CD Cover

We decided to firstly research the type of CD covers that artists in the Hip-Hop/Gangster Rap industry such as, "The Game", had. We found that generally the CD covers had the artist looking at the camera aggressively or with attitude to represent their power or in a specific pose that represents the feelings behind the songs. Sometimes the colours used on the album cover represent the mood that the album will create. For example The background colour on some albums in the hip hop genre are red which may represent pain that they've had through there life. Other genres may use a different colour to show a feeling. For example an artist my have a purple background on there cover to show calmness and relaxation.

We came to a decision that we would try to do something similar to the best of our ability with the resources we have availabe to make it suitable for the Hip-Hop/Gangster Rap industry. We decided we would keep our CD front cover as simple as possible and use Black to represent that the dreams could be dark and not pleasant. we also thought we could use flames and fire on our cover to show that the dreams could be crazy and outrageous.

Update

We decided that we would rewind the story from the ending for the start of our video for added effect. The video entails of the protagonist (Dominic), being chased and hunted down by his enemies and rewinds to how the story actually started. Although we had come up with a plan that we had intended to follow, as each lesson went by we slightly edited it as we came up with fresher and more innovative ideas for different shots and the storyline etc. In one of our previous lessons we went to town and the roof/car-park of Arndale to film the first scene where the protagonist is being chased and jumps, we found inspiration for this when looking at the song Tinie Tempah - Written in The Stars, where he is lip-syncing and performing to the camera on the top of a building. In the previous lesson we filmed at various locations and took many different shots of the protagonist lip-syncing. As we are now in the middle of the november and coming up to our deadline we decided that any further clips that need to be filmed will be done now, as the sunlight is beginning to fade as it becomes darker by the day, and we wished for their to be a continuity in the weather and lighting to prevent it looking like an amateur film. In another clip, of Dominic lip-syncing we managed to get the sun-shining in the top corner and we think as almost all of our video will be in black and white this will be a good effect. We also did a 360 degree shot of the camera going around Dominic, for this we had originally planned to use a Dolly but eventually came to a decision to film in handheld. Most of the video involves us telling the story but always goes back the protagonist narrating the video like in the original video the way, "The Game", narrates his story. Now that our timeline is almost full we decided to start experimenting with different effects and transitions that were available to us on Final cut pro to ensure that our video could be as good and catchy as possible. Many of the transitions that we tried out didn't fit with our video, but we used desaturate to take out the colour and used cross-dissolving and cross-fading between shots to link themots

In todays lesson we first applied the footage we had filmed in the previous lesson onto the timeline, this process is called log and transfer. We found out there was still quite a bit of filming to do as there was a gap in our timeline and we hope that today will be our final recording session and then we can begin to focus our efforts on to the blog.