Analysis of Similar Products: Music Videos

In this video by Amy Winehouse there are a few similarities to what comes across in Maisie's work. An example of this is how both artist use there music to depict upon a story. Amys lyrics in this piece of music tells the story of how she is getting over an ex and how she wishes to place her feelings in a box and let them go. The lyrics also touch on how people have depicted her. That is similar in the way maisie's song nerd loves tells a story of how the boy she meets in the video is a nerd to everyone else yet she falls in love with him when she looks under neith the exterier.
In this video the way the story is told is done in two parts. When Amy is shown in a dress and holding the guitar she is acting as the narater to the story who is looking on it as a third party. Yet then amy also appears within the video walking through the scenes as she is part of it. Within the video there is a great deal of movement when Amy is not shown narrating the video. All of the camera shots with this movement is focusing on Amys facial emotions. The only exeption to this in the video is when someones hand is drop coins onto a small disco ball. This however is different from when Amy is narrating. The camera shots when amy is narrating varies between closeups on amys face to a long shot of the whole of Amys body with her holding the guitar. Within this video the lighting stays resonably dark although the this challenges the Goodwins theory as the music that is beeing played is not dark or linked to any form of heavy metal. Although it does show the emotions of not being happy within the lyrics. The costume that Amy also wears when she is narrating counteracts the lighting and the emotions that are carrued with it as she herself is wearing a bright red dress. This can represent the love that she is singing about within the song or shows hope that she is moving away from the sad emotions about her breakibng up with her partner.
When comparing this to what we could be doing with the video when it comes round to Maisie's video, i think we would change the way the lighting depicts the emotion in the song as Maisie's song is about something good and the emotions would be positive. This means that the lighting would be bright or just normal standard lighting and the colours would either be really bright and loud or just normal. The idea of the facty Maisie could be both narating and playing through as a charcater in the video would make her story easier to follow

Analysis of Similar Products Music Videos

This is the Video from Taylor Swifts song Mine.
In this video the Lyrics to the song have a narative that matches with the narative of what is going on throughout the music video. As both the song and the video shows the story about a troubled relationship of both past and present for the main character who Taylor Swift plays. The setting of which Taylor is shot allown singing also compliments the video as the couple within the music video move to a house surronded by trees itself. The footage is cut to make it seem that there is a link between the what taylor swift is singing and doing on her own and what is going on in the story of the video. There is a great deal of movement in the video whethere this is the camera moving around taylor swift when she is in the forrest surronded by the photos of events in the story and the amount of camera shots there are in the story itself capturing everything that is going on. Even when Taylor Swift is standing alone there are a mixture of medium and extreme close ups on her showing the emotions that she is showing while singing the song/ story. When the tempo of the music increases during the chorus the camera shots cut from one to the other alot quicker which helps capture what is going on in the story. An example of this is the flash backs to when the main character was a little girl and her parents are arguing like what her and her partner are doing in present time. Taylor Swift is shown throught the video lip synicing to the camera as if she is singing directly to the audience, which is called direct address.

Maisie Mae

Latest tracks by Maisie-Mae

Finally found a way to show you what Maisie sounds like as you can see Maisie has her own style and it has been hard to link her to similar products. This soundcloud has helped us show what we would like to use when we get a hard copy of the music so we can use it as we feel free. This has also allowd us to show that we do have songs that we are going to use rather than us just saying so.

As we have said before the song we like to do is the Nerd Love as it tells a story which can mean it becomes a narrative for the video.

Problems with youtube

At this moment of time we cannot give an example of maisie's song as we are unable to gain access to facebook during school and their are big risks with Maisie putting her songs on youtube.

The main problem is with software such as Orbit Downlader this is because, Orbit Downloader is a download manager for Microsoft Windows. One of the main features of the program is its ability to grab and download embedded Flash Video files from sites like YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, etc. Orbit Downloader also accelerates downloads by acting as a peer-to-peer client, utilizing bandwidth of other users.

This means that other people could in fact take credit for Maisie's work and this is a major concern for her. While this issue is still present we cannot place anything with just her song up onto youtube until we have started placing our clips from when we start filming.

Similar Products to Maisie Mae

At this moment in time we can not show you what Maisie's music sounds like because of the issues with uploading to youtube and the risk of her music being downloaded illegally before it is placed on sale. Although this is an issue we can still show you what genre she links into and similar products that are already out in the music industry.



the three songs that Maisie has are similar to adele as they are only different beacuse they only have maisie playing the guitar and no other instruments within the song.

Another artist that is similar to Maisie is Leddra Chapman, a reasonably un hear of artist who has only really be noticed because of her song on youtube. Her song Summer Song is more like Maisie's as it maily consists of the acoustic guitar, yet whereas Maisie only relis on her guitar and voice.





The three songs that Maise currently has published on her facebook page are
Nerd Love
Comparrison of Us
High Horse

At this momment in time our favourate is Nerd Love as it tells a story so when it is used in a video it can act as a narrative to what is going on in the video itself.

Examples of band websites

Allong with the digipack we have to create for our coursework we also have to create a website for the artist that we have chosen to use in our music video. The following images show the different styles of which the websites can be and how they are set out. It can be difficult to sometimes create proffessional websites but our teacher mr devita has given us a website which allows you to recreate these styles of sites.

When we have found out what style of music we can easily slot our artist into we have can expand more on what type and style of website we will create.

What is a Digipack

Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. Since Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies, and because there is no other common name for Digipak-style packaging made by other companies, the term digipak or Digi-Pak is often used generically, even when the media holder is a hub or "Soft Spot" rather than a full plastic tray.

Digipak-style packaging is often used for CD singles or special editions of CD albums and the tall DVD Digipak (DVDigipak) is used as a premium package for DVDs and DVD sets. Because such packaging is less resistant to abrasion than jewel cases, it tends to show signs of wear relatively quickly. Licensed digipak manufacturers such as domestic U.S. printer and disc replicator Oasis Disc Manufacturing recommend coating the raw printed paper with a protective UV coating, thus ensuring greater longevity.