Planned Costumes

Below are our initially costumes which were planned based on our knowledge of the song and bands in the same genre so that our band will fit in.

Lead Singer:
- Dressed all in black.
- Black leather jacket, in the style of Brandon Flowers.
- Black jeans.

Drummer:
- Fake Sleeve tattoos.
- white patterned vest.
- Black jeans.
Considering going for the style of Travis Barker from Blink 182. As this is quite a risky look we have a back up.
- White T-Shirt.
- Flannel Shirt.
- Black Jeans.

Bassist:
- Blue jeans.
- Dark coloured blazer.
- White T-Shirt.
In the style of Mark Stoermer.

Electric Guitarist:
- Blue jeans
- Brown Leather jacket
- Dark logo T-Shirt.
General style of guitarists.


Example:

What is a Digi-Pack - With Sandhya Gulsin

What is a Digi-Pack?
A Digi-Pack is the package the song comes with if you buy it physically. Normally this includes a graphic front and back including copyright owners, name of the single, name of the band and sometimes other information, plus the CD and sometimes an advertisement or inner slip of paper. It is typically made out of plastic or cardboard with either CD slots or sleeves.

What are the advantages of a Digi-Pack?
There are advantages for the seller and the customer with purchasing a digi-pack. The front of a digipak almost acts as a controlled exposure to what the artist does and doesnt want to reveal about themselves. It is likely to embody a theme and a message about the artist and/or the content of the album. This also strongly supports brand image. The artist and the digipak work alongside eachother almost promoting each other in which obviously soley bennefits the artist. It could be argued that from an audience perspective purchasing an artists digipak establishes a loyalty to the Artist.

Lighting Plans

The place we shall use to hire our lighting: http://www.iasoundandlight.co.uk/hire.htm
They are close, reasonable and also do a massive variety of different lights.

We are planning many different ways of using the lighting. Here is a diagram we mapped up before hand:

Initially we will be using silhouettes meaning the lighting would be behind the band. This may prove harder than initially thought.

We are also planning to do flashing lights from different angles.

We will also use a smoke machine.

We have asked to hire :

3x halogen flood lights - Ordered 1 more than we plan to use just in case we have an issue with one.

1x fog machine

1x strobe light

Outtakes

Rough Cut

This is our first rough cut of our music video. Due to us booking the barn so early in advance that we didn't realise the Wednesday after was our deadline for our rough cut so after the shoot we edited it in around two days and are already at a very promising stage to complete the final product.

Audience Expectations

In order to find out what the audience expected of our music video I created a podcast in which I asked my fellow students the question.

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Editing/ Filming Schedule - With Sandhya Gulsin

As filming is coming closer we felt it was time to get a schedule together and begin our final planning phase. Below is our first plan.

After analyzing we decided that we needed to have another look over and redo it.

I also created a checklist to make sure that we took everything we needed and more on the day and so that we also came back with it.