Ancillary Tasks: CD Cover

The second individual ancillary task i intend on doing is, constructing a CD cover and packaging

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Ancillary Tasks: Music Magazine Front Cover

As part of the project is to construct two smaller ancillary tasks, i decided to do some research on music magazine front covers as this is one of the ancillary tasks i decided to do. I mainly looked at pop magazines as this is the main genre the group is focusing around and the main genre of the song itself. i constructed a mood board of this genre of magazines and decided to make a list of the main conventions, as i intend to follow the conventions to create a professional and realistic magazine front cover.




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Using this list of conventions i started to design, sketch and annotate a few drafts myself to help provide the group with a range of different layouts. This would help as the group and i can then sit and discuss the features that we liked and did not like and create an effective layout which we all liked and could work with.

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Pitch

The group and I constructed a powerpoint presentation containing all the research that had been done so far. The group presented the pitch to a media audience explaining exactly what we had done so far and what we intended to do in the near future aswell as what the group would like to acheive by the end of the project.

A few of the mood board that were previously constructed were used as it gave a better insight on such things that they demonstrate including location and mise-en-scene.

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Story Board

The group begun to construct the story board which will help us along the way. The group decided that the story board would be as full as possible including mise-en-scene, location, camera shots and angles, iconography and positioning of people. The group decided to do this so when it came to constructing and filming there would be no hesitation as the group would know exactly how and what to do. This will save a lot of time and allow the group to re film if needed.

In total there are 56 shots which create the song, below are 6 of these shots:

Research- Location

As the group has already annotated the lyrics we had a good idea on all the locations that could be included in the video. The lyrics of the song include such places as Waterloo, London (at winter time) and a pebble beach. We intend on useing the locations included within the song, but also intend on using a few more such as Camdem. The group decided that Camdem would be a sufficient place to film as it has a quirky atsmophere and fits in well with the genre.

Below is a mood board showing the locations mentioned and intended on being used.

Research-Genre

The group constructed a mood board focusing on genre, as the group need an understanding on conventional aspects including, layouts of album covers, styles, fonts, colours.

The group also constructed a wordle to show what people compare this genre to. As you can see the main responses were retro, upbeat and catchy, which will help us achieve a more professional video as the group can make sure that our music video includes these.

Final Song Decision

After the group got the audience feedback results, we read through the comments and agreed that Olly Murs- Thinking of Me was the right song for the group. It has sufficient iconography throughout the song which would easily be included within the music video.

Here is the official Olly Murs- Thinking of Me video