Planning - Locations

We are looking at locations on whereabouts we can shoot our music video. We have come up with a couple of ideas which we really like and are considering combining them together. We are looking into using Brighton Pier and Farnham Castle. We think that these two locations would fit in really well with what we have planned.

We have considered weather conditions such as rain, and have chosen a song that would suit all weather and if it rains it would just add dramatical effect.

We do however need to look into contacting farnham castle and asking if we can use their grounds to film parts of our video. If not, we need to come up with another idea.

Lorna Brown

Music Video Teaser Research

I had a look at a few different teaser trailers for music videos and looked at how much of the actual video they contained. You don't normally see teasers on TV unless its music channels such as MTV, they are however often released on YouTube.

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night (TGIF)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghe52kEPpAQ

The link above is the teaser trailer to 'Last Friday Night (TGIF)' by Katy Perry.

This is the first shot in the trailer for 'Last Friday Night' This is not featured in the real video. The music playing when this shot is used is not part of the song either.

This shot is featured in the real music video. The music when this shot is on screen is once again not part of the song. Making the video look real fun and interesting.

This is the first shot in the trailer when the music from the actual video is used. It is quite upbeat and the shot shows the singer looking geeky and people would think that looking like this you wouldn't be able to have fun.

Lorna Brown

Research Task 2

The second part of the research was to look at CD covers and to see how we could use the different angles and colour schemes for when it comes to promoting our music video. In a way, I think that the album photo needs to have some sort of link to the main video.

Adele - 21

There is no eye contact and she is looking down, making the effect quite mysterious.

I think this cover contrasts really well with the music which is included on the CD. The music that she tends to do is quite meaningful and emotional.

   The design on this cover is very simple. The frame is filled mainly by the musician. The whole design is in greyscale with the only colour being the ‘21’ in the bottom right hand corner.

The lighting which has been used is soft, but light enough to produce a clear complexion, with the cover going darker where the name of the album is.

The angles in which she has been positioned are quite striking and bold making it stand out a bit more. 

The Wanted

The name of the album cover is in block, white writing spread across the top. It is white so that it stands out from the background which is quite dark.

Most of the group are using eye contact to draw people to it. There is an exception of one, maybe two that aren’t using eye contact and looking elsewhere. It depends how different people interpret it.

Nearly the whole of the design is dark. The lighting is fairly light because you see the background detail and the musicians are quite well lit.

It is another fairly basic design with the band at the front, sort of laid out like a triangle going towards the back.

Bon Jovi

The title of the band is included on the design but not the name of the album, expressing it’s a self named album. The text is in a peachy colour on a black border making it stand out.

There is quite a lot of lighting in this. Some coming from the vehicles in the background. It looks as though there might be some fairly harsh lighting from the front of them because it has made them look fairly pale.

There is a 3 sided black border on the top, bottom and right hand sides. This contains a photograph of a street at night with the musicians standing in the middle of the road.

 

Lorna Brown