Team meeting

After receiving the feedback yesterday on our print products pitch, we have decided to continue looking at more ways we could find inspiration, through more different products, and from different genres, since Afro Beats is quite a hard genre to find print products on.

Research and Team Meeting for CD Cover

Today, me and my group came together and researched different cd covers that fit our genre. It was quite difficult finding some, as not many afro beat artist's publish cds, as they mostly sell their music online. Luckily, we found a few that we can get inspiration from. We came to the conclusion that we might not shoot in the photography studio as the white background may wash out the vibrant and exciting theme afro beats represent, therefore, we are currently researching different locations where we can take pictures. We also came to the agreement that we only want the main artist in the picture, which is Jesse, and not the dancers. We may have pictures of the dancers inside of the cd case, however we are not sure about that yet, and its not our main priority at the moment. Here are some examples of the cd covers we found:

Team meeting

Today we discussed what we wanted to do next since we are finished the whole video. We came to the agreement that we need to fix the colour in some scenes as some are quite bright and others are really dark, causing them to clash. Also, we each pitched in our different opinions on what we want to do next and this it what we agreed to do.

Julia focused on the dancing and the angles making it suit the beat when cutting and scene order so it is not a big contrast when scene changes.

I focused on the lip syncing and colour correction.

Jesse focused on transitional effects and cuts.

Angel focused on colour correction making it look balanced throughout the music video and establishing shots.

Team meeting

As we continued editing today, we came to the conclusion that we need more footage as we are starting to run out half way through the song, also, the locations are becoming too repetitive, therefore we need more scenes in different areas. We have agreed on shooting in a different area within Olympic Park again, on the 17th November 2016.

Team meeting

After yesterday, we decided to have a team meeting so that we could discuss where we could go from next, since our whole green screen plan had failed. We came to the conclusion that we would scrap that idea of using the green screen, and start to look at the other locations we have previously thought about. We have decided to film in Olympic park on the 5th of November 2016.

Team meeting

As we were discussing our different locations and where we planned to shoot, we attracted one of the assistant helpers, who helped us come to the realisation that some of our locations won't work. This is due to the fact that we decided some scenes would be set in the studio, while others would be outside. We realized that this would be a problem as the studio background and the the other settings outside may not work well together, as there is a high chance of them clashing. We also realized that none of the music videos we studied had shot in both the studio, and outside, which makes it look more professional. He then went on to showing us this music video, which is set in one place, this was when we decided that we had to stick to one place, either outside or inside, not both. 

Team meeting

Today we started to think about which location we would like to shoot in, using our case studies as inspiration. We also thought about the different roles each person in the group will have as well as which days we can start to shootvour music video on.

Team meeting - Group music video inspirations

Today we continued to look at the two music videos, 'Kwamz and flava - Take Over' and 'P Square - Taste the money (testimony)'. We continued to agree that we like the idea that, even though the genre of the song is afrobeats, the music video is quite modern through the way they are dressed and the way they are dancing. This creates a nice mix of both African and modern culture, allowing the song and music video to be appealing to almost everyone.