Hitting Up The Hit-ups: October 2009

Textual analysis Of An Album Cover

Kanye west album graduation was released September 2001. most of kanye west album covers are mainly animation. the artwork was designed by takaishi murakami. the artwork shows and range of bright colours which would grap a buyers attention. on most of the albums that kanye produces he uses a brown bear which he calls the "dropout bear" which is a bear who has to overcome many obstacles to reach his graduations, so kanye west albums represent a story. By using animation it creates a interesting look to the cover making it stand out and also making the album itself look more interesting and exciting. The connotation of the album cover is fun and exciting suggesting that the album is fun to listen to.

50 cent album was released on September 11 in 2007, the album features productions from Dr.dre, Timberland and Eminem, music critics have said that 50 cent album is a mixture of hard and soft songs. He sold 691,000 copies in the USA in just the first week of its release.
On most of 50 cent album covers he usually has himself on the front which show that he wants he face to be the main aim of selling and by having himself on the cover of the album people well recognizes that its him. the emotion on his face is a serous and looking directly at forward which shows that he's tough and that his album reflects all his emotion that he's felt while making this album. the connotation of the album cover, one of the album cover has a red background which symbolise being sexy and dangerous and the position that he is in which is a medium long shot which surggest that he wants to come across as being someone with power.

Part One Of Filming

On Friday 16th October we went to film The Hit Ups , Preforming at The Croft in Bristol. We took 3 cameras and a tripod, we wanted to get a wide range of shots of the band playing. We had one camera on the tripod that was placed at a high angle to film the band and to show the surroundings. The Other two cameras were hand held going around the room capturing the crowd atmosphere and getting close ups on the band and the instruments playing. The reason we choose to have cameras going around the room and being in the crowd is because we wanted to make the viewer feel apart of the rave, and make them feel like they are there experiencing it.

To get the feel of the room we did a lot of pan shots of the crowds dancing and moving around the croft. we shot a lot of extreme close-ups of the bands mouth so we could match the words on the song to his movement when we edit on the mac computer.

we choose to use night vision because we thought it gave the footage a certain effect, we felt it made it more exciting as the rave goes on through the night . The Filming was successful and we manged to get a lot of footage to work with.

"We Wear Lemonade" The Hit-ups Clothing Label

The hit-ups have there own clothes label which is a good way to to advertise and get noticed, they have a website where you can order the clothes online, there a wide range of different design.

Mini Biography

charlie(guitar), Josh (vocals/ MC), Samuel(Bass) and Lewis(drums) are members of the band The Hit-ups. they have been playing for almost 6 years now and there current location is Bristol/Southampton. They under management with " New London Management". The Hit-Ups have played at many places such as Harbour side festival, Shambala festival 09, they also play at local places such as The croft and Day and Night.
The Hit-ups also run their own clothing and design label "we wear lemonade" which you can purchased a wide range of clothing(Hoodies & T-Shirts), you can also buy posters and Cd's. There Upcoming shows are:
October 16th at The Croft (Bristol)
October 17th at Hampton's (Southampton)
October 25th at Mr Wolfs (Bristol)
October 28th at Moles (Bath)

Interveiw With The Hit-Ups

this is the interview with two members of The Hit-ups Charlie and Josh, we wanted to find out all about there history of the band such as how did they meet, how long they have been playing together. we asked them question about there influences and who do they compare them self with, and finally we tell them about our ideas and what do they think of them and do they have any of their own ideas that they want in there.

Meeting The Hit-Ups

On Friday 2nd October me and my group went to meet up with The Hit-ups at the Croft in Bristol to have a video interview, to get to know the band better and to find out what the thought of our ideas and to sort out when we are going to shoot the music video. it was a successful interview and they liked our ideas for thier song. and we are hoping to film a main part of the music video at one of thiers gigs in the nexted couple of weeks.