Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Album Work Analysis

Pose- camp, notable of Freddie Mercury.
Bold font
Dark colours contrasts Freddie in white.
  

 
Pink and girly appeals to target audience also quite provocative reflecting her,
Name is larger and stands out the most,
She is the main focus,
Shows light heartedness and reflects her music.

  
 
 
Big bold name – stands out.
Background – blurry makes Coolio the focus.
Parental advisory- makes it seem naughty!
White background makes text and colours stand out also white provokes innocence reflecting their image and music,
Different colours reflect their image i.e. being individuals

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Album Covers Analysis.





CD cover research





We did a powerpoint presentation on CD covers and what subliminal meanings and messages they could represent based on the images, colours, layout and text used in preparation for our ancillary task.

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Filming - Monday 14th November

We planned to re-film many of the skateboarding shots that we previously had because we felt that they didn't fit the narrative. The shots we had were too unstructured and we had planned to film more shots to fill in some gaps we had, and give more structure to this section. We also felt that it was necessary because the weather in the previous skateboarding shots didn't fit with the wather in the rest of the sequences. For example the shots in the woods were a lot darker, and the skateboarding shots were extremely sunny. Therefore we had to re-film in order to make this scene fit.
However, we encountered a few problems on this day of filming. Other members of the group could not make it to film, and that left just two members of the group available, we went to Dartford anyway to see what we could get done. When we arrived the skate-park was desserted, meaning it would be hard to film any shots that would fit with the previous footage, as well as this, the poeple that we thought would come and skate for us had other commitments and then couldn't come. Therefore we thought it unlikely that we could get any of the footage that we wanted.
To overcome this problem we decided to film as much footage as we could in a childrens play park. We thouht of some ideas and how it oculd fit the previous narrative, we have now decided to use this play park footage instead of the skatepark because as a group we felt this would fit in much easier and it gives the whole video a lot more structure. We now have all the footage we need and we will continue editing to get the finished music video.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Editing so far...

Up until now we have completed a lot of editing of the video.
The whole beginning of the music video is completed:
-Matt walking down the stairs and entering the kitchen
-Matt seeing the masked head in the fridge, dropping the orange juice
-Matt running (scared) out of his house, on his journey to Oxleas woods.

The next scene is a work in progress, we have all of the footage of Oxleas woods and are currently editing it together for our narrative in order to have an effective and consistent plot in our music video.

We did film and edit the following scene at Dartford Skatepark but we felt that it didn't have concept or co-ordination so we have decided to use some of the shots of the skating tricks but re-film the majority of it in order for it to tell some sort of story and fit in with the rest of the video, rather than just being a series of good shots.

The supermarket scene is also completed and fits in with the narrative. Our main focus at the moment is editing the performance at the end of the video. This was the first sequence we filmed and edited, but it is the last set of clips in the video, therefore the editing which we did do has now been put out of time because of the clips before.

Then all we have to do is the skateboard shots and final editing to the beat to make it perfect.

Friday, 4 November 2011

Our progress so far... 2

We managed to film the Oxleas Wood scene, and it didn't take long as we storyboarded it in detail and it is a short scene. We found no major difficulties as it began to rain afterwards and some of the general public got in the way.

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Our progress so far...

So far, we have filmed the kitchen scene, performance, and skate park scene but we will re-shoot this. Today, we plan on filming in the woods, and we have storyboarded this scene in detail so that every shot is perfect, but the weather might get in the way. We wanted to film in Dartford at the weekend, but again, it is supposed to rain all day.
We have edited the first part of our music video up until the point where Matt runs out of the house, and we are really pleased with it. The performance shots are proving to be harder to edit as we want it to match the beat, and we have a lot of shots to choose from.