CD cover templates

We looked up templates for our CD over so we had an idea of how it would look, and what the layout of it would be. Therefore we can begin a realistic plan and design of the CD cover.

Planning for ancillary task

Magazine advertisement


We have both combined are ideas to come up with an idea of how we would like are magazine advertisement to look. Our ideas were helped by looking at other magazines and magazine advertisements of bands of the similar genre. From this we have decided our magazine advertisement will be simple showing all four band members

This album cover influenced us to what we would like are digi pack and magazine advertisement to look like, as we wanted both are ancillary tasks to follow the same scheme. 

We decided something like would be ideal. With the picture taken of them on the roof from the music video all in musical or casual (as the above)

For the title large but simple fonts would be used to go with the simplicity of the songs and image.

Additionally paramores' album cover also influenced us as like are band, there are three boys and a girl so this helped create the kind of image we want to:

Changes and Challenges

During filming, i faced some challenges that affected my music video. Firstly, i found it very difficult to arrange a time which every member could attend to, therefore i had to come up with another idea that would involve different actors. This is where i got the idea to have lotsof different people showing different ways and types of love. In the end this proved to be more successful as the video has a lot more going on and i was able to gather a lot of people together.
Sarah

Filming

On Wednesday 24th of November, we only had a limited amount of filming time, however we shot some scenes with Amelia and Dom in. This was good as it now enables us to focus on the other characters individually and the band. Meaning now the only thing we have to film is the band playing the song, the band in the land rover and Dom miming the lyrics. 
After filming, the next day we came back and did limited editing on the footage we had, i.e. cutting and deleting shots we didn't need.


We were able to film Amelia and Dom together outside, and also seperately eg, Dom and amelia walking on their own and looking out of the window 'thinking about one another' and also Dom writing his song about amelia inside the house. We were able to get long shots of Dom walking up the road, and also medium shots of the 'couple' and some close ups when Dom is writing the song.


Sarah and Amelia

References

Throughout planning are music video we researched and watched a variety of different videos to help develop are ideas, we obtained these videos from www.youtube.com

These videos included:
swedish house mafia - miami to ibiza
arctic monkeys - florescent adolescent
scouting for girls - heartbeat
nickelback - hero
cant be happy - the scruples
the kooks - she moves in her own way

Additionally to find box office figures for the music charts we looked at BBC radio 1 website.

Amelia and Sarah.

Roles

When one of us is acting in the video, the other will be filming. If neither of us will be acting, Sarah will mainly be in charge of camera work and Amelia will mainly direct the roles of the other actors, however we will both play a part in both roles. We will both get the scenes ready for each set before filming, this will include arranging the props and making sure lighting is correct. 


Sarah

Research and Planning

Mine and sarahs ideas are widening and most of the ideas we are getting are from research through other similar bands and music videos, and others are through heavy discussion of exactly how we want our video and band to appear we have done this through creating lists and spider diagrams. Additional ideas we have had are having the band play on the roof, i got this idea from the video by Nickelback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zueKq3z3Sk

We also decided that the girl in the video (me) would have bare feet whilst walking down the path, we thought that it would create the image of innocence and purity for the girl.

Finally we have also made the decision of are band name 'Amess' this was thought of through making a spider diagram and randomly thinking of ideas that we thought suit the band and fit the mise en scene.

Amelia.