COMPLETION

YAY! We finally completed our CD insert after two hours, including many conventions of a typical insert such as:

• Pictures of the band
• Lyrics from the single
• Motifs 
• Acknowledgements

Front/ Back Cover

Lyrics Page

Acknowledgements

Also, in preparation for filming, we decided we would need to fit visuals to lyrics, and since I don't naturally have colourescent hair, we would need to take it upon ourselves to colour it with 'hair chalk' which we have ordered from Amazon. I'm being exponentially trusting with my fellow group members as I'm allowing them to chalk my hair many different colours.

FINGERS CROSSED EVERYONE.



Group Addresses:

Zachary Pitchford: www.zacpitchfordg324.blogspot.co.uk

Jorjah Langthorp: www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk 

I'M BACK

I've returned to school to today's session in which we are creating an insert and back cover for our single, which we'll be filming and creating over the following weeks...

We are currently using existing artwork for our insert cover and back cover, to sport as a template. Despite this, we intend to futurely progress this by replacing the signatures of McFly with the signature of our protagonist /artist. We also intend to reciprocate the abstract painting of the girl with five colours in her hair with a picture of our actor/actress during post-production phases, or drawn by one of our more artistic acquaintances.

After extensive research, we also discovered that we've subconsciously incorporated with McFly's abstract style CD artwork from the past. (Below) Whether this be purely abstract, punchy imagery, mostly featuring the band, linking with the narrative or not. Comparatively, it also flirts with the colourful nature of the band's previous advertisements, and covers such as the ones we created in previous posts.

Group Addresses:

Zachary Pitchford: www.zacpitchfordg324.blogspot.co.uk

Jorjah Langthorp: www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk



'Cause OBVIOUSLY..I'm still in a sick state.

19/6/13

The group have had a minor setback for filming yet again, as I'm still comatosed with Ethromycin.. All feel free to 'Aww'.
The others and I have been in contact regarding work etc, and I have reassured them that I have the storyboards here and completed them with regards to bars of music, instruments and lyrics. I've left them with the duty of location visiting, and beginning to visualise content of the video itself.
We've decided for a half performance / half narrative structure, with elements of Andrew Goodwin's convention of a relationship between lyrics and visuals:
For example, a close-up of a girl's lip with a lip piercing when Mcfly sing
'She's got a lip ring and five colours in her hair'

So whilst I battle on with my immune system, heres a chirpy (almost sarcasm) song by McFly, covered by up-and-coming boyband 'The Vamps'...

One of the McFly band member also stars in it, if that has any sort of relevance...

It doesn't, does it?

Group Addresses:
Zachary Pitchford: www.zacpitchfordg324.blogspot.co.uk
Jorjah Langthorp: www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk  

'Sick' Advertisements

Originially Dated For: 18/6/2013 -New Blog Created!

I'm currently at home struck down with tonsillitis, but have been brought up to speed by the rest of the group as to what we've been learning regarding magazine advertisements. As I'm away from school, I thought I'd have a go at making my own to pass some time, and to stay on top of the work.

I decided on a landscape advertisement, filling the page with vibrance, in an attempt to make it hard to ignore when skimming through magazine pages, as this was the band's first song, I thought I'd keep a dichotomy between simplicity and vibrance, also including a quotation from a large musical industry MTV.  I researched and followed the conventions of other magazine advertisements for different bands and how they are promoted,this would include: QR Codes, used often in contemporary advertisements as a uses and gratification mode of bringing social interaction and web 2.0 to mediatypes and also the record label's (Island) logo to enforce advertsement of theirselves, prior to the band.

Group Addresses:
Zachary Pitchford: www.zacpitchfordg324.blogspot.co.uk
Jorjah Langthorp: www.jorjahlangthorpg324.blogspot.co.uk

Preliminary Brief

Originially Dated For: 17/6/2013 -New Blog Created.
After completion of our AS course, we've returned to sixth form to begin overlooking the course for A2, the music industry and history of the music video. We decided despite the turmoil of filming last year, and how we overcame it, that we'd remain in the same group for the next chapter of the course: we feel that the outcome will be successful for this preliminary piece, even though we may not work together for our final pieces at the end of A2.

Course content will include:

• Music Video
• CD Digi Pack - Front/back cover including spines, and an insert booklet of even numbered pages.
• An A4 page magazine advertisement

The song we've chosen to reciprocate is 'McFly - Five colours in her hair'

We chose this song as the group varied in preferential genre, and this was a song we all knew and had in common; however, another contributing factor would be that we feel this was not the best music video Mcfly produced, prior to being compared to the likes of noughties band Busted (below) before finally overcoming this harsh comparison and alienation, then branching out to form their own style. As this wasn't their most influential video, we feel we won't be too heavily swayed in re-creating it.

 

Group Addresses:

Zachary Pitchford: www.zacpitchfordG324.blogspot.co.uk
Jorjah Langthorp: www.jorjahlangthorpG324.blogspot.co.uk