Glam Metal Genre Research

Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal that started in the late 70s/early 80s with bands such as Hanoi Rocks and Motley Crue. It incorporates elements of punk rock to heavy metal and includes pop influenced hooks and guitar riffs.

Some major glam metal bands included:

• Bon Jovi
• Europe
• Poison
• Motley Crue
• LA Guns
• Hanoi Rocks
• W.A.S.P

Glam Metal Music Video Research

So far I've looked at:

• Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like a Lady)
• Europe - Final Countdown
• Warrant - Cherry Pie
• Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
• Extreme - Kid Ego
• Tigertailz - Love Bomb Baby
• Celtic Frost - Cherry Orchards
• Ratt - Way Cool Junior
• Hanoi Rocks - Don't You Ever Leave Me
• Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer

There are many conventions in glam metal music videos. These include:

Appearance

• Band members will usually have long shaggy hair.
• A lot of black leather clothing is worn, mainly as jackets, trousers and boots.
• Sometimes skinny/spray-on jeans are worn either black or ripped denim.
• Spandex trousers are also common.
• Jackets are sometimes worn open or band members go topless.
• Tank tops and sleeveless jackets.

Reflections on the Directors Challenge

From creating the video for the Directors Challenge we learnt:

• How to use Final Cut Pro X by experimenting with it and watching YouTube tutorials.
• To watch at least 10 videos from a genre or director in detail to fully understand the conventions.
• To research into related media such as books or video interviews to further understand the genre/director.
• That getting and organising actors for the music video will be difficult so we will need to organise it quite a bit in advance.
• We need to be flexible and adaptable to fit around actors and weather conditions as well as other unexpected factors.

Directors Challenge Final Cut

This is our final cut of a music video in the style of Chris Cunningham for Roni Size's Brown Paper Bag.

Tools We Used in Final Cut Pro X Editing the Directors Challenge

List Of Tools

Year 12 Introduction to Final Cut Pro X

After spending a few lessons on Final Cut Pro X we were to teach the software to Year 12 Media students. The topics I covered were:

• Finding Final Cut Pro X
• Uploading Footage
• Extracting Audio
• Basic tools
• Using the Blade Tool
• Managing Layers
• Selecting Clips
• Transitions
• Effects - Audio and Visual
• Naming
• Saving
• Zoom Slider
• Rendering
• Exporting
• Cropping
• Panning
• Key Frames
• Layers
• Compounding Clips
• Preview Window
• Speed
• Reversing Clips

Directors Challenge Final Cut

Here is our final cut for the directors challenge.