Filming day

These are the photos from our fourth day of filming these photos show our creative talents put to the best of use. with jack playing guitar which makes him look like a real musician and myself miming the words makes us look like professionals. Scott on the camera knows exactly what he is doing and this helps us a great deal as even with limited settings available he is still able to produce a great days worth of filming. This shows how we have come together as a team to produce a great days worth of filming and that we have come along way in terms of our progress from what we originally planned to do.

The Fray- Amateur music video

The following music video is of a Media GCSE standard, this music video uses the same music that we are going to do a music video for.

The music video setting is very amateurish as its set in a bed room of the girl in the music video with no effects used to make the music video dark or twisted as the subject used in the music video is a very sensitive issue that is of bullying. The use of the phone to show how the girl is being bullied is very good but the camera work is very shaky which shows that the person using the camera was inexperienced.
The acting shown is also very amateurish as she pauses in the middle of the bathroom for a awkward amount of time and then falls down randomly, the people who created this music video never questioned the activity and never tried to do everything with a purpose or a reason. The camera can also be seen one point with no attempt to try and change the scene or to cover it up, this shows an extreme amount of laziness.

The setting used for the second girl is typical average home, the lighting isn't very good as no effects have been used besides the normal camera settings. There is no performance in the music video which shows that they haven't thought more about the music video and looked at the actual music video for the fray. The edits and quick shots used are very good as it shows the settings used and it shows the girls story and where her path has taken her, it also shows the way bullying can affect some people so in that way the music video works well, but still overall you can see it was created by an amateur rather than someone with experience in camera work.

The editing is done well ad it quickly cuts fros one scene to another without any interruptions which is what we want to incorporate into our music video especially around the chorus but we are also looking at other types of cuts including transitions such as fading in and fading out.

Website Progress

our website is coming along great, alot of the editing of the website such as information about the band and link to other sites has been completed below are a few screenshots which show our progress on the website. All of the website has not been completed due to other stuff like more photos needed to be taken if we complete other aspects like this the website will be completed quicker and therefore we can constantly improve it.

This shows the front page first half of the website with the bands name clearly visible and an indie type background shown with the grey colours used to make the black and red colours stand out, no picture of the band is shown yet as we need to create one.

This image shows the second half of the front page which shows upcoming events from the band, music from other artists and eventually a slide show of images once they have been created.






This image shows the way we use social media in our website, Twitter buttons, Facebook buttons and also links to our other band "friends" this looks good as it shows we are professional and a well known band

Record label

 Record label
The fray is associated with 'Epic Records', Epic is owned by Sony Music Entertainment. At first epic was with jazz records but it has since expanded into various genres. Such as 'The Fray'.

I had also looked at many other music labels that have some relevance to our band and 'The Fray'.
Each record label below has their own unique artists that associate with them. For example Universal music group works with 'Eminem' and 'Lady Gaga'. Warner music group also works with 'Eagles', 'Green day' and 'Gorillaz'. And lastly Sony music works with 'AC/DC' 'Daft Punk' and 'Pink Floyd'. In our opinion we have decided that Sony music is the most popular among the artists and holds the greatest bands out at the time, The fray also associate with Sony music. The main reason why we have chosen Sony Music is because our song by 'The fray' works with Sony.

Reasons!
Another reason why we had chosen sony music is because of their artists, their artists are widely known across the world and have similarities to our band. An example of this is found in the genre, style of the song and the lyrics. Pink Floyd have emotional songs that are well known by their lyrics and use of lyrics. This is once gain relevant to our song choice - 'How to save a life'.

The reason why we didn't choose either Universal or Warner is because their artists, the artists are from different genres, different style of music and lyrics. Overall Sony music is our obvious choice because of their artists and our band choice is also working with sony.

Below are examples of the music that is used throughout the three record labels.

To be Completed...

The following will be completed by each member of the group by the end of the week:

Scott: Photos from the Photo-shoot (Behind Scenes).
Album Cover.
Logo.
Doing this is vital to our overall coursework as every band needs their own logo for their fans to be able to recognise the bands creativity and creations. The album cover is pinnacle as a terrible album cover could mean it looking very amateur-ish with a good quality design of the album cover  it shows how we use our skills and put them to the best use.


Jack: Looking at different record labels and finding out which one is most suitable for our band to be associated with.
Doing this will again show what type of music band we are, whether we want to be a big high profile band making lots of records or being humble towards our background by signing with a local or independent record company.

Joel: Comparing a music video of A2 level standard.
Screenshots of home made time lapse.
Doing this will show how we have done our research on other media students and that we know the standard of work that is needed to get the best grade possible the more research we do the more knowledge we have of what standard of work we need to create. The use of the screenshots will mean that we can show what we have done in our own time and what we are able to create with basic tools available to us. By showing the screenshots evidence of our time and effort into this music video project will be more visible to those who are watching.

What We've Discusssed

We have discussed that out music video is going to be set more on the narritive and what happens within the music video, also relating and making it undertanding to the music video. Our song isn't very upbeat so fast cuts and how fast the edits are really effect how the audience or viewers relat themselves to our video. 

The song Give Me Love be Ed Sheeran is relevant to our music video because it has a set narritives, and has a firm structure to the piece. We had the idea that the male and female actores have some sort of argument and the girl ends up alone but the male keeps thinging of her through memories and point of veiw shots. However the video ends in a tragic way thus using both audiences perspectives on the song, using the elements love and death in the song.

Cd

For another physical piece of our media production we are going to be creating a Cd, along with its casing. Our CD will include images of the band together, the pictures that are going to be around the CD have not been decided yet by our group, our main aim is to create a realistic looking CD album design that shows off what type of band we are and that would actually be considered to be displayed at a major media shop such as HMV. We would all have to have another photoshoot in order to find a photo that is able to be used and shows the audience who we are. We were thinking about incorporating a cat into the album design as this would symbolise the albums possible name of "Sad, sex and the cat".

The main things that needs to be shown in the album is, a picture of the band, song names, and something that shows who we are as a band. We need to show we are a humble band that does not hog the limelight or think they are better than anyone else, our band represents a simple meaning about our band and that we are trying to give off a message to our audience through our song meanings.