Tuesday 19 October 2010

What we have to do...

We have chosen the music video task as our objective for this course, this will require us to construct a design for a webpage for the "Music Video" and make a digipak containing a CD and details on the band to promote the project

I have been away...

I have been away for a while due to me having to go to Spain to look after my grandad for a few weeks, I did take down some notes while I was away and I unfortuntely missed my group's activity when they made the masks for the production. I have kept my notes on research and plan to upload them over the next few months.

Tuesday 7 September 2010

Music Video research

DEFINITIONS:

Promo Video: A promo video aims to advertise the product that is featured in the video i.e. the music and the artists involved.

Trailer: A short video with various clips of a movie that usually tells the viewer what the film is about and gives the audience an idea whether or not they would enjoy it.

Both of these items intend to avertise in order to promote a business and encourage success.


INTIAL IDEAS:

We had quite a few ideas to start with for our project. Our very first idea was to animate toys and use them for our music video. We decided against this as taking frame by frame shots of inanimate objects is rather tedious and time consuming.

We even had an idea to make a rap video just for jokes which would include lip sync and other "various" skills like dancing and such, but we decided not to go with that idea.

Instead we have chosen a song called "Fraud" and we will create masks for students to wear which will show them escaping from an exam room in order to show "rebels" and what not. Hopefully our final production turns out to be a fun and enjoyable process.

Group Members:

The following students are in my group;

Adam Pickup Link: http://adampickup.blogspot.com/
Kiel Ormesher Link: http://kiela2.blogspot.com/

Teachers Link: http://kscsmediastudies.blogspot.com/
OCR Link: http://www.getaheadocrmedia.blogspot.com/

Brief:
A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options:
a website homepage for the band;
a cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package);
a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package).


Here is our Production LOGO: