Final Digi Pack

The DVD cover was all designed around the colours in the picture. We have made the background on the back cover a picture of the band walking away this is effective as it is the back of the artist is shows and implies that it is the back of the DVD cover. We added quotes to make it look good and more realistic.

Magazine Advert

We chose the colours of the advert as they blend well with the picture. We chose this picture as it was taken from our music video so it is a true representation of what our video is like. The picture also shows all of the band members.

Magazine Advert Analysis

DVD covers

Front Cover:
The Main focus of the front cover is the artist (Jennifer Lopez) so fans can easily recognise that this is a piece of her merchandise. It has the title of the DVD is small writing underneath the artists name and there is also the DVD symbol at the bottom left hand corner.

Back Cover:

On the back cover, there is the bar-code, this exists on every DVD that is made. Also it tells you the contents of the DVD and CD that are included. The credits and copy rights are located at the bottom of the back cover in very small print. The are 6 logo right at the bottom which are the record company, the DVD manufacture, the format and the DVD symbol. We do not recognise the other 2 logos.

The spine:
The colouring of the DVD case made it difficult for us to take a picture of it, so we decided to just describe in instead. The title and artist are on the centre of the spin with the record company logo on the top and the DVD symbol on the bottom.

The Inside covers:
On the inside covers there is just 2 images of the artist, This premotes her image and shows off her beauty.

The DVD and CD:
The DVD and CD have been made to look like film reals. They contain the title, the artists name, the copy right information and all of the logos.

The Booklet:
In the booklet, there are 23 images of the artist which again promote her style. All of her songs that are included in the DVD and CD are listed with the credits for each song. There is also the copy right information on the back page and again, all of the logos.

Group 59 Feedback

Voyeurism
-Lots of women in feminine dresses
Genre Characteristics
-All women singers
-Sharing lines
-Dream-like
-Natural surrounding
Visuals and Music
-Shots fit the music well
-Slow pace of cuts to match the music
Visuals and Lyrics
-Well timed lip-synching
-Hand movement matches the 'flame' lyric
Intertextuality
-Similar to Atomic Kitten and Sugababes album covers
-Similar to the Flora by Gucci advert
Need to sell the artist
-The singers are always central and on screen
-Dresses appear to be luxurious and expensive, suggesting success and wealth
-Nice surroundings complement the singers

Final Preliminary Video

We found that our preliminary task was reasonably easy and turned out to be a success despite the fact that some of our footage was not captured due to a malfunction with the camera. It was helpful that our friend agreed to help us with such short notice as well because she filmed for us as Ben was absent that day. We learnt that you have to make sure you get the miming perfect because otherwise the whole clip looks stupid. We also learnt that we need to capture lots of footage of the whole song in case we change our minds on how we want the clip to look.

Storyboards and Shot Lists

In our music video we have asked our friend abi to be filmed with us as we needed a third person to sing with us. We will all be wearing maxi dresses and we will use a range of shots to vary the time between the three of us. We have chosen several locations to film in. These are all based around the outside section of college. We wanted to make it seem natural as thats the vibe we got from watching the actual video of the song. Here are some pictures of it.

music video costumes

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We decided to take some quick pictures of some outfits that we were thinking of using. We are glad we did this because it showed us how they would look and it gave us time to decided if we wanted to use the dresses or not.

Editing Lip Synching

Today we practiced editing lip synching a music video to a music track, we found this fairly easy and it didn't take long produce. This helps us as we only have one lesson to edit our preliminary video and so we now have the experience to achieve this.
And we added a transition effect although we felt that we won't do this in our final video as it doesn't look very professional.

Video Ideas for Eternal Flame: Bangles

Idea 1.
Location changes:

Intro and Verse
Action in the forest which is darker to suit the tone of the verse and can be made darker using editing techniques if it is not dark enough.

Chorus
Shot outdoors in the sun to suit the change in tone in the chorus.

Lots of close-ups and long shots of the main artist to promote them, which is typical of a pop song.

There will also be a slight costume change between the verse and chorus which is typical of a pop video.

Idea 2.
Location:

Intro and Verse
Shot throughout school to show off more of a story this time, cuts between girl singing and girl and boy interacting.

Chorus:
Just girl singing as it is the main part of the song and so can promote her.

We did a class vote on which idea we should take further and the over all and most popular idea was Idea 1. We are pleased with the outcome because this was our initial idea so as a group we have more ideas of what could be going on.

Location:
As this is the preliminary task, we have been told that we are only allowed to film in college. this has limited us to filming locations so we have chosen to work outdoors throughout the whole video. The locations will be in the 'forest' at the back of the college and by the pond.