired by Rizzle Kicks' video 'Prophet'  and we realised that we were in fact not using it as inspiration but copying the video. This way (even though it was a complete accident from something going wrong) we get to use the techniques in the video and come up with an original video style.

Theories

Hypodermic Needle Model:
This theory is based on the idea that people are putting messages through and are accepted by the people who are receiving them, the model comes from 1930's behaviourism and are mostly ignored today.


Two-Step flow Model
:
A theory based on a 1940's study on that says that media effects are not directly made through the personal influence of  leaders. Most of the people receive most of their information and are influenced by the media second-hand, through the personal influence of the opinion leaders.


Uses and gratifications theory:


This is based on the idea people will more often than not go in search for media and information that will enhance knowledge and social interactions. It means that the audience take an active role in interpreting and bringing media into their own lives. Basically the audience will choose the media that fits their needs.
This theory would then imply that the media compete against other information sources for viewers' gratification.

Emo Culture

Emo Origins

Emo emerged from the hardcore punk scene of early-1980s Washington, D.C. Both as a reaction to the increased violence within the scene and carrying on the personal ideas made by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat , who had changed the focus of the music from the community back towards the individual. Minor Threat fan Guy Picciotto formed Rites of Spring in 1984, breaking free of hardcore music's boundaries for melodic guitars, varied rhythms, and deeply personal, impassioned lyrics. Many of the band's ideas would become familiar sights in later generations of emo music, including nostalgia, romantic bitterness, and poetic desperation. Their performances became public emotional purges where audience members would sometimes cry with emotion.

'Emo' becomes Mainstream:

Emo broke into the mainstream media in the summer of 2002 with a number of big events: Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American album went platinum on the strength of "The Middle", which reached No. 1 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. Dashboard Confessional reached No. 22 on the same chart with "Screaming Infidelities" from their Vagrant Records debut The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, which was No. 5 on Independent Albums, and became the first non-platinum-selling artist to record an episode of MTV Unplugged (the live album itself was a No. 1 Album in 2003 and went platinum).  New Found Glory's album Sticks and Stones debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200. 

Locations:

Emo started off in Washington D.C. but quickly moved throughut the states to Midwestern and Central United States · New Jersey and Long Island. So Emo's mainly exist in the U.S. but of course it's not a requirement to live in a certain part of the world so they exist throughout other countries such as the U.K.

 

Fashion:

Today emo is tied to fashion as well as the emo subculture. Usually among teens, the term "emo" is stereotyped with wearing skinny jeans, sometimes in different colors, and tight t-shirts which often bear the names of emo bands. Studded belts and black wristbands are common accessories in emo fashion. The emo fashion is also recognized for its hairstyles. Popular looks like long side-swept bangs, sometimes covering one or both eyes. It's popular that is straightened and dyed black. Short, choppy layers of hair are also common.

Related Media:

Emo culture has ofter been blamed for it's possible connections to suicide and has been blamed for occurences of it in young children claiming that it is poisoning their minds with these ideas. Case in point, Hannah Bond a 13 year-old girl from Kent hung herself and EMo music was blamed. Roger Sykes, the coroner who gave the verdict of suicide on May 7, suggested that the fact that she was an obsessive fan of such music was linked to her death.

What might it be a reaction to:
It could have been a reaction a new wave of music which came out at the time such as artists 'Jimmy Eat World' and 'Dashboard Confessional' to which people who loved the music so much dedicated the way they dressed and acted  and lived thier lives to it.

Filming

We will be filming our chorus section tomorrow at Holt. We will decide on a location when we are in Holt and can get a good view of the area tomorrow we are choosing it because it is within easy reach for both of us and a bonus is that the long exposure combined with the recently added Christmas lights will give a great effect to the video. We will be asking our friend Catrin to take the pictures so obviously we can both be in our video, the upside is that she also is good with cameras so will be able to cope with taking so many photos.