Brooke Pollock A2 Advanced Portfolio

Our preliminary task was to create a one minute music video, and an album cover to go with. So here we have the album cover, album covers can be used to help promote a specific song, in this case 'Ugly Heart' and the band itself. As we are a girl band we went with the typical look for this category. Whilst researching into album covers many girl bands portray themselves in a similar way on their album cover, as having an image of them all promotes them and denotes to the audience the type of music they are producing within the album, which is an extremely useful promotional technique.  In terms of the back of the album cover we have made this simplistic yet eye-catching, it denotes the look we definitely wanted to achieve of bright colors representing positive vibes which girl bands create.

Hi guys, so here we are starting out the A2 course and our first task is to make a One Minute Music Video, this is our preliminary task as a practice for the real thing later on in the year. We can't just get straight This prelim task enables us to get a real feel of what it's like to lip sync to music, the variety of shots we will need and how hard the editing will be when it comes to fitting the song in with the lip syncing. I believe this will thoroughly help us when it comes to our main task. So anyway, the song we have chosen to do our one minute music video to is 'U.G.L.Y Heart' by GRL. This song fits well with our group as their our 4 of us so we can quite easily create a pop girl band look, just like the original band had created.

The storyboard may just seem like an extra tedious, step in the music video process.. but it's definitely not! A storyboard is the best way to share and explain your vision, not just with any interested parties, but also with the rest of your group, as all the group members will vision how the thriller will go slightly differently, so its best to ensure people are on the same wave length.. well try too, but also to ensure other people can also understand the idea. Story boarding makes overall production a whole lot easier, as it sets up a plan for the production, including all the shots, the order and how those concepts will interact with the script. This makes the filming slightly easier as you've already planned the coverage, and it ensures specific shots relevant to each part of the song wont be forgotten, obviously the storyboard isn't set in stone so there is always room for improvement, but its just a guide to help. Below is our storyboard for our preliminary One M...

Hiya guys! So like I said in my introductory blog post, we have now made our Happy Music video remake, we didn't have long to do this, so we had to think quickly who better for energetic characters, than to go out and film on sports day?! From this task we learnt how hard it is to place the videos in time with the music whilst editing, it proved to be much harder than expected, however we did it all within one day!! Anyway I hope you enjoy :)