This lesson we continued with our story boards. We are including each shot aswell as the camera angles we want to use. Shortly, we will take photos of them to put onto the blogs.
[INSERT IMAGES OF STORY BOARDS]
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Monday, 21 September 2009
Planning.
Today's lesson is our last practical lesson untill we are ready to start editing ect. So we used the time to sort out all our blogs, moving them from the VLE to blogspot and finishing all our planning and research so we are completely ready to start filming.
Daisy and I have spoken about when we can film and when i get home i will speak to Joel and arrange a practical time table that he can fit with as he will be going back to uni, so we shall have a schedual of when we are doing everything and when it will be completed by.
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Daisy and I have spoken about when we can film and when i get home i will speak to Joel and arrange a practical time table that he can fit with as he will be going back to uni, so we shall have a schedual of when we are doing everything and when it will be completed by.
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Pitch.
Last lesson we presented our pitches to the class with all our idea's and then had feed back from the class. People mostly liked our idea's and then just said we needed to get our pictures up of our story board and sketches of poster and CD cover and people were agreeing with our decision to do practise shots and see if our editing suite has the technology to make our idea's look good. We have some fairly aspirational idea's like the split screen and fast forwarding so we will be making drafts as tests. We will upload our drafts later onto our blog.
This is our power point and our pitch has been filmed with feed back and we will upload the video.
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This is our power point and our pitch has been filmed with feed back and we will upload the video.
Our Music Video Pitch
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Daisy's original blogs (15 blogs)
23/09/09 - Blog work
This lesson I have been adding more detail onto my original blogs and inserting the images that we took of our hand drawn designs. I have also spent alot of time making sure each blog is the right size and coloured font with the correct images. We also inserted our video of the music pitch from slideshare.
Also this lesson we drew up our storyboards again as we lost our original ones. We aim to take pictures of them as soon as possible to put onto our blogs.
21/09/09 - Planning
This lesson we are making sure all our planning work is organised and sorted properly before we take time out to work on theory in lessons. Sadie and I spoke about a schedule for when we can start on our filiming and Sadie is going to speak to Joel and arrange the best times for him and us. We need to make sure we work our schedule around when we are both free and when Joel is at home, as he goes back to Uni soon.
17/09/09 - Viewing pitches
This lesson we viewed everyone's pitches. By looking at other people's pitches, it gives us a good insight into other people's ideas and how they are progressing with their work. This was useful because it helped us to know whether we were on the right track to finishing our work in time and if we needed to do anymore work and make any adjustments.
16/09/09 - Pitch
This lesson we are showing our pitch to the rest of the class for feedback. This is our pitch:
Our Music Video Pitch
The feedback we gained from our class members and teachers were overall really positive. Everybody seemed to like our idea and enjoyed the clip we showed them of Joel singing to give them a rough idea of his style of music. The only things we were told to improve on were including images of our story boards and drawn work into our pitch to show our developements with them and to include some information on the kind of technology work we will be using such as how to slow the music down for our video in certain parts etc.
14/09/09 - Last Lesson
This lesson we foccused on our poster and story board. We completed the drafts and were meant to take pictures of them for our pitch but didn't have enough time in the end.
We also started on our new blogs on blogspot. After some difficulties with moving our original blogs over, we managed to work it all out and have started to put our blogs together on here.
This lesson I have been adding more detail onto my original blogs and inserting the images that we took of our hand drawn designs. I have also spent alot of time making sure each blog is the right size and coloured font with the correct images. We also inserted our video of the music pitch from slideshare.
Also this lesson we drew up our storyboards again as we lost our original ones. We aim to take pictures of them as soon as possible to put onto our blogs.
21/09/09 - Planning
This lesson we are making sure all our planning work is organised and sorted properly before we take time out to work on theory in lessons. Sadie and I spoke about a schedule for when we can start on our filiming and Sadie is going to speak to Joel and arrange the best times for him and us. We need to make sure we work our schedule around when we are both free and when Joel is at home, as he goes back to Uni soon.
17/09/09 - Viewing pitches
This lesson we viewed everyone's pitches. By looking at other people's pitches, it gives us a good insight into other people's ideas and how they are progressing with their work. This was useful because it helped us to know whether we were on the right track to finishing our work in time and if we needed to do anymore work and make any adjustments.
