Tuesday 4 February 2014

Update: Change of location

As shown in previous posts, we had planned to record footage at Brighton pier. However, due to weather conditions in October and the Brighton pier security team only allowing us to film on weekdays which we cannot make due to attending sixth form, we were unable to travel to Brighton to record any footage.

Despite this, we have chosen to go into London to film footage, which is instead of going to Brighton. We travelled to Oxford Circus, Picadilly Square, Trafalgar Square, Southbank (The London Eye), China Town and Brixton in which we recorded scenes to go towards our music video. London is a very busy and vibrant city allowing us to capture scenes that would our target audience could relate to even more.
Now that we are in the post-production stage I think we have realised that we have benefitted from some even better footage than we may have been able to get in Brighton, so are happy we made the decision to film in London instead.

Production Meeting Notes 3 - By Charlie

The below is all what we have discussed during a scheduled group meeting on January 22nd, 2014:

Things we have completed since last meeting:
- Filming of footage from Central London
- Gathered all the photos that we had taken during filming in order to put them on the 'Gallery' page of the website.
- The website has been finished however the only thing left to do on it is to upload the music video to it, once we have finished editing.

Things that still need to be completed:
- Posts on the blog for the website and the digipak
- Editing the footage that we have acquired from the different locations and to put it into sequences to go into the music video.
- Evaluation questions (will be starting next week)

Digipak:
The digipak has been completed but still needs some more posts about it uploaded to the blog.

Website:
The website is now fully completed buts can not yet be published because we still need to post the music video that we create, on the site upon completion.

Production Meeting Notes 2 - By Charlie

The below is all what we have discussed during a scheduled group meeting on December 1st, 2013:

Things we have completed since last meeting:
- Filming for all party locations
- Digipak design and production

Things that still need to be completed:
- Filming of footage from Central London
- Completion of Digipak design itself
- Finish editing the rest of the video once we have filmed the footage from London

Digipak:
- The digipak is now completed, however we still have to upload some extra posts to the blog relating to the digipak.

Website:
- There is only a few minor tweaks that need to made to the website itself, however similarly to the digipak, we still have some extra posts that we still need to upload before it can be fully completed.

We still need to complete our evaluation tasks but this will be completed after christmas.

Production Meeting Notes - By Charlie

The below is all what we have discussed during a scheduled group meeting on October 4th, 2013:

Things that we have completed so far:
- Filming at three party locations (Rykia, Charlye and Harry party)
- Filming in limo
- Photos that we have taken at the party locations

Things that still need to be completed:
- Filming of individual shots
- More filming at other locations so that we can use the same type of setting but at a different location.
- Website planning and creation
- Digipak planning and creation

Digipak:
- We spoke about possibly making the digipak mostly black and white, with the front cover background being black and having a group picture on the front with the name of the album and the names of two of our big/upcoming songs.
- The insert will also conform to the colour scheme with the black background and white font.
- The CD itself will be black with 'Heads Will Roll' written in white font across the front and a small design if it is possible to fit on there.
- The back cover will be similar to the insert with a black background and a white font - listing all the names of the tracks on the CD, and the barcode and additional information at the bottom.

Website:
- The website will be more colourful than the digipak, this is to conform to the stereotypical representation of a band in the dance genre.
- We also want the website to be where people to go should they need information, so will try to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible.