Auteur Theory

In 1954, François Truffaut wrote an essay entitled A Certain Tendency in French Cinema. In this work he claimed that film is a great medium for expressing the personal ideas of the director. He suggested that this meant that the director should therefore be regarded as an auteur. In fact, Truffaut once provocatively said that: "There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors"

This ties in with my work as i am going to write a magazine article about how rock bands are represented within the media today. This will also tie in with my work as i will be reaserching other articles from magazines such as kerrang, NME and metal hammer.

media studies 3 investigation

my inital idea for my media studies work is to film a short documenty about what life is like to be in the music industry. i have chosen to do this as music is something i like to listen to during my spare time and would like to find out what it is like living as a music artist. doing this could uncover why some music artists feel the need to get drunk or do drugs.

Now that i have been able to arrange a photoshoot with a band i have changed my idea. My new idea is to do a magazine article about how the band is represented within the media today as they are between the ages of 18-20.

i have changed my inital idea for many reasons. i have decided to shoot a mucis video for Twenty Twentys song Tomorrow. my idea at first was to shoot a party for my video and represent the ways in which the band want to be represented. however i decided that some videos within the same genre already use party scenes so what i then decided to do a food fight as i havnt seen anything like it in a music video before.