In Coldplay's Paradise video they have an elephant which holds up pieces of cardboard with the words; 'Para' and 'Paradise' whilst Chris Martin sings. We liked this idea of the cardboard being held whilst the band sings over the top of it.
I edited these images in photoshop by print screening from youtube and then cropping them down so that i could look at the images individually and see how they have wrote the text onto the cardboard so we could see whether it was normally written or bubble writing.
It was essential that we emailed the band and their record company because we didn't want to get in trouble for copywright of the song so we emailed to ask for their permission.
This is the top half of my website. I made sure that i had each band member have an individual picture so that you can see the band members and also so that if fans look at this page they are able to click on each band members link and look at their profiles. Underneath each image i had a 'Wouldn't it be nice' quote as this is the song we did the promo video to.
This is my finished website for The Beach Boys. I stuck to a black and white theme for this as the pictures of the boys were in suits so it made them look professional and sophisticated. In the middle section I had quotes from celebrities, radio stations and newspapers. At the bottom of my website i have listed the bands tour destinations which shows the countries that they will going to so this makes their fan base more aware of where the band is going to be touring in throughout the year. http://xxsophiexxharten.wix.com/thebeachboys#
The actors that we are going to use is Ricky, Maxwell and Sam. The reason we chose to use them is because I was in group with Max and Ricky already so we knew what kind of image we wanted to create. We had Sam as the third band member as he is in our media group and we knew that we would be able to use him at any time. This meant that as we were altogether we were able to sort out filming times as we were able to ask when were all free.
These three images are what I am going to be using for my website for The Beach Boys. I needed them to be looking in different directions as they were having single photos as on the website they will have their own individual about me.
This is the homepage for my website and as you can see from the image there are 3 sections where i have also put their names underneath so you can see whereabouts their photos will go. I did 3 individual images so that their fans reading can see who is in the band, their names and are able to click on their pages to find out more. I also did the images singly because when scrolling down the website there is a photo gallery where there will be various photo's of the band altogether.
As a group we decided what pictures we definitely needed and these would be what we were going to be useing for our digipak and for the website. I took multiple pictures of them just to ensure that we got the right shot and we were all happy with the selected one.
These are images of the boys being 'The Beach Boys'.
They were all smartly dressed as they were smartly dressed when they were filmed in the 'Wouldn't it be nice video'.
This is my favourite image of them as they are all smiling and looks more appealing to the their consumers than the image above. However this image will need to be edited using different colour tones so that it looks less simple and boring.
We zoomed in on the image to see what it would look like in medium-close up and it did look a lot better zoomed in however i will need to crop this image and adjust it slightly so it looks more professional. This will be the image that I think I will use in my digipak in the inside page.
We took pictures over a few days so that we got the band in different outfits and we were running out of creative ideas so taking pictures on different days allowed us to think of what photos we wanted for our ancillary tasks.
This video focuses on the band in a concert. The camera angles that they use are a lot of close ups especially when a different band member sings their individual line to a song or verse. At the beginning of the song they have an establishing shot of where the band are going to be performing this includes when a band member has a solo on the particular instrument that they are playing. The Beach Boys all wear the same outfits as well and in this video they worse vertically striped shirts and trousers. Some band members were playing instruments which we need to consider if we want our band to have musical instruments or to all simply sing. The camera always zooms out so that it has a wide shot of the band altogether. As a group we liked the fact they had a band at a concert singing altogeter and this is something we want to consider for our music video.
'Wouldn't it be nice'
At the beginning of the video it has the band in a wide and long shot of the band dancing so that it is all at the same time. The lyrics 'Wouldn't it be nice if we were older' it shows that they want to grow up but still act like children by all dancing together. The lyrics seem more about a love story but the band are all having fun by walking into the pool with a dingy above their head and then all jumping onto it. The song changes at the fourth verse where it shots them on a stage singing showing wide ange shots where it fits the whole band in and also has the same close ups on the individual band members that are singing their own lines.
'California Dream'
The video of california dreamin is different to the above videos as this tells a story where the others are mainly the band singing on stage. I liked the effects that this video has used such as the bands faces being faded in and infront of the buildings. The camera angles are used by panning the sky and the tops of the building. I didnt like the music video for this song as i didnt feel like it fit with the lyrics.
As a group we had brainstormed what picture ideas we would want for both the website and the digipak. Some of the images we will all be using but will be using them all differently.
Here are some images that we have saved from family holidays and days out. I narrowed my choices down as there were so many photos we had. I wanted the second image as i thought i would be able to write the band name in the sea however i am not that skilled on photoshop so most likely wouldnt be able to do this. The third image i thought would be good for a beach scene as i would be able to write the band name in the sky and as it is completely clear unlike the second image the name would stand out even more.
These are some of The Beach Boys CD covers that i looked at to get inspiration for when designing my own digipak. From the images above, they are all beach related which links to the bands name, not one of these has an image of the band. They also use warm colours such as yellow and orange to show that the beach is hot the images are also sometimes sunset related.
Looking at these album covers made me think what the front cover of digipak should look like. To have an album cover with a sunset or a beach i will need to taken it myself which is easy for me as i can look through images that i have taken on holidays in order to get an album cover like this. It will need to be sunny with no objects in the background which would make it look unprofessional.
