Friday, 15 March 2013

Original footage

A selection of our original footage before we started editing


  

Saturday, 9 March 2013

CD Cover Production

These images are the some of the final images we are using in our 6 page digipak.     
                                         
By using the guitar in the front cover this allows the audience to know exactly what time of music 'Eleanor Rose' plays. We decided to blur the background so that this made the artist and guitar stand out more and from our background research we decided not to have the artist looking straight at the camera as this creates a relaxed persona.

By having the artist sitting down on a bench this also highlights the relaxed persona. We positioned the tracklist on the left hand side so it is clear to see as the artist is on the right however we deiced on the lowercase/highercase track list as inspiration from Ellie Gouldings album.


This is the lyrics page for the song used in our music video 'black and gold' and by putting lyrics into the digipak it suggests to the audience and fanbase that the artist wants them involved and to be able to learn the lyrics.When researching different digipaks we found adding a lyrics page this was a recurring convention.

This is the actual CD for 'Untold Truths' album. After researching similar genres we decided that a simple CD looked best as having an image on there could make it look complex.The font used on there is the same as the font used on the album cover which makes it recognizable. The colour purple has been taken from the artists jean colour and has also been used for the border on 'thank you' page and also 'lyrics' page.

Thursday, 7 February 2013

Final plan of music video

To begin with me and my group had picked a slow love song to base our music video around and do a cliché 'walk in the park with girlfriend' but after much consideration we decided we needed something much more unique. We decided completely against doing a 'love song' and decided on a much more up beat song that we can make a much more varied music video.

Our final artist and song is Eleanor Rose - Black and Gold.

By using this song as the lyrics have no real meaning "a fish swam out of the ocean, it grew legs and started walking" we could pretty much do anything with our video. We decided we were going to do the music video with the artist in a 'world of her own' whilst life goes on without her. This was inspired by Will Young's music video "Leave right now" where she is in a similar situation. 

During the video we are going to have the artist in different situations with different outfits whilst being completly unaware of the things around him. Our ideas were helped with the feedback we collected (listed below)

UPDATE : 25/01/2013
Me and my group have changed our final plan due to a very complex film schedule we made which made it impossible to complete all filming and editing within the limited time we had. Here is our new filming schedule:


Date/Time


Place


What we’re doing


December 8th 2012 2:00


Lightwoods Park


Film whole song in different shots
- Change of costume - casual
Mixture of close ups/mid shots and long shots x3


December 15th 2012 1:00


Lightwoods Park


Close ups of face/playing guitar/ top tapping
Film whole song in different shots


January 19th 2012 1:00


Lightwoods Park


Film whole song in different shots
–Casual clothing –Guitar
- Mixture of Close ups/mid shots and long shots x3


January 26th 2012 2:00


Lightwoods Park


Film whole song in different shots
Standing outside the Bull – Change of costume – casual
Mixture of close ups/mid shots and long shots x3


2nd February 2012 1:00


Walking down road
Crossing road
Lightwoods Park


Walking down Bearwood
Crossing Hagley Road – Casual clothing
Mixture of close ups/mid shots and long shots


2nd February 2012 4:00


Domestic environment


Film whole song in different shots
Sitting on sofa/sitting  around dining table
Casual clothes
Mixture of close ups/mid shots and long shots

Before making this a final decision, we got some audience feedback from our peers where we asked them which idea they preferred and the response we received was that they would prefer to watch a less complex music video as it could get confusing if not and move away from the proper meaning of the song and lyrics. 
 
Outline of jobs allocated:
Aimee:Director, Camera Woman
 
Poppy:Director, Produced Digipak and poster, Planned mock ups for music video
 
Pav:Director, Produced Digipak and poster, Planned mock ups for digipak
 
 
 

Saturday, 26 January 2013

Target audience

The target audience for our music video is mainly teenagers. From the research we did on similar media products we found that the target audience was the same and therefore used similar conventions to portray who our audience is. By using the location in a park it allows the audience to relate to the artist and enjoy the video more.