Madonna has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is recognized as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female artist in the United States, behind Barbra Streisand, with 64 million certified albums. In 2008, Billboard magazine ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, making her the most successful solo artist in the history of the chart. She was also inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the same year. Considered to be one of the most influential figures in contemporary music, Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. She is recognized as an inspiration among numerous music artists. Madonna's other ventures include being a fashion designer, children's book author, film director and producer, and owner of her own recording company Maverick corporation, as a joint venture with Time Warner. She has been acclaimed as a businesswoman, and in 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million contract with Live Nation.

The 50-year-old had appealed after a lower court rejected her original application to adopt Chifundo "Mercy" James, four, over residency issues. This shows that she is ethnically diverse and shows that she is not racist

2009

▪                #1 on 2009 Music Money Makers List with a $242,176,466 income, coming from the highest-earning tour that took place in 2008.

▪                Japan Gold Disc Award

▪                                  Artist of the Year

▪                                  Album of the Year, Hard Candy

▪                                  Best International Ringtone Clip Of The Year, "Miles Away"

▪                                  Best International Ringtone Full Song Of The Year, "Miles Away"

▪                                  Best International PC Download Of The Year, "Miles Away"

▪                Lunas del Auditorio (Mexico)

▪                                  Best Pop in Foreign Language [14]

▪                Billboard Touring Awards

▪                                  Top Tour (Highest Grossing Tour) - Sticky & Sweet Tour

▪                                  Top Draw (Highest Attended Tour) - Sticky & Sweet Tour

▪                Billboard "Best of the 2000s"

▪                                  Singles Sales Artists of the Decade

▪                                  Top Dance/Club Play Artists of the Decade

▪                                  Dance Singles Sales of The Decade - "Music"

▪                                  Billboard Boxscore Top Female Touring Acts of the Decade - Total Gross: $801,299,671 Number of Shows: 248

This is an example of one of her most successful years of which there were many just like this back from the year of 1987, from film awards to music awards.

She has been said to be the most respected businesswoman and female musician of the 20^th century. In the top 100 musicians of  all time only second to the beatles.


this information has helped me to realize many things about madonna. Firstly that she is absolutely adored by her fans worldwide, this is summed up by the fact that in her relatively short time of being a pop star she has sold over three hundred million records world wide and despite being fifty now her most attended and highest grossing tour was actually her most recent tour, this was called the sticky and sweet tour, which shows that her fans didn't just love her because of her age but mainly because of her amazing voice. secondly that she is possibly the most well known musician of all time and in the list of all time great musicians, she finished in second and was only denied the title by the BEETLES. if you visit almost any country in the world, almost all of there population will know the name madonna. Even tiny babies know of her name. another thing that makes her so popular is her ethnicity. the reason why this makes her so popular is that people of all cultures feel welcome and comfortable. a sign of her ethnicity was the adoption of the African born baby Mercy James who inevitably was from a completely different and less fortunate culture. Finally the last thing that makes her so popular is her sexuality, the reason why this was so effective was that she was not afraid to do things that other artists may fear that it would scar and ruin their reputation.


Afrika Bambaataa, born Kevin Donovan on April 10, 1960 in the South Bronx of New York City, New York, revolutionized music forever. His tremendous impact, influence, popularity, and recognition have earned him the respect and fame to be amongst the giants of the music industry


Most notably, in a career of over 30 years, Bambaata revolutionized Hip Hop more than any other person and greatly influenced the electronic/dance worlds and helped substantiate a culture that still affects us today.

