Cordell-Saifur-Riaj

Magazine Advert...

2010-02-20T06:53:00.001-08:00

This the image i have used in my Magazine Advert task in order to promote the album. I will have the image on the center on the advert widened with two black rectangular boxes going along the bottom and the top.

Top: On the top, i will have written the original artist name, Chris Brown and underneath that I will have the album name, Lottery, adding some affects.

Bottom: On the bottom of the Advert, I will have OUT NOW written on the center in capital letter and besides that, I will have a little image of the album cover.

Because of the lack of good quality images, my cover will look blury when it is printed out as i will have to stretch it.

Finalizing the Digipak

2010-02-04T12:46:00.001-08:00

Upon finishing my cover, i made some final amendments so it catches the users eyes. I played around with some affect and added it onto the inside covers. I done double layers for his name so they stand out more..

Editing the Digipak..

2010-02-04T12:38:00.000-08:00

Front Cover: During editing the front cover, i used Photoshop tools to cut out a pictures of Cordell. I had to make sure it was smooth, but did have problems around some edges. I placed the picture on top of the established city picture. To make the picture blend in with the background, I used the fade in tool so the picture of Cordell seems like its really there. I then titled the cover Chris Brown Lottery and placed it on top of the cover, which i also blended in with the sky.

Back Cover: On the back, I had a different idea with a framed picture of cordell in black and white affect. This is also made faded so some edges look sharper then others. I then placed a black rectangle box at the bottom where the barcode will go. I also placed the Title Lottery into the black rectangle in a white font and placed the barcode on the right.

This is a sample of how the back cover may look like when it is finished...

Inside Covers: Because the digipak goes from a light colour to a darker color, i needed to make sure it goes consistantly through the album cover. On the first inside cover, I contrasted some colors on photoshop so it goes from white, then gradually into black. Instead of having pictures, which may bore the covers, i instead had 'Chris' on the first inside cover and 'Brown' on the second.

Final Idea for Album Cover

2010-01-31T08:27:00.000-08:00

Below I have explained how our 4-Panel Album Cover will look like:

Front: On the front of the cover, we are going to have two pictures of Cordell with a established background of London city which we acquired from stills frames of the video. We are going to use Photoshop to merge both pictures together to make it stand out from the background.

1st Inside Cover: On the inside cover, on the first side, we are going to put more pictures of Cordell, from the stills frames, to make the artist stand out and sell himself.

2nd Inside Cover: On the second side of the inside cover, due to lack of images, we are going to put an autographed signature of Cordell along, which will be covered by the CD disc.

Back Cover: On the back cover, we are going to have a massive picture of Cordell faded out which will be covered with writing, such as the name of the track etc..along the bottom, we are going to have the music company's name and the bar code.

Ideas for digipak cover

2010-01-19T04:10:00.000-08:00

The album cover for our digipak will consist of (as agreed by all group members) a photo of Chris Brown. In our case we will have a photo of Cordell who played Chris Brown in our video. For the album cover we have to decide the variety of body positions and stance of Cordell along with the type of shot.

Our layout choice for the Digipak will be the Four-Panel Digipak. This is because it is the most simplest to do, we also do not need many info in the digipak, and we have some rough ideas for it.

This is a sample of how a four panel digipak looks like. it has four sides, two inside and two outside. The front is where cordells pictures is going to be and the back will be where the track name is going to go, along with the company name. In the inside we will have more pictures of cordell...

Posted by Saifur, Riaj and Cordell

Digipak Research Homework

2010-01-17T08:35:00.000-08:00

During this research, I am going to be looking at Album Artworks of the artists similar to the one we have used for our music video. I am going to be comparing and talking about the features,and any typical conventions (if there are any)

This is the album cover for Chris Brown Exclusive Edition, which also features the track lottery which was the song we chose as our music video. The cover features him, looking smart and attractive. The cover also shows the name of the album, the artist name and a bold background. As you can see, the artist stands out the most as they try and sell their album and themselves to the audience.

This is how the back cover looks like of Chris Browns Graffiti album. As usual, the cover shows a picture of him, dressed and looking attractive like the front cover. The back cover however gives information of all the tracks on the album, such as the name of the tracks. The font also goes with the name of the album, Graffiti. The cover also holds information of the record company which produced the album, which is sony.

This is the album cover of another RnB Artist, Beyonce. This album is recent and is named Shasha Feirce. This is very similar to Chris Browns album cover, as it shows the artist on the front cover. However, this cover has a light background, and makes the artist stand out even more then Chris Brown Cover. The cover also gives the title of the album on the side.

