Showing posts with label Kim. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kim. Show all posts
Sunday, 6 December 2009
Video for evaluation.
Me and pia filmed the video for our evalution in room d109, we only had roughly about 30 minutes to film as i had a hospital apointment, so we were a bit rushed but we managed to film something for each question, we tried to keep our video casual but still professional but as i put earlier we only had 30 minutes to film. We aimed to give detailed answers and include what we have written in our written evaluation.
Monday, 23 November 2009
Digipack (DVD/CD)
Theses are the relating to the Tour/Album adverts, as you can see the images are roughly the same as the ones in the adverts and so they have continuity throughout and make it easier for the buyer to recognize the album instore. The covers don't contain much, just an image, Band name & album name and on the back they would have the track list.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Digi Pack
A magazine advert for a DVD would include a record label, DVD title & artist, Star rating and review quotes, the band's web site(s) and information on when and where to buy them.
It needs to be able to attract the audience eye, and also appeal to the right audience, maybe have something that can be specifically identified to that band for example a logo or an image of them. Its can also show the same or similar image as the album cover so the buyer can identify it easily in a record shop.
The advert must be eye catching and must attract the right kind of audience for that genre of music. It should contain basic information which lets the buyer know important information about their product and this could include the rrp.price.
A DVD cover would usually include the artist name & album/DVD title on the front cover with track names & numbers on the back, similar to an ordinary album cover. It may also include, Record labels, a certificate rating for age, special features and additional features.
Here on Madonna's video collection DVD it has her (the artist) on the front, with her name. It also has the DVD symbol to show it's a DVD. It also has her record label in the bottom left hand corner, back and the spine of the DVD case. On the back it has the bar code for obvious reasons and the track list of what videos can be played these are dated from when they were released as the DVD album includes her videos from 2000-2006. There is also a seperate section for special features which are unreleased videos. The front and back of the cover both include a picture of madonna. There is also the DVD logo on the front, spine and back of the cover.
It needs to be able to attract the audience eye, and also appeal to the right audience, maybe have something that can be specifically identified to that band for example a logo or an image of them. Its can also show the same or similar image as the album cover so the buyer can identify it easily in a record shop.
The advert must be eye catching and must attract the right kind of audience for that genre of music. It should contain basic information which lets the buyer know important information about their product and this could include the rrp.price.
A DVD cover would usually include the artist name & album/DVD title on the front cover with track names & numbers on the back, similar to an ordinary album cover. It may also include, Record labels, a certificate rating for age, special features and additional features.
Here on Madonna's video collection DVD it has her (the artist) on the front, with her name. It also has the DVD symbol to show it's a DVD. It also has her record label in the bottom left hand corner, back and the spine of the DVD case. On the back it has the bar code for obvious reasons and the track list of what videos can be played these are dated from when they were released as the DVD album includes her videos from 2000-2006. There is also a seperate section for special features which are unreleased videos. The front and back of the cover both include a picture of madonna. There is also the DVD logo on the front, spine and back of the cover.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Examples of similar videos.
Here are some video with similar ideas to what we want ours to turn out like, and with the use of funerals/graveyards/flashback, etc.
This video shows Amy miming throughout & the plot is of her walking with a precession of other people many of them carrying instruments with a hearse. When they arrive at the graveyard the grave is small and they put a small box in it & say their goodbyes, at the end R.I.P The heart of Amy Winehouse comes up.
The whole video is in black & white making it seem cold and also re-inforcing the song title 'back to black' with the colour video going back to black and white.
- Amy Winehouse - Back to black http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygAu1x2uQo
This video shows Amy miming throughout & the plot is of her walking with a precession of other people many of them carrying instruments with a hearse. When they arrive at the graveyard the grave is small and they put a small box in it & say their goodbyes, at the end R.I.P The heart of Amy Winehouse comes up.
The whole video is in black & white making it seem cold and also re-inforcing the song title 'back to black' with the colour video going back to black and white.
