A2 CHCHS Sam Crummey and Alex Connors

We planned to start our filming on Friday the 24th of November but we ran into some issues. We asked some of our friends to come round to Sams house to help us video and be a part of it but a lot of them had to cancel due to their own personal commitments so we ended up with not enough people to do the video. Also, since it starts to get dark a lot earlier we had a limited time to do our filming outside and due to the bad weather that day we weren't able to do what we planned. This has now inspired us to change our music video but keep the same song. We discussed our options of what we could do and instead of planning to do the same video a different day we thought that it would be good to use the green-screen room in our school and use that to create our music video. We then researched some music videos that we were interested in and we were inspired by the song 'RAF' by ASAP MOB featuring ASAP ROCKY, Quavo and PlayBoy Carti. We thought that the use of green-screen in ...

The images below highlight the creation of our band's merchandise; the two items we have created are a polo shirt and a t-shirt. We gained inspiration from the skater/luxurious brand OFF-WHITE due to the simplicity in style and artwork printed on their t-shirts. We also wanted to create a modern/past overall style for our merchandise with some influence of the 1980's style such as the implementation of a moustache as they are heavily linked and seen as a trend of the 1980's. Furthermore on our t-shirt design; we decided to create the effect of jail bars with white lines located on the back of the t-shirt to signify the high crime rate due to drugs and other crimes. Some evidence and pictures that gave us inspiration in the production of our merchandise:

The purpose of this post is to highlight our previous intention ideas in the creation and construction of our music video. Prior to our final piece that was mostly shot in the green screen room in our goal was to create a funky party video that displayed many of our friends or actors in this instance and show an infectious disease that infects the characters and they become dancing zombies. However instead of following and creating the stereotype of zombies we wanted to break the codes and conventions whilst adding humor and when a character becomes infected we implement costume such as a fake mustache and a big Afro. However many set backs and consequences occurred whilst recording this due to schedules for the actors, and also the cost of creating this idea of a 'infectious spread of disease'. These are the main reasons why we decided to figure out how we can create a music video that is both enjoyable and not reliant of a budget; this is why we chose to create a colourful a...

Due to the alteration and changing of our music video this is planning that was supposed to be implemented for the house party idea that was previously highlighted in a post, but also due to time constraints all planing material was subject to change and planning may not be developed at a higher standard due to this. Due to filming in a house we needed to highlight and thoroughly research the possible dangers and risks that can occur whilst filming, for example we need to carefully write down the different hazards throughout the house such as noise for other neighbors around the filming location and also flammable materials as we are implementing smoke which could trigger the fire alarm too.  The use of a location visit sheet can help us visualise the surroundings and area that we are filming and working in, but also this helps us understand the exits and entrances into the different rooms in the house that we can shoot in different scenes.  As our sixth for...

The record label we have chosen to go with is 'Polydor Records', we decided to chose this record company because they have signed a lot of similar artists such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix. We also considered some other record labels such as 'Warner Music Group' who were signed by Prince and The Rolling Stones, 'Capitol Records' and were signed by Queen and 'Warner Bros. Records' who were signed by The Beach Boys. These are all similar bands to the one we have chose or they are from around the same time, this is the reason we have decided to sign with this record label. The images below convey some of the album covers of artists that have collaborated with Warner Bros and Polydor Records, however we enjoyed their art and colour variety on their album covers which helps us with the creation of our own and the 1980's theme that we desire:

We presented our feedback to the whole class by structuring and showing exactly our intentions that we want to achieve for our music video; to start our presentation we highlighted our ideas about the location and camera shots that we want to include for the beginning of our music video. For ease, we decided to use the whiteboard and displayed our research and planning from our blogger website; the implementation of this is efficient. After we pitched and discussed our goals for our music video to the class we was given feedback from classmates; for example, an idea that someone gave to us was the concept and addition of slow motion camera shots as the actors/characters leave the car which will help create comedy in the introduction to the characters.