Corsework essay

 This is the link to my coursework essay: https://1drv.ms/w/s!AtzXj2yFPekrgk_dMIyCZB10jaln

Instagram

 This is the Instagram account that Alexandra, Lily, Pandora and I worked on. What I contributed with eas organising photography sessions with the band and tacking some of the pictures.

Instagram link: https://instagram.com/jus.tbreezy?utm_medium=copy_link

Digipak - font

This is the final version of the digipak:

After the studio shoot and my font research Alex and I were ready to start creating the final version of the digi pack.

At first, before the studio shoot Alex edited this abstracted photo of Kate (the singer) and I tried to work on that. 

However, the style of the writing and the colour palette simply did not match our music video’s vibe so that is when we decided to do the shoot.

Having the professional photos that we needed, we managed to create a digi pack that is perfectly suitable for the song. It has that trippy-hippie vibe to it that we have beet trying to visualise this whole project.

The green tone makes it look psychedelic and saves the image from looking too dramatic. To end up with this result Alex edited the pictures and afterwards I digitally drew the writing on my iPad. To manage to know exactly how to write it I had to try it out a couple of times: 

I choose, at the end, to use the light grey tone for the final  version  of the font to have contrast from the background which is dark and to match is with the colour palette of the initial photo. 

Future Now - the result of the music video

 This is the result of our music video:

Shoot day evaluation

 Before the shoot day, I prepared the props that I was supposed to bring (posters, my record player, vinyls and some fairy lights). I also prepared the plan for the shoot day that I had written weeks ago. When I woke up on the shoot day, I felt quite nervous as I was scared to forget filming some of the shots that we had planned and also nervous that we don’t have enough jars for the beach set. However, when we all met I realised we were not missing anything and that we were properly prepared for the shoot. Before we started filming, we made sure everyone was dressed with the costumes for the shack set. For the makeup, what Kate was wearing was already perfect so we didn’t need to do her makeup, and for the band, we decided they don’t need any make-up either. After that we brought out props to the set, but surprisingly we did not need to use any of the props as the shack set was already looking perfect. We only had one problem before starting to film. Although I told everyone in my group a week before, on the costume fit, that there needs to be guitarist and a bassist, no one listened and the bassist brought a guitar with her. Lily and I still fixed the problem last minute. We went around the campus running to find a base guitar as fast as possible so that we could start filming. Finally we managed to find one and we were ready to start shooting.

On the shoot day, everyone got to be one of the roles. At first Alex was the in charge of the camera, Lily was the director, Pandora was in charge of the timer on the Ipad and I was positioning the actors on the set and helping with the lighting. After a while we changed to me being in change of the camera, Alex holding the Ipad , Pandora being the director and Lily positioning people of the set, and so on. The role I enjoy the most was definitely filming and I wish I got to do it more, but other people wanted to do it as well. I think I did really well when it got to filming, especially when I filmed the handheld shot because I actually ended up using most of the shots of what I had filmed when I edited the music video. However, I must say I did not do that well when it came to directing, because I kept forgetting  what I was supposed to say. Overall we had no main problems, except missing a base guitar at the beginning of the shoot day which Lily and I managed to solve. We also had a problem with the drummer’s acting because he felt really uncomfortable, but I somehow managed to solve this when I was in charge of placing actors on set. What I did was dancing with them while everything was filmed and I was looking particularly and the drummer, trying to reming him to smile. In between the filming I went and talked to the actors telling them what to think about when we are filming and just enjoy themselves. I think the part of the shoot day was most successful was when Alex and I got to film the handheld shots of the band because when editing I realised those shots saved the whole music video due to how important movement in when filming and those were the shots that had the most movement.

I feel that as a team we did not work that well. Some times I felt Alex and I were more excited and implicated. I also had the feeling we didn’t coordinate with each other as some people were out of energy. We worked the best as a team when Pandora was the director, Lily in charge of the iPad, Alex in charge of the lighting or placing people and I was filming. What I learned was that on the shoot day you have to have a lot of energy, follow you plan and make the most of the time you have. I regret not adding more movement in some of the shots but that could not be done when everyone was filming because everyone had a different style, so I think we should have each had a fixed role. I also regret not filming the bird eye view I planned on when I did the test shoot in Imovie and that was because we were did not use the list of shots that I planned a week before which was a result of not being 100% prepared. In conclusion, I would plan everything even more before a shoot day. 

Looking at fonts

Today I looked for a suitable font for the digi packs and all the posters, because the style of the writing has to match the style of our music video of the psychedelic pop genre.

This is a screen recording of the fonts I found on the internet:

After looking for something suitable for a while, I realised nothing was good enough, so I drew the writing on my Ipad.

This is a screen recording of the process of me drawing the name of the band for the track list and possibly the digi pack.

To draw this, I looked at the Rubber Soul logo as an inspiration because it really suits the psychedelic pop genre.  

Second shoot

 Today Pandora Lily and I did a photoshoot in the photography studio. To do that, Alex (who is a photography student) talked to the teachers and booked the studio which was available for only half an hour at 5 PM.

When I went to the studio, Kate (the singer) was there on time, and shortly  after, Alex showed up with dave (the drummer) and Oscar. Ari was late as she did not know where the studio was, but I went outside to find her and show her the way. Lily showed up as well. After the whole band was there, Alex started taking the photos and I started looking at the photos I had saved on Pinterest as a source of inspiration for this studio shoot. 

The photo below on the right is a photo I found on Pinterest and we used as an inspiration as it can be seen in the photo on the left of the band. This was one of the best poses we choose and i think we might use the  photos that were taken of this pose on the digi pack.

The photos below is another example of how I used what i had found on Instagram to position the members of out band. What I found challenging was explaining them how to look at the camera and what attitude they should give off as Kate, the singer, was the only one who knew how to do that naturally.

These are some photos of Alex taking the photos and I showing the members of the band the inspiration photo and positioning them. 

In conclusion, this shoot was extremelly helpful because we now have a photo that we can put on the front of the digi pack and Alex and I can continue working on it (I am doing the font and she is editing the phtots for the digi pack). We also now have photos to give to Pandora and Lily so that they can work on the posters. The next and last shoot I am planning on doing is with Kate because she is in the same house as Alex and I and we can easily do it on Monday eavening when we arrive to the bording house after school.