artist name

as a group we decided on the name "Elliot Guy" we thought this name rolled of the tongue when saying and also when researching we found that artists name were the actual names of the singers so we thought this was appropriate to do to fit within the music genre.

Elliot Guy

this writing is similar to the album cover name we want to use, we thought this would look sleek and smart by having all the typograhy the same to make it all link together, however we thought as shown in our research on most album covers the name of the artist and name of the album are different to make each title stand out.

 Elliot Guy
this again is very simplistic and bold, even though it is a different style and font it still has the same idea and similarlity to the cover name of the artist, so again we want to make both title stand out against one another.

Elliot Guy

this font is the similar to what we would like to use, it completley different to what we used with our typography for our album cover. Against one another they will both stand out as the fonts and not merge into the background as the background scenery for our album cover is quite striking. The font will be in black keeping it the same making it fit within the album covers theme. Also this type of writing is similar to the typography on the research into other artists covers.



digi-pak ideas

these are some ideas for images we want to include within our music album digi-pak, these pictures were taken on location of our shoot and fit within the theme and setting we have carried through our music video and also the idea we want to use for our album cover photo.
The pictures are natural and outside scenery have the typical conventions the indie pop genre that we have seen within our research. The images are romantic and the scenery is pretty and tranquel that the song we have used for our music video reflecting the theme we are conveying through of an isolated and distant feeling for the song.
The other photos that we will be using within our digi-pak will be similar to this but including pictures of the character in the music video and of the balloon to continue the ideology and linking throughout all the project.

 

 

 

this image was used for the album cover title we thought "root of memories" was a good way to sum up all the album and the message in our music video as the character is reminising her memories. The image could imply that the hands on the image are the band holding up the image, again linking the artist and theme of our project together.

clouds problem

in our music video we wanted to include a shot of the clouds and fast forward the shots to imply that time is movie on or going past emphasising the idea of the character reminising into the past.
We set up at a camera outside our classroom with the lense pointing up to the sky, it wasnt a very windy day so the clouds didnt move as fast naturally to see the different when looking back onto the clip. We filmed this for half an hour and thought we had enough footage to use the effect we want to use on the video. Unfortunatley when looking back on the footage on the movie maker programme the video kept moving in and out due to the focus- as there wasnt anything to focusing on as it was just clouds the camera kept moving in and out to try find an object to focus on. When doing this next we need to take the focus off the camera so it doesnt automatically try and find an object to look onto, and also finding a windy day to make sure the clouds move enough so their is enough to fast forward and create the effect we are looking for the outcome.

album title font

From the song we have chosen and the naritive of the video we have used the title 'The Root of Memories' links the whole project together as our narative of the video is the character reminising into the past and the memories she has of her past relationship, evidently the title refelcts our objective of the narative of the video.

 

The Root of

Memories

this writing is very bold and simply, it standout from the different sizes and positions taking up alot of room and make it instantly viewed to the audiences eye. The 'Memories' is what that stands out instantly to the audience as it is the bigger and is seen automatically as it is bold. The simplitsic font make it simple and not over complicated and too busy on the page.

The Root of Memories

this writing is very old fashion, and sophisicated. It looks like a news heading on a newspaper front cover, which draws the audience in as it is like main news and the background we are wanting to use is very romantic and simplistic of the sunset and beach and this bold heading will standout and make it eye catching. Agin we have continued with the simplistic approach by using plain black writing to make it stand out and not blend into the background.

 

The Root of Memories

this is different from our other options as we wanted to see what else could work and what wouldnt. I think this is very busy and over complicated for a title of the album and is hard to read for the audience. I think this type of wrting would work well for the title of the artist as contrating to bold and simplic font to this both of the texts would stand out against each other. However we still want to use the simplic black colour of the front so the writing doesnt fade into the background.

 

editing problems

when editing we found problems when using the 'leave colour' effect as because of the different brightnesses on the screen some of the balloon light reflected onto the characters face and because of the similarity in colour when wanting to leave colour it changed the colour of the face as well because the brightness is similar and the light reflecting on different objects in the shot. To work around this we will have to use a different effect/programme to get around this problem and to use the orginal idea of the red colour balloon and to use it as effectively as we can.

Leave Colour

For the effect of the balloon of having it only object in colour compared with the black and white background we used the effects of the programme. We were hoping to use the programme Matte but due to the wind that was on the beach we couldnt use it as the programme Matte only worked effectively on still objects so for the balloon this couldnt work as the wind was blowing it around. We used the effect leave colour where we had to play around with the tolerance and brightness of balloon to make it more effective and stand out to the audience. When using this there are a few issues as sometimes there is a white light from the sun shinng on the balloon, we couldnt change the colour of this as it wasnt the same red we clicked on when leaving the colour, however this error isnt noticable unless looked at closely and also the balloon blowing in the wind makes it harder to notice.

I am really pleased with the effectiveness of the red balloon against the black and white, it is eyecatching and pops out from the screen making our video stand out to the audience viewing it. It is how i pictured the outcome of this effect when we were planning and I believe this is the strongest element to our music video as it is unique and isnt typically seen in other indie videos.

behind the scenes