OS - Camber Shoot Evaluation

Organisation
We organised everyone a few weeks before half term so we could shoot in the holiday. This really helped us as last year we struggled to cope with organising everything on time.

Weather
The weather was almost ideal for what we wanted to shoot as it wasn't wet or sunny but it was very windy. In some shots the wind was useful to create a perfect scenario for the narrative but in some shots it was too strong and every ones hair was blown everywhere.

Specific Shots
We managed to accomplish a few good shots in the footage we shot such as the 360 pan of the girl with the wind blowing in her face and the guitar solo on top of the dunes.

Strengths
I think the main strength we had was having everyone being organised for this shoot as there was 8 of us and we had to take two cars and a bike to get there. Futhermore myself and Nathan managed to keep everyone under control and for them to stay with us and just do the work without them wanting to go off on the beach.

Weaknesses
I think the weakness of this shoot was that we got a lot of shots that are all very similar so there isnt a great deal of variety in the shots we took. Most of the shots are either on the beach or in the dunes so there are a lot of shots that look the same

Who Did What?
Both myself and Nathan had a go at directing. He would direct the shots with the tripod while i would direct the shots that involved handicam shots.

OS - Digipack ideas 3

Concept
For the other sides i see as a possibility that we have an arm extending through each side. So either one long arm or many arms being extended on Photoshop. We would then have the names of the songs on the back as most normal digipacks do. I think we would have all the sides black but the use of a spotlight definitely appeals to me more now than it did a week ago.

Other Sides
I was thinking of using an arm stretched out either across one side or across all the sides. I think the background would be black with a spotlight from behind so you could see the arm across the sides.

Feedback #5

Owen - I like the digipak idea - although you need to include all sides in the mock up due this weekend.

Nathan - where are your ad analysis posts?

Also - can you both post on the Camber shoot in much more detail, reflecting on shots, organisation, weather, issues encountered and how you overcame them. Some screenshots would be useful.

A Rough Cut / Animatic Of All Of Our Footage

This is the rough cut of all our footage we shot at Camber Sands. Along with the story boards of other shots that we are planning to do.

OS - Digipack Ideas 2

At the moment I am developing the idea that we have four people in like a huddle position and we take a photo from above with the album and artist name in the middle on the floor. This is a very basic outline of the photo i did on Photoshop earlier to try and grasp the idea of what it will look like.

Obviously this is very basic but we will have four people create what is shown above with the names of the band and the album on the floor. We will probably have the background dark or black with the possible use of a spotlight.

OS - Advert Analysis

This is Linkin Parks advertisement for there latest album 'A Thousand Suns'. I found this in a music magazine and decided to analyse it. First of all we look straight at the middle to see LP which is short for Linkin Park and we then follow down to see the date of the album release. The band don't give much away in this advertisement but this creates a star image of mystery and something new and modern. However they go for a misty black background which could connote something old or something that has aged. The font of there logo is also unique, as it looks almost like the Superman logo, so it looks like that of a superhero, enhancing the bands star image to be cool and a hero.

As the band didn't give too much away with this advert, they create a sense of curiousness within the audiences mind, as they have no idea what it will be like, other than it is released on the 14th of September and that they will have to wait until then. An iconic sign of this advert would most definitely be the dark colour background symbolising that this may be a new dark twisted direction for Linkin park.

The linguistic signs of the advert are the band name and the date of the the album release. Like previously stated the font is key on this advert as it creates a positive start image of them being 'heroes'.

#

This is the actual album cover they released for there album 'A Thousand Suns'. As you can see again they go for a simplistic idea with just a black smudge across the cover. This connotes mystery and it seems that they are trying to give away as little as possible about the album.

The sum of all these signs for the advert come to present the band possibly being a dark rock band but other than that they don't give huge amounts of detail away. I found another poster this time on the internet of another advertisement they have done, very similar to the top advert. The only real difference in this one is that they have they linguistic sign of the album name on the advert. Again they go for there 'superhero' logo and the rest of the background is in black possibly connoting 'death' or mystery.

OS - Digipack ideas and Design

For our digipack design we are thinking of using a simple four sided cover with the album name 'Wall of Arms' and The Maccabees written on it.

Ideas
My initial idea for the cover was four people, probably the band members of Midnight, locked in arms with the titles of the band and album on the floor. We would take the photo from a birds eye view so we would be looking down at the four people making a square with there arms and the words of the band on the floor.

Another idea i had was that we possibly take a photo of the beach with either the band or the characters on there. I would then use photo shop to cartoonize the photo which i think could be quite interesting, such as the cover of 'Plastic Beach' by Gorrilaz. I was thinking of keeping the four sided digipack cover as it will be easy and simple to create rather than perhaps going for a six sided one.