Exsisting Magazine Adverts

Production Diary #28

I have just finished doing my draft for my digipack and magazine on the computer. It had been really fun to do actually and find the pictures for, I found that tumblr proved the best for this as I found the best pictures which suited my advertisement the most, but now is the hard part in actually taking these pictures myself. I already have my model who is my friend who will come down and find locations with me. I was thinking of Northolt hills, as they are very high up and show the scenery of the busy motor way, as well as the city. Primrose Hill in Camden, as it shows the beautiful view of London and would be magical at night. Camden lock as its always busy and lit up with lots of colours, this could be used as well for signs for the back of my digipack. I just can't wait to go and actually take these pictures.

Magazine draft

Here you can see that I have come up with an idea for my magazine advert. I am basing my advert and digipack on the theme of city's and being alone. It has taken me 1 week to come up with this final idea, as I got my insporaion from a long journey home on a bus at night, I was passing through central London with all of its beautiful lights and busy cars passing by, and thought "I'm a long way home, but the city's so pretty." It then hit me that this would be perfect to use for my music video coursework as by band is called Alone Tonight, in which i had felt, the album being called "A Long Way Home" ties in well with the music video as they are constantly on the road, traveling from one city to another, being a long way from home. The music video also does have the theme of travel and cities at night, in which I think this advertisement is going to be very strong indeed.

Surfing tumblr for ideas, I had stumbled on some of the most beautiful photos of cities at night and people wondering about alone, I came across several in which I loved and hope to replicate throughout my own photography.

Currently I am looking for these locations, as I have an idea of using Camden Lock, but not too sure.

Both my digipack and magazine advert are linked together as they both show the bus city life and how one can feel so alone and lost. This is just my first draft and I already have so many ideas, but before I progress I am going to ask my target audiences what they think through the use of social media.

Editing Software

Planning for Magazine advert and Digipack

I have just drawn out my first basic draft for my magazine advert and digipack. Here you can see that it is very basic as I a not a great drawer, but have shown what I want it to look like.
The main theme on this one was someone being alone in a big city with a suitcase traveling home. I have also looked at basic layouts of how they look and tried to copy it throughout mine. A lot of rock adverts use the whole page with their picture rather than just a small picture. This creates a more realistic theme and also ties in well with my idea of a busy city at night. I'm not too sure on the sizing and placements of things as when I actually do my first proper draft on the compute this will be more accurate along with the font. However The ideas are there and I am really proud of what I have come up with.



This is my draft for my front cover of my digipack. Following the same theme of a city at night from the magazine advert this one ties in with it as it will be the same model sitting high above on a hill or something, watching the city fade to night. The ideas all link and follow the same, lonely, lost theme of being away from home and trying to find your way back, again linking in with my song, so when you see my music video, it will have some link with the album and advertisement.

Not being very good at drawing, the picture is of a girl sitting alone at night looking down at the city view, the title and the album name sit in a faded circle, highlighting this. I've seen this done before on  many other digipacks and thought it would form to the conventions.

The back of my digipack again follows the city style, as I will take a picture of a road sign which will look like this, having many arrows pointing in all directions, each arrow will have the title of the song included in the album, again tying in with the themes of a city, lost and along, not knowing where to go.
It maybe hard for me to find a sign like this as they are old fashioned and hardly seen around, but if not I will compromise and either edit one together or take another picture of a sign in the street.

The background would be a faded, blurred scenery of the town at night with the street sign in full focus, along with the bar code and other record label information at the bottom.

Production Diary #27

I have just had a brilliant idea on what to base my digipack and magazine advert on.
Today I was coming home from a gig pretty late and decided to take the bus back, whilst on the bus it broke down a few times and the traffic was hideously large, so I found myself sitting there thinking. I then looked out to see I was in central London, where I saw the beautiful view of shops and buildings and cars all lit up in the dark sky, it was so beautiful to look at. It then hit me  that this would be perfect to use for my music video coursework as by band is called Alone Tonight, in which i had felt, the album being called "A Long Way Home" ties in well with the music video as they are constantly on the road, traveling from one city to another, being a long way from home. The music video also does have the theme of travel and cities at night, in which I think this advertisement is going to be very strong indeed.

However the only trouble now is putting these thoughts into pictures, I am going to do a draft and try to find a picture which matches the thoughts I have.
So excited and can't wait to try this out, I hope it all goes well!

Photos from filming

Here you can see that I have taken some pictures of the band whilst I was filming. I did not get a chance to get any of me actually filming the band because of the hectic environment of the set also it being short, I wanted to focus on getting the footage, i have many more photos from the gig which can be found at Alone tonight gig

I have just chosen a few to show you to prove that I was there actually filming this band.

Proposal

Actor Release form

Here you can see that I have got the band to sign this form to prove I have their permission in using them and their song in my project. I have also then signed it to show that this is me.

Production Diary #26

Now it's time to take a loot at all the legal things I need to consider. I have got my band to sign the sheets in which allow me to have their permission to use their song and them in my music video in order to avoid copy right and illegal claims against it. Also taking into account of good consideration of the health and safety factors, you will find posted recently on my blog, I have looked at them and found ways to avoid any harm to the band, people around me and also myself. Whilst filming I have used this helpful table in avoiding harm, as it has actually been useful, pointing out each thing to the band, making sure that they are aware also.

Risk Assessment sheet

Risk Assessment sheet

Alone Tonight's NEW MUSIC VIDEO

Check out the bands latest music video!

Production Diary #25

Reviewing my footage and just cutting small parts up into a short taster of what I have done and what I want to use in my actual music video. You will find this in the 9 minute video below, by doing this It has given me more ideas as to what to do in my video and how to make it interesting, I have previously reviewed a shot list you will see below which is pretty detailed with what type of shot, and what happens at what part in the song, this will then also match my storyboard, however you will see that there are some alterations in each, as my ideas have expanded and broadened whilst making each one. I now have a clear idea on what I am doing and plan to stick to these plans if all goes well.

Shot List

SHOT LIST

Summary of Footage/ Original Footage (unedited)