- My Chemical Romance - Helena
This video show the band at a funeral of 'Helena' with the frontman of the band giving the service and when they all close their eyes to pray, 'Helena' gets out of the coffin and starts dancing then closes her eyes and falls back into the coffin. Many other people at the funeral also start dancing and the bands performance is also in the church. The band then carry out the coffin to the hearse whilst other people dance with umbrellas. - Avenged Sevenfold - Seize the day http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZOY6eP-q4o
This video begins with the band performing behind bars and then cuts away to the frontman with his girlfriend and a camcorder recording each other, all loved up. The other band members then come round and tell him something he then tells his girlfriend who trys to stop him. The next part is of them robbing a store but the police come and catch the frontman who is then put in prison. The Girl then is in her car which is hit by a truck. There is then the group of people at the funeral as the coffin is lowered into the grave, whilst the guitarist plays a rift ontop of the coffin. We then see the frontman in prison having flashbacks to him and his Girlfriend and footage from the camera, he is then let out and they all vistit the grave- Funeral For A Friend - Roses for the dead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVG17cTHkEE
This video is another example of flashbacks with the boy on his journey to the rooftop and what he had done before he got there and cut-aways to his mother in his room after he has jumped. There are then flashbacks of when he was younger as he gets to certain places or his mum finds certain objects, ie. there is a flashback to him getting a guitar for his birthday/xmas, it then cuts to his mum holding the guitar. & another example is when he gets to a park and it cuts between him in the park to him as a child on the swing to his mum holding the hat he was wearing when he was younger and then back to him on the swing.
Plan C...
After looking closer at the lyrics we've realized that the song is about the funeral of someone's (the main character) lover, The very first opening lyrics give this sense.
'A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quite earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths'
The idea for our music video that we have produced from this idea is that we would have about 3 actors, people in our music video.. The Girl/Guy who was mourning, Their lover in flash backs and someone to play the artist miming for cut-aways.
So our video would be made up of 3 main parts. Our main character at the grave mourning, Then the main character in flashbacks of memories with/of their lover and cut-aways to the artist miming along to the song in a performance type situation, which we could possibly just film at school. This would mean that we could probably get all our filming done in one night and use our over night of taking the camera out to get the footage of the grave scene & Flashbacks.
Our main problem is that the editing deadline is at the end of next week so we dont have long to get all our footage taken & edited, as we have this problem we've decided that we will also carry on with our current idea & footage as a back up for if we don't manage to get this idea completed in time for the deadline. Another problem is that the lyrics our down and depressing and give this feeling whereas the music with the piano sounds quite upbeat.
'A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quite earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths'
The idea for our music video that we have produced from this idea is that we would have about 3 actors, people in our music video.. The Girl/Guy who was mourning, Their lover in flash backs and someone to play the artist miming for cut-aways.
So our video would be made up of 3 main parts. Our main character at the grave mourning, Then the main character in flashbacks of memories with/of their lover and cut-aways to the artist miming along to the song in a performance type situation, which we could possibly just film at school. This would mean that we could probably get all our filming done in one night and use our over night of taking the camera out to get the footage of the grave scene & Flashbacks.
Our main problem is that the editing deadline is at the end of next week so we dont have long to get all our footage taken & edited, as we have this problem we've decided that we will also carry on with our current idea & footage as a back up for if we don't manage to get this idea completed in time for the deadline. Another problem is that the lyrics our down and depressing and give this feeling whereas the music with the piano sounds quite upbeat.
Wednesday, 4 November 2009
Tour Poster
Here is an idea for our groups tour poster, Pia drew a cartoon picture of the group and we have used bold colours to colour in roughly the clothes, this is to try fit the genre of the music, a indie funky effect but also to draw attention to the publics eye so that they notice the poster and take interest in it. We are aiming to make our dvd cover very similar to the tour poster so fans or the public that have seen the two can identify a specific style or pattern of the group. It may be more noticable to the groups fans but it's going to still be made attractive and bold for the other majority.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
Digi Pack Idea...
This is our idea of the digi pack...
This our idea with a little colour, Just to give and idea.
&& This is an idea for a possible Tour Poster..
It incudes informations about where the tour is taking place, where tickets are available and promotes the band, their new single and bands websites. I think i may put abit more information into our tour poster like the release of the album with an image of it and an itunes image & website.
As you can see we have chosen to use continuity throughout our digipack in this case using the same image for both, for our final version we may use the same image, if now then i thiink that our images would be very similar. In the poster i use the colour picker tool and took a sample colour from the image, just under the end of sound and used it as the background colour and then decided to use a brown colour for the text as it would stand out, and used this for all the info on the poster.
