Again in this lesson I got more feedback on my magazine article after improving upon it. This time I had to improve on the icons in the text as the writing has to mould around them, this is something I found tricky to do but managed to over come it to make the final magazine article.
James finished the first draft of the website today in class, creating a gallery page where you can see behind the scene images of the filming in action.
Steve finished the first draft to the digipack, adding a few more pictures he found on the photo camera we used when filming whilst Will got back to editing the video.
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Like the lesson before, in this lesson I got given feedback again. But this time the feedback was on my logo. People said they liked the black and white theme as it matched the Indie style however they said that as we are a small Indie band not may people would be aware that NI stands for No Individual. Using this feedback I got on and improved the logo, ensuring that our bands name was shown in the logo.
Again James added to the website, getting on with the third page which was the tour dates. He researched locations where to play at and added them to the third page. Steve needed to get more photo's for the digipack as the images in the video weren't high enough quality. He needed to get pictures of the band together so at lunch we all went out and got a photo of the three of us standing in a line to use for the back cover of our digipack. Will took time out of editing to discuss potential digipack covers and it was Will's idea to get the picture of the three of us standing in a line.
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In this lesson I got the feedback from the magazine's first draft. I found that people really liked the template design as they thought I matched it very well to the original. However they said that there wasn't enough text in it and the text that was in it wasn't in the style of writing that most magazines are written in as it lacked the quirky element. Using this feedback I did some more brainstorming and enhanced on my knowledge of the band, adding to the text whilst ensuring that I get some humour in it.
James continued to experiment with the home page for our website, changing the background to try and meet the Indie image. He left it as black however we all felt that this was too bland and didn't keep the viewer interested. However he managed to complete the second page which explains each band member in depth, describing each one. Steve continued to gather photos for the digipack. He cleverly decided to get our theme of water clearly shown on the CD by going out in his own time and taking a picture of the ripples of water in a swimming pool. Over the weekend Will saw a music video that had water dropping onto the camera and thought that this would be a useful shot in our video. He took time to attempt to recreate this shot however he hand no way of getting the pipette, which he used for the water droplet, to get out of shot.
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After completing the first draft for the magazine article, I had to wait to get feedback from it. I took this time to look for ideas for our Logo. As we are an Indie band I looked at Indie band logos and found that most of them if not all of them were in black and white. Therefore I designed mine in black and white. I wanted to abbreviate the logo so that it didn't just say 'No Individual' as this could look quite bland and boring. So I experimented with the 'N' and the 'I' and came up with the 'I' moulding into the 'N'.
James and Steve continued carrying on with the website and digipack. James managed to get the theme of water in our music video showing in our website by making the background a flowing image of the sea. Steve trial ran a few pictures from our music video on the digipack. Turning them to black and white to fit the Indie image, whilst Will experimented with different effects on the music video such as fireworks in the background in the performance element of our video.
Production Diary 27:
In today's lesson I looked at magazine articles and chose one to base the design around. I chose to follow the design of NME magazine articles as they are the best magazine to follow where the music industry is concerned. I chose one article from NME and started copying the template it proposes. I then looked at what was written in NME magazine articles. Most of them talk about the band and how they originated so I got brainstorming and thought of information to include about the band.
James focused on doing research into websites, trying to find out what design to follow. He went on and looked at Indie band websites such as 'The 1975' and 'Alt J'. He found that most of the websites followed a bold theme, ensuring that everything stood out whilst Steve did the same but for the digipack. He looked at Indie digipacks and found out that the majority of them followed a black and white theme and started to base our design around what he found. Will carried onto edit the music video.
Now most of the filming was done it was time to get onto the construction side of the course. This involved making a Logo, Website, Digipack and a magazine article. Each of us was assigned roles. James was to make the website, Steve was in charge of the Digipack whilst I was assigned to do the magazine article and logo.
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TENTH SHOOT - This would be our final shoot and it would be a smashing shoot.. quite literally. We went to a wasteland and smashed bottles filled with water. We felt that this would represent the breaking of boys heart in the music video as he cant get the girl he loves. We would experiment with slow motion to capture the breaking glass and water spilling out.
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NINTH SHOOT - We took time out of lesson today to go and get more footage. This time we filmed the band walking through Admirals park in Chelmsford whilst each member carried the objects they perform with. I carried the keyboard, Steve carried the drum set whilst James carried the mike and stand.
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EIGHTH SHOOT - Today was the day where we filmed Steve drumming in the middle of the school field. The challenge we faced was trying not to get the school in the background.
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Today we focused on getting further filming ideas. We needed to get more shots of Steve drumming as the shots we got before showed him drumming off beat. We discussed locations and decided to have him drumming in the middle of a field.
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Today we spent time planning on further shots we need to get. We needed to get reverse and slow motion shots but we weren't sure as to what objects to use. We brainstormed ideas and came up with balloons, beer and wine bottles.
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SEVENTH SHOOT - Will and James filmed today in the street. James laid down in his blue suit in the middle of the road
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SIXTH SHOOT - Today Will and I took the time to get more shots done. We went in the green room and took shots in the pitch black where I sat whilst a flash light was used to light up my face, giving it a sinister look.
Production Diary 18;
HALFWAY EVALUATION: Today we presented our half way evaluation and were filmed in the process of doing so. We presented things such as our background and how we got to where we are today, to showing our website which includes information about each band member and where and when we are touring!
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For our half way evaluation we decided that we would put an interview of the band into our presentation to give it more of a professional edge. Will was behind the camera and asked us questions to do with how we formed etc.