This is the back cover of the album from Cheryl Cole. Unlike Chris Browns cover, she does not show her self but more of the track list. This cover also has a light background, so the audience can read the track clearly. Similarly, the back cover holds information about the record company which produced the album.

In conclusion, most of the albums i have researched on have the artist on the front cover, and the tracklist of the back.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Finishing and Editing video-11,12,14 of January 2010

2010-01-16T14:18:00.000-08:00

During the 3 days of editing, we have stayed after college to make sure we will be able to hand the video in on the 15th. We have organised our clips in i movie and arranged the order. We have made sure that there are alot of rapid cuts involved, at different locations. Unfortunately, because we were sooo focused on our lypsynching, we have not managed to make a story out of the video. However, we have made shots of when the male is thinking about the girl..dreaming of him having her number.

We have also added some match on action shots, medium, closeup, long shots. Because we had some long clips, we had to break the clips down and added some cutaway shots. This way it will not bore the audience. Finally to make the video stand out, we have added some transitions, including fade in, fade out. Finally we were able to hand in our film on the 15th.

Posted by Saifur, Cordell and Riaj

Change of Location..

2010-01-16T14:16:00.000-08:00

Due to sever weather conditions(Snow and Rain), we had to change our video settings from outdoors to indoors. Instead of the park as one of the locations, we had to go under a tunnel and film the video. We also chose the city of London as one of our establishing shot. The film was mainly done at limehouse.

Change of Storyline...

2010-01-09T09:44:00.000-08:00

Due to the female actress no being available when we done our filming, we were forced to change our storyline from what it use to be.

New Storyline...
The male actor is in need and desperation to have the girls number, however because she has taken his number, and not given hers to him, he is left stranded and in deep gaze of when she will call him. In the video, the male actor sings for her, he also starts seeing her everywhere, but she inst actually there. He sings about what it will mean if she does call him, and gives her number to him. As days go by, he keeps on waiting, for that special call. During the final part of the video, the girl does eventually call him, giving her number to him...and the male actor gets excited....

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Shooting-09/01/10

2010-01-09T09:40:00.000-08:00

Today we went to finish our shooting at lime house, in the snowy weather. We have done alot of cutaway shots, and we able to repeat the chorus a few times, so we do not bore the audience with one long shot. We have also decided to use a few photos of the girl in our video as she was not available to act.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman, Cordell and Riaj

Editing- 08/01/10

2010-01-08T13:45:00.000-08:00

Today we have started to edit our final music video. We have organised our footage and so far have done a minute of video editing. However, the second main verse of our track was missing, so we have to take the weekend to shoot the specific parts. Also, we need to make sure we shoot our chorus again, so we have a variety of locations added into our video. We aim to finish all the filming by Monday, and take the final week to fully edit and go through our music video, fixing all the weaknesses. The final deadline for the music video will be on Friday the 15th.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman and Riaj Uddin

Shooting- 6/01/10

2010-01-06T10:42:00.000-08:00

Today we have finished shooting most of our video. We have met up in the morning and spent 2 hours to complete the shooting. We mainly focused on the parts we need to redo as some footage in the camera had errors. We have also uploaded all the footage on the laptop, and will begin to finish the final editing by next Friday.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman, Riaj Uddin and Cordell

Editing- 16/12/2009

2009-12-16T08:33:00.000-08:00

Today i have continued to edit the music video. However, we have a bit left to edit as i cannot upload some of the footage as it is in our camera.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Problems-Editing- 11/12/09

2009-12-11T06:17:00.000-08:00

We yet again face another problem today. Our target last time was to finish the remaining part of the film. This however was not done and was agreed to continue today after school. Unfortunately this is not going to be possible as one of the group member who is also a key actor that has the camera is not present due to personal issues.

However, as we uploaded the previous footage on the laptop, we will continue to edit the footage in the mean time.

updated by Riaj and Saifur

Shooting Day 9- 11/12/09

2009-12-10T16:25:00.000-08:00

Today during lesson time we will start to edit our music video. However, as there are some parts left to be shot, we are going to meet up after college to target finishing the video shots. We are going to spend time in the college shooting the female actress scenes, as we now were able to find a new female actress. Afterwards, we are going to meet up near lime house riverside to re-shoot a scene, as mistakes were made before. We target to finish the shooting by tomorrow and start fully editing the video on Monday 14th.

Posted by Saifur, Riaj and Cordell

Shooting day 7-6th december

2009-12-07T01:52:00.000-08:00

Today, after a long time, we got most of the filming done. We agree that it was really successful as most of the group members were present and on time to shoot the video. Whilst shooting the video, we had the storyboard with us which helped us progess the way we planned. As a result everything went really smoothly and we got more or less all of the filming done.
On the other hand we did make quiet a few Dramatic changes. For exampe, the actors that were performing on our previous shoot, were not with us therefore the casting had to be altered and in the end one of our group members had to cast in th video. We decided for our group member to act as he will always be available and the costume can be organised and easily accessible.

