Thursday 10 November 2011

Drum n' Bass genre study

Drum and Bass (commonly abbreviated to D&B or DnB) is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats (typically between 160–190 bpm(Beats Per minute)), with heavy bass and sub-bass lines. Drum and bass began as an offshoot of the United Kingdom rave scene of the very early 1990s. Over the first decade of its existence, the incorporation of elements from various musical genres lent to many permutations in its overall style.


Current Drum n' Bass artists would include Chase and Status, KG and DJ Hazard. 
Here is a link, with 100 of the top D&B artists and tracks. http://www.trackitdown.net/genre/drum_and_bass/top10.html


the common camera angles that would stereo typically be found in the Drum n' Bass genre would include many close-ups and extreme close-ups on the main artist, more specifically close ups on the instrument they play, and extreme close ups on there faces as marketing. There would be a variety of mid shots showing important actions in the narrative of the actual video. 
The editing would most likely be fast cuts, and would typically be in time with the audio, so if the track speeds up so does the editing.  


typical representations and stereotypes of this genre would be destructive, frustration and anger, in which we are going to conform to in our music video, we will exploit these representations through the use of editorial skills, the name of our song is 'Fire in your eyes' so we will represent anger through fire, and destruction will also be through fire.


typically in Drum n' Bass, the artist would wear stylish clothing, most likely high end designer brands, and would be located in a modern area, most likely a flat, or 'Bachelors pad' .


The digipak would be quite heavy in composition, showing some form of destruction on the main cover, commonly this would be abstract showing modernism, and to the common person, they would not notice the destruction instead see it as ART. 

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