Ancillary: Artist posters

To help towards ideas of how to set up the magazine Advert as well as looking at magazines like kerrang, I also went out and took picture of posters the promote a artist and how these are set out just to get some ideas.

Ancillary: The Courteeners

To help with are magazine cover we were give tour dates for the Courteeners, and listened to them to help us get a idea of the type of music there are and we have to design a posters which included there tour dates and linked to the song we heard, the poster we came up with was:

Ancillary: Artist Iconography

We have started to look at our ancillary task by researching artist of the same genre and looking at there album covers, we noticed most of the album have the same concept showing similar text with in there album cover, with a old gothic feel to it, meanwhile they also show colours of the same brightness being quite dark colours such as blacks,brown,burgundy and white for outlines. Some of the covers show the band/artist but most of them show a location picture.

Research and Planning: Shot list redo

After filming twice now and nearly having our first cut done we decided it would be helpful if we have a shot list of the things that we need to reshoot so when we film again we know what to force on, the ones in green are the ones to re film in the woods and then blue is the car park we did this as a group and picked things that we all thought we could redo to make the shoot, or angle look better.

• Re-shoot shot of tilt up from woodland floor or replace with an abandoned object.
• Shoot medium shot of guitarist playing solitary note at the start of the song.
• Re-shoot bird's eye angle of drummer playing the beat. Visual match audio.
• Long shot of band playing together.
• Low angle shot of drums.
• Side shot of band preforming- Tilted angle.
• Medium shot of guitarist playing note.
• Wide angle shot of band playing, camera tilts down to car park floor.
• Camera tilts up from woodland floor to woods.
• Re-shoot low angle shot of vocalist jumping over the camera.
• Re-shoot bird's eye angle of the band running through the woods- create more enigma.
• Re-shoot close- up of vocalist.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist, head moving down.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist pointing at the camera.
• Re-shoot medium long shot of guitarist playing.
• Re-shoot shot of band running through woods- side angle.
• Re-shoot low angle close-up of drummer hitting the base drum.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist head banging.
• Re-shoot medium close-up of guitarist playing.
• Re-shoot close-up of guitarist 2 playing.
• Re-shoot vocalist acting out actions.
• Get rid of band helping up guitarist and replace with shot of object next to the guitarist on the ground. (or something else)
• Film more close-ups and shots of band preforming.
• Re-shoot close-up in the car park.
• Quick cuts to the objects.
• Re-film close-up of guitar.
• Re-place the siking up shots.

Research and Planning: Costumes

When filming we had to make sure that our actors wore the right costume to fit in with are genre, and also that we remember what there wore so that the mise en scène looks the same in are filming and so the audience cant tell that filmming has been done over different period of time and all the same, this links to the conventions of a heavy mental genre we made sure that there wore black jeans, or short for the drummer and then band mech t-shirts/jumper of the same genre as themselves. 

This also links back to bands that wear the clothing that are actors are going to wear:

 

 

 

 

 

Research and Planning: Lighting & colour editing

We have finished filming for the time being therefore we have been focused on post production and looking/ using different effects in are music video. The main effect we have used in our video is the blink effect this is to as the strobe effect we think it worked better then the strobing, this effected is used in the main breakdown of the song where it getting really heavy and is all instrumental. we also editing the speed at which are music video opening so we have added slow motion to the water drop because it makes it more dramatic and because the music starts of slowly.

we also changed the brightness levels of the performance section to the  video because it have a yellow tone to it from the lighting in the car park, also to link with the convections of metal music having ark and dull lighting, they don't show bright colours, we moved the black to 88 and then white down to -12.

Research and Planning: How filming is going?

Filming has been going very well we have filmed twice in the car park now and going to film once more, we have found it very helpful to watching all the footage over and add it in to are timeline on final cut pro and then write up a shot list of the things we need to refilm so that we know what sections we need and how we should shoot then, the narrative filming has gone well to with us about to work on our ancillary task at the same time taking still images that we could use towards are album artwork. post production is coming together well as a team effort with our first cut near complete and been able to add in effects like the strobing with has work well and links in with the music and genre. now that the film is nearly complete we are going to focus on the ancillary tasks, hopefully producing a album cover and magazine add we are all happy with.