Other changes we made was in relation to the storyboard. For example, at one point, instead of using the frame and shot that was in the storyboard(longshot), we decided to use a different one (zooming out from a close up). This was done as we thought it will make the shot not seem typical and standard.

However, sometime during the last five minutes of shooting, our luck turned around as the weather became overcast and along came a light drizzle.
In the end, we had to stop filming but it wasnt that much of a big deal as we achieved what we planned.

Overall, we were very satisfied with the results as we followd our schedule and everything went according to plan.

Updated by Riaj, Saifur and Cordell

Shooting Day 6- 3/11/2009

2009-12-03T12:44:00.000-08:00

unfortunately, due to parents evening held at Sir John Cass at 4pm, our actors were unable to come during the shooting. As the meeting finished around 6pm, by that time it got dark outside and temperatures were unsettled, due to those reasons, we were not able to finish shooting our video. However, the shooting will commence the next day as all actors, cast and crew will be available.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman and Riaj Uddin

Problems with Shooting Day 5- 1/12/2009

2009-12-03T12:42:00.000-08:00

Due to Personal/Family issues with most of our cast and crew, we were unable to shoot our music music video at the present day. As we try desperately to sort everything out, we will continue to shoot the video the next day.

Although we have failed to meet the shooting deadline which was on 30/11/09, we hope to get the movie done by the 7th of December.

Posted by Cordell

Problems

2009-11-30T02:02:00.000-08:00

Today, whilst trying to upload our footage on the computer, we faced a major problem. As we played the tape, instead of seeing our footage we saw stripes on the screen. This was a major dilemma because we might need to shoot the whole footage again. We tried to overcome the problem by using different cameras to upload the footage but unfortunately it did the same thing every time we tried.

Now we are going to have to shoot the whole video again because we are not able to fix the problem. However the footage that are being able to be seen will be included.

Posted by Riaj and Saifur.

Shooting Day 4- 29/11/2009

2009-11-29T09:15:00.000-08:00

Due to consistent heavy rain, we could not shoot outdoors, We still managed to shoot some footage indoors. This put our group in a bit of a situation as we couldn't follow our schedule. Also, one of our actresses main role was to be filmed outdoors and this wasn't possible due to the weather issues. However, to overcome this distraction we have to continue shooting another day.

posted by Riaj and Saifur

Shooting Day 3- 28/11/2009

2009-11-29T07:07:00.000-08:00

Due to bad weather conditions, we were unable to shoot the music videos outdoors where most of the scenes are located. However, we were able to do some filming inside the Directors house.

Posted by Cordell and Saifur

Shooting Day 2- 23/11/09

2009-11-23T01:07:00.000-08:00

Filming with one of the main actors in the cafeteria. In this scene, the actors will be portraying the "male" character of trying to seduce a female. (Giving eye signal, focusing on her mainly - rather than work). Some other shots that do not require us to leave the school (as it is raining).

posted by-cordell

Letter to Record Company

2009-11-22T09:09:00.000-08:00

We have written a letter to Chris Brown's record company, RCA Records, in order to gain permission to use the track 'Lottery'.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Chris Brown- Excuse Me Miss

2009-11-22T06:53:00.000-08:00

I have uploaded this video because it is very similar to the video we are creating. This track is also from the artist Chris Brown titled Excuse Me Miss. In this video, you can see the male actor/artist following the female actress trying to get her attention. In comparison, the video we are shooting will also have the male actor following the female actress trying to get her number.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Shooting Day 1- 20/11/2009

2009-11-20T06:25:00.000-08:00

Today we are going out to shoot some scenery for our music video. We are going to use these shots for the opening of the video. The type of shots we are going to do are tracking shots, establishing shots and some long shots. The location we are going to use are Stepney Green spider park and the green space in front of the college, and some shots inside the college. We decided to do these shots today as the actors were not present.

Posted by Saifur, Sheikh and Riaj

Jay Sean- Eyes on you

2009-11-16T02:13:00.000-08:00

This video from Jay Sean is similar to the idea we got. We going to use alot of tracking shots in our video. The video of Jay Sean also includes alot of tracking shots.

Possible Locations

2009-11-14T06:46:00.001-08:00

These are some of the locations we have planned to use in our music video.

We have planned to shoot a scene in the park. As the music is a love song, the park would go along as a nice location. This is either going to be in victoria or mile end park. This is the scene, where thw actors will first meet and the male will go into a gaze.

