Magazine Advert Final Idea

John Mason- This is my idea for an advert for a magazine for our production and song Plan B 'She Said'.

Front Cover Advert Analysis

This is Dean's magazine advert analysis of the film 'The Dark Knight'.

John Mason- This is my analysis of an advert on the front cover of magazine it suggets the different features a good advert should include.

Logo Design

John Mason- This is my logo design that I designed to help us decide on a brand and identity for our products like digipacks, album covers and cast lists etc.

Film Noir Analysis

Dean's Film Noir analysis:

This is an analysis of the famous Film Noir film, The Maltese Falcon. This film was iconic when it was first created and to analyse it would be beneficial for our music video.

Here is a Analysis of a short trailer for 'The Big Sheep' and our use of Film Noir for our music video.

Written by Maximilian

Digipak Planning

John's Font Ideas.




These font ideas show some of the text we can use for front cover and making of the album in our digipack.

These photo's we have taken for our front cover on the CD for our digipack I have chosen becuase I think they show who the artist is and show the audience who the main characters are of our video. I think these selection of photos show this best.

Kelly's Font Ideas.

These are just a few font ideas I am thinking of using for my Magazine Advert and Digipak. I will discuss which font will look best with the group and use that one in my final outcome.

These are our original photos to use in our Digipaks and Magazing Adverts. We can edit these by using photoshop and compose different ideas before choosing our final two Digipaks and four Magazine adverts.

Photos taken by Dean, John, Kelly and Max

Posted By Kelly.

Digipack Analysis

Max's Digi Pack Analysis

This is my Digi Pack analysis on the first arctic monkeys album 'whatever you say i am thats what im not'
Dean's digipack anaysis:
This is my analysis for the digipack of Plan B's album, 'The Defamation of Strickland Banks'. Within this I have looked at different codes and conventions of the genre and used these to analyse how it appeals to it's target audience.



John's Cover Analysis

This is my CD cover analysis for Tinchy Stryder's Album Catch 22. It looks at the conventions involved for regular making of CD covers on albums. I chose this CD because it mixes in well with a genre Alternative/Hip-Hop.

Kelly's Cover Analysis

This is a CD cover analysis of Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory album. It looks at all the conventions of regular albums and my interpretations of the ones on this cover. I chose this album because i really enjoyed it and i think that it can link to our chosen band for the music video because of the use of rap.

Shooting Schedule

This is a detailed schedule stating what shots we need to inlcude in our video, where they will be shot and who will be in them. This will be with us when we film so that we can refer back something if we are unsure.
Written by Kelly

Set Designs

John Mason- This is my set design for when the film includes a scene of dancers. It shows a variety of shots in which we hope to capture.

John Mason- This is my set design for the scene where Plan B leaves the buildng by slamming doors for our music video. It shows the shots we wish to capture when in filiming.

John Mason- This is my set design for the scene where Plan B storms off down the corridor for our music video. It shows again the desired shots we will use when filming.

John Mason- This is my set design for the arguing scene at the house for our music video. It shows the different camera angle shots we will try to replicate when filiming our video.

This set design was created by Dean. It shows the possible and desired camera angles that we will use for scene three in the detectives office.

Location Shots

Today Dean and I took a digital camera around the school site and took shots of the places that will appear in our video. Our video has four main areas in which it will be shot, and we belive these places to be the most appropriate for our storyline.

Taken by Dean and Kelly

Shot List

This is a detailed list of all the different shots that we have decided would work the best and need to be included in our video. It also tell you where the shots will take place and who will be in them.

Created by Kelly

Costume Ideas

Today we talked about what costumes our characters should wear, colour schemes and props. I have created a simple presentation that displays who will be wearing what. We feel that inkeeping with our Film Noir genre, our characrers should be mainly dressed in black and white and sport the famous Trilby hat. Our leading lady is wearing red to indicate that she may be quite dangerous and not what you'd expect.

Written by Kelly

Cast List

By John Mason- This is the cast list that shows information on who took part in the filming of our music video.

Prop List

John Mason- This is the prop list which I have wrote up to show what props we will be using in the making of our music video.

Risk Assessment

John Mason- This is my risk assessment which I wrote to stop issues from occuring when we are out shooting our music video.

Storyboards and Animatics

This is a simple breakdown of what the storyline will be like in our video. It shows there are three main scene changes, and each box shows a critical part in each scene. Underneath the boxes there is an explanation of what's happening in the particular shot, who it involves and any other relevant information.

Drawn by Kelly

This is the storyboard of the final scene where the truth is uncovered but we wanted to portray every ones view of the situation within the scene so we decided that having over the shoulder shots of all the characters would be a good idea along with the establishing shot.

Drawn by Maximilian

After some discussion, we have reached the conclusion that we need a dance routine to jazz up our video. This is a breakdown of what the dance should include in terms of shots and positioning. The routine should also fit in with our Film Noir genre.

Drawn by Kelly

Script

Script written by Dean

Briefs

Maximilian’s Brief

My idea was to shoot a scene in the pub, where a couple start an argument over something and she ends up telling him something he really doesn’t like the sound off and he kicks off and goes to give her a backhander. This then starts a huge brawl in the pub followed by the start of the music. Whilst the brawl is going everything turns into black and white and the lead singer will be standing on the bar whilst everyone around him breaks into dance. Once the main chorus is finished, the scene turns back into colour and everyone stops dancing and the fight continues. The scene ends with them making up and staring lovingly into each other’s eyes in the middle of the pub with everyone still fighting around them.

