Final Music Video

25. Liam, Diana, Andrea and Valerie from 283goswellg on Vimeo.

All done

With this being my last blogpost to date and after finishing my coursework I  just wanted to say how much I have enjoyed the experience and the challenge, I have met some rather amazingly interesting people and worked harder than i thought i would. This year making a Music video has been so much fun and i really feel like i understand how media works. Thanks for the experience.

56. Mock Up of Digipak

53. Shortlist of pictures

52. Do's and Don'ts

Do's for the website:

Plan

I need to make sure that I have a general plan to follow, even if it isn't very detailed but just so I have a set plan i can refer back to when needed to help me stay on the correct path. It will also give me new and refreshing ideas so i can draw on it when i need to.

Audience

I need to research who my main target audience for the website is so I can appeal to them specifically and make them more attracted to it giving it more of a chance to boost my music video. The target audience ranges between 18-24 females. In order to appeal to them we need to relate certain features to the audience to make it appeal to them.

Platform/Vision: When it comes to making the music video I will b using a website called Weebly. For my website I want to try and keep the colors as mute as possible with the font and layout being rather soft and easy to understand for the audience

Don'ts

Copyright/Stealing: Taking things from other peoples websites is a form of copyright and in some cases counts as a form of stealing, gathering ideas and inspiration from other people is okay but taking things that are specifically identified as someone elses counts as copyright. Therefore using photoshop and asking for permission is a good way to avoid these situations.

Do's for the Digipak

Layout:

Similar to my website the layout would be rather soft and eloquent and really folk like to fit the music and the artist, the color pallet will be desaturated black and white.

Image: The images involved will show of the artist and the use of synergy in my cross media products

50. Individual Ideas for Digipak/Website

Digipak

As a group we came up with some basic ideas and plans. However its mainly an individual task so i needed to have my own seperate ideas and views to set mine apart from the rest. Here were some of my ideas:

Framing/shots: For the outer cover of my digipak i want to keep it rather basic with a wide angle image of the artists walking in the distance similar to that of the original Artist Gabrielle Aplin and her album English rain. The main piece of synergy the bowler hat will also be the main thing in sight. The background will also be filled with nature.

Color/Fonts:The font of the original album English rain is very eloquent and handwritten giving a very folk like vibe which is something i really wanted to use on my own work. It makes the album cover look more personal to the artist.

- My color scheme is gonna be very mute, pastel and calming. Like most folk type artist have very low key colors, Aplin herself chose to go for a very monotone black and white look which is something i think is really effective and is something i would like to use on my own work.

48/49 Ancillary texts 1&2

These are artists similar to our original artist Gabrielle Aplin-

Christina Perri

http://www.christinaperri.com/


Birdy

http://officialbirdy.com/splash/keepingyourheadup

Evaluation Question 4

What have you learned from you audience feedback?

Rough Cut




Rough cut feedback from teacher:

During our editing process we were asked to ask other members from the class to give their honest opinion about our video so far. Most really enjoyed it, however it was mainly to do with the lip syncing and the fact that most couldn't tell between the flashbacks and present day.
After receiving the feedback from both of my teachers and my classmates we all realized the changes that needed to be made, we ended up using premiere pr to edit the filters on the chorus/flashbacks making it easier for the audience to understand the difference between the tenses. After making them black and white we decided to add slow motion to certain areas to show the raw emotion of the lovers making the audience feel more emotive.

Here is some of my feedback and my actual final product music video:

Evaluation Question 3

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Camera

One of the main pieces of equipment we used for the post production of the music video was the Camera, obviously being a key ingredient to making a music video. After borrowing the equipment from the media department and all having prior experience from our AS year which made it easier to capture the shots and angles we needed to take, also knowing what all the buttons do was also helpful

We each took turns filming different parts of the music video until we realized that the only person who had a real steady hand and kept the actors in focus was Diana.

Fig Rig

The next important piece of equipment was the fig rig which made moving around and the accessibility aspect a lot easier especially when it came to filming in Hampstead Heath. When it came to tracking shots and over the shoulder shots it was really useful to get a steadier shot making it more clear for everyone on what we were taking. However when it came to the inside shots we found out it was a lot harder to move between rooms because of the size of the wheel and it also made some of our inside shots out of focus and was just basically a risk assessment in general.

Dedo Light

Once we realised our locations and how one of them would be inside our teachers recommended for us to use a Dedo light to help us improve the lighting and the quality of images especially when it came to filming the bath scene, although for that parrticular scene we decided to edit it more to increase the lighting almost making it look like a spot light because we ended up forgetting to use the light.

Social Media

Social media was also a huge help when it came down behind the scenes and sneak peaks of the filming and the editing process so the target audience would be able to keep track of things as well as teachers baing able to see our progress. This is why we made a Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.We ended up posting videos and pictures of our filming dates and all the different locations we went to that way our forms of social media would be updated.

