Website

Digipak

Equipment list

2 cameras

2 tripods

Office chair

Raised platforms

Lighting

Sound system

2 guitars

Drums

Microphone

Mic lead

Photoshoot planning-Simple analysis and shots needed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the magazine cover from the Kerrang! music magazine from 2009. The main picture is a very effective picture as you can see 3 members of Green Day very clearly in a close up. This is also effective as it makes the cover eye catching as well as unique. The image is also very clear and professionally done. We could use a similar set up as this as the picture is well shot and interesting. This would be a good idea to use on one of the website pictures or one inside the digipak.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a picture of All Time Low. This is an effective picture as it is clear, the band are easily seen, and also well lit. This is another very effective shoot as it is on a white background and still looks good, this is an idea we could use in our photoshoot as we may not need another background.

 

 Tuesday 2nd december

Shots we need

Close ups of each member

Group shot of members

Mid shots of each

Full headshot of each member for banner pictures

Longshot of each

A variety of poses that coudl represent the pop punk genre should be used within these.

A compilation of these shots will be very useful

 

more will be added if needed

Prelim music video

Production Pitch

Risk Assessment

Location-Courtneys house

Risk	Risk level 1-5	What is the risk	How to reduce the risk
Picture frames	3	The picture frames could fall off the walls.	We will take the pictures off the walls so the risk of them falling off is reduced to 0.
Sharp corners on the fireplace	3	If someone trips and falls onto this they could get seriously injured.	To lower the risk of this we will make all cast and crew members aware of this risk.
Wires on the floor	4	This is a tripping hazard if any loose wires are on the floor.	We will move all wires out of the way and if any wires are attached to the camera we will make the cast and crew aware of them and move them out the way as much as possible.
The TV	1	The TV could fall if the stand is knocked.	To reduce this risk we will keep the filming away from the TV as much as possible.
The camera equipment	3	If cast or crew members aren’t looking where they’re going they could trip over the tripod or any other equipment we have on the day.	To lower this risk no members of cast or crew (who are not using the camera) will go near the equipment unnecessarily.

Location- The Celler Bar

Risk	Risk level 1-5	What is the risk	How to reduce the risk
Tables and chairs	2	There are multiple tables and chairs around the bar; these could easily be tripped on by the actors and crew.	Make sure all chairs and tables are out of the main walkway.
Pictures on the wall	2	There are a few pictures on the wall, these could easily fall off if they and knocked and cause injury to anyone hit as well as a tripping hazard.	Either make sure you are clear of the pictures or take them down and put them in a safe place.
Mirror	4	There is a large mirror hanging on the wall. This is a major hazard as it could fall off and hurt someone as well as shatter and scatter glass on the floor. It would also create a tripping hazard as well as glass shattering	Move the mirror to a safe position and be especially careful during transport.
Wires	4	Near the stage area, there are wires on the floor as well as on the walls, these are tripping hazards and are relatively hard to see so are an extreme hazard.	You can reduce the risk by making sure that everyone knows where each wire is, and if possible, move them out of the way.
Glass on the bar itself and bottles.	3	As it is a bar, there are many items that are made of glass, these can be sharp and shatter when dropped. We must make sure no to touch them or drop them on the floor.	Keep away from the area filled with glass as much as possible.
Electrical equipment and lighting	3	There is a lot of high powered lights and stage equipment and instruments such as key boards and amps. If these are plugged in an moved, they could start a fire if the circuit is damaged.	Make sure you only move the item when it is not plugged in and no liquid is near it.
Tripods and cameras	3	The tripods and cameras could cause a tripping hazard if they are not seen or are in an unsafe area.	Make sure everyone knows where the cameras and equipment are and keep clear of them when not in use.

Website analysis

This is the homepage of Pop Punk band All Time Low. We can see it has all the stereotypical conventions of a band page as it has tabs with different information on it, the band name and some images as well as advertising merchandise on it. This is very conventional as it is a layout used by many bands under the same genre as well as some bands not in the genre. The colour red is also conventional as it is not too bright or a too dark colour, this contrasts between bright colours and dark colours. However, we can see, whilst the background is a nice colour, its design is rather bland; this could lead it to be seen as less interesting.

 

 

 

This is another pop punk bands website, this time, We The Kings website. We can see it is more eye-catching than the All Time Low one, this is because it has a black and white pictured background, showing the band, but colour image in the centre. This makes the centre stand out more from the background.  However, where it is more eye catching, the information on the site is rather lacking as it only has tour dates and a store on it, this makes it not very informative and lacklustre of information.

