Recasting

Today my group and I sat down and spoke about the development of this task. We have decided to recast our music video by replacing our original lead singer, Kyle, with another boy, Peter. We chose to do this as we would need to film footage over the Christmas holidays but our original lead singer is on holiday. We have chosen to use Peter as he has the same study periods as we have at school, he is available throughout the Christmas holidays and has happily agreed to do it.

From changing our lead singer we had to make changes to our timeline of the shots we are going to create. Below is a copy of the changed timeline:

From deciding that we are going to change the lead singer in our production we now need to reshoot the shots that we took at the bakery. We need to reshoot as the image that I have in my hand in one of the scenes is of me and Kyle but we now need to change that to me and Peter. However, we do not think that this will be a problem as we can get a lot of our footage, if not all, done over the Christmas holidays now that we are using Peter compared to getting no footage done if we were using Kyle. We will still be using the same narrative as before for our production.

Artist Shots - Problem

Today, my group and I planned to take pictures of our lead singer, Kyle. We managed to book out the cameras that we needed to use, book out the art rooms and our lead singer turned up on time. However, we faced a problem that would not allow us to carry on our task as an art exam was occuring causing the art rooms to be locked at lunchtime which is where the cameras were. We will now have to reschedule our photoshoot for another day.

Magazine Advertisement Drafts

After completing the research for our magazine advertisments, I decided to create 3 different types of drafts of which I can use for my ancillary task. I have included the logo that we had created onto two of the drafts which would create iconography for the target audience as they will relate the text to Daniel Merriweather.  I have included images of these drafts below:

Magazine Advertisement Research

My group and I decided to continue working on our ancillary tasks once we had researched our cd covers. We have now decided to research magazine advertisements so that we all know the common conventions of magazines. From knowing this, we can all start creating our magazine advertisements in our own time. I have included 3 examples of magazine advertisements that we found below:

These magazine advertisements are individually different, the first one consists of a band shot, the second one consists of an artist shot and the third one consists of a location shot. I believe that the image used on the third advertisement is a CGI (computer generated image). The image used in the second advertisement consists of a head shot of the artist, from researching these magazines I feel as though the second advertisement is the most appropriate for my own project. I believe this because the song that my group and I have chosen consists of one artist therefore we would need to include a head shot of our artist. I will also consider using quotes in my magazine advertisement as I feel that this is another way to lure the audience into buying the album being advertised. 

Artist Shot Research

My group and I have decided that we want to carry on progressing in our task and in order to do this we thought that it would be a good idea to arrange an artist shot photo shoot. However, before we do this we need to research into the sort of shots we need to take in order to make the shots look professional. We also needed this research so that we could find out the common conventions for shots like these. Below are some examples of the shots we found:

From looking at these shots we found that a common convention was to use a white background. From knowing this, my group and I have decided to use the art room in our school as this is where a white screen is available which is appropriate for us to take pictures on. We have also noticed that all of the artists in these pictures have eye contact with the camera which helps to make the audience feel more involved. Below is a picture of Daniel Merriweather, the singer of our chosen song, standing in front of a white background and maintaining eye contact with the camera.

From completing our research, my group and I have decided to book our the art room next Thursday lunchtime in order to take pictures of our lead singer, Kyle, ready to use for our ancillary tasks.

CD Cover Drafts

After completing the research for our cd covers, I decided to create 3 different types of drafts of which I can use for my ancillary task. I have included images of these drafts below:

When creating these drafts I took into consideration the common conventions that I had previously found when looking at other CD covers made for Daniel Merriweather. I have included a close up shot of Daniel Merriweather for one of the CD covers as well as an extreme long shot for another.

CD Cover Research

My group and I decided to research various cd covers that had been created for Daniel Merriweather. Below are a few of the ones that we found:

We found that each cd cover consisted of the same font style as this can be easily noticed by the target audience. Two out of the four covers consist of close up shots of Daniel Merriweather whereas the other two are slightly away from the camera. This seems to be a common convention so my group and I will take this into consideration when creating our CD covers.