CLC

As part of this project we have had to create a album booklet and a print Ad. we went to the ClC to use there photo shop to produce all this. we had a lot of ideas about what we wanted to use for the album cover and for the print Ad, we all agreed that we wanted to use a disco ball in the shots because our song is called welcome to the discotheque and we thought it would be a creative idea. we thought it would be good to have the disco ball outside because if would give the cover more effect.
what we deiced to do was to take pictures of the disco ball in different areas outside such as hanging form a tree or floating on the pond. Some of the people in my group came up with an amazing idea to have a disco ball in front of a hazard sign and photo shop in the word "disco hazard" which was a really creative idea and we choose to have it as one of our covers on the album. I think the word disco hazard works well because the song that we have chosen is such as crazy song and our concept is basically the song can effect everything or anyone such as an old man getting his youth/energy back.
we are still deciding what we want to have as our print add because we have so many good photos and we want our print Ad to stand out and grap the audiences attention. I think our photos have turned out great and have made our album cover interesting and unique. and i think the album cover suits The band.

At this current time we have a lot to do before the deadline in less then 2 weeks we still haven't finished the video, also we have found that we've had to change some of our ideas because they have not worked, and one of the tapes that we filmed on at the beginning did not load onto the mac computer so we have lost a lot of footage that we cannot get back again which has delayed us a bit. another problem that we have faced is the fact that we still have to film a small amount more which we shouldn't have to do, but in order for our concept to work and for our video to make sense we need this last bit of filming. But we are determined to finish all our editing by the end of this week or even before, because we want to focus on getting all our written side of this project done.

Print AD Analysis

Band name: Coldplay parachutes
Release Date: Album is already out
Label website: www.coldplay.com
Details of single: Andy records
Promotional statement: Includes the singles “yellow and shiver”

Description: The base colour is black and in the middle of the cover there is an image of a yellow globe which is spinning fast, they could of used the globe as their main image because the globe represents that the band coldpay want to conque worldwide and globe is a sign for power.

Band name: The best of Betty Wright
Release Date: Already out in music outlet stores
Label Website: www.w2k.co.uk
Details of single: label is Rhino
promotional statement: "she got soul"
Description: The base of the background in a dark green , and on top of the base colour it has a circle of greens and yellows, in the middle of the album cover there is a image of Betty wright she is the main attractions on the cover. the bright colours reflects a 60's theme which works well because her album is all her best songs throughout the years of her career.

Band name: Maximopark
Release date: Already out
Label website: MAXIMOPARK.COM
Details of single: Limited cd/dvd edition includes 68 minute film shot at Newcastle arena.
promotional statement: “the first great album of the latest great recession” NME.
Description: The background is made up of Consolation in the colour of gold, with big white writing across the cover. the use of the colour gold stands out which would grab the buyer attetion, the consolation may have been used because looking up at stars is a nice relaxing feeling which surrgest that the album is a feel-good.

Editing

we have uploaded the the footage on the mac computer ready to start putting our music video together. to edit we are using the software i movie which is easy to use and you can do a lot on there. at first we found it hard because we had so many ideas and we wanted it to look perfect after we got started it was alright, we did have a lot of footage that we couldn't use because there were problems uploading it but we had so much spare footage to use instead that's why its always good to film with three cameras in case one doesn't work.
editing takes up a lot of time because you want the footage to flow and look right, some of footage didn't make sense at first because it didn't flow properly so we had to film a little more to bring the narrative together.
we used a lot of Diegetic sound such as birds in the park and and cars going past we thought gave it more of an effect.

Filming Part 2

The second part of filming we had to dress up our actor George like an old man and filmed him dancing around the city listening to an ipod with the hit ups song on it. we had him dressed up in a dressing gown, slippers and a bowler hat. to make his hair grey we used lots of toucan powder which we found worked really well and had a good effect. we used alot of tracking which is moving the camera to follow the character.

we had a professional dancer preform and George would come in to the shoot and start trying to dance with him. Our aim for the video was to make it fun and creative.

we used three cameras again because we wanted a wide range of shots and we wanted to create a macth-on-action with some of it to make it more exciting.

I took us about 3-4 hours to film, the problem we faced was that we didn't have a lot of sunlight left and as its winter its gets dark pretty quick. another problem we faced was that because a lot of our filming was outside it was hard to tell what the weather was going to do. the rain did delayed us a bit.

there were some bits that we found hard when it came to this part of filming because we found it hard to keep the camera from not shaking while we was filming, we would of used the tripod but we didn't have the piece that connects the camera to it so we had to hand held all of the
shots, but the shot did turn out ok.

Our originally ideas for this part of filming was to get a large amount of people, dress them up as old people as well, to do this we set up an event of the social networking website (face book) and invited everyone we new to come, we thought this was a good way to promote and make our video better.

In pink we highlighted the guest list (attending, not attending, and confirmed guest) we found that hardly anyone decided to go out of over 200 people.

because no-one turned up we decided to change our concept a bit instead of having everyone dressed up as old people we choose to have just the protagonist dressed up as a old person and his lady friend.