16/09/09 - Pitch
This lesson we are showing our pitch to the rest of the class for feedback. This is our pitch:
Our Music Video Pitch
The feedback we gained from our class members and teachers were overall really positive. Everybody seemed to like our idea and enjoyed the clip we showed them of Joel singing to give them a rough idea of his style of music. The only things we were told to improve on were including images of our story boards and drawn work into our pitch to show our developements with them and to include some information on the kind of technology work we will be using such as how to slow the music down for our video in certain parts etc.
The feedback we gained from our class members and teachers were overall really positive. Everybody seemed to like our idea and enjoyed the clip we showed them of Joel singing to give them a rough idea of his style of music. The only things we were told to improve on were including images of our story boards and drawn work into our pitch to show our developements with them and to include some information on the kind of technology work we will be using such as how to slow the music down for our video in certain parts etc.
10/09/09 - Pitch & Research
This lesson we are focussing on finishing our pitch to show the rest of the class in a few lessons time.
This pitch will help us with getting feedback from the same age group as our target audience on our ideas for our product.
By gaining feedback we will find out what works well from our class members who are of the same age as our target audience. We will also find out any improvements that we may need to make and can work on them before starting the practical work such as filming and music etc.
Also this lesson I am going to study a scene from Hey There Delilah that I think is effective and is also a feature we would like to include in our music video.
Here are a few examples of the types of things we would like to include:
Split screen of two different pieces of action happening at the same time -
This is one of the opening scenes from the video. I think this scene is effective because it shows two different things happening at the same time in the same shot. It has an extreme close up of the mouth of the singer from The Plain White Tees aswell as some establishing shots of the New York roads leading to a shot of Delilah walking.
Split screen/same shot -
This is a shot of the singer playing the guitar. Although it is still in the split screen layout, both sections are focussed on the singer, showing one complete image. I think this shot is clever and quirky and would look good if we used it for our video to show Joel playing his guitar.
09/09/09 - Extra Research
This lesson we are focussing on more detailed research for our planning such as the genre moodboard and reading around the cd covers that we have used for inspiration etc.
By doing this we are adding detail to our planning and we are ensuring that we have every aspect of our product covered and planned thoroughly which will be a great help when it comes to filiming the final product.
For our moodboard we will include details such as mise en scene, types of characters, the style of clothing, the style of music and instruments and possible camera angles.
Here is our genre moodboard:
Through our research we are gaining a wide knowledge of the generic conventions and features that fall under our genre and style of work, helping to create an effective final product.
For the research into our similar songs, we looked at a video of the making of 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt.
http://www.t5m.com/james-blunt/making-of-james-blunts-youre-beautiful-music-video.html
By researching into how music videos are made it gives us a better insight into how we may want to film or set our own. Useful tips such as where to put the camera for certain angles and what effect we are trying to achieve will help us during the making of our video.
1/07/09 - Pitching
This lesson we are focussing on the powerpoint for our pitch. We are including all of our ideas so far and reasons why we have chosen them.
By doing this we are showing possible members of our target audience our ideas, and by using their feedback we can make any amendments to our work if needed. This will help us alot as it will give us some insight into the type of product our target teenage audience are interested in.
We are including an Introduction on our portfolio, with ideas, research and planing etc. Aswell as this, we have wrote about the generic conventions of Indie music, inspirations for our video and cd cover, mise en scene, details on each planned shot for the sections of the song, ideas for the poster and cd cover, ideas for the logo to go on the cover and possible institutions we may use for our production.
29/06/09 - Planning
This lesson we will focus on finalising our initial ideas for the front cover. We are taking our ideas from the last lesson before this one and building on our traced sketches of Joel, as well as chosing fonts and colours. We need to be looking towards bright and bold colours to follow with our pop-art theme.
We looked at a few logos to give us ideas for our own one. Here are some examples:
We decided to go against a generic logo and create our own one because we thought this added a more personal touch to our ancillary tasks. We already have an idea of the type of logo we want, so we have drawn this out onto our neater sketches of the front cover so know where abouts we want to place it, this will help when we come to actually making our front covers because we will know the space and sizes needed for each section of the cover.
Upon looking through hand drawn designs of cd covers, I liked these images the most and if we can, we will try to feature some of these ideas into part of our design.
I like these designs because they are simple colours but detailed drawings and I like the style in which they have been drawn. Although I have looked at these images for inspiration, for our cd cover we will be using colour as we prefer a coloured design and it will stand out more than a black and white design.
