Ryan Fincham Media Production : November 2014

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

Budget list

For our music video there where a fair amount of expense that was entailed within the production. However we feel that to get our audience to engage with our music video and feel that it is a good representation of the alternative genre.

Car rental – (Provided by one of the actors)

Costume

· Suits (Top man) £150 X3

· Beach wear (Hollister) £45 X3

Guitars – Epiphone (Provided by one of the actors) £440

Drums – Gretsch Drum Kit (Amazon) £415

Extra snare drum – Gretsch Snare Drum £129

Paddling pool – (EBay) £5

Bubble bath – Tesco £3

Foo Fighters Magazine advert Analysis

This magazine advert for Foo Fighter's "Greatest Hits" album is designed perfectly for this point in the artist's musical career. The bands are fully established and are a hugely successful, popular, phenomenal band so they have no interest in establishing themselves in the music industry. The advert isn't to create an image for the band, or to introduce the band to potential fans but literally only to make, more than likely already established, hardcode, fans aware that the band they adore are releasing a "Greatest Hits" album. The background of cold studded metal fits well with the band's rock image and the simple bold style showing the band name, logo, date of release and album title efficiently gets the message across. As the songs have been released before and the fans are already aware of them and have their favourites, the design cleverly first lists three songs included in the album that are very popular; Best of You, The Pretender and Times Like These followed by a new song Wheels. The design has captured the attention of the fans, then made them aware of a new song! In conclusion the advert successfully gets the message across in a grungy, efficient way that fits with the band's image and makes already established fans aware of a new album.

Story board

Overview of Storyboard:

This is the early stages of our story board as these are the main ideas that we wanted to play with in our music video. however when we where filming we soon discovered that some of these things would not be possible due to location restrictions and also due to health and safety restrictions. As when filming you have to look a the safety of your actors as if you loose one of them due to injury your film will not have continuity.

Changes that where made:

Shots that we did not include would have to start off with the one where we going to have the band popping there heads around a shop corner that was stereotypically British so this would be . However when we got onto location we found that these shops where closed so to keep the continuity of editing we chose not to use these shots and replaced them with a shot of us popping our heads out of a car.
Another shot that we had to change would be where we wanted the band doing flips off a cliff into the water however with fading light due to the time of year and of course health and safety this was another shot that was not safe to do
there where a couple of other shots that we did not film however we made sure that we got replacements to make sure that we where getting our point across of the band going on a british holiday.

Friday, 21 November 2014

Costume

Overview of costumes to be warn:
The idea is that there will be 2 different costumes being used, that of a smart/scruffy kind of look which will be suit and ties but wearing them as if you have just come back from a late night out partying. The reason for this is because it will suit our genre. And also it will suit the music video that we are doing as we are trying to make a video that revolves around a naff British holiday however we don’t want it all to be jokes as our audience will not appreciate it as it won’t be a good representation of the genre.

Outfit 1
The main costume will be that of a sort of holiday/swimwear clothes such as shorts or a vest and sandals etc. This will be worn in the main narrative part when filming in the beach location.

Outfit 2
The second costume that will be used will be a smart but scruffy attire this will be mainly in the performance parts of the music video so that we stay true to our genre and so that the audience take our music video seriously.