Maine River

Maine River have posted on Facebook about they own music video coming out on the 1st of January 2012, from this we can compare our with theirs and see how they would interpret their own song from us who are outsiders.

social networks connected our video to

I uploaded our video on youtube, so we could receive constructive criticism from the public. also to make sure we got the constructive critcism we needed, we used social network sites which our target audience usually spends most of their time on e.g. Facebook, Twitter.

so I created a "like page" for our band Maine River on facebook and uploaded our youtube link for our target audience to check out i also linked this to twitter to so we have a more mass audience viewing our bands page i created:

these images show that i admin the page created and also what the image of our band and the statuses and links we have uploaded about our band.

Rough cut of our music video!

http://youtu.be/l0Psctx-ys8

editing and rendering the film

front cover of album idea

when looking at front cover for albums we were influenced by many artists that used the band members for their front cover:

Filming

editing music video part 2

Editing-Take 2

Editing

vicky & i both worked on the introduction of our music video as we wanted to make sure we were both happy with the outcome, we planned from the start that it would be in black and white therefore we used colour tint. we also looked at changing the speeds of the beginning as the actual footage was too rapid so we learned that right clicking on the particular piece of footage we could change the speed.

vicky showed me how to use markers on our music video which all had different meanings. she showed me to use markers so we knew that that particular piece of footage in our music video was in sync and we were happy with it.

Review-http://www.hevypetal.com/release-reviews/226/maine-river--self-titled-ep

Call sheets

screenshots of evidence band changing name

Digipak Inside Ideas

Digipak Back

Digipak Spine

I have taken inspiration from our CD for the spine of the digipak as it is an ongoing theme

lyric analysis

lyrics analysis:

We recieved inspiration from many of the lyrics for the setting such as "we have the whole world in our hands from the glaciers to the sand" which is repeated more then once so a beach seemed the most appropriate setting.

"you sell yourself short everytime these signs will guide you home" - We got the inspiration from this line of the lyrics that the girls life has turned upside down and the boy singing the song has seen it happen more then once and she always puts herself in the same situation with the same boy but she sees his true colours and realizes.

"he calls your name, the one you dream of, he calls your name your falling deeper"- this line gave us the idea of her falling asleep at the beach and we see her life as a dream that becomes chaotic and more nightmare like.

notes on the story board

Vicky: By making this storyboards and setting out a path of the shots we will incorporate into our music video.

It will give us a clear out line when we go to do our shoot, and all the way through our editing process. We will, however, have to remember that we do not need to follow these designs to a tee, meaning that we can put in another soot or cut one differently if, in the end it helps with the over all product.

Test Shots and Costume

tyler- test shot and costume

bradley- test shot and costume

will- test shots and costume

liam- test shot and costume

chloe's test shot and costume

these are the images of our test shots and to show the costume we used for our music video. we wanted to keep the theme of black and white tops and dark jeans. we wanted this look because our digipak is colour co-ordinated black and white. we also thought this was relevant to our genre of music which is alternative rock and this seemed the most appropriate as it isnt too over the top.

Revised Mock Ups of CD Cover

Due to the band changing their name we have revised the Digipak making it more in keeping with the new name.

as vicky was designing these cd mock ups, i helped come up with the idea of relating the bands name in with the cd somehow, because their name is maine river we designed the first image, however we then though of having black and white clouds because the image looked similar to rushing waves and it also kept in with the black and white theme. it is also looked really professional and was something that we both liked therefore we went for our second option.



production company name and logo

this was an idea that was something i thought would work well for our production company:
screamers never squeal productions and logo:

i then produced the logo on photoshop and captured the photo from google and changed the affect. 

Group Meeting- 23/11/11

Today we discovered that our band "Vienna" had changed their name to "Maine River" this was because of legal reasons. this meant vicky and i had to change our digipak ideas and and some of our research and planning.

Weather predictions for filming

we are preparing to film at the weekend Saturday 26th November and Sunday 27th November at Ingress Park. the weather for both days show that it should not be raining so it will be okay as we are filming outside.

Risk Assessment