Creating the Tour Poster (Charles Mossman)

After analyzing front album covers and tour poster, I have decided that I am going to create the official tour poster for the group. I am confident in producing the product as I have a much thorough insight as to how I am am going to construct my design as I now know the typical conventions as to what is included on a tour poster. I know from my idea and knowledge I will be able to give it a professional outlook it deserves. The two images below are tour posters in the same genre as the music video we have created. I have looked at these tour posters also so that I have a clear outline as to what I will design for the group.

E-Safety (Anthony Black)

When working in the media with things being in the public eye we have to be aware that personal information isn't being exposed. This is important for the safety of the people involved. When creating our Facebook and Twitter pages we will ensure that our personal emails aren't used and that a separate email for our group is used.

On these social media sites when we upload any images or videos it is vital that we have the consent from the person and that there is nothing in the frame that shouldn't be. Also we need to be aware of the  dangers that could be involved, for example:

• Personal information could be stolen
• Images and videos can be downloaded by others
• Identity theft 

Song in the Media (Anthony Black)

Within this blog post I have decided to discuss how well the song has been distributed and notified to the audience. The success of the song depended on the decision on whenever we were going to pick the song for our music video. I believe that researching the song based upon the facts and statistics me and the group have found will justify our decision on why we chose the song in the first place.

First of all the song was placed on the top charts in 2014. "Stay With Me" reached number one in the UK charts which made it Sam Smiths third number one single in the UK charts, In the U.S. the song has also peaked at number 2 in the charts. His songs have also been viewed 247,000,000 times on Youtube.

Sam Smiths album "In The Lonely Hour" also reached number 1 in the charts which also outsold Coldplays new album "Ghoststories"

Sam Smith has also been awarded the "Brit Award for Critics Choice", "Young Hollywood Award for Breakout Artist" and "American Music Award for Favourite Pop/Rock Male Artist". I have decided to look into this due to his popularity as an artist and shows how successful he has become in his career. Below I have inserted I video I have found based upon Sam Smiths response to song and how successful it become within the media after it was published last year.

Album Cover and Tour Posters (Ian Pelgrave)

Part of our task is to create an album cover and a tour poster to go with the music video. The purpose of this is to advertise the artist and songs to the public. An album cover helps to create an image for an artist and sometimes can tell a lot about them and the particular album. Album covers help promote the artist and allows for people to identify them.

Tour posters also promote the artist but provides information for the public. They tell a lot about what the tour is going to be like and is part of a promotional campaign that helps the artist to be recognised by a wider audience.  Below is the album cover and tour poster for Sam Smith in which we will create our own taking inspiration from this.

Group Reflection/Progress So Far

Now that we have published and presented our first draft for the music video, as a group we all believe that we have made a lot of progress so far in regards to our journey in creating our music video. We are pleased as to what we have accomplished so far and now must must keep working in order to complete the set tasks given and produce our final draft of our music video as well as the additional media products to promote the video and artist himself. Below are the set task that we have to work on as a team in order to complete our journey.

• Research E Safety
• Record Labels
• Copyrights Post/Permission to use the song for our final product 
• Create a Facebook and Twitter Page 
• Create a Final Album Cover/CD Packaging Design
• Create a Final Tour Poster 
• Final Editing process for the Final Version of the Music Video 
• Publish the Final Music Video 

Presenting the First Draft

The group have decided to present our first draft of the music video to the class today. We have also decided to view the other groups music video and are going to provide feedback in which we will be commenting on the other group members blogs. From this the group has also been able to take the comments from members of the groups in regards to feedback so that we know what we can improve upon for our music video in the next draft.

Music Video - First Draft

After all of the editing process we have now been able to finish and finalise our project video. The class will also be viewing the video soon and providing us feedback in which  we will take on board when we are improving our music video. Doing this we have now shared the video by uploading it to you tube, which will more likely allow a wider demographic to view our video and possibly be provided more feedback. This will benefit the group as it will allow us to take a more confident approach when we re-edit the video in imovie for our final version. However as this is not yet our final draft we will have to research more on copywright laws and so we will only make the video private/unlisted. Below is the music video of the groups first draft.
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Further Editing (Charles Mossman)

The group has nearly finished the editing process of creating our music video. Today I have decided to spend much of my time on completing the first draft of the music video itself. Other members in the group  are considering and summering up ideas on the groups album cover in order to promote the music video. Below are a few screenshots of the editing and the developing throughout finishing the first draft.

Accuracy of Director Plans (Kieran)

Direction Plans 
I produced some direction plans a while ago and after filming at all locations I have concluded that the directions that where given helped make the filming of the music video to be more streamlined and precise. These are some videos that show that the directions that I was giving were being followed:
St John's Garden

Albert Docks - Liver building

Crosby Beach 

Tweeting The Label and Artist

Today I sent a Tweet to the Record Label that holds the rights for the song "Stay With Me" and have also contact the artist to see whether I can get a response with the permission to use the song in our coursework as this will make our work more professional and have some legitimacy.

