Friday, 11 December 2009
Final Locations
At the beginning of our project we decided to carry out our main filming in Castlefield and in the Zion centre dance studio. Although these were good, original choices we found that we wanted to be more creative and include more than just the two different locations. As a result, not only did we use these two locations but we also filmed in Manchester city centre, on a bus through the town and in college itself. This helped our storyline along as, Maria is showing her journey to college with flashbacks about her time with Cass. Furthermore, we chose to use the college's studio to show the dancers and Maria rehearsing their dance routine before going to the proper dance studio at the Zion centre where they performed the routine perfectly. Therefore, we used a variety of different loactions to help our video become more interesting and to show our commitment to filming as footage as possible.
Thursday, 10 December 2009
Promotional Posters
Our group is going to make a promotional poster to advertise our video
This is going to consist on 1 front cover they are a number of things which will be included on the front of this including:
-The record label
-When the song will be released
-If you will bebale to download it
-The name of the song
-Name of the artist
-A picture of the artist
The main theme of our poster is black and gold the same as the cd cover, we wanted to keep this colour theme consistant throughout our project becuase they are bold and out standing people will regonise our theme. We aim for a simple and emotional poster which will grab the audiences attention.
Me maria and cass have desided the write Jazmine Sullivan in Gold across the top of the poster Jazmine will be written in capitals and size 24 font and sullivan will be written in lower case underneath of the Jazmine. There will be a picture of the singer at front. The song title will be written in FILL THIS IN at the bottom left hand corner under this will be when the song is released and where you will be able to down load the song from. On the write hand side of our poster will be the record label and their logo.
An example of Promotional poster is:
This Promotional poster is what we aimed for ours to be like. It is very simple and affective.
This is going to consist on 1 front cover they are a number of things which will be included on the front of this including:
-The record label
-When the song will be released
-If you will bebale to download it
-The name of the song
-Name of the artist
-A picture of the artist
The main theme of our poster is black and gold the same as the cd cover, we wanted to keep this colour theme consistant throughout our project becuase they are bold and out standing people will regonise our theme. We aim for a simple and emotional poster which will grab the audiences attention.
Me maria and cass have desided the write Jazmine Sullivan in Gold across the top of the poster Jazmine will be written in capitals and size 24 font and sullivan will be written in lower case underneath of the Jazmine. There will be a picture of the singer at front. The song title will be written in FILL THIS IN at the bottom left hand corner under this will be when the song is released and where you will be able to down load the song from. On the write hand side of our poster will be the record label and their logo.
An example of Promotional poster is:
This Promotional poster is what we aimed for ours to be like. It is very simple and affective.
Wednesday, 9 December 2009
Our you tube link to Jazmine Sullivan Need you Bad
This is the you tube link to Jazmine Sullivan "Need You Bad"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHV5PyPiFjg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHV5PyPiFjg
Friday, 4 December 2009
Poster research
Before designing the poster to advertise our music video, I need to research the important elements and features that it must include. Furthermore, I also need to ensure that the poster consists of the same theme as the CD cover, they can not look totally different.
After looking at posters featuring artists such as Beyonce and Jazmine Sullivan herself, I have noticed that they have some quite similar features:
- They all include a picture of the artist with her/his name in a bold print
- They give details about an upcoming event or single release, including the song or album title
- They are all colourful or have had the colour edited to suit the mood of the song and are eye catching
Here are some examples:
Furthermore, to make sure that the poster is consistent with the colour scheme used for the CD cover I am going to have a black background and use the same gold font. Moreover, i will also use the same picture of Maria on the CD cover to put onto the poster.
CD.Cover Research
The 1st CD is keisha coles album it is a great cover as it features fancy fonts.
The 2nd CD cover is a simple design with jazmin sullivan of the original Need you Bad song our group is considering creating a CD cover like this.
3rd CD cover is Jordan Sparks cd cover i like this cover as it features a close up of the singer face.
Here are some CD cover which Inspired us
Me and Harriet have both started to design the CD cover of our Music video called Need you Bad by Jazmin Sulivan. We both decided to make the cover look like an RnB/Reggae style by research various CD covers within this Gener. We taking in to count that most of the RnB style covers normally features the songwriter with a close up of their face, so we really based our idea on that. So our initial design will be seperated into three cataoguies 1st would be the CD cover, 2nd The Lyrics of the song and 3rd would simply be the back cover of the CD.
The reason why we both decided to include the lyrics into our CD cover is because it would make our inside cover look really authentic due to the reggae gener often includes a song Lyric within a booklet.
Our Design will based upon two colours which are Black & Gold we are using this because black with gold looks modern. its a colour which is a bold & strong , within RnB cover they often go for strong authentic types of font, with sharp images which look pretty good plus it targets a young adult audience as many people are in to RnB so our main intended focus was to particuly target a young adult audience.
A feature which really works well for the cover is having spotlights as a caputers the thougts of a live performance.
A feature which really works well for the cover is having spotlights as a caputers the thougts of a live performance.
Harriet thought by having the spotlights would also engage Maria as the star performer in the video do overall a good idea.
The front cover will consist of
- A Black background with Gold spotlights
- Gold Font Jazmin in Large size18/20 Bold
- Right Align Sulivan in Small writing Gold Font
- Picture of Maria face from video( real, cartoon, silloute shadow)
Lyric booklet
- Size 10 gold font
- Gold Stars on top left corner/ bottom right corner
- Black Background
- lyrics middle aligned
Back cover
- Need you bad in Gold Font size 18
- picture of out media group or Maria.
Editing
Now that we have all of our footage, Maria has been the main editor of our music video. However, everyone has had an input into how it has been edited and we have each made contributions and put forward different idea's into what should be done.
Once all of our footage has been placed on the time line in the order we wanted it, Maria added the music and ensured that the lip singing was completely synchronised with the timing of the music.
Then, we could start to change the colour of certain shots to fit the mood of the music. For example, we made the happy memory of Maria and Cass brighter and much more colourful, in contrast to the shots of Maria singing where sepia has been added and which have blurring around the edges to show her depressed mood.
Furthermore, we have also split screened a number of shots of the dance routine in the middle of our video. We have a vertical split screen shot of the dancers on the left side and Maria singing on the right side, then the next shot switches them around so Maria is now on the left and the dancers on the right. In addition, we have also used a shot where we split the screen into quarters and had single shots of the dancers in the top left corner and the bottom right corner. Then, as the music changes, we swap the images around again. This effect fits with the beat of the music and so will keep the audience's attention.
Once all of our footage has been placed on the time line in the order we wanted it, Maria added the music and ensured that the lip singing was completely synchronised with the timing of the music.
Then, we could start to change the colour of certain shots to fit the mood of the music. For example, we made the happy memory of Maria and Cass brighter and much more colourful, in contrast to the shots of Maria singing where sepia has been added and which have blurring around the edges to show her depressed mood.
Furthermore, we have also split screened a number of shots of the dance routine in the middle of our video. We have a vertical split screen shot of the dancers on the left side and Maria singing on the right side, then the next shot switches them around so Maria is now on the left and the dancers on the right. In addition, we have also used a shot where we split the screen into quarters and had single shots of the dancers in the top left corner and the bottom right corner. Then, as the music changes, we swap the images around again. This effect fits with the beat of the music and so will keep the audience's attention.
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