Front Cover Idea's.

The image would have the idea of the writing above it in the white background with the bold black writing.

If we were to use an image with this layout with the tilt the writing would be featured on the side where their is the space.

This image is a example to show what idea we have for the final background with the black font in the centre.

Digi Pak

FRONT:

For the front cover of our Digi Pak it will feature a photo of the artist leaning against a wall from one of the scenes in the music video, where he is walking down the street. Which gives it a clear link to the video and the music, it also shows the artist which is good for the demands of the record label.

The title of the music video 'too famous to get fully dressed' will be structured above the image of the artist, in a white strip background in a bold black font, therefore the contrast will make it eye catching. The use of the image will give the cover a colourful main feature so the cover is intriguing compared to being a simple black and white cover.

BACK:

The back cover idea is that the main background is a plain brick wall with the simple contrast of bold black writing of the tracks down the centre, which also includes the music video as a special feature.

SPECIAL FEATURES:

To bring out the idea of the special feature, which is to fit in with the use of the Digi Pak's for special feature CD's, there will be some kind of label on the front of the Digi Pak to bring out the speciality.

animatic

Incident

We had an incident with out media footage, in which our media video work had been saved as a copy into another groups folder. Fortunately we were able to rectify the problem and have been able to re-save and work on the project from where we left off.

Editing

Me and Lily did some editing for the beginning of the music video, cutting clips from the footage we have taken and putting it together in an order that works with the song. It has been difficult for us to stick to our orginal idea, due to weather conditions and not being allowed to take equipment outside to film, so we have had to create new ideas, (i.e. the music room for a band performance, instead of a field, and when it was raining we shot a 'party' scene inside a house so we wouldnt be wasting our booked filming time), but we do include band shots and scenes of the artist walking down different streets/pathways as we had preiously planned to do.

Charlie looked over the work and added to the video, suggesting what we should change, for example, cutting more of the clips quicker to add in more of a variety of clips at a faster pace so the video is more interesting and the viewer does not loose interest.

We plan to finish off the rough cut next lesson.

Cutting your video

With music videos, the way in which the editors cut it goes along and is in time wit the music. In Jay Sean's Down video it begins with a couple of cuts then there is a lot of movement rather than using cuts to keep the viewer focused. Because there is a dance routine there is little need for lots of cuts, its just one routine but from different angles. We now have the task of not only using visuals to go with music but cutting the video in time with the music.

The task we did as a class this morning was to watch La roux- in for the kill and clap every time the video cuts, and in doing this we realized how the video uses cuts when there is not much going on sound wise which we will use in our video.

Band Shot

Today we shot the band playing, as Wednesday we didn't have enough equipment. This time we did it in the music room as there was already a drum kit set up. We did about 6 different shots, 3 of the whole band from different angles and then close ups of each band member. As Charmiane was more confident at playing the guitar we did more shots of her playing. We did one main close up on lily from a bit more of a distance so that you couldn't she what she was playing. Also we have shots that we took on Wednesday which we can use in our video. This is to keep with our main idea of having many shots to change betweeen.

Field Scene

After the weather did not allow us to film in our original field location we decided to film on the college field and set up our equipment there. However, we found that we had problems with missing bits of equipment that we needed, therefore we could not film as much as we had initially planned to (including the full band shot). because of this we tried to angle the camera in a way that would disguise the missing equipment, using close-up and side shots of the instruments. We have planned to shoot this scene again next lesson with more parts of the needed equipment.

• guitar straps
• another guitar
• more drum kit
  

Teacher Feedback on blog and pitch

Your pitch demonstrated a strong visual link between your video and your digipak and magazine ad - however your blog doesn't currently reflect this. You need to sketch out your ideas for both of the ancillary tasks - use photoshop or draw it out and then photograph it. It is essential that this is done.
Also you need to try and make contact with the artist. Write to them from their myspace page and take a screen grab of your attempt to contact them.
Your pitch was very convincing but it feels from your blog as if your ideas have got a little lost, there are some posts which are currently incomplete - this needs to be sorted out. Where are the storyboard images you have taken, if you have made an animatic you must upload it. Also you need to communicate the overall style you are trying to achieve - post more videos that influence you, both student and professional videos. Take a look at blog of the week for more inspiration on how to enhance your blog.
Great work so far, keep going.

Mishaps.

We have had unforeseen problems in our media due to many different incidents such as weather and problems with props.

The problems with the weather on the Sunday of filming we had to make rearrangements and so filmed in the house rather than the initial idea in the field. We choose to carry on, on the Sunday as we didn't want to waste our filming time so did as much as we could on that day. Before we started filming we had equipment missing and so had problems and faults already as we had double booked with another class the dolly and so couldn't get the exact shots we wanted.

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Today we did our main shoot, as the weather was terrible we had to change out idea of having a band in a field. This was becasue there was heavy rain and there was a lot of mud. We changed our idea to having the lead singer walking and going through everyday routine. the main singer is walking in 4 different locations and we hope to make it 6 different locations and also there is some footage shot in a house.

storyboard pics

call sheet

Group members and roles:

Stephen Dickens, camera, band member, editing

Lily Warne, camera, band member, editing

Charlie Littlefair, camera, band member, editing

Charmane Christie, camera, band member, editing

Locations:

Cambridge, (porson road) loc1

Bassingbourn loc2
music studio loc3

People needed:
Charlie Littlefair
Lily Warne
Charmane Christie

Stephen Dickens

shooting schedule:

Date/location/scene/cast

6/10/09/ loc 1/ Singer walking down the street/ Stephen, Charlie, Lily, Charmane

11/10/09/loc 2/various band members in cutscenes/Stephen, Charlie, Lily, Charmane

16/10/09/loc 3/Band performing to complete song from various angles/Stephen, Charlie, Lily, Charmane.

Requirements:

Kit: Still camera, Video camera, Tripod and Dolly

Props: Full drum kit, bass guitar, fender, microphone with stand.

Costume: General Indie clothes

Location 2:

Test shoot

Today we did a run through of our walking scene to judge how we could get the best outcome possible. First we judged the surface to see if we could use the dolly to get tracking shot but so the camera wasnt shaky, which worked quite well once we got it sorted which took a few minutes. Just to compare and see if it would be better quality, we held the camera rather than using the dolly because we found that the dolly shaked when it hit a bump, and we found the hand-held version

Similar Shots

genre characteristics

Our music video is indie music where it the camera focus's on the band and there are cut scenes where someone is walking down the street. metro station is a good example of a indie rock band because it has everything you would expect to see in an indie video such as a live band performance and cutscenes which is quite similar to our video.

Filming Plan

Tuesday,
- The filming in Cambridge will take place were the band members are walking down the street singing.
-Each band member will be walking down the street at different times down different streets.
- Different shots like long mid and close ups.
Sunday.
- Main band shot in the field
- drummer walking down tack field
- sofa shot with band on sofa