Link to website

www.mishaarmstrong.wix.com/thekooks 

The Kooks - She Moves In Her Own Way: Final Music Video

This is our final music video. Enjoy.

Finsished ancillary

I have decided to use the more colourful products for our ancillary products, because I believe that it fits in better with the genre of the music. After completing research into band websites and CD covers of bands from a similar genre, the melancholic colours along with pictures not including the band, fitter better.

 

Here is our finished ancillary pieces;

Website...

CD cover...

Front cover. We decided to use this image because we felt it fit well with the Indie genre. It uses and abstract image that doesn't focus on the band, and also uses low saturation lighting. 

Insert 1. This included a thank you from the band and QR codes to allow the audience to easily buy the album. It also displayed the band logo, which acts as a brand sign, as well as the band website, which again can be seen as marketing a brand

   

Insert 2. This includes the credits to the production company and the band members, as well as a band photo which the audience can use to identify the band. 

This is the front and back cover of the CD. The back cover has a track listing, as well as the logos to all the websites where an audience can listen to or buy the songs online, and the record companies. We discovered that these were all features of CD covers during the research stage. 

        

The black writing at the bottom is actually turquoise (to fit in with the website) however it did not shop up on the preview.

Alternative ancillary product

This is the alternative ancillary products. We decided not to use these because we did not think that a black and white theme fitted with the upbeat song that we chose.

Website...

Filming pictures.

Here are some pictures we took during our two shoots

Narrative section. 

Performance section 

Production Progress: 28th Jan

Since filming the performance section of the music video, we have been working on two different aspects of our media production.

• Editing the music video;

We have been working most lessons, getting the performance section edited together. We have been faced with two problems. Firstly, the computer is lagging which is making it difficult for us to get the lip synching in time. Also, we ended up with two separate quality shots. However, we are working together to over come these problems, and find solutions.

• Creating the website;

We have also been working on one of the ancillary pieces; the band website. We have finished the first draft, and we are just waiting for teacher feedback. Whilst doing this section we have worked out a colour scheme, and have completed a band logo. Although, we did face problems with the size of the pictures, we managed to over come it and we feel that this first draft is of high quality.

Website; first draft

 

When planning our website we decided to create it in Wix. This site enabled us to get the appropriate template for our website page. We have chose to stick to a colour scheme of; grey, blue, black and white. This fits in with the melancholy feel of the indie genre, as well as the music video itself, which feature a lot of these colours quite predominantly.

This link is effective, as it helps the audience make the connection between the band, and the music video.

Blog logo

We have designed our blog logo.

It is very simplistic, which we feel fits in well with the genre of the band (indie pop), as the are usually very simple with dark colours. It is clear what the name of the band it, and the writing looks quite edgy, which we think makes an effective band logo.

The outtakes from filming.

On tuesday we went to the Dcas centre to film the performance section of our music video. We came away with lots of out takes and so I decided to create a short film.

Performance filming

Filming at the DCAS centre was a success!!

We managed to get all the shots we had planned, as well as a lot of extras, in just under 2 hours.
Using a multi-cam technique meant that we could get multiple shots of the same performance, which we feel will make the music video look even more effective.

How we filmed;

• We ran through the song, with the whole band playing and singing, and filmed from two different angles. We did this three times, allowing us to get 6 different angle of the whole band performance.
• We then took a few shots of the individual band members, either playing their instruments or singing.
• For the 'bloopers' we filmed the band in between the shots I mentioned above.
• We also got the band and the producer inside the mixing booth.