Website Development

Instead of using a typical menu bar at the top like most band website I thought, as the website developer, that I could change it and make it seem more professional if I used cassettes for the buttons to direct them to different pages. I found a cartoon cassette on google (the one above) and I photo shopped the words onto it, I then changed the colours of this particular design by quick selecting and using the magic wand tool in order to change the colours of the images for the different buttons and added them to my website. Here are some images to show this:

After I have made the images I have added them to my website menu bar making sure they're the same size and there are equal gaps between the buttons again making sure that it is representative of a professional website. I didn't want to make my buttons too colourful otherwise my genre may venture into pop music and I want to stay in the indie/folk side of it.

Model Release Forms

Set Design

 This image was taken from the Mumford and Sons video, we liked the way in which the sun shone through the trees and the character was on the right hand side drawing focus to the background rather than the person making it stand out more. We will use this in our video because we have a field and grassy areas in which we can try and recreate this shot.

 Again, the field location of our video we like because it follows the conventions of folk being in the countryside, outdoors etc. Also it makes it different and unique to other videos that will be made because they're usually staged in a set place with all one coloured background emphasising the people in the foreground and also I feel like they represent the pop culture more than anything else.

 

Here is the set in which we want to use for the course etc, apart from the narrative in which will be set in a field. We want the lights and hay around the barn to connote the folk/country atmosphere and so our audience can clearly see the genre we're trying to produce. Also the fact that our costumes will have to represent the genre too as you can see from the Mumford and Sons video they where quite "farmer-like" outfits in which we would try and find from charity shops. 

This is taken from another video whereby the set is similar to the mumford and sons one yet it has hay bails visible in the background, it represents the folk atmosphere because of the outfits and background props. We want to use all these videos settings in our video to make it connote to the genre we want.

Influences

Even though this kind of genre (folk/country) isn't performed by Lily Allen I thought this would be a good video to use to show how she has followed the conventions of the genre in order to present that image to her intended audience. She has used the typical hay in the background with the backing singers and band dressed appropriately using the correct instruments you find in folk songs, she has even used the country-style dancing to further show the audience her song is catergorised into the folk genre. However, from looking at this video I feel it is directed more towards old-style country in what they're wearing which I can't follow as I'm using more modern folk mixed with indie which means I can't focus upon the folk genre more than the indie as its all one genre not two separate ones. We are definitely going to use the intruments from the genre and the hay in our video, I also like the lighting in this video at the beginning but I don't think this would be possible to use because of the barn setting and how the daylight will contrast the lighting itself.  

Opening scenes

We liked the establishing shots at the start of this video with the sunrise and landscape images, we want to use this before our video starts to show the audience our location and set the scene. As we aren't using a studio location we feel as though we should use these shots to our advantage and start building up the setting from the start. It also adds an interest to the audience rather than going straight into the song, the limitations to this is that we might not be able to get a sunset shot due to timing issues and also we need to make sure the location looks nice in a professional way rather than just taking any random video. Due to the weather as well filming our video could prove difficult because we want a nice landscape shot rather than one that is dull and raining, we will therefore need to consider carefully when we do our shoot which could mean delays in our production.

Animatic

ANIMATIC from Dom Brown on Vimeo.

Storyboard

Storyboard