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PART 1

PART 2

our magazine advert so far

This the image that is going to be the background:

Our magazine advert is going to advertise the CD cover we are producing.

We are going to put surreal heads on their heads. The heads are going to be from the music video. The advert is also going to have the name of the band and the name of the CD at the top of the page. At the bottom will be when it is released and where. It is also going to have ratings from newspapers and various music magazines. Parental advisory logo is also going to be featured.

Initial ideas!

CD COVER
-use the heads from our music video on the front
-our band is alternative so we want surreal images on the CD
-band name or album name or both?
-black and white
-The font can be rough and messy to suit the image of our band

DVD COVER
-same as the CD cover but on the back it will include shots from the music video
-black and white
-all songs listed
-band name or album name or both?

MAGAZINE ADVERT
-where and when you can buy the DVD/CD
-price?
-similar design to the DVD and CD cover but with more visuals and images
-heads from the music video
-black and white
-animated heads

Our final music video!

Animation

Here are more sketches for our animation on our music video; these sketches are sketches Gareth has drawn to include in our video, these are not all of the sketches but a few we have included into our video. Our video is including some serial and animated pictures and we have managed to make it look very effective by making them move. We have included them in our video and with the actors in the video thinking they are seeing things.
This works very well and make our video unique and different than any others.

Production meeting 4

We are now in the final stages of completing our music video. With two weeks to go we have not got long left. We have the opportunity to come in some evenings and get some extra hours of editing done. Ashley is going to come in on wednesday evening from 5pm till 8pm and then gaz, william and henry are coming in on thursday evening from 5pm till 8pm.
We have shot all the footage we need so all we need to do now is concentrate on the editing part. It wont be easy but we all committed to producing a very good music video.

Editing so far

These are some screen grabs of how the editing of our music video is going so far;



In this part of the editing we reversed the footage to make the main characters appear to be jumping back up onto the wall.

After a minute of the music track the lyrics talk about the city so we included some mise en scene footage of the city cambridge that was shot out of a car window and sped it up by 900%

This the start of our animation and as you can see we need to cut the animation and move it every time the main characters head moves. This is very time consuming but when finished it really works.

A summary of what we need to do

This is a summary of what we need to do in order to complete our music video project.

FILMING
So far we have shot around half of our footage. We have acquired our own camera for shooting and going to film the rest of our music video footage within the next week.
What we need to shoot;


EDITING
We have already started the animation for our music video as demonstrated in the test footage. And we have all the drawings and sketches so all we need to do is apply to the footage in final cut.

Production meeting 3

Today we have decided on a date to shoot most of if not all of our music video which is Monday 12th October. We are going to shoot in Cambridge but not really the city centre but rather some more urban parts of the city like Cherry Hinton.

We have finished the storyboard and made it into an animatic. We are currently working on the call sheet which is going to help shooting the video go smoothly.

The main actors/characters/singers are gong to be Will and Henry from our group. We don't need any props apart from ourselves and the surrounding environment.

We have come up with some more ideas like getting people to jump fences or of the roofs of buildings and when editing rewind the footage to get a surreal look of everything going backwards.

shooting location

On Monday 12th October we are going to book the video camera and tripod to do the first half of the filming for our music video. We are going to shoot in Cambridge:

We are mainly going to shoot some more of the urban parts cambridge as we think this will aesthetically go well with our video style. We are going shoot stationary objects like cars, trees and then add animation to them when editing. We are also going to shoot the main characters (henry and will) singing the lyrics.
URBAN PLACES:
Cherry Hinton