EVALUATION!!!

Finished video :)

final textual analysis!! bit late sorry guys!!!

The final textual analysis is on the video "chase and status ft plan B- end credits"

This song is based on the film "Harry Brown", which is a British "gangsta" film. This involves an intertextuality as it links to the film and includes scenes of the film.

The genre of this video represents drum and bass music, and focuses on a lead male vocalist. It sees him walking through streets of london, focussing on the crime and violence.
The relationship between music and visuals - at the beginning you see him lying down on the floor, looking as if hes in pain..whilst you hear "when the blood drys in my veins" representing death. This video shows no instruments of any kind, as it is literally the lead singe and clips from the film "Harry Brown".
There are many close ups of the lead singer, who is also a main character in the film. It shows his clear facial expressions, mainly faces of anger with little emotion aswell as singing along to the lyrics.
The video tells a story, but i don't think its narrative based as it follows the typical conventions of having a lead singer.

Well, thats it for now folks...hope this makes sense! And i would reccomend the film to anybody :)

Lots of Love, Rache, Mike and Liv xxxx

Final Post for this evening =]

Hey guys... again =P

This is our advert for our album and the band =] i hope you likes...

We couldn't keep the layer of the girl and the mist in the image, this is because we needed the writing to stand out more.
i don't partically like the OUT NOW because it doesn't stand out that well because of the background. I would changed the colour but i feel that it wouldn't work with the whole image.
This was taken from the dvd cover image. But we had to edit it we had the files with all layers not merged down on the image.
i hope you all like it =]

mike, live, rache xxxxxx

Inside the dvd case

Hey again!!!!
This is our inside picture for the dvd cover. i hope you like it =]

This is a massive contrast against the outer cover of our dvd cover, but we wanted to get the two main characters involved within the dvd package. We wanted the two main characters to look at each other lovingly. We then decided to have a misty effect of each main character to look like they are thinking of each other, and that they are closer than they appear to be

i hope you like. please give feedback.. another post coming about the advert.
post you all in 2 minutes =]

loves you guys!!!
mike, liv, rache
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Dvd case cover!

Hey guys!
here's the final Dvd cover for our video. The ideas for the dvd cover was discussed by our group and then we decided to ask a friend to help draw out the design. =] Hope you like it...


Origanally, the design was going to be a boy stuck in the woods by himself, with wolves coming through the trees, to get him.
Then we decided it didn't partically go with the album and band name, than we expected it too. so we decided to change our image to a boy stroking a wolf under looking the mouth, with wolves onlooking towards them. The idea of the girl in the mist at the top, symbolises that the boy is thinking/ talking about the girl to the wolf because he feels scared and wants to be with the girl.


hope you like it the dvd cover. give feedback on wwhat you think =]

love you all!

mike, rache, liv xxxx

UPDATEE =] =] =]

Heyy guyss :) :)

ahhh final day..scary stuff!!

We had to re-storyboard as we could not get all the "band" people all together in the same place at the same time...and also the new storyboard creates a better understanding of the story in the video..typically of a young boy and girl meeting.
SO....
There is NEW actors..Gemma Williams and Nelson Priest. Wahay!!
Gem and Nelson were easier for us to get and were more available compared to the others.
In our video..there is no band shots as it was just too difficult to plan and was impossible to find members.
We did our last 10 seconds of filming today and finished all the editing so our video is complete now.

We'll upload the final version shortly so you can all see.
Any feedback would be grrrreat.

We have also finished the digi-pack and advert. The pictures on both of them were drawn by Alex. The pictures are just of a wolf and a young lad to obviously represent the name of the band.."Peter and the Wolf" , which creates a great link.

Dont forget to give us feedback mateys :)

lots of love..
Rache, Mike and Liv xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Album research!

Hey guys!

This post is just us inserting album covers from other famous artists to help out for our own album cover.

New storyboard

Hey guys..
Long time no speak =[
Hope you are all awesomesauceness!!!!

Anyways .... We have changed our storyboard, as we couldn't get enough people for our band.
We will put our idea up laters =]

love you guys!!!

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Hey guys =] 

We have done our first filming yesterday and now we are just capturing it into final express before editing.. 

we still have quite a lot to do for filming but we our near enough on schedule =]

Love you guys =]

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stuck at home

Heys Guys...

Im stuck at home today due to my mums boyfriend being really ill and i have to stay home just incase i need to take him the hospital!!
So yeah im working at home today!!
so Rache and liv can you write back if i need to do anything!! =]

Cheers and sorry for not coming in!!

Love you

Michael
xxx

Our cast so far!

 Hello people, 

We are nearly ready to start filming. We have some confirmed cast members and the remaining few we know who we want to ask. Here goes!

Lead Singer

Liam Evans

1st Year College Student

Bassist

Jonny Smith

2nd Year College Student

Boss

Mike Jones

2nd Year College Student (and also part of this group!)