During his early years, Bam took a musical interest in its many forms, playing the trumpet and the piano at his high school before he became warlord of one of the most feared gangs of New York-the Black Spades. However, by 1976, he began to be influenced by the

DJ styles of Kool DJ Dee and Kool DJ Herc and expanded his music interests through records of various genres, from rock to R&B, from mainstream to underground. 


he has been linked with the name of the best rapper of all time, and even the wizard for his magical music.


this information has helped me to realize that Afrika Bambaataa is a very proclaimed and talented musician in which he has sold tonnes of amazing albums of which they are very popular.
the reason why Bambaataa was so famous and well known was because he switched his life around and even when times were tough for him while he was in a gang, he still felt that there was hope for others who were in the same situation as him. He did this by getting all of the people from the gangs in Bronx who were known as the black spades, but from this, he created the Bronx river organization who were specialized in performing arts. He then saw the film Zulu which showed the british army fighting the zulu people, and he was sad with what he saw, from this film he named himself Afrika Bambaataa (affectionate leader), and then changed the Bronx river organisation into the zulu nation, where they adopted rapping and writing with graffiti and that was how Afrika Bambaataa. This shows that not only did Bambaataa create brilliant music but his soul aims were to mend the community that he grew up in and lived in and he just wanted peace and a resolvence of the fighting.










Switching his life around after seeing what violence was doing to his community, Bam transformed most of The Black Spades into The Bronx River Organization, a performing group. Sometime during the existence of this group, he saw the film Zulu which depicted the battle between British troops and the Zulu tribe, one of the most powerful and sophisticated states in Africa. Deeply inspired, he changed The Bronx River Organization into the Zulu Nation and named himself Afrika Bambaataa (meaning "affectionate leader") Aasim in honor of the 19th century Zulu chief. He then adopted the Zulu Nations' principles of unity and peace and mixed it with the Hip Hop lifestyle. Gangmembers became b-boys, rappers, and graffiti/aerosol writers, and violence was averted through knowledge, unity, and peace. Soon, Bam and his Zulu Nation reached out to their community in a positive light and began to help the youth through various

	Define	Effasect
Handheld	A hand-held camera can produce a jerky, bouncy, unsteady image, which may create a sense of immediacy or chaos. Its use is a form of subjective treatment.	20.this shows trinity fleeing the scene after being spotted by agent smith. This shot is used because it gives a sense of urgency and struggle to a shot.
Tracking	Tracking involves the camera itself being moved smoothly towards or away from the subject (contrast with zooming). Tracking in (like zooming) draws the viewer into a closer, more intense relationship with the subject; moving away tends to create emotional distance.	After 35 seconds of the matrix clip there is a tracking shot, which is going towards trinity as she approaches and then on to agent smith. The reason why this shot is used is that it creates a feel of action as it increases the movement and speed of the shot.
Dollying	The camera is placed on a moving vehicle and moves alongside the action, generally following a moving figure or object. A dolly shot may be a good way of portraying movement, the journey of a character for instance, or for moving from a long shot to a close-up, gradually focusing the audience on a particular object or character.	50.this is when trinity is running from agent smith. This shot is used to create a sense of speed and urgency to a things actions
Panning	A movement, which scans a scene horizontally. The camera is placed on a tripod, which operates as a stationary axis point as the camera is turned, often to follow a moving object, which is kept in the middle of the frame.	26-28.this shows us that the main character is moving at a great speed. It also shows us the characters key movements. This shot is used for these very reasons.
Whip pan	A pan shot, but the camera moves sideways so quickly that the image blurs.	1.16 this is when trinity looks at agent smith and then hides. This is used to show good details.
Zooming In/Out	In zooming in the camera does not move; the lens is focussed down from a long-shot to a close-up whilst the picture is still being shown. The subject is magnified, and attention is concentrated on details previously invisible as the shot tightens (contrast tracking).	134-1.37.this is after trinity smashes through the window and the camera focuses on the guns and then zooms in on her face. This shot is used as it helps to show the details of the surrounding areas and then also the closer smaller features
Crane shot	Basically, dolly-shots-in-the-air. A crane (or jib), is a large, heavy piece of equipment, but is a useful way of moving a camera - it can move up, down, left, right, swooping in on action or moving diagonally out of it.	1.31-1.34. This is when trinity is diving through the air to reach the window. This shot is used as it gives a sense of false reality, as this usually would never happen in the real world.
High angle	The camera is elevated above the action using a crane to give a general overview. High angles make the object photographed seem smaller, and less significant (or scary).	29.this is when trinity looks down and sees an agent. This shot is used as it shows the height that a character is at.
Low angle	These increase height (useful for short actors like Tom Cruise or James McAvoy) and give a sense of speeded motion. Low angles help give a sense of confusion to a viewer, of powerlessness within the action of a scene.	47. This is when Trinity is jumping across the rooftops. The reason why this shot is used as it shows the height and the width of this shot.
Dutch Tilt	Terms used for a cinematic tactic often used to portray the psychological uneasiness or tension in the subject being filmed. A Dutch angle is achieved by tilting the camera off to the side so that the shot is composed with the horizon at an angle to the bottom of the frame.	1.48trinity is looking up at the window to see if she will be shot. This shot is used as it helps to create an uneasiness as the shot is at a weird angle.
Focus (depth / pull (rack))	Rendering only part of the action field in sharp focus through the use of a shallow depth of field. A shift of focus from foreground to background or vice versa is called rack focus.	The cameras focus is first on the gun and then the focus is moved on to her face, which makes the audience look from one to the other (1.38). This has the effect of first impressing upon us the danger of the two inanimate guns pointed and waiting to do their job and then it shows us the emotion of the situation with the character looking fearful but determined.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCjnRrSlU0&feature=channel