Upon looking through hand drawn designs of cd covers, I liked these images the most and if we can, we will try to feature some of these ideas into part of our design.
24/06/09 - Planning
This lesson we are also focussing on our sketches for the cd covers and the poster. Our aim is to have a finalised idea for the poster with the fonts and colours all sorted, as well as our desings sorted out for the cd covers and the right logo.
We have changed our initial idea for the front cover which was to draw a clock in the center and have a hand drawn picture of Joel as the hands on the clock. Instead of this idea, we went to the library and used the internet to search for images of Joel that we could use for our front cover. We chose 2 of our favourite images and used the printed images for our sketches. We have chosen centered images of Joel, and traced around them, we will then use 3 of the same image and have them each in different colours on the front.
These are the three of the possible images we may use:
We liked these images as they are simple and show a clear shot of Joel if we wanted to use one for the front cover. Our favourites were the two similar ones on the left and right with a vintage looking background and two different shots of Joel in the center. We are aiming to trace around these images and change them slightly, before finding a suitable way to include them onto the front cover.
For the back cover we are aiming for a simple design with just the song names written down the center in a list.
The influence for our front cover design is Andy Warhol as we think this style of image, known as pop-art, is bright and modern and will appeal to our teenage target audience because nowadays teenagers are into quirky, different styles that take over from the generic versions. As well, if our cd was on the shelf in a shop, a bright image will help to get our cd noticed amongst others.
Here are some examples of Andy Warhol's designs:
23/06/09 - Planning
During these lessons our aim is to finalise our story board and make any changes if necessary. Because the song we have chosen to use is over 4 minutes long, we may have to cut the song down but at the moment, we are drawing our ideas up to the time slots for each verse. By doing this we can ensure that our narrative fits with each verse and there are no mistakes or overlaps.
For one of our ancilliary tasks we are going to draw up some rough ideas for the CD cover, aswell as looking at other generic CD covers for inspiration.
I have also bought in the last album produced by Joel Owen to give us ideas and to see what a professional cover would look like.
Here is the picture featured on the front cover:
We have decided to use a hand drawn design on the front cover, this idea we liked from Jason Mraz's album cover because we think it is a clever and original idea, unlike most generic cd covers which feature an image. To make sure it follows to the lyrics of the song we have chosen, we will include a picture that is directly linked such a clock or an image that is possibly blurred to follow with the conventions we are going to use in the video.
For the back cover we are using a photograph of a clock and seperate photos of Joel in different places so it gives the impression that he is turning around the clock.
We are still in the process of drawing up rough sketches of our ideas and trying to create a good logo for the cover that fits in with the style of music we have chosen.
During these lessons our aim is to finalise our story board and make any changes if necessary. Because the song we have chosen to use is over 4 minutes long, we may have to cut the song down but at the moment, we are drawing our ideas up to the time slots for each verse. By doing this we can ensure that our narrative fits with each verse and there are no mistakes or overlaps.
For one of our ancilliary tasks we are going to draw up some rough ideas for the CD cover, aswell as looking at other generic CD covers for inspiration.
I have also bought in the last album produced by Joel Owen to give us ideas and to see what a professional cover would look like.
Here is the picture featured on the front cover:
We have decided to use a hand drawn design on the front cover, this idea we liked from Jason Mraz's album cover because we think it is a clever and original idea, unlike most generic cd covers which feature an image. To make sure it follows to the lyrics of the song we have chosen, we will include a picture that is directly linked such a clock or an image that is possibly blurred to follow with the conventions we are going to use in the video.
For the back cover we are using a photograph of a clock and seperate photos of Joel in different places so it gives the impression that he is turning around the clock.
We are still in the process of drawing up rough sketches of our ideas and trying to create a good logo for the cover that fits in with the style of music we have chosen.
17/06/09 - Planning
This lesson we are focussing on listening to the song in detail to work out the time slots for each verse, and are starting on drawing up our story boards.
We discussed each verse thoroughly before finalising our ideas for each one. By doing this, we are hoping to have each scene perfected when it comes to filming and are aiming to ensure that the narrative fits with the song. The mise-en-scene we want to use is a typical, normal household, with all the daily things happening around Joel. This idea fits in with the title of the song 'One of those days'.
16/06/09 - Ancilliary Tasks And Research
For our ancilliary tasks we have decided to do the poster and the cd cover because we think we could produce good designs for them and we think these pieces fit together well for the promotional package.
