Thursday, 12 May 2011

Music Audiences and industry Revition

  • Make sure you mention the resent sony PS3 controversy. What has happend at sony? How will this effect the consumer confidence in online retailing i.e) itunes accounts?
  • Warner Music has been brought out by Russian Billianare
  • Tunecore website- A new model of music distrabution? 
  • When writting notes split the noter into four sections which I have done in class i.e) Mise- en- scene, editing, sound and camera work.

Monday, 9 May 2011

Quiz participatory cultures and music

Quiz participatory cultures and music!

1) I belong to Facebook, Blogger, YouTube, soundcload,                                             2

2) I use participatory cultures because it is a way of socialising, way of listening to music and watching videos and making my own personal opinion.                           4

3)
  • Affiliations- Facebook groups, people get together online with similar interests

  • Expressions- Creative projects- remix, videos, mash ups that are shared online

  • Collaborate Problem Solving- Wikipedia, everybody contributes information. Information/knowledge is shared for free. Also ask wiki questions

  • Circulations- individuals sharing information online, Charlie Sheen story, Twitter posts making mainstream news Libya crisis- people using mobile phones footage and uploading to UTube.
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4) Artists can use participatory cultures to produce their music and gain comments free of charge.                                                                                                          4

5) The advantages of artists using participatory cultures can gain an identity and can show people who maybe interested in them.                                                                4

6) The advantages of participatory cultures for fans are websites such as soundcloud can give people the chance for people to remix music and for anyone to listen and to comment on the work.                                                                                                     4


7) Disadvantages for artists are websites such as TuneCore gives someone the chance to sell their own music online via iTunes, MySpace music, and Amazon mp3 etc, they get 100% of the profit and TuneCore takes no percentage.                                                4


8) – can you trust that fan pages are official? Downloading illegal music will affect your favourite bands chances on charts.
                                   

30 J

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

Participating Cultures.

Participating Cultures.

Affiliations- Facebook groups, people get together online with similar interests

Expressions- Creative projects- remix, videos, mash ups that are shared online

Collaborate Problem Solving- Wikipedia, everybody contributes information. Information/knowledge is shared for free. Also ask wiki questions

Circulations- individuals sharing information online, Charlie Sheen story, Twitter posts making mainstream news Libya crisis- people using mobile phones footage and uploading to UTube.

Theory
about digital cultures and the impact on our lives.
Henry Jenkins 
Expresstions to create

Collaborations making together to solve problems
Affiliations: Fanbase online communitiess

Circulations: Sharing information 

Research Task

Using Facebook and other social websites musicians and artists use social media to promote knowledge and anything useful for fans (see power point).

Other websites such as soundcloud can give people the chance for people to remix music and for anyone to listen and to comment on the work.

TuneCore gives someone the chance to sell their own music online via iTunes, MySpace music, and Amazon mp3 etc, they get 100% of the profit and TuneCore takes no percentage.


Mock Exam Improvements

A study of a particular label, targets a British audience, including its patterns of

Production
Distrabution                      (Choose one artist signed to your label)
Marketing

Consumption by audiences- dounloads; sharing information; fanbase

Show yo have understood the question
Explicit/ reword
Do not pose a question
Clear argument- well planned
Refer to your case study- detailed
Relevant terminlogy- spelling; grammer; punctuation (up to 10 marks)