Filming- Day 4

Some images of what we did today!

Lipstick for filming :D

Giving directions on what to do on this take

Rachel singing to the song

Paramore Cover of 'Use Somebody'

As a group we will be working towards making a video for Hayley Williams' cover of Use Somebody.... :D

Kings Of Leon- Use Somebody

This is the original song we are planning to make a music video for, however, as the voice is of a male, we could not lip sync. This is the reason why we are using the Paramore Cover, as it is sung by Hayley Williams.

Locations for Filming

Location:
The Brunswick Shopping Centre

Advantages:
Right now it has a christmas Atmosphere. There's a lot of people shopping inside therefore, it would be a great place to show our main character wander around.

Disadvantages:
Since there are a lot of shops like cafes situated in the centre on the shopping centre, we may need to ask for permission for filming.

Health and Safety:
No Health or Safety risks as long as we aren't disturbing other shoppers.


Location:
Oxford Circus, London

Advantages:
Busy atmosphere, great to show our main Character wander around.

Disadvantages:
It can get too busy with shoppers and with traffic. This is a health and safety risk.

Health and Safety:
It can be busy, especially on weekends; This will be a good environment for thieves, and anti-socials. Risks include Physical injuries, e.g. Broken Leg.


Location:
Topshop, Oxford Circus, London

Advantages:
Busy shopping atmosphere. Good Lighting inside the store.

Disadvantages:
Store management can tell us to leave at anytime.

Health and Safety:
No risks if there is no distrubance.



Location:
Winter Wonderland, Hyde Park, London

Advantages:
Festive atmosphere, with lots of vibrant colours and lights; Also, very good lighting to film.

Disadvantages:
It can be busy with communters.

Health and Safety:
Since there is a lot of people who come here, it could be a hotspot for thieves.


Horse Guards Road, London

Advantages:
- Large, quiet place to film
- no restrictions on how long we can stay around the place.
- great lighting (obviously during day time)

Disadvantages:
- There is a limited number of objects and things to film around
- too many shots taken here, may make it slightly boring.

Health and Safety:
- No major health or safety risks

Trafalgar Square, London

Advantages:
- calm atmosphere
- water fountains are great as background
- Lion statues are great to use in the background
- Spaced out, not too packed with tourists
- iconic London location

Disadvantages:
- Too many pigeons at times?
- water from working fountains can splash onto the camera and other equipments
- Tourist hotspot= thieves?

Health and Safety:
- very busy roads on four sides, there can be a lot of traffic
- a lot of people on busy days

Using our initial idea...we have; after changing our song choice and story line numerous amounts of times finally stuck to "Use somebody" the cover song from Kings of Leon.... all our planning will be up soon!

Initial idea...

CD Cover Research

Kings of Leon Research: -

-Background Information:

• An American rock band that formed in Franklin, Tennessee, United States in 1999
• Consisting of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Ivan Nathan Followill (drums, percussion, backing vocals) and Michael Jared Followill (bass, backing vocals), with their cousin Cameron Matthew Followill (lead guitar, backing vocals)
• Each member of the family group is known by their middle name
• The band's early music was an upbeat blend of southern rock and blues influences but the band has gradually expanded their sound to include a variety of genres and a more alternative rock or arena rock sound.
• Kings of Leon achieved initial success in the United Kingdom with nine Top 40 singles, two BRIT Awards in 2008, and all three of the band's albums at the time peaking in the top five of the UK Albums Chart.
• After the release of ‘Only by the Night’ in September 2008 they finally achieved chart success in their native United States. The singles "Sex on Fire", "Use Somebody" and "Notion" all peaked at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks.
• The album itself was their first ever platinum-selling album in the United States.
• Genres - Rock, alternative rock, garage rock revival Years active 1999 – present
• Labels - Sony Music, RCA Records, Columbia Records
• Website - www.kingsofleon.com
• Kings of Leon has just debuted their music video for “Radioactive, the first single off their new album Come Around Sundown.
The album comes out on October 19. Jared Followill said the song “has a spiritual feel for sure. It’s where we came from.”
Drummer Nathan Followill added, “We grew up in this type of lifestyle. Gospel. Music was a big party of us growing up.”

Filming Day 1- Some clips

Today, We went out onto our most important location, Oxford Street and filmed. Here are some clips which are main elements of our storyline.

CD Cover Trial 1 :D

CD Cover Inspirations - Girls Aloud

Both these CD covers represent them a band. There are not distractions in either of these cd covers which was well intended as that would take the meaning out of it. They are (most of the time) infront of a plain or smooth backgroud, yet again to make them as the models to be the main subjects.
The costumes are dependent upon the title of the song or album; The first image represents the band as young, glamarous girls, which is linked by the name of the album "Untouchable", maybe connoting, that ther cannot be stopped.
The Second album cover, shows us a clearer image of why they are dressed and pictured like that, denotations are the chains hanging from the ceiling and the band members clinging onto it.
The colour theme is also important, as the designers of the cover had made sure that there aren't too many colours to make the image seem too distractive. They also made sure that the colours represented how sophisticated the band is: With very smooth colour theme.

Text Styles

This text style was made on Adobe Photoshop using the pen tool. This is a very simplistic design, with a gradient fill.









This text style, is more detailed with a double streak effect. The colour theme is slightly different to the one above. This text style is more suitable for the CD Cover as it fits the sailor themed clothing worn by the band members on the main cd cover image.