CD ARTWORK IDEAS

After looking into a range of different CD artwork and thinking about conventions within the indie genre my initial idea is to have our CD designed to look like a vinyl record. Vinyls are old fashioned so definitely fit in on the vintage vibe. I think it would produce a unique looking CD that apart from black could contain any other colour depending on the rest of the colours used throughout our digipack.

PROPS LIST

In our music video we want to feature quite a lot of vintage/retro pieces as well as main props that link directly to the lyrics so we can put an image to the words when editing it all together.

Props relating to video..

- a window 'cos you always liked the windows opened wide' 

- picture frame 'pictures still hung up'

- lamp light/lamp 'under lamplight'

- pillow 'sleeping with a pillow'

- phone 'all you have to do is pick up the phone'

- home 'here when you make it home'

Other props..

- chair/sofa

- guitar

- bedside table/small table

- old radio

- mirror

- lanterns

I walked around my house looking out for anything that we could use or get inspiration from and took photos of odd pieces and potential props.

FOCUS SHIFT

Another micro element my group wish to use within our music video is the effect of macro/close up focus shift. In a frame the camera changes focus from one object to another, usually from the effect of zooming and refocusing on a specific object. This technique not only looks very effective, it allows the footage to flow very smoothly and therefore engages the audiences attention to specific areas at certain points throughout. The video below, named 'Beautiful Clutter' incorporates this effect very well. The outcome is a beautiful filmed piece, and the content relates to what we want to film in our music video as vintage/retro objects such as film cameras feature in it and the whole product gives of a vintage vibe. I really like most if not all of the shots in the video and hope we can recreate some similarly effective shots in ours.

OUTDOORS/CARRYING OBJECTS/DAY TO NIGHT

Ben Howard's video for Keep Your Head Up, contains all three of these factors which we are thinking about using within our video as so far we have decided we would like to use an outdoor location. We've also noted down ideas about the artist carrying things ready to set up an outdoor house which can be seen in the video for keep your head up as he is seen carrying objects setting up a slide. As well as those two the video also goes from sunrise through the day which is something we intend to do in our music video as it is a common convention of indie music videos.

MUSIC VIDEO IDEAS