BrockBlog Ver.Ka Video Series #1

1st Meeting Plan

Because our team finds itself still lacking anything other than worded research and posts we felt it was time to record at least one of our discussions, because while we have discussed what we plan to do we haven't really sat down and planned massively, i feel this meeting will help us accomplish that, so here is the list of things well will be visiting:

A Background/Detailed Analysis of the song which will also include a small portion of research on the artist.

How we have interpreted the song

What ideas we can take from the song and apply to our music video or what direction we might take in terms of research for planning our video thoroughly

The Positives and Negatives of "all for love" and how it might have done had the song received mainstream attention instead of being a niche product

And finally a brief talk about what we know about Soul and R&B.

all in all this discussion plan is simple and easy to follow, and this will make recording it very easy.

Talking About Soul(1)

Soul music had humble origins, in the black communities of the united states of America, at the time gospel music and rhythm and blues were the main singing tool of the black community who were proud of their culture, as the music developed it eventually became representative of the whole popular music of black people at the time, and so people produced this soul music and it became a staple of American culture and even more so the Motown records label, which originally produced pop music but because of the large number of artists who were signing with Motown they had a large percentage of artists who performed soul records and famous examples of people who are consider soul artists are:

Marvin Gaye
Stevie Wonder
The Superemes
The Jackson Five

As you can see there are a number of well known artists, and often their work is referred to as classic and imaginative, but the genre of soul only lasted until the late 1990's when the music industry decided that Hip-Hop is what appealed most to the younger listens of today as the industry decided children and teenagers often wanted the most trendy and cool music and would bug their parents to purchase it.

So this was a small part of the larger area known as the genre of soul.

Smokey Robinson said of Motown's cultural impact:

Into the '60s, I was still not of a frame of mind that we were not only making music, we were making history. But I did recognize the impact because acts were going all over the world at that time. I recognized the bridges that we crossed, the racial problems and the barriers that we broke down with music. I recognized that because I lived it. I would come to the South in the early days of Motown and the audiences would be segregated. Then they started to get the Motown music and we would go back and the audiences were integrated and the kids were dancing together and holding hands.

Email to warner brothers for permission to use our selected track

Dear Warner music group,

as the topic of the email suggests i would like to ask for permission to use a specific soundtrack for a A level media studies project, the project is the creation of a music video, however the examinations board who regulates the course has a strict line when it comes to using copyright music.

They ask that we get permission from the associated label to use the track we select before we do any work, so in keeping with this i,Brocken Rose would like to ask for your permission to use the track:All For Love By Seal(Commitment 2010) in my music video.

Thank you very much for reading this question and thank you for any return messages i may receive as part of this question and once again thank you

Song Choice Selected

After much deliberation and choosing, Our Hopeful selection is Seal-All For Love,Which honestly surprises me, because originally i put it on the list of selection as a filler song to fill out my end of the list, however after going through the process of picking a song it ended up being one of the quite high-up tracks, after that it faced compitietion from Sister act,Bodies and Englishman in new york, and then we decided to look at each of the factors we liked about the song, we found i'm fabulous baby was unsuitable because of certain elements in the lyrics and the amount of stage work that would be involved,next we got rid of english man in new york because of it's recent popularity being featured in an episode of doctor who, so that left us with bodies and all for love, we then decided on some crieta for which song we should pick and the crietea was:

Does The Song Have A Music Video

Can The Video Be Produced At Low Or No Cost

Does The Video have thousands of views or millions

And

Does The Music Sound Good Enough to listen to for repeated amounts of time without becoming annoying.