Progress of the CD Cover

This is our CD cover in progress of what i have designed so far. I have so far put the name of the band, song name, bar code their and record company. We are designing the CD cover as a 70s postcard/ holiday poster. I only have to put some picture of where we are shooting/setting of the music video(Malice) and it shell be finished.

The Specials

This is another band from the genre we're doing our music video for, I like this video because of the shots of the buildings at the start which goes with a couple of shots that we have filmed. I think that it fits into the genre quite well due to the video with the music - and of course the music.


The costume in the video seems to go with typical conventions for the genre, which again we have tried to stick by in our filming, which should project through into our final piece. 

Inspiration for text

The font that the word 'Blackpool' is in really inspired us to use a text slightly like it for the theme that came from seeing this postcard. We would like an old sort of seaside theme with text shown in the previous blog eg. 'welcome to malice'. I really like the idea and think it would work really well when finished.

It's a bit hard to picture at the minute as we don't have the pictures to put onto the website and so it looks a bit too plain.

Filming update!

We filmed on sunday with all of the actors and we shot all of the footage we think we need, we haven't had a chance to look through our footage yet but it seemed to go very smoothly. for each shot we repeated it to assure that we had enough footage to pick and choose from. 


I am happy with the overall day of filming, we got it all done when I was expecting to have to initially come back again. Although we may have to re-film, we have something for all parts of the video and hopefully it will look good when importing it.

Developing The Website

For the design of our website we have decided to continue with editing it in photoshop. It allows us to be a lot more creative with what we do and make the design a lot more individual. By allowing us to do this it made our design a lot more relevant to our video so there is now a flowing theme of a mock travel brochure through all 3 elements of our work.

We have made the colour scheme match the CD colour scheme, this means that each aspect about the video is staying the same and looks more professional. In the coloured rectangles we will have different pictures which we took of the location that we filmed in. The pictures will then link to different pages of the website, such as the photo album.

We will continue to progress on the development of the website. Hopefully it'll turn out well!

Starting the website

We have started to create the website using iWeb, we have discussed the colour scheme and feel that the colors would look best being white, black, blue and red. This is because they are the colours on The Jam's logo and we would like to keep that aspect of the band going on throughout our website.


We have added the navigation bar at the top so that we can fit the rest of the page around it to make it look professional. It will also mean that we have a structure to follow. This is what we have so far:

Looking at Postmodern Aspects in Our Music Video

Generic Hybridisation
Our music video coveys the idea generic hybridisation as our initial idea is a mix of bothe imitating a tourism video and music video. Proving that in new media texts we can't create anything new or original with taking aspects from other media's. Our media idea has taken idea's from The's Jam's music videos seen here. We then we got the idea of a tourism idea from the birmingham bullring advertisment, previously mentioned earlier on in the blog and also seen below:

Self Reflectivity

Self reflectivity will also be present in our production. In certain shots of our music video we will have intentional mistakes such as the clipboard being in shot or the microphone dropping onto the screen. This will show that the text knows it is a media production.