Inside dvd cover plan

We are going to use base colours such as black for our background and use red to contrast with this black. This felt like a good choice to make due to the connotations of the red on the black such as darkness and love which suits the Red Hot Chili Peppers well. The colours also represent the name of their band being 'Red Hot'. We will take a picture of my mouth open with my tongue sticking out and enhance the lips to make them redder. The three photos of us as the band will be taken separately and then edited onto the tongue using photoshop. The back of the DVD cover will continue to have the black background but have the red RHCP logo on the back as this is an iconic feature of the bands promotion technique because all the fans of the band know that logo. This will be drawn ourselves on photoshop in order to reduce any ways of us breaking any copy write laws. We are going to follow the theme through onto the inside cover using red and black as our main colours and three photos of the band members on the left of the cover.

Story Board

Cant stop music video

magazine cover

Print product

On this CD cover we can see that the main focus is on the artist, he is set in the center so that he is the first focus of the picture; paradoxically he is also surrounded by beautiful scenery that draws the attention of the viewer out from the singer. This CD shows that even if the focus is on the music that it can be nice to have the singer/band on the cover so you can relate it with them, from this I think that our group can take in that by putting ourselves on the cover, even if we are smaller, it can be beneficial to the audience and the band due to publicity and advertisement.

This is a CD cover from the Red Hot Chili Peppers, as soon as you look at this cd cover your eyes are drawn to the wicked effects used. These effects are useful because they make the image stand out in the middle, it is almost a liquid looking image surrounded by a black and white background with multiple words surrounding the picture. If we are to use similar themes from this cover it would have to be using different effects in order to bring the attention of the audience straight in.

Textual analysis

Textual analysis:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Monarchy of roses.

In the video “Monarchy of roses” the Red Hot Chili Peppers use a mixtures of performance and a lot of stop animation styled work. From this video I believe that our group has decided to copy the aspects of influencing a lot of performance, while also having cuts of stop animation. The song style is just what you expect from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the video matches their song brilliantly; I believe this is true as the Red Hot Chili Peppers are a fun, unpredictable band that tries to make each and everyone of their videos unique. By having a unique image and sound they can be more appealing to many people, this is why we have chose one of their songs to make a music video with, and this is why our video will contain features of this particular clip.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – By the way.

“By the way” is a video by the Red Hot Chili Peppers that is fast paced, well put together and exciting to watch. This is because the director has made the narrative of the video a rather interesting plot line, not only this but all the shots we see are rather short and cut quickly creating a fast paced video. I like this video because our group decided to keep ours fast paced just like it, not only will we have short clips in our video but we will also use effects to speed up certain clips to give it an even faster paced feel. Also in this car chase scene there are camera shots that resemble hand held shots, this created a panic effect which invigorates the audience, we would also like to do this to our audience so we may put some hand held shots in while performing.

Red Hot Chili Peppers – The zephyr song.

This song is a chilled song compared to a lot of their faster paced videos which I have previously talked about. One thing in this video that you notice straight away is that they use a massive amount of effects, if we were to try imitate this particular video we would be very limited, as we could not do as many effects and transitions that they do. In this video like, just like in a plentitude of others, we see that there is a lot of topless scenes; I believe that one of us will have to parade around topless just like they do in order to create a similar feel to the video.

Cant Stop
"Cant Stop" is the music video that we based our own video on, as we found the video very entertaining. Firstly The mise-en-scene of the video, is very basic but somehow, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, manage to put there own twist on the video. The Video is set in what looks like a warehouse, with plain white walls, apart from one feature wall which is painted bright orange, to stand out. Random props are used, such as empty bottles of water, which have no relevance to the music video, but add to the random vibe of the music video. At least 95% of the camera shots in the music video, are Still shots. These still shots are directed at the centre of the screen all of the time and there are no special effects involved in the music video, which helps give the Red Hot Chili Peppers are down to earth feeling and helps the audience relate to them.

location props and costume

Location:
As a group we originally decided for our location to be set outdoors, shortly after filming our first set of clips we realised that with constant weather changes and constant bad weather of winter that it might be better to re-think our film idea and change it. After re-planning our film we had chosen a local indoors location to do our filming, our college.  By using classrooms for the stop motion and the music performance room to record our actual performance we had made certain that a lot more unexpected variables would not affect the recording of our music video.

Props/costume:

Props we needed for the film would include all the instruments; guitar, bass, drums, mic and stand. Not only this but we needed board pens in order to do our stop animation. Our Costumes would also count as props, we had to make sure to dress rather “rocky”, I myself had to dress topless in order to impersonate the lead singer.