Thom Yorkes Origional album cover

This was the origional cover to the CD cover to his album.

Effects used in the Video Harrowdown hill> SMALLGANTICS

Dubbed Smallgantics, the technique in the video above takes footage of large objects (rivers, factories, city skylines) and makes them appear as though they are actually miniatures. In “Harrowdown Hill,” the videographer used aerial footage from the pacific north west to be miniaturized using Smallgantics.

The process involves splitting the footage up into several vertical planes that move back over the perceived z-axis, or into the image along its perceived depth. These planes are then affected with varying degrees of blur to simulate a shallow depth of field. If done right, the amount of blur increases smoothly as it moves along the planes of the image. Next, these levels of blur are animated to simulate a change in focus or to compensate for the forward movement of the camera

Research on chosen artist Thom YORKE

Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorke (born 7 October 1968) is an English musician who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). In July 2006, he released his debut solo album, The Eraser.

Yorke has been cited among the most influential figures in the music industry: in 2002, Q Magazine named Yorke the most powerful British musician and in 2005, Radiohead were ranked #73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list. Yorke has also been cited among the greatest singers in the history of popular music: in 2005, a poll organised by Blender and MTV2 saw Yorke voted the 18th greatest singer of all time, and in 2008, he was ranked 66th in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Singers of all Time." Allmusic wrote: "Few rock singers of the '90s were as original and instantly unforgettable as Thom Yorke."


One of his songs during his time in Radio head http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHiGbolFFGw&ob=av2el.

"Harrowdown Hill" is a song by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke and is the eighth track on his 2006 album The Eraser. The song was also released as a limited edition single in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2006, peaking at 23 in the UK Singles Chart "Harrowdown Hill" was Yorke's first official solo single, and one of two to be released from The Eraser; however, the track "Black Swan" had already been issued as a radio-only single in some areas. The song was written about biological warfare expert David Kelly who, as a matter of some contention, committed suicide in 2003. However, there is speculation that he was murdered, as demonstrated in the song. Thom Yorke himself confirmed the song's meaning in several interviews.
A video for the song was released 31 July 2006 and had its first play on Channel.






Interview with Thome Yorke behind the meaning of his song, ''Harrowdown hill''. 15.09.06

video clip 1. brief analysis

This music video to the Alicia keys song unthinkable is based on segregation, its is shown and represented through the use of two different races male being white and female being black. The love prejudice it shown through different time lapses from around the 50's until now, you can see the times they are trying to act out through the subtle yet effective use of mise-en-scene e.g their clothing and the way there society is. Its trying to put across that prejudices are stil around in society today.

The clip stars Chad Michael Murray a famous American actor who is rated top 20 'sexiest men' in many female magazines. I think the producers used him so the video would get a wider range of female audience. The woman who stars in it is Alicia keys herself a beautiful talented wome who has thousands of fans worldwide, this is another way she may use to get a wider viewing audience because people like seeing her perform instead of using anoter actor instead.

There are a lot of close ups used to show the amount of emotion between them, and creates a sense of realism as well as the non-diagetic and diagetic sounds that are used. The panning shots create a sense of urgency, and there is a sense if urgency in their relationship and how they want to do something about it as soon as they can.