Wednesday 15 December 2010

Journal-15/12/2010

Today we planned the Digi Pack element of this project. I decided to use images from the original perfomance shots, just because I feel they portray the band in a positive fun way. As well as the Digi Packs Jason and I started to think of ways to make the band seem more real. We decided on making the band a Twitter account the reason we decided on Twitter is because its the most popular social networking sites amongst young fans and young bands. Together we feel this makes the band seem as real and in touch with their fans, which is something very important in today's industry.

Connecting with the band

 
As a group we wanted to make the band seem as real as possible, we decided to create them a twitter account, the reason we have decided upon this form of social networking is bcause of the media hype surrounded with it and because these guys are a young independant band we wanted there soical network to work in context with them. We also wanted to create a website that we can advertise on their CD cover and we feel with twitter we've created something very genuine.  http://twitter.com/#!/TwoMileRadius 

Planning The CD Cover

Today we started planning our Digi Packs, I began this process by planning my CD cover. I decided to start with the CD  cover because I feel that will give me an idea of how I want the promotional poster to look.  I decided to use photos that portray the band as fun and almost typical 18 year old lads. At the moment I feel this CD cover wouldn't look out of place on a shelf in HMV.

Monday 13 December 2010

New Perfomance Shots

For our new perfromance shots we have decided to have the band playing guitar hero the reason we have decided to have this is our performance shots is because the song is all about being young and we feel this particular video game relates well to teenage boys in particular. We are going to set up the shots with lights and include a varity of angles and hopefully it will look very professional but its not until you look closely you realise their playing a video game.

Journal- 13/12/2010

Today Jason and myself edited the new footage I filmed on Thursday, first of all we listened to the song and decided what shots worked best with the song. This technique helped us very much because we got to see where the performance shots would fit in best and we have become very excited about seeing the final footage.

Friday 10 December 2010

Journal-10/12/2010

Unfortuantly we have decided to re-film the performance shots because we didn't think they worked well with the new shots we have filmed. We have decided to film the perfomance shots focusing on the band playing guitar hero, but in order for it to look professional we want to set it up like a proper studio and with tight close shots  but when you look closely you realise they are playing a video game, we also think this would work well with the new shots of the band having fun.

Thursday 9 December 2010

Filming Journal 09/12/2010

Today we planned on filming the scenes of the band having fun, unfortunately Molly and Jason were unable to attend filming so I went alone to film these shots. As I got to the house we were filming in i decided to set up the scenes of them having fun.

The scenes I set up were
  • Three of the members bundling the other member
  • Two of the memebers run in on one of the memebers on the toilet
  •  All of the members are driving around in a car just generally having fun
  • Two of the memebers don't let the one of the members into the house
  • Two of the members are in the kitchen laughing and having a joke with eachother and another memeber comes up to the window and pulls a funny face
  •  One of the members brushes his teeth, and gargles with wine and insted of spitting it out, he drinks it
  • All of the memebers are getting ready to go out and generally start having fun.
  • All of the memebers walk down the street with POV shots throughout.
While three of the members are infront of the camera one of the other memebers was holding the camera so again it looks like a home movie.

Wednesday 8 December 2010

Filming-Take Two

Whilst looking at the shots we filmed in the pub, we were getting a bit consernd at how the shots looked, we noticed there wasn't a vartiety of shots and the band themselves didn't look very energetic, so we had to re-think our ideas (yet again). We've decided to film the majority of the scenes focusing on the band having fun, and when we think of fun we mean just being 4 teenage boys. We've decided to make these shots look like a home movie and the performance shots to look really professional HOWEVER we have decided we would like the performance shots to be the band playing guitar hero, again to emphasise them as friends and as a band.

Tuesday 7 December 2010

Editing

07/12/2010- Journal

In todays lesson we started editing the shots of the band in the pub, initally it was very stressfull because we had to cut the clips before we could even think of putting them in some kind of order, however we didn't realise there was an easier way to cut on the editing software this made the whole process 10x easier. As a group we wanted to make the video look visually exicting so we found a few effects that we wanted to incorporate into the video. The main thing we have to consider is not to overuse the effects, its this that we will all have to decide upon as a group because we don't want to video to look to "edited"

EFFECTS WE HAVE CHOSEN
N-Sqaure. The reasone we have chosen this effect is because when used in "indie" music videos it creates a very carefree, fun feel to the the video.
 Mirror- The reason we have chosen this effect is again because it gives off a very carefree feel to the video and it shows that the band don't take themselves to seriously.

Monday 6 December 2010

Rough Idea Of How I Want The Promotional Poster.

This is a rough idea of how I would like the promotional poster for our bands album to look. I've decided to make the poster black and white and the only thing to be in colour is the band themselves. I decided I wanted it like this because I wanted the band to stick out I also invison the bands name being in colour again so it stands out. Red is also the main colour in advertising so I think this factor will would work well in the advertising world.
THINGS TO CONSIDER: The font of the band name and album single and release date