Hi, my name is Adam. I'm 18 years old and am here to share with you my 2 year media blog that has been part of my A-Level course at school. It starts with the making of a Thriller sequence and ends with a Rock'n Roll bash. I hope you enjoy and start creating something extraordinary yourself.
Monday, 26 October 2015
1st Poster Ideas For Our Band
This post is going to show the process in which I designed the bands tour poster. They all consist of a brick wall with some shining light on it, which connotes that there is something exciting on the other side as well as cohering with the name 'The Walls'. Also it hints some of the songs true meanings 'there is an end to everything, both good and bad'. It is a simple poster that doesn't require a lot of editing and synthetic looks. Purely because we are an individual band without a super high budget meaning we don't get professionals to get things done. We also wanted the brick wall to show an urban style of life as it transcends the idea of indie music, everything isn't perfect. In the future we hope to add our band to the posters/tour posters to give the audience an idea of what music we present.
Our New Logo
We have decided to change our logo font to Floydian as it is a more organic style font that suits the band as a whole. It's simple, smooth and suggests that the band isn't trying to heavily sell themselves to a particularly main stream audience. It will contrast the light and the dark sides of life in our day an age and the colours seem to relate to our previous media project giving us inspiration. The un-even writing represents how our music is independently different in every aspect, giving it an organic name. We will be using this font in our posters as well as our album cover in the future.
Sunday, 25 October 2015
Risk Assessment
During the course of shooting our music video, which will be separated into two (working) days – one for filming the bands performance element of the video and the other for the main narrative. As well as this, a lot of our music video will be filmed in public which means you cannot guarantee the conditions when will film so precautions have to be taken. There are many risks that needed to be assessed prior to the film day to ensure everything runs smoothly with no injuries occurring. I will present these risks in relation to our music video timeline.
Risk
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Action Carried Out
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Water from crashing cymbal could affect the electrics or camera lens
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Filmed from slightly further out (using zoom) – drummer took precaution when filming this shoot.
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As the narrative requires the boy to stumble out of the house steps – he could trip over and fall
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The actor didn’t rush the action and took precaution whilst filming it
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The scene where the father throws the guitar could hit someone or another car, or even fall out of the window during the action
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We made sure he didn’t rush the action and took precautions. Also made sure there was no-one near (nor car) the line of fire
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The low-angle shot where we have to film out the window the risk here is that the camera could fall out and break
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The action carried out it is that we tightened the wrist strap to keep the camera more firm
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Boy could trip up when running away from the house
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Made sure his lace were tied up and took any further precautions, e.g. cleared any large rocks on the floor
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In the scene where the boy meets up with the drug-dealer at the top of railway bridge – could slip if surface is wet
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Made sure the surface wasn’t wet/take further precautions such as no fast paced movements that could cause any injuries
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When the boy is sneaking upstairs he may trip and fall
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We will make sure that when the boy is walking up the stairs he is making sure where he is going
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The ‘fighting’ scene, which occurs on the same bridge, has similar risks and therefore similar actions need to be carried out to ensure no danger. The fighting could cause injury if done incorrectly
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The fighting will be rehearsed and carefully done – the filming will be shot from far away to make it look realistic but also to ensure no close contact needed – limiting risks
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When plugging in the instruments, they could get electrocuted.
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Just make sure electrics are off when you plug the cables in and then turn it on
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After following these risk assessments we will have a risk free shoot day with no anomalies taking place.
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