Planning Anncillary

Here I am planning to do my ancillary task of an album cover. I have sketched three pictures of how I would like my album cover to look.

Image on the left:

Represents that overnight your life can change. No matter how broke down your life is that can change over night with effort. This album cover will consist of a well built house and a broke down house which will blend in together. There will be a person wearing a hoodie, which you can see the back of and he will be standing in the middle of the house. The connotations are that he is seeing this change.

Colours: The colour scheme will be black and white. Black will show the dark side of life and white showing the bright things in life.

Shots: It will be a close up of the man in the hoodie, but a long shot of the two houses

Image in the middle:

This can be representing two things, which are; conflict or working together. I will have two men looking at each other one will be wearing red and the other blue. These colour schemes were used because these are two gang affiliated colours red represents ‘bloodz’ and blue represents ‘cripz’. These two colours will either represent peace or conflict and this will have the audience in suspense and they will be intrigued.

Colours: The colour scheme that will be used is blue and red; representing two gangs ‘bloodz’ and ‘cripz’ the background colour will be a neutral white.

Shots: A close up emphasising emotion on their faces.

Image on the right:

This image can represent closeness or hate for one another. I will have the two artists back to back. One of the men will have blue on the other red this is because of the 'bloodz' and 'cripz' gang conflict. I would have the background black to empthysis their clothing.

Shots: I would choose to have a mid shot as it shows body language, works well with 'two shot'.

Ancillary

Mise-en-scene for our music video

Planning for ancillary task

I have been analysing album covers for the Hip-hop and grime genre. This has gave me an insight of how I would like my digi pack to look like.

Ann

Shoot Dairy- Day 4

Today we filmed two scenes. The first one was near a lane, we used a long shot and mid shot of the character who is playing B.O.B. I filmed it from having a point of view shot, a long shot which then after pans and the last shot we did was. a handheld, over the shoulder shot. We show the character playing B.O.B walking out of a lane, walking over to see someone, receiving a package in the bag and walking away again. We used this as we thought that the audience would be intrigued about what was in the bag.
The second scene we did was outdoors, the narrative of this shot shows drug dealing. We film a close up of the character playing B.O.B face, we had an extreme closeup of the drug exchange, i filmed a mid-shot of B.O.B's character who is waiting against a wall, we used a panning shot when the artist walked down the stairs and a long shot to show the artist in his environment.

Shoot Dairy -Day 3

On our third location shoot we used the resources outside of college again the spot we chose was a brick wall with a crack going through it. We decided to use this because we felt like this gave more of an urban look which created more realism for the audience. We used three different shots; the first one was a mid shot of the artist, the second was a close-up of the artist and the third shot we used was tilt-up, close-up of the artist, We used the tilt-up close-up as we realised that this was used in real media conventions of the Hip-hop and Grime genre.

Shoot Dairy- Day 2

Today Waqar and I filmed Lakeem who is playing the character of Giggs. We have taken him to a music studio and filmed him. The purpose of this is to show him in the studio making the song, so the audience is aware of this. This is used a lot in music videos from both the genres of Hip-Hop and Grime. We have recorded him coming into the studio meeting his producer, we have show this from two point of views; one is him opening a door watching him enter the studio, open another door and have a hand shake with his producer, this a long shot which changes into a mid-shot when the character of Giggs; Lakeem walks closer towards the camera, the camera is still throughout . The other point of view is in the studio room with his producer and shows it from another angle. This shot only shows him opening a door and a handshake with his producer, this is a mid shot. We also have a close up on the 'recording' sign, which is still. It shows the light on and the light turning off, which we intend to use at the start and end of the video. We have filmed him continuously throughout the song which we are then editing and cutting out. We have also tried two different shots of this one is a closeup of lakeem through another recording booth which shows him rapping and also showing body movement from Lakeem. We have also recorded an other part in which it shows the producer and the artist. For the mise en scene we have used dark lighting in the producers booth and more light in the artists booth because it makes the artist stand out more. We have also used baggy jeans, hoodie, hat (new era).