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Some useful material here, Sabrina, though a couple of posts from last term still missing - the most important of these is the evaluation of your prelim music video task, so try to get that done by the deadline this Friday.

Don't forget to post your initial ideas and the research you have done this week as well.

James

Music Video Analysis

I chose this video as it had a lot of interesting aspects to analysis and also a great narrative through out.

POWERPOINT TO COME

Research into Performance and Shooting

 We really wanted to get close ups of the instruments

such as the guitar to emphasis the importance of their 

music and musicianship. It shows that the band members

 can really play their instruments. 

Here is another shot of a musician and his instruments, although not quite so close up, again to emphasis his musicianship and to pull focus from the singer. As too many shots of the singer only can get boring. 

This is a wide shot of the band showing them all together as one, making them look united and like a team. It also allows us to see the set more clearly and show it off. We felt this shot best showed their image as being a quirky, niche band as we can see their alternative clothing and quirky set design.

Initial ideas/treatment for music video

Today i got into a group with Courtney and Sarah. Courtney had already researched possible songs to use and we all agreed on a song called "Flyswatter" by Eels, a very unknown alternative band. The song sort of has a creepy, eerie sound to it so we have ideas of setting the video in a haunted house, and possibly in a abandoned carnival. We also like the idea using a "Alice and wonderland" quality, by having a little girl fall asleep and dream that she gets lost in this scary carnival. We feel that having a narrative to the video will make it more appealing to our targeted audiences. Although we are still unsure of who to cast at this point. We want to portray the bands image as being sort of Indie/alternative and artsy.

Advanced Portfolio

The Advanced Portfolio will involve producing a main artefact, two ancillary artefacts and an accompanying blog containing your research, planning and evaluation materials. We will be working as a small independent production company to produce a music video. This also includes producing a promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, and either a cover fir its release on DVD or a magazine advertisement for the DVD.

Album Cover

For the Album Cover of Jane Doe and the Undesirables we wanted to convey their retro 1950's image. So we chose this photo of them dressed in 1950's costume and then played with photoshop to make the image more interesting. Because the girl in the middle is the lead singer we wanted to make her stand out, so we left her in color whilst her backing singers are in black and white. The black and white also helped to create a retro look. Although we left the backing singer lips red for a cute girlie look.

Preliminary Task Jane Doe and the Undersirables