Test Shots - Main Characters.

Main Characters in our story line:

Sarah: Connie Ball.

John: Kieran Hanks-McComas. 

I took pictures of the two main characters in our storyline to show who the actors are, and their relationship.

It is important that the actors get on with each other during the shoot because our story line requires the actors to trust each other and be comfortable with each other. We are quite lucky as our actors are in a relationship personally and acting out the story in our music video should not be too hard for them. 

Digipack Analysis

Alesana is an American rock band, which combines different subgenres from hardcore, metalcore to screamo. The album I'm describing above is their 5th album. Two members of the band started writing short stories and the songs for the albums are being written around them - this was for the last two albums.
"The Emptiness" and "A Place Where the Sun is Silent" are both of the albums built around the story.
It's not only the digipack that follows the story but also the website & the music videos support and follow the theme of the album itself.

This task has helped me to see what I need for my Digipack when I create it and how can I make it creative and interesting & desirable to the audience. This is important because I need to make sure I can make it desirable enough so that they buy the album in a shop instead of downloading it off of Internet in mp3 form. 

Video Diary - 26/10/2012

Animatic For Music Video

I've created the Animatic for our Storyboard. Animatic is a motion version of the storyboard to present your final idea & the concept for the video in more visual form. The animatic, just like the storyboard is going to be my guide to show me what shots do I need and how is it going to look like. It's very probable that my final video will be a lot different to my storyboard and animatic but the point is to learn new skills and improve throughout the work.

Idea Development.

Today we had a group meeting and we discussed in detail all the aspects of our story: the character types, the story types, the genre, the plot and structure of the video and song. We worked out the sections of the song and planned out what happens during the verses and choruses. 

My contribution included helping to specify the genre of the music video we are going to make & deciding on some of the features in the structure of the video & character types. 

Genre & Image.

Genre Conventions & Image on Prezi

Website Analysis

This is a case study of a website that I've decided to analyse and use as one of my influences when Adam and I are going to make a website for our artist. Example does a similiar type of music as Pryce Oliver and his work is all about entertainment, and making sure people have a good time. His videos are creative and always sending a message in some way. This how we are going to promote our artist - creative, meaningful, entertainment, simple & fun.