Wednesday, 10 October 2012

3. Technical Tutorials

This is an example of a CD cover from an artist. We learnt how to do this on 'Photoshop' and it's one of the pieces of software we will be using to create our real CD cover later in the year. This piece of software allows you to edit photographs and pictures and do various things with them. For example, putting a picture of someone in the foreground of somewhere they wouldn't be like the sun or space.


This was our first, unfinished attempt at using a green screen and editing a video on Final Cut Express using this technology.


This is our final product of the music video, '500 Miles' by The Proclaimers. Although the video doesn't look finished, we learnt a lot about using a green screen and then edit it using Final Cut Express.


Thursday, 4 October 2012

4. Song details

The song we have chosen to do is 'Blue Cassette' by the Friendly Fires. We chose to do this song because it fits the specifications and criteria for our music video as it's from our chosen genre of indie rock and it's by a British artist. Furthermore, this song does not yet have an official music video to it yet, because of this we have already thought of some ideas for a narrative for both an illustrative and amplification point of view.


Wednesday, 3 October 2012

19. Audience research 1

My questionnaire about our music video


I need to rotate them, I don't know how to though :(

Peer assessment

Feedback for the research part of my blog.

Tuesday, 2 October 2012

18. Advertisement research


2. Roles

1. Initial ideas

The mind map above shows some of our initial ideas into the creation of our music video. We had to think about various aspects of music videos and what they include. For example, we looked at potential artists and tracks we could do.

However, this had to be from a British artist with a song without an official music video. This narrowed the selection process down as there were now only a small number of artists and tracks we could do as most of the songs we were thinking of already had official music videos and the majority of the artists were not British. However, this also made our decision slightly easier as there were now only a limited number of songs from a selected number of artists we could choose from.

We also had to think about the genre we wanted our video to be. We narrowed this down quickly to either rock, indie rock or indie pop. We thought we should pick one of these genres to base our video on as the majority of artists and songs we could potentially do are from these genres. Furthermore, we also thought that these genres would be the most suitable to our target audience as we found that a lot of people we asked listened to one of these three genres.

Costume was another feature we had to look at. This concerned people that are going to be in a music video. We had to discuss ideas about what artists from each genre wore in their videos. For example, a lot of artists in Indie rock videos wear dull coloured clothes. This will reflect what actors in the music video will wear.