LaFace Records

LaFace Records was formed in 1989 as a joint company with Antonio 'L.A' Reid and Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds and Arista Records. The nicknames of the duo's production company was their inspiration for the combined name 'LaFace'. LaFace went on to become a successful label throughout the 90's and was responsible for producing famous artists such as; OutKast, P!nk, Usher, Cee-Lo and more. Towards the end of the decade LaFace produced fewer artists and Babyface begun to focus more on his own music career. In 1999 the label was acquired completely by Arista and BMG and in 2001 L.A Reid was appointed CEO of Arista. As a result of this LaFace was dissolved as most of its prominent artists moved to the main label Arista to work under Reid.

In 2004 after the reconstruction of BMG labels, LaFace was reactivated as one quarter of the newly reconstructed Zomba Music Group. Most of LaFace's former artists who moved onto Arista returned to LaFace upon its reactivation.

Research for Funhouse Album

The song 'I Don't Believe You' was featured on Pink's 'Funhouse' album. It is the fifth studio album produced by pop rock singer and was released by LaFace Records worldwide in October 2008. The album reached number one in the charts in six countries. To date Funhouse has earned Pink three Grammy nominations and three VMA nominations. It became her highest charter in the US, four of the tracks reached top twenty and was her best selling album since 2001's 'Missundaztood' having sold over seven million units by July 2010. Pink rereleased her album 'Funhouse' a year after it was first released, this time with a Funhouse tour in Australia.

Youtube Video Blogging

Our group has set up a YouTube account called 'KKEmedia1' unfortunately we are having some technical issues with our video as we recorded the video blog on the Mac's webcam, so we will now film our blogs with the proper cameras so we won't have any problems next time!

Initial Editing

We have uploaded all of our groups filming to the mac and have transferred them to separate folders on Final Cut Pro and then rendered all the shots. We have now begun looking at each of our filming and have begun cutting and ordering the scenes so that we can arrange if anymore filming is needed before the final filming deadline at the end of this term. We have about 10 minutes of unedited film to work from which gives us plenty of shots to work with in order to cut our filming down to the length of our recorded audio.

Roland Barthes 5 Narrative Codes

In our groups we were asked to research a music video that featured Roland Barthes 5 narrative codes. We decided to look at the music video 'A Team' by new artist Ed Sheeran. This was a previous music video we had gain inspiration from and felt it was good to work with as it a low budget video that is something we as a group could easily match and produce.

Narrative Theorist Research - Todorov

I have looking into Todorov's narrative theory and found information on equilibrium, disequilibrium and new equilibrium interesting and something we can think about in our own music video.

first set of filming complete

For my half term filming i have concentrated on close up shots of my models face and to indicate her loneliness. These shots contrast with another of my group members 'couple' shots. This week we will be analysis our film and starting to edit the footage we have. We will then get a storyboard flowing and can then arrange anymore filming we need to do or anymore shots we need to capture.