Pre-Production Story Boards - planning

Digipak CD Cover - Re-creating Snow Patrol CD cover - research

During a double period of media studies at school, we are fortunate enought to spend an hour with an experienced ICT teacher who is able to teach us photo editing. The photo editing software in which we use is called Coral Draw and Coral Photo Paint , this proggrame is similair to those such as Adobe Photoshop. The task in which we where set was to re-create a recent Snow Patrol Cd cover. If you look in depth to the image you can see that its comprised of three seperate images and clever photo editing. We where given three images a statue, wallpaper and music notes to use to re-create this image below.

The Filming did not come out !!

Once coming back to school from the weekend, with the tape in our hand and raring to go, we went to the media editing suite to only find that whilst batch capturing the footage we found a issue. The footage had broken half way through the filming; we had to come up with a way to re-film quickly. We have decided to re-film the part of what we lost on the 29th November, the shots which we have been able to save where good and useable. The cause of the problem was that where the tape is placed in the camera, was dirty, so whilst we were filming it wasn’t capturing it properly.

Roles chart - planning

Music Video Inspiration - research

To start, we decided on a certain theme which we would run across the central theme of the music video. We could not decide on what techniques to use as so many came to our heads when we were brainstorming. Our track that we had chosen called "First Encounter" gave us all an instant idea which was "Urban UK Teens”. The song does not contain lyrics so we had to come up with a narrative as this would work best with a song without lyrics but just beats. So our first thought was to make it a serious thriller style music video, but then Oliver in our group told us he owned a rather realistic Bear costume, the idea of using a costume came from the "Deadmaus" video "Ghosts and stuff" it portrays a human in a ghost costume playing pranks and running around town aimlessly, which could change the mood but keep it serious. Here is what our costume looks like:


The main event that came into our heads after long and hard discussions we decided to go ahead with comedy and thriller to see if they could accommodate each other so we could say it was pastiche as well as parody. We wanted to create a homicide scene where the bear would be dead and lying on the floor helplessly. We would have two actors dressed up in homicide suits to create a realistic image of the scene and they would be doing a CSI style of murder investigation with dusting off prints and taking images. For the cameras of which they are holding we would create a flash off the computer editing software at school to change seen to have a different cut from fade to black. Some of our inspiration for this scene comes from the "2 Pac video: Ghetto Gospel"





From this video we see that we have a medium shot of a group looking over a body and a pov shot of women trying to get through the crowd. We decided to imitate this scene by having the bear dead and homicide officers taking photos, the actor that we are using for the broken hearted women would be crying over the body. We have numerous amounts of different shots high and low as we have two cameras to help.

Saussure argued that signs only make sense as part of a formal, generalized and abstract system. His conception of meaning was purely structural and relational rather than referential: primacy is given to relationships rather than to things (the meaning of signs was seen as lying in their systematic relation to each other rather than deriving from any inherent features of signifiers or any reference to material things). Saussure did not define signs in terms of some 'essential' or intrinsic nature. For Saussure, signs refer primarily to each other.