MORE.

This is another way we have been accumulating feedback. Through the use of tumblr. It is a blogging site that has only recently become popular. I think that in the next year, tumblr will be the more popular social networking site.

We've also used facebook. I thought it'd be easier to post on Gabrielle's fan page, as she has over 13,000 fans on there so it would be relatively simple to get some feedback.

FEEDBACK.

We started looking for feedback from some of Gabrielle's fans today. We want to use what they have said about her song in our ancillary task for our CD booklet. We thought that it would be cool to have a few quotes, saying what they thought of her song in the last page. I think it gives it a more personal feel, and proves how much she cares about the fans.

PROGRESS

I haven't updated this in a while due to preparation for our exam, so here is a little update just to say what we've been doing over the last 2 months.

In retrospect to our project, I can't say we've made much, if any progress in the past 2 months, but we've talked about what we're going to do, and what we think would work well in our piece. We've just taken quite a few shots for our ancillary task, and though they may not be exactly what we stated we'd like them to look like, I think they could work well. We experimented with fonts beforehand, and have those ideas written down so we can go back to them if we want to use them.

We used our original ideas for where we wanted to take the photos, which was good as it is close, and looks quite picturesque. It is a simple place to take simple shots, we will edit the shots to make them more how we would like them to look.

Videos we've used as inspiration for our video:




We took ideas from both of these videos, and incorperated our own. Although we don't have as much range in narrative shot as we would have liked, I feel that the video has come together well and could still be good. I am really pleased with what we've accomplished as we've had lots of distractions when it came to the video itself.

These two videos gave us ideas for the narrative, and shot types. Especially Clean White Love, we took most inspiration from this video. It is a vintage style video and it looks really good with that style of song.
We looked into so many different videos from this genre of music (Acoustic Ffolk pop) and these are the two that stood out to us the most.

ANCILLARY TASKS!

We spoke today about what we were going to do with our Ancillary tasks, and came up with a few ideas of what our CD cover and poster could look like. We drew small, rough sketches to show our ideas, and wrote down the shot type, angle, and setting next to them.

Firstly, we had a simple shot, which was in the middle of the frame and it was a long shot/midshot in amongst the frosty trees.

The second idea we had was for the same framing, but overlaying different shots to make it look ghostly, in amongst the frostiness of the trees.

The third and final idea we had was to get 4 different shots, one long shot, one midshot, one close up, and one extreme close up. Then we'll overlay the layers together and then it will create a cool effect.

When we've done that, we'll add text to the cover and pick the perfect place for it.

With the poster, we've come up with 3 ideas again.

Firstly, the idea we had was that we could use 3 shots, exactly the same, we would fade the image out across the page. Add text to the top, and the bottom. The title and name of the album at the top, and the date at the bottom.

Secondly, we thought about maybe doing an Andy Warhol grid style thing. It would give a good difference between the rest of the ideas that we have had.

Finally, we would use a singular photograph, and draw on it with a wacom pad, adding swirls and making it look prettier. It would make it look interesting and look more professional.

JUST A COUPLE OF UPDATES.

This song can be interpreted in so many different ways, there isn’t actually a right way to interpret it. It can mean something different to everyone but who are we to say that its wrong?

The lyrics are captivating, and you can create a strong narrative from them as they are so metaphorical. For example, the lyric “And friends don’t stick around, they go which way the wind blows”, we had the idea of having a big group of people surrounding the main character and one by one they’d disappear. We actually did get some footage of this, just to try it out, and it works, we just need to get the technical aspects of it right and it should look really effective.

I know a lot of people that love Gabrielle’s music, and I know for a fact that they all have different ideas of what this song means. I know what it was written about, but my idea of what it was about, is completely different to the what Gabrielle wrote it about, but that’s okay because it means she has captivated her audience, and her lyrics actually mean something and people like it enough to actually listen to it enough to try and get a deeper understanding.


I experimented with a couple of fonts to see which looked the best.

ANCILLARY TASK PLANS!

We are starting to plan our ancillary tasks (a poster and a cd cover). We've started looking at photographers that we can get inspiration from and base our ideas on.
The first photographer we have looked at is Tom Leishman, a talented, young photographer from London. He has worked for people such as The Saturdays, and other well known artists, but his personal work and album artwork is just beautiful. We've looked through the majority of his work, and we've come across some pieces that are really eye catching.

Here are some examples of his work that we really love.

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From looking at the pictures and deciding on which we both like, we've found out that we have really similar taste as to what we'd like to achieve with this.

We also looked at a photographer called Tom Barnes. He is well known in the music industry but also produces some really beautiful portrait shots. We cannot link or print screen the work that we love from this website, but the link is there so we can refer back to it whenever we need to.

ENGLISH WEATHER!

We can't film today as it is pouring down with rain. Unfortunately, because we live in England, this isn't something that is rare and it's just annoying that it stops us filming as the majority of our shots are outside.
So we've decided to use this lesson to figure out our targets for what needs to be done.

TARGETS:

Filming to be completed: This includes performance and narrative shots.

The performance shots that we've produced so far have looked quite good, we've cropped them down so that less of the background is shown, so we need to keep in mind not just the focus of the shot but what is in the background too. We need to film some more performance shots and refilm the performance shot that is sat at the window as it was out of focus.
The narrative shots that we have are minimal, all we have is the rough version of the leaf throwing which needs to be refilmed anyway so we need to crack on with the refilming and filming of completely new shots.

Start Ancillary Task: A poster and a CD Cover.

We need to take photographs of me, or something that is relative to the song. We then need to edit them to look like a poster and a CD Cover. We need to edit them to the best of our ability to make them look professional.

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