lightning background

Here is our website with a different background of lightning bolts. I chose to have this background instead of the other one because it fitted in with our "bad day" theme more and looks more original then the previous one. But i am still going to change the middle square tile because it looks to "boxy" so to look more emerged in the actual background i will lighten the middle part.

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update on website

Here is an update on our website. We decided to change the background since it looked a bit too "babyish" so we are going to have a grey background for a solid background and then put the images such as the lightning bolt and grass from the other background on top of this background. Also I did examples of previous CD singles from images we previously took and altered them to make them look original.

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Website Development

Here is a development of our website, with videos and tour dates and applications now on it.

Taanel

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Editing

Clips are on imovie and we've started editing the clips we've got.

By George

Video photos

 
Here are some pictures of when we filmed part of our video, where the geek found his doll and from then the torment unravels!

Taanel

Website more stuff

Here is an idea of what kind of things could be on our blog.

Taanel and Chris

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the record company logo

Website stuff

Here Is progress on our homepage. We have changed it slightly, adding a sort of biography of the band, tour dates and the their record labels logo.

Taanel 

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Start of website

Here is a the beginning of our web page.

Taanel and Chris

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Digipak Cover research and own CD cover ideas

Digipak cover research

This Indie DIGIPACKS is very appropriate to the genre. It isn’t too loud and in your face or boring and restrained. The Mise-en-scene and its effect are good and effective. The all white background is attractive and eye-catching, since being so bright. The trees add an added effect by breaking up the white “glow” and creating some new texture and look to the Digipak. The layout and font of this Digipak is relevant to the genre and style of song and works well with the mise-en-scene. In my opinion the old English writing links well with the trees and for some reason makes me think of Robin Hood. The effect of the font and mise-en-scene gives a natural feel to the audience.

This Digipak is more direct to the audience than the first one. For starters the cover is a picture/image of the band itself. This helps promote the band via a more personnel means. It is still relevant to the genre but takes a different approach. The colours and the mise-en-scene are more contrasting and mix differently than the previous Digipak. A medium coloured background with darker and lighter writing on the front contrast to make the writing stand out and add the eye-catching effect. The layout is basic but effective. It draws your attention to the name and the image of the band. The image and style to me are natural and simple. Just a picture of the band and nothing else. Also they are in casual postions and sat on a sofa, it makes the cover have a home feel.

This indie Digipak is different to the others but is still relevant to the genre. The appropriateness of this Digipak is so relevant. Since it’s called X & Y, opposites and only has two colours, again opposites, black and white they contrast well in subtext. The layout isn’t complicated its really basic and simple, this maybe a reflection of the simple X & Y album name? The image and style of this Digipak aren’t adventurous and could be described as boring. The plain black and white colours aren’t used to any effect. Information is kept plain and printed on the CD. The mise-en-scene is really basic and very bright.

This Digipak for me isn’t appropriate for our genre at all. The mise-en-scene to me isn’t what id relate to an indie band. The “joker” style face paint to me makes this Digipak appeal to more of a gothic style audience. Also the deep dark background and styled font again aren’t something I’d relate to the Indie genre more gothic or “screamo” audience. The layout is good and organised, a style we could incorporate into our Digipak. The song list and information in the centre of the CD cover surrounded by the same image on both sides. Not all is negative though. I like the tattoo pattern underneath the main title. The artwork makes the over more appealing and attractive.

Digipak cover design

Since our song is called bad day we thought about using images, drawings ect of bad things happening but making them very melodramatic. Where as in our music video the bully loses his keys on the cover we would have an oil spill or volcanoes erupting.

Here are two images we may use as a representation of our bad days.

We may use images like this to add a sense of humour to our Digipak but also still represents a bad day. I think these pictures maybe a bit too serious for our music video since there is a hint of humour in our lyrics but they have a deeper meaning which I think balances the images out. The mise-en-scene can be varied from image to image or cover to cover depending on what we choose but all will have elements of disasters or bad days ect. The layout will be a priority principle. The most eye catching picture will be used on the front cover, possibly the worst disaster. To add humour and juxtaposition we may use bubble writing for the name or a more serious and less bold type. The intended image and style of the Digipak is to promote the song and its name, “bad day” and also promote the artist. It will do this by accurately contrasting the narrative in a dramatised way.

Below is an idea of what our Digipak may look like:-

As you can see the 3 images put across a serious message but the bubble writing adds a humorous feel to it all.


Chris

More website stuff

Here is some website anlysis research I did on other Indie bands and some images of their sites. These two are on Young Galaxy and Oasis.

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Website Analysis reserach

Here is some website research I did on Indie bands websites. These artists are Kate Nash, theTing Tings and Jason Mraz.

Taanel

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Test shots

Here are the test shots for our actors

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Textual Analysis

Here is my textual analysis for artist Iyaz.

