Record Label

In our media lesson today I found the record label contacts for Jenny and Johnny. The contacts were on there website. We have been advised to write them a letter or email them to ask if we could use there song for our music video. They are signed to Warner Brothers Records, there email address is brant.weil[cat]wbr.com. They will be the best people to contact.

Green screen practice

In our music video we want to use green screen effects, in one shot we would like to burn the green paper while having a video playing and burning at the same time. (Muwhahahaha!!!!!) As we don't really know how to use the green screen effects, our teacher showed us how to do it and helped us to create a practice piece. Watch it above I guess =]

First Filming day

Today was our first filming day. We were filming at Beths house doing all the house scenes. Beth and Mart and the actors arrived at Beths house at around 2ish to start filming. But I still had a lesson at college and arrived later at 5. All though they had filmed most of the scenes in the house when I came along, I was able to do the rest of the shots and have a lot of input. As it was the first time filming together as a team, we worked well but I felt me and Mart were a little shy directing our actors. So next time we film to be more confident when directing. Our actors we choose worked really well it showed on camera how they suited the characters of 'Jenny' and 'Johnny' with the relation aspect.


Beths house was a good environment to film in. It had a good atmosphere to suite the theme of the film which was a good choice to film at. They showed me the footage they had done with out me being there and this came to an advantage as because I had no input to the shots, I could see what had worked well and if there was anything not right with the shots as I wouldn't be bias to the work I had done. What I saw was really good they had some good shots. What worked really well was the bed room scene with the beer bottles on the floor and the camera scanning through the bed room, It was such an effective shot to fit with the theme. I'm looking forwards to seeing how the green screen will work.

Shop Visit!

During our media lesson today we realised that we had forgotten to buy the alphabet spaghetti for our shoot which is a key part of our project as it i used on both the c.d. cover and in our music video. Therefore, to rectify this Bronwyn an Beth walked into Bilborough to buy some from the Co-Op. Disaster averted!!!

Practice Shoot - Split Screen Effect

As we are planning to use a split screen effect in part of our music video we decided that it would be a good idea to shoot some practice footage and learn how to do the effect to save us time when it comes to editing our actual music video. Mart and Bronwyn used their epic acting skills while Beth filmed and edited the footage (with a little help ;) ) Overall we thought the effect worked well and still intend on using it in our video. Here is our practice footage.

Website Design Research

The website that I designed during the planning stages got good feedback from Beth and Bronwyn. I think that they likd the arty approach that the website design shows. Looking at the website criteria that our teachers gave us, the design fits in well within the criteria as it informs Jenny & Johnny's fans about the upcoming tours and shows off different aspects of the band such as their lastest music video and twitter feed.

In the next few lessons I will try to create some images that show off the actor and actress that are choosen to be Jenny & Johnny in our music video. I think that instead of using a normal image of them, by editing it and using different effects it will show the qwerty character that they seem to have. This will also fit wthin the retro feel that the band portray.

Currently the band has quite a plain, dull website that appears to have been created on a wordpress. These websites are very easily recognisable as they all have similar layouts.

Jenny & Johnny

iiiiiitttttt'ssss filming day!!!!

Today after our Media Studies class we are going to go to our music video locations and start the filming process. No doubt there will be various issues that won't go as brilliantly as we would like but on the other hand there's bound to be somethings that go brilliantly or some things that we film that we didn't plan for but are brilliant themselves!

We're nervous, ARGH!!!!

Beth, the actor and myself are getting the college bus to one of the locations, the actress is meeting us there and Bronwyn is going to join us after a class she has in the afternoon. Tuesday was the only day that was relatively possible to film on, as we can't film on weekends due to work commitments and all other free time during the week, there is at least one of us all who wouldn't be able to make it.

Wish us luck!!! =]

CD cover Digipak

When I designed the CD cover template the group discussed having a fun, arty CD cover, as we found with the research we did, that the marketing criteria for our artist genre (Indie, Folk) used quite a lot of artwork on there CD cover and used less photographic images.

This band (The Antlers) on there CD cover have only used art images and very few colours which makes it very bold and eye catching. 

This CD cover by ‘Noah & The Whale’ have used an image of the band but changed the colouring of the effects to make it look artier. 

Our group ideas of how the cover would look, we’ve decided to use objects that you’ll see in our music video and make them more focused on, these will be Polaroid pictures, the toast with the spaghetti on and a breakfast set table background with a  table cloth, fork and knife and newspaper. We want it to look quirky and fun like Jenny and Johnny are so when we use Photoshop we might change the colouring and style of the images we use to make them look more cartoon, like ‘Noah & The Whale have done’.

We’re going to take photos of all the objects we want to use for our CD cover and make it layered up on photoshop, as it should give a more 3D effect. We will need to take photo’s of our band members together and the objects which are; table cloth, fork and knife, toast with spaghetti lettering on spelling out Jenny and Johnny and news paper. I think what could look wrong is that it might look to much going off and it might be confusing to the audience of what the main focus is. 

LIghting for your Video

Summer Home work

Over the summer we had to do some research on an artist of who you might want to base your music video on. Although I chose Rihanna as my artist, I wasn't keen on doing a music video on her or something simular to her music genre. I chose her as when reading the questions she is an iteresting artist to base this task on with all the image change and the different styles of pop. She is nothing like our artist we have chosen (Jenny and Johnny).

New Filming Date

As I have previously posted we had to cancel our first filming date due to the fact that our actors were no longer available on that date. We have now resheduled our first shoot for next Tuesday afternoon. On this date we hope to film all of the scenes in our music video which are set in the house. Once we have filmed this (provided the shoot goes as planned) we will arrange our second shooting date where we will film the scenes in our music video which are set in the park and on the street.

Textual Analysis

I chose the song 'Candy' by Paolo Nutini to evaluate, as his style of music is indie folk which has the same element as Jenny and Johnny.