Storyboard

In our music video we will use a variety of shots and angles. The storyboard will help us when we are shooting and editing our music video to ensure we are shooting the right material and editing it in the right place. It also helped us to develop our original idea and to give it structure. We wrote the storyboard in class and then Gabe finished it at home.

Website Analysis and Research 1 - Blink 182

Band's name and logo are used at the very top of the homepage and a simple picture of the band together without the instruments below the header of the page. Convention to pop-punk genre as fairly simple design with a relatively dark colour scheme using mainly black and grey. There are also links to websites such as FaceBook and MySpace on the homepage giving importance to follow the band via social networking websites. Punk style mood is reflected in the style and colour scheme and draws in the target audience of teenagers and adults in early twenties. Written content is all about the band's news and various videos showing what the band has been doing recently to draw the attention of the viewer. Simple font and layout reinforce the 'ordinary' idea of the band. Very little advertisement on the homepage apart from the links to 'become a fan' of Blink 182 on third party websites.

Advanced Portfolio: Band Webpage and Digipak Design Template

On our website we will reflect the band's rock style by using grunge fonts and a grunge logo. The background will be patches sewn together to reflect the raw and basic side of the band. We feel these attributes will appeal to the band's target audience. There are also links at the bottom of the page to Facebook/Twitter etc. so the fans can follow the band and read the most recent news. The home page of the website will contain news about the band and upcoming gigs.









Digipak Cover Research
The cover art for our digipak will be of a long road which stretches into the horizon. The land surrounding the road will be baron and without life. This is to reflect the theme of the song, in that it is a struggle to go to sleep/struggle to keep walking down the long road. It is 'in his way' between him and what he wants. The logo of the band will be at the top of the cover with the title of the single written underneath.

The back of the digipak will be simple, as the road on the cover art is surrounding by baron landscape, we feel that if there is a lot on the back cover it will not fit in with the theme. It will contain the tracklist, including the music video which we are making for "In My Way". The back cover will also include the MySpace address for Alaska's band profile and the logo for their record label "Hit And Run Records".

Inside will be a booklet and a photo of the band with the lyrics printed underneath. The overall colour scheme will be dark and the photo of the band will reflect their rock influences. The lyrics will be included so that the people who buy the CD can read and interpret the song how they want to, but can also understand the theme of insomnia. The picture on the actual CD will be simple, with just the band's logo and "In My Way" written underneath.

Im My Way Recee Sheets

Location: Dog House Studios, Nottingham

Rob's Textual Analysis. Radiohead - Just.

I chose to do a textual analysis on Just by Radiohead as I think it is a good example of an alternative-rock music video. The idea is very strange but also great and we hope to apply this to our music video for In My Way by Alaska.

Cover Research 1-Red Hot Chili Peppers

   The front cover for Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Suga Sex Magik matches there genre of psychedelic funk punk almost perfectly. The strange and funky images of the band members circling a rose with vines as tongues really captures the all around craziness of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There's not a lot to look at on the front and back cover but the images that are there are enough to catch your eye. The colours that are used work well because it makes it stand out more with bright red and greyscale. You can tell that the band doesn't care to much for selling and their image because there name on the front cover is barley noticeable. The image and style of the cover is very abstract so it would draw the audience in to see what its all about where as most cd covers are very generic and simple where as this one is different.

Email to Antonio Panzera for Permission to use "In My Way"

This is our e-mail to Antonio Panzera, the singer of Alaska and writer of "In My Way" asking for permission to use his song for our music video.