Pictures for the Album Cover

I have Now uploaded the images for the album cover, and below are the pictures I took. Unfortunately the pictures did not turn out as well as I had hoped it would, when I had started to edit it using 'Adobe Photshop elements'.




The images seemed fuzzy and didn't really fit with the background like i intended. I will be retaking these images and post them up on the blog.


Above is the draft of my album cover . My album cover won't be exactly the same as my draft, but it will be similar.

Working on the music video

Below are the pictures of me filming some parts of the parts for our story line of the music video.



In this picture me and charlotte are trying to help explain what needs to be done in the scene to our actors, so that they know what to do when we film them.


This pictture is of me filming charlotte, while she is acting the part of the girl who is in the middle trying to get the attention of her peers.


In this image, charlotte was helping me get the correct angle for the filming. It is important that we get the correct angle while filming as it will have a big impact when it comes to connecting each scene togother for the video. By making sure that each secene is captured well the first time saves a lot of time from having to redo scenes.

Album cover, Magazine advert and Music video

My group members and I have now completed our story boards and have now started filming the storyline part of our music video. We have gathered a group of people who will be in our music video and planned our filming times. The parts we have filmed for the music video, we will check over by uploading it onto a computer and check for any errors and reshoot the scenes. We will be filming the band shots on tuesday. We have organised the locations of our music videos and hopefully the video will turn out well.

while filming our storyline part of our music videos, charlotte luis and I have taken pictures for the parts each of us have filmed. We thought that this would be a good way to show evidence of our individual input into the work. I will be posting up these images as soon as they have been uploaded.

For my album cover, I have taken pictures and will be uploading it on the blog soon along with my draft drawings. the pictures i took did not turn out as well as oi had hoped it would when it came to editing it, therefore i think i will have to retake them.

For the magazine advert, my group members and i have decided to make the advert around the size of three quarter of a page as seen in other magazines. An A4 size advert would seem too big and for an advert, so we decided to follow the trend in other music magazine adverts and keep it similar to their sizes.

Preliminary Task- Music Video

We have created a music video and a movie swede for our preliminary task, but unfortunately my group and i were not able to upload the movie swede onto a disc.

For our preliminary task for a music video, me and April were put in a group to make a music video for the song 'Teenage dirtbag' by Wheatus. We originally had three members in our group, however due to the lack of attendance and cooperation of our third member we became a two member group as we did not want to waste any more time.
Our original song for the music video was 'As long as you love me' by the backstreet boys, but because it became difficult to find a group of boys to be in the video we had to change our song.

We had created our music video similar to the original, based in a school. our editing and storyline of the music video was good. We had good locations for our music video and we have followeed the story line well The bad thing with our music video was that in some scenes, because of the lighting we were not able to some of the peoples faces and some scenes were a bit long. The song was quite fast and in the future we need to consider making the clips meet the rhythm of the music.
I think that with the lack of time we have had, our music video turned out well.

I think that having made a music video as part of our preliminary task has helped me in becoming more aware of the problems that could arise, and has helped me get a better understanding of using the equipments. This will help me show an improvement for our main task in creating a music video.

Below is the music video that me and April had created. I have had a lot of problems uploading this video, but have managed to finally upload it.
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PSA- Underage Drinking video

We were set the task to make a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on underage drinking.

This is the PSA my group and i had made at the begening of the year on underage drinking for children aged 13-15. I thought that our idea for the video was good as we have used children of the same age group of our target audience. However due to the weather conditions and the lack of time our video did not turn out as well as we had hoped. Because of the rain the sound in our video did not turn out well. Our editing was quite simple. To improive our group needs to consider better time management. At the begening we had problems in choosing what type of story we should go for to meet our target audience. Therefore it took a long time for us to make our story board. We had little time to edit the video. In the future my group and i will need to consider these issues of time.
For our music video we are managing our time better.

Album cover, Magazine advertisement and looking at continuity

For the album cover Luis, Charlotte and I decided to have a person looking into the mirror but there would be no reflection. However we changed tis idea and thought it would be better to have someone else's reflection on the mirror instead of no reflection at all.
Below is the completed draft of the album cover.


I thought that our idea for the album cover was good, but we could have added more with the text within the album cover. We also neeed to use photoshop to edit it better as the image looks a bit stretched. In the image the the reflection in the mirror doesn't use the same hand to touch the mirror as the person on the outside like the reflections should. I will need to consider these things when making my final album cover. I will aslo need to consider the size of the album cover. Doing this draft cover has allowed me and my group to consider how we should make our album cover for our music video.

The Magazine Advertisement
Today in class we were looking at magazine advertisements, to help us to decide how we will make our adverts.
We went into a classroom in order to look at posters. This has helped us to identifiy continuity within all the posters. The house style was all similar, the font of posters, and the size and image of the posters were all similar. the only difference were the colours and the images within the poster. this has been useful to look at as i will need to consider continuity when making my Magazine advert and Album cover. I will also have to keep this in mind when deciding on these similarities with the rest of the members of my group, as we will have to keep to a similar theme. Below are a set of posters we have looked at showing continuity.




All of the posters have the similar house style, font and theme in its pictures. The only difference is the colour and the images itself. When looking at the posters you can automatically tell that there is a connection to all of the pictures and it was all made from one place. This is the effect that me and my group members will have to create whn making our album cover and mgazine adverts. We will have a common theme in our album covers and magazine adverts like the ones in the posters.

Our group has started to draw out our individual album cover designs and magazine adverts. We have looked at different music magazines in order to get an idea of how to make our adverts. We have also looked at measurements of the adverts and identified that within music magazines the adverts for an album and band are usually very small. They are usually smaller than half a page. Even though we have identified this we will be making our advert on an A4 sixe paper, as we thought that it would be more appropriate. We have also taken measurements of the size of the album cover so that when we make it we will have the correct size.
Charlotte Luis and I have decided to keep to a theme of arrows for our album cover and the similar fonts.
I will post up my ideas as soon as i have uploaded the drawings onto my computer.

Story Board

Today me and Luis carried on drawing out the story board in class. We had put in more band shots and tried adding ideas to the storyline for the music video.