Practice with panning from the ceiling:

We tried using a camera to give the effect that we were shooting the ceiling with all the features of the floor were on the ceiling:

Further Album Cover Analysis

A Rocket To The Moon (Album cover):

• As we can see from the album cover, it has the bands name on a sort of hill type of lining, and the typography of this title, looks as if it has been wrote by hand onto the album. The albums name 'on your side' is smaller to the bands title, which is quite typical of most album covers, it is quite common for the producer of the CD to use the bands name in a more outstanding and bold style.
• The colours used on this album cover are quite relaxing and mellow. For example the connotations of the colour blue are calm atmosphered and quite relaxed. The colours seem blurred as well as being quite bright, so it could be suggested that it looks as if the scenery is being seen through a window or a clear pain of glass. 
• The windmill in the background suggests a sense of peace to the music which may be seen on this album, from what we can see by the lyrics and music of this band the music is quite calming and peaceful. The bird which we can faintly see in this album cover picture, could be also representative of this peaceful music.
  

A Rocket To The Moon (logo):

The logo of this band, seems quite retro, as if it should be from the 1960s possibly. The reason this could possibly be perceived this way because of the colours which are used. For example they all eventually come together at the bottom of the title. Also the word 'moon' starts to become an underline for the rest of the word, which adds to that 'groovy' type of effect. As well as the title not really having any paticular straight lines in it at all, and it is quite curved it brings a sense of fun to it. The 'groovy' type of feel to this title also adds to a representation of the songs, except these songs are quite modern, with lots of different generic sounds.

A Rocket To The Moon (poster):

The poster features the three members of the band all looking very relaxed towards the camera. The lead singer is in the center with the other two members behind him, suggesting a sense of importance to him, yet this is used in a lot of posters with the band members appearing on the poster, usually the lead singer will be in the center or have the most space given to him/her on the poster. The bands name is in the bottom right corner, the style of this writing looks more of a rap sort of look to it because it has been done in a stone colour with quite hard hitting lettering. The setting of this poster looks as if it has been set next to a block of houses, yet it also looks as if it has been set in the back garden of someones house. This suggests a limited budget possibly because it is not a well known band and does not have very many fancy effects in the videos.

A Rocket To The Moon (Music video):

• It starts with quite a playful tone to the music, and a shot of a frog, speech bubbles come out of the frogs mouth about 2 seconds into the video and first show the bands name, and the song title 'Baby we're invincible'.
• Then we see a shot of a multi-coloured tie and sunglasses and some other objects, these could all represent the upbeat qualities that the song has to give. Shooting to shoes on a floor, underneath a bed.
• We see the lead singer in bed, acting in as a character for the music video which is quite typical, most lead singers do feature as main characters for their own music videos. We see him asleep with a thought bubble of him about to sing.
• The lyrics begin and we can assume that it is coming from a speaker phone on the side of the characters bed because sharp animated symbols pop up over the speaker suggesting that it is digetic sound.
• We see the character stirring out of bed, and switching off the speaker/alarm clock, this then shoots to the band going back to the characters bedroom as he gets out of bed.
• The bedroom has lots of different toys and games, suggesting a sense of playful qualities to this song along with a little bit of innocence. We then see an animated character, possibly an imaginary friend, or some sort of cartoon played out in the characters head, who is starting to stir out of bed also. This could be an idea to use in our media project juxataposing cartoon with reality.
• The character then gets into the shower, the steam is seen to be fake, which is a nice added effect to the video yet it is done quite simply final cut or even just a slight transition, this adds to the merging of the cartoon and reality qualities.
• The 'imaginary cartoon friend' passes a cartoon character, which as the main character of this video, takes it becomes a real towel, this would work well in our preliminary exercise because it would help to test skills we havent used.
• It then flashes to the cartoon and real character sitting on the sofa playing a video game with the cartoon winning, and reality losing in some respects, which also adds to the idea of playfulness in the video.
• The speech bubbles are used again by the friends of the main character who tell him to come with them. It then shoots to a different room, like a basement, and we see the band start to play as the 'climax' of the song comes to the point.
• In the climax of this song we see the lead singer/main character pushing away his imaginary cartoon friend, and we see the cartoon pick up a ball and it immediately turns into an animation. The main character then falls over and gets knocked unconscious with animated stars which then start to come over his head, which is how we assume he has been knocked unconscious.
• He then meets a girl and the cartoon is forgotten about which is possibly a little message at the end saying we forget all the childish things as we grow up into adolescence.

