Organising Filming

So for the last bit of filming I needed to get my two actors back,  the quickest and easiest way to tell them about my filming plans was through chat on Facebook.

Here is a screen grab of my latest post to them about filming tomorrow.

Planning the Last bit of Filming

Over the weekend I have been planning what to do for the last bit of my music video filming as the footage I initially wanted to use for the green screen section doesn't work. Therefore I still need to do filming for the green screen and for some layering near the end of the music video, which will be cut to the beat of the music. Here I will have the couple at home now, cooking and hanging out like a normal couple to show him reflecting on the 'good times'.

CD Cover Research

To help give me inspiration for my own cd cover I decided to look at professional artists cd covers that were within a similar music genre to my group. A lot of them have a water or ocean theme to the imagery, this coincidentally fits in perfectly with my music video and the theme I was going to continue into the cd cover and website anyway. 

Although the majority of the covers include people on the front they do not make that persons identity really know as they are either blurred, facing the other way or underwater. The Everything Everything cd cover appears to be copying the previous Blur cd cover. 

At the bottom is the actually Alt-J cd case, this differs from the others in design and style. The case itself is different as is the fact the case does not have the band name or album name on it.  

From this I was able to apply some of these features to my own cd cover design. I kept the colour of the digi pack blue, in particular dull grainy blues as these represented the theme of the song, oceans, and also reflects the emotions in the music video. This created synergy with my music video and media product. I also kept the identity of the couple unknown on the front cover as I found in my research that the people on the front cover were often hidden in some way. I did use a image on the inside cover that shows the guys face as the scene it is taken from ties in with the drugs that appear next to it. 

(The bottom to images are the front cover and back cover, with the top images folding down to be on the inside)

Evaluation Analysis 1

Good Points 

• In question one the group realises key convention that are relevant to their music video and genre, and the audiences response to these conventions. What is good is the group think about what they have done that challenges these conventions too. 
• In question two the group talk a lot about the audience response to music genres an how the ancillary task links to the video. They also talk about how the ancillary task come from researching similar music group designs. 
• In question three, they talk about their use of social media site Facebook, an important feature that allows a wide scope of responses. 
• In question four they continue to mention the forms of technology used mention new forms that I haven't already thought of such as a site were you can upload audio. 

Bad Points

• They could go into more detail when answering the question as some points lack context and seem to brief. 
• When they are talking its not always clear what they are saying this is either because of the music playing in the back ground, their pronunciation or them rushing what they are saying. 
• Some of the time it seems that they don't quite know themselves what they are talking about and they often struggle to get their words out. 
• The whole evaluation is done by pod-cast and get fairly boring.