Album Covers and Tour Posters

Part of our task is to create an album cover and a tour poster to go with the music video. The purpose of this is to advertise the artist and songs to the public. An album cover helps to create an image for an artist and sometimes can tell a lot about them and the particular album. Album covers help promote the artist and allows for people to identify them.

Tour posters also promote the artist but provides information for the public. They tell a lot about what the tour is going to be like and is part of a promotional campaign that helps the artist to be recognised by a wider audience.  Below is the album cover and tour poster for Sam Smith in which we will create our own taking inspiration from this.

Feedback

Below I have included images of the feedback I gave to the other groups about their music videos. By providing feedback the groups are able to re-edit their videos based on what people have said. This overall will improve their videos and make them better.

First Draft of music video

Today we have finished our editing for our music video. It is only a first draft so obviously there are things to improve on. We showed our music videos in class to each other to get feedback on what was good and bad about each video. From this we then can act upon the feedback to improve our music video.

Our group video can be found on this link below
http://groupcaik.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/music-video-first-draft.html

Contact Sheets

These are my contact sheets, as you can see on the pictures I have highlighted potential pictures that I could use for my album cover or tour poster. 

Locations of filming

I have included a birds eye view of the locations we filmed in as a group. We chose three locations that are completely different from each other so that in our music video there is more than one scene. 

We chose these locations specifically because they are very recognisable and are visually appealing. Also these locations were just a bus away and so was easy for us all to get there. When we got to each location they were better than expected as the weather was great with lots of natural lighting. This made our video very clear and look professional.

The cost was relatively cheap with it only costing £4 for a day pass. Due to our locations of filming we had to take around an hour out of filming time to accommodate for travelling to and from each location.  

Location One - St Johns Gardens & Library

Location Two - Pier head

Location Three - Crosby Beach

Cinematography

Pier Head - Scene Four

Crosby Beach - Scene Two

We have now finished filming for our music video so above I have put up some short clips that I have took that we will use.

Define text as brush (Photoshop Practice)

Third day of filming

Anthony taking photos for Album Cover.

Walking away scene for end of music video.

Panoramic shot of Crosby Beach.

Today at Crosby beach we got the rest of our filming done for our music video. The Our next step is to begin editing which we will start this week.

Weather

The weather for tomorrow looks good and so filming will go ahead as planned.