Album cover analysis

Linkin Park (Album Cover):

• As we can see from this album cover is only has 3 different colours and a lot of different shades. For example the bands name, 'linkin park' is quite dark but looks as if it has been worn away at, seen from the little bits of white we can see in the title. The attention is focused around this title, and is boxed slightly with corners of a rectangle put around this title, trying to draw focus to this bands name.
• In the bottom right hand corner of this album cover it shows the albums name in brackets, this could possibly be a message to the market saying that the albums name is not important, because it is not wrote in any particular font and is not in huge size, this could suggest a sense of less importance to the rest of features of this cover. The main definition of Hybrid is the product of dissimilar of two things, which brings a sense of mystery of this album. 
• The man who seems to be running in this cover seems to be wearing an army type of uniform and holding some sort of long Axe or flag possibly. This could represent a sense of loneliness associated to the songs or possibly the band, but this is only a speculation.
• The back of this album, is quite basic, has the list of songs, bar code and the album name and bands name on it again. Something that is quite unique to this album cover is that the producers have put how long the songs are on for next to the song names, which is quite different to most album covers. The album also features the bands logo on the back.
  
  

Linkin park (Logo):

The linkin park logo, has quite an unique urban association to the logo. The 'p' in this logo is actually the wrong way round, but this sort of style is used in all of the bands logo. It also looks as if it has been spray painted onto a wall, suggesting a sense of street like qualities to the band and the songs.  It is also sort of boxed which is used around most of the words on anything that linkin park is associated with. Finally the letters are put in a white colour onto a black background, as well as the bracket border is also put in a white sort of colour.

Linkin park (poster):

This poster is put in a red sort of colour, as if it is a picture in a dark room. The bands name is in top center suggesting great importance so anybody looking at the poster can assume immediately that the band that is being marketed here is called Linkin park. The band members actually appear on this poster, there are six members and each of them have a small picture of them performing live at concerts which has been put in black and white to suggest a sense of memory to it, as if it is only a memory type thing. The members also appear in the background of this poster. The man from the album cover of 'hybrid theory' also features on this poster as well, which could suggest that this poster was published at the same time the album was produced. The butterfly wings added to this man, is quite a contradiction, because a butterfly is seen to be quite a beautiful creature and man of war is seen to be quite brutal so it is quite a big comparison.

Linkin park (music video):

• From the first shot, we see a girl looking over some sort of building or bridge to sea, then goes to a shot of the landscape of a lot of houses which are quite basic, with one half lite by natural lighting and one half still in shadow.
• We then see the band playing in an abandoned place, from some symbolic objects and candles we can assume this location is most probably a church of some description or somewhere religious.
• It then cuts to a classroom with the teacher at the front of the class pointing out things from a black board, and all the students except from the girl before are all watching and listening intently, yet the girl is drawing. From what we see of the drawings, they could be perceived as angels.
• It then shows the teacher banging a stick onto the desk of the girl because of her lack of attention, as this happens the other students begin to laugh at the girl bringing a sense of victimization of the girl.
• We see a statue of a woman with a man at her feet, whilst she is holding a baby, which looks quite religious, this whole video seems to link back to religion, because of the lyrics, the locations or just the drawings.
• We then see a sped up version of everyone else around the girl, when the chorus comes into the song, this could highlight her alienation and loneliness. The girl is then pushed over by another girl, we start to assume that this girl will most probably commit suicide.
• The viewer then sees the relationship between the girl and her mother, yet this is quite contradictory to the lyrics of the song at this point 'cant you see that you're smothering me' when the mother is actually arguing with her daughter and the daughter seems to be ignoring this and just looks upset.
• We then see the video becoming more blurry possibly because we are seeing it from the girls perception and that she is starting to think quite negatively and shut her eyes to everything.
• The girl then tries to sit with some other girls with her lunch, this highlights her alienation when we see the other girls get up and leave her without saying anything, the people then speed up around her again, this could symbolize how she feels as if she is going no-where compared to everyone else around her.
• We presume that the girl has just self harmed on her wrists, as she ties up her hair, and starts to look into a mirror. She then starts to aggressively paint on a canvas as the song comes to a climax.
• At the end we see the girl running towards where the band had been playing, except they have disappeared, giving us a question of whether they were ever there, although the equipment they were using is still scattered around where they were playing.