Call Sheet.

Call Sheet
Date: Monday 14^th January 2013

Time: 10.15am - 12.50pm

Assignment:  Album photo-shoot (front cover, insert 1&2)

Location: College studio and field (outdoor)

Client: Tyler Dew

Photographer
Yasmeen Melius :  yasmeenmelius@gmail.com
Stephanie Wong:  steph.wong@hotmail.co.uk
Sayed  Ahmed: sayed-321@hotmail.co.uk
Make-up Artist: N/A
Hair Stylist: N/A
Wardrobe Stylist: Casual wear was asked to be worn, which connects with our music video.

Concept:
We need to use the main artist (Tyler Dew) for the photo shoot. We are going to do a combination of photos taken in a studio and on location. Because the song is about break up, and is on a sad subject, we want the actor to have an intense/sad facial expression. We plan to create a shallow depth of field image, having Tyler in focus and the background blurred.

Timeline:

10:10: Meet the group members, and prepare the photo shoot including the studio. (Backdrop)

10:15: Meet Tyler

10:20: Outside location, took images using the walls, trees which corresponds to our music video.

11:10: Move to take images in the studio.

12:50: Finished for lunch.

CD covers.

This are the CD cover, back, front, and inside of The Script- Science and Faith & Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto. The albums genre are folk, pop, and rock. They are really different from other album covers, they don't the bands photo of themselves on it. This shows that they're well known, so they don't need their photos on there. Coldplay's CD cover is very colourful and bright. It is said that "this album is a  concept album, and a thematic rock opera. I really like the album, it's very colourful and grabs the attention of the audience.

 

Compared to Coldplay's CD, The Script's CD is completely different.
Full analysis of The Script's CD is on presentation.

Research and planning.

While looking through music magazines, I've found these three advertisements for albums. We've been observing the house style, framing, mise en scene of this adverts in order to help with ideas for our creation. We've discussed that we want an emotional low key, photograph for the advert to link to the concept of the music video.

Music video complete!

Feedback from B-TEC class.

A media B-TEC class watched our video today, and gave feedback. There were positive responses, and some suggestions to how we could have added. They said we needed more acting, and lip syncing in the video. As a pop song, pop music videos have majority of lip-sycing. The concept was understandable. (heart break, breakups, teenage love) They were very keen on our slit screen effect, which is great. Overall, we did very well, and they enjoyed our video.
:)

 

Finished editing.

After 3 weeks of editing our music video, I'm proud to say that we're finally finished editing our music video. I found that the process of editing was time consuming. It took us a while to get things perfect; we changed our ideas quite a lot. But, I'm proud that it worked out well. We dealt well with obstacles, such as re-shooting before the deadline and using our spare time to complete the video. We've changed a lot of our ideas that we had planned from the start, and debated about the best choice. It has been time consuming but a good experience, for I have learnt more about editing techniques with Final Cut Pro. It's been an interesting experience. 

Almost there!

We're half way through editing our music video. We've found many problems with the music video, such as the cutting and planning. We didn't follow the story board exactly, we changed things for example; the slit screen, the shot reverse shot in the cafe scene was not included. The flashbacks worked so well, and I'm glad of how it's turning out. I've used final cut pro in the past, but now I've developed more skills in the process of editing. We've been using our creative side and experimenting with ideas.