Final music video

Edited photo for poster advert

This is the image we have chosen to use for our poster advert. We used Photoshop to edit this photograph. We enjoyed doing this task however we did have some issues cropping out the subjects hair. It took us a long time to erase the background from the hair an to make it look neat and natural, however it was worth it in the end. We am now going to make the magazine poster and add this image to it.

 

 

We then decided to use this image as it was stronger and spoke to the audience. it followed conventions because of the makeup and hair.

 

 

 

Production diary-Film day with Romano

Due to a different timetable from my team members, I was unable to attend today. However, Shaista and Ilianna and the male star Romano went out to film in Tesco and also in a cafe for our music video. The scenes filmed were Arabella reminiscing when her and her partner were still together. I would say that  the filming was successful as a lot of footage was filmed, even though there were some difficulties with the camera, filming still happened.

Photoshoot for ancillary tasks

Shaista and I did a photo-shoot of Ilianna. This photo-shoot was extremely fun and we all gathered our ideas and literally brought it to life! We have decided to use these photos for our ancillary tasks; the poster advert and our digipak. We believe that this was the best shoot that we have done so far!

CD cover

Shaista and Ilianna worked on the CD cover and decided  to keep it nice and simple as they thought that it is more effective that way with just  the name on the artist and the album name and the logo which is just the stain of the lips. The colours chosen was a light pink and white, the reason we have done this is because we want the artist Arabella to appear delicate and also innocent.

 

 

First edit Digipak

Here is the first edit of our digipak. After receiving constructive feedback, we realised there were many faults with our digipak, for example, our spine measurements were incorrect, the spine is not supposed to be that long. Also we thought that our photos looked boring and that we needed to add more photos to make it a lot more interesting and to give it a pop feel.

First edit of poster advert

Whilst working alongside Shaista to create a poster advert, this was our first trial. After completing this first poster, we asked our pairs amongst us to give us feedback and tell us what they think that we can improve on. After receiving feedback, it was brought to our attention that this poster did not follow the conventions of a Pop artist but instead looked more like an RNB poster, it looks very dark and dull and a Pop advert would be vibrant and exciting. After coming to this conclusion we decided to re-edit the poster.

CD images-Front cover photo

Above is the unedited photo of Ilianna that will be the front cover to our CD.

Above is the edited version to the first photo. To do this I used the software Adobe Photoshop.

First day off filming

Due to different lesson schedules, I was unable to attend this shoot which was the first attempt of shooting our video. Whilst filming Ilianna, Shaista mentioned that it ran smoothly because Ilianna had managed to learn al the lyrics to the song. After spending hours of filming, it came to the surprise of the girls that the quality of the music video was not up to the standard that we had imagined, this meant that we would have to film again. This time round we decided to use my Canon DSLR camera.

Audience research

Animatic

Magazine advert analysis

Whilst looking at some advertisement posters for our music video, we have come across this Britney Spears poster which caught the attention of our group. We absolutely loved it and will be taking inspiration from it. Personally, I like the different font styles, it adds a POP feel to the magazine which is what will influence our group when designing our own magazine. Furthermore, the way that Britney is posed also adds to the POP effect, she looks very innocent and girly, which is the ambience that we would like to give off to our audience.

Storyboard draft

Above is a draft storyboard for our music video. It includes the concept of our music video and the various locations which we will be filming in.

1st Photoshoot

My team and I planned to do a photo-shoot for our digipack on monday, however it did not go as planned. Romano who no longer attends the academy was unable to enter the school building during school hours. We thought that as he was a student from last year's sixth form, he would have been allowed on school premisses. This issue was resolved by going outside and filming Romano's dancing skills and also take several  photographs of him for our character profile. Unfortunately I was not allowed out the academy that day due to study support, as a result, Shaista and Ilianna had to do this task on their own. In conclusion, we are now aware that a backup plan is always necessary as things may not always go as planned. If in future we need Romano in school, we will get permission ahead to make sure that we have the go ahead.

Potential font and name ideas

Above is a potential name that my team and I have chosen to name the artist for our music video. We have picked this name because it sounds like the name of a pop artist, however, it is not considered as mediocre because its not similar to any other pop artist that is already existing. Due to our target market being teenage girls, I have chosen girly fonts.

Possible locations for music video

The photos above are all locations of where filming will be done indoors. The first photo is our school canteen, we chose this location as we wanted to do a dance scene there, using the chairs and table. The school hall will be used for a performance and the last photo, is an underground hallway where fillers will be filmed.

Updated concept for our music video

This is the updated version of our music concept, we have made a few changes.

10 initial song choices

Britney Spears-Don't go knocking on my door.
Rihanna-Final goodbye
The Saturdays-Keep her
Sugarbabes-2 Hearts
Rihanna-Just be happy
Jennifer Lopez-Come over
The Saturdays-No one
Beyonce-Ave Maria
Destiny's Child-Perfect man
Katy Perry-Pyramids

The 10 above song choices are songs that could potentially be the chose song for my music video. None of the songs have music videos and are at least 5 years old.

Team Pitch

Britney Spears-Don't Go Knockin' on My Door

As a group we came to the conclusion that Britney Spears- Don't go knocking on my door will be the song choice for our music video. We have chosen this song because it was very popular in its time, which meant that when watching our video to this song, the audience will be familiar with this song. Apart from this, the song is catchy and has a great beat.