We have also planned to use the Directors (Cordell) living room for one of our scene. Although we havent fully planned what scene we are going to shoot in the living room, using a variety locations will make the video look more exciting.

For our second idea, we plan to use a train station showing the actors coming out out.we are not exactly using this one but we are going to use a similar station.

we can use this location to show that the charecter is toping up his phone we can take couple of shots inside the shop.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman and Sheikh Mahfuz

Chris Brown- Lottery

2009-11-14T06:22:00.000-08:00

This is the final music my group and I have chosen to do as our coursework video. The artist is Chris Brown and the title of the song is 'Lottery'. The reason why we have chosen Chris Brown is because he is a very popular artist. His music are mainly RnB which goes with our genre choice. The song is about a boy trying to get a girls number. But before he can get it, he trys to guess it and describes what it would mean to him. The music was released on 2007 and does not have an official music video.

Possible Ideas:
1) As this song does not have an Official Music Video, it becomes more challenging as we do not have the video to take ideas from. It will be nice to compare our video to the original music video and see if we can spot any similarities. The video will feature both male and female actors, with the male playing the dominant role. The video will start of by the male looking at this girl which he likes the number from, falls into a gaze and goes to a fantasy world. This is where the music will come. The male actor will follow the girl in various different locations and days where he will be guessing the numbers which the girl will resist to give. At the end of the video, the male comes out of the gaze and goes back to the real life.

2) Our second idea would be shoot up the whole song in a tube station, as the girl is leaving the station, and the boy is trying to get her number. Even though she is not paying attention as if she doesnt want to give it, he starts following her. Theres a hint in the girls face (using close up shots) that she is also interested but show it easily. He keeps on following her as she tries to go home. she waits at the bus stop, and he keeps on singing the lyrics. She gets on the bus, and the boy is rejected as he lost his oyster card. Then the boy goes to the nearest shop and tops £10 credit on his phone. The next scene is at his house, where he is thinking about the girl and ringing random numbers.....

Possible Props:
-Mobile Phones for both Actors
-Casual Clothes
-Handbag
-Lottery Papers

Shooting Dates:
We will start shooting the video on the 16th of November. We will carry on and see what days the cast and crew are available which will be our next shooting days.

Posted By Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Chris Brown- Lottery Lyrics

2009-11-14T06:18:00.000-08:00

"Lottery"

If I gotta guess it I will
I think it's 310-143-1437
Baby if I press it then will I get to you?
Let me know, what is your number girl?

Every minute is worth a dime of spending
You can change my whole life if you fit it
Odds are, one in a billion
My heart, I bet on you if I just get your number

Girl if I put your number in my phone
I hope that it's the right one
Girl If I did then
I'm goin in tonight hon
It could mean a lot for me
I think I done hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery, baby yeah

Get on this investment cause if you bet on me
Then we can go anywhere in love it's nothing
If I leave a message I hope that it goes through
Let me know, if I'm the one girl

Every minute is worth a dime of spending
You can change my whole life if you fit it
Odds are, one in a billion
My heart, I bet on you if I just get your number

Girl if I put your number in my phone
I hope that it's the right one
Girl If I did then
I'm goin in tonight hon
It could mean a lot for me
I think I done hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery...

If you choose me (Girl I promise)
If you choose (I'll be honest)
If you choose me (Won't abuse it)
If you choose me
And if you choose me
if you choose me
And if you, if you choose me
And if you choose (I'mma love you)

Girl if I put your number in my phone
I hope that it's the right one
Girl If I did then
I'm goin in tonight hon
It could mean a lot for me
I think I done hit the lottery, baby yeah
Think I hit the lottery, baby yeah

(Can I get your number?)

Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah
Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah

Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah
Girl let me get that number, I hit the jackpot girl
Your like the lottery, your like the lottery yeah

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman and Riaj Uddin

Jay Sean Ft Lil Wayne- Down

2009-11-01T16:04:00.000-08:00

This is a recent RnB music video from the artist Jay Sean. This one also has a featured artist, Lil Wayne. In comparison to other RnB video's, i have spotted that most artist tend to use featured artist. This is because the colabiration makes the sales of the album even higher. This song also has women actresses as the song is from a male for a female. The video has affects and also uses stylish props for the actors. There are various different types of shots such as High angle and panning to make the video look better. However, the lyrics of the song does not match the actual video.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Chris Brown- Forever

2009-10-31T09:59:00.000-07:00

This a typical RnB song from the artist Chris Brown. The Title of the song is Forever.Just like most RnB music, the song is for a girl as it is sung by a boy. The video is very modern based so it has loads of affects an visuals. The Video has 3 main settings where they use strong lighting affects. The Main actors in this video is Chris Brown himself, a lady actress and a variety of male and female dancers. The song is closely matched with the lyrics, as the lyrics consist of the word 'Dance Floor' you see the actor mainly dancing during every scene.

