Shooting Location - Carpark

For our opening shots, we will introduce the main character in a car, moving through a car park before then getting out the car and showing the skyline behind him. This will be somewhere in Chelmsford City Centre. We chose this location as it gives you some idea of where the artist is from and also his age, as it shows him being able to drive a car. This shows the artist has maturity, something he would want to portray to people who may potentially like his music.

Shooting Location - Riverside

For some underwater shots, we have decided to use our local leisure centre, situated in the city centre. Riverside Leisure Centre (top picture) has diving boards, which one character in the music video will jump before then passing the camera to another character underwater who will be dressed in appropriate water polo gear and then recieve and throw a ball. We have asked somebody who plays water polo to be in the video as it then makes it easier for the crew to film him.

Website Analysis

I think that our website is successful as it shows the clear genre of Indie this is because of the font and the black and white colour theme. The website itself is easy to use, for example fans would be able to easily explore each page without having troubles. Everything is clearly labelled too. There are various images of the artist as well as a link to the official Instagram feed, this keeps the fans updated as well as the regular feed updates.

The website also holds information and a short biography on how he was inspired to create music and how he made it. The bio is written by the artist himself, this helps give the fans a brief idea on his character.

Barcelona Locations

 

One my trip I filmed in places such as Park Guell, on the plane, walking around the town and at the airport.

Website

The website was made live today!

http://sarahmaerz5.wix.com/AlexEcho

Practice Preformance

Here we did a practice run for the preformance. I feel that this didnt work very well as the frame isnt adjusted right and it is quite boring to watch him standing in one position. However by doing this we got to play around with the lighting.

Location for preformance

Shots from the set of our performance location, in our schools drama studio. We had access to all the props and lights, to get the correct atmosphere.

Risk Assessments



Barcelona footage

This is the footage that i managed to film in Barcelona cut down to 29 seconds with the music over the top. We really liked how the sunny weather gives a happy atmosphere which works well with the upbeat music.  I filmed most locations that we went to. I captured various footage such as plane journeys and city life whilst on the trip. I came back with over 5 minutes of footage from the trip, this is a good thing because we have the advantage to cut it down to 29 seconds of different locatoins. Each shot is very quick transitioned and short, this is to keep up with the tempo of the song.
 I think this worked very well as the sunny atmosphere reflects on the upbeat tempo of the song.

Drama Studio Arrangement

Here is evidence of Dom asking the head of drama for availability to access the drama studio, where we will be filming the performance elements of our production.

Stealomatic

This is the stealomatic for our video. We took parts of other videos and music videos and placed it into one with the song playing over the top. These videos are all inspirations and similar to what we shall do for our video. 

Barcelona

I am going on an art trip to Barcelona for the weekend, we are going to take advantage of this by filming parts of my trip with the GoPro. I am going to film the airport, the plane taking off, and a many locations as possible. The GoPro will be taken out of the bag at the airport and used in a touristy way, i will film  my weekend as if i was sharing it with my friends and family onto Facebook or YouTube. The majority of our music video is filmed as a 'selfie' so i am going to hold the GoPro in front of me but making sure the background is still included. I am also going to try and include drawing from the art trip.  Im also going to include some of my friends so its not just based around one character as the Barcelona section lasts 30 seconds. 

This opportunity is giving us the chance to film in a variety of locations, not only in one country but in two, with different weather types. 

CD design two

After looking at other artists CD's we realised that the CD was too plain so we added some more text and shapes. We wanted to keep the same theme and not go too over the top.

CD

This is a draft for our CD to go in the DigiPack. It is quite plan, however it fits in well with the rest of the DigiPack as the same font has been used. 

DigiPack First Draft

This is the DigiPack, it has the front and back covers on the left and right. The images underneath will be on the inside of the CD case. The bottom left cover contains codes to download the CD digitally without having to put the CD in the computer. This would be very helpful for people who like to download music straight to their phone. This creates a wider target audience as the CD would appeal and be suitable for more people.

Lights and Lip Syncing Experiment

This is a short experiment with light and lip syncing the song chosen for the music video. We also wanted Dom to get into the character of Alex.

