final cut

 

Ancillary: Magazine Advert

This is are finished Magazine Advert to promote Ravenface album, it includes a picture of the album and then important information like the release date, then a bit of information about the type of music is it, and then thing that it shows different to the album is that it shows the record company on the front wherefore it is on the back of the CD, we decided to not add tour date because we wanted it to be about the album and well about there gigs.

Ancillary: Final album art work

After looking are looks of different albums and getting ideas we course to make a continue digi pac with all the pages linking, the type links back to conventions of metal, this also includes a metal record company and the parental guidance sign.

Front cover                                                                                      inside behind front cover



Behind Cd inside back                                                                   The back cover

Evalution question 4

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

Evaluation question 3

what have you learned from your audience feed back?

To get audience feedback we used a website called survey monkey to get the opinions on our video, we also filmed people watching and talking about the video. we asked people aged16-53, but we focus on our main target audience being teenagers, generally within the audience the people that listen to music videos of a similar genre they enjoyed our video but people that listen to pop/r&b genre didn't really understand the video, one point was they didn't understand what the artist was saying. Meanwhile they also said that it should show more narrative to help with the understanding. 

 

Audience feedback video 1ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kljrY29K1MM&feature=player_detailpage

audience feedback video 2http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nTlm2p4gVvI

audience feedback video 3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlCy1tI4UIo&feature=player_detailpage

 

Evaluation question 2

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary text?
http://prezi.com/dliefsk9nuj1/untitled-prezi/

Evaluation question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgYL4fz-V_I

Ancillary: Artist posters

To help towards ideas of how to set up the magazine Advert as well as looking at magazines like kerrang, I also went out and took picture of posters the promote a artist and how these are set out just to get some ideas.

Ancillary: The Courteeners

To help with are magazine cover we were give tour dates for the Courteeners, and listened to them to help us get a idea of the type of music there are and we have to design a posters which included there tour dates and linked to the song we heard, the poster we came up with was:

Ancillary: Artist Iconography

We have started to look at our ancillary task by researching artist of the same genre and looking at there album covers, we noticed most of the album have the same concept showing similar text with in there album cover, with a old gothic feel to it, meanwhile they also show colours of the same brightness being quite dark colours such as blacks,brown,burgundy and white for outlines. Some of the covers show the band/artist but most of them show a location picture.

Research and Planning: Shot list redo

After filming twice now and nearly having our first cut done we decided it would be helpful if we have a shot list of the things that we need to reshoot so when we film again we know what to force on, the ones in green are the ones to re film in the woods and then blue is the car park we did this as a group and picked things that we all thought we could redo to make the shoot, or angle look better.

• Re-shoot shot of tilt up from woodland floor or replace with an abandoned object.
• Shoot medium shot of guitarist playing solitary note at the start of the song.
• Re-shoot bird's eye angle of drummer playing the beat. Visual match audio.
• Long shot of band playing together.
• Low angle shot of drums.
• Side shot of band preforming- Tilted angle.
• Medium shot of guitarist playing note.
• Wide angle shot of band playing, camera tilts down to car park floor.
• Camera tilts up from woodland floor to woods.
• Re-shoot low angle shot of vocalist jumping over the camera.
• Re-shoot bird's eye angle of the band running through the woods- create more enigma.
• Re-shoot close- up of vocalist.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist, head moving down.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist pointing at the camera.
• Re-shoot medium long shot of guitarist playing.
• Re-shoot shot of band running through woods- side angle.
• Re-shoot low angle close-up of drummer hitting the base drum.
• Re-shoot close-up of vocalist head banging.
• Re-shoot medium close-up of guitarist playing.
• Re-shoot close-up of guitarist 2 playing.
• Re-shoot vocalist acting out actions.
• Get rid of band helping up guitarist and replace with shot of object next to the guitarist on the ground. (or something else)
• Film more close-ups and shots of band preforming.
• Re-shoot close-up in the car park.
• Quick cuts to the objects.
• Re-film close-up of guitar.
• Re-place the siking up shots.