I did the text using GIMP2 which is similar to photoshop and so i used a text from there switching through the different bold/italic versions of it, the text was DejaVu Serif Semi-Condensed.
This our idea with a little colour, Just to give and idea.
&& This is an idea for a possible Tour Poster..
It incudes informations about where the tour is taking place, where tickets are available and promotes the band, their new single and bands websites. I think i may put abit more information into our tour poster like the release of the album with an image of it and an itunes image & website.
As you can see we have chosen to use continuity throughout our digipack in this case using the same image for both, for our final version we may use the same image, if now then i thiink that our images would be very similar. In the poster i use the colour picker tool and took a sample colour from the image, just under the end of sound and used it as the background colour and then decided to use a brown colour for the text as it would stand out, and used this for all the info on the poster.
I did the text using GIMP2 which is similar to photoshop and so i used a text from there switching through the different bold/italic versions of it, the text was DejaVu Serif Semi-Condensed.
rough Cut
Evaluation of Rough Cut.
As You can see we haven't got alot of our footage yet, so instead we have just put text telling the view what should be in that place. Over half term we are planning to get a camera each and to all get some footage done which we can choose from to put into our video when we come back, our video will include some lip syncing which i hadn't put into the rough cut as we're not sure where it will come in the video. The footage should be of any everyday life and it is just an example in the video, it may change once we come back. But, with the footage we have we have been editing it and trying out lots of different techniques in it like threshold and a mirror effect.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Moodboard
This is a quick moodboard from some of the things that inspired us for our video, these include Lily Allen 'LDN' and Kanye West All falls down
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Film Plan..!
I was thinking for the filming over half term because the filming was done in cambirdge city centre i could also take some footage of that as it is the same urban area, and i could do some filming where my home is placed as it's kind of fits the scene, so i am going to get hold of a video camera take some of my own footage so when we come together (Me, Pia and Holly) after half term we could take some film of both of the camera, and use what we think is appropriate, at least we would all be working together and not having to just depend on one person so it's a bit fair for us all!
this is the street i live down, which could be included in the video. 
<--- Also i could film where we previously filmed, in the city centre seeing as i live roughly about 15 minutes away so it wouldnt be so much of a change of scene. Saturday, 10 October 2009
New Plan. (:
After meeting up in town, we decided not to waste any time waiting until we'd found 'the girl' to mime for us. This was because the girl we had planned to have mime for us had work and so was unavailable and other people we asked we're either busy or didn't want to do it.
We came up with a range of ideas which included...
and decided that we would test some of them out first before we dedicated ourselves to just one idea again.
However, The idea we like best is of the camera being hand held used as if it was what the main person could see for their point of view, we also thought of the main person holding the camera facing them as they mimed/got on with things. This technique has been used by various indie artists in their videos.
i.e...
Jamie T - Calm down dearest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcKVXsuk_o
In this video he's playing around with the camera, most shots are with the camera pointed at his face. The video has lots of different techniques used throughout, it also has some short man terrorizing Jamie.
Lily allen - LDN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5JMjGZ6bRY
This is the other alternative video to LDN by lily. The video follows her from leaving her front door to getting on her bike, and then it follows her from the bike as she bikes around london (LDN).. the shots are a mix of what she can see with the camera attached to her bike, shots of the camera facing her whilst she sings along, Behind, infront & to the side of her biking.. there are also clips of her in a cafe and sitting in the park.
From this version of lily's LDN video, we thought of the video of Corrine Bailey Rae, where shes riding a bike in it.
Corrine Bailey Rae - Put your records on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I
In this video she is on her bike with alot of other women biking behind her. She is singing on her bike & it also cuds away to her in a corn field singing.. these clips are also linked with her having a red ribbon on her bike, then holding it in the field & tying it to a tree with other red ribbons on at the end.
Another Video that has this idea of what the person can see is the video for,
Kanye West - All falls down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWqsIClPqU
In this video you can see through his eyes.. but can see him in reflections of the car window and a mirror, in these he sings so there is some lip syncing by him there. The viewer can tell they're looking through his eyes through due to the reflections, him looking at his hands etc.
Calvin Harris - Flashback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Xrd2khu6k
This video also has parts that are from the artist point of view, when he looks at the photos and as he walks with/behind people, and then the camera switches round to look at him.
