Digipak/Album Cover

Whilst filming at the beach one of the members of our group 'Sarah Hewitt' decided that it would be a good idea to take a few pictures of our surroundings as we may have been able to use them in our album cover and digipak. Once looking through the images, we decided that they would be fantastic for us to use as it follows the theme we have portrayed throuhout our music video. We have not yet decided which images will be used in which promotional packs, but we have put together some edits of the images used and will be thinking more in depth with how we will be able to use them to our best advantage.

As you can see from the images above, the first one is the original copy of the photos taken, and the second is the one we have edited and will be using in either our digipak or advert. The image has been croped, and the brightness of the photo has been increased to make it a more stricking and beautiful image.

This image is one of the most important images taken throughout the day, this image is the one that helped us figure out what we wanted our album to be called. It is very lucky that we came across this image as we now how a perfect picture to go along with the name of our album. This image will probably be one of the main focuses in the digipak.

 

This image is one that I took when on a location scout to the beach, when looking through the photos from that day we thought that this picture would be able to be used in the album cover as it links back to the music video being on the beach and also follows the theme of nature. The sunset looks beautiful and we would really be able to work with this image, in either photoshop or on a tablet to make the image more stricking. We really want to focus on the light in the clouds it makes it seem as if you are walking to some sort of happiness and glory. We will be developing our images and points further once our editing it completed.

Font/Album Name

When we were shooting our footage at the beach we came across a very large picture on a building with the words 'The Root Of Memories', straight away we thought that this would be a fantastic image that we would be able to edit and use in out digipak. As a group we decided that the slogan on the picture we found would also fit in nicely to be our album name, as the words also fit in with the theme of the music video we are creating.

As a group we have come up with some different fonts so far, and when we come to produce our album cover and digipak we will pick the best font then.

The Root of

Memories

This typeography is extremly bold and stands out due to the different sizes and positioning of the words, it is very simple which is something that we want to portray throughout our products we don't want it to be too complicated as it will stray away from our naturalistic theme.

The Root of   Memories

This is again very simple, and gives off a sense of old fashioned qualities. Due to the typeography being bland it will stand out againt our album cover, digipak and advert as it will differ from what we will be showing through them all. Even though the text is simple it will stand out to the audience, as it seems as if it is the type of text you would come across daily.

 

The Root of Memories

This font is the most different from all our choices, we wanted to be able to also see what else could work within our choosen theme. This text could be eye catching for an audience, but does not fully fit in with what we wanted our font to look like. Our singer is a male, and the typeography seems to feminine to have for an album cover. If we have our font strong, and powerful it will give off the message that the album is about certain things that he is passionate about, and wants to let his audience follow them.

 

 

 

 

Balloon

Again we have encountered some problems whilst editing our clips, when we are trying to use the 'Leave Colour' effect the red balloon is staying red but other parts of the clips such as the scenery and Catherines face are also turning red. This is because on certain clips the sun has been shining and reflected onto Catherine, the effect is picking up on this and thinking that we want to also keep this red. We are in the process of trying to figure out a new way that we will be able to keep our original idea for the clips we are having difficulty with.

Pictures

Below are a few pictures from when we shot our footage for our music video. There are pictures from the scenery, and our actress Catherine Kirk and also a group photo of us all after all our footage was shot.

Balloon

Whilst filming at the beach we did encounter some wind which has effected out shots. We were hoping to use 'Matte' to keep the colour of the red balloon, but due to the wind this is not possible. We knew that if it was windy we would have to change the effect that we were planning on using, as we faced the problem with the wind when we tried 'Matte' on a poppy in one of our planning tasks. During this week we have been playing around with our footage, we have been thinking about how we were going to create the shots in black and white but keep the red colour of the balloon. We had some difficulty at first with keeping the colour of the balloon in the shots and we thought that we were going to have to abandon our unique idea. When playing around we came across the effect called 'Leave Colour', after playing around with the effect for a while we found a way that we would be able to keep our shots in black and white and be able to keep the colour of the balloon. When using this effect on certain clips, there is a shine of red missing from the balloon, as when we have used the effect it has picked up on the sun shining on the balloon and will not notice that it is red. This isn't very noticable and we will be able to work around the problem, however when creating this effect for other balloon shots if we face the problem again, we will have to change the effect we are using so we can create the image perfectly.

Below is an image of how we have been using the 'Leave Colour' effect.

Overview

Over the past few months we have gone into a lot of depth into the certain type of Indie Pop music video we want to create, we know what type of camera shots and angles are used in the videos which we will/have put into our own music video. We designed our storyboard way in advance so we could have plenty of time to practice each shots so we could shot them perfectly on the actual footage day. We have all kept up to date with out planning, equally giving out tasks to everyone in the group, in our last task 'opening scene' we did all the work together which took up a lot of time, so we decided in the 'music video task' to allocate certain aspects of research to each person in the group and them to discuss it as a whole so we all understand and know the focus.

I personally have been a lot more detailed on my blog since the last task, I have realised that anything that happens during planning, filimg or just discussions should be blogged about so everyone can get an insight to new ideas or changes.

We have already shot the beach section of our music video, which is the main part. Even thought we had to change the days of filming, it all ran very smoothly and we had no major implications. As we have filmed all our footage outside the quality of the clips is already much better than our AS task (where we filmed inside), the video camera work best outside. As a group we really enjoyed our filming day, and are now in the process of editing our beach clips. We will soon be filming our scenes in the woods/fields with the male character. After all the footage is done, we will finish off the editing process, and then begin with the other products needing to be created. We are on track at the moment, and the amount of planning that we have designed and done into the music video has really helped us with this.

