Final Edit for our Music Video

This is our final edit of our A2 music video. You will notice some changed and additions to the video compared to our previous draft. This is because we felt that the previous video wasn;t as long as we'd have prefered for it to be. We also felt that we needed and pinulamate twist to the video, and needed to show this more e.g via the tying up of the male victims hands. I feel like these additions were very worth while to the video.

Second Edit of Music Video

This is our second edit of our music video. We feel that this edit has gone really well as a group, but we feel there are a few aspects that do need re-filming such as the section where my hands are being tied up, we feel this is necessary because it is jumpy and doesn't flow as well as we had hoped it would. I think this is because when we did the filming process of the section we cut this up in the different shots and moved the rope, we did this so that you wouldn't be able to actually see the hands tying up the person. But because of how jumpy it is, we feel it is best if we re-film it. We have also decided that it would suit the storyline better if we were to tie up Max's hands, as apose to mine.

Camera angles that we have used!

Within our filming we have included a lot of the main camera angles. We have used these for an array of different reasons, for example, to maybe set the scene or mood of the music video. To show an object of significance more clearly or to just show a particular person.

I have taken some screen shots from our actual film footage to show you the different angles that we have used.

For example we have used:
Establishing shots
Extreme close ups
Over the shoulder shots
Group shots
Mid shots

Establishing shot- This is the first shot that we have used within our music video, we have used this because we feel it sets the scene, and tone of the video ahead.

Over the shoulder shot

Extreme Close up

Group Shot

Mid Shot

Name planning!

Today we decided that we would need a band and magazine name. We thought the best way for us to decide different names we would make a spider diagram. Because we felt this would be the easiest way to just brain storm and get everything down.

The band name that we decided on was in cold blood. We thought this would be effective to the kind of genre of music that we make, and the tone of our songs. We are going to use this to our advantage and base our style of artist from this, for example for the photographs for our magazine covers. We think that this band name is a rather gothic and grungy.

We also began to plan our magazine cover names, and again we made a spider diagram for this. The name that we decided on was in depth. We thought this effective because its both short and simple, and felt that it summed up the type of magazine that we would be creating, for example, the name in depth, allows the reader to think that we will be researching deeply into the music artists, and gives the reader a sort of 'behind the scenes' feel to the magazine.

Filming, day eight-

Font Choices For Digipak

As a group we have been looking through different gothic fonts that would look effective for our digipak. Laurie looked in different places for these fonts, she used both microsoft word and the internet to locate them.
Pulse-
The first font that we decided we would consider is the font called Pulse. We think that this font looks really effective because it looks really unique compared to the others that we have been considering, this is because we felt the others are pretty plain and have been used a lot, whereas Pulse is something different that people rarely see on a digipak.

Digipak #1
The second font that we considered is Digipak #1, I feel personally that this font is quite alike to most gothic fonts that you see around. With this font I do like certain aspects of it, for example I like the way that certain letters are used within the font, such as the G, P and A. I like the finishing effect that these letters have.

Digipak #2

I didn't really like this font compared to the others, I don't feel like it would really stand out that way that we would prefer it to. I feel that this is because when we include this on our actual digipak it wont reall stand out from all of the images.

Unfortunate
For Unfortunate, I do like this font. But again I feel it is too plain for my digipak choices. I that this is becase it is a rather bland font, as much as it does suit my gothic format, I don't feel that it stands out as much as I'd appriciate it to.

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The Final Font Choice
So after close consideration I decided that Pulse would be the font choice that I would use for my digipak, I have chosen this one because it took my eye from the outset and I feel that it would stand out the most for my digipak choices.

Magazine Advert Research

What is a magazine advert?
A magazine advertisement usually tends to be where the artist advertises their upcoming album. The imaging usually tends to follow the same or similar colour scheme as the digipak itself.

Once I had researched Digipaks and got some inspiration for that I then began to look into my second ancilory task, this being the magazine advertisement for my digipak. The first thing I did was looked into different examples of the magazine advertisements.



Ellie Goulding- Lights

The first thing that you notice by this music advertisement is the brightness of it, therefore you know instantly the genre of the album. Because of the use of the colour gold you would automatically assume that the genre of the artist would be 'pop', The advertisement and digipak both follow a strict style and theme, which is followed in the digipak itself. The colour scheme and image itself are all matching.

Delilah- From the Roots Up

This is the magazine advertisement and digipak cover for Delilah's 'From the Roots Up' album. This is the actual artist of the song that we have used within our music video. As you can see there is a clear contract between this magazine advertisement compared to Ellie Goulding's, which shows the clear contrast between their music. This is the style of magazine advertisement that I feel myself and my group would choose, I feel this because of the colour scheme that is used. It tends to suit the more Gothic genre that we are looking for, you can see this from the bland colours that are used, such as black, white and grey. I feel that my group and I will most probably use the same colour scheme as this, so that the audience are aware of the style of music that we have chosen.