Cover Inspiration and Progress

Back to my minor tasks. I have been working at length on my dvd cover and advert. I have made them similar in style so that it looks like they were produced by the same company. One of them in black, one in white, to give them the contrast but still make them the same style. This relates back to the way I wanted them to be minimalistic. I like the way they are looking.

After getting to go ahead to re submit my coursework I restarted working on my DVD cover.

This was my original submission. As you can see it is not comprehensive at all, there is only one page with no blurb. However I do like the font of the band and tour names. I also like the picture of the pen and the sword.
This is what I have done so far for my re submission. As you can see It is a bit more comprehensive than my original. I've encorporated the pictures more this time and added a picture of the band. I've also added a description of the tour, I was thinking of adding some short review statements from music magazines and newspapers.


This is pretty much my final piece. I added a background image to really get a full feel. I will post up some of the images which I tried to use as a background image. As you can see I kept the pen and sword picture and the band photo. I added some spine wording to give it the look of a dvd. I also added a blurb and tracklisting. The DVD logos and age ratings were added very last to actually make it look like a DVD cover.

Because artists very rarely release tours on DVD it was quite hard for me to find inspiration for the cover. Here are some that I could find though.

Technical Advances

The reason I could not have used my previous film for my task is that it just was not long enough. I totally underestimated the time and effort needed to get a sufficient amount of material to make a decent film. After the first filming session, which I only spent about 2 hours doing, not only did I lack sufficient shots to make a legnth of film to match my music, but I also did not take into account the shot changes, such as the two shot match or others. I made sure when I re filmed my scenes I would make room for the technical shots.

First Video Attempt

After working on my DVD advert. I started to film my music video. It took me ages to find a field in which to film the chase scene, i found one in nutfield and i began filming. I took me two or so hours to get all my footage together and even longer to start editing. I edited about 10 seconds of film in a couple of hours. The footage wasn't what I was after, it didn't look good, I didn't film enough. There wasn't enough footage to work with. I filmed over that footage before I managed to upload it.

Ideas for Advert

I have been working on my DVD advert and decided to do it on a live tour filmed for DVD. I used the band font from the CD cover and the band name. I searched on Google for a picture of a pen and a sword and after great length found a picture. I liked the idea of having a rather plain advert. The way I presented the band is as if they were an extremely anticipated band and people already knew most of what they needed to do. I had in mind a teaser trailer for a film but in the form of a magazine advert. So just a plain background with the band name, tour name and release date.


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Video Inspiration

After putting together the final edit on CD of the song, i started to brainstorm ideas for the video. I came up with the idea of a chase scene in through a film. the reason I chose to do a chase scene is because there is automatic drama created. I have taken inspiration from Underoath's 'reinventing your exit' music video. I could never get anything that would look as proffesionally done as it or get the special effects they used but it was a chase scene to draw insiration from.

Underoath - Reinventing Your Exit
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Initial Ideas

I've chosen to do a music promotional video as my major task. My friend and I wrote a song a few years ago and I always wondered what a music video for that song would be. I thought I'd find out.

My initial plans are to use my own song that a friend and I recorded for the music video. We had a prototype band name and a song title so I decided to use those. Because the song is my own I have no copyright issues and can use the original recording and original band font.

One of the problems I expected to encounter was how to film properly, the only experince of how to film came from studying the shots of previously published films. I also have had no previous experiences of editing any footage. This was going to be quite an experience for me.