We want to feature two similar pictures of Joel for the main cover and the poster so they link together to form the final product with the music video itself. We had the idea to take a still image from one of the shots in the video itself such as the first shot, which is a frozen shot of Joel and a fast forwarded background.
Here is an idea of the type of poster we want:
We looked at film posters such as The Terminal for inspiration because it is a smilar style to the idea we would like to use.
We also looked at Jason Mraz's cd cover, which is a drawn picture of his face, we liked the idea because we like the simple design to it and we think it is quirky and appealing to fit in with the simple, acoustic stlye music.
I prefer the drawn illustration for the front cover because it is unlike the generic cd covers which would usually feature a photo or image, directly linked to the artist or music.
16/06/09 - Research and Planning
At the start of the lesson, I looked at a video of the acoustic singer Boyce Avenue to give us ideas, incase we change our plan to a more simple acoustic idea. Boyce Avenue is a fairly well known, very talented acoustic artist, he is alot like Joel in the fact that he has a very good voice for singing acousticly and can play many instruments.
Here is the link to the main page for Boyce Avenue on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/user/boyceavenue?blend=1&ob=4
Mainly, this lesson, we have focussed on finalising the shots for each section of the song.
The song we have chosen is called 'One Of Those Days'.
Here are the lyrics to the song we have chosen to use, with our ideas next to each verse: media lyrics.pub
The shots we have chosen to use are:
1ST VERSE: Joel stood in a frozen shot in the kitchen/lounge, people fast forwarded around him doing their usual daily things.
2ND VERSE: Joel in bed, cant sleep or concentrate.
3RD/4TH/5TH VERSE: Joel sees girlfriend through the window, texts are sent, smiles at girlfriend, back to bed.
6TH VERSE: Goes back to frozen shot of Joel leaving the house. Split screens to shots of family going off to do things. Fades out.
Originally, we had the idea to have the busy streets in Leicester as our location and for the mise en scene we were going to shoot crowds of people bustling past Joel in fast forward motion so that Joel was frozen in one spot. We thought this would be a good idea because it shows he is going nowhere which is some of the lyrics in the first verse. Instead, we decided to make it more personal, by setting the location in his house to link with the fact that he is talking about his own life. We are still going to use the fast forward tool to give a more professional effect, to do this we will have to slow the song down by 4 times and get Joel to mime at this speed for the filming. Then, during the editing we will speed the song and the people in the background up by 4 times so that the music and Joel miming are now at a normal speed, but the action around him is fast forwarded. Hopefully, Joel can get hold of the person he knows that sorts out all the technical side to his music so we can get some professional help on this.
By using the software on the new computers to do this, it should be up our skills on the different programs and should help to give us ideas on what kinds of editing we could use on further media products.
By typing our ideas with the song lyrics it gives us a more detailed idea of what shots we want to use for each verse and will help us later down the line when it comes to filming and drawing up our story board.
We are aiming to start out story boards in the upcoming lessons to ensure we give ourselves enough time to get each shot well planned before filming.
12/06/09 - First Ideas and Research
A2 PORTFOLIO.
From the 8 briefs for our media practical, we have chosen to do the promotional package for a music video and the two ancilliary tasks we are going to do are the poster and the cd cover.
We have chosen to do this because we think we can work well on this type of media and have lots of ideas to put into use. We are basing our music video on Joel Owen (Sadie's brother) as we enjoy his music and we think we can appeal to the teenage audience who are part of a generation where acoustic/indie music is becoming increasingly more popular, and as we are both interested in this genre of music, we can use our own interests and feelings towards this style to put into our work.
These are some hand drawn designs of our mind maps. These mind maps include ideas for what we could base our music video on, aswell as details such as locations, clothes, camera shots etc:
We are aiming to create a professional looking music video, the song is around 4 minutes 30 seconds and we hope to do enough filiming to feature the whole song in our final product but if the length of the song is a problem, we will cut the song down to make sure there are no problems for the final film.
We have got ideas from music videos such as 'Hey There Delilah' By The Plain White Tees and 'You're Beautiful' By James Blunt because these are similar types of genre to the music we have chosen and we particularly remembered the video for 'Hey There Delilah' because it features some conventions such as split screen as this is something we would like to include in our video.
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
its just me,paul MySpace Videos
By looking at these videos, it has given us ideas on what sort of shots we could use such as close ups on Joels face to show his emotions and low and high angled shots when showing the split screen of Joel and his girlfriend. It also gaves us ideas of what camera angles work well and how we could link the shots to the music effectively.
