Ideas For Album Cover

or for our music cover we have decided to follow the conventions of the original music covers from the original saturdays albums. in both of these pictures we can see that the saturdays are trying to look pervogative and sexy, in both of the albums we have noticed that each girl has a individual colour that they sport. we have decided that we could contrast this into our album covers to make it more recognisable as the sundays. Looking and comparing at both of these albums, we can see a differance in the colours in the at the back ground. the first one has a white back ground which makes them look slightly more innocent. for our back ground we will follow that certain convention as it also makes the picture look more polished and professional.

For our shoot we have decided to shoot it in a simular environment to the shoots we see above. we will most likely follow the conventions of the strait shot and not so much the low angle shot that we see in the second picture. this is because we would need more aparatus to preform such a shoot. also in personal preferance we believe that a long shot for the shoot will flatter our dresses more so also. Therefore this gives the audience a better view of the band and we can be more recognisable to potential buyers of the album.

The name of the album will most likely resemble our names 'THE SUNDAYS'. And the font will be simular to the covers that we see above. It will cover a majority of the album cover so that people will be able to recognize the saturdays strait away. There will be five girls, simularly to the saturdays cover and we will all be dressed in a stylish way.

The Saturdays - Forever Is Over Analysis

In order to decide which video that we would like to make we had to analyise videos that already exitsed to understand the convertions of what we had to make.
we have decided to do a girl band video most likely to be the saturdays: work or forever is over. this video connotates a pervogative girl band who are singing about boys that have let them down, and that they are able to be single and happy. The video opens with a pretty looking blonde girl swinging on a chair. Immediatly we notice she is wearing red, which dennotates a pervogative colour and she has mathing red lipstick to make her look sexy. The secene then goes to show us two more girls looking up at the camera as it is a high angle shot, this shows them looking vunerable as they are looking up at the camera sadly. By time the first girl begins to sing we have been introduced to each band member in tern so we are familiar with the band. The shots that a widely used in the video are closeups and head shots that show emotion. we also see long shots to show off thier outfits and their pervogative clothes and bodies. continuty editing is used to show each of the girls throwing thinsg around to show how 'mad' they are at being 'messed around by boys'. all the girls are wearing nice clothes that younger audiences would be able to recognise and would like to follow, therefore attention to make up and wardrobe (mise-en-scene) have been attented to accoringly.

The Saturdays - Work Analysis

The song that we have chosen to do is going to be work by the saturdays, in order to shoot and plan a effective music video for our target audience i need to analyise the music video itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDjxLTr5qg&ob=av2e

The video opens with a grungy back ground and the music begins to kick in, we see a picture of the saturdays. the scene then quickly drops to a extreme long shot were the saturdays begin to appear. The back drop is light and we notice light come up in the back ground to show the saturdays walking on, they are wearing quite sexy ourfits which show off alot of skin and their hair is long to represent a seductive women. The shot switches from the girls dancing to perogative chorography to individual head shots of them. much like forver is over the girls are seen to be wearing clothes that younger fans and fans the same age as the girls can relate to. All the girls are in sync with their chorography, which is something we would like to add to our video. This could be something that is found in other girl band videos as a expected trait in a girl band video. the back ground in the scenes are repeated as the girls are filmed individualy, however as a audience we notice that the back drop and lighting is the same. This is another trait we would like to encorporte into our video.

The Song We Have Chosen...

We have chosen to re create the song by the saturdays work, the differant colours show the differant parts in the song that the individual girls in the band will be singing.

Baby the harder you work
the further you get with me.
With me.I think you can.I think you can.
Turn up prepared and make sure you can keep up with me.
With Me. I think you can. I think you can.

But be aware I always get what I deserve.
Keep your focus keep you nerve.
Ready.Set.Go.

Pick up the pace and step on it!
Rip up the place if you want it! Work!Work!
You know you gotta work! Work!
I got the goods and I want you.
Put your boots on baby get to work!Work!
You know you gotta work!Work!

