CD Cover/Advert practice edit

Here is an edit I made from one of the photo shoot pictures we did on 20/12/13.

I decided to make many different edits of the same picture and them compile them into one. I also added the name of the band in the slides and spaced out the letters accordingly to make it look fitting. There are some improvements I can make to this, one of them is that i can make the slides a lot smaller so I could have more effects and the picture would look much more balanced and even, we also wouldn't have half of Andrews nose missing on the purple looking slide under the word 'MONKEYS'.

Speed graphics design

Filming Log 12/12/13

Thursday 12th December 2013

Band Setting up and having a practice

Here are a few images of when we were filming on Thursday 12th December. This was where we took our peer feedback and started shooting band shots in as many different ways possible. We did individual shots of Andrew as well as Lee (Guitarist) as well as Kieran (Drummer) and then we had whole band shots together.

Band Performing with Andrew getting ready for the vocals.

We did quite a few shots of Andrew singing the song the whole way through as we wanted to make the most of what we could of the place we were filming on. We did around 6 or 7 takes of Andrew singing the song the whole way through above is one where Andrew is performing with the band. The idea here was to use as many different creative shots we could and the high angle of both the band and Andrew are great as it shows everyone in the shot when they are in the right positions and it also helps Andrew perform better upwards towards the camera. It also helps provide towards the actual lyrics where the singer has been kicked out of his house and is sad about everything that has happened so everything is weighing down on him.

Peer Feedback

Here is the feedback from the peer review we did of everyone's music videos. We received some critical information on how we need to improve our music video. This really helped us as we already knew we was not happy with our product during its first draft and this highlighted exactly what problems we had from a different perspective. This helped us to pick out exactly what we needed to do to make this music video much better. From this we went and gained some more band shots and cut down our narrative of the music video as well as re-shooting shaky shots and solving some problems with performers and people who couldn't act or film at the time.

Filming Log 22/11/13

Train Station Shots

Artist and friend miss the train

On the fourth day of our filming sessions we went to the local train station as this is where the singer and the band member have gone too as they need to catch a train to get to where they want to go, but unfortunately they missed it but this is where the next character/band member turns up and greets the both of them and takes the jacket from Andrew's box that Liam is holding to symbolize that we are his friends and we will carry the weight of his problems too to support him. This is seen shortly after this photograph was taken.

Artist and fellow band members 

Unfortunately the camera died near the end of our filming session and we had to stop and upload what we could to the computer, but we have these images as reference to where the characters were standing and the type of shots we wanted and have used for when we go back and film there we can get it right the same way. This shot was a great shot for the end of the artists bad luck run when he has met up with his two band mates and they are carrying his stuff with him to support him and it is as if they are taking on his woes and stress.

Filming Log 19/11/13

The Park Scene

Artist is sad about the events of the day

On this day of filming we went to one of our locations which was Morden Hall Park, this is where we shot the scene where the singer goes to the park and remembers a memory with the girl who has just thrown him out. This is where he is seen to be very down and lonely until his band mate comes along to cheer him up and walks off with him to move on to the next scene!

Liam spots Andrew (Artist)

Here is a photograph of where the artist meets up unexpectedly with his fellow band member and after this shot we see them hug and there is a feeling of happiness. We decided to film this in first person in the artists point of view.

Band members walk off together

Here is a shot of the two band members walking off out of the park to get on with things as the friend helps his fellow band member forget the bad things that happened that day.