Tour Poster Progression - Connor Burgess

CD Cover/Packaging Progression - Connor Burgess

Nathan's leaving - Connor Burgess

Nathan has left the sixth form and has moved on to an apprenticeship. This means that Group 2 is now just myself and Michael Hickey, we will now be taking over the workload that we gave to Nathan for the rest of the coursework.

My own music video analysis (Nathan Kearns)

I wanted to attempt to add some things to the music video to give it my own touch. I was able to analyse the original video properly and change what I wanted to change. When I looked at it the first time I thought I could do so many things to make it better but when I tried to do my own I found out we didn't have enough clips to make major changes.

I really disliked the first few seconds of the video so I found a certain 2 second clip I could put at the start to make it better. When I tried do this I found out the sync of the song was completely messed up and it was unfixable without looking stupid. I tired to make the clip shorter so the song would be in sync but this meant it would be that short that I didn't have time to put a opening title on it.

My own music video (Nathan Kearns)

UK Top 40 Chart Update #5 (Nathan Kearns)

Over the past dew months, Hoziers single (Take Me To Church) has been a real success in the UK. The single has gone from being number 38 in the charts to number 5 in the space of 3 weeks. The song has been noticed by many people who have been downloading it from ITunes. Above is the official BBC Radio 1 website and as you can see it is sitting in number 5.

The song has also been a massive hit on Youtube with over 69 million views. When we came up with the idea to use this song it only had around 5 million views.   

Group Twitter Account - Connor Burgess

After creating the Facebook page I have decided to create a Twitter profile so that my group are on both of the internet's biggest social media websites. 

This account is more secure than the Facebook page because I have created it with the email that I created for the rest of my group to access for this account and the email address. We are going to create a hashtag to use for all of the tweets so it is something that the followers can once again associate our group with.

The logo that is going to be created for the Facebook page will also be used for the Twitter account. The link for the Twitter account is here https://twitter.com/chchsgroup2

Group 2 Facebook Page - Connor Burgess

I have created a Facebook group on my personal account so that our group can post what is happening with our group. I have ensured that my account is locked to people who are not my friends in order to protect my privacy.

As a group we will need to create a logo for the Facebook page so that people who read the posts can associate our group with. We can now reach a wider audience and keep followers up to date on the music video and our other products.

The following link is to the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1533868146867381/

Final music video and reasons behind decisions - Connor Burgess

This is the final music video for our group. We have applied a few minor changes to the prior version and are now fully satisfied, we have done all we can do to make the music video.

Reasons

Black and white theme: The black and white theme is something that we have implemented across all our products. The theme has a symbolic purpose. The song has a bleak meaning behind it and we explored this and found the theme was the best way to emphasise this.

The artist is going through his own personal turmoil and the black and white theme helps make the world look bleak and desolate. So this display of emotion is demonstrated through the black and white theme.

Camera angles and shots:

• Opening shot: This has been chosen as it shows (using an over-the-shoulder shot) the landscape. This contrasts with the artist and makes the artist look insignificant which is a recurring motif throughout the music video.
• First two shots: The long shot of the artist walking away and to the camera was inspired from Ed Sheeran's Lego House music video. As Nathan at the time wanted to do this song we decided that we would gain some inspiration from the music video.
• Bedroom shots: The first bedroom shot was to be directly related to the lyrics "worship in the bedroom" and we thought using one bedroom scene was pointless decided to use another for the chorus. To replace a shot that we were not particularly fond of.
• Church shots: We decided that the church would be one of the main locations for our music video, as it is a place where the artist can take solace and worship (as displayed in the music video). It is also directly related to the lyrics and the meaning we are portraying. 
• Albert Dock shots: We used several arc shots in this location. This is to emphasise the mindset of the artist as he is currently troubled. Also the medium shot of the artist on the bench is used to coincide with the acting to showcase the artists troubled mindset.
• Park shots: The original handheld shots help emphasise the artists mindset once again, as the shaking of the camera highlights that the artist is shaking with fear. The close ups are used to show the reaction of the artist, as well as to keep the audiences attention on the actions of the other actors. The close up when he has been beaten up is used for dramatic effect to show the result of the attack. 
• Finally the medium chorus shots are because we didn't want to direct the audiences attention away from the park. The fact that the artist is not beaten up in these shots was because we wanted to highlight the insignificance of the attack, the fact that nobody but him cares about what has happened.

Meaning behind music video: We have decided as a group to keep the reason that he is being persecuted as ambiguous. In the original music video the actors are being victimised for being homosexual, we decided to stay with this theme as we thought that the theme was an important subject. 

So through the meaning in our music video being ambiguous, the meaning becomes universal. It emphasises that anyone can experience hatred due to religious beliefs and the music video can be seen as embracing religion or challenging the beliefs, and we are leaving it for the audience to decide.

Album Cover Development - Michael Hickey

Tour Poster Development - Michael Hickey

Final Product Analysis - Michael Hickey

I am very happy with the outcome of our groups Album and Tour Poster. I think that the black and white theme works really well with our poster and album as it reflects hoziers music and the tone of the music video and album. I think that we have successfully taken aspects from each of our posters and album to create this final product. Even though conner burgess' work was what we worked of for the final product i feel that each of our own aspects are shown through it. For example the logo that i had created are used throughout our final products as well as some of the photoshop techniques i used in my album to create the inside pages. I feel that our tour poster is very effective as it has a very professional outlook and resembles a real tour poster that would be used in this genre. I feel that the album we have made reflects the song "Take me to Church" really well. The partially used colour indicates the vibe and mood of hoziers music and is relevant to the story behind the song and how he is being persecuted for his sexuality. The black and white allows us to portray the bleakness of the song and colour shows the mixed emotions and contrast of the character.

Tour poster and Album Final Product - Connor Burgess

Imposed Album Packaging - Connor Burgess

Albums (Individual)

Tour Posters (Individual)

Tour Poster - Connor Burgess

Album - Connor Burgess