 

This is the Dead by April homepage, they are an alternative metal band. Compared to the pop punk websites, this one uses darker colours but all together, has more information on it with even more tabs with even more information on, a very informative band website.  The darker colours of the website reflect the genre as it has a heavier, darker sound than pop punk. Also, compared to the pop punk websites, it is more visually eye catching as the background is a very interesting picture that looks good, as well as allowing to let the other parts on the page also look good.

Location consent form

To whom it may concern

 

Our year 13 A level media students are currently creating a music video as part of their coursework. This will count towards their final grade for their A levels. This coursework will include a webpage, a digipak and the video itself.

 

The music video will be aimed at teenagers and young adults ages 16 and over. It will be under the genre of pop punk.

 

I am writing to request permission to use your premises in pictures and videos for the video, webpage and digipak.

 

These will only be seen by other A2 media, examiners and be posted on YouTube.

 

Please tell us your decision by indicating it in the permission slip below, this will also require your signature as further proof of your permission to use your premises. Your signature and selection will confirm the use of your premises within the factors of the year 13 coursework.

 

Regards,

 

The Angry Biscuit Production Company

                                                                                                                                      

I do/ do not give permission to use my premises in the music video, webpage and digipak of What If The Zombies Come by Call Atlantis.

 

Signed:-………………………………………………

 

Printed Name:-………………………………………

 

Date:-………………………

Website mock-up

I changed the colour of the tabs slightly to match in with the background more

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Website with colour adjustments, completely redone and pictures.

Cutting to the beat

IIII\ S1 IIII\ S2 IIII\ S3 IIII\ S4 IIII\ S5 IIII\ S6 IIII\ S7 IIII\ S8

This isn't where I want to be\ S9

This isn't who I want to see\ S10

Staring back\S11 at me\S12

In the mirror\S13

It’s so much clearer\S14

Everything\ S15 better/ S16 when your nearer\S17

Hey what you drinking\S18

Maybe tell me what you’re think\S19 In\S20 g\S21

         III\ S22 IIII

 \S23 What if the zombies came?\S24

Would you still\ S25 be playing your sick and \S26 twisted game

We wouldn't stand a \S27chance in hell

In this \S28 post-apoc\S29 alyptic \S30 town\S31

IIII/  S32 IIII

Well\S33 what do I do\S34 now\S35

It's getting\ S36  too \ S837  Close  for   comfort\ S38 In this town\ S39

I don't \ S40  want to stay\ S41

But I can't \S42  leave either wa\ S43  y\  S44

I guess\ S45  I'll have to fight \  S46 through another day

     IIII\ S47

                                                                         

What if the \  S48 zombies came?\ S49

Would you still be playing\ S50  your sick and twisted \ S51   game\ S52

We wouldn't \ S53 stand a chance \ S54  in hell\ S55

In this\ S56 post-apoc\ S57 alyptic town\ S58

But I'll fight\ S59 till the break of dawn\ S60

Just put your\ S61 high heels on\ S62

And dancing\ S63 to your favourite\ S64  so\ S65 n\ S66\ g\ S67

IIII\ S68 IIII\ S69 IIII\ S70 IIII\ S71

So I’ll run and\ S72 I’ll run and I’ll run\ S73 a\ S74 w \ S75 ay \ S76

From everything you said to me\ S77

 

What if the zombies came?\ S78

Would you still be playing\ S79 your sick \ S80  and twisted \ S90   game\ S91

We wouldn't \ S91 stand a chance in hell\ S92

In this\ S93 post-apoc\ S94  alyptic town\ S95

But I'll fight\ S96 till the break \ S97 of da\ S98 w\  S99 n\ S100

Just put your\ S101 high\ S102  heels on\ S103

And \ S104 dancing to your \ S105 favourite \ S106 s\ S107 o\ S108 n\ S109 g\ S110

CTTB written up by Emma, shot no. inserted by Sam

Location

Lyric Anlaysis 2

Focus Group

The first question we asked was what the group thought would suit the song, Performance, Narrative or a mix of both. The responses we got from the group of 6 all said that a mix of narrative and performance would suit our song best. This means that our audience would prefer a promo that has both narrative and performance in it, so we will go for one that uses both. This helped us decide because we were caught between pure performance and the mix of both. This has helped us make the final decision on a mix of both performance and narrative.

 

Our second question asked about if they liked our idea or not, the idea we put forward was to create a narrative and performance based music video. It will involve two characters, a male and female. The female will be the main part of the performance along with band shots. The narrative shows the female character at war with her inner self (the zombie). The male character shows the conflicting relationship and how relationships can die out. It also shows a cheating relationship.