Blogger

Blogger was probably the most useful piece of technology we had, we used it to post our work/research on a daily basis. It was literally like the process and journey leading up to the deadline allowing me to use other types of website to ambed as well as images and videos making it more fun and giving me more interesting ways to present my work.

Post production:

Weebly/Photoshop

Photoshop was really useful when it came to making my Digipak/album because it allowed me the freedom to mould it however i wanted it too i was able to create a folk like album cover similar to that of the original artist. With a suitable color scheme and font whch then allowed me to make the inside.

Weebly was also useful, after deciding on our synergy which was the bowler hat it allowed us to create the other type of media products such as our website, using influences to choose our colour scheme and font.

Evaluation Question 2

Evaluation Question 1

Planning evaluation question 2

Final Digipack

Planning Evaluation Question 1

Final Ancillary

http://river2k15.weebly.com/

Website planning

Blogging Health Check 3

Liam, you have become disengaged with your blog and since the last health check your work on the blog is worrying. Your blog count is low (just 54 post at the time of marking) you have big gaps between posting, the order of posts is haphazard and the content of the posts is very brief. I urge you to read through the feedback below and complete the to do list / targets as a matter of urgency.

strengths:
- some evidence of filming
- some planning for the ancillary

weaknesses:
- time management - big gaps (e.g. 2/11-20/11)
- order of posting haphazard
- very little evidence of editing or drafting music video
- reliance on text to present work so very little use of ICT
- no research into similar ancillary products
- minimal detail and posts are very brief

to do / targets:
1. complete ALL ancillary tasks as a matter of urgency - you MUST have evidence of research into similar products, not just the planning and drafting tasks - 48 / 49 / 50 / 51/ 54 / 55 / 56 / 57 / 58
2. post tasks in chronological order
3. use ICT to present your work
4. put more detail into each of your posts - more explanation of the task /  research / findings and reflection on what it means and how it can help you develop your own products is needed

After reading the comments on my blogging health checks I realised I have a lot of things I need to improve on, for example i need to complete all of the blog posts mentioned to increase my mark. I also need to improve my use of ICT and go into more detail onto my blog post.

Individual Design ideas (Digipak/Website)

Digipak

1. The sort of ideas i'm going for a is a very basic yet emotive style,  I want a picture of the artist river wearing her bowler hat to create a sense of synergy as well as possibly using the guitar somewhere a long the way.
2. For the colour scheme itself i was thinking of using desaturation on most of the image except for her green dip dyed hair to give the picture some colour and to make it stick out more
3. I want her to be wearing very little make up maybe eyeliner to capture her face looking to the side and maybe get a landscape picture of her to place on the album cover so it shows all of her.
4. The font i want to use I want it to be rather  bold in terms of the artists name River to make it stand out because she is supposed to be important. 
5. I want the name of the album to look kinda hand written to look almost folky and more genuine/authentic

Website Homepage

1. For the home page i still want her to be wearing the bowler hat for the synergy aspects and maybe the guitar as well
2.  There will be social media tabs
3.  News, updates, music, shops and just the usual generally tabs
4. I want the colour scheme to be rather earthy and welcoming so the target audience get a real feel for the artists
5. The fonts will be similar if not the same to convey synergy. Preferably Bold writing for the artist and handwritten looking fonts for the tabs.
6. I want the picture of River at a landscape position with her hair covering half her face, preferably with the bowler hat on
   
   
   
   

1. Flatplan

Group design ideas(Digipak/Website)

Digipak

• We want to make sure that the bowler hat is included on the digipak and maybe even the gitar to create a sense of synergy.
• The colour scheme that we want to go for is rather desaturated/black and white and maybe some earthy colours similar to that of the artist Birdy.
• We want natural colours/Scenery with the artist wearing minimal make up
• The artists name River will be in bold black writing 
• Our album title will be 'Home is where the heart is at' preferably sorta hand written to make it seem rather folky and down to earth

Website Homepage

• Bowler Hat/Guitar 
• Social media
• New, updates, music, shop and basically tabs 
• Earthy/muted colours
• We're gonna use the same font to create a good sense of synergy

40. 3rd Filming Day (Day of Re-shooting)

During the filming process we had to refilm a lot of the work we had originally filmed due to feedback we had gotten from teachers, these included:

-Base tracks, we originally only had 3 basetracks so on our day of reshooting we tried to film as many base tracks as we possibly could to fill up the verses and to get some more interior ones.

-We also needed to refilm our second lot of flashback scenes again due to bad camera angles however we were unable to film at the original house so had to choose a new location. Another problem was the space in between the actors and the space above them, there was a large white gap.