Holy Trinity Church

Since St Micheal's and All Angels church is now under construction we have switched to our back-up church, the Holy Trinity Church.

Here is a map and a photo of the outside of our church from google maps. The church is in an accessible area and has the same old stony look.




We have already contacted them and had a look round to make sure that it is a suitable location for us. The following are some pictures that we took there:

Equipment

This is a list of all the equipment we used on the day of shooting:

• Sony Handycam Video recorder
• Camera tape
• Hand-held lamps
• Digital Camera
• Toshiba laptop
• Speakers
• Music Player
• Extension Cable

Props:

• Microphone
• Guitar
• Drums
• Cello
• Violin
• Amplifiers
  

Digipak Research - Logos and Styles

I am the chief designer of our group for the ancillary tasks. As such, when my team mates work on the music video editing I will work on them but before I can begin on that, research must be carried out. I am beginning with research into our chosen band, if they have a particular logo and how their album covers look. Then I will look into other band's albums in the alternative rock genre.

To begin with I am looking into One Republic's logo. Each of their albums have different text fonts on them (Image on the right) and they really don't have one specific logo so I will be creating my own one for my designs. That said, there are similarities between the logos. Only 3 colours are present throughout all of the logos; black, white and brown (brown as a secondary colour). These set a distinct colour scheme and I will take this on board when designing my own. Another similarity is the the fonts are all formal which reflects the band's music videos (where they wear formal or smart-casual clothes) and promotes the band's image.

The actual art on the album covers are, in general, fairly abstract. Paint splodges are used in many of the designs and 'Dreaming out loud' features a silhouetted tree on a blue, starry background. This is common of the alternative rock scene. Despite the fact that they are abstract, the images are still formal in how they are presented. More examples of abstract cover art from bands that are 'alternative rock' is on the left.

The cover of 'Apologize' features the band members in formal wear posing. Obviously this shows that the band doesn't always choose abstract covers for their albums but it is uncommon.

I will probably experiment with a more abstract style of cover for my own work as it suits the band's style and genre well.

29th Dec - First Shooting, Disaster

Today was the first time we went out to get footage for our music video. We got everybody together at the church by the prearranged time and had all of our instruments in cars outside waiting to be brought into the church. However, the vicar who was supposed to have let us in didn't show up. After waiting for an hour outside whilst trying to contact him we lost hope of him coming.

This unforeseeable event has set us back in terms of timings and we will have to act fast in order to get the footage we need in time.

Storyboarding part 2

This is our finished storyboard. The video represents our plan for what the music video should look like overall and we have included a number of shots that we think would look good when it comes to filming. Throughout this storyboard we have included narrative elements, at the moment we don't know for sure whether or not we are going to use these or if we are going to go full narrative for the final piece. We ended the video with the singer blowing out a candle as it seemed to create a fitting conclusion to the song and the setting.

No Alfies were harmed in the making of this video

St Michael's and all Angels Church

We visited St Michael's and all Angels church yesterday and got permission to use any part of it for our video. In this post I will put many photos that we took and define how we would use the space if we choose to use this location.

We originally were going to use the main altar area for the setting of the video but when we got there we saw that the are was almost filled with bolted down pews for the choir. This meant that it would be very difficult to fit in the whole band in a way that looks good.

After that, we found another possible filming location. This room also has a stained-glass window in the background and is a much more open area (when the chairs are taken out). There is also another stained-glass window on the right side of the room that will look good in side shots. Another thing about this room is that just outside, there is a drum set and a keyboard that the church has also allowed us to use.

Storyboarding Part 1

Before we go and shoot out video we think that producing a video storyboard of what we want to happen in the video would help to outline what types of shots we need and hopefully forewarn us of shots that are out of our reach to obtain. Another objective of the storyboarding process is to get more familiar the application Final Cut Express in preparation for the final piece video editing.

To make a storyboard, we first drew pictures of lots different shots as we heard them in the song (right). Once we thought we had enough, we uploaded the images onto the computer and opened Final Cut. Jamie and Alfie mainly worked on the storyboard as they needed the experience of working with the program more than I although we did have to keep going back to produce more drawings for shots that we hadn't thought of originally.