Video shoot 1

Yesterday I had the first shoot for my music video. Here are some images of the set equipment and props and production process.

Actress Auditions

Actress Audition

Video Inspiration

Annie Lennox

Location Images

Here is an image of the media classroom where I will be filming part of my music video. the parts that I will be filming here is where the girl is getting ready for the photo shoot during the actual shoot, I will have a white backdrop set up to film against.

Music video actress

Here is an image of Charlotte Brown the actress in my music video.

Looking for a bucket & spade

I decided to go on amazon.co.uk to look for a bucket and spade to use for my digipak/magazine ad photoshoot

Magazine Advert Draft

Just posting a quick draft of my magazine advert. I am using the adobe Photoshop CS3 software to create and edit it. SO far, my design is quite simple as it is only a draft, but this is the sort of lay out that i would like my advert to have, I will also be creating a portrait version as well as this landscape version. At the moment, the image that I have used for the magazine advert is the same that I have used on my draft digipak, this is because I haven't taken my own original images yet, when I do i would like to have a different image on my digipak cover to my magazine advert, because i want to have a variety of images included so as to attract more interest in the artists new album.

Actor release form

The female actress that will be starring in my video is Charlotte Brown. Here is her Actor release form granting me permission to use footage and photographs of her in my coursework.

Diary #8

In the last few media lessons, I have been working on the print based elements that accompany my music video: The CD Digipak and the magazine advert advertising the release of Ben Howard's new album. At the moment I have some simple preliminary ideas which i will show below of the front and back cover of the digipak. I still need to make the rest of the pages that will be included in my Digipak. As well as this the images that i have currently included on my digipak are from getty images, so I still need to have a photo shoot on location to get the images.

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment

Editing Software

I will be using various editing softwares throughout the post production phase of my project. These include Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Premiere CS3 and possibly Adobe After Effects CS3. I will need to use Photohop for creating my digipak and magazine advert as well as using it for editing the photos that I intend to use on them. I will need to use a variety of the 'tools' available on Photoshop to ensure that my images are of a professional quality and to make sure that my digipak and magazine adverts look well presented and are the best that I can create.


Premiere will be the main software that I will use to edit my music video, in order to produce a final cut.
I will need to place all of the shots that I have taken on a timeline on premiere, alongside the song I have chosen, I will then proceed to cut from each shot at the appropriate times in order to make my video flow in a similar way to that of my animatic. I may also use After Effects to create a lightening strike effect in order to add to the gloomy scenes that take place in the video.