Storyboards...

These are out first draft storyboards for the narrative for out music video...
These will more than likely change when we start recording. We learnt this last year when we were recording our title sequences. We created storyboards, but when it came to recording, we hardly followed them at all. However, it is good to have a plan to work along with so we get an idea of what we had originally in mind. These are out storyboards...

Digipak first draft...

In Sinead's lessons, we have been working on our digipak's and presenting them step by step to the class as we went a long. For the style of our artist, I knew that I wanted limited colouring in the cover of my digipak. 

As you can see from my first draft, there is a limit of colour. The scenery and locations used in my digipak so far, link to our Artist name 'Waves'. the use of the picture of the waves, and our lead singer in the band at the beach ties in nicely with our artist name and profile. 

I really like the matching disk and spine design as it matches the colour scheme of the Sepia effect that re-occurs throughout our digipak. I still need to add an image on the top right panel and a colour/pattern on the disk holder. Also, from my feedback, myself and my class mates are still unsure on the bottom left panel.

Mood board...

When planning our mood board, we wanted to go with a different approach to it. When researching, and creating our artist and it's profile, we knew that fashion would play a big part in our band it's style of music/interests. We looked into Two Door Cinema Club's style and we realised they wore a lot of smart attire, such as blazers/brogues/pastel chinos. Their style inspired us, therefore, in our photo-shoots and video, our band all be wearing similar styled clothes.

When creating our mood board, we noticed a lack of colour and life to it. It didn't really sell our artist, especially form an audience's perspective. Therefore, as fashion and image plays a huge role within our artist, we decided to dress our mood board to create a life-like band member. 

  

Student/Teacher feedback - 3/11/14

In Monday's lesson, Shaun and I went through my blog and picked out the positive and negative elements of my blog. We noticed that there were a few posts missing to do with the theory side, as well as a lack of band profiling and band style related posts.

Test shots in London...

On Wednesday 29th October, I travelled up to London with my friend to take some practice shots fro potential digipak images. Unfortunately, on the day, my partner Sam was unavailable to attend the trip and the third member of our band, James, was away. After researching similar artists album covers, a majority if them don't actually feature the band on the album cover. They were either band logos or landscape images of towns/cities. We took note of this, therefore I decided to travel to London and take some landscape images of buildings and sites. I managed to get some pretty cool images that I actually really like. I got my friend Amelia to feature in a couple of the shots. These are some of the better shots i got from the day. During the day, we both travelled to places like the Southbank, Charing Cross station, Camden, Covent Garden and briefly to Shoreditch. 

Unfortunately, due to timing and lighting, we were unable 

to take any pictures in Shoreditch.

The picture on the right is my favourite from the whole shoot. I love the shadows and colour of the while picture and think the location is perfect for the type of artist we want to create. Its smart, attractive and typical London. This shot was taken down Shelton Street in Covent Garden. My brother works in Covent Garden and told my to go there for these type of shots. Overall, for a test shot day, I was incredibly please with the outcome of some of these shots, and will definitely be attending these locations again with my partner Sam and third band member for our final digipak shots.

Second blogger feedback with Sinead...

This is my second blogger feedback recording I had with Sinead McGrath. Not long after my first feedback session with Shaun, it was still clear that I was slacking with the progress on my theory work. I was near enough up-to-date with the practical work, but behind with the theory side and just the amount of posts in general. I was still yet to do any work or research on theorists. My digipak and posters however were in progress and Sinead was happy with them. This is the recording for my second feedback session..

Test shots...

In today's lesson, we took some basic practice shots of potential digipak images for our artist. The third band member we had planned on having was in a lesson during the shoot, so we used our friend Aaron (right of image). These were just some quick shots that we hadn't actually planned as clouting, time and location wasn't correct. During the half-term, we will be heading into London for a shoot and attuning paces such as Shoreditch, Camden and the Southbank.

On the day, we will be taking a variety of outfits to change into. We decided this as during our research, we noticed that there fashion and style had matured a lot as they progressed as a band. When their first record was released, they dressed the typical indie way, in denim jackets, ripped skinny jeans and knackered vans. They had shabby hair and piercings and looked like the typical British indie band.

As their second record was released, they had refurbished into a much more mature band. They dressed in smart attire, wearing pastel coloured blazers, chinos and smart shoes like brogues. They transferred their messy haircuts to smarter partings and exchanged the piercings for smart vintage looking sunglasses.