Filming

We were able to get all our beach footage shot on Sunday, the weather was as expected but just a tad windy. We worked against the wind to get all the shots that we needed and once looking over at the footage we shot, we think we did the best we could have done and used our time wisely. We followed the storyboard, so we managed to get all the shots we had already created for our music video, but we also caught some footage on the day that we will proably also be using in our music video. We took the balloons with us on the bus t South Shields, I asked the balloon lady to put an extra type of chemical in the balloons to make them last longer and not deflate on our travels, they stayed up all day and we were able to use the prop just they way we wished to. We decided last week that we were going to take two video camera filming with us, I decided to look at the camera the night before to make sure they were fully charged the second video camera was flat, I charged the camera all the way through the night and once filming began the camera unfortunaltey died, luckily we were prepared with a second camera and this default did not interupt our filming at all.

Sarah Hewitt also brought her own normal camera in from home, where we took some 'behind the scenes' footage and some pictures of the day filming so we could capture how the day turned out. These pictures will be uploaded on the blogs shortly. We took plently of extra footage, so we could have a wide variety to choose from when the editing process begins.

We will be filming the next part of our music video in the upcoming week.

Balloon

Today I picked up the balloon for us filming our music video on Sunday. I decided that the best idea was to not just to get one red balloon, but two just incase we have any dilemas with it popping or deflating. We have put a balloon weight on the end of the balloons so they don't float away as we got them as hellium balloons. We are all getting ready for filming tomorrow recharging the video cameras, and packing our bags with any supplies that we will need.

Below is a picture of the red balloons we will be using in our music video.

Filming

Unfortunatley we have had another delay in our filming, we were supposed to filming today at 3:20. But our actor Ryan Hawkins has sadly been diagnosed with a lung infection, we did not want to make Ryan any worse than his condition is already as we would be out in the cold for at least an hour. This however won't really delay our filming and editing process as we will be able to catch the shots we want of Ryan anytime after we have completed our beach filming day, which is the main focus of our music video. We will wait for Ryan to get better, and produce a new call sheet when we know the new date we will be filming the wood shots.

South Shields

A few months ago we all had a trip to South Shields on a Sunday, we got the bus there which was easy enough but what we didn't realise is that the buses on the way back don't go back to our home destination after a certain time. So I have looked at the bus times for a Sunday to make sure that we don't have the same problems coming home as we encountered on our previous trip. We all now have a full understanding of the times of the buses which will take us back to Durham.

Weather Check

I will keep checking the weather forecast for Sunday 11th of November so we do not encounter any complications when we go to film again at South Shields. I am very pleased to say the weather is still looking sunny and we are going to use this advantage to it's full potential. We understand that even though it's going to be sunnier than it has been in Durham recentley it will still be very cold as we are near the coast. We will all be taking winter essentials just in case so we are all fully prepared.

Contingency

Due to our first footage day having to be cancelled and moved to this weekend we decided that the best idea was to come up with a back up plan in case we encounter any more problems due to weather or other circumstances. If our whole concept of filming on the beach at South Shields fails we have dedcided that we will just have to film our music video around the fields and woods at Newton Hall, even though this won't fully grasp the idea we wanted to produce for our music video we will be able to produce a similiar feel to the music video which we want to create. There are many features around the woods where we will be able to capture the same shots we have designed for the beach. There are many bridges and secluded areas where we will be able to create the feel of isolation and the female character reminising. If we end up having to use this location which is the same as our second location then we will have to remember to create a significant difference between all shots in the footage days. We will have to be more adventerous to be able to create a different feel to the location so we can create our concept for our music video.  However I don't really feel that we will need to use this back up plan, as our group will try are hardest to make the beach setting work for our music video. Hopefully the sunny weather forecast for Sunday will keep up so we can produce our original idea for our Indie Pop muisc video.

Call Sheet.

Time to Meet	9:45 on Sunday 11th of November. We will be getting the 10am bus.
Location to meet	Durham Bus Station.
Location	South Sheilds
Description of Location	The location we are using in South Shields is the beach near the ammusements. It's is very near a lighthouse, pier and an old ruin of a castle which will all be used in our scenery shots. The beach is very clean, and there are plenty of sand dunes and dainty places looking onto the beach that we will be able to catch some fantastic shots in. Be prepeared as it will be cold.
Group	Ellie Snowdon, Sarah Hewitt, Kelly Senior and Catherine Kirk.
Characters	Catherine Kirk, playing the female in the music video.
Props	A bag of red balloons, a few will be filled with helium before the day of shooting the footage. String will be needed, to tie the balloon. The balloons without helium in them will be used as a back up plan.
Special Instruction	Bring warm clothing jackets, hats, gloves and scarfs. It will be very cold, so wrap up warm. We will provide a towel for Catherine Kirk during shooting. Also please bring some money if you wish to buy food and drink whilst we are filming, there are many

Filming

We in gathered in lesson to talk about our new filming day, we checked the weather forecast for Saturday 10th of November and theres supposed to be know rain. However when checking the weather forecast for South Sheilds we found that Sunday 11th of November had a better weather forecast of bright sunshine. We have now decided to go and film our music video on this date so we can conduct the best possible music video we can, and use the sunny weather to our advantage.

Below is a screen shot for the weather on Sunday 11th of November.

Filming Delay

As you can see from our call sheet for Saturday 3rd of November, we were supposed to be shooting the beach footage for our music video today. We have been checking the weather forecast regulary and we were under the impression that it would not rain. The weather in Durham was perfect, but once we gathered to meet to begin filming it started to unfortunatley rain. We decided that we should prospone the shooting of the footage, as our music video wouldn't have turned out the way we wanted it to, plus we would have had the risk of the rain interfering with the electric video cameras and making health and safety a huge problem when filming on the sand dunes. We have decided that we will now film our music video at the beach next Saturday 10th of November, I will produce another call sheet so our actors can get all the information they need for the new change in filming.