The Start of the Editing Process

The group has now gone underway with the editing process of creating our music video. Charlie and Ian have started the post production and the 2 other members Anthony and Kieran also contributed to the task in hand as well. The group are using the iMovie software. We have used iMovie before, however before we started editing we were not entirely confident on how we would be able to use the software. Although throughout the process we did overcome the difficulties we did encounter at first and after using the software for a while we have a more confident approach in regards to using the software now. Below are some screenshot images below to show our progression and development throughout using iMovie to construct our media product.

Shooting Script (Charles Mossman)

In order to plan our editing process for creating the music video we have now drawn up and developed our knowledge from the contact sheet and analysed each of the chosen videos in much greater detail. In regards to the groups thoughts and ideas while filming the scenes for our music video we constructed a number of shots taken so that we have a variety of scenes to choose from for this stage of editing that the group are at. 

As a result of this we have decided to draw up a shooting script now so that we now have a better understanding and outlook as to how the music video will be as part of distributing aspect. Therefore this will help us consistently while we all edit the video as we have a much more organised structure for the overall music video product. I have drawn up a shooting script based upon the groups discussions and intentions we have recommended to each other. 

Within the shooting script I have included the number of shots that group will be using as well as a description of the shots in terms of camera angles and movement. This also includes the day, time, location and equipment used in the time period we filmed for the music video.

Contact Sheet

Before the group can start the editing process of creating the music video, we have decided to print out a contact sheet in regards to the images and footage we have taken in each location overall. The contact sheet has allowed me and the group to discuss and evaluate what aspects in regards to our original footage and images which would be ideal and most effective to use for the music video. Therefore by doing this, the contacts sheet will allow us to choose which clips we have decided to use in a confident, effective and simpler manner when editing. Below I have inserted image displaying the contact sheets. As of this we have highlighted and circled the clip numbers below, based upon the footage we will be using in our music video.

Cinematography (Charles Mossman)

Now that the group has finally gathered all of the film footage for our music video we have decided to gain some of the footage together that we will most certainly be using in our music video. The group are now in the process of creating a contact sheet in which we will be pointing out the best and most effective scenes and images we may possibly use to construct the video as part of the post production stage. Below are 3 video that the group will be using in the music video.

St Georges Hall - First person View/Establishing Shot

Albert Dock - Low angle- Use of High Key/Natural Lighting

Crosby Beach - Long/Extreme Long Shot - Setting scene

Videos from Third Day of Filming (Anthony Black)

Below are a few videos taken from the third day of filming our music video, the location for the music video this time was Crosby Beach.

Photos from Third Day of Filming (Anthony Black)

Below are a few photo's taken from the third day of filming the music video, for this third location to film we went to Crosby Beach.

Last Location - PhotoShoot 3

Yesterday the group constructed our last stages for the production for the music video. While filming in our last location we were able to confidently film scenes without being interrupted as most of the area was not overcrowded and confined in regards to space. The weather was very suitable for filming as well and therefore much of the higher key lightning help to stimulate a more professional outlook in regards to the scene the group filmed. Below are a few images from the last photo shoot.

Location Map (Ian Pelgrave)

In regards to our 3 locations I have decided to screenshot the locations that we where at filming using google maps.  Each picture shows the location from an aerial shot as to where we filmed. 

First Location - St Georges Hall

Second Location - Pier Head

Third Location - Crosby Beach

Weather Report for the Third Day of Filming (Anthony Black)

This is the weather report for the third day for filming the group music video, the weather seems good for the day considering the location will be a beach so the weather will be good for this day. We may have the problem of glare on some images and videos again but overall it should be good so we can get good videos and images again.

Camera Equipment 2 (Charles Mossman)

The camera equipment that we have been currently using the Samsung Galaxy S4 camera. The group has been using another similar camera piece of equipment but we have decided to primarily make use of this camera as it it has an additional anti-shake feature so therefore when viewing the footage we have conducted the camera will not give unsteady approach which will provide the group with a more professional outlook to our music video. Below is the image of this equipment used as well as an embed code to a website we have found displaying the use of the camera itself.

Samsung - Samsung GALAXY S4

Vidoes from Second Day of Filming (Anthony Black)

Below are a few videos taken from the second day of the group filming the music video, this time the location for filming the music video was the Liverpool Docks.

Potential Album Cover and Tour Poster

 While the group was filming for the second stage for the process of creating the music video, we were able to take a variety of still images for our potential album cover and tour poster. The group has finally come to the decision as to what images we will be using for our album cover and poster. these images were taken in the process of creating the music video and so the chosen location will help to reflect and promote the music video we are creating to our demographic. We believe that these images are suitable for the media products we will be producing as well as them being effective images to use.

Album Cover Image 

Tour Poster Image

Photos from Second Day of Filming (Anthony Black)

Below are a few photos I had taken while me and the rest of the group were by the Liverpool  Docks doing our second set of filming for the music video.