Overall Evaluation

Overall the whole band identity work out very well there isn't allot i would change it started out to be hard but as well was going along the work load seem less then what was asking for. I am very happy with what i came out with and all the final product but there are little things that i would change due to models and being more organized.

Video Evaluation

For this video we had to create a stop motion and the first thing i thought off was a lego movie and after looking at many different stop motion videos as a group we decided to do a lego one because i looked fun as-well as challenging. 

To start off with we had to gather all the lego piece and start to make a test video to see what we need to do when we do the real thing as we did this we decided on a song which was Linkin Park- One Step Closer. 

The final video was shot in the studio and it was very challenging everyone contributed to move the lego people and it became harder wen it was put into movie editing but the final video work out very well. if i was to do this again i would change anything it all worked out and the video works really well with the song. 

CD Cover Evaluation

To start off with i had to decide on a band name for the poster and the CD i came up with the Struggle Within i used this because its one of my friends old band that are no longer together i also had to come up with a album name and i decides on as daylight fade because i heard it in a song at the time and it works well with the Struggle Within. 

After coming up with the name i found a CD cover template and started to design the cover and for this we was asked to use our own images. So i went out and photographed what could go on a album as i did not want to have people on the front as thats very typical. in the end i used photographs of graffiti and edited in photoshop i also used text from www.dafont.com and i downloaded certain brushes for photoshop. After creating and designing the CD cover i made to poster which is a similar design to the CD cover i did this because it shows branding for the band. 

if i was to do this all again i would find a real band and work for them and create things that they want and photograph the band. 

introduction

for this assignment we have been ask to create different types of media for a band this includes photography (fashion, posters), a music video and all this will be enterd in to a blog.

Photography:
we have been asked to research band photography, cd covers, posters and stuff like that. and then we have to produce a cd cover and a poster and the cd cover need to printed out and photoraphed.

Video:
For the video we have been asked to create a stop motion video. To start off we need to reasearch stop motion videos we then need to create a test video and then finally create the final video.

Blog:
We have been asked to have studio portraits all the work from the other two sections and also a video and editing from flip cameras.

Final Lego Movie

This is our final music video for one step closer:

Stages Of Editing

 These are screen grabs of different stages of editing it shows adding images and putting on the music. The whole editing video process took about two hours to get the video in time with the music and get the pictures in the video in the right place and getting the right sounds and music.

Update

Today I is editing the music video the idea behind this is to complete the editing process. We used a cannon EDS1000 with standard lens of 18- 55mm and a 55mm macro lens. It starts off from real life and carrys on to the leg animation. Each image we adjusted to gain the rquired length. the location we used was the studio  as there was more lighting to get light on to the main subject. The main roles were: Me-director, Ash-designer and i moved each subject as every image was taken. The original idea was discussed in a group.

StoryBoard

Here is our story board we have produced to plan our final ideas. for the first sequence there will be a clip of the creator gradually getting closer until it ends up looking through the cameras lens at the subjects of which we are using for this music video.

For the second sequence it will start off with a crowd in front of a stage. Then in the next scene the lead singer will come on to the stage and start singing. we will obtain this objective by taking about two photographs for each posture until the whole scene looks like the subject is actually moving.

From image (1) until the last scene there will be a loop of up to about 20 times to gain the crowd cheering and dancing whilst the singer and the band plays on.

For this particular music video we will be using the music from Linkin Parks' "One Step Closer"

Lego stop motion

Here are some examples of lego movies that have been created for music videos:



Although these videos are not created by professional animators and been done to fun song you can see hard they are to create.

Stop motion

We have been give the task to create a stop motion movie for example:


This is a very complex stop motion and as a group we decided to make a lego stop motion video to a song by linkin park called one step closer but to do this we had to do a couple of test videos to find out how to set up the camera and the lego men this was the first test.


This is a section of the song we are going to use as this was a test the images didn't work out well as some are blurry and some are not with the auto focus the change in the zoom. To create this video after the images was taken we put them in to imovie i got the images at in order and got the sound track over the top.
After this test we created another one to work out how we can move the lego men and what it would look like if we made them walk.

CD cover

This is the front and the back cover of my CD fully printed ready for uses














this is what you see when you open the case with the added graphics to the CD.

CD cover images

This is the image i used for the front cover for my CD cover. I edited this image by using the cut out filter in photoshop and putting a sepia tone over the top to give it the purple look then by using www.dafont.com i selected a text called make juice and used the band name from my posters and came up with a album name of "As Daylight Fades"also usind photoshop brush sets i used a roses and barb wire (also used as a logo for the album)

Dark Room

This is the contrasting image that i have printed out on to acetate to take in to the dark room to create a photogram i also printed some text out "watch the rivers turn to blood" to put on the photogram.

Posters

This is the band poster that i created i did have any inspiration as most band posters don't have the band name on but it looked to empty without the band name in it. To create this i took an image of a building and the image of me in the studio and played with the lights and contrasts of the images so i looked write and the patterns are brushes downloaded from the internet.

This is the tour poster for STRUGGLE WITHIN i kept the same theme with a black border with patters down the side i also added the dates and a support band like most tour posters involve. This is also one of my images taken i just played around in Photoshop to see what i could create.

CD cover practise

This was our CD cover task where we had to choose a random image off flicker. Then go into wiki quotes and get a random quote to use as the album name then in to wikipedia and choose a random person to use as the band name.

Drop Dead fashion

This is fashion shoot for a clothing brand call drop dead these images are use to promote there clothing by using painted up wall in a studio to create crazy and abstract backgrounds. using models that look like they should be wearing the clothes and stereotypical people who would wear the clothes.  





Most of the clothing made and designed by drop dead are very evil and death like this t-shirt above or very bright and abstract like the image on the right.

Expressions on people face are very plain either straight faced or slightly smiling this gives the emotion and make you concentrate on the clothes they are advertising and not on the model them selves.




Most of these fashion shot from drop dead are mainly body shots usually waist upwards i would be different if it was make up or hats it would be a close up to the face.

Diamond Aren't Forever

Unlike the other video this was shot on site during bring me the horizons tour in America it shows there style on stage and backstage. many music videos are done like this. This works in some ways better than other as it show fans what they are like live but videos done in a studio  shows how they like to work.

It Never Ends

This video was shot in a studio and uses green screen technology to create some of the scenes. There where only a couple of actors in the video but the band were mainly apart of it.  This video is about Oli Sykes (vocals) in an ambulance being chased buy vampires that are problems in life like the drug dealer, journalist, police and whore.

BMTH photo1

This image was taken in a studio. Full body shot to show everything they are wearing each of the band members are all wearing the same sort of clothing jeans and a t-shirt. They all have a simple expression on there faces.

Bring Me The Horizon

Bring Me The Horizon are a UK metal core band from Sheffield formed in 2004. I got in to this band a few years ago I like them because the band is different to any other metalcore bands and i enjoy listerning to there music as they have very good musical talent and they have amazing lyrics for all of there songs.

• Oliver Sykes – lead vocals (2004–present)
• Lee Malia − lead guitar (2004–present)
• Matt Kean − bass guitar (2004–present)
• Matt Nicholls − drums, (2004–present)
• Jona Weinhofen - rhythm guitar, keyboards, clean vocals (2009–present)