FINAL A2 MUSIC VIDEO

Final Video

Below is our final music video.

Pictures from the second shoot of filming in the sweet shop

These are the pictures from the second filming at the sweet shop. From receiving our feedback from our  draft music video it said we need to make the setting brighter. So we used professional lighting equipment from school to make the shots brighter and better quality. The day went well as we filmed all the shots again much quicker than the first filming session we did. I believe this was because we knew exactly what type of shots worked due to the feedback we got given. 

Filming;

Today was our second day of filming in the sweet shop. We took Mr Smiths advice and used the big lights from school to help us give a brighter light, and bright the shop and our artist up better. We managed to film all of the shots and also used more friends this time. We got Izzy to interact and laugh with them. This will hopefully give the video more of a happy/cheesy feel. 

Change of Storyboard;

Looking over our feedback from the draft video, we've decided to do some more research on pop videos and see what ideas we can use to add into ours. I really like the bedroom shots from Tich - Dumb, so I've used the idea of the quick change in shots and added them into our storyboard. 

As we need more energy in our video, I think this will give it a lot more energy and colour as our artist will change clothing and also hair! It will show the typical teenage girl changing into different outfits and changing hair. (Not knowing what to wear) 

This is what I've drawn up, and will give us a good outline and idea and what we need to do! I've still used the idea of the memory box and lyric book, because both me and Sophie liked these shots from the draft video.

Use of Panorama in my final digipak

I decided to put a panorama on my digipak because after looking at other pop artists albums they feature in the inside covers of the CD/digipak. Examples of these are from the artists One Direction, Rihanna, Gabrielle Alpin

Examples are:

These background of all these landscape pictures are all scenic for example Fields, Beaches, Forests, Lakes and city landscapes of London. These pictures make the panels in the CD more interesting instead of the more traditional pop pictures which just contain close ups of their highly polished face. 

I believe the artist we have created is not the traditional pop artist which has a very 'perfect' face and hair. She is more of a relexed young pop artist which does not rely on her heavily done make up to sell her digipak's. Where instead she has created a more intrested covers for example her with a prop for example a guitar. Our artists music is a mixture between pop and folk which involves a lot of acoustic sounds of the guitar. So I believe by putting the panorama of the sea and beach on the inside covers of my digipak it gave the album a more colourful and youthful feel.

The Song we have chosen to do is 'Way in the World' by Nina Nesbitt. The setting for Nina's video is the harbour and the beach. So this is another reason why I choose to do a scencery shot of the beach. I beleive she choose this scence because it is a happy and fun environement that her friends can meet and socialise. This is also backed up by having her and some friends in the music video.  The location is also thought/memory evoking and could represent what the other songs on the album would be like. For example past relationships, friendships or experiences.

Poster Research;

After researching some posters, a lot of pop artists tend to use the same photo from the album cover, and sometimes the same design, and just add a bit of extra detail, about the album etc. I looked at Jessie J's and Rihannas, and they use the same colours which have been used on the albums, this is to help buyers Identity to albums, and they have both used eye catching colours, which will attract people.

Jessie J has used the exact picture and layout on her album poster, as she has on the cover and her album. She has also used the same font, and colour the writing in the black box. Rihanna has also used the same idea, but faded the black so it looks like its gradually turned into black from the picture. Although Rihannas is a tour poster, the colours and font are the same, this shows its a tour for her new album. Both posters are very simple, and bold, and i've tried to fit that in with my poster. 

I have used the same photo from my album for my tour poster. This will help people recognise my album, and also identify the artist better. I've used the same font and same colours as the album cover, i've just positioned the writing differently, and made her look brighter to stand out better. 

Digipak Research;

After looking at different pop artist's CD covers, I've noticed that they're very simple with bold colours to make it stand out. Some of Rihannas and Katy Perrys are taken with a scenery shot which links in with their videos, they mainly have close up shots of just their faces, making them look "perfect", bright and bold to sell to their target audience, and also attracting the male population. They have also used the same photos, or photos in the same outfit for album/cd posters. This is to help recognise CD covers and also the artist. 