Our initial idea is to use a still image of Joel in the center of the shot for the first verse and to speed up the people and action in the background. By doing this we are drawing attention to Joel straight away, and the shot will soley focus on Joel and his singing. As there will be no particular action going on other than Joel singing, this introduces Joel well as an acoustic artist. For the remainder of the song we aim to include shots and split screens to show different scenarios taking place that link to the verses.
Monday, 14 September 2009
Sadie's Original Blog (14)
PLANNING & RESEARCH - 10/09/09
Our pitch is finished and we are presenting it to the class by next week so will be able to have feed back.
Now our storyboard is finished and we are sure about our setting, locations, costume etc we are planning our shots and scenes in more detail. Camera angles and the way we want our scene to look.
For one section we are aiming for something like this, this is a still image from the video Hey there Delilah which we have used as inspiration from the start. This opening scene has the boy on his guitar and shows the girl in a different location we would like to use this effect to show two characters in our video. It would be very similar to this with Joel alone probably singing, possiblty with his guitar and a girl walking away from his house.
Later in this Plain White T's video it uses this split screen effect but, it is still in the same room, for particular parts of the song we may use this, as it would then look like it was separating Joel from everything and making him appear more alone.
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RESEARCH - 09/09/09
We have produced a genre moodboard on the type of video we are producing. It shows mise en scene, style and clothing, style of music, types of audience.
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MUSIC VIDEO - Summer holidays
Over the summer Daisy has been coming over to mine and we have been going around with Joel looking for locations for our video, we are using our house for parts but then are using town like a busy high street and the streets around my area.
We have also taken our photo's for our CD cover and Poster, with this done it will give us more time to work on our main task when we are back and we can just focus on the editing and putting together of our ancillary tasks when we are ready.
As we had some complecated effects we wanted to use for our video we have tried practising them with our camera just as rough idea's to see what they will look like. Joel's friend has a studio and is working on slowing the track down by 4 times for Joel to practising miming along with but we don't have the equipment to fast forward at home but once we have filmed it we can as soon as we are back to school test it to see if it will look good rather than filming it all properly and then trying it incase it doesnt look as good as we hope. We also have filmed tester clips to try and work out how to get them playing along side each other as a split screen.
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MUSIC VIDEO - 01/07/09
Research.
Our pitch is finished and we are presenting it to the class by next week so will be able to have feed back.
Now our storyboard is finished and we are sure about our setting, locations, costume etc we are planning our shots and scenes in more detail. Camera angles and the way we want our scene to look.
For one section we are aiming for something like this, this is a still image from the video Hey there Delilah which we have used as inspiration from the start. This opening scene has the boy on his guitar and shows the girl in a different location we would like to use this effect to show two characters in our video. It would be very similar to this with Joel alone probably singing, possiblty with his guitar and a girl walking away from his house.
Later in this Plain White T's video it uses this split screen effect but, it is still in the same room, for particular parts of the song we may use this, as it would then look like it was separating Joel from everything and making him appear more alone.
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RESEARCH - 09/09/09
We have produced a genre moodboard on the type of video we are producing. It shows mise en scene, style and clothing, style of music, types of audience.
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MUSIC VIDEO - Summer holidays
Over the summer Daisy has been coming over to mine and we have been going around with Joel looking for locations for our video, we are using our house for parts but then are using town like a busy high street and the streets around my area.
We have also taken our photo's for our CD cover and Poster, with this done it will give us more time to work on our main task when we are back and we can just focus on the editing and putting together of our ancillary tasks when we are ready.
Our pitch is finished and we are presenting it to the class by next week so will be able to have feed back.
Now our storyboard is finished and we are sure about our setting, locations, costume etc we are planning our shots and scenes in more detail. Camera angles and the way we want our scene to look.
For one section we are aiming for something like this, this is a still image from the video Hey there Delilah which we have used as inspiration from the start. This opening scene has the boy on his guitar and shows the girl in a different location we would like to use this effect to show two characters in our video. It would be very similar to this with Joel alone probably singing, possiblty with his guitar and a girl walking away from his house.
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RESEARCH - 09/09/09
We have produced a genre moodboard on the type of video we are producing. It shows mise en scene, style and clothing, style of music, types of audience.
