Extra Filming!

Whilst editing, the three of us, me, Priya and Nick thought about how we could show the youthful side of the marriage within the video and to also show the progression from engagement and planning to then the actual wedding day! 

As a car driver, our group always had a car on hand, something that have us the inspiration for the extra filming that we undertook. A typical tradition of a wedding day is when the bride and groom drive off in a car with banners, balloons, ribbons and cans attached. Seen here in the recent Royal Wedding:

Sadly, I do not own a vintage car! Therefore we used my C1 - the mise-en-scene of which represents the fact that the couple are young and on a budget!

Whilst filming a tripod was used to get various shots of the car in motion - only from behind and the side (whilst driving) to show the sign. Confetti was also used to back up the importance of the wedding theme.

Editing.

Whilst working on our individual ancillary tasks as a group we begun the editing of our video and have each discovered that Premiere Pro is a very hard programme to use! However, simple techniques (possibly the most important?!) have been mastered within this software - importing footage, editing the actual picture such as the brightness, cutting, changing footage around have been found to be extremely useful in the day to day editing. 

The timeline of the video still has several gaps, something that is to be expected, however, hopefully with an hour or so each day working on the editing software the video will start to take shape. 

However, a fly in the ointment is that another group uses the VEM machine that we use - something that has delayed the editing process, however both groups have compromised and we each have our set days for editing.

Ancillary Task - Pictures for poster!

For this ancillary task I had to take new photos and using my previous research of Bruno Mars' personal pictures I took my own using certain characteristics of Bruno Mars. 

Similarly, a collage of pictures was created using our groups actor. As you can see certain poses have been mimicked to portray the actor correctly. Nearly all of the backgrounds are plain, again similar to the images of Bruno Mars, however as a group we decided to give our own touch to the image and placed the actor outside and in front of a colourful shed, a representation of the fun and spontaneity within the song. 

A favourite image of mine was taken and edited within Photoshop. A black fade used around the image - a trait that I would hope to continue throughout the rest of my ancillary tasks.

Poster Research - Part Two!

I am hoping to achieve a poster that will advertise an upcoming gig for Bruno Mars. However, very rarely does Bruno Mars market his shows in this way, due to the majority of it being on-line, yet there are a select few that Bruno Mars has produced for his tours. 

It can be seen that Bruno Mars sticks to his house colours for his promotional packages - yellow and cream. These colours are continuous throughout his CD. 

It also appears that posters which have been altered to look cartoon like are popular as a theme. The Flaming Lips also use this effect. 

And also the 'Distillers' 

Although these two posters are not of the same genre that Bruno Mars is, it is interesting to take into account how the effect of using cartoons has been used throughout many genres. 

Ancillary Task - Poster Research

For my ancillary tasks I was asked to create two elements that would be included within a promotional package. I have decided that one of my tasks will be a promotional poster - something that could perhaps be used to advertise an upcoming gig or the album release. 


To really understand the type of images that would be required for the poster, I collected images of Bruno Mars from Google so that I could study his pose/body language and then use elements of this in the photos that I would take.

The four images that have been studied here, aside from one (the top left) show a young and modern man, with each pose rather similar and also standing against a wall - a factor that I like and will use for my own pictures.

Photography!

For our group to get a definitive answer in respect to the choice of locations we went and done a test run. We put our two actors within the outside location in a variation of spaces to see as to whether or not they would look right on film. Here are some still shots: 

As you can see the pictures have been taken in both daylight and near darkness as the lyrics mention "it's a beautiful night". The location of the river, I believe suit this well as it overlooks the river along with the houses being lit up at night, something that can be a romantic connotation. 

Logo's

LOGO'S:

As part of our ancillary tasks a logo was required to give the professionalism that would make our production as a whole stand out. To begin with, when we was using the 'Glee' version we had created two 'Glee' logos.

Our two Glee logos.

However, as the Bruno Mars version of the song is being used more logos were required. As a group we decided on making logo's for both 'Bruno Mars' and 'Marry You'. To gain inspiration for this we took to looking at Bruno Mars' own album covers.

The connotations of this album cover imply a very meaningful aspect to Bruno Mars. As a simplistic album cover it references his difficult journey he has made throughout his music career. Only three colours have been used for this cover; yellow, white and black. A simplistic feature my group was keen to consider so that our interpretation of the album cover would relate to the original. The font that has been used is Nueva STD Cond - chosen from the style guide.

The stages of our logo design can be seen progressing here:

Plain background, similar to Bruno Mars' original  cover except it is white. An animated image has been used to represent the ideology of the video. Wedding rings = Marry You.

Similar to the first - although the red is to harsh and does not symbolise marriage as the colour red signifies jealousy.

The outer glow used on this seem appropriate as marriage is normally portrayed by bliss etc.

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Simplistic black and white with a touch  of glitter in the background to add  the feeling of youth.

The effects used on this logo are too heavy - not appropriate for the  video concept