Friday, 20 October 2017


Massive Attack Half Term Research

Who are Massive Attack? Massive Attack are an English musician group formed in 1988 Bristol. The Trip Hop genre band consists of 3 members: Robert Del Naga, Grant Marshal and formerly Andy Vowels.

Name their albums to date? Massive Attack debuted their first album Blue lines, released in 1991. To follow up with another album 3 years later called protection released in 1994. Releasing 6 albums in total the following was 1998’s Mezzanine, 2003’s 100th window, 2004’s Danny the dog produced for the original motion picture soundtrack and finally their final album Heligoland released in 2010.    

Since being signed to Circa Records in 1990 Their career was kick started once the band began to win awards early on in their career

  • MTV Europe Music Award for Best Video
           1998,1995 For Protection and Teardrop.
  • Brit Award for Best British Dance Act 1996
  • NME Award - Godlike Genius Award 1999

Unfinished Symphony

https://youtu.be/ZWmrfgj0MZI


The single Unfinished Symphony was a song produced and released by the music group Massive attack. The music video for Unfinished Symphony was released as the second single from the first studio album blue lines on the 11th February 1991. 

The narrative presented showcases a women strolling through the streets of downtown LA as the entirety of the video is a continuous tracking shot following the women as she paces through poverty of the American citizens. Using Steadicam the music video begins featuring a  gang of rough thugs presented wearing leather jackets, white low cut vests, bandanas and also sporting a stereotypically violent breed of dog to we then pan out to a youth playing with a gun. This mise en scene                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  This is very typical in the American urban district. children are raised through violence and danger. until we zoom to Nelson (the main women) strolling down the path pavement unaware or uncaring of her surroundings presenting drunks, poor disabled living in poverty and bikers. As she appears to be unknowingly seeing the poverty us as the audience are led to understand that the morale is even though we may be unaware of poverty it does still exist and if we look close enough its not transparent. as the main focus is on the women in the backdrop the setting is quite partially blurred showing poverty is sometimes  difficult to see.

The off set is a typical American urban area and with research LA, California. The streets appear dusty and old with poor blocked building along a stretch of attached houses. people are seen selling their goods and working whilst others just sit along the side even homeless or unemployed. The main focus is upon the disabled man with unseen treatment or support using a skateboard as transport. By not affording  health care this shows just a glimpse of poverty in a lot of areas. From the backdrops clothes to their actions we can clearly see this community isn't wealthy but exists through it wanting to be.   

the camera then pans around her side to show her walking away as she moves down a different street. this shows her leaving the scene as she accomplished her propound  aimed to get the message across and as she does its time that she leaves to keep the audience thinking of what they've just watched.  

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