Poster Sketches

I thought to get started I should do a couple of rough sketches to see the lay out and get some ideas for my poster down onto paper. Im not sure what my favourite is as I feel I would probably have to play around on photoshop to see how the colours turn out like. I do know that I want it to be like my Digipack though, very creative and full of colour.

Researching into existing print posters

Album Posters Analysis from daisymae96

I have briefly looked into existing posters to get a rough idea on what mine should look like.

Assigning roles

Locations

It was decided that my role in the group would be locations considering most of the scenes we have filmed have been at my house and to keep it consistent it would be best to carry on filming here. I have also been arranging the other places we can film as not all can be filmed where i live. As part of my job I have made sure we could film at another persons house who own a drum kit and also managed to find time to film in the music room when there have been no classes.

Louise - Editor
Nicola - Cinematography

Schedule

 This is our schedule to ensure that we get every bit that we need to film, filmed. This way nothing will get left out and all the footage will be under control.

Logo designs.

After gaining our feedback from people when we sent out a questionnaire about our logo we found that our target audience will prefer a logo with a little bit of colour and so we designed multiple logos which included colour and look more visually interesting.

Test shot

We filmed this clip to practice and get a taste as to what out stop motion will look like as a finished product. As a practice shot we have realised that this is will take a long time but after the result we will persist with our idea as we really like the look of it. In the future when we carry on filming but for the actual music video we have learnt that we need to be more careful such as trying not to knock the props over and keep them in the same place so it'll be a lot smoother. Another thing which will make it look a lot smoother will be when we get a tripod. We should also think about better camera angles as well.

Digipak Presentation

This is my presentation to give to the class next Monday so I can receive feedback from the class n my plans for my Digipak.

Changing the target audience!

After we pitched our idea for the Music video to the class the feedback we was given was that we needed to change the target audience as it was previously too broad. Now we have changed the target audience to teens and older teens. The response we got is that we should stick to teens rather then the older generation.

I feel that teens would probably work more compared to an older generation because our band is made up of four guys in the Indie genre who represent 'having fun' and also the 'coolness' of being British. I feel like Four males who don't take themselves too seriously who don't really care what others think of them would have a target audience of teens and older teens because stereotypically all they really care about is drinking and having fun.

How do we plan on applying Goodwins theory to our Music Video?

When story boarding we had to take into consideration how we would make sure Goodwin's theory had been applied.

There should be links between lyrics and visuals.

"You've got a nice car" - In rolls a collection of toy cars.

"Who's that guy just hanging at your pad" - Plasticine men in a dolls house.

"I really love you hair do yeah" - Girls hair grows.

Music genres have their own style and iconography

Indie: 

Live band performance

Narrative

Creativity/Arty Feel

Minimal coloured clothing

Demands and close up shots

During live performance

Inter textual referencing

Italian Job - "Coolness" of being British

Presentation and feedback.

This is our presentation to the class.

Feedback sheets

In todays lesson we presented a presentation to the class to gain feedback on what they thought on our band, our logo, our song, our music video idea's, etc. A majority of the class had concerns that as it is a stop motion it will take a large amount of time to create but after experimenting and creating a short clip to see what the stop motion will look like we did realise it was time consuming but the final product looked good and we were very pleased and decided to carry on with our stop motion music video. 

What the class thought was our strong points though was how we had thought everything out with detail and we had good research and planning.

DigiPak preperation

I have decided in my Digipak I would like to have a plain bright white background so the colours which are on it stand out especially the bright play dough balls I want scattered around the digipak and so I
went out and brought some play-dough so I can start creating things for the digipak very soon.

Logo Research

We gave out a questionnaire to our target audience of people aged 18-25 year old as we wanted to get an honest opinions of our chosen logo design. We wanted to know if the people of the public understood what genre of music our logo came from and all of them understood the genre. We also got feedback such as improvements. nearly all of them said we should add colour because it was too plain and boring. By doing this it has helped us understand what our target audience wants to see.

Audience profile

We have created this audience profile to represent the audience and to take in to consideration their traits. This will also help us when it comes to planning it as we can bare them in mind when it comes to creating the music video.

Brainstorming

In todays lesson we have filmed ourselves brain storming ideas for filming our music video before we come to story boarding.

Audience Profile

This is an audience profile which was created in order to explain who our Music Video was targeting.