The Veronicas - Research

These are a number of different covers for The Veronicas album 'Hook Me Up' we have looked at this to see if there is any ideas we could use for our ancillary tasks. On all of the covers they use black and pink/purple. They use the black to give it the rock look and the pink to make it look feminine. On some of the covers they have used photos of the band and positioned them so that they can be seen to be two completely independent people. On the cover with the two different coloured telephones where the wires are wrapped round each other completes the 'rock chick' look as it shows the combination of rock and pop music.

Storyboard

These are the storyboards we created to help with the production of our music video. We have drawn rough drawings to show what should be happening in each scene. We will probably find that our final video will not completely match our storyboard but it will be a rough guide to what we are aiming to have in our video and in what order the video will go in.

The Veronicas - Design for Ancillary Task

We have used a number of different fonts and effect to design a logo for our band name 'The Veronicas'. We will use audience feedback to decide which one we should use for our album cover. We designed them on PhotoShop Elements which is the programme we will use to design our ancillary tasks.

This is the first of our designs; we have used black and purple because the black shows the rock element about the song and the pink gives it the feminine look. The font itself gives the band name a rock look as it is big and bold.


This is our second design for our band name; we have used a clear, readable font which is black with tiny little sparkles on which makes it look feminine. The lips are an idea we used off the original cover and this also makes it look feminine. The colours contrast so that the audience can still read the band name clearly.

Our third design is done in big bold letters which make it stand out and makes it easy to read. The colours used are feminine. The drop shadow which has been used makes it stand out more as the font doesn't have much of an outline.




This was the forth design for our CD album cover. This followed the colour themes we had used in the other three designs. I liked how it looks like it has glitter on it. It might look better if it was a bit bolder and the text was bigger.

From our audience feedback we have decided to use design one as most people thought it was the best design as it portrayed the genre of music in the best way.

Feedback Sheet For FLE Productions

This is the feedback sheet that we produced to ask people what they thought of our ideas for our production logo. We created three different ideas which were completely different. Our audience decided that they thought the bottom logo was the best and that they liked the fonts and the style of the design but not really the colour. They decided that they didn't like the middle one the most as the word productions wasn't very readable. They thought the top design was OK but not as good as the third design. The first two designs have been designed completely from scratch and have been created by trying different colours and fonts; the inspiration for the third design has come from 'Young Money Entertainment' logo.

Location Ideas!

This is the front of college, we could use this at the start of our video. This will be used for some of the narrative part of the video where the boyfriend and girlfriend are having an argument. It will be good to use at it will show that most of the narrative in the video is set in and around college.



Again this location would be used in the narrative part of the video. This place could be used to show when the girlfirend sees her boyfriend with another girl and could also show her being lonely.



Part of the narrative is set in a classroom and this is just an example of a classroom in college.

Here are some photos of locations we have looked at to use in our video for the narrative aspect of the video.

Treatment!

This is our treatment for the production of our music video.

THE VERONICAS - UNTOUCHED
Production Team – F.L.E Productions.

- Synopsis
We have decided to remake the music video for the song Untouched by The Veronicas. We will recreate it using some of its original themes such as the performance based aspect. However in our video we will be using narrative, unlike the original.

- Detail of target audience
Our target audience will be teenage girls. We chose this group because we will focus our narrative and performance around them. Therefore the target audience are able to relate themselves to the video.

- Plot Summary
Characters need to include 2 girls and one boy.
One girl will play the girlfriend, the other will be the ‘bad girl, and the boy will play the boyfriend. The girls will be in both the narrative and performance. Costumes will be casual in the narrative for example jeans and a t-shirt whereas in the performance the costumes will be more dressed up for example fishnet tights, denim skirt and a jacket. Both of the girls will be dressed in different colours to show contrast.

- Style notes
To choose our final idea we came up with 3 ideas, presented these to a group and let them choose what they thought would be good. Using our audience feedback we chose the best suited idea. Our video narrative will be set in college and a house setting, and our performance will be set in a studio looking set. We chose these locations as we feel they are best suited to what we are doing. The camera angles we intend to use are establishing shots, close ups, medium close ups, crowd shots and long shots. No digetic sound will be used in our video only the sound of the song. Any sounds made will be edited out so only the sound track can be heard. Mise-en-scene will be natural surroundings in order to create the narrative effect we are going for.

- Recce
For our video health and safety isn’t really an issue, although there are some problems that may occur. For example, when filming our performance side if we use a backdrop this could fall and cause injury. In each of our locations there will be risks for example if we film on the road at the front of college we need to make sure the road is clear and there are no cars that could interrupt filming as well as us and the cast being safe. When filming inside we will need to make sure that there are no loose wires etc.

- Storyboard Considerations
Our planning will take place in every lesson and free we have available. Our planning process will show an in depth overview of our music video. To choose our final idea we followed our audience feedback, as now we know this will be a popular video as it has already proven so. We will draw up a story board to show our ideas for each shot.