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MUSIC VIDEO - Summer holidays
Over the summer Daisy has been coming over to mine and we have been going around with Joel looking for locations for our video, we are using our house for parts but then are using town like a busy high street and the streets around my area.
We have also taken our photo's for our CD cover and Poster, with this done it will give us more time to work on our main task when we are back and we can just focus on the editing and putting together of our ancillary tasks when we are ready.
As we had some complecated effects we wanted to use for our video we have tried practising them with our camera just as rough idea's to see what they will look like. Joel's friend has a studio and is working on slowing the track down by 4 times for Joel to practising miming along with but we don't have the equipment to fast forward at home but once we have filmed it we can as soon as we are back to school test it to see if it will look good rather than filming it all properly and then trying it incase it doesnt look as good as we hope. We also have filmed tester clips to try and work out how to get them playing along side each other as a split screen.
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MUSIC VIDEO - 01/07/09
Research.
Having watched afew music video's that have given us inspiration and are similar to how we are aiming ours to be we need to research into the production of the video's. We looked at the video for James Blunts "You're beautiful." We were able to find a short video which showed part of making the video, http://www.t5m.com/james-blunt/making-of-james-blunts-youre-beautiful-music-video.html
Music video's will always have a much larger budget than we do, looking at research most successful video's have a very large budget : "A low budget music video costs $100,000 at least," he said. Judge Mathis clearly operates under major label principles. OK, sure, you can spend $100,000 on a video. You can spend ten times that much. But you don't have to. Here, video director A. Flegenheimer walks you through making a music video on a budget that might be slightly less than the good judge has at his disposal.
However like this, other websites say you can make low budget video's with the quality of the £100,000 ones. Looking through the internet i cant find any information on the making of the video's for the artists that are similar to Joel and have inspired us apart from that first video on James Blunt's video. I'm trying to find the budget for Hey there Delilah but it doesn't seem to be on google or wikipedia.
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ANCILLARY TASKS - 29/06/09
Today we are continuing with sketing our CD cover and posters. We are aiming to have the set out drawn and all the fonts, sizes , colours and positions decided.
Instead of drawing the images of Joel on the front cover we decided to use photo's as when we practising tracing photo's of him or just drawing him it didn't look good or really show it was him! So we are using the same lay out, we will have 3 similar photo's of joel on a white background. The photo's will be slightly different either with them being in different colours or Joel doing a slightly different pose each time
These are the photo's we have taken and we will probably use three of these. We chose to use my sisters wallpaper as the background as it looks really effective and i thought if we decided not to crop Joel out it would look good and fits in with his retro style. I chose to put him in these clothes because they are simple but look fashionable and a bit different, with the necklaces to show his personality and add some style.
In this picture I asked him to look right at the camera and look thoughtful, I wanted him to look a bit lost. Like he was having 'one of those days'! We had his hair over his eye to look more closed and distant.
In this photo I wanted him to be looking elsewhere, as if thinking again and wanting something, this shot really shows his face so would make him more accessable to the audience. 
This time I wanted Joel to be looking up and looking sort of hopeful, the lighting in this picture is really good and he is looking towards the brightness, as if that is where the hope is.
In this shot Joel is looking more 'attractive' and appealing to the audience, HIs eyes looking to the camera and in an individual pose.
For our poster we are using the idea like the teminal with the blured background and then Joel in the center stood still, this again is relating to the video. To make this look very obvious and effective we will probably take to photo's one of a moving crowd and another of Joel then cut round it and put it on top. We may make Joel black and white and keep the colour for the backgroud.
We will keep the writing minimal and simple again, with just his name, the song name, dates of release and our company logo.
We haven't taken thes photo's yet.
This lesson we have also looked at creating our company logo, keeping it simple and like other music producer's company logo's.
These are some examples of music logo's that inspired us:
We have made a few hand drawn designs and will create our favourite on Adobe.
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CD COVER - 24/06/09
Today we are drawing sketches of what our cd cover will look like. After researching other covers we have stuck to the generic conventions of simple, with just joel and the necessary writing. We attempted our tracing idea, however it did not come out how we would hope and the image was not clear that it was Joel. So, we are going for the hand drawn effect on the back cover with the big clock and maybe our logo of Joels name but we will be using photo's we have taken of him. We think we will have on the front three photo's of him but slightly different maybe in different colours, with a Andy Warhole look, known as pop-art. It's bright and modern and will appeal to our teenage target audience because nowadays teenagers are into quirky, different styles that take over from the generic versions. As well, if our cd was on the shelf in a shop, a bright image will help to get our cd noticed amongst others.
