Music is All the Same
Made by Stephen He
Made by Stephen He
Create a supercut that demonstrates the similarities between popular music.
Created: September 29th, 2016
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Create a supercut that demonstrates the similarities between popular music.
1. Clarity. You explained the reason behind your project clearly and explained how your project is responding the issue your raised.
2. Intent. Yes the intention is really clear since you clearly mentioned your intention to explore the mold of pop songs and represent the similarity of populars songs nowadays.
3. Material. Your will use supercut of video clips, and that's one of the only feasible methods to represent music content. But think about how you should utilize video so that it contains elements that are not approachable by audio only supercut. Since the repetition of pop music molds can also be represented by audio track.
4. Spread.You work is very interesting because you're trying to identify the underlying reason why certain media went viral and tries to expose it. It will create certain impact on those who didn't realize this fact before.
1. Clarity - Your proposal was pretty clear, but I think you could include some more information about the specific process you will be using for your project.
2. Intent - Your intent is very clear and definitely makes a strong statement about contemporary pop music. I agree that mainstream music nowadays is often repetitive and very similar in regards to themes and sound, so I like that you will group songs by both topic and musical patterns.
3. Material - You made it clear that you will be sampling from various popular songs, but will there be a visual component as well? If so, will you be taking visuals from music videos?
4. Spread - You didn't talk about how you might spread your project, but it definitely seems like something that would be of interest for many young people, so you might start by posting it on Youtube, and then sharing it on FB and Twitter.
Clarity:
You explained your intent really well, and immediately drew me into the idea. But I'd like to see a few examples of the songs you tentatively want to use.
Intent:
I really like your intent because I can't agree with you more that popular songs are quite similar in their forms (at least from a non-music person's point of view). I think that's one of the reasons that make people get tired of new pop songs quite quickly once they binge listen to them, whereas I can't get tired of other songs not so traditionally thought of as pop. I'm excited to see your final product.
Material&Spread:
Since most people know most of the pop songs, I think you'd have a wide variety of audience that can relate to your material, which helps you successfully achieve making your project spreadable. Since I'm not sure how you're going to approach this, I think it'd be better if you make a lyrics video to go along with your music mashup, since you mentioned that there are reoccurring themes in music and lyrics should be a good way to illustrate that.
1. Clarity. The proposal is pretty clear; the intent of the project makes sense and I thought it was an interesting idea. I also think there could be a slight bit more detail as to what kind of music you wanted to include and how you wanted to group them, beyond the general content.
2. Intent. I thought it was kind of borrowing the idea from the "4 chord song" by Axis of Awesome, but you put it into a different context, so I think it works. There are a lot of theme's to explore here as well; beyond just content, there's a lot of musical similarities in pop songs, and also a certain kind of sound. Maybe you could consider somehow including these elements too.
3. Material. It's pretty clear you're just going to use mp3 files, or youtube videos, or some sort of combo to mix and match music together. Maybe you could use someone else's mashups as well.
4. Spread. I think this concept would need to be implemented well and done with care; however, it could work, and work well. Maybe, as an idea, you could add some humor to it; make the words go off of each other to make jokes, or something. I'm looking forward to seeing this project!
1. Clarity: The proposal is concise and clear. The message you want to deliver and the way you choose to do it is well demonstrated in the proposal.
2. Intent: I actually share the same feeling towards today's pop music and I think what you are doing will help many people express their attitude.
3. Material: I assume the material you use will be pop songs and music videos and I think there's no problem with it.
4. Spread: I think you can include some personal comment and humorous elements into the video. Sharing it on youtube, twitter and facebook and other social media will be great.
Hi I watched your video on youtube and I think you have some very good choices as your songs. Most of them are very recognizable and that highlights what you want to show in this project, that popular songs all have more or less of the same "Ooh" components in them, which doesn't really mean anything. I think you did a good job in terms of visual as well, with pauses in between the music video scenes to guide your audience. I hope that this project will spread, because I do think a lot of people will resonate with you on this matter. Good job!
I think your project is creative, clear, and well intended. The transition between clips is very smooth (which I struggled with). It's also very short so the audience's attention doesn't die away toward the end. Overall great job!
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