Jake Bugg Taste It.

With refilming just around the corner i am posting this to show an extreme examplof a performance video. Jake Bugg is obviously a real artist, and this video will have been made with the best equipment and the best team and editers. so I cannot recreate this video exactly but I can try and create a similar style of video by using the quick cuts and different shots used in this video.

Today and past few days work.

Over the past few days I have been using tube chop to, cut out bits of my video I wasnt happy with to emphasise what I want to change, and what I want to refilm.

Disjuncture on my digipak

After looking at the kings of leon album yesterday and deciding to do a similar style credit role on my digipak, it meant scrapping the images I was going to use. Doing this would mean I would be left with one blank panel. Having one plank panel may be okay had it been the panel behind where the CD would be stored, but it wasn't  it was the panel next to it. So I have decided to add an element of disjuncture. Following the same format as the credit role opposite  I have listed things that people might do on a night out all starting with 'last nite' the name of the album.

Kings of Leon

Today I was looking through some different CDs and came across the kings of Leon's youth and young manhood album. What I really liked about this digipak was what was on one of the inside covers, it was a list of credits of who had help make and contribute towards the album in a very formal two column layout, I have decided to do this instead of having a picture there.

The Strokes Last Nite original video.

 Whilst I have been going a bit over the top on watching other A2 Level performance videos, I thought I would post this one, This is the performance video of the actual song that I am doing by the band who performed it originally, The Strokes. I find this video a bit boring, I understand the idea of star image and would be contradicting myself massively if i said it was a bad idea, if not criticizing the whole music video industry, but i just feel the camera is to static and fixed on Julian Casablancas (the lead singer). In my video, I will focus on the front man more, but will use much more movement and show a lot of the instruments as well.

Other A2 videos.

This is another performance video made last year, I was looking at this whilst waiting for my feedback on my digipak and poster. It is different to the previous performance video I looked at. This one, obviously, is outside which does add a slightly edgy advantage to it, but essentially is what I will be truing to make indoors.

Other A2 videos

Today I have taken a break from my digipak and poster and have been looking at other videos, I came across this video (below) which was made by A2 students last year. The interesting thing about this video is however, they are in the same room at the same studio i plan to use, so it has given me a real insight into how I would like my video to look. I do not know what grade they got but as a performance video I like it and it uses all the conventions of a performance video a long with capturing all the necessary shots to make it. Effectively all I need to do when I film is do the same, if not better, as what these lads did.

Album name

I have decided on the name of my album, after looking at a few other artists and seeing that they have called there album the same name as one of the songs in i am going to do the same. Kasabian recently released 'Velociraptor' the song which was in the album 'Velociraptor' and Arctic Monkeys released the album Suck it and see with the song 'suck it and see' making it into the album. As the song I am doing is called 'Last Nite' my album will be called 'Last Nite'

Cover Font

The chosen font of writing on the cover of an album is important. I want mine to be a simple font that is also quite sophisticated and will be effective if it stands alone on a simplistic cover which i am trying to create.

Conventions of poster

Looking at band posters I have picked up a few things, the key conventions I will follow are where I must show the ratings from music magazines, In my genre of music I will use NME or a similar magazine. Most posters also have a picture of the band, but I plan to challenge this convention by not putting on an image and keeping the simple colour scheme from my digipak.

Conventions for digipak

I have been looking at a variety of digipaks and album covers and picked up little bits from all of the, one of the convetions of have come across in my genre, and across a lot in general which I like is the simplicity of the cover and colour scheme. I plan to use a simple colour scheme, similar to suck it and see, I like the off white colour used.

analyses of album covers

Album Cover Analyses

Digipak research

From only looking at a few digipaks and album covers I have already decided that i want the cover to be incredibly simplistic, not to much detail and not to much colour, possibly even a monochrome album, however inside the digipak I want to have pictures of my band together and a few details about the band including further pictures, inteviews and small biography's of the band members.

Star Image

Using Andrew Goodwins theory, of start iconography i will be focusing on the front man of my band throughout. this will keep the focus on the lyrics and keep the lyrics on track with the man singing them. My front man fits the gene characteristics very well so he will look right in the video which makes it easier to focus on him for a majority of the video.

Performance

I am now having second thoughts as far as the idea of disjuncture is concerned in my video, I am certain I want to use performance if not a complete performance video.

Andrew Goodwin

I am applying Andrew Goodwin's star image theory to my video. I have posted previously about how I will focus on my artist, this falls under the theory that Andrew Goodwin has put forward, which supports the voice of a singer with the associated image.

Lead Singer.

My lead singer will look quite rough and will have relatively long hair, this seems to be a convention to follow looking at bands similar to mine. I will focus on the singer as much as possible in my video.

Feedback from my pitch

Feedback from pitch

I have taken feedback from my class now after presenting my pitch, I am now in the process of putting all of the feeback i have recieved into an animoto.

Band Biography.

My band are similar to the audience they play for, they fit into the same group as the audience according to UK tribes, 'trendies' and 'indie scensters'. The band is 4 lads, 1 front man/singer, 1 drummer, 1 bassist and 1 guitarist. The 4 lads are also big football fans and support their local team leicester, This is not uncommon in bands within the genre, kasabian are also big leicester city fans, the enemy are coventry fans, jake bugg is a notts county fan, so football can be seen almost as a convention of indie rock bands. Other than this the boys are pretty easy going, they put they're effort into the band, but enjoy going out and having a good time as much as anyone else at their age (19,20,18,18). They didnt do badly at school, but choose the band over any further education after all finishing their A-levels.