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.

Shot List

After completing the timeline for our production, my group and I were able to come up with a shotlist to make sure that we knew which shots needed to be taken. We have written down a summary of each shot and then which type of shot that we are going to use such as a long shot and various others. I have included an image of the shotlist below:

Rushes

From completing our first try at filming, me and my group decided to try and edit our footage using Adobe Premier Pro CS3. We were able to do this as we had created a timeline of what we wanted the whole of our music video to consist of. I have included a print screen of the timeline below for your reference. Our timeline also consists of the various different shots that we are planning to use such as an over the shoulder shot, a close up and a long shot.

I have also included an image of my group and I working on Adobe Premier Pro CS3 editing the footage that we got from our filming day.