Dean's brief:

One brief that we considered was showing the main singer having a fight with a girl then storming out of the building. We follow him storming down the street, eventually going into a pub to meet a mate where he tells him what has happened. After leaving the pub, the main singer goes back to the building where the fight happens; he stands outside contemplating whether to knock on the door but instead decides against doing so. The last shot we see is a close-up of the door. During the video we will see flashbacks, shown in black and white, of what had happened and the story behind why we saw the two people fighting at the beginning. This idea is narrative based which complements the genre and also complements the lyrics as the lyrics of the song suggest there has been an argument/fight with a loved one.

John's brief:

Another idea we had was showing a point of view shot of the main singer with his girlfriend in their house arguing over her cheating on him. We hear how she tells him she still loves him going with the lyrics ‘She Said.’ The next moment we seem him leaving the house. Suddenly a car hits him from the side and he is left unconscious on the ground. To the horror of his girlfriend who witnesses the events of the last few seconds she rushes outside to help him. The last shot we see is a close up of her leaning over him sobbing saying sorry to him for the argument they just had worrying that was the last time she had to convince him that she still loves him. This idea is a narrative based music video complementing the genre style of music being filmed.

Kelly's brief:

The video starts with and man and a woman having an argument/discussion, it’s set at home and in black and white with no sound. During the argument the man storms out of the house and slams the door which is the first sound you hear and starts the music. The camera follows him down the street as he reflects on what has happened. He reaches a detective’s office but to his dread the woman is already there and she has already told him everything. Defending himself the man tells the story from his point of view using flash backs which are in black and white of the argument and happy times at the beginning of the video.

We have chosen to use this brief because we feel that it would make the best video to fit with the song. Also it would prove to be the easiest to film and make it look professional. We also believe that the storyline is interesting and can keep our audience happy

Music Video Analysis

Maximilan's Music Analysis

John's Music Analysis

This is my music video analysis, on the featured Rap artist Devlin. I have uploaded the seperate images from the powerpoint that I created and also have embedded the music video which I analysed.

Kelly's Music Analysis
This is an analysis of Nickelback's Savin' Me video. I chose this video because i really like the way the song links to the sensitive nature of the video and the clever way that is portrays how people can take life for granted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JQiEs32SqQ

The embed was disabled on youtube for this video , so instead I have put in a hyperlink to view the video on youtube.

Dean's Music Analysis

This is my music video analysis, I have uploaded the seperate images from the powerpoint that I created and also have embedded the music video which I analysed. I chose the song 'Take Back The City' by Snow Patrol because I believe that the style and genre of the song is very similar to the song 'She Said' by Plan B which we will be creating a music video for.

Kelly's Mood Boards

This is my Film Noir Mood board. As we have chosen this genre for our music video we needed to research films and other videos that resemble this to gives us a greater idea of what we need to create.

This is my Hip-Hop mood board that i think relates to the genre of Plan b and his music. Most of these images are known stereotypes and so are easily associated with this band.

Created by Kelly

Mood Board 3

Maximilan's Mood Board

Mood Board 2

John Mason - We also decided that we would create our music video using the Film Noir genre. We decided that me and Kelly would create another moodboard for this genre, whilst Max and Dean would analyse a piece of film noir text.

This is my film noir moodboard analysis that includes images of famous films and characters relating to this genre to help us with ideas for our video.

John Mason - This is my moodboard which shows the music genres RnB, Alternative and Rap which we will be looking upon for ideas to our music video.

Mood Board 1

Dean Goodsell - To create my moodboard, I thought about all the stereotypes associated with the hip-hop/r'n'b genre. I therefore found some images of artists within these genres. I also found that songs relating to crimes kept appearing and also included these aspects within my moodboard. These ideas helped us in deciding how we would attempt our music video.

Confirmation E-mail

Upon finding out the subject of our Media A2 coursework, our group immedietly decided to send an email to the record label of Plan B to ask permission to use his song, 'She Said'. A few hours later we then recieved the above confirmation email, allowing us to use this song providing we do not use it for commercial purposes.

Preliminary Task

This is our preliminary task. Our aim was to create a parody of the film, 'The Shining' where we have one character innocently waiting in a room. However, little does he know that this time of quiet and peace will soon be interrupted by the monster heading down the hall. He knocks on the door which catches the first character by surprise and upon opening the door hears the famous phrase, 'Here's Danny!'

Introduction

1. John


2. Max

3. Kelly

4. Dean

1. Hello my name is John Mason. My role for this group task amongst my media studies peers is to play the lead role in the filming playing the character Plan B for our music video shoot 'She Said.' I will also be assisting in the continuty of the video shoot making sure not just myself but other characters on set are looking the same in costume etc. Finally I will be in charge of producing moodboards, magazine advert designs, digipacks, cast lists and a whole lot more for our music blog.

2. Hello my name is Maximilian and I am currently studying A2 Media at King Edward Sixth Form. My role within the group will be to film the majority of the music video also I will be in charge of keeping the blog in order and up to date with everything needed I will also aid with the research and planning and with the ancillery tasks.

3. Hi my name is Kelly Newman and I am studying A2 Media at King Edward VII 6th form. For our course work we have been asked to get into groups and create a music video to a chosen song. In my group there is Max Physick, John Mason and Dean Goodsell. I will be in charge of the storyboarding our music video and any other design or drawing work involved in our project. I will also be playing a key character in the video and helping with the lighting set location/design and editing the video.

4. My name is Dean Goodsell and my role within the group will be to aid with the editing of the video and i will also appear in the music video as the inspector. Although these are the area's i will be working in, I will be offering help to the other areas so that im involved in the many different aspects of creating a music video eg contiunity, storyboard and planning etc .....