Chris

Production Schedule

Drawn storyboard

This is a drawn storyboard of a few shots of the video, a few important shots of the video and whats happening in them. 

By George

Recee sheet-Feilds location

This is the recee sheet of one of our locations that we have chosen. It is from the scene where the Geek is dreaming and finds himself in the middle of a feild, Spooky!

Taanel

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Written story board - what we will see.

This is the addition to the written story board explaining what is happening in each shot with actors and the camera angles

by George

Written story board

This is the Written story board. It contains all the shots and angles that we're going to do for each individual shot.

By George

Release form

Dear Sir madam or whoever this may concern,

       Hello my name is Christian Simmons and I’m a student a Bilborough Collage in Nottinghamshire. For my A2 media project me and my group have been tasked to create a music video. We decided to pick Darwin Deez’s song “Bad Days”. We thought this song would be excellent for our research and a great song to base our music video on.

We write to you to ask your permission to use this video in our project for our A-Levels? In exchange for your generosity and permission we will send you a copy of our finished product if you wish so you can see how we have used the music in our video.

We would be immensely appreciative if you could help us with this.

Many thanks Christian Simmons

bin bag, drain pipe test shot.

This is a test shot of a shot, that in our pitch, the feedback said it would be hard to do. So in my time I took a picture by cutting a hole in the bottom of a bin and taking a picture. In the actual video we're going to add leaves and water to make it more drain. Also we could shoot it through a drain tube to make the drain more realistic. 

by George. 

Artist

We finally picked the artist we are going to do. It is quite new indie popl band called Darwin Deez. We picked them becasue there music is very catchy and cool and the existing videos are entertaining and have interesting ideas behind them. They havent got many official videos so we thought it would be good to do them and do one of their new songs called "Bad Day" which has good lyrics so it will be good to do a video to it to match with the lyrics. Here is one of their videos called Radar Detector. Enjoy!

test shots

 

 This is a few test shots that we've done and edited as a group for the basic outline of what were planning to do in our music video.

By George

textal analysis

This is my textual analysis of a kasabian song called empire.

By George

step outline

 

This is the step outline of our project. it will be in more detail when we've competed the written storyboard.

By Taanel

Past analysis sheet

This is the Past analysis sheet of the work of the year groups before ours. we also judge on what we though was good and rated them out of 60 like if we were making it.

By Taanel, George and Chris

PITCH

This is a compressed video of our pitch that we preformed to the class. this is the feedback we received from the class...

 Group 1

• Narrative wasn't explained well enough.
• Pitch was fairly detailed.

Group 2

•  Might be a bit complicated but a cool idea.

Group 3

• Complicated narrative.
• Perhaps too hard to do.
• Overall cool plan.

Group 4

• Good idea within song.
• lots of locations - could be bit difficult to film.
• will work if though out carefully.

Group 5 

• Good concept
• well presented
• more explanation
• upbeat tune
• lack of contribution from chris

Group 6 

• Good idea with voodoo doll, but the keys idea could be complicated. 
• planning/though will be needed for such unrealistic shots.

Group 7 

• The drain idea might be difficult.
• Lighting in the street (if needed) would an extension cable.

By George, Chris and Taanel.

Puppets!

                                               

We came up with what we thought we be a brilliant idea for the video. Puppet control! Basically the song is about how this person is wishing bad things happened to this person everyday, so what we thought of is that the person who wants to make this person have a bad day creates a kkind of vodoo puppet in the form of the person they dont like and use it to control them and make bad things happen to them. We dont think it will be a proper string puppet but will  be a normal vodoo puppet but not sticking pins in them or anything. That would be too evil!

By Taanel

Our song! Darwin Deez: Bad Day

Here is the song that we are doing for our music video!
(Obviously not an official video)
Taanel
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Artist!

We finally picked the artist we are going to do. It is quite new indie popl band called Darwin Deez. We picked them becasue there music is very catchy and cool and the existing videos are entertaining and have interesting ideas behind them. They havent got many official videos so we thought it would be good to do them and do one of their new songs called "Bad Day" which has good lyrics so it will be good to do a video to it to match with the lyrics. Here is one of their videos called Radar Detector. Enjoy!

By Taanel

Textual Anlysis Research

I did my textual anlysis on the Band that we are doing for out music video, "Darwin Deez" and did song "Radar Detector" which was a really fun video to watch.

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Videos and Changing the idea

In this lesson we looked at videos and had to listen to the song and lyrics without looking at the video and write down what we thought it would be. Which happened to be the complete opposite in the video we watched by massive attack. Then we picked a song which didnt have a video, picture what you think the typical image would be and then change it around to make it interesting, and as you can see we went from a cool house party to a group of dead people. I would say that was interesting, (but a bit weird too) !

Taanel

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