John Butler Trio - Album Cover

There is an essence of smoke that surrounds john butlers face. The smoke could represent a number of things, for example in could represent the consumption of drugs such as cannabis. Cannabis consumption is often is stereotyped as hippies which is a social group/culture that are well known for dreadlocks, colourful clothing,drug use and peace making. This could represent the style of John Butler Trios album.
John butler appears to be wearing a hat that look like those of tribal leaders which gives a historical and spiritual feel to the artwork. This could be reflected by the power and culture of the music. The position of his face also reinforces this representation because it appears like it would do if it was on a totem pole. There are splotches of red on the album cover which could represent violence/war and this again could ironically reflect back to the hippie culture where peace is of great importance. This is reinforced by the guns coming out of John Butlers head at either side, creating a realisation to the viewer his opinion on war and violence. There is a butterfly towards the bottom of the artwork which connotes thoughts again of peace which seem to be a continuing theme throughout the artwork. The butterfly also could represent being close to nature, again reinforcing the idea of hippiness. The text is very simple, but effective in bold font and colours that stand out on the background. The black background is effective because it is neutral and calm, focusing the viewers attention on the artwork.

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British Film Study

Robin Hood - 2010

Story and plot: Robin Hood is a film based in 13th century Nottingham about a man ( Robin Hood) who steals from the rich and gives to the poor. Him and his gang of merry men, including characters such as Little John target the rich, confront them, threatening them with bows, arrows and swords. The film relates to a british matter because it is about the currpotion of the throne during the 13th century and is about the distinct barrier between rich and poor people during that period of time.

Actors: The actor who played Robin Hood is New Zealand born actor called Russell Crowe. He grew up in Austrailer. He also helped produce Robin Hood. Crowe has been in a total of 42 films including American Gangster, Gladiator, and The Insider. C

Actress : One of the leading femal characters Marion is played by Australian born actress Cate Blanchett. She has appeared in The Lord Of The Rings Triology, Hot Fuzz and Babel.

Director: The director was Ridley Scott, who was born in county durham, England. He has director both American Gangster and Gladiator, in which Russell Crowe appears in both. He has also director the film Alien.

Style/Genre: I think that the film characterises the style of the film as Action/Adventure/Drama due to aspects that feature in the film that fall into these particular genres.

Production Company: The production company was Universal Pictures, which is based in California, US, Florida. The film is a co-production from different countries including other companies such as Imagine Entertainment, United States and also Relativity Media, again California.

Distribution : The film was also distributed by Universal Pictures

Exibition: The film was released May the 14th, 2010 and it's box office weekend grossed £75 million out of North America. Its competition was Iron Man 2, which was releasd May the 8th 2010.

Jack Johnson - Inbetween Dreams - Album Cover

Jack Johnson - Inbetween Dreams

Predominantly the first thing that stands out when you look at this album colour is the bright golden/yellow background. Straight away this introduces a lot of symbolism that comes from connotations of the colour. Gold connotes thoughts so of luxury and riches. This could represent the music is quite well made and that the CD process involved a lot of money perhaps. The yellow tinge to the background connotes thoughts of summer. It could represent the sun which is a very powerful and important role in the circle of life. It could also represent the bright and summery colours of the flowers that are fully in bloom in summer. Both of these connotations could relate back to the music in the sense that the music is very summery and cheerful.

Another main feature in the CD cover is the tree on what appears to be a cliff. The tree could again symbolise the summer feel to the album as judging buy the amount of leaves on the tree it is in summer. Trees often symbolise family, faith and life, which again could reflect to the positive feel of the music. Trees are also the only living thing to continue to grow over its lifetime, which again Jack Johnson could be trying to represent his music in continuing to grow after this album. Also an article on Wikipedia about Jack Johnson and his music states that " The album cover depicts a mango tree, referring to the Mango Tree, the studio where In Between Dreams was recorded." The way he is picking a mango from the tree could also relate to being close to nature and this brings in genre guesses such as acoustic, and also perhaps create stereotypes of hippyness. Thecliff could perhaps represent a risk involved in the music in the sense that it might be a change from his previous material and that the risk is winning over a new audience but continue to maintain his older fans. The cliff connotes thoughts of height and heights could represent power. In this sense, this could represent that he is at the top of the world representing the huge amount of success he had.

Jack Johnson himself is making an appearance on the album front cover. He is shown with an acoustic guitar around his back representing the genre of the music and giving the audience a indication of what style of music the CD is without listening to it.

The text font is quite smooth and rounded and this could perhaps represent the calming/easy listening music that it is. His name is in black and the album name is in white. White connotes images of innocence and peace, and along with the name "inbetween dreams" it creates a happy feel about the CD.

Meeting - Editing, sectioning

A few days ago, I went around kenny's house to make some plans for both pre production and post production. We decided it would be best to shoot the narrative and the perfomance on different days as this means we could focus on both aspects and get the most out of each day without having to divide our time between Lewis and our actors and actresses. Things we discussed for the pre production part of things included editing techniques, organising transport for both the client,and ourselves, scheduling the date, time, location and meeting place of the video shoot. We also discussed his outfit that he would be wearing on the shoot and the what the actors and actress would wear on the day. We decided that a plain bright t-shirt such as green would be suitable and black jeans. This One editing technique we decided to use was sectioning the footage. We went out and filmed some random clips in Attlebridge and went back, captured the footage and then tried out sectioning the footage using the editing software Final Cut Studio. Here is the short video that we made to practice sectioning footage.

We used an application called "Motion" that our friend Rob managed to get a copy of on Kenny's IMac. This application allows us to edit masks that we created using Photoshop. We then took the Photoshop file with several layers and to create each section of the screen. We then used the separate layers as the mask and created several black square/rectangle and applied the footage on the top. Then you have to go on the compostion mode and apply the settings " travel matte - Luma". We then dragged and dropped our chosen piece of footage into each section, lined it up, perhaps shrunk it down a bit to fit in the section and then applied it. We then used the masks to make each section appear at a different time. Here is a picture of the sectioning process that we used to make our practice video.

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Below you can see our first initial treatment plan that we made in the meeting.