Final Video

Draft video feedback

Adam, Tarun, Jack, Dino (Matt) - Level 2

All the band need to deadpan the performance (see Adams face). Maybe to drum on first beat. Costume is appropriate, room works, most shots well framed.
Dino always look straight ahead!
Take care to keep order in line up.
We EXPECT level 4!
Singer has to be dead on, really on it and focused.
- black and white works really well
- styling is impeccable
- don't bother with the walk (not essential to the success of the video)

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Tarun's Digipak Research

Image1: Before we started designing our digipaks I thought that the famous Japanese painting of the Waves would look good for an album cover. However as I put this idea forward to Mr.Ford he told me that I either had to use my own picture or draw one, so the idea of using the Waves painting was out the  door.

Image 2: I then started looking at landscapes as an idea to use for the album cover.

Image 3-4: I thought maybe a landscape with a sunset would make a good front cover for the album cover.

Image 5-6: As I was searching for more landscapes I came across these images and I liked the idea of viewing the world from a Lego mans prospective. I found a lot more pictures like this and really liked this idea as I have not seen it before on an album cover.

Image 7: This is my first draft, I used a font that was already on Photoshop as I didn't have time to find one.

Image 8: After receiving my draft feedback I started looking for appropriate fonts that would fit the genre of music I have chosen.

Images 9-11: These are some landmarks within Leicester and I wanted to take pictures of these landmarks with my lego man in the picture.

Images 12-13: These are my pictures when I went into Leicester and took pictures of my Lego man.

Image 14: These are the colours that I used on the album cover. I chose these colours as I wanted a very  simple album cover.

Image 15: This is another Draft of my final album cover.

Image 16: This is my final album cover.

Draft Video

Final Digipak

Draft Digipak

Colour ideas

I only want to use one colour on my digipak and magazine advert as I want to let the picture do the talking and not to focus on the colour of the font too much. I mainly want a bold colour so that people are able to see it. Here are some ideas:

My Pictures

I went to the city centre of Leicester to take my picture for the Digipak and magazine advert. Here are some:
 

Location ideas for photos

  

Now that I have decided to use a Lego man for my pictures, I need an interesting locations so that I can take some photos that will look good and fit nicely with my digipak and magazine advert. I am thinking of using Leicester as the location for my photos as it has interesting architectural structures that I can place the Lego man in front of.

Fonts that I like the look of

After doing some research on fonts used on an album cover of my music genre, I have found these two that I like the look of and are considering using them in my final piece.

 

Interesting Pictures that I found for Digipak and magazine advert

I find these picture interesting because I have never seen anything like them before. I could potentially uses a similar picture like this for my Digipak and magazine cover.

Landscape ideas for Digipaks

Front cover idea for Digipak

I feel that this famous Japanese painting would look good as the front cover for my Digipak, this picture  looks very simplistic.

Storyboard 2.59-3.50

Lyrics to our song

You're up and you'll get down

You never running from this town

Kinda think you said

You'll never get anything better than this

'Cause you're going round in circles

And everyone knows you're trouble

Cause you read it in a big book

And now you giving me the look look

But just remember how we shook shook

And all the things we took took

This town's the oldest friend of mine

Get up and we get down

We're always running round this town

And to think I said

We'd never make anything better than this

'Cause we're always in small circles

And everyone thinks we're trouble

We didn't read it in the big book

And now we're giving you the look look

Just remember how we shook shook

And all the things we took took

This town... This town...

This town's the oldest friend of mine

This town... This town... This town...

Risk Assessment

1. Tripping
People who are at risk: The band members
Severity: Low/medium
Likelihood: Low
How to prevent the risk: Make sure that all wires to instruments are out of the way when filming, also stick them to the floor so they are not moving around.

2. Burns from lights
People who are at risk: The band members
Severity: High
Likelihood: Low
How to prevent the risk: Make sure that the lights are switched off when not in use and make sure no one touches the bulb with their hands.

3. Fires
People who are at risk: The band members, camera man and director
Severity: High
Likelihood: Low
How to prevent the risk: Place lights away from any flammable substances, make sure that there is a fire  extinguisher in the room.

4. Dropping the equipment
People who at risk: Band members and camera man
Severity: Low
Likelihood: Low
How to prevent the risk: Make sure that straps are worn when using the guitar and camera.

5. Banging head on equipment
People who are at risk: Band members and camera man
Severity: Low
Likelihood: Low
How to prevent the risk: Make sure you look where you are walking.

6. Transport
People who are at risk: Director, Camera man and Band members
Severity: High
Likelihood: Low
How to prevent the risk: Drive sensibly and don't have a crash.

Location Ideas

At first we had decided to shoot our video at a lake but due to health and safety reasons we will not be shooting our video at a lake. We want to shoot most of our video in a studio so that it gives it that professional look. Also the studio will be simple yet effective with the song we have chosen, it will help amplify the music. Using a studio will allow us shoot the video with more ease as we can get the lighting right. For a small part of our video we want to use a different location, we were thinking of something like the countryside. The reason for having a different location is to add a different element to our video.

Feedback to other students

Brad Ryan & Angus Simmons

Audience profile

The Uk tribe that we are mostly targeting with our music video is indie scenesters. They are best suited because they enjoy music that different and out there, also they enjoy listening to music. The clothes that they wear are very similar too what our band members will be wearing which is  skinny jeans and vintage clothing. They love discovering new artists and bands which means that they will enjoy looking at our band and listening to the music that they make.

Genre of music video

The genre of music we are going for is indie/ alternative rock. We have chose this genre of music because we enjoy this type of music and think that we could make a good music video for this type of genre. The song that we are using for our music video is The Look by Metronomy.

Homework

How to analyse … Music videos

A2 Media Studies Schedule Lutterworth College 2014-2015

Video Killed the Radio Star: An Introduction To Music Video