I tend to get what I want so are you starting to see?
I think you do.I think you do
.It's time for youto step up if you wanna be with me.
With me.I think you do.I think you do.

But don't go slow.
That is not the way we play.
Slowly aint my kind of game. Ready.Set.Go.

Pick up the pace and step on it!
Rip up the place if you want it!
Work!Work!
You know you gotta work!Work!

I got the goods and I want you.
Put your boots on baby get to work!Work!
You know you gotta work!Work!

And it's up to you how far we take this.
Yes it's up to you so take the lead.
And it's up to you so tell me what I gotta sign.
Waiting at the finish line baby.
Ready.Set.Go.

Pick up the pace and step on it!
Rip up the place if you want it!
Work!Work!You know you gotta work!Work!
I got the goods and I want you.
Put your boots on baby get to work!Work!
You know you gotta work!Work!

Pick up the pace and step on it!
Rip up the place if you want it!Work!Work!
You know you gotta work!Work!
I got the goods and I want you.
Put your boots on baby get to work!Work!
You know you gotta work!Work!

final song choices. THE SATURDAYS

Our group has decided to narrow our decidion down to two saturdays songs.
the saturdays - work.
the saturdays - ego.

By picking the saturdays we have abled ourselves to have a variety of the girls with differant hair colours and styles to be singing in the band. The band consits of 5 girls who each on their own represent a differarnt style and type of women. Through their performances in the videos that we have watched, the saturdays represent women to be sexy by the pervogative clothes and hair styles they sport. the majority of the band have long and flowy hair with connoates a sterotypical 'sexy' girl. The clothes that they tend to wear in thier videos show alot of flesh and their make up is done up to makes them look flawless. This to the audience makes girls want to copy this style and look like the saturdays. this could be a negative however, as it will be very hard for us to airbrust ourselves to the point that the saturdays have been and the light and quitptment used to make them look so flawless would be very expensive to hire. Therefore we will steer away from this slightly, to still look sexy as we can but also to look real.

PICKING A PROJECT

Initally for our project we have decided to make a music video, prefrebly and girl bad. Our group consists of four girls therefore we have decided that a girl bad video would be easier for us to achive our target audience.
Our target audience will be girls and some boys who are interested in the pop industry. the girls that will like our band and our video will most likely be able to relate with the video therefore, dressing simular to them aswell as being able to relate to the lyrics. in order to create such a video our dress and song choice must be something they feel that they can achive and wear and feel as though they would be able to sing along with the video. our group have decided that we would be most interested in making a video such as:

The saturdays
Girls aloud
Spice girls

We will have to adapt our group to be able to make the song fit in with each of the singers, therefore we should take in to consideration bands that have four singers in them such as all saints and bewitched. however after watching the videos we feel that we would be able to create a musis video with five girls and apapt it into a four girl video or add a model.

creative techniques

With this task we were asked to go and film a scene, that includes the subject of suspicion.

We decided to make a effect that really creates an element of suspicion by including a dark figure or a figure of some one with their hood up which hides their face. The original opening of the video that we have made opens with a body on the floor, this opening immediately creates a sense of suspense as the audience do not know who did this or who the body belongs to. By the camera panning up the body of the killer the suspense builds. The music is low key and non diagetic it is parrael to the film as it also represents suspense. The task enabled us to explore different types of music and to experiment with what goes well with the scene we were trying to create. The video continues with the hooded character walking down the stairs and the edits are clever as that it shows a lot about the character, (how she walks, what she wears) but it still creates a element of suspense. The genre of our short clip would be thriller as it entails a lot of the elements that a thriller entails. Such as suspence which was the point of the task along with dark figures and a lot of match on action.

This lesson was a good chance was for us to develop our skills in terms of editing and camera work as we were able to see what went well and what does not look professional. In particular we looked at improving match on action shots, we did this by looking closely at the suspect and using editing to follow her actions.