Advertisment for Neyo

CD Cover for Neyo

I done further practice of the layout and colour scheme that we might use for our CD Cover on Adobe photoshop. I did a silver and gold theme as the colour scheme because those colours are linked to R&B and the conventions, as the colours both connote wealth and link to extravagance (eg: jewelry). It looks like a more classier colour scheme and professional CD Cover.

Practice making CD Cover for Neyo

Comments on Third Filming

For the third filming we were filming the river scenes, which included both romantic shots of their relationship. However, also shots were their relationship had broken down. For the breakdown of their relationship shots the weather was very miserable which suited the atmoshphere we were trying to create in those shots. We had alot of footage of the river scenes which came in handy when editing as it helped fill in gaps of filming we could not use. It also helped our music video have quicker shots and make our scenes and shots in some places shorter and quicker as it broke up the scenes that were too long. This helped as quick shots is what typical R&B music videos use. Which was useful as one shot was 14 seconds on Adrian singing, which was too long of a shot.
Later on we were filming the scenes at my house where the female character Yoda is cheating on Adrian with Derek. The problems that occured was setting up the whole 'mise en scene' of the cheating scene, which was meant to be occuring in Derek's bedroom in the music video narration. Therefore, as we were filming in my room which is kind of girly we had to make changes to my room in order to make it more 'boylike.' Consequently, I took props and some of my brothers things from his room in order to make it a better mise en scene. We added my brothers aftershave on the side cabinet along with some weights. We also hung up a calender for men where a women was in lingerie on the wall over the bed.
Also my room is very narrow and filming midshots and longshots proved very difficult to do while using a tripod. We overcome this issue by standing right back and moving the cabinet and wardrobe right backwards, in order to give some extra space to successfully get the camera shots we wanted for our music video.
We also had issues with costume, however, we found some black shorts that she wore in the end. My dog also kept running in and out of the room interupting the filming. So I overcame this problem by putting him in my sisters room while we were filming.
What worked well in my room was the lighting as I have a lightswitch which you can dim or make brighter. Therefore by diming the lights slightly it emphasises and shows the cheating as bad as the lighting was not bright and showing happy times.

Target audience sheets

Comments on Second Filming - 3rd March

On our second filming we had to film the second lot of scenes that was of Adrian acting as Neyo singing on a stage. We filmed this in our school hall as it has a big stage, however, we had to get permission of the headteacher first. We decided to do this scene as it is a typical method that Neyo uses in his music videos, therefore, we had to dress Adrian like Neyo. So Adrian came to our school dressed in a smart formal suit. Although, we did not have the hat that Neyo wears. We overcome this problem by going to the drama department at our school, and asking the teacher if they have any hats from our previous play guys and dolls. Luckily the teacher had one and this completed the costume for Neyo dressed formal.
Halfway through filming we also had the issue of having to share the room while filming with the drama teacher, as they were acting in the hall at the same time we were filming. We overcome this issue by when we were filming the drama students would stop.
On our storyboard we had to change shot 14 as all the shots on the stage were mainly long shots. So we tried to make it look more interesting and vary the shots, we did this by making the long shot into a midshot instead. We also did this because typically in Neyo's music videos and R&B music videos is shots change between shots very quickly, so we tried to break up the shots and add varied shots.
Overall, what worked well was there was spotlights shinning down on Adrian while he was singing. This portrays Adrian as innocent and the victim in this video, as he is the one being cheated on.
We also researched Neyo's music videos and had to get the costume that resembles what Neyo wears in his music videos. Therefore Adrian who played Neyo was wearing a suit in this scene we were filming, and due to the usual conventions of R&B artists he is also wearing alot of 'flashy' jewerlly in order to fit into the R&B genre and stereotype.