The other cast members we need are, guitarist, drummer, pianist, girl, girl's friend and a general crowd.

Byeeeeee xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Treatment: Proposal for music video.

Helloooooooooo, here goes the final few touches before filming!

Proposed title/ song: Peter and the Wolf- Talk About You

Storyline: We follow a girl in her decision to attend a gig where there is an element of romance 

  between her and the lead singer

Characters: a girl, lead singer, guitarist, bassist, pianist, drummer, crown, boss and girl's friend

Setting: modern day/ the present, girl and lead singer's homes. gig venue, highstreet and 

  restaurant

Length: approximately 30 shots and approximately 3minutes long

Format: MiniDV

Style

Genre: indie/pop

Mood: light and romantic

Camera work/ type of shots: a mixture because of the mystery surrounding the identity of 

  the girl

Length of shots/ editing: the maximum time per shot us approximately 4 seconds

Movement and action: because we are coordinating lyrics and actions there is much

  movement. This also supports the genre of music.

Visual qualities: black and white, camera angles

Use of music: in coordination with lyrics and action

Handling of narrative: slight parallel in action when the girl and lead singer pass in the 

  street without recognition. Each character has a distinct role to play as we only have   several protagonists. There is great enigma surrounding the girl as we do not see her

  face until the end of the video. The climax is at the end when the lovers meet.

Target Audience: tween, teen and young adults

Technical aspects

Production methods: We will all share filming and directing, however Liv does not wish

  to feature in the video

Equipment: camera, lights, instruments

Locations: highstreet (Hereford/ London), gig venue (possibly media room), houses (Liv 

  and Rache's houses)

Resources

Times: approximately 1 week filming, 2 weeks editing

Costs: petrol to Hereford, (MacDonald's when there!!), flowers?, wine bottles?

Rationale

Why the video is worth making: The use of colour, which also emphasises the mystery 

  surrounding the girl. Our chosen band is releasing an album soon so we may aid

  some recognition. Also, our storyline/ choice of song and characters make it

  believable.

xxx 

Hey Guys =]

Just completed our risk assessment for our music video.. and we look safe =]

Give us a shout if we missed something out=]

Love you all

mike, rache, liv xxx

Poll!

Favourite type of music genre?
	Indie
	Pop
	Rock
	RnB
	Rap
	Dance
	Hip Hop
	Other
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It'd be great if you could fill this out please? Thanks!

Rache, Liv, Mike xxx

Storyboard

Hey guys..

its snowing outside YAY!!.... anyways this is our storyboard of our music video.

Thats our storyboard =]
hoped you all liked the idea. please can you give feedback or ideas on how to improve it.

Love you guys

Michael. Rache and Liv xxxxx

30 seconds to mars - from yesterday music video analysis

Hey Guys.
Too help us with our video I'm going to do some analysis on 30 seconds to mars from yesterday.


Artist: 30 Seconds to mars

Song: From yesterday

Director: Jeff Seibenick

30 seconds to mars is a alternative metal/ hard rock band. usually in rock bands music videos they have a story line and plot. 30 seconds to mars continues this idea when their story is set in China (the first ever american group to film in china for there music video).

The video shows four warriors (the band) in china getting prepared to fight with other samurai warriors in a all for all battle against each other. The film starts off with the palace in china being all perfect when they walk to there changing rooms to get into there armor. Once the fight begins, the audience start seeing the sins of the palace and realize its not a great place after all. At the end we see all four members of the band left on the fight arena with swords to each others throats and they just stop and walk away together. This music video was and probably still is the most expensive music video ever made so far making up to $13 million.

Through out the movie there are lots of close ups of the band but not many notion of looking apart from one scene where you see the main singers chest as he's changing from a robe to the samurais armor.

From Yesterday is narrative based as there is a story to it and an underlying meaning, This music video is loosely based on "The Last Emporer"

Throughout out the music video we can't tell that theres any Intextual Referances as apart from "The Last Emperor" But we are sure that there is some Intextual Referances of movies which we haven't seen to link it too.

I hope you enjoyed our analyisis.

michael, liv, rache

P.S Web Address for the movie = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmFemC0sXeM

xxx

Happy New Year!!

OK, so back to work. Over the holidays we've been think about ideas for our video and come up with this:

During the first chorus, an actress acts out the actions described in the lyrics. We never see her face and there would be a mixture of close ups and long shots. Also she would be in black and white.

During the cho

rus, we would be introduced to the band, in colour and see the emotion on the lead singers face who is longing for the actress in the chorus.

During the second verse we would be back on the actress (in black and white) going about her daily routine and during the second chorus we would be with the band again.

After this point there would be swapping between actress and band and the respective black and white and colour. 

During the final chorus, the actress would find the location of the band and reunite with the lead singer, in colour.

Possible locations for this are:

• a flat overlooking a town- the bedroom, bathroom and kitchen
• a busy high street
• a minimalist recording studio.
  

I hope you like the idea!

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