Filming

We have now filmed and edited some of our video and we are pleased with the outcome so far! we are currently preparing for our next shoot which will hopefully be at the end of the week! We are also organizing our performance scene to shoot in the upcoming week!

Music Video Inspiration/Ideas

This; an iconic video by The Verve, inspired us for the opening of our music video. In this video the performer has his head in "the clouds" almost and therefore bumps into people recklessly. In our own video, at the beginning; we aim to achieve a similar thing but with just one 'bump' and not as many. We aim to do this because our character will be fed up with arguing with his bear and his head will be a bit all over the place so therefore wont be concentrating on what he is doing!

Jordan Rowson

Jordon Waring

Website Ideas

This is a image we created during our last Media lesson. We aim to use the bear as our website layout and have navigation links from it. We edited this photo on Photoshop and aim to keep doing work on it in the upcoming lessons.

CD COVER IDEAS!

This is an existing album cover from the arctic monkeys that we may take some ideas from. The font is something that we are going to use throughout our production, on our website and C.D cover.

Website Design

We have started designing our website, experimenting and familiarizing our selfs with the Iweb software. Here is a sketch we drew in lesson that we are going to upload and play around with an maybe upload to our website.

Jordan Rowson
Jordan Waring

MARK RONSON CASE STUDY

The style in this video conforms with the style inherited on Ronson's album artwork and website. It has a recurrent 80's theme with the hairstyles, costumes, strobe lighting and instruments all included being conventional with that expected in the 80's decade. The video often looks amateurish but this could be because they are trying to be like the 80's where effects are often cheesy and look amateurish.

MARK RONSON CASE STUDY

The website conforms with Ronson's image on his album album cover Record Collection. There are lots of records/vinyls on both sides which is also apparent on the album cover. The same colours from the artwork are also evident. these are all examples of synergy as he is using the same style and image across different forms of promotion. The Mark Ronson website has the main functions that you would expect from a music artist website.

MARK RONSON CASE STUDY

There are three layers to this artwork, one showing a picture of Ronson himself, another of his name and one with a sort of red background. The album cover aims to reflect an old billboard. This may be because all the songs on the album are cover versions of older songs. He uses only 3 colours, red, white and blacks, which makes the cover quite plain and simple.  His music is quite old fashioned and retro which perhaps is why he has represented his album has sort of a 1960's billboard as if he is looking back rather than forward.

This artwork also inherits a similar style to the previous one. It has more colours and a variety of styles. Colours include pinks, blues blacks and a cream/beige in the background. His hairstyle and shades is very 80's which again could suggest he is inspired from past decades and tries to represent this style through his image. But the bottom right hand corner reflects a futuristic look so he is making references to not past and future. His face on this album cover is on numerous record sleeves. This album cover is made up of album covers from 80's artists. An example is Duran Duran's 'Rio' album cover which can be seen in the top left hand corner.

Location Photographs

These are some location photographs for the place we are aiming to shoot at soon. It is the place our lead character will live with his 'bear.' The photograph with the tele is where we are going to shoot the games scene I talked about in previous posts. We are also going to film a scene in the photographed car seen in this post. The gate is where he will walk through to enter the house at the beginning of our video.

Jordan Rowson
Jordon Waring
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This is the weather forcast for the next 5 days for the area in which we plan to shoot in. Sunday looks to be the best day to shoot one of our out door scene. We aimed to do a 'walk in the park' scene so we need a dry day to shoot this.

Jordon Waring

This is a drawing I sketched on a recee sheet for one of our chosen locations. The location is well lit and has no trip or fire hazards and no potential for street crime, and we will not need any extra lighting. We aim to shoot a scene where the lead character is gaming and neglected his teddy bear in which the bear gets unhappy with! The location is one of our bedrooms and we think it will work well as it is a typical teenagers bedroom and this is what we need to shoot a 'game' scene. There is no background sound so our shoot won't be affected! We aim to add indie posters perhaps of our chosen band to make the room more relevant to our genre.

Jordan Rowson