Finishing our CD cover and Insert!:D

Today we have completed our CD cover and Insert for our practise video (Mcfly Five colours in her hair). We tried to incorporate all the features that would be included on a real cover and insert. This is the finished product:

We have included already existing images and found artwork in our practise piece however when we come around to do our actual A2 work, we will make sure these images aren't included.

We have found some hair chalk which we would like to use in our music video as it relates well to the lyrics and we think that it would look good. As soon as this arrives we get to colour megans hair yayy!:)

CD Insert and Back Cover

Today we are beginning to design our CD insert and Back Cover. We researched different single/album covers to gain inspiration.

We decided to go for a bright colour scheme as this matches well with the song and the overall finished look we are aiming for. It is also a common feature in the single/album covers in the genre aimed at our target audience.

Despite using found artwork and images from the internet, we eventually hope to replace these with artwork produced by one of our friends and the signiture of the main character in

 the video (megan clark). We also want to include images of megan in the CD insert however we haven't been able to shoot these yet.

We will continue to develop and improve our cover and insert once filming has started and we have the images we need.

Filming Delay

We were planning on starting to shoot our practise music video in preperation for our A2 Course next year however 2 memebers of our group are away and this has led to a set back in filming. We have finished story boarding and are prepared to film ASAP. Hopefully our group is back to normal soon and we can start to film.

Here is another mcfly song:)

Magazine Advert

Today we have been learning about the features of a magazine advert in preparation for when we start our real music video. As we decided to do Mcfly 'Five colours in her hair' i did a practise magazine advert based on this. I tried to use all the features that a magazine advert would incoroporate. I chose a colourful theme to this advert as the song is upbeat and based on the pop/rock genre. This would appeal to the target market and also matches the single cover allowing audiences to recognise that this advert is from the same band.

Practice Piece

After completing our AS course, we have began preparation for our A2 course by creating a music single promotional package. This will include:

• a music video
• CD digi pack
•  A4 magazine advert.

We decided to work in the same group as we did for our AS thriller task as we felt that this would be more effective.
After discussing possible song choices we managed to narrow it down and finally decided to shoot our preliminary piece on 'Five colours in her hair' by mcfly. We chose this song as it is dated and the music video isn't famous/iconic therefore peoples opinions won't be influenced. We also felt like this video is the weakest due to the fact that it is the first recognised video that they have released and will allow us to experiment with a variety of possible locations and camera angles.
We had a vairety of different song choices but after brainstorming ideas on how we would shoot the video we felt that this song would suit each of our music styles better.

You can view my groups blogs:
Megan clark- www.mclarkg324.blogspot.co.uk
Zac Pitchford- www.zacpitchfordg324.blogspot.co.uk