CHALK STUFF

Hello to all my Russian readers out there, this blog is for you!

So we're thinking of colouring in Meg with this chalk stuff to fit in with the lyrics of the song, obviously being 'Five Colours in her Hair'. We believe that the vibrant nature of the colours aswell as the difference it would provide in comparison to some other music videos would provide interest to the audience, whilst also tying in to the whole pop/rock genre and it's generally upbeat music.

We also carried on with the production of the CD insert, we are currently using found images in it, however, we understand that in the production of our actual piece we won't be able to do this and will have to create our own artwork.

Here is a video of McFly to give everyone a bit of happiness in their day.





These are links to the other members of the group's blogs:

http://http://www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mrcg324.blogspot.co.uk/



CD Insert

Today we're making a CD insert for the single we will be making over the next couple of weeks. We're taking inspiration from other McFly CD covers such as:


Despite using found artwork as filler for our current CD cover we eventually intend to replace the signatures of McFly with the actor used in our video, namely Megan, and hopefully to get the artwork featured on the front to be drawn by one of our more artistic friends. Here is an example of what we have so far:

We realised that by using an image such as the one above, we would be keeping in line with McFly's style, with their covers often featuring a form of abstract image, that may or may not link into the narrative of the songs. In the case of ours, the image does coincide with the narratiove, giving the audience a clear picture of what the song is about and whether or not they will want to buy it. It also fits with the colourful nature of the magazine adverts that we previously made.

These are links to the other members of the group's blogs:

http://http://www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mrcg324.blogspot.co.uk/

Filming Problems

It would appear that we are always the group that comes upon problems when we are supposed to be filming. For example, today we were going to start the filming for the preliminary piece but unfortunately, Megan has got tonsillitis and Ben is MIA! We also appear to have 'misplaced' the storyboards, fingers crossed that Megan has them. Despite this we're still able to plan some ideas for when they return and hopefully we'll be back to normal as soon as possible.

A bit of Kasabian always makes a problem fade away!

These are links to the other members of the group's blogs:

http://http://www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mrcg324.blogspot.co.uk/

Adverts!

We spent today's lesson creating a magazine advert for the single we are producing for our preliminary piece.

We did this following the conventions of other magazine adverts for similar products. These include QR Codes, a form of bringing social interaction to a static form of media, and also the record label who help to produce the music for the artist, a subliminal form of them advertising themselves aswell as the band. I went for a colourful theme, to reflect the lyrics and sound of the song, being upbeat and having a happy sound to it. If I had had more time I would have included other conventions of the advert such as including some details about the band's previous work, e.g. 'Grammy Award Winning Artists...' or perhaps an image of the band themselves to further promote them and their image.

These are links to the other members of the group's blogs:

http://http://www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mrcg324.blogspot.co.uk/

A2 Blogging!

We're back at school after the exams and already preparing for our A2 Media course. We've got together the old 'team' from last year as we feel like we worked well together as a group when we were making our thriller trailer, as despite the pitfalls we occassionally came across we persevered and created the video that we wanted to make. We feel we'll be able to make a good start to this course if we work together again, despite the fact that we may not end up doing our final pieces together.

So now to the work itself, we've got to create a preliminary piece again, this time including:

• A short music video - approximately 1/1.5 minutes
• A CD digi pack - back cover including spines and insert booklet of even numbers
• An A4 page magazine advert for the CD

We've chosen to create a music video for the popular song by McFly, 'Five Colours in Her Hair'. We ended up choosing this video due to everyone in the group having prior knowledge of the song, despite our varying music tastes, ranging from One Direction to The White Stripes and Brand New.



Another contributing factor to this is the fact that McFly released this song early in their career and were therefore less well known/adept at the music vdieo creating process, leaving the video to be adequate but nothing outstanding. In comparison, one of their latest songs, 'Love is Easy' provides a much more polished music video, even though it takes on a similar style to the older video.



These are links to the other members of the group's blogs:

http://http://www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.mrcg324.blogspot.co.uk/

Feel free to take a look even though they obviously won't be as good as this amazing blog you have already read!