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:
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.
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.
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