Creating a poster invitation

As a group we have decided to get people to come to our music video showing by putting up posters around in the common room so then people can see the date and time to come. On this we can give extra information such as there will be a questionnaire to fill in and what song we used for our music video. 

Preparing to show our music video

Now that e have finished our music video we can now show it to an audience, but at the same time we can get audience feed back so today I am going to make a questionnaire so that sometime next week we can show our music video next week and get the results from a questionnaire as well but to do this we are going to have to advertise what time, date and location we are going to show it. 

Finished editing

We have finished editing and as a group we now think that the music video is now comeplete as this enables us to put our efforts to concentrate more on the other two projects such as the Digi pak cover and the advert, and we can now also work on creating the additional items.

Photo shoot extra

We did another photo shoot for the the thug, the prostitute, the main character and the priest and at the same time we did some photos for the monster front cover as well as a few photos for the poster. 

Poster Idea/Advert idea

We have decided to still use the Abbey road idea but use it for either the advert or the poster , we still are thinking about where to have us all standing but all we need is one picture for the background and then the rest of the pictures we can do inside with the green screen.

The background could be a mix and match again but use it form the environments that our individual characters are from and make that as a background.

Monster Photo shoot

We have not taken the proper photos for our Monster that is going to be on the front of the Digi pak. We also used the green screen this time so we can get better pictures and have the option of putting in a background of our choice. Here are the pictures below.


We tried to get an array of pictures so when it comes to editing the pictures we have options to play around with.

We have also got some mid shots for the actual monster.

Digi Pak cover so far

So far we have taken the test pictures for our mix and match monster to go on the front and back cover. We have also matched the up to the different bodies and we now have a good idea on what its going to look like when it is finished. here are the pictures below.

Key features in music videos

A music video is essentially a device to promote the band, its song, the album, the back catalogue and their future catalogue. In Adrew Goodwins book on the rise of MTV, he mentions key points that can relate toour music video for example "There is a realationship between the lyrics and the visuals (with visuals either illustrating, amplifying or contradicting the music), There is a relationship between the music and the visuals (again with visuals either illustraiting, amplifying or contradicting the music), Particular music genres may have thier own music video style and iconography (such as live stage performance in heavy rock), there is a demand on the part of the record company for lots of close-ups of the main artist/vocalist, The artist may develop their own star iconography, in and out of their videos, which, over time, becomes part of their star image, There is a likely to be a reference to voyeurism, particularly in the treatment of women, but also in terms of systems of systems of looking (screens within screens, binoculars, cameras, etc), There are likely to be intertexual reference, either to other music videos or to films and TV texts." taken from BFI education book by Pete Fraser, these points distinguish the music video as a form. Knowing all these points it also helped us to create out musiv video to fit with coventions that the audience expect and this helped us also if we wanted to break these conventions.