 

The group all wrote down that the idea was good and that they think it could work well, this tells us that our target audience, which our group where made up of, enjoy the idea and would like to see it done, this gave us confirmation on their likes and dislikes within the music video, all the comments also said that they liked the idea and none where negative and everyone liked it. All of the group said it would be “interesting” and a one said it could “create meanings”, two people also detailed how the lyrics would suit the theme and how people can change in a relationship.

 

The third question we asked was about mise-en-scene and what the group would think to be effect. We got a verity of different responses such as a house, a restraint and a public place. This gave us some interesting ideas of what we could do, especially to fit the lyrics. For example, The first part of the song, which talks about the singer being in regret and confusion, would be good to be shot at a house, this would make a more personal feeling for the audience to relate to the promo. The other ideas of a romantic place or a restaurant could also be used within the promo as a flashback of the couple together, the audience also said this would work so it may be a good idea to use.

 

We also asked about lighting and costume as part of mise-en-scene in this question, All of the focus group said that the costume should be “normal” clothes, such as jeans and t-shirts, this also fits in with our target audience so that is the idea we will use. They also said that the lighting should be darker but not very dark. This would be a very good idea as the lighting could reflect emotional pain and confusion if it is darker; this helps as we did not particularly think of lighting. The group also said that the darker lighting could create an “atmosphere” of darkness and emotion so it would be the appropriate lighting.

 

We then asked about what camera shots they would like to see within the promo. Every reply apart from one said that we should use close ups within the promo to show emotion as well as close ups on the instruments in the performance parts. The one that did not say to use close ups, put we could use over the shoulder shots instead, this could be used to show the relationship of the boy and girl in the narrative before the female found out about the cheating, such as in a restaurant talking. Two of the replies said we should also use mid shots, I agree with this as we can easily show the band members and narrative through them, most of the others said to use long shots so they could see the band, I also like this idea in the performance parts so it would be a very good one to use.

 

The final question we asked was which demographic they think the promo would appeal to. Every one of the 6 replies said that it would appeal to teenagers, 4 of which specified females. This shows that we have chosen a correct idea for our target group as well as song for them, this means we have chosen well. One reply said that we it also relates to broken hearted people, which the song does so we could emphasize this fact.

 

 

Basic layout of website

This is a quick mock up of how the website will look. It is a very conventional website for a band as it has all the basics on it that the band have, e.g. information and merch as well as having a conventional layout and image placement.

Job roles

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You Me At Six-Sinners Never Sleep Digipak Analysis

 

This is the Digipak of You Me At Six-Sinners Never Sleep. You Me Six are a pop-rock/punk band. As we can see, the digipak is in black and white and no other colour at all, even though this makes it rather dull, it is rather effective as we can easily see all the different line and contours of the shapes and letters. This is an effective digipak as it appeals to its audience as the image is clear. Also, it obeys the conventions of a digipak as it is Six panels, The inside consists of pictures of the band, holding plaques that say their names on them, this makes it an effective way to introduce the band as well as showing everything about them. However, there is a distinct lack of band information as well as lacking other similar things. However, the conventions of, Front cover, track list and pictures are still there. This digipak represents the band as pop-rock/punk because of the dull colours used as well as the pictures of the band and their costume fitting in with the genre as well as appealing to the audience, which is teens and young adults due to the fact that the audience will possibly wear similar clothing. This represents the band as younger and new, as the genre is about.

The meaning of this digipak is to show a rebellious side of music, such as represented by the front cover which is a board that is often held by criminals when they went to prison for their mug shots, this shows it as somewhat against popular culture as well as against certain aspects of society.

Target Audience

the target audience for our music promo is teens and young adults ages 16+. We have aimed our promo at this age group as they are the most common age that listen to the Pop Punk genre. This means this is the age group that we should be targeting. Also, the theme of our narrative, is about relationships and a break up as well as mental confusion that comes with that. This will relate to  our audience as the chances are, they may have been through something similar. This means that the audience may connect with the narrative more and create a link between them.

Another way we will target the teen-young adult audience is through the use of mise-en-scene by the costume, we will use normal teenagers clothing for the band members and characters that the audience would normally wear, once again, linking them together.

A third way we will target our audience is with the actors we will use. They will be in their late teens which many pop punk bands are, this will also help them epathise with the narrative as well as make the product conventional.

Vox Pops

We asked a few questions in our vox pops. The first one asked which was the persons favourite music promo. This not only gave us ideas on which music people in our target audience listened to, but also the genre of music they like. Most out our audience said pop music promos such as gangnam style and baby. This allowed us to acknowledge that audience listened to pop music. However, two of the people we interviewed said that they like more rock based promos, this also showed us that our audience do not just listen to one type of music.