The digipak on the left, I change the opacity on the main picture, and also on the writing, to give it more of a fine and softer look. However the digipak on the right, i've made the photo brighter and also the writing brighter, to make it stand out more, and I also think it looks more professional. 

As we were originally going to use "Way in The world" as the album name, we realised that it was too long, and no other pop artist uses a song from their album as the albums name. I typed in keywords for Nina Nesbitt into google, and the word "Keys" came up, which both me and Sophie liked, and felt it fitted well with our genre. 

Both these album covers inspired me, and helped give me ideas for my own album cover. I noticed that most pop artist, have only the face, or shoulders upwards on the cover, with the writing at the bottom of the page. Rihanna's album theme is red, and if you look at her album 'LOUD' she's used the pinky/red colour throughout, using the white writing to contrast well. This will make her stand out, and its also a bold and eye catching colour. As for Jessie J, she's used black at her theme colour, using gold to contrast with it. They cover has been thought about well, as her Nails, lips, hair, colour and eyes are all black, with the 'Jessie J' in gold at the bottom, making this album cover bold and eye catching. 

This is Jessie J's back cover to her album "Who You Are". I really liked how simple and plain it was, and how well the writing stood out. I've also taken the idea of using the colour from "Keys" and used it on the back cover of my album, like Jessie J has. This writing is clear, and well spaced out. 

For the inside of my digipak i've done a little booklet, which both and Sophie did together. I made the two inside panels plain, and used a good bright colour on the front of the booklet, so it would contrast well against the navy panels. For the inside of the book, I thought that we could use photos where our artist Izzy isn't looking the camera, and make the opacity low, so it looks almost transparent. We've done the lyrics to each song on the album, making it more suitable for our target audience. 

Video Feedback from First Draft

Sophie and Faye Video feedback.docx

Final Poster;

Little Booklet for digipak;

Both me and Sophie choose to do the same booklet for our digipaks as we we're doing the same artist and same songs, we both felt that it would be easier and look better if we worked on it together.

Final Digipak;

(Little booklet)

Final Digipak and Poster

Draft Music Video

(recorded on a Mac from my phone due to technical difficulties)

Thoughts on the second photo shoot of Izzy

By looking through the shots we have taken on the second photo shoot in comparison to the first I can see a huge difference and improvement in the quality of the photos.

In the first photo shoot we shot her in the bedroom as that was one of the locations in the music video. However after looking through the pictures afterwards we noticed that the shots were too dark and did not flatter Izzy. We also took quite a few shots of her whole body this is not necessary for the digipak images, as close ups look better on the CD panels. 

We then started to look at current images of Nina Nesbitt and what her images are like on her EP's: 

By looking at these pictures we tried to recreate this look on our own model Izzy. 

These are a couple of photos from our second photo shoot: 

I think the style of these pictures are very similar to the style of Nina's because of the similar facial expressions and style. The lighting in these pictures are much brighter than the first photo shoot we did as we had the use of professional equipment for example the white screen and two parachute lights. By using this equipment the lighting makes the quality of the photo better and the colours in the photo to be brighter. These types of photos you will expect to be on the front of CD cover and magazine adverts instead of the photos we took on our first photo shoot because they look more professional because of the plain background and the quality of the shots. 

Second Photo Shoot;

In a lot of photos of Nina, she is framed more to one side. 

This is the photo we used to help us frame our photos, and also helped us style our artist correctly, to get the best "Nina Nesbitt" look possible.

We found framing our artist on the ride hand side worked really well. We styled her with natural make up, adding the eyeliner flicks which Nina wears, and a red lipstick to make her lips stand out better. We backcombed her hair, to give her hair more volume. 

I wanted to try what a full length shot would look like, and the whole framing and positioning looks off. From trying out this we stuck to just elbows and upwards for the photos, and made sure she had full eye contact with the camera.

Second photoshoot of Izzy

second photoshoot of izzy, a set on Flickr.