Final Music Video - Sweet Dispostion

Final Ancillary Text - Magazine Ad

Final Ancillary Text - Digipak

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

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Final Music Video

Final Magazine Advert

Final Digipak

Thursday 10th November - Photoshop

I have really come into my own on photoshop, I have created some very professional looking images that are going to look perfect in my ancils. I have created 3 out of 5 of my Digipak images and not even started my magazine advert. The deadline is tomorrow!

Unmanipulated Images

Wednesday 9th November - Photography and Filming

Yesterday, in editing we realised that some of the shots of Matt were out of focus and that they needed redoing, so we brought him into the studio one last time to get everything completed. While he was there we took photographs for our ancillary texts. Because of the change in actor we both had to rethink our Ancils. We took as many photos in the studio as we could, then took some at Toton sidings. Even though this was very rushed everything came out perfect.

Fourth Draft Edit

Tuesday 8th November - Editing

This is our Final attempt at editing everything all together. The deadline is at the end of the week and all we have to do is finished editing Matt into the video. His performance is amazing and I'm so relieved that we got him to do this for us.

Album Front Cover Inspiration

Since getting back our feedback on our Ancillary texts, and also having to change the images for the Ancillary texts due to a change in performer I have been trying to think of an idea for my front cover. I feel like if I get my front cover idea sorted the rest will be easier to imagine. I decided to look at some already existing album covers and came across these:

I love the idea of  having text blocking the face from view, especially the Halsey album cover. I want to re-create this for my Front cover.

Friday 4th November - Filming

Today, was out last ditch effort at getting a male performer in our video. Chloe and I brought in our friend, Matt, who we know we can trust as he has been in every single media product Chloe and I have made since GCSE. He was amazing. Its like the biggest weight has lifted off my shoulders, his performance was so convincing and he knew every line. He put so much more effort into than Tom did.

Third Draft Edit

Second Draft Edit

First Draft of Magazine Ad

First Draft of Digipak

I have chosen to do two seperate digipaks. This is because even though I like the edited one I'm unsure if I like it enough to have it as my Digipak, I wanted to post it to show my progress and all my ideas. I am still unsure if I prefer the unmanipulated digipak or the edited version.

First Draft

Thursday 6th October - Editing

For the first half of our lesson today, Chloe and I continued to edit more shots together, moving the sequences around to make it flow better. The shots we have taken work realy well together, it flows well and looks quite natural. The section when it lists off all the factors of a relationship, our shots fit really well, and while they don't match the lyrics as much as we had initially wanted, i feel that it looks better this way. In the second half of the lesson we went into the studio and filmed some performance shots of me. While we know that the singer in the band is male, we did use me as the performer because there was an inpending deadline, and we wanted to have the shots in our video to at least see what it looks like.

Tuesday 4th October - Editing

Today, Chloe and I rewatched the small section we had edited in the friday lesson, and still hated it. The sequence was a series of shots with me and then a series of shots with Tom, it didnt flow, it looked odd. We decided to move some shots around, to make the sequence look and flow better. We then started to add in our shots for the chorus sequence and other section of the song.

Tuesday 4th October - Editing

Today, Chloe and I rewatched the small section we had edited in the friday lesson, and still hated it. The sequence was a series of shots with me and then a series of shots with Tom, it didnt flow, it looked odd. We decided to move some shots around, to make the sequence look and flow better. We then started to add in our shots for the chorus sequence and other section of the song.

Friday 30th September - Editing

Today we only had a single lesson in Media, so we knew we didnt have time to carry on filming so we started editing the begining sequence of our music video, I think the sequence looks wrong, there is something about it that I really hate. I'm sure I will like it better after we have finished it, though I feel we should reconsider the placement of some shots.

Thursday 29th September 2016 - Filming

Today, instead of attending the Media lesson Chloe, Tom and I Traveled to Highfields at Nottingham University and filmed us on the rowing boats they have there, we had hired a rowing boat for an hour, so we were able to get all of our shots done, these shots have come out really nice and I am very impressed with them. It was also a lot of fun shooting this scene, as we had very little planned on what the shots were to look like, the filming process was creative and very natural. After we finished filming at Highfields we went back to Toton Sidings and got shots of Tom for the beginning of the video, these shots dont look as natural but I still feel like they are good.

Wednesday 28th September 2016 - Filming

Today was a challenge day, and we weren't required in college so we took the oportunity to film in town and as out actor was available this was the perfect day to film. We went into Hockley to film the shots. Locations in Hockley we used were; Cow, Rough Trade, The White Rose, Bridlesmith Gate and a side street with lots of cool graffiti. The day went very productively as the shops we wanted to use let us film inside, and lots of the shots looked really nice. Today was a productive day.

Tuesday 27th September 2016 - Filming

Chloe and I started to film our music video today. Our male actor Tom was unavailable due to him being at work, so Chloe and I filmed shots that only I was in so we wouldn't have to do this at a later date. I live very close to Toton sidings, which is a location with lots of trees and nature, and filmed our first shots up there. This filming process made me more confident about our music video, as I was quite impressed the shots we had taken. Chloe took control of the filming as I was staring in the video but we both shared ideas throughout filming, and gave opinions on shots.

Risk Assessment

The potential risks we could face will be discussed in this post

Original shots before manipulation

Chloe and I, we're between actors at this point, so in order to be able to practice taking photos, and to get a clear idea of what we wanted to do, we got our cousin Matt to help us out. This really benefited us as we were able to plan the types of shots we were going to do and rule our unrealist one.

Camera Movement Practice Shots

 

 

Though this may seem like Chloe and I are just messing about, this really did help us. Through doing this task we really got a feel for the camera, and it enabled us to figure out which techniques we wanted to use. The video where the camera tilts to the side and I end up looking like I'm sideways is a shot we are definitely going to use in out music video.

Props List

 These are the props we will be using in our music videos:

• Ice Cream
• 2 Umbrellas  
• Rowing Boat
• Car
• A skateboard
•  Mobile Phones
• Hats

Filming Schedule

Chloe and I have planned to filming and shoot photos for our ancillary texts on the following days:

• Thursday 22nd September - shooting mock up photos for our ancillary texts, our real actor is unavailable so we want to take a few practice shots to check location and lighting situations.
• Sunday 25th September - Hopefully shooting the real photos for our ancillary texts
• Wednesday 28th September - As we have a challenge day on this day, Chloe and I want to start filming for our piece
• Saturday 1st and Sunday 2nd October - We are hoping to get all of our footage shot by this time
• Monday 3rd October - A slot where Chloe and I are free just in case we don't get it all filmed
• Sunday 9th October - Day taken to re-film shots if need be.

It is important to set a filming schedule so that we get everything done in time. This film schedule although brief gives us enough time to get filming sorted before the first draft deadline.

Location Recce Shots