Our song.

This our chosen song, Run by Vampire weekend. We chose this tune because it is fairly unique and really fits in with the video idea. Hippies, instruments, miles and miles of open land and friends, barns and a party all of which go hand in hand with this music genre and most importantly this song.

Levis- GoForth

Here is an inter-textual reference to our music video, the way it is shot is sort of what we are looking for very, independent. I think the main scene that we enjoy is the one with the feathers and I believe we are going to use this in our video. The run rise and the bon fires, the girl in the Indian style feather jacket in the wind and the cult followings- all of this will play a big part of our music video.

Prelim Evaluation.

Seeing as this was out first chance at shooting a music video or at least a section of a music video I feel it went quite well. We worked well as a team and had all of our shots planned which meant we could go straight in and get to work making our shooting time less leaving us with more time to edit.

Once we had finished filming we hit the edit suite to finish up, being the first group to shoot meant that we had more time to edit so we had no reason to worry about not finishing. We started with putting all the appropriate footage in the appropriate bins and then got on with the editing, we started with editing on the beat for the first few seconds as each instrument was introduced and then went into standered cuts and fades.

If I had the chance to do this project again I would probably have spent more time on making the set look a little bit better as I feel it looks a tad tacky. Also I would have liked to have met the band or atleast seen a video or a picture so I knew what we where working with because that way we could have planned our shots with the band in mind instead of just what we thought would look good to the music.

Prelim album cover.

We chose to design the cover in black and white to represent the style of music that the band make, which is in the style of retro. Their style also seems quite 50's or 60's like, and so the black and white photo suits the band for this purpose. Furthermore, in the photo the 3 girls are dressed in a sort of retro/60's style so this just emphasises the image even more. We chose the three girls to be on the front cover because they represent the band more than the boys who are on the instruments as they are the front girls and give off the image. We kept the writing to be simple but effective, and so it is just bold and black. This was so that the band did not seem tacky.

On the back cover, we have the 3 girls in a more natural position and they have not realised a photo has been taken and so are laughing and having fun. This gives off the feeling that their image is not false and stops a fake image being given off. In the photo on the back cover, there is a boy (the drummer) sat next to them to show that there are more band members and that it is not simply a typical girl band as there are boys present in the band too.

Jane Doe- Naughty

Before the summer holidays we did a prelim task to give us a taste of what it would be like to shoot a music video. We where split up into groups of 4 and each given a section of the song. My group had the first 45 seconds but I will upload just our part soon.

A2 - Music Industry: Advanced Production Brief

In this second year of Media Studies, I will create a promotion package for the release of an album of a new artist, including...

a music video to his or hers first single
the cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD package)
a magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD package).

Task 7

Task 7

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