Feedback

There is some sound understanding here and it is concise work.  I feel you need to be more exacting with your understanding of CD digipak conventions and more reflective on CD cover designs.  Perhaps you would like to revise this post.

Letter to the Cast

Hi guys,

Here's a link to the song please learn the lyrics if you're singing (Jake), and your parts on the instrument if you are playing:

https://bac.hurtwood.net/owa/redir.aspx?C=50a569a37d964a7a8ae68b92ed2caecd&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.youtube.com%2fwatch%3fv%3dpKLlNLwVqWE

If you have your own instruments or if anyone has a bass guitar, electric guitar and a trumpet please reply to this email.

Costume Band:
Your own clothes, quite indie and hippi outfits please (not too colourful)


Field people, please be dressed very over-the-top hippi, colourful clothes, headbands, flowers in hair etc. on the 14th of November, don't forget !!

A2 students, please don't forget to give the bluecards back to us by  this WEDNESDAY !!

(If anyone has issues with outfits etc. please ask)


Niall, Bodnar, Talisa

DIGIPAK THEME

As the main concern of our band is promoting their genre and their music rather then their personal image, we will not include a photograph of the band in the digipak. Because their quite a vibrant and entertaining band, an arty, partially comical cd cover will be well-suited in my opinion.
The main theme might consist of graphiti like quick sketches on cardboard and packaging.

The images will be hand drawn and will be similar to these:

DIGIPAK

A digipak is a modern approach to CD packaging and is used for the inclusion of more information about the band/artist. The conventions are what the audience expects to see and is directly linked to the genre of music.
 There are many decisions to be made when designing our digipak of which one is deciding wether we will use a 4, 6 or 8 side pak. We are leaning towards the 4 side digipak because we feel it will best reflect the simplistic image of the genre and band.
Here is an example of a 4 sided digipak template:


This is a good example of a 4 sided digipak by Jack Johnson. There are several specific things that work within this digipak which are worth considering. The vibrant colours attract the audience attention whilst the calm image on the cover gives a good example of the genre. The image reaches over the spine and on to the back panel. The title and the song list is written in the same font and is highly legible.
Looking at this digipak it is clear that the artist is not primarily promoting himself but rather his music as there isn't a clear photograph of him apart from the one inside the album which again is partially covered by a guitar.

DIGIPAK

Copyright Letter to Record Label

To XL Recordings,
We are a group of A Level students working on an A Level project for a qualification in Media Studies. We are writing to request permission to use the following track as part of this project:

Vampire Weekend, Run.

With your permission the track would be used as the accompaniment to a short form video that is made purely for assessment purposes and will have no commercial usage. The video will be viewed only by members of the school community and the assessor of the examination board.

The artist and the copyright holder will of course be fully recognized in the pre-production and evaluation material that accompanies the project. We can also include a full copyright notice if required both in the planning material and on the video itself.

Yours sincerely

Niall Green, Talisa Bergsen and William Bodnar-Horvath

Hurtwood House School 

Feedback

This is soundwork - there are evident clear accounts of your planning and research for your music video production day after half term
There are one or two ways to develop the blog.  First to begin using a wider range of blogging tools - there are lots of well presented images, but use of Flickr or powerpoint will increase the creativity that is shown on your blog. 

Second the reflective comments that you make need to be developed further with  key media concepts and theoretical ideas;  for example, link the planning to star image,  or how set design and lighting link to mise en scene and/ or what model's of lighting you are using in relation to your set - key, fill, directional, discuss the intensity and colour and what you are trying to represent about your artist.

Try to add more detaile to your blogs
Begin to make the move beynd description - link ideas to real media, ie Star image/ Dyer

Location for the narrative

These are some of the possible paths and locations for the field shots:

 We think that this will be a nice wide shot on the big crowd.

 We will use this location for the forest shots, although the weather will be different on the shoot day, we still think that these trees will be effective. These shots are especially important for the narrative of the girl in the indian head dress.

Set/Lighting Designs

Our studio set is of a barn. We drew a sketch of our idea of a barn:

The mise en scene is the band performing in a barn. They will only be practicing there so they will be in quite chilled positions, sitting on the floor, on haystacks for example.  

This is an example of a barn which gives us an outline of the wooden structure required:

Here are some of the props we will be using in the studio setting:

Feedback from Dan:

When we went to Dan with our idea, he told us that it would be hard to give the feel of an actual barn in the studio, however it wasn't impossible. For the wooden walls, we will be using some sort of plastic wallpaper which would not be too expensive and easy to use. We will be using natural lighting coming in in rays ( through gaps etc.). The level of light will depend on the weather on the day in order for it to fit in with the shots outdoor. We will personally provide the props such as haystacks, buckets, saddles, shovels etc.

Shooting Schedule

Our shoot date is the 14th of November. We are planning on shooting the studio part of the video in the morning from 8:50 am to 11:30 am, and the narrative storyline which is outdoors and on a field from 12:00 to 16:30 pm which is when it starts getting dark.
We might encounter some weather issues on the day of shoot, if it comes to this we will have to shoot the narrative part of the video on another date when the weather is better suited.
We will be needing more time on the shoot on the field as more shots will be required.
We also have to find time to drive to a nearby barn in order to have an establishing shot of the barn where the band will be performing.

Props List

PROPS LIST:

Instruments
Studio barn setting:
-Acoustic guitar (Will B.)
-acoustic bass guitar
-drum kit
-keyboard (Rollo S.)
Field:
-horns (trumpet)

Clothes
Band:
indie, clothes from their own wardrobe
Farmer in the end:
-denim dungarees
-lumberjack shirt
-muddy wellies
Cast: own wardrobes plus:
-pink skirt (Aimee Watts)
-hats
-bandanas
-flowers and feathers for hair
-waistcoats
-crop tops
-playsuits

Extras
Studio barn setting:
-hay
-chairs
-old school battery radio (Niall G.)
Field:
-bubble maker
-native American headpiece
-bicycle (old school, thin tires)
-dog
-Pull-cart

A Rough Cast List

Narrative (Field)
The list below is our cast list for our field scenes in the video, we need a fair amount of people for this part of the video to work as we need to create a crowd like atmosphere leading up the final scene outside the barn.


Ollie Baynham
Mina Hambro
Bella Speaight
Plum O’Keeffe
Jess Adam
Georgina Morton
Kyle Foreman
Sola
Charlie Lindsay
Will Barlow
Sarah Findlay
Lavinia Di Loernzo
Daniela Wild
Josie Fellows
Ellie Wilson
Simon Wood
Kate Boucher
Will Edgley
Lillie Resta
Sunshine
Jana Page
Aimee Watts
Lara Pitctet




Band (Studio)
Below is the list of band members we would like for our video.


Patch Wadsworth (Drums)
Jake Cecil (Lead singer, Guitar)
Rollo Spreckley (Keyboards)
Freddie Dixon (Bass Guitar)

Animatic Storyboard- Run by Vampire Weekend

To make this animatic storyboard, we first created a hand-sketched storyboard which we then filmed and edited using FinalCut Pro. During this process we noticed that we didn't have quite enough performance shots, which was a thing which we needed to work on. However because the production was now easier to visualise, we thought of good shots during our editing session.