We came up with a range of ideas which included...
and decided that we would test some of them out first before we dedicated ourselves to just one idea again.
However, The idea we like best is of the camera being hand held used as if it was what the main person could see for their point of view, we also thought of the main person holding the camera facing them as they mimed/got on with things. This technique has been used by various indie artists in their videos.
i.e...
Jamie T - Calm down dearest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etcKVXsuk_o
In this video he's playing around with the camera, most shots are with the camera pointed at his face. The video has lots of different techniques used throughout, it also has some short man terrorizing Jamie.
Lily allen - LDN. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5JMjGZ6bRY
This is the other alternative video to LDN by lily. The video follows her from leaving her front door to getting on her bike, and then it follows her from the bike as she bikes around london (LDN).. the shots are a mix of what she can see with the camera attached to her bike, shots of the camera facing her whilst she sings along, Behind, infront & to the side of her biking.. there are also clips of her in a cafe and sitting in the park.
From this version of lily's LDN video, we thought of the video of Corrine Bailey Rae, where shes riding a bike in it.
Corrine Bailey Rae - Put your records on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVNK_VDQY8I
In this video she is on her bike with alot of other women biking behind her. She is singing on her bike & it also cuds away to her in a corn field singing.. these clips are also linked with her having a red ribbon on her bike, then holding it in the field & tying it to a tree with other red ribbons on at the end.
Another Video that has this idea of what the person can see is the video for,
Kanye West - All falls down http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPWqsIClPqU
In this video you can see through his eyes.. but can see him in reflections of the car window and a mirror, in these he sings so there is some lip syncing by him there. The viewer can tell they're looking through his eyes through due to the reflections, him looking at his hands etc.
Calvin Harris - Flashback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Xrd2khu6k
This video also has parts that are from the artist point of view, when he looks at the photos and as he walks with/behind people, and then the camera switches round to look at him.
Thursday, 8 October 2009
Response to feedback..
In response to Group T2-44 'You've pointed out the main character in your storyboard but have lacked to continue through your storyboard.' We didn't realise that this wasnt clear enough and so we will go back and make sure that she is pointed out in each shot, She is in every shot as the video is about her and her daily life so we assumed that this would be clear.
& from Group T2-48's feedback ' you could spend some time explaining your choice of location more and explaining the relationship between music and lyrics.'
The locations we chose were related to her daily life so their boring & repetitive, so we felt that Cambridge would be an obvious place because its academic, boring & busy, with commuting being challenging. We also chose Tesco (in ely) as it will be easier for holly to transport her kit to there, and we also wanted our performace to be somewhere different, for example we're next to a river, which seems idealic relaxation. Our reasons for choosing a music shop for the shots of the girl with the piano is basically because we don't have a piano and this could be part of her daily life, as she wishes to play the piano. It is also an alternative place for the performance.
We also have related our video to some lyrics, with the clock hand moving fast as in the lyrics it says 'we wont let time erase us', we also linked 'congregation of familiar faces' to the bus queue.
Overall we are pretty pleased with our feedback, we've received lots of positive comments on our blog and also some constructive criticism that we can work on.
& from Group T2-48's feedback ' you could spend some time explaining your choice of location more and explaining the relationship between music and lyrics.'
The locations we chose were related to her daily life so their boring & repetitive, so we felt that Cambridge would be an obvious place because its academic, boring & busy, with commuting being challenging. We also chose Tesco (in ely) as it will be easier for holly to transport her kit to there, and we also wanted our performace to be somewhere different, for example we're next to a river, which seems idealic relaxation. Our reasons for choosing a music shop for the shots of the girl with the piano is basically because we don't have a piano and this could be part of her daily life, as she wishes to play the piano. It is also an alternative place for the performance.
We also have related our video to some lyrics, with the clock hand moving fast as in the lyrics it says 'we wont let time erase us', we also linked 'congregation of familiar faces' to the bus queue.
Overall we are pretty pleased with our feedback, we've received lots of positive comments on our blog and also some constructive criticism that we can work on.
PLAN
SAT:
12:30am - 6-7pm.
Cambridge/Grafton/Music Shop.
SUN:
1pm - 5-6pm.
Ely/TESCO's. or something else that is random :)/river
Holly's taking equipment on Sunday, includes, Drum Kit, Guitars, Microphone and Camera.
Kim's taking on Sunday, includes, Actors and Crew.
