Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Back Cover - Album

This is what we have done so far. After looking at different font styles, we decided to make a rough guide to show what the album back cover might look like. We chose to make two designs, one with black background and the other with white. We tried different colours schemes to see which one looked the best and went well with the front cover of the album.

Font Options

Before actually decided what style font we are using, we considered various options shown above. These are the 6 fonts we have chosen and out of all of them we have chosen the last one - Freehand591 BT.

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

Editing Screen shots

This shot was filmed in Hyde park. This is a medium long shot to show our actors gesture and body language, which is also followed by text to make it obvious. This hand is over his heart which connotes he is hurt by the girl and is in pain and the text shows how he feels. The surroundings our also in the shot to give it a more realistic touch. We also used a speech bubble to state his thoughts.

Here is one of our first shots in our music video. This scene was filmd in Noor's house, in her bedroom. For the first scene we have decided to place the Tricaster footage on top of our narrative scene to show her looking back at her day as well as lip syncing the lyrics that match our narrative scene. This is a medium shot, which shows her surroundings and environment to make it the scene look realistic.

Here we have a shot of our actors sitting in a cafe, spending time together. This is a over shoulder shot. By looking at their gestures we can tell that even though they are together, they are not literally together. He is on his phone, and she is sitting there with her hand on her chin, looking bored. This represents that their is tension between them and they are not happy together, this can be seen throughout the whole music video. We also made sure we got the background and the surroundings
as this makes the scene look even more realistic and natural.

This is a shot reverse shot which shows our main actors, Noor and Michael. This scene was shot in central london. We filmed both performers in Costa and sat directly opposite them and had a conversation to make it look natural and realistic as if they were talking to each other and not the camera. We were planning to have a straight cut inbetween the two clips to give it a more natural/realistc movie style effect rather then adding a transition. We filmed this in a Cafe as that is a common location for couples to go and spend time together. This also makes it look more realistic.

Artist Career

Chris brown:


Chris Brown Run It
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Christopher Maurice "Chris" Brown born May 5, 1989 is an American recording artist and actor. He made his recording debut in late 2005 with the self-titled album Chris Brown at the age of 16. His first hit single was 'Run It'. His music videos are usually performance and narrative based. We can also see that the quality of the video isnt very good, compared to Champion & Yeah 3x. Moreover, props used in this particular video also support his age factor, he is wearing long baggy T-shirts and baggy trousers and a new era hat. Whereas in Champion, he is wearing a long black coat which suggest his age and his maturity. He is also seen wearing a tux when he is sitting down in a tunnel.


Chris Brown - Yo Excuse Me Miss by Drunken-Li-Dragon


Champion -

Chipmunk Feat. Chris Brown - Champion
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Chris brown's latest single is called 'Champion' featuring Chipmunk. Comparing this video to his first video 'Run It' we can see he has improved a lot. He has made drastic progress throughout the years and this can be seen in his current music videos, from the props used to the location it was filmed at. He has improved in serveral ways, his first music video was realeased when he was 16 years old, his age factor can be seen through this video as he is singing to a girl in a gym and dancing trying to get her attention. Whereas in Champion, he is 22 years old and has matured up and this can be sensed through his lyrics. Also the quality of the music video differs from Run It, half way through Champion, there is a long shot of Chris Brown and Chipmunk walking on water. Here we can see that special effects have been used which relate to the song title and the lyrics, as he is seen as a Champion.


Chris Brown - Yeah 3x (Official Video)
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Feedback

Hina you have shown some good evidence of your research and planning work - well done.
Targets: 1) You must include a history of a music artist / band via their music videos
2) Upload some screen shots of your music video with an explanation of the visual codes you have used
3) Update your running commentary

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Feedback

Hina, I am happy to see that your blog is now up to date. You have made good use of multi media in your research and planning work. Well done.
Targets: 1) maintain a regular running commentary of your production work 2) get up to speed with your editing work 3) use peer and self assessment to improve your video production.

Friday, 3 December 2010

Production Log

Due to the recent weather conditions we were not able to acess to the tricaster technology, as the CLC centre was closed, therefore we were not able to do our filming on the 2nd of decemeber however it has been rescheduled for next week so hopefully we shall have it next week.