Update

To save any confusion, the song we have chosen (Next) has recently been given a new name by the artist, 'I Can't Do This Anymore'. We presumed it was called 'Next' as on the mixtape it was named this, but we soon discovered the video on youtube for exactly the same song, with a different title.

Our Chosen Song.

New Ideas for Video.

The general outline is that we'll be cutting from the performance of the piano, to random and abstract images. We have also decided our video will be following a rough narrative, the story of a guy who is heartboken and needs to move on, but cant let the girl go. This means our video will now consist of three sections; The narrative, piano playing, and Abstract shots. These three sections will intercut with each other.
Here are a few of our initial ideas for shots and filming:

• Shot of missed calls from him, on girls mobile.
• Location idea- sea front at night time, lights, the sea washing in and out, promanade.
• Shot out of window of the landscape at night, streetlights, town lit up, establishing.
• Ideas for types of shots for piano- side, revolve around, from high above, music sheets, just fingers or hands, shots of singer.
• Slow motion- walking down stairs.
• Shot of a door shutting as if she's left him.
• Water tap dropping (tears)
• Board with dice rolling (reference to games)

Lyrics.

I don't, 
wanna talk it all out i'd rather just forget, 
you got alot to say but i'm not listening, 
please spare me the tears 
cos they have no effect
and everything we had instead
i should of seen it coming. 
(Yeah) You had me dived by these disguise and i couldn't see
the way you played your game with your tricks you had me deceived, 
but now im over it 
I'm so down to taking that step,
I'm leaving i guess i gotta move on to the next.


[Chorus]
Oh i, 
don't wanna stay in love and live with this regret, 
please, i gotta take this of my chest, 
baby i, cant give anymore
when there is nothing left, im leaving..
I guess i've have gotta move on to the next.

You know, 
you got alot of nerve saying that its my fault, 
we should of thought twice 
before we got involved, 
everything thing you do, 
you let it fall, 
baby you were the cause, 
you didn't care at all! 
Don't tell me that you gave me your best 
you know that aint true, 
be real babe you set us up to fail with all that you do
but now im over it, 
i'm so done now im taking that step im leaving
i guess i gotta move on to the next.

[Chorus]
Oh and i, 
don't wanna stay in love and live with this regret, 
please i gotta take this of my chest, 
baby i cant give anymore 
if there is nothing left, im leaving.. 
I guess i've gotta move on to the next.

Digipak Draft 4.

Draft 4.

This is our final draft, and i think we've definately got it perfect. We found a font again from the site 'DaFont', and changed it completely so that it fits with the new background, and its more graffiti and urban, than the last one. We feel that writing the word 'Trademark' is more clear to the buyers that that's the name of the album, rather that just the letters 'TM'. Overall we feel our final album cover really reflects and represents our artists image.

Digipak Draft 3.

Draft 3. 

We changed the background to a more urban style theme, to try and portray the style and genre of music of our artist to a fuller extent.

Digipak Draft 2.

Draft 2.

Here you can see the modifcations we made to draft 1. We changed the background, and gave it a more marble effect. We think this looks a lot more professional, but we think it portrays our artist in the wrong way - style, music, image etc. it portrays more of a 'soul' image, and this contrasts the image we wanted for our artist. We also changed the colour of the font, so that it stood out more.

Digipak Drafts.

Draft 1.

This is our first attempt at a digipak/album cover. We started by cutting out a picture of our artist 'Kaneo' from the background of the original picture on Photoshop. We used a sketch filter to create the pencil effect on him. Next, we added a shadow behind him, and used a 'glow' to the edges of the outline of his body. We then duplicated the shadow, so that it staggers behind the original cut, decreasing in size and shade/darkness of colour. The style in which the picture starts small and light and increases gradually is to represent his climb to fame. The small light shaddow represents how he saw himself before, small and insignificant, and the large coloured one shows his new found importance and his climb to stardom - very much 'the bigger picture'. We used the gradient tool to add a simple background, of black to white. We then chose a font from the website 'DaFont', which as you can see is fluent and looks professional. Then we finally added a 'TM' symbol, as the album name is 'Trademark' as we thought this was a clever way to portray the album name.

 In the end we decided the background for this draft was too plain and simple, therefore thought we'd try and adapt this. See Draft 2 for further modifications.

Song Choice Update.

Just an update to let everyone know, we've decided to change our song choice. As we found the whole image of our artist is completely different to his actual music. There is some rap, like we thought, but a lot of it is smooth, soulful, and romantic. So our treatment for our video is also going to be changing.

The song we have now chosen is called, 'Next'.
It is on the music player that we uploaded previously of his mixtape.

Existing Media Influence.

Using inspiration from this video, we would like to incorparate the theme of break ups and pianos playing within our piece. The smooth romantic theme of our new song choice, would fit perfectly with this idea, keeping the black & white theme we decided on earlier.

Treatment

Lighting - Using inventive ways of creating light, eg phones, we hope to create a feel of complete contrast using black and white (this is taking inspiration from Jay-Z's On to the Next One video)

Props - We hope to use of different props that mirror the lyrics in the song with also some abstract images that are there for artistic merit alone.

Location - this is a factor that matters the least, due to the focus on certain objects as supposed to the surrounding area. This is due to the lack of narrative we intend to portray.

Actors/Extras? - This could be pretty much anyone, due to the fact that we don't plan to show who they are.

Digipak - The album cover will be an amalgamation of the ideas in our album cover posts earlier on the blog.

Music Video Inspiration.

Both of these videos use something that is an intriguing concept of having both slow and normal motion in the same frame at the same time. The effect of it is quite incredible. I like the look of the Radiohead one because it is in black and white as well as having the slow motion, so is hopefully more like our final piece.

Buzz videos.

Our artist is one to use new technologies, these include YouTube. He creates 'videos' that he posted on his personal channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/ItzKaneo

These videos are just the audio with a little animation of the title and artist but are only there to be another way to listen to his music and spread the word of it. Simple and effective. These are whats known as 'Buzz videos'.

Other Simular Artists.

We looked at other artists to try and find one with the most similarities to ours. we chose Kanye West for many reasons. Kanye is a world renowned MC, singer and record producer. Kaneo is someone who is also known as a 'triple threat' (being able to do the major things above) he hasn't quite hit the heights that Kanye has, but has massive potential to do so. We believe that in the music industry our artist would share many of Kanyes characteristics, ie. style, music genre and image.
Jay sean is another example of a similar artist to ours, taking a slightly more 'pop' spin on hip hop, much like some of Kaneos work.

Artist Audience.

https://www.facebook.com/Kaneo.music

This is the artist's facebook page with constant updates on new songs. It is also full of status updates that show his character and help to portray his personality, as well as using it as a way to communicate and promote himself to his fans. Status updates also provide his fans with the means to find out what he is doing, and when/where he is performing.