Inception - Don't be afraid to dream a little bigger

I like this film clip firstly because the speed of the clip helps to build tension, along with the peoples voices and the music that went with it. the reason why the peoples voices helped to build tension was that you could feel that they were tense and worried about something that is going to happen.

in this shot there are around four people involved, one of the men is wearing a shirt with blood on it suggesting that he has been hurt somewhere on the upper part of his body. we then see that one of the men has a highly powerful gun at which he is firing at a man who is clearly an enemy. Then along appears a man who has a very calm voice. This man has a grenade launcher and his calm voice suggests that he has used one before.

In the clip, the camera work is quite jerky almost as though it was done to speed up the pace of the scene. this clip was mainly done by a hand held camera, I believe it helps to give it a sense of action and excitement as it helps you to believe that you are actually there along with the action.

there is a tracking shot after 8 seconds where the camera follows Leonardo Di'caprio as he walks away and then follows back with the other actor.

in between 40 and 50 seconds of the clip, the shot zooms in on the character with the gun and then zooms out to a medium close up shot and then zooms back in to a close up shot once he starts firing again. Another example of this is after one minute and two second. This is after the man fires his grenade launcher and it shows the grenade exploding the enemies along with a large column of piping, and just after the explosion starts, the camera zooms out so that you can see the shear power of the weapon. Then after 9 seconds there is a focussing detail where the camera is focused on the man in the brown jacket and then as he walks towards the camera, and at that point, his figure goes blurry. This is done as when this is done, things that you initially may not have been able to see in the shot may become more obvious and easy to see, in this case the image that is focussed upon is a lady whom we have no idea what her role in this clip is. after 29 seconds, there is a whip pan shot where the camera focuses on the enemy gunman and then the camera whip pans it's view over to the other enemy gunman. The reason why this type of shot was used in this clip is firstly as it gives a clip speed because of how the camera jerks but it also gives a sense of uncontrollable tension as quick movements suggest fear.

this image of this hand holding the paper ball is good as it shows all of the details of the hand and the scrunched up paper help to suggest that something is going to hapen with that piece of paper, either it will be thrown away or thrown as a note etc. this image is a big close up, the big close up traditionally is used as it helps to give you an idea about a person or a somethings features.

this image of the girl up against the closed gate is good a it asks a question when looked at. who is the girl and why is she locked inside a large gated area. this image is a medium long shot. the reason why the medium long shot works well is that it helps to show the characters body position but it also helps to show all of the background.





                                                                                  this image of the hands up clenched around the bars is good as it shows the follow on details of the previous shot. this is interesting as it shows that the person is obviously distressed as they are trying to pull open a large gate. this shot is a medium close up, this has been used as it shows a bit of the surrounding area but mainly shows a good detail of the hands.