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Today we were told that we had reached the half way evaluation point and are required as a group to present how we are doing so far. We each came together and gave each person allocated roles as to who would do each part of the presentation.
Production Diary 15:
FIFTH SHOOT - Again in lesson we took the time to film again. This time we filmed a long shot of James in the distance walking directly to the camera as in front of the camera stood Aimee, who plays the part of the girl the song is written about. This looks like an extremely sinister shot as James has an expressionless look on his face and gradually gets closer and closer. Plus he is wearing a blue boiler suit which in its self is pretty sinister!
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FOURTH SHOOT - Today we took the time in lesson to film close ups of myself and James singing the whole of the song as we needed to get more filler shots. We also took videos of the whole group standing in a vertical line, one in front of the other as we we looked at band photos before shooting and came across looking impressive!
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THIRD SHOOT - Another day another shoot! Today we went to our teachers parents swimming pool, who very kindly allowed us to film in it. We wanted to get a range of shots that varied from a lifeless body floating around to James, who was in the pool, screaming at the Go Pro under water. We found it difficult get the light we were holding above the water out of the shot as the Go Pro has a very wide shot.
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SECOND SHOOT - Today we went to film our performance side of our video in Widford under the train bridge. We found it challenging to set the cameras up in the water as the ground was extremely uneven, meaning we couldn't get the cameras level correctly. To overcome this we had to clear some of the stones in the water to create a level platform for the cameras. Once this was sorted we got got extremely good shots which ranged from long shots to wave shots.
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As the time to filming is getting closer and closer we needed to check that the generator worked. It was a good job we checked that it worked as we had trouble starting it. We had to find the caretaker of the school and he helped us start it. Now we know that it 100% works.
Production Diary 10:
In our lesson today we went out in search of a good location to shoot our performance element of our video. After a long time searching we came across a train bridge in Galleywood that had a stream underneath it which would be ideal to perform in.
Production Diary 9:
In our lesson today we did a production run through where we sung the first 2 verses of the song. It gave us an idea of how it would look and what we found worked and what didn't. We found that we needed a loud speaker in order for us all to hear the words.
Production Diary 8:
In today's lesson I took on the role of emailing the company that released the song 'Falling for You' from The 1975.
Production Diary 7:
FIRST SHOOT - Today we started filming and went to a car park in Chelmsford to place a bath in the middle of it. We then filled the bath with water mixed with red food colouring to symbolise blood and then got James to lie, lifelessly in it. We found it tricky to maintain a steady hand when filming with the Go Pro as we didn't have a tripod so some of the shots were shaky. However on the schools cameras, which had tripods, we managed to get good shots of the water pouring over my face. This shot was influenced by the song 'No Rest'.
Production Diary 6:
In today's lesson we did Lip Syncing auditions to find out who would be the main role in our video. Each person sang the chorus of the song. Each media class voted who they thought would best suit the role and came to the conclusion that it would be James.
Production Diary 5:
Over the weekend we thought of more songs that we thought would go with our sinister images. The song we came up with was called 'Falling for you' from The 1975. We all enjoyed this song as we could picture our thoughts to go with the song whilst is was more upbeat and interesting than 'Fantasy'.
Production Diary 4:
In our fourth meeting we were all having doubts about the song 'Fantasy' by The XX as it was too slow paced which meant our audience could get bored listening to it so it would put more pressure on us to get interesting shots to keep the audience entertained. We wanted to keep our sinister ideas the same so had to find another song that would match our thoughts. We another song from the XX called 'Angels' however it had the voice of a women so would look unrealistic in our video as we are a group of boys. This meant that we had to go away and find some songs for our next lesson.
Production Diary 3:
In today's lesson we came together to discuss the availability of each member of the group from now up until half term which starts the 26th October. We were then able to plan when we would be able to start shooting.
Production Diary 2:
In our lesson today we had to focus on finding a second song to back up our first choice song 'Fantasy'. After a long time searching, we finally found the song 'Love is gone' from Oxford & Co. This song combined the Indie theme that Steve liked as he was a big fan of Ed Sheeran. This song also gave us a different way of how to shoot the video as it is a performance song. It gave us ideas of going to the country side and perform in a field due to the country nature of the song
Production Diary 1:
In our lesson today, our group had a meeting to discuss what song we should decide to do for our piece. Each member of the group had to find 3 songs and out of those 3 had to put forward their favorite one.
James Grimley suggested that we did the song 'My eyes are red' from Laid Blak. The reason he liked this song was because he thought we could do a lot of effects with the lighting as the song focuses around weed so we could recreate the feeling of being under the influence of weed. However the song had too many views on YouTube.
Steve Harrison suggested that we did the song 'Cold Coffee' from Ed Sheeran as he felt we could do a narrative music video as the lyrics Ed usually writes has a meaning too them. However the draw back again was that the song was too well known and the voice is too distinctive.
I suggested that we did the song 'Crunk' from Siege. This song is completely different to everyone else's as it is a dance song. I had the images of a journey, maybe traveling to a party. However the idea of doing a dance song didn't go down very well with the group as they weren't fans of dance music and thought it would be too hard to make images to go with the music.
Finally Will Craig suggested we did the song 'Fantasy' by The XX. When we all first heard this song we thought of a church setting due to the echoing noise we heard and it personally gave me the thought of it being set in the middle ages where monks were most common. As we carried on brainstorming, our ideas got more and more sinister as we listened to the song in more depth. We thought that this song would be perfect for a concept video as there isn't many words to sing so we would fill the shots with different types of images. An idea that sprung to Will's head was to have someone lying in a bath filled with red water (making it look like blood), whilst positioned in the middle of no where. This backs up the sinister theme in the song
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