Music promo video location initial ideas (original images)

These are original images of places I think have the look I want for the location of my music video. I want to use a very urban run down looking area for the location of my music video. When watching music that I have taken inspiration from or videos of a similar genre they all seem to set in urban areas in empty warehouses etc.

Time management (5 weeks to go)

We have so far completed our research, came up with initial ideas for our music video, CD digipack and magazine advertisement. We also created the first drafts of all printed aspects of the coursework. After gaining feedback we have amended our drafts till final drafts we were happy with and gained positive feedback from were succesfully produced.

There is currently 5 weeks to go till deadline and we have now turned our attention the creation of the music video. We have already planned; the genre and conventions which will be included, initial plot ideas, costume and makeup, the soundtrack, character/behaviour and rough storyboards and shot types.

During the next 5 weeks we will; decide upon a definate location to shoot the video and consider health and safety, aqquire props we will need, film the neccasary scenes for the music video, and finally edit the film and add the soundtrack and effects.

Storyboard and shot types

As a group we discussed what scenes we could include in our music video and analysed similar videos for common reoccuring scenes. We wrote a list of scenes, which can be seen above, that we feel would be appropriate and would fit in our video well.

This is the first 10 shots of our music video taken from the overall storyboard. This includes a thumbnail sketch of what we would that particular scene to look like, the shot type and camera angle. As well as a brief description of whats going on in that scene. Storyboarding the scenes before we go into filming is useful as it helps us thoroughly think through what camera work we would like to use and also helps us know what we want to acheive from filming.

Magazine advertisement fourth and final draft

This is the fourth draft of our magazine advertisement. This is pretty similar to our third draft as we haven't changed the layout or background images but we replaced the image inside the CD case and the watermark on the IPod screen with the amended CD cover containing the new image. As a group we are very pleased with this magazine advertisement and would like to use as a final part of our digipack.

Inside sleeve second and final draft

This is the second draft of the inside sleeve for our digipack. We were pleased with the outcome of the first draft however we hadn't taken the photographs to place inside the poloroids at that point in time. We chose our favourite personal image and edited them creating a vintage effect for our poloroid. We havn't changed the layout as we were happy with the overall look, the only difference we have made is removing one of the poloroid frames as this was going to contain the image and name of the member that is no longer a part of our group. We are very pleased with this and would like to use this as part of our digipack.

CD Front Cover second and final draft

This is the second draft of our front cover for our CD. Although we were pleased with the first draft of our front cover after feedback from our lecturer it was brought to our attention that the image could be more controversial to tie in with the theme and after creating the other aspects of our digipack the front cover no longer seemed consistent with the package. We used the image we best felt fitting with our genre and placed it in a poloroid making it consistent with the inside sleeve, and made the background similar to that of the back cover.

CD Front cover amended photo shoot and Inside sleeve photoshoot

  After gaining peer feedback and feedback from our lecturer it was a common opinion that the images we had weren't controversial enough, and we also had a change in group members. We did another photo shoot, again using an outdoor background and using props such as alcohol and cigerettes but we have taken the photos whilst it was dark in order to create more of a back garden of a house party effect. We also took the images for out inside at the same time as the amended front cover photographs.

Amended front cover photographs These are the group photos we took to use for the front cover. We feel all the images came out well and were consistent with the theme however we feel the first image came out the best and looked the most realistic and controversial.

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 Amended front cover final chosen photograph This the image we have chosen and will be using on our front cover

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CD Inside sleeve tester photographs

These are photographs that were taken during the day in cally's backgarden whilst doing other coursework to test use of props, body language and poses. Taking these photos gave us and idea of what would look good and what wouldn't in our images.

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CD digipack inside sleeve photographs These are the individual photos that we took after taking the group photos to use for the poloroids on the inside sleeve.

 

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CD digipack inside sleeve final chosen and edited photographs We each chose our favourite photo of ourselves from the images above, and the photo that as a group we decided best fit with the theme and then edited them to look like distressed poloroids from a house party that you would find lying on a teenagers desktop.

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