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1st draft poster, just geting to grips with photo shop and indesign and various text websights.

Posters, do's and dont's

This is cool. I like the colours but it still is a bit too much, its gets everything into it that it needs but is obviously too busy for the music genre i am doing, and i am not to keen on the graphics i want mine to be an emotive picture, with dramatic clouds and an amazing view and my actor sitting in the bottom right hand corner (rule of thirds) with a guitar or his "token"

This is exactly the kind of poster i would be looking at making, the shot is amazing even though on this poster it is more than likely that he was not standing in front of that background but still is affective. i like the simplicity of the poster and the fact that you can read everything that is on it unlike the "dont's" that i have posted lower, where there is too much happening you cant see yourself think. It also would'nt fit the film i am doing, the busy posters are to load and in your face like a dance music poster and it just would not go with my genre.

This is the kind of poster i am talking about, i like it but it would not fit my music video and it is not really advertising the group. It's not displaying dates of album releases or concerts not even the groups name. I want a calm poster a model chilling on the beach with his guitar or a token. i was thinking about this token idea, maybe a bear or a flower or anything that continues throughout the music video.

 This is the calm poster i am talking about, this is obviously a bit odd and abstract but you could easily add all of the things i was talking about above, like the title, the group, album release dates, concert dates ect.

Draft 3 digi packs - Maverick sabre take two of the album cover ideas.

draft 2 digi pack - Another one of my digi packs.

Maverick Sabre is now the artist of the song i will be making a music video for, i do not intend for the final album to be like this as i feel this is to aggressive and rap star. All this digipack has done is give me some indication of what i wont be doing

Actors

All three of these have agreed to be in my music video, the two girls have offered to look pretty and sing and the two boys dont mind being the character swap for a bit, i still need a main actor. A few members of my family have agreed to be in it so now all i need is to do auditions to see who fits the roll best, with the best acting skills, lip sinking skills and who suits the song best.

IDEAS IDEAS IDEAS

• I have had some ideas that i really like and would like to put the down so i do not forget and i follow them through.

1. The shot i have mentioned of the changing character, following in the same footsteps of the last character and continuing the song from where the las actor left of, i think this would be really affective. I need to find out first if it is a female or male actor, the song is sung by a man, but it could easily be sung by a woman, i imagine her being in her 30 to 40's if it was a woman, if it was a man i would imagine him rocking the whole indie look, with the cord skinny jeans and the pork pie hat with the hoody that is too big for him. This is why i will need to do a lot of auditions, just for the main singer, i am also going to audition people just on their lip sinking skill and confidence so they do not shy away from making my film look as realistic as possible. I will need a lot of auditions for the change of character shot, i really want to pull this shot off and make it affective.
2. The other big idea is a large contrast to my original idea of just going through the motions of a romantic music video, I have had the idea of the singer being filmed while he is sleeping, he wakes up singing and goes through his daily routine just singing, brushing his teeth, washing, doing his hair, eating, driving, working and then obviously for the booming happy chorus shots of an amazing house party, every one loving life, mates around a camp fire ect.

The story board i had created for Ed Sheeran - Fireflies

Basically  i was thinking about other music videos that are of the same genre as this song. It is hard to film anything else than the generic walking on the beach, skipping, laughing, chatting, singing. This was going to be the male guitarist walking towards the camera and setting up his chair and guitar ect. ready to play, i was going to have the main singer starting off the walk and a he walks he changes through different people of different sex and ages.










This is my generic guitarist singing to the camera "again" on a chair, all the way through my blog i have spoken about keeping away from the "crowd"not following the same old same old and looking back i have done just that and it boars me just talking about it so a change in song where i can do a bit more to different locations, people, actions, story lines would fit as well as the origionals and also i love this song so i will enjoy making a video for it.

This would just be a shot to maybe a slow motion panning shot with a various use of depth of field, the shot would have all of my mates round the fire on the beach having a good time, drinking laughing, pushing each other playing ect. Just when he sings firefly, i like this idea and could well use it with my new music video in the happy chorus.

And here is another shot of the guitarist walking through the woods, doesn't make sense, why would he be in the woods but hey. I would have either filmed the guitarist or another actor walking towards or away from the camera. One idea i have kept from the old film is the singer walking towards the camera singing and then changing figure into another one of my actors who will continue to walk and continue to sing.

This was supposed to be a picture of a town or a park, it was my idea of a singer walking through the busy town centre not noticing anyone and singing to himself or too the ground, so pointless and boring, i will use this shot but in conjunction with the story line that i am thinking up of for my new music video, i want it to make some sort of sence.

(The beach shot) not much more to say, i think this would be better with the new music video because he sings of blue sky's and sunshine, i would like a shot of the male singer walking across the beach singing to the floor, looking around just singing, i really want to get to grips with depth of field as i think an affective shot of the glistening shot would help dramatically, or the sky, i am going to make the shots as colourful and vibrant and exciting as i can.






This was going to be another shot of someone walking towards the camera, it was going to work with the body change shot, i would just like a few female characters and actors of all ages.

Maveric Saber - I need

I heard this song on the radio this morning and strait away ideas started popping into my head, i really like this and i think i could make a much better music video with this song, it is in the same genre, still slow meaningful and could follow roughly the same ideas i had for the old music video but i can see ALOT more potential. What i love about this song is the massive contrast, the sad slow beginning and end but the booming chorus where you could have the happy group shots , slow motion of mates having a class time!

COSTUMES

Chinos, or something a bit more laid back like slacks just for the guitarist, maybe just a hoody aswell so it looks chilled out and relaxed just playing through a song to himself or the girl.

My music video ancillary task

Another mess around recording at a good location

Experimenting with blurr, zoom, settings, i.s.o, and stuff i found out the landscape setting really does bring the colours out alot. This is similar to the recently added ben howard video, makes everything seem brighter, happier and more dramatic like a normal shot of a pink sk would make it vibrant and glowin i will definately be using this in my music video.

Ben Howard - keep your head up

Once i saw this music video i had to put it up. This is the kind of video that actually has an affect on you some thing like laugh or cry or love. Even though the video has nothing to do with the song lyrics it sort of makes sense and helps you to enjoy the song more, rather than a story lined song or random clips. The only thing that the video relate to the song is the happy factor the bright colours and stauration ect.