This is an example of Andy Warlhole's design.
Today we are drawing sketches of what our cd cover will look like. After researching other covers we have stuck to the generic conventions of simple, with just joel and the necessary writing. We attempted our tracing idea, however it did not come out how we would hope and the image was not clear that it was Joel. So, we are going for the hand drawn effect on the back cover with the big clock and maybe our logo of Joels name but we will be using photo's we have taken of him. We think we will have on the front three photo's of him but slightly different maybe in different colours, with a Andy Warhole look, known as pop-art. It's bright and modern and will appeal to our teenage target audience because nowadays teenagers are into quirky, different styles that take over from the generic versions. As well, if our cd was on the shelf in a shop, a bright image will help to get our cd noticed amongst others.
This is an example of Andy Warlhole's design.
It is the same picture but just with different effects on, which is what we will be doing just three times on the front. However i don't think we will change the colours quite as harshly as this.
We will design a logo for our company to have on the back.
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We had decided that originally we wanted one of our ancillary tasks to have the hand drawn effect and we have chosen that will be the CD cover, but we still want it to have elements that link it to the poster and video.
Researching covers of similar genres it is evident that there is always minimal writing and generally a picture of the artist.
For the backcover we are having a hand drawn big clock, that links to the one in the video. It will be on a white background with just a simple black outline of it (not filled in) and then instead of hands photo's of Joel tesselated round as if he is going round, possibly bluring into each other. Then we will use simple black font to have the track and song title and then our producer logo in the corner.
For the front cover we are going to trace round a photo of joel and have this outline 3times in different colours on a white back ground, with his name writtten like a sort of logo and the name of the song written on it. These are three pictures we are going to test drawing around.
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MUSIC VIDEO & CD COVER - 23/06/09
This lesson we are going to continue with our story board, finalising each section of the song and the shots we are going to be doing.
We are also going to research CD covers and posters and draw up mock ups of what we would imagine them to look at. Joel has made a CD himself with a proffessional CD cover taken by a photographer he knew, so we have brought this in with us to have a look at as well as other CD covers on the internet that we can look at. From these we will get idea's and see the generic conventions of a typical accoustic CD cover. We will need to look at how much writing generally is on covers and the fonts and postion.
This is the picture that featured on his album cover. And it had simple white font, with minimal writing.
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MUSIC VIDEO - 17/06/09
Today we have gone through more thoroughly what we are doing for each section, how long particular scenes will last and began to create our story board.
Having researched video's of Joel's style and genre of music such as James Blunt and James Morrison we see that some video's tell the story of the song i.e James Blunts Goodbye my lover http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcblUah5XcI (for some reason i could only find the video with spanish translation on!), where as others may just look like a performance of the song. We have used elements of both but it mostly like the narrative video, as he isn't performing it as such however at points he will be miming along with it. This is similar to James Blunt's video for You're Beautiful, he is singing in the video but not performing his song, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztc4V3ttlso (for some reason i could only find the video with spanish translation on again!)
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ANCILLARY TASKS - 16/06/09
For our ancillary tasks, we are going to make a CD cover for the single and a poster advertising it and Joel as an artist. These were the most obvious choices to do with our video as we can clearly link all the products together and they would both contibute to the single and music video reaching a wider audience. We would like them to relate to what we see in video, so I have an idea that it would be Joel stood looking at the camera and blur's of people passing. Possibly with Joel in black and white and the surrounding setting and people in colour. This links to our idea's for the opening of our video, so it would look almost like a still shot from it. However it wouldn't be as i think we would use a different location for example outside somewhere really busy, and Joel would be in a separate picture so we could make him black and white and layer it on top.
We saw a poster that has a very similar theme and effect to what we'd like, which is the poster for The Terminal, although a film it's poster has the same purpose as ours would.
This would be the kind of effect we are hoping for.
