Thursday, 26 February 2015
Tuesday, 10 February 2015
Research and Planning.
CD designs.
For our final piece we are required to create two pieces of print media. A poster to advertise our band and CD cover with at least 4 faces and 6 images.
Below you can see our first draft for the CD cover and the research and planning that is going into its development.
This is the original idea for the cover photo, it relates to our as in our original draft as we were focusing on the representation of emotional turmoil through everyday objects. The mirror would smash when our actor became distressed and the rose would die over the course of the video. An additional idea we have is to have an image of a photograph burning which would be more relatable to our actual video.
This image is likely to be the final image used for our cover photo, if we go with this concept. We used Photoshop to colour correct to darken the rose's reflection and tidy the cracks in the mirror. We used the rose on a black stand as these colours are likely to be our final colour scheme.
The image below shows our first draft for the internal section of our album cover. It shows the CD holder on the left and a booklet and a booklet holder on the right side. The colour scheme is not accurate yet as we are likely to change the colours to black and red.
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For our final piece we are required to create two pieces of print media. A poster to advertise our band and CD cover with at least 4 faces and 6 images.
Below you can see our first draft for the CD cover and the research and planning that is going into its development.
This is the original idea for the cover photo, it relates to our as in our original draft as we were focusing on the representation of emotional turmoil through everyday objects. The mirror would smash when our actor became distressed and the rose would die over the course of the video. An additional idea we have is to have an image of a photograph burning which would be more relatable to our actual video.
This image is likely to be the final image used for our cover photo, if we go with this concept. We used Photoshop to colour correct to darken the rose's reflection and tidy the cracks in the mirror. We used the rose on a black stand as these colours are likely to be our final colour scheme.
The image below shows our first draft for the internal section of our album cover. It shows the CD holder on the left and a booklet and a booklet holder on the right side. The colour scheme is not accurate yet as we are likely to change the colours to black and red.
Posted By Scott and Hayden.
Friday, 24 October 2014
What changed.
When we came to edit our work we came to the horrific realization that making a music video is actually really hard, we were constantly having to change and adapt our plan. Every action we undertook had lead to a re-think in order for it all to come together in the editing. It's because of this that our final piece will look different to the original plan. This was expected, however we were not aware of the extent.
Friday, 17 October 2014
Josh Frampton.
Josh Frampton, for those who don't know, is a member of the band Against the Tide from which we took our song.
We asked for his opinion on our album booklet, this is what he said; "It's something that most teenagers fantasise about. Being in a band and I feel very honoured to say that I was in one that, for the most part, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed writing the songs, I enjoyed the recording process but, above all, I enjoyed the live performing. I think we all did. Especially when we got the crowd involved with what we were doing. At every live gig we performed, we did a crowd jump in the middle part of a song called "Within Me" which always made us feel good I think. There's something about people actively jumping to something you've created. (Especially when, at one gig, the mass of people jumping in one room caused the building's fire alarm system to go off!) As for I Won't Die For You, Joe brought the song to a practice one day and I automatically fell in love with it. It was Joe's first major writing contribution to the group but i could tell it's potential when Joe first played the riff and taught us the rest of the track. It took us a little while to complete it due to a creative argument with part of the song but we managed it. I also had to re-write the lyrics due to Joe's original lyrics being near impossible and, well, lyrically....interesting. The lyrics in the chorus, however, are Joe's original lyrics so about 90% of the lyrics have been re-written. But it was always a fun song to play live and we always enjoyed doing it too which is important. It continues to be one of my favourite live songs and I even play it acoustically at solo gigs! But every band needs some kind of love song and this was ours. And that was fine because it was heart felt, passionate and technical. But above all, it was fun and that's what counts." -Josh Frampton [Vocalist for Against the Tide]
We asked for his opinion on our album booklet, this is what he said; "It's something that most teenagers fantasise about. Being in a band and I feel very honoured to say that I was in one that, for the most part, I enjoyed it. I enjoyed writing the songs, I enjoyed the recording process but, above all, I enjoyed the live performing. I think we all did. Especially when we got the crowd involved with what we were doing. At every live gig we performed, we did a crowd jump in the middle part of a song called "Within Me" which always made us feel good I think. There's something about people actively jumping to something you've created. (Especially when, at one gig, the mass of people jumping in one room caused the building's fire alarm system to go off!) As for I Won't Die For You, Joe brought the song to a practice one day and I automatically fell in love with it. It was Joe's first major writing contribution to the group but i could tell it's potential when Joe first played the riff and taught us the rest of the track. It took us a little while to complete it due to a creative argument with part of the song but we managed it. I also had to re-write the lyrics due to Joe's original lyrics being near impossible and, well, lyrically....interesting. The lyrics in the chorus, however, are Joe's original lyrics so about 90% of the lyrics have been re-written. But it was always a fun song to play live and we always enjoyed doing it too which is important. It continues to be one of my favourite live songs and I even play it acoustically at solo gigs! But every band needs some kind of love song and this was ours. And that was fine because it was heart felt, passionate and technical. But above all, it was fun and that's what counts." -Josh Frampton [Vocalist for Against the Tide]
Wednesday, 8 October 2014
Being Creative.
As we are putting our film together we are finding new and different ways to edit and compose our video. An example of this is our choice of editing in the narrative; in a mid section we have decided to separate one shot into four different shot. Although all four of the shots are from the same angle we have changed the speed and continuity by cutting a second out of the video at three points. This effect is done in time with the beat of the music which we feel makes the video more immersive and therefore engage the audience more; this was an issue we identified with rock music video's in earlier posts.
In addition, we feel that this better represents the theme of the video. The disjointed aspect of the music is reflected in the editing, instead of the smooth flowing video we have chosen to create discord and better reflect the music.
A secondary reason for this particular edit is that the usual convention for music video's is that it flows faultlessly will little to no creativity, one shot flows to another and so on. As we doing a video for a Rock song we felt we should better reflect the Rock and Roll attitude, not conforming to various social roles, we feel this will again help us to connect to our target audience.
The final reason for us to use this technique was to change a lengthy shot into various shorter shots with different editing styles between them, this makes the shot less dull and more interesting for its audience.
This was posted by : Scott, Hayden and Ian Murray.
In addition, we feel that this better represents the theme of the video. The disjointed aspect of the music is reflected in the editing, instead of the smooth flowing video we have chosen to create discord and better reflect the music.
A secondary reason for this particular edit is that the usual convention for music video's is that it flows faultlessly will little to no creativity, one shot flows to another and so on. As we doing a video for a Rock song we felt we should better reflect the Rock and Roll attitude, not conforming to various social roles, we feel this will again help us to connect to our target audience.
The final reason for us to use this technique was to change a lengthy shot into various shorter shots with different editing styles between them, this makes the shot less dull and more interesting for its audience.
This was posted by : Scott, Hayden and Ian Murray.
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Filming.
We have started to film and edit our final piece at last! At the moment the few clips we have recorded our looking very good. Also we have decided to start by working on our performance pieces first and we have some very good shots of the guitar but we also have some poorer shots regarding lip sinking. So consequently as a result of this we have decided to re-film quite a large proportion of the lip syncing shots as we need them to be absolutely perfect in order to create a convincing music video. We have discovered that finding actors and actresses is a problem, however we have actually found enough actors to form a convincing band so therefore we are just looking for an actress to play the part of the girl in the music video. Although overall so far our final piece is going pretty well =]
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Posted by Scott and Hayden
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Day One of Filming.
So earlier today we started our first bit of proper media filming for our project. The footage we recorded was all performance based in the school music recording studio. Here are some pictures of us and our actors...
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