Letters To Mathmos

These are the emails sent between James and 'Mathmos' - a lavalamp company based in London. We got permission and James and I got the train to the store to take shots for backgrounds for our film. There were no problems and we got all the shots we needed too.

Talent Release Form

A talent release form is a document in which the producers of a project get permission from the actors to be able to publish anything which they have performed in. If this is not completed an actor could claim they did not want something to be shown and the producers can get into trouble. It includes the name and signatures of each party to prove that the document is official and valid. It also includes the date it was drafted and the terms and conditions of the release form.

Jacob's Work

I used these colours and layout as the visual impact would be very good. I wanted some panels to go together when folded out and used some shading to create very 3D standing out visuals that make it look interesting. The colours, tones and shapes relate to the genre of music in our music video as there is a lot of strong colours and lines that reflect the strong, plain beats of the music.

Font Ideas

I think these fonts suit our genre. The last one especially, is hard for people to read and if they look at it for too long it confuses their eyes and our genre aims to mess with peoples heads. They are all linked to computers and technology with the strong lines, but also different in some way, such as the third one being fractured

My Digipak

This is my first draft of a digipak. for our final product, Jacob, James and I will combine our ideas onto one product

Digipak covers

A digipak is a pack that holds a CD; made of cardboard and sometimes use plastic to hold the CD. It is designed like a booklet that folds out. Most digipaks have 6 sides with either artwork or photos on each panel.

An effective digipak has the same theme running throughout, following a colour theme that is strong and contrasting; to make them stand out on a shop shelf. Digipaks shouldn't be too overwhelming for the consumer.

Big Beat Poster 2010

These are posters for a Big Beat Reunion concert. This has given us a recent insight of how Big Beat posters look. This will be useful for our production of a music poster in the genre of Big Beat. The song we have chosen; Galvanize; fits into this genre.

Location Research

These pictures would be imported to the green screen, possibly on a slideshow while the performers lip sync in front.

Song Details

"Galvanize" is a song by British electronic duo The Chemical Brothers and the first single released from their 2005 album Push the Button. It was released a week before the album's release and peaked at #3 in the UK charts. The genre is Big Beat. We have chosen this song because it is more familiar to us but still a challenge to take us out of our comfort zones.

Images

Before half term, Jacob said he was going to go to the sea and take some pictures and videos that we could use.

Today we looked through various location shots and clips that Jacob took. We chose ones that we thought would look good to use as a background while lip syncing in front of a green screen as well as still images that we could use as transitions shots.

Letter to Astral Works

Last Lesson

Last lesson we made the decision to change our song. We are keeping the same genre which means we don't have to redo everything. We are currently focussed on doing 'Galvanize' by Chemical Brothers. We began annotating the lyrics and thinking of ideas for a storyboard. We planned to go to various locations to research how well they could be used. We are going to;

Portsmouth - Spinnaker Tower

Wittering - Beach

Bracklesham Bay

and we think that London will be a good location.

We decided to do this as we became aware that some events of our genre often take place on the beach

Our Final Cut Lesson

This is 'Final Cut' which we will use when we make our music video. It has many useful tools; such as being able to use a green screen, having 2 videos playing simultaneously so you can cut between shots without losing continuity.

Photo/Shop Analysis

Photoshopped Image - I am pleased with the background I used. I found it by accident when learning different tools and decided it suits my genre well. I used a Parent Advisory sticker as many of the themes in "Drum n Bass" are not suitable for younger audiences. The Font I used works well with the technical element of "Drum n Bass".

Original Image 1 - This photo is a midshot eye level shot of Jacob to give the audience a personal effect that makes them feel as though they are standing with him. The pose Jacob is in connotes a pop artist; however, the clothing, being black, with the green bush shows more elements of "Drum n Bass".

Original Image 2 -We used the white background in this image so it would be easier to crop us out and put us on a different background in Photoshop. We used a long shot to show all 3 of us and the keyboard and mixer. The clothing suits the "Drum n Bass" genre as it is dark. Covering our eyes with our long hair shows a

Song Details

We have chosen Sub Focus - Spash ft. Coco as our song. It is in the Drum & Bass genre. We chose this song because it fitted the criteria. None of us had heard this song before so we weren't subject to bias and could approach it professionally. We also chose this as it had lyrics, unlike a lot of Drum & Bass, and had a female singer.

Roles

Todd - I will be in charge of filming the music video and bringing the story board to life as much as possible, gathering props we may need and helping in editing. I wll also help create the album cover and magazine advert in photoshop.

James - James will also help film and make sure the frame on camera resembles the storyboard as closely as posible. He will be in charge of editing and will help gather props. He will be in charge of bringing Jacob's designs to phtoshop.

Jacob - Jacob will also help film and edit. He will be in charge of designing our album cover and magazine advert. He will be in charge of Storyboarding and framing shots. He will be in charge of where in the location that he wants us to film.

Lauren - Lauren doesn't do media; however she has agreed to be in our music video and perform.

Initial Ideas

Our initial thoughts were to have a female artist be our performer to a Drum & Bass song. Our first tsong that we chose to do was Sub Focus - Splash ft. Coco with Lauren Goldsack as the singer. An initial location we had in mind was Boxhill with the scenery behind and changes in scenery without having to travel too far. We think that some lyrics will fit in with Boxhill's scenery and atmosphere; the chorus would be a good section to keep coming back to here.

One prop idea was to have a giant Chubba Chups lolly, to be used to show abstract or a prop during performance. To gather our ideas we had a group discussion just suggesting ideas and see how the group responded. We chose the Drum & Bass genre purely because we thought that not many other people would choose the same and we wanted to challenge ourselves and take ourselves out of our comfort zones. When Designing our CD cover, we decided to advertise an offer of being able to download something for free if you buy it, to help encourage people to buy a CD as most would rather download it.