Pia's bringing everything else, including, props and shot list. Video Camera, Camera, Tripod.
Crew:
The Girl
Ed
Tom
Holly
Pia
Kim
Props:
Car
Bus Sign
Musical instruments
12:30am - 6-7pm.
Cambridge/Grafton/Music Shop.
SUN:
1pm - 5-6pm.
Ely/TESCO's. or something else that is random :)/river
Holly's taking equipment on Sunday, includes, Drum Kit, Guitars, Microphone and Camera.
Kim's taking on Sunday, includes, Actors and Crew.
Pia's bringing everything else, including, props and shot list. Video Camera, Camera, Tripod.
Crew:
The Girl
Ed
Tom
Holly
Pia
Kim
Props:
Car
Bus Sign
Musical instruments
Monday, 5 October 2009
Lyrics..
Here are the lyrics to our chosen song, The Hush Sound - A Dark Congregation.
A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths
Our breath rose in the cold like a hundred souls escaping
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Person is waking up, making breakfast, getting out of house, locking door, getting on bike.
We are surrounded by all of the quiet sleepers inside the quiet earth
A fear that I cannot shape - you dared to kiss the face of the night
Our lips were cold as clay, we couldn't speak anyway
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Walking around town, camera following their day.
Our breath rose in the cold like a hundred souls
We, we are alone, I know you're gone
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Following the person around town to destination.
A dark congregation of familiar faces gathered around the quiet earth
A red rose fell upon the soft snow, prayers were whispered so slow from our mouths
Our breath rose in the cold like a hundred souls escaping
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Person is waking up, making breakfast, getting out of house, locking door, getting on bike.
We are surrounded by all of the quiet sleepers inside the quiet earth
A fear that I cannot shape - you dared to kiss the face of the night
Our lips were cold as clay, we couldn't speak anyway
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Walking around town, camera following their day.
Our breath rose in the cold like a hundred souls
We, we are alone, I know you're gone
Save me, I am swallowed by the guilt of this
You're gone, sleeping in the dust
We will not let time erase us
Following the person around town to destination.
Thursday, 1 October 2009
Genre Specific Mise-En-Scene
Our music video is based on the genre Indie, we are following most of the obvious Indie Mise-En-Scene. For Example...
The Interior and Locations:
Our locations are going to be mainly her house and the streets around her, in her room it will be very quirky, interesting, weird and Random. This is in many Indie videos eg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhC4E055OsY
Kate Nash's Video, Foundations. She has a crazy house, and typical Indie Interior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rjc0Q2ktgw
Also Jack Penate's Video, Second Minute or Hour. He is running down the street and the camera is following him, as we want to follow our main character in some points of the video.
Clothes and Performance:
In our music video we want to follow the conventions of the clothes that Indie bands wear. For example they wear quite quirky, original, bizarre and unique clothes. In our video we are going to have the main girl wearing very indie outfits and the band slightly less indie and more casual clothing. This is in videos eg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLXQorSQe8
Florence And The Machine's Video, Drumming Song. This has bizarre outfits. The video also conforms to the performing side of Indie, as she is mainly performing throughout the whole song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrZkUQ6_r8
Also Foals's Video, Balloons. This has a huge convention to Goodwins points about indie genre having a lot of performance by the band in their videos.
The Interior and Locations:
Our locations are going to be mainly her house and the streets around her, in her room it will be very quirky, interesting, weird and Random. This is in many Indie videos eg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhC4E055OsY
Kate Nash's Video, Foundations. She has a crazy house, and typical Indie Interior.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rjc0Q2ktgw
Also Jack Penate's Video, Second Minute or Hour. He is running down the street and the camera is following him, as we want to follow our main character in some points of the video.
Clothes and Performance:
In our music video we want to follow the conventions of the clothes that Indie bands wear. For example they wear quite quirky, original, bizarre and unique clothes. In our video we are going to have the main girl wearing very indie outfits and the band slightly less indie and more casual clothing. This is in videos eg.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLXQorSQe8
Florence And The Machine's Video, Drumming Song. This has bizarre outfits. The video also conforms to the performing side of Indie, as she is mainly performing throughout the whole song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrZkUQ6_r8
Also Foals's Video, Balloons. This has a huge convention to Goodwins points about indie genre having a lot of performance by the band in their videos.
