Research on the music genre

1. By:
Shahrukh Hussain

2. A style or category of art, music, or
literature is known as genre.

3.  Alternative
 Blues
 Classical
 Country
 Electronic
 Folk
 Hip-Hop
 Jazz
 Latin
 Metal
 Opera
 RnB
 Rap
 Rock
 Pop

4. Rock music is a genre of popular music that
originated as "rock and roll" in the United
States in the 1950s, and developed into a
range of different styles in the 1960s and
later. Rock music mostly involves electric
guitars, electric bass and drums, like other
genres as well. But, modern rock involves
distorted guitars, effected bass, drums with
steel snare and a wide range of equipments
is used in the modern rock.

5. Rock is further on divided into types.
Some of the types of rock are given below
:
Alternative Rock
Soft Rock
Hard Rock
Progressive Rock
Punk Rock

6.  General Rock is derived from the rock music. It was introduced in
1990’s. It is more of a heavy and progressive form of rock music.
There are several bands all over the world who produces general
rock music. For example, Dream Theater (American), Nickelback
(Canadian Band), Entity Paradigm (Pakistani Band), Nirvana
(American Band), Foo Fighters (American Band), etc. I am inspired
by all of the bands as mentioned above, specially, by “Dream
Theater” because, the music they produce, attracts me and the
structure of their music, inspires me. They play very technical songs,
which are quite difficult to play. For example, A Nightmare to
Remember, Metropolis, Hollow Years, The Dance of Eternity. I
wanted to make my song very difficult and challenging, that’s y I
opted this genre for my portfolio of Media Studies. I tried to make the
track sound good and technical at the same time as well, for the
audience.

7. The Looking Glass – Dream
Theater (Example # 1)
I am inspired by the video of “The Looking Glass” – “Dream Theater”
as it uses dark lighting, variety of camera shots and angles, which I
may use in my self-produced music track’s video for the portfolio, but
not confirmed. Some of the screenshots of Dream Theater song’s
video are shown, in next slides.

9. Guitar Close-Up is used here because a guitar riff has been played at this
particular shot.

10. Birds Eye Shot is used here to show Mike Mangini’s giant drum kit.

11. Over the shoulder shot is used here to show that both of the guitarists are
playing at the same time.

12.  The band have used their own jam room for
the shoot of this video and I will also use this
idea in my video.

13.  Very light make up has been applied on Dream
Theater in this video. They have kept it totally natural
and I think that I should also keep it this way.

14.  All of the band members have long hair in the video, as mostly
rock musicians or metal musicians have long hair because it
gives a heavy and a dark impact on the audience. I guess this
thing automatically shows the representation of the genre.

15. Website URL: www.dreamtheater.net

16. Well, the set used in this video is quite simple, but the camera shots,
angles and lighting used in this video are very reasonable and attractive
for the audience. Lights used in this video are white, which creates an
epic, dull and aggressive appearance. The thing I like the most about the
video is directions. I am planning to use such directions in my music
video.

17.  The location used in this video is a house, and
the video has shot in a jam room as shown in the
next slide.

18. The Location

19. A high angle shot has been used in the video to show the drum kit and the
other equipment in the room. It also focuses the drummer and the guitarist
of the band.

20. A low angle shot is used to focus on Chad Karoeger while playing the
guitar riff.

21. Another high angle shot it used to show the entire jam room below the
stairs. I saw this shot for the very first time in a rock video and if I will get
a chance to take a high angle shot in my music video, I will use such type
of a shot.

22. Hairstyles
Members of Nickelback also have short hair like Entity Paradigm (Shown
in the next example). Maybe, the trend of long hair is changing day by day
in rock bands or the modern rock bands.

23. The Make-Up
The Make-up used in this video is of such a type which looks good in white
lighting as it has kept so natural, like the previous example of The Looking
Glass – Dream Theater.

24. Website URL: www.nickelback.com

25. Entity Paradigm is a Pakistani General Rock
band. The video of Ajab Tamasha is one of my
favorite video ever made. The yellow and warm
lighting and the pyrotechnics made this video
look so good. They gave it a lively and a rocking
feeling. It has a perfect video opening as shown
in next slide and I may use such type of opening
for my music video.

