Rough Cut

This is the unfinished version of our music video to the song 'Lovers Eyes' which is orginally by Mumford and Sons but we used a YouTube cover of the song. For the next few days of editing to finish it off we just need to put the ending together and adding some little touches to it too make it perfect. We need to slow down some of our other shots because it has made some of the narrative quite unclear, so by slowing down the shots hopefully this will make it more clear to the audience. The shots in black and white have worked really well how we wanted them too. They have contrasted with the colour shots and you can see the change of atmosphere with this shots. On the shots with the red balloon some of them need to be edited because of the contrast and the movement of the balloon has made it difficult for us when making it red.
The next step for us to add all the finishing clips to the video and make sure all the colouring on the video's are perfect and to make sure our narrative is clear. I am happy so far with our music video as i really like the red balloon effect and think it makes it very unique, i think once we have made all the changes for the final edit it should look even better.

Lana Del Rey album

When doing research on album covers i analysed Lana Del Rey's 'Born To Die' album. She has recently released a new edition to her 'Born To Die' album with a different image and different colour scheme. She has left the same layout which still links to the first album so it is still reconisable to the audience. The image in the first album is quite a powerful image because she is looking down to the camera, whereas, the image of her on her new cover she is looking directly into the camera and it really draws your eyes to the cover. She has still stuck with the nature theme which we have looked at throughout researching Indie pop and have realised this is a main theme within the genre. Even though the artist name is very big and bold, we have decided not to follow this as we think with our choice of image it would be too much for the cover. We have made sure we have followed these indie pop conventions and included them in our project, with researching the different album covers we get an idea as a group what we don't like and what we do like. This is helpful with the two different album covers as it shows the look as an artist she is trying to show, this gives us ideas for making the album cover and advert slightly different but still make it reconisable to the audience when they see them both.

 

 

Album Cover and Back Cover Idea

This is another album cover idea but with both the back and front together. We have kept the placement of the title on the front cover in the left top corner, as any where else on the image the title of the artist and album name wouldn't be reconisable. The text being in the left corner doesn't take your eye away from the image as it's such a good quality image we don't want the audience to ignore it. The back album cover is very simple but we aren't sure if we are defiantly using this image, the image still links to the whole theme at the beach and still matches the front cover. The text is very simple and easy to read on the back ground.

Call Sheet

Time to Meet	9:20 am.
Location to meet	Sixth Form Common Room
Location	Framwellgate
Description of Location	We are going to be using a long field, so we can highlight the depth of the freedom the couple had whilst being in a relationship. The field is isolated away, and is very basic which is all we wanted for these scenes.
Group	Ellie Snowdon, Sarah Hewitt, Kelly Senior and Catherine Kirk.
Characters	Catherine Kirk, playing the female in the music video and Ryan Hawkins playing the male lover.
Props	We dont need any probs for these scenes of footage.
Special instructions	Come prepeared even though the weather is supposed to be a little sunny, bring warm clothes just in case the actors have to stand around for a while. Toilets are nearby.

Album Idea

Here is another album cover idea, we have re-arranged the text in different places. We have done this so we have a good idea of how it looks in different ways. On this design idea we have made 'Elliot Guy' bigger than the album name to make him as an artist more reconisable. The name of the album fits under his name and stands out under it, the position of the text stands out to the eye straight away. We want the text at the top of the image because of the lightness of the colour, if we put it at the bottom of the image it wont be as reconisable and the image is darker and it would be harder to read.

 

The second design idea is much different to the first one, the layout of the text is at the side because we don't want to direct the audience's eye's away from the image but to still be able to notice the text. 'Elliot Guy' is bigger than the album name again because we want his name to stand out and the album name is still noticable. I like this one the best because the layout of the image and the text isn't too much on the page. 

Filming Today

Finally, we got to film our final shots for our music video of the relationship. This was successful as the weather held out for us and just when we had finished filming it started to rain. We had to change the plan of our location because we were going to be doing it in some fields in Newton Hall but because filming has been delayed we decided it would be best to just film in the school field. We got as many shots as we could to make sure we have filled the rest of the music video up, we tried to get more varied shots because we knew that we hadn't used enough shots when filming on the beach. We included different shots of their feet walking towards and away from the camera, hand held shots of the two having fun and just general shots of them having fun, which is what we want to show when we show these memories. 

Album Cover Idea 2

This is another possible album cover idea, we took the image when we were filming for our music video in South Sheilds. This one is more striking to the audience's eye and it matches the music video with the girl and the red balloons. I think this would be an effective album cover as it shows the location we have focused everything around and it links to our story. The red balloons looks good and because it's our logo too, it would make our artist stand out with the red balloon being symbolic.