We feel that the dark walls and lighting doesn't show our genre of music, it looks more metal/rock than indie. For our performance shots in our final video we are going to experiment with using the same lights but on a white surface instead of black. We can do this  by pinning a sheet against the wall.

Gallery Page on our Website

Info Page on our Website

Here we gave a breif biography on the artist for the fans to get an insight on Alex Echo and how he became famous.

Album Cover

These are the front and back cover for the album cover of Alex Echo's debut album 'Mistaken For Strangers'. We stuck with the black and white effect as we feel that it looks more vintage and indie than it did when it was in colour. 

We chose to use this image as the background is quite grungy and old, this contrasts with the Alex Echo himself. We positioned the artist in the center of the frame, this brings most of the attention to him.

DigiPack Inside

This image would be on the right hand side on the inside of the CD. There is four photos of the artist with a quote from the single 'One Day'. 

This image would be on the left hand side of the inside of the CD cover. It contains codes which allow you to download the music straight from your computer instead of inserting the CD. This would be very useful in this time as the internet and phones seem to be grossing everyday. 

Mystery Jets Analysis

The album cover for the Mystery Jets tells us a lot about the group. For example the picture is framed in the shape of the country Texas. This immediately gives me the impression that the genre is country as a  lot of country music originates from that area. The image itself also expresses this as they're sat on a porch with a guitar and a rocking chair, their outfits such as cowboy boots, embroided shirts and a lot of denim also fit into the country theme.
Each of the band members fit exactly into the frame and all have an equal share of space, this gives me the impression that they are all equally important.

Storyboard

Song Breakdown

This shows all the natural cuts in the song such as chorus's and instrumentals. We will use this as a guide to help us to decide when we need to introduce a new character. Ideally we would like to have a different scene for each section. The problem with this is that one of the shots will then only last for 1 second. This will not be appropriate for us to introduce a new character. We have the idea of using Dom our main character in peformance style for each of the chorus's, we will try overlapping the action into this instrumental to irradicate trying to introduce a new character too quickly. 

Our Fan Website

 Here are a few screenshots of our fan website, which updates everyone on the latest news, videos and photoshoots. There is also a short biography giving the public a little insight on Alex's life and how he became successful.

What Could Go Wrong

Here we wrote down what could go wrong while filming in our chosen locations, so we are prepared to take in the problems and work around them if needed.

Alex Echo Photoshoot

For these photographs of Alex Echo we decided to keep the theme black and white as this reflects on the genre indie. 

These photos have been inspired by Alex Turner in the music video for 'R U Mine" the whole video is in black and white and the main artist Alex Turner is wearing a black leather jacket. Similar to what our artist Alex Echo. 

GoPro

Due to our music video containing some adventurous activities such as mountain biking, swimming etc. We thought that using a GoPro would be more suitable to film with. This way we are able to use the camera underwater and with the size we are able to tie it to the bike.

Here we played around with the GoPro to see what effect it gave, we found that it gave a round lense effect which would work well as it gives an open effect that could present that the world is open to adventures.

We also thought that the picture qaulity was good, however once exported onto youtube the picture is a less qaulity. We will try and resolve this by adapting settings on premiere.



Group analysis

Here are our group analysis'. Every member in our group filled in this sheet assessing everyone on their strengths and weaknesses. This was very helpful as we now know how the group feels about each persons contributions. We are also able to work on our weaknesses and work to the best standard we can to achieve a high grade.

Here is my self assessment, I wrote my strengths and weaknesses for the group to understand what i feel like im best at and what i need to work on.




Group Availability

 Mondays

Monday Lesson - Megan, Dom and I are free. Sam isn't.
Monday Evening - All free.

Tuesdays

 Tuesday Lessons - All free.
Tuesday Evening - Megan, Dom and Same are free, I am unavailable.

 Wednesdays

Wednesday Lesson - All free.
Wednesday Evening - All free.

Thursdays

Thursday Lesson - All free.
 Thursday Evening - Dom, Sam and I are free, megan is unavailable.

Fridays

Friday Lesson - Dom, Megan and i are free, Sam isn't.
Friday Evening - All free other than Dom.

Weekends

Weekends - All free.