We have thought about for one of the poster or cd cover, the picture to be the same or similar but drawn. This is because we want to keep it looking very similar so it is obvious that they are both promoting and for the same single. An example of a simple drawn cover could be Jason Mraz's album cover
We would like simple drawings like this probably in just black and white and not filled in. The drawing would be similar to the photo we use of Joel and the crowd so that we keep all our tasks linked clearly and related to the video that the poster would be promoting
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MUSIC VIDEO- 16/06/09
This lesson we have discussed the idea's together for each section and finalised what we will do for all the parts and so now can imagine the whole video together. It will also help us to create our story board and put it all together when filming. These are our final idea's - media lyrics.pub
Originally for our mise en scene and location we planned to use, a busy high street most likely in town, however we have now decided to have the same effect with people passing him by but just at home, this would show a more personal approach to him feeling alone. We will use a kitchen area and probably a living room, we also will have him in his bedroom at one point, i want the bedroom to be really plain and quite empty, just very minimal mise en scene. We will also be using the outside of the house, we're not sure who's house we will be using yet but it just needs to be an ordinary family home.
The video won't have many characters in our video, it will have Joel obviously, then a girl similar age to him playing his girlfriend, possible his real girlfriend or maybe just one of our friends as afew do drama. I will also use my family in the background in the home scenes when they are walking around him.
We talked about Joel's style he will be dressed sort of indie like, this is his normal style and we want him to come through as he normally does. This style will link with his accoustic music and also be appealing to our target audience, without being directly too associated with a niche group and deterring other people of different styles.
We are going to start producing our story board now of the video so we have the structure in more specific form. The song is four and a half minutes long so we may decide to cut it if necessary, but we are going to start planning it all now so we should have time.
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MUSIC VIDEO - 14/06/09
Brief outline of idea's for each section of song and structure of how video will be if we use these idea's - media lyrics.pub
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MUSIC VIDEO- 14/06/09
Having chosen our song, we have been listening to it to try and get idea's and a picture of what we could imagine in a real music video for a song like this.
We had had the idea of Joel being stood still somewhere busy and people swarming around him as if he wasn't there. This would be similar to Will Young's Leave Right Now video. This would be at the start of the song as he says lines like, "where I feel I'm going no where.." We'd really like him to be singing at normal pace but for it too look like the crowd it is fast forwarded, I know how we would create this effect. Having watched a programme about making music video's I worked it out as they talked about Leona Lewis's video for A moment like this, however they were doing it in the opposite way to us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR6qSfBqJVg This video looks like it is filmed in slow motion, they created this effect by speeding up the song by 4times and she mimed at that pace when they filmed it they then slowed it down by 4 times in the actuall video so it fit with the orignal song but looked slow. So, I would like to be able to slow Joel's song down by four times or so and he can mime to that and the people around him would be walking at normal pace, so when we sped that up by four times so it was the same pace as the song originally, Joel would look to be at normal time (as he would be stood still) and the people who were walking would be going very fast. However we don't know whether with the technology we have that we'll be able to do that effectively.
Before we had decided on the song, we had thought of having a split screen with Joel one side and a girl who he was singing about on the other. So if we could get that element into this video and be able to do it at school we would like to be able to do that because it would look different and more proffessional we haven't thought of a good way to include it yet though. Inspiration for this part was from The Plain White T's video, "Delilah" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8
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A2 PORTFOLIO - Start 12/06/09
Out of the 8 main coursework tasks, we (Daisy and me) have chosen to do the music video. This is because it instantly appealed to us as my brother sings and plays instuments so we knew some of his songs and could think of idea's for video's for him. We did consider some of the other options aswell, like the advert or film trailer just to see what idea's we came up with but decided we could produce the best and most original product if we made the music video.
The singer we are using in our video is Joel Owen, we have listened to various songs and come up with idea's for afew but have settled on his song 'One of those days' as we had the best idea for an opening to it. Our video needs to appeal to target audiences of mostly teenagers, particularly interested in the indie/acoustic scene. As a young male artist he appeal more to females. However, although the main target would be a younger generation his music would be enjoyed by adults too as it is quite relaxing and in no way offensive. Researching similar artists such as James Morrison and James Blunt we know that many adults would buy there album or listen to there music. Knowing this we must not make our product directly for a niche younger audience.
The video's we intend to inspire us particullarly are, Plain White T's 'Delilah' and Will Young's 'Leave right now'. We will also watch some acoustic artists video's aswell for more inspiration such as James Morrison, Jason Mraz and James Blunt.
For our ancillary tasks, we will be making a CD cover for the single 'One of those days' and a poster advertising the single. This will have Joel on it but we haven't decided on what will be in the background or anything. It may be what looks like a still image of the video. We will need to research other covers and artists posters much more to see what type of thing works.
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