Research and planning for the digi pack/poster- Emily

After our sucsessful video making we are going to try and follow it up with a sucsessful digi pack and poster. The research into these is the most important feature because without it you wont have a good understanding of what digipack/poster your genre of music suits. Our genre of music would have a digi pack which would show the girls with a simmilar type of wash over the picture and a quirky kind of wrighting. We have also decided that the location for the photoshoot for our digipack/poster is going to be of a simmilar location from the film in order to tie in all three elements. We have also done some style modles analysis in order to capture the elements of the alternative rock anccillary products. We need to also do three mock-ups of the digipack. We need to use all our original photos from the photoshoot except from the barcode on it and create our own institution and icon for it. It needs to have 6 panels minimum Front, Track list, Cd, Song lyrics, thanks, Poster ect.

Fan base- Emily

Audience profile.

Male

Name: Jo Lacosta
Age: 20
Jo origianally came from liverpool but moved to london when he was 18 to live with his older brother. All his life he has had a love for alternative rock music and has attended several festivals in the past few years all over Europe. He followed his brother around the UK for 6 month watching his band tour. When arriving home he found himself a partime sale assistant job in a local music shop. At the moment he is also studying creative media at a nearby collage. He enjoys going out with his mates at the weekend and spending time in the local pub. Dressing well is one of his main prioritys and his fasion icon is Kurt Cobain. 'ACDC' 'Nirvarna' 'Led Zeplin' Foo Fighters' 'Blink 182' and 'Hole' are among some of the artist you would find on his IPod.




Female

Name: Flo Haggar
Age: 18
Flo is currently studying music jurnalism at Leeds metrapolitan university. In her time off she is a part time sales assistant in topshop. She has always had a love for fashion a music and has recently got into music shuch as 'Paramore' 'My chemical romance' 'The who' and 'Arcade fire'. Flo usualy dresses very similar to kate moss and admires her choice of clothing. This year she attended Gastonburry and download festival with her mates. Flo is very socialble and goes out with her mates most weekends.

Meeting-Jack,Vic,Emily

As we are racing against the deadline, we have decided that we are going to meet in Leicester Strabucks, this way we can have a good session without any distractions. We are meeting on monday from 10 onwards. Im guessing roughly around 12ish. 

Days of filming- Emily

Currently we are struggling to find a day which all three of the band members can do, due to other commitments. At the moment we are finding a way to get round this becuase we dont want to comprimise on the actors, because we belive that using these three girls with carful use of costume props and make-up will be very effective and portray the sexy/grime image which we wish to portray.

Drums... This peice of equiptment is causing me quite alot of stress, because its not somthing which every household has stashed in the back cupboard. I have been asking around a few people i know but its not somthing people are going to lend us without serious consideration; as some of the equiptment can cost thousands of pounds. I have also asked the school, but they can only let me borrow it if we are to use it in school, which we arnt, we need to use it in the location we have picked.
The Guitar isnt such a problem as we know lots of people that have a number of them and people are not so protective of them.
hopfully all issues will be sorted within the next few days.

Story-boarding process - Vic & Emily

During the story- boarding process we are finding it helpful to look back at previous posts, because we have highlighted the key ideas and camera shots what we liked and thought would look effective in our video. We also are looking back at the photos that were taken of the Location to ensure that we do not miss any cruicial shots or elements.

Storyboarding.-Jack

We are sitting down today as a group (for as long as we can , considering as emily is going on a school trip) and beginning to storyboard. I am thinking at this moment in time the process wont be too long considering we are all bringing new creative ideas to the table. 


We have also decided that if there are any disagreements we are going to film all of our ideas (which we realise may take more time, but the ideas do not differ too much) and then see which one looks more effective when editing. 

Here is am editing on the mac and searching the blog for any ideas that we may have previously stated. 

Here are Emily and Vic working hard on illustrating the storyboard and writing down step by step whats going to happen. 

We have decided to work on post-it notes because things can then be moved around easier and what not. We will eventually take rough photographs of what we are going to do scene by scene and make an anamatic story board to upload onto the blog. 
Post-it notes also enable us to make mistakes and add in any other conflicting ideas underneath one another.

Video Effects.-Jack

Also the video rewind idea i think looks excellent speeding some moments up and givin them almost an adrenalin impulse. In my opinion just makes the video look a bit more exciting an fast paced. The colour scheme of this video is excellent aswell, exactly what our group likes.



-Here is a shot of the fast rewind sequence and a short snippet of the colour  scheme.

My favourite part of this clip is when she has the blonde cropped hair, it makes it feel haunted. I think the more themes there are then the audience will broaden, the more audience the appreciative they will be of the video hopefully.


- Another Fast shot that almost looks like what the sound of a scratched CD is like. I think it looks crazy and slightly insane but a easy effective way to make the video look clever. 




This clip is full of little effects and clever things, all of which i am interested in copying. I like the small flashes of light and of course the rewind/fast forward effect.