
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Album cover design

Monday, 25 January 2010
Plannning our story to the lyrics
The song is around 3 minutes long and the pace is quite slow, with this is mind there are alot of lyrics and it will take some time to get through them all, by doing this we felt that we would have a better chance of filling up the song with good quality filming and we would not be struggling to "fill in the gaps".
Monday, 18 January 2010
Further Research
After searching the internet would put together a page of pictures to annotate.
We took a lot from these pictures, mostly from our predictions that came to light. Pictures with her and guitar started giving us ideas for our Album covers and her dress sense and her attitude all seem quite random but down to earth. Most of her shops do not appear to have been air brushed, they are just stand alone natural poses that display her character as being happy and lively.
Friday, 15 January 2010
Planning Our Video
Today it was necessary for us to decide the final decisions for our video so that we could create our research in more depth.
Firstly we decided on our locations we were going to use.
- As the video will be based around a love story we thought it was be a good idea to have various places to shoot the video, in the outdoors and within two seperate houses, implying one is the boy's, and the other is the girl's. This would help create the emotion of separation between the characters and appear more distinct about what is happening within the story.
- Our second location would be the drama studio, as one of my previous A levels was drama, I was fairly certain we would have permission to use it. The plan was the seperate the instruments and have spotlights to add a delicate touch. There are only 2 instruments used within the song, guitar and the violin.
We then thought about about characters.
- We wanted to keep the story to the lyrics of the song and thought it would be best to have just one girl and one boy, anymore than this may disrupt the delicacy.
Next was our genre.
It did not take long to decide our genre was romance. With a story line of a girl crying out for the love of her soulmate and trying to get across her love for him.
We then discussed our camera shots.
We decided that a wide range of shots, from extreme close ups to panning shots would be relavant. We don't want to over complicate the video and take away what is already there, but we would like to include a variety to keep it visually attractive.
Finally we decided on our editing.
We concluded that we were going to limit our special effects and create lots of emotion from the slow pace of the song, and allow to meaning to take over. We want to make all the syncing perfect, with instruments and vocals.
Thursday, 14 January 2010
Asking the Artist for Permission

This is evidence of us asking Kate Nash's permission to use her song for our video.
Monday, 11 January 2010
Kate Nash - Nicest Thing
This is a brief snapshot of our 5 minute brainstorm talking about the effects of the video, black and white or colour contrast, also the locations and different camera shots we would like to use.
Reseach
We thought it would be good to research a simular song with the same genre so we could see how to produce our video and the findings proved that the video was very idolistic however there was the story line inbedded as well.
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Planning Process - Next Step!
Monday, 4 January 2010
A2 Brief
- A website homepage for the band
- An album cover
- A magazine advert