 We also asked why they liked the promo they said a varying amount of reasons from one having "a hot girl in it", which relates to the  idea of male gaze and watching music promos with females in it, to reminding you of real life. This tells us that people like music videos for different reasons. This helped us decide on our themes in our music promo as they wanted a real life event as well as characters who they could relate to in real life.

The final question we asked was where they watch them and we received a few answers. All of the people said either phone, laptop or phone. This tells us that they use more modern, internet connected devices than standard, non internet devices such as TV as more said they use a phone than TV. They also answered that they usually watch the promo on youtube. This once again, supports the idea of modern technology but also, they watched them on the music channels on TV which also tells us they are into TV as well.

WITZC lyric w/analysis version 1

Here, our group worked on an analysis of the lyrics, it was written up by Emma.

Genre-Pop Punk

 

Genre is a denomination that something falls into in its field judged on its content and form as well as what its conventions fall into as well.

 

Pop Punk is a musical genre which contains pop rock and standard pop music to a varying degree, it originates in many different countries from the 1970s. However, some bands have included elements from more hardcore punk genres and included it in their music. This makes for varying sounds that can change by band or even by each individual songs as it is a constantly changing genre.

 

The lyrical themes do not particularly fit to one subject, but a lot of songs are based around modern occurrences and love. However, saying this, some bands also include psychological  themes in their music such as confusion and interesting subjects about decision.

 

The sound of pop punk once again, varies by the band. The vocals are either done by male or female or the occasional mix of both. The genre also has conventions of “poppy” vocals and choruses. However, some bands such as Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Come under pop punk but include screaming in their music from hardcore punk and metal. The instruments usually consist of 1 or 2 guitars, lead and rhythm if 2 are used but otherwise just lead, drums and a bass guitar. The tuning of the guitar is often, if not always, up tuned to provide a lighter feel to the music.

This is All Time Low, a pop punk band from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. As we can see, they wear “normal” clothes that we would see in the streets everyday on people of their age, this allows them to be recognised and familiarised with the audience. So this represents them as normal people that we can all relate to, the bands in the genre are also mainly down-to-earth people who are usually normal and not considered bad people by the press.

This band is Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! Who come from Paris, they emerged from more of the punk side of pop punk but are still represented in the same way that All Time Low are, normal and down to earth, this is once shown again by their clothing.

 

The ideology to artists in this genre are friendships, relationships and life in general as often related to in their music, Many bands also write a song about their origins and where they come from to get the audience to know a little more about them as well as showing their love for their families and homes.

 

The target audience for pop punk is teenagers, male and female. This is because the poppy themes and songs are not hard on the ear for standard pop fans but also not too light for rock fans as well as the themes of the songs relating to the audience and teenage themes. Their target audience is of varying demographics as they do not particularly aim at one in particular. The class they would be seen to look at is middle and working as it is not a “posh” style of music.

 

We Are The In Crowd- Rumour Mill

This is a conventional shot from the pop punk genre of music promos as it is a long shot of the band, this is very common in this genre as more or less every band who create a pop punk promo use long shots of themselves. The camera is also constantly moving which gives us a feeling of pace and speed to the music whilst also making it feel more fun and energetic, like the music itself, as well as being up beat and lifting. The camera usually alternates between long and mid shots of the band and keeps up with the pace of the music and alternates to different instruments when they are the dominant one in use.

 

Long shot of the band

The editing of this music video is also very fast paced, especially when the song kicks into a faster beat and during the opening. This, similar to the camera movement, increases the speed if the music promo. The transitions used are standard straight cuts, This is because it is a fast, simple transition with multiple uses and keeps up with the music. However, focus pull edits are used in the promo to change the main focus of the shot to different parts.

 

 

From this shot, the editing cuts into 3 more very, very quickly.

 

 

The mise-en-scene of the promo is one that the target audience of teenagers can relate to as the setting is a standard town and many of the audience will live in one. The costume of the band members are also very stereotypical of the age group as well as the target audience, this will help with the band appearing normal to the audience as they do not wear upper class clothing.

 

 

 

 

Here, we can see the singer/ guitarist is wearing jeans and a t-shirt, this is very stereotypical of the target audience and age group.

 

 

 A tracking shot of one of the members in the narrative showing a normal, town set, mise-en-scene.

There is a joint narrative and performance in this promo, both of which, use members of the band. Some of the images set in the narrative are also rather humorous so provide entertainment. However, performance nor narrative is taken over the other, leading to a very split narrative and performance, they also do not relate to each other or come together.