Analysis of Potential Fonts for Print Production

Teddy Boys

A group known as ‘Teddy Boys’ or ‘Edwardians’ became prevalent in the early 1950s in the South and West areas of London. They were a ‘dandified’ street gang – they dressed extravagantly and posed defiantly, making them popular subjects for the growing media and television industry of 1950s Britain. They became a media folk devil; the media vilified them and spread their image so that soon, the Teddy Boy was a nationwide teenage style and the first post war subculture, going beyond the original metropolitan gangs.

Despite being inner-city working class youth, they wore expensive Edwardian ‘Ted’ suits designed for wealthy city gentlemen in the early 1950s, or the ‘drape’ jackets favoured by the growing number of rock and roll stars in the USA.  One magazine carried the following headline: Teenage Terrorists – Absurd but Deadly, in 1954.

The Teddy Boy image sent a powerful message; the wearing of upper class clothes by working class youths was an incredibly defiant act. This exaggerated way of dressing made them an easy target for the media; they were constantly teased and discredited for wearing such nice clothes. Ridiculed often, a caricature of a Teddy Boy as a ‘monkey in a drape’ was printed in the Brighton Evening Argus in 1954. This clearly portrays how the general public perceived them at this time.

Trial - Saturation and Speed

In this video, I took a clip of someone licking the edge of roll up cigarette. I edited it in iMovie and then edited it several times, varying the speed and saturation each time.
I decided that 25% saturation looked best. 0% saturation seemed too dark to me. Having it so dark meant that it might not fit in well with other clips, which I don't necessarily think need to be so gloomy. It was dark enough to suggest a negative emotion without being completely unhappy and dark. I will probably use 60% speed too - it is not completely slowed down but gives the dreamy effect I think would look good.

Digipak Analysis - What The Night Delivers - Scott Matthews

  This is an analysis of the digipak of What The Night Delivers by Scott Matthews. If you click on the images they will enlarge so they can be read.

Prop List

Prop list from Chloewardmediablog

This is a detailed look at the props that I'll be using in my video - both clothing and other objects.

Light Up The Background - A Storyboard of Ideas

This is a very basic, first draft of the kinds of things I am hoping to include in my music video.

The Blackout - Higher and Higher

I chose to look at this video because it has shots of parkour throughout. Since these action shots are something I could include in my own video, I thought it would be interesting to look at them.

These three shots are shown here in sequence. I like the way that you see the man preparing for the stunt, jumping onto the car bonnet, moving into it and the change to the shot of him doing the front flip. It then goes back to where we see him land, which I think emphasizes the fact that he has done a technically proficient stunt. 

There are also some shots where his actions are shown in slow motion. This again shows the skill off to a higher degree, as we get to see him for a longer period of time, as well as the trick itself in a lot more detail. I think this would be a good tool to use in my own video when looking at Max BMX-ing.