I have been using Photoshop to create some designs for my album cover

I have been researching Album Art and Posters. I have been looking at my favourite artists e.g. Green Day, LP, and Foo Fighters along with others like Gorillaz, Blur, Paramore etc

Disc design

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This is Mychemical Romance's official video for their latest single, Na Na Na. there is a shot in it where you can see people walking but you can only see from their knees down.

In our music video, in most of the music video's that we have looked at in this genre, have on average 50% shots of the band and 50% shots of the story to the music video.
I believe that we shouldn't stick to using 50% of the shots of Story and Band, I think that our shots should be more like 20/30% of the shots compared to the story being 70/80%. I think that this would work because our story seems to be longer than our band performance,

These are some pictures of a location that I believe would be great for us to film in for our Band performance section of the music video, I don't think we should use all of the locations shown, but I do think that there are 2 really good locations in the photo's these are displayed below

We could have shots of a person doing something they shouldn't have done e.g. steel from a shop ( but they get worse at doing what they have done e.g. steel more etc) then show them starting to feel regret and guilt and then show them start to feel uncomfortable with them selves for what they have done. The then attempt to repair the damage

What I've Done by Linkin Park is the song we are looking at producing a video for, I have had an idea for the video we could make it would be a video which Starts with a shots of a couple in love, then cross cuts to flowers growing, cross cuts back to one of the couple cheating (either man/woman) then arguing, spliting up. We would then cross cut back to the flowers dying and wilting then a shot of the soil where the flowers would have been.
The Flowers could be a representation of the couple's love growing and dying

I can see a problem with the idea though, this would be we would have to get permission of somebody to use their shots as we wouldn't have the time to film our own as it would take ages to get the types of shots which would be necessary for the video.

The music videos I am going to review are;

• Monkey Wrench - Foo Fighters
• Can't Stop - Red Hot Chili Peppers 
• From Yesterday - 30 Seconds to Mars

Here are their Music Videos respectively;

Although I'm not yet sure which video I will make I have started to develop ideas for music videos I like.
This is for Linkin Park's What I've Done, I like this song and have had a few ideas for it.  I haven't completed my mind map for this music video.

I plan on making a couple more of these mind maps for other songs that I like, I hope to include;

• Learn To Fly - Foo Fighters
• Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day
• In The End and Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park

Warriors Dance


Invaders Must Die


Although I don't think I would

I wanted to embed to videos from RHCP in this post but couldn't find their official music video to embed, the two videos that I wanted to embed was Can't Stop and Under the Bridge.

Can't Stop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfOdWSiyWoc

Under the Bridge
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwlogyj7nFE&ob=av3e

Fall Out Boy I Don't Care


Burn Burn by Lost Prophets

The Wilderness Downtown
http://www.thewildernessdowntown.com/

This video is pretty cool, I would like to have some similar shoots in our music video, and would also like to have some interactivity inside it like they have, although I would have to learn the HTML5 language first. I might try to incorporated some Flash into my video though if we decide it would be appropriate.

I like how Linkin Park TV have used these special effects at the beginning and end of their lptv episodes, I think if we incorporated some effects like this into a section of a music video it would look good.

The Catalyst official music video from Linkin Park


The Catalyst from Medal of Honour trailer


Bleed it Out