Thursday, 7 January 2010

Costume






Nick's Costume which he had to get him to wear at each filming session for continuity.

Health & Safety Risk Assessment

Date: 15-09-09
Location: Country side - Eton Wick
Potential Risks/Hazards: Getting lost, permission from grumpy farmer, on top of the barn roof.
Level of Risk (L/M/H): H
Actions needed to minimise risk: Kris' dad luckily works locally and got permission. He also cleared the roof for us to shoot on.


Date: 30-09-09
Location: Kris' House
Potential Risks/Hazards: On top of conservatory roof.
Levels of Risk (L/M/H): H
Actions needed to minimise risk: Again Kris' dad tested the roof before hand and made sure it was suitable.


Date: 10-10-09
Location: London
Potential Risks/Hazards: Busy areas, permission needed to use tripod, train always a risk, timings of road crossings and of course roadwork’s.
Levels of Risk (L/M/H): M
Actions needed to minimise risk: We stuck together well, all had mobiles and calling credit, used our time well, only filmed in non-restricted areas (bending rules at times for the video purposes), and finally acted in a responsible manner away from home.


Date: 30-10-09
Location: Eton Wick/Dorney
Potential Risks/Hazards: Out late, slippery roads whilst driving and near a river.
Levels of Risk (L/M/H): L
Actions needed to minimise risk: We could both swim, both had mobiles and drove carefully at all times.


Date: 15-11-09
Location: London (2)
Potential Risks/Hazards: Same as above also adding Buckingham Palace which acquires a lot of restrictions.
Levels of Risk (L/M/H): M
Actions needed to minimise risk: Same as above apart from we in advance asked for permission and got some sort of leeway in terms of shooting possibilities and areas to shoot within.

Shooting Schedule's

Eton Wick Filming Sessions
Location's: Kris' house and a nice man's farm!

First London filming session

Location's: London Eye, Big Ben, Houses of Parliament which were all accessible from the same underground station.

Second London filming session

Location = Buckingham Palace
Underground needed = Piccadilly


Location = Nelson's column
Underground needed = Bond Street


Location = Houses of Parliament & London Eye
Underground needed = Westminster

I unfortunately could not attend this filming session, but many thanks to Nick & Kris who went for the group.

We also put aside alot of filming time to the performance shots which in the end we didn't use because of various reasons I explain in the previous post.

Initial Ideas

We initially were going to bounce in between shots of Sam's journey from the rural village to London and performance shots which would of been performed by a band we portrayed as Iglu & Hartly. We decided against using the performance shots because they didn't look very good and we didn't want to jeopardise what overall was a good video with performance shots which would of bought the overall opinion of the video down. Instead we used a variety of shots from London and did some more shooting in Eton Wick to make the departure from the rural village longer and added some more to the London section of the final product.

Media Evaluation Presentation

Media Evaluation Slideshow!

Album Cover Research

Our group decided to do an album cover as one of our ancillary tasks, we decided that this would be the best one from a range of options because it would of been able to bring out the creativity and reep the most awards. We had to design the front of the album cover, the back cover, inside left and inside right. Straight away we decided that the front cover should have our main character Sam (played by Nick) along with the album name '& Then Boom' and the band name 'Iglu & Hartly'.

The second ancillary task we chose was the advertising poster which had to promote the album and artist which was relatively simple, we put in some previous ideas and a screenshot from the video which the audience can relate to. We stuck with the idea of keeping the same theme throughout the album cover and advertising poster which showed continuity which we liked the idea of. The first three sides of the album cover we kept a purple coloured theme which we kept all the way through. The poster colours are bright and eye catching and are most importantly block colours as well which helped with the continuity of our advertisement campaign, with one of our best shots acting as a fade-in towards the lower half of the poster.

The front of the album cover has Sam (played by Nick) clearly in the centre of the frame, to centre him is to further connote his role and importance.





Here are three album covers from very different genres, but all are very well known albums and the artists are very popular. Bob Marley's album name signifies his status in the music industry and Michael Jackson 'HIStory' album is a very clever play on words and his album cover is very iconic because it shows a statue of him which shows his status in the music industry also as being 'set in stone'.

Doing a song by Iglu & Hartly was a good choice because the band aren't very well known and we have more room to work with, I'm hoping we have portrayed the band as very outgoing and simple but artistic.

Tuesday, 5 January 2010

Ancillary Tasks - Album Cover



The front cover of the album we used the same picture as on the advertising poster, we also used a solid block colour which is unusual for a front cover but we thought it would stand-out better. The album name is done in colours which are bright but didn't clash with the colour of the front cover.
We used the same kind of colour scheme in the back cover but instead of being purple we used more of a pink shade which makes the lights stand out more throughout the picture. We thought the image of Sam standing in the foreground and a major London landmark in the background would be a powerful image to the consumer. The writing is in white so that it doesn't clash with the colours in the picture.



We used the same kind of colour scheme in the back cover but instead of being purple we used more of a pink shade which makes the lights stand out more throughout the picture. We thought the image of Sam standing in the foreground and a major London landmark in the background would be a powerful image to the consumer. The writing is in white so that it doesn't clash with the colours in the picture.



The inside left cover we used the powerful image of The Houses of Parliament and Big Ben next to each other and we have promoted the band's name by putting the name in big writing in the very centre of the picture and making it a bright colour which would contrast with the background. This is a screenshot from the music video which gives you a taste of what type of shots are in the music video as well.



Finally the last screen shot taken for the slightly less significant inside right. This is where the CD will sit and therefore no real need was there to create a masterpiece. A nice shot of Sam leaning against the tree and a bright street lamp does the trick here and the abstract effect works well.