Day'N'Nite Copyright

Today, we decided to use our time to contact the distributing companies of Kid Cudi's Day'N'Nite, so that we were able to gain permission to use the sog for our A-level project. Unfortunately, wew were not able to find a way to contact either Dream on records, Universal Motown or GOOD Music. Since there is no way to contact any of the companies mentioned over their website, e-mail address or any form of social media, we decided to write about it on our blogs. Although this is a very popular song, I was very clear about the fact that we should choose the original song rather than any of it's multiple remixes to try and avoid any copyright issues. Myself and my group must stress that we are using Kid Cudi's Day'N'Nite for educational purposes only and do not wish to make a profit.

Kanye West - Stronger : Practice piece

This is our previous practice task, where we decided to make a video on Kanye West's stronger. It is only a minute long, and it was made months and months ago, but hopefully with the experience of making this video we will be in good stead.

Storyboard

This is the finished storyboard. this contains my group and I's ideas about what we are going to include in our music video. We may decide to change certain things if we feel that the visual realisation is in fact better with a different camera angle, we are open minded enough to allow for corrections to be made

Update - Progress so far

Hi!
This is just a quick update informing you of how we are doing on our project
I have finished the storyboard, and that will be uploaded to the blog in due course. I feel that the necessary improvements have been made and I hope that the storyboard makes filming a smoother process.
We have also finished our album cover, which will also be uploaded to the blog soon. Kieran has done a great job with it, as he has matched our ambition to make our artwork look very modern and has also implemented the idea of a split-screen effect, where one side is lighter than the other; hence the title of the album, Day N Nite. We are yet to make a back side for the album/cd, but we imagine it will be something similar.
Finally, we are working hard on our website, TheAssociation.com, and it will contain a homepage, store, tour, exclusive info and a music page. We hope that this will give our audience an insightful experience and they will appreciate the effort we have put in.

Across each of these we have used a posterization effect. This is something that we have seen in some of our favourite tv shows, such as the inbetweeners. This was a great effect that we really wanted to implement in our project, and through Kieran we have managed to do that.

Further updates will be on the blog soon!

Storyboard - Progress

This is my group's storyboard. It is a work-in-progress at this current moment.

Belt Buckle Productions logo

This is the record label that we will use throughout our project this year. It will allow us to look professional whilst still appealing to a wide range of audiences. This design was created by group member Kieran, and it epitomises what we are trying to do in this project. Here it is!

Band Logo - The Association

This is our band logo. We have decided to name our artist(s) 'The Association'. We wanted the logo to come across as intimidating to our audience and we have one of our band members, Dan, at the centre of the logo so our listeners can at least know what the artist looks like.
We have chosen this specific font as it is very formal and it's colour stands out over the background. Here it is!