Week 5

In week 5 we researched into the magazine adverts of the magazine which would most likely have our artist in it which is the magazine of NME we looked through past issues and also researched on the internet for the magazine advert of the James Morrison's CD and also the magazine adavert of Gorillas. When we found the James Morrison advert we found that the CD and magazine advert had the same images but the magazine advert had more text on it saying about his myspace page and also the song which would be on the CD. On the Gorillas advert we found that they were two different images both of which still used animations for metaphors for the artists. From looking at botrh magazine adverts we decided we would do a magazine adavert similar to that of James Morrison but by using 2 different but similar images. Also we decided on any effects we wanted to have on the CD and magazine advert.

Week 4

This week we did practise filming of showing someone eating in 20 shots also this week i showed the other students how to use the adobe premier elements editing software in which our final products would be created on. On it I showed them how to add titles, music, effects and how to cut and chop clips down and also slow or speed them up.

Week 3

In the third week of production we researched CD covers similar to the genre of ourt music video. We found CD covers for James Morrison and Gorillas. Both had very different types of CD cover as James Morrison used a simplistic picture with only a small amount of text whereas the Gorillas CD cover didn't show the picture of the actual artists but animations which are metaphors for the artists. The James Morrison became the idea for our CD cover as we wanted a simplistic picture with only a small amount of text which has a more attention grabbing appeal to an over crowed cover.

Week 2

In week two of production we researched music videos in which uses the same camera work/angles in which we wanted our artist to be like. The video's which used the techniques we wanted were Sinead O'Connor and Radiohead. Both use close ups of the artists singing to show their emotions and also it is clesar what they are singing to the audience. Both the genres of the songs we researched are similar to the genre of the song we are using in our music videos which meant that when we put our music video together the camera work for the artist would fit into the genre.

Week 1

During the first week of production I researched the main music videos in which the music promotion package would be based upon. Also I researched the genre of music in which the song is from which is "indie." From the music videos we found the exact shots in which will be used in our music video which is a medium close up of the singer in a plain background. Also this fitted into the genre research as the music video was from the same genre as the music we will be using. Similarly we found a video which was from a slow song, which our song is, that told a story along side the close ups of the singer singing which is the plan for our music video. From the videos we watched we have been able to gain an clearer idea of how to shoot our own music video which will be done in a few weeks time once we have all the story boarding and mise en scene in place ready to film. Hopefully the majority of the filming will be done during half term which will be easier to do as we wont have to work around lesson times to film the video and also most of the videos setting is outside of college in birmingham city centre.