Research and Planning: Costumes

When filming we had to make sure that our actors wore the right costume to fit in with are genre, and also that we remember what there wore so that the mise en scène looks the same in are filming and so the audience cant tell that filmming has been done over different period of time and all the same, this links to the conventions of a heavy mental genre we made sure that there wore black jeans, or short for the drummer and then band mech t-shirts/jumper of the same genre as themselves. 

This also links back to bands that wear the clothing that are actors are going to wear:

 

 

 

 

 

Research and Planning: Lighting & colour editing

We have finished filming for the time being therefore we have been focused on post production and looking/ using different effects in are music video. The main effect we have used in our video is the blink effect this is to as the strobe effect we think it worked better then the strobing, this effected is used in the main breakdown of the song where it getting really heavy and is all instrumental. we also editing the speed at which are music video opening so we have added slow motion to the water drop because it makes it more dramatic and because the music starts of slowly.

we also changed the brightness levels of the performance section to the  video because it have a yellow tone to it from the lighting in the car park, also to link with the convections of metal music having ark and dull lighting, they don't show bright colours, we moved the black to 88 and then white down to -12.

Research and Planning: How filming is going?

Filming has been going very well we have filmed twice in the car park now and going to film once more, we have found it very helpful to watching all the footage over and add it in to are timeline on final cut pro and then write up a shot list of the things we need to refilm so that we know what sections we need and how we should shoot then, the narrative filming has gone well to with us about to work on our ancillary task at the same time taking still images that we could use towards are album artwork. post production is coming together well as a team effort with our first cut near complete and been able to add in effects like the strobing with has work well and links in with the music and genre. now that the film is nearly complete we are going to focus on the ancillary tasks, hopefully producing a album cover and magazine add we are all happy with.

Research and Planning: Setting up

One of our group member thought it would be a good idea to take picture of us setting up ready for are first filming in the car park, we found a good stop outside the car park and set up there but then as the light went we went inside the car park and started film because we then had lighting.

Research and Planning: Equipment

The filming equipment that we used to film are music video was similar to the same equipment we used in AS so we know how it all worked, but this time we had some new equipment when is came to the gorilla pod and steadi cam. The main equipment that we needed to film was the HD camera and a tripod to get different highs and angles in are filming, for some of the low shoots like the shoot of the drum kit from below we laid on the floor holding the camera still. When is came to the shoot in the forest we used the steadi cam of the the running shoots to give it a smooth and not a bounce effect that you would get if you was just running its the camera, which we found last year. 

Research and Planning: Editing Lighting &colour

We have been editing all our footage together using many effects with in final cut pro to make are video link and flow well, one of the biggest things we have added is the blink effected we changed our mind from the strobe to the blink as we think it works better this is only used in a small section of the video which is the main breakdown in the middle part to enhance the heavy music being played.

Other effect that we have changes is the speed of which and music video starts adding slow motion to the water drop to back it more dramatic we wanted this because the music start quite slowly and quiet plus it is also the first thing you see.

we also changed the colour contrast because when looking back at our footage we saw that the car park lighting gave the shot a yellow tone to them, so we reduced the brightness and contrast which then links back to the convention of a metal music video will dark drim lighting and not may bright colours to be seen. 

Research and Planning: Filming dates

I have made calendar for when we are filming, green is the narrative filming, red is performance and the blue opening.

Research and Planning: Pitch

Last week we Pitched the ideas to our music video to the rest of are class and teacher to see what there thought were about are ideas for are music video to help pitch this we made a short prezi with included small details and images but was just like a started slide before each sections that we spoke about, Furthermore we also mad a animation to the first section of are storyboard to help us and also the audience understand the type of concept we are looking to achieve.

http://prezi.com/illppc_g02wg/pitch/

Research and Planning: Voyeurism

What is voyeurism?
Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.There is frequently reference to notion of looking( mirror,screen within screens, stages etc.) and particularly voyeuristic treatment of the female body. A good example of a music video that shows voyeurism is Wiley-Heatwave

In class we put all are ideas of the video together into a big mind map and this is what we come up with.

From this we them went off into group and drew up a storyboard including voyeurism shoots, including close up, tilting angles up and panning shoots. Doing this helped a lot because it helped us chose weather we are going to use it in are video and also different types of camera angles.