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A proficient presentation of the CD digipak design and the importance of album covers. I feel that you could have developed research more into the conventions of Album digipak's and addressed layout and design more closely. Good initial research into CD covers for your group artist and good consideration to target audience. You do not to be completing what is required ina post - please revise the design's of your Cd digipak.

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This is sound work - there are evident clear accounts of your planning and research for your music video production day after half term.  I

The evaluation of the animatic requires more detail - see the notes you were provided with.  If anything when you evaluate, try to add more to your comments - otherwise this looks too concise in it's approach.

There are one or two ways to develop the blog.  First to begin using a wider range of blogging tools, if you can - there are lots of well presented images, but use of Flickr or powerpoint will increase the creativity that is shown on your blog.  

Second the valid, detailed and reflective comments that you make need to be developed further with  key media concepts and theoretical ideas;  for example, link the planning to star image,  or how set design and lighting link to mise en scene and/ or what model's of lighting you are using in relation to your set - key, fill, directional, discuss the intensity and colour and what you are trying to represent about your artist.  You do this in part, but again not in enough reflective detail .

This will help make a more thorough evaluation of your work. 

Well done.

Shoot Plan

08:30 AM: Gather cast and crew and talk through day

08:45 AM: Get into Costume/Makeup (Heather)

09:00 AM: Set up camera/tripod e.t.c 

09:15 AM: Start shooting close ups of Lead Singer

09:30 AM: Start shooting wide shots of Lead Singer

09:45 AM: Shoot the Zoetrobe (Close Ups/Mid Close Ups/Wide Shots)

11:00 AM: Wide Shots of Dancers on black rostra.

11:15 AM: Mid Shots of Dancers on black rostra.

11:30 AM: Dolly shots of Dancers on black rostra.

11:55 AM: Sillhouettes of Lead singer (poses against white backdrop)

12:15 AM: Breaking jewellary (Lead singer) to be reversed in post

12:30 AM: Coins falling to be reversed in post

12:45 AM: Lunch Break

01:20 PM: Finish Lunch and meet back in studio to get back into costume e.t.c

01:25 PM: Shoot Gramaphone with record on.

01:35 PM: Shoot DJ Decks and scratching.

01:50 PM: Shoot sillouettes (Mulitply slowly in post) against white.

02:15 PM: Ben & Tunde cleaning shoes (Close Up/Mide Shot)

02:30 PM: Roullette wheel spinning (be reversed in Post)

02:45 PM: Chair Crashing to the floor

02:55 PM: Shot of China Plates Falling and Smashing (Plates/mugs/glasses e.t.c)

Set & Lighting

We had to think up some set and lighting designs for our music video and came up with the following to fit our idea and the concept we had:

We thought that our ZOETROBE would look a little bit like this. we wanted to make it work

Zoetrobe

Our main problem with the idea was our main message about how black music has influenced our music today was becoming difficult because we were struggling on finding people appropriate to play the parts as the cast would have to be able to play the instruments and be of the right race.

 So we decided to think about the idea of using images of Black music legends and introduce them into our video using a cool way to present them. A ZOETROBE. This would enable us to try and create moving images of stars that have influenced music into our video aswell as using our own castings to show other aspects for example DJ’s and Dancing. Artists like Louis Armstrong, stevie Wonder and George Walker.

Here is a clip of a traditional Zoetrobe.

This example shows how the ZOETROBE works when we see the flickering and not when we see the images spin without the break between the two different images, enabling us to differentiate subconsciously and see a moving bird.

This is another idea of how to present a ZOETROBE within a music video. The images repeat around a song and a video.

Sony created the largest one in the world that i belived to be the most impressive of all of the ones i looked up and researched. it was smooth and looked alot like an acxtual film, althouogh we want to have our Zoetrobe looking old and authentic i used this as a good referance towards our idea.

Costumes

1920's elaborate/expensive/illusive dress (central character)inc. hat. - this shows her to be slightly spoilt and of a high status which helps to portrey our intended characterization.

2 lower class working outfits - these will be used to highlight the difference between the lower class men and the upper class man

Upper class gentlemen’s suit - will show he is superior to most others in society

Prop List

Double bass - for the band as it features heavily in the song

Trumpet - for the band as it features heavily in the song

Trombone - for the band as it features heavily in the song

A platform - For the dancers and the band to be used in silhouette to add height and distinction to these

DJ Decks - to show the contrast between old fashioned gramaphones and modern DJ decks and to show how music has changed over the century.

A gramophone – 20’s styled - to show what old music was played on, it also adds a cool shot and contrasts with the modern decks used later on in the video.

Old fashioned microphone – 20’s styles - it matches the style of the song and the era we are trying to portrey


A Zoetrobe (possible) - this adds cool effects and allows us to be more free with the images we use of African American artists from the past instead of having to recreate these images with a cast who won't fit with the intended images.

Cast List

Georgina Morton - 1920's woman

 

Tunde Ogundare - Working Class man / dancer

Ben Ikanade-Agba - Working Class man / dancer

Connor Vickery - Upper class man / dancer

Glen Pegado - Working Class man / dancer

Our original idea included:

Lizzy ward thomas - Band

Bella Neal - Band

Bethany Quinn - Band

Storyboard Animatic

When we had come up with ou initial idea, we then began to storyboard and come up with an interesting narrative and performance aspect of the music video.
We came up with ideas ranging from sillhouettes to quickly cut and rewinding footage, which we felt would all contribute to the music video and pushing it in the direction we were all hoping to go in.
Half way through storyboarding we started to feel that our idea was to far fetched.