26. The Opening

27. The pyrotechnics used in the video enhanced the level of
the video. It gave a lively feeling. This concept is used very
rarely in the videos as pyrotechnics are costly and they does
not fix/suits in every Rock music video.

28. Water splashes were stroked on the drums to create a different and
an attractive appearance. I have never seen such type of concept in
any video so far.

29. The Make-Up
Blush on and eye make-up are used in the video to create a rock feeling
because most of the rock/metal bands uses such type of make up to express
a dark feeling. If you compare it with the other examples, no one has applied
such type of make-up, so this example is comparatively unique from the other
videos.

30. Hairstyles and The
Location
All of the band members have short hair unlike most of the rock bands.
The location used in the video is a big hall.

31. Entity Paradigm does not have a website but a
Wikipedia's article.
URL:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_Paradigm

32. The video of Nightmare by the famous band
Avenged Sevenfold is quite different from the
other examples. The video contains the
performance as well as the narrative acts. The
narrative depicts lead vocalist M. Shadows about
to undergo surgery, when the surgeons take him
out of the room on a gurney. So this idea is
comparatively different from the other videos and
makes it unique.

33. A screenshot from the video is shown below of the narrative. The
location used in this part of the video is a hospital. Whereas, the
performance part of the video has shot in a studio’s small room, as
shown in the next slide.

34. The Location

35. The Make-Up
The make-up used by the band members is very different, one of the
example of a band member is shown below. He have used a make-up
base on his face and the blood on his forehead to show an evil
appearance.

36. A guitar close up has taken while the guitarist is playing the solo, just to
make the video more attractive and natural.

37. Hairstyles
Wild hairstyles like spikes are used by the band, unlike the other
bands, one of the band member’s hairstyle is shown below.

38. The lighting used in this scene is a normal light of a room along with some
supporting lighting.

39. Website URL: www.avengedsevenfold.com

40. So it is an another example of a music video
which contains narrative as well as the
performance shots in the video. A graveyard is
shown in the narrative and the whole concept of
the song is shown in the narrative. The locations
used in the video are a graveyard and a live
concert. The screenshots are shown in the next
two slides of the narrative and the concert shot
after it.

41. A shot from the narrative part of the video.

42. A shot from the narrative part of the video.

43. A shot from the performance part of the video.

44. The band members have long hair, as long hair
also represents the rock/metal music.

45. The Make-Up
So this is going to be my first example in which no make-ups are used by
the band members as they have merged a live concert video in their music
video.

46. A transition between the narrative and performance part of the video is
shown below. None of the other examples contains such type of transition
used in this music video.

47.  If we talk about sound, Dream Theater uses a variety
of musical instruments, including Guitars, 6-Strings
Bass Guitar, Pearl Drum Kit, Keyboards, Steel Guitar,
Fingerboard etc. Every music has a different feel. Soft
songs gives you an emotional feel and hard songs
gives you a crazy feel. If we talk about Dream
Theater’s wither, it gives you a deep, emotional feel. If
you talk about Dream Theater’s Enigma Machine, it
gives you a hard, aggressive and a crazy feeling but if
you talk about my own song, which I have produced for
the portfolio, it gives you both types of the feeling,
emotional in chorus and aggressive in verses and riff.

48.  Logo is a graphic mark or design which
represents a firm, band, etc.
A font is a specific typeface of a certain size
and style.
 Logo and fonts of a band depends on the
genre of course, as all of the logos and the
fonts cannot be used in every type of music.
Rock bands uses a Gothic or simple type of
font and logo, pop bands use fancy type of
font and logo. It all depends on the music a
band produces. I will use Gothic fonts and
simple logos for my project.

49. The distinct shape of alphabets (especially that of “O”) in the
Maiden logo superbly depicts the heavy metal imagery the band
is closely associated with. The Iron Maiden logo has probably
sold bigger amounts of T-shirt and merchandise sales than most
of the other metal bands. The font used is Metal Lord and indeed
gives the Iron Maiden logo a slick metallic touch and finish. The
grey and red colors in the font signify passion, strength and
refinement.
The distinctive features of the maiden logo indeed classify it
among the best rock band logos of all time.
Creed have used a font named as Mason,
which represents the band perfectly.
Creed literally means Faith and with
respect to the meaning of the band’s
name, they have used a modern simple
type of font.

50. Website URL: www.pantera.com