Posted by Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Research for R&B and Grime Music

2009-10-04T09:15:00.000-07:00

The genre we are going to be focusing on are R&B and Grime music
The most popular artist at the moment in Grime music is Tinchy Stryder. The popular artists for R&B music are T-Pain, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Akon and Jay Sean.

Popular R&B and Grime Artists:

N-Dubz, Jay Sean, Tinchy Stryder, Eminem, Leona Lewis, Chipmunk, Lil Wayne, Tpain, Akon, Sway...

The typical things you would expect to see in a music video is a person singing the song. The song usually has a message. In an R&B genre music video, you would expect to see a guy/girl singing a love song for the opposite sex.

Mis-en-scene: Fancy clothes, designer brands and accessories. Expensive powerful cars. Good Location

Editing: Music videos usually have lots of different editing done to impress the audience. You would see lots of different visual effects.

Camerawork: There are lots of different speedy cuts in a music video. A scene would last for 3 seconds and skip to another scene. High angle/Low angle etc.

Research for Hip-Hop Genre

2009-10-02T17:16:00.001-07:00

Hip-Hop conventions that we have noticed:

1) Prodominantly, black people invented HipHop music, therefore there are more black artists within the genre. The recent MOBO award featured mostly black artists celebrating their invention.

2) Most HipHop tracks that we have looked at had cars, girls and designer brand jewelery and sunglasses

3) HipHop artist also use another artist in there song. Snoop Dogg used Pharell as his featured artist in his track 'Drop it like its hot'

4) The story in the music video's are closely related to the lyrics of the song. Soulja Boy 'Kiss me through the phone' had people in the video giving kisses to their loved ones over the phone...

5) There are more American HipHop artists. Most British HipHop artists are unheard of, or not popular

6) The setting of the HipHop tracks are usually at rich or unusual places. There are more affects and lighting used. In Kanye West's video 'Stroner' he uses strong lighting affects.

By Mohammed Saifur Rahman, Riaj Uddin and Sheikh Mahfuz

Evaluation

2009-09-26T13:17:00.001-07:00

So far, my group have learnt that music video making isn't as easy as it seemed. In the old days, music videos had less effects, less cuts and fewer settings in them. Today's music video's have more rapid cuts between scenes, more locations and are at better quality.

One mistake we made during the lipsynching task was that we didnt know the lyrics to the song off by heart. So what we did was get Sheikh to have the lyrics close to him so he can repeat it along whilst playing the song. However, because he did not know the words to the song, he was saying anything which looked out of place. Whilst we were editing the video, we had difficulties to get the video in line with the song. We have learnt that, it is vital to learn the lyrics off by heart, and that we make sure that we say the words along with the artist, not 2 seconds after!!

Nowadays, to sell a music video, it needs to captivate the audience. Comparing a video from the 60's and one from 2009, we saw that the video's these days have much more effects in them. They also had more locations so it does not bore the audience. The video we saw which starred Beyonce, had 30 cuts in 10 seconds. Also, there is a story to every music video.

Different genres have different types of videos. In a R&B song, you would most likely see a couple or a love story. However, in Rock Music, you would see more instruments being played by a band, rather being focused on a main storyline. Some genres need more mis-en-scene then others. Specific music are targetted at a niche audience.

Overall, my group have learnt that to make a captivating video, we need to take more time planning and each group member has to be contributing to the video. Everything needs to be planned before hand.

By Mohammed Saifur Rahman

Sweding Task

2009-09-26T13:14:00.000-07:00

The song that we are going to Swede is:
Sweet Dreams are made of these By Eurhythmics

Lyrics:
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world
And the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something.

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world
And the seven seas
Everybody's looking for something.

Hold your head up - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up.

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused.

Hold your head up - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up - Movin' on
Hold your head up - Movin' on - Keep your head up.

Sweet dreams are made of this... (4x and fade)

2009-07-16T06:48:00.000-07:00

i chose this video because it's a great music video directed by Frank E.flowers and produced by Janice Biggs. This music video contains a lots of emotion and great audio.
it was released in november 4,2005. One of the other main reason for choosing this video is i love the music in the video and the setting of the video. the location of this video is great as well the song relates with the music as well. the story line of the video is a bit vague and that creates a different kind of atmosphere.

2009-07-10T03:01:00.000-07:00

Posted By sheikh mahfuz