Idea for music video

As a group we have chosen to use ten people or more to mime in our music video. We each are taking turns to take the music video home and shoot some friends/family to mime the lyrics for us then we edit it through "Final Cut Pro" which we have learnt how to use with flash backs to videos already on the system.

Our background video will take place in different locations with different people miming. The locations will take place inside and outdoors which we thought that if we do both not just stick to one location it be more eye catching and interesting to watch.

"Nickelback" INSPIRATION.

We found Nickelback inspirational because in their music video "rockstar" which it was an all time favourites to the audiences back in the day. As a group we found their song interesting and they had a inspirational music video "Rockstar," which they had miming throughout the song which we all liked as a group and decided to do the same but with our own ideas.

Music Video - Lyrics

Lyrics:

Steve walks warily down the street, 
With the brim pulled way down low 
Ain't no sound but the sound of his feet, 
Machine guns ready to go 
Are you ready, Are you ready for this 
Are you hanging on the edge of your seat 
Out of the doorway the bullets rip 
To the sound of the beat 
Chorus 

Another one bites the dust 
Another one bites the dust 
And another one gone, and another one gone 
Another one bites the dust 
Hey, I'm gonna get you too 
Another one bites the dust 

How do you think I'm going to get along, 
Without you, when you're gone 
You took me for everything that I had, 
And kicked me out on my own 

Are you happy, are you satisfied 
How long can you stand the heat 
Out of the doorway the bullets rip 
To the sound of the beat 
Chorus 


Another one bites the dust 
Another one bites the dust 
Another one bites the dust 
Another one bites the dust 
There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man 
And bring him to the ground 
You can beat him 
You can cheat him 
You can treat him bad and leave him 
When he's down 
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you 
I'm standing on my own two feet 
Out of the doorway the bullets rip 
Repeating the sound of the beat

New brief - Music Video

The song we have chosen as a group me, Holly and Casey is "Another one bites the dust" by "Queen."
We chose this music video because its a very well known song and the viewers will know the song well. I like the chorus because its easy to sing and the lyrics are catching and funny which i think the audience will like.

What we have decided to do as a group for our music video is find family members or friends miming the lyrics then we are having the song playing in the background. We chose this from our inspiration by "Nickleback" the song "Rockstar." 

Creating a Triptych in Photoshop.

Here i have created my own example of triptych in photoshop, iv use these three photograph's because i thought the two in the studio were of my own photography which were bright and in focus well, then the one of Helen is really vintage and its one of my favourite pictures.

First step i did on photoshop was open three of my three photography pictures, i cropped my images and selected the crop tool to start the cropping, then i resized the images to 300dpi so they all were the same size. I clicked on the 'front image' button ob the menu bar for the crop tool.

Second step i did was to put each image in one file, whilst keeping them in their own individual layers. I clicked on the one of the images and pressed the 'v' key (move tool.)
Then i dragged

My Album Cover

This is my final design for my Red Hot Chilli Peppers Album.

This is the back of my C.D cover, i did this by copying chilli's from google images, i cut out the chilli's and changed the colours to white which i thought worked well with the red theme for red hot!!
Then i pasted them on photoshop then pasted the song lyrics. 

This is my silhouette, i did this by using the cut out tool which i used around the group, and changed the colour so its bright and looks more eye catching, i chose this colour because it sorted the album with the darker through the legs upwards gets lighter, i liked this effect.

I like this silhouette effect because i like the way their blacked out with rock look music instruments.
I looked at the artist Andy Potts as i like his silhouette work its gives a different and interesting effect.
I also like the way you can tell that its a rock group by looking at the silhouette straight away this is why i wanted my album cover to look different.

Here is one my own photograph taken with a digital camera, and i have silhouette Zach with an amp that made it look a bit rocky, i did a photo shoot but wasn't really happy because i didn't have time to borrow a guitar which was my original plan, but it i had taken more time with this i could of put more effort into it. 

Andy Potts.

INSPIRATION FOR MY CD COVER...

I have looked my Andy Potts photoshop work which i was inspired by his work by helping me with my own ideas for my cd cover.

Here are a few images by Andy Potts:

This photoshop image is full of colour and they are all matching colours, i like that there have photoshop shapes and pictures inside the image of a shadow person. This has given me an idea to photograph an image of someone holding a guitar, style will be rocky then i will photoshop it into a silhouette and copy my ideas and pictures inside the silhouette. I am going to use colour background an rocky style.

This is another silhouette of a side view with computers, laptops and telly around the image, this is another inspiration that i like and my idea of shapes and pictures inside the photo shoot that i do of a silhouette, i could make the images around the photograph and i will experiment my different ideas, and see what looks the best.

I liked this image because its bright and colourful so the inspiration of this picture would be the colour effects that i really like, all the colours match up together and i like all the pretty pictures around it, theres lots of green and trees, grass, flowers and butterflies its like a forests.

I like this image because i like the building effect in the background, i like the different colour pictures of people walking in a silhouette.  

Ideas on my cd cover.

I like the black and white effect and the way the group have serious faces. I like the plain, rocky effects with the black clothes they are wearing.

I like the other effect of this image of the group in colour, and the clothes effect is just normal and not much rock to the theme which i want to show rock on my cd cover.

I like the same effect if this image as the one above, only thing thats different is colour background also the pose of each one faces and the way they are standing. These pictures has gave me inspiration which i need to work on my own ideas for my final design.

Line drawing

Here is my own line drawing that i did on photoshop, i used my own techniques by having the original  picture in back and white to start with were as everyone in the class started off with a colour picture.

How technology has changed photography and how digital has taken over?

In my point of view of digital technology has made a huge impact on the world of professional photographers, i feel that professional cameras that were used in the past, tended to be large and were often complicated to use and people couldn't really afford expensive equipment. And now film processing was an expensive and different process, i think that these changes have had an impact on photographers as technology changes to better digital photography equipment which comes in better use with professional photographers and new equipment.

As for technology now it has changed so much and different processes, as we have more professional equipment now then when photographers did have a long time ago as they couldn't afford much things back in the day, and would cost so much money for specialist retouching and combining different elements of pictures, and photoshop wasn't invented then, as we have photoshop now and better computer use for professional photographs. And now looking at different photographers work using photoshop is more interesting to look now then it did back then as they had to employee people to do special retouch work which was really expensive as people couldn't afford.

Here are some examples of Sam-Taylor Wood which she has photoshopped her photographer, she's just taken a photo of the chair and a photograph of the model laying down on the floor then photoshop it so the model is balancing of the chair in a usual way so this is why back in the day people could't do thing like this as we can do now.