Poster Design



Initial Poster Design


Initial Poster Design

After creating our script we started to come up with initial ideas for our poster design for Ed Sheeran's song 'Give Me Love'. Above is a sketch of what our poster is roughly  going to look like. We are going to take a picture of Luke who is playing Ed in our music video and put it in the center of the poster. We are also going to have 'Give me love' written loads of times in small text on the top half of Luke and one in big text that stands out amongst the rest. Then below where it says 'Luke Barnett' we will have 'Ed Sheeran' and then below that the date of when the song will be realest. 

Original Ed Sheeran Poster




Ed Sheeran's Give Me Love
Original Poster

In general in Ed Sheeran doesn't seem to be featured on his own posters. They typically have objects on them for example his poster for 'Lego House' it has lego bricks on it in a shape of foundations to a house portraying the name of the song. The main picture of the 'love hearts' in in the center of the poster which is the same as our poster design but the name of the song is in the bottom right hand corner of the poster and Ed Sheeran's name in on the top left hand corner. The poster is quite spread out and simple. It is also in black and white but one of the love hearts that has the song name 'give me love' is orange which makes the song stand out, this makes it the poster effective as it is clear to the audience of what the song is called. 

Script

In our music video our characters Luke and Dani have an argument. Me and Kate created a short script for Luke and Dani to learn. Even though the audience will not be able to hear the argument and will only be able see them arguing we thought it would be useful to have a script. The script is a typical argument that a teenage couple would have. We didn't create a script for our other two characters (Sam and Megan) as we didn't think we need a script we will just direct them and tell them what they need to do/say whilst filming.

Script

Dani: I’ve seen your texts


Luke: What texts?!

Dani: The texts from her.

Luke: I don't know what you're talking about?


Dani: My friend saw you two and told me everything.

Luke: It was nothing, you're over reacting.


Dani: I can't do this anymore... (Dani turns around and starts to walks away, Luke grabs her arm and tries to stop her)

Luke: Don't go!

Dani: let go of me. (Dani pushes Luke off her and walks away)

Filming Schedule

This is our Filming schedule that we created which will help us know what day and what time we will be filming each shots in our music video. It also tells us what actors we will need, what equipment we will need and where we will be filming it. This is only a rough guide as things are bound to change and be altered, according to what days we are all free and to film and what days the drama studio will be available.  

Inspirational Music Videos

Before we made our storyboard for our music video, me and Kate looked at different existing music video of artists we like, in order to get some inspiration for our music video. Here are some examples of music videos which we watched and inspired us and gave us some ideas to include in our own music video. 

Ed Sheeran - Small Bump

We decided to watch another Ed Sheeran music video as we are filming a music video for Ed Sheeran's song 'Give Me Love'. Me and Kate got a lot of our inspiration from Ed Sheeran's "Small Bump" Music video. The location of the video is based in a hospital in which Ed is sitting down a singing, meanwhile there are many different scenarios happening with other patients. For example, you see a couple arguing, a child playing, nurses and doctors walking around, etc.  All these scenarios happen at different times with every patient gradually fading away, leaving only Ed in the shot. All speech is muted so only the song playing over the top can be heard, I really like this technique as it adds a sense of emotion and a feeling to the song but also to the narrative of the story line. Me and Kate both agreed on incorporating a similar idea to this into our music video.

Olly Murrs - Dear Darlin' 

 After looking at Ed Sheeran's "Small Bump" Music video, me and Kate were also very inspired by Olly Mur's Music video for his single "Dear Darlin'". The effects used in this music are very similar to the ones used in Ed Sheeran's with idea of a scenario happening during a scene. Although in this video it used as flashbacks. We decided that we are going to be using the idea of flashbacks in our music video to explain to narrative. 

Annotation of Lyrics

This is an annotation of the 'Give Me Love' lyrics. The Lyrics act as our script for our music video. Along sides of the lyrics we have wrote down details of each shot number and shot type. Although this is how we want our music video to turn out like, we know that when filming the real thing, things are going to change and maybe not turn out how we wanted it too and we might have to ad-justify it slightly. Anything that we may ad-justify or change will be done in order to improve the final outcome of our music video.

Our Storyboard

Ed Sheeran Audience Research

For part of my audience research I asked three different people who like to listen to Ed Sheeran's music questions about Ed Sheeran and his songs. I did this to get some sort of an idea of what conventions they expect to see in Ed Sheeran music videos and get some audience feedback.

Interview one

1) What do you like about Ed Sheeran?
A: "I like his casual styled appearance and how he is different from other artists he doesn't 'dress to impress'."

2) What is your favourite song by Ed Sheeran?
A: "My favourite Ed Sheeran song has to be drunk, I like it because I can relate to the lyrics."

3) What is your favourite Ed Sheeran music video?
A: "My favourite Ed Sheeran music video has to be Lego house."

4) What do you expect to see in an Ed Sheeran music video?
A: "Ed Sheeran playing an acoustic guitar. And no quick cuts." 

5) If you were making a music video for Ed's song 'give me love' what would you include?
A: "I would probably get someone to play 'Ed Sheeran' and have them mime the words and play an acoustic guitar. Also have other characters act out a story behind the lyrics."

6) What other artists similar to Ed Sheeran do you like?
A: "Matt Howard"

Interview two

1) What do you like about Ed Sheeran?
A: "He has a really relaxing voice. I never get bored of listening to his songs."

2) What is your favourite song by Ed Sheeran?
A: "I like quite a lot of Ed's song but  I have to say my favourite is 'you need me but I don't need you'. Its my favourite song because it is different from Ed Sheeran's other songs because it is more up beat than the rest."

3) What is your favourite Ed Sheeran music video?
A: "My favourite music video by Ed Sheeran is 'everything has changed' featuring Taylor Swift."

4) What do you expect to see in an Ed Sheeran music video?
A: "I expect to see Ed with a story behind the song."

5) If you were making a music video for Ed's song give me love what would you include?
A: "Ed playing his  acoustic guitar and two characters being all 'lovey dovey'."

6) What other artists similar to Ed Sheeran do you like?
A: "Passanger."

Interview three

1) What do you like about Ed Sheeran?
A: "I like he is unique, he is different from other male artists. He dresses casual and doesn't really care about his appearance. I also like the fact that his lyrics have meaning not like other male artists singing about sleeping with girls."

2) What is your favourite song by Ed Sheeran? 
A: "My favourite song by Ed Sheeran has to be 'Give Me Love'.

3) What is your favourite Ed Sheeran music video?
A: "My favourite music video by Ed Sheeran has to be 'The A Team'. I like it because it because it tells a story of a girls struggle living on the streets".

4) What do you expect to see in an Ed Sheeran music video?
A: "A character in his song acting out the story behind the lyrics." 

5) If you were making a music video for Ed's song 'give me love' what would you include?
A: "Two characters in love and show the highs and lows of relationships to portray the meanings of the lyrics."

6)What other artists similar to Ed Sheeran do you like?
A: "James Arthur"