Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Monday, 23 November 2009
Advert
This is the final image of our magazine advert, the final design for our advert is in the dimensions of a Half Page advert, if in a magazine it would be placed on half a page of a magazine.
Like in the rough version; the image for our advert is the exact image of the inside pages of our digi-pack, to make the image more into an advert we added text and a logo for a website (that if it was a real digi-pack, it would be available to buy on that website).
But in this version we added different text to the advert, that says what the digi-pack includes, which I feel looks a lot better than the rough version because the rough version just said that it was 'out now'.
If it was a real advert then this would probably get a lot more people to buy the digi-pack because it advertised what it actually includes.
Digi-pack
These are the final images for the digi-pack, in the right dimensions for a digi-pack.
The other page of the digi-pack, the panel behind the far right panel of the inside
The front of the digi-pack
Back of the digi-pack
Middle pages of the digi-pack
The other page of the digi-pack, the panel behind the far right panel of the inside
Thursday, 19 November 2009
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Nine shots from our music video that show the following things;
1. a shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals
This shot shows a link between the lyrics of the song and the video because the lyrics to the song are quite sad and very emotional and this shot so the pain she is feeling about what the song is describing and the link between the lyrics and her emotion.
2. a shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented
This shot shows how a record company would want the artist to be represented, because she is a live performance artist and this shot shows her on stage with microphone, in a live performance.
3. a shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre
This shot show the type of music genre that the music video is, this indicates that the music video is for an acoustic song, as it is a close-up of the artist playing an acoustic guitar.
4. a shot that shows an intertextual reference
This shot is an intertextual reference to a shot from the music video KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree (number 4 in the shots from other music videos shots)
This shot is a reference in the way that the shot from KT Tunstall and this shot are of a mirrored image of the artists face/mouth singing.
5. a shot that demonstrates your use of camera
This shot shows the use of camera by showing one of the many different shot angles that we experimented and used in our footage for the music video. We used a lot of angles and this is a close-up of Becky playing the guitar from above.
6. a shot that demonstrates your use of lighting
This shows the use of lighting that we used in the music video because the lighting in our video was blue and white stage lighting, the lighting used in our video was the same type of lighting that would be used in a live performance, because it is a live performance video.
7. a shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene
This is a shot that show some of the mise-en-scene in our video, this shows that the video is on a stage with lighting (live performance). The costume in our video is her in her normal clothes, like a regular teenager.
8/9. Two shots which you feel demonstrate something which shows you have watched other music videos
These shots show that we have watched other music videos to get references/influences from when making our music video, these are similar shots that me and Philippa found in other music videos and that influenced our final video. (Number 8 and 9 from other music video shots)
Nine Shots from other music videos;
1. a shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals
This shot from the music video of Don't Let Me Get Me by Pink, shows a link between the video and the lyrics to the song, in the shot the lyrics are 'my socks are never clean' and it is linked to the video because she smells her own sock, which links the lyrics of the song to the action she is doing in the video. Unlike in ours, because in our video the link between lyrics and video, is Becky linking her emotion to the sad, slow lyrics.
2. a shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented
Nine Shots from other music videos;
1. a shot that shows a link between lyrics and/or music and visuals
This shot from the music video of Don't Let Me Get Me by Pink, shows a link between the video and the lyrics to the song, in the shot the lyrics are 'my socks are never clean' and it is linked to the video because she smells her own sock, which links the lyrics of the song to the action she is doing in the video. Unlike in ours, because in our video the link between lyrics and video, is Becky linking her emotion to the sad, slow lyrics.
2. a shot that typifies the way a record company would want their artist to be represented
This shot from the music video for 'Toxic' by Britney Spears. This shot shows that the record company want Britney Spears to be represented as a typical pop singer, wearing barely any close, in sexy poses. The record company would want her to be represented this way in order to get people attention and sell records, whereas our singer wouldn't be repersented in this way as she is more
3. a shot that illustrates how your video uses music genre
This image above displays the genre of the video, which in this case is heavy rock. It is shown by the huge crowd in the background, head banging with the band, typical rock most-pit that is associated with heavy rock bands. In video is was quite easy to display which genre we were trying to get across. This was because we had her playing an acoustic guitar for a live performance and this straight away gives the genre of the music.
4. a shot that shows an intertextual reference
This is an intertextual referenced used in the music video for KT Tunstall, this is also the image that we used as an intertextual reference because we used this kind of shot in our video, of Becky with 2 of her, mirrored. The KT Tunstall video is also an intertextual reference to the, the mirrored faces that make a hourglass or candle-stick shape.
5. a shot that demonstrates your use of camera
This is an intertextual referenced used in the music video for KT Tunstall, this is also the image that we used as an intertextual reference because we used this kind of shot in our video, of Becky with 2 of her, mirrored. The KT Tunstall video is also an intertextual reference to the, the mirrored faces that make a hourglass or candle-stick shape.
5. a shot that demonstrates your use of camera
This shot shows use of the camera, it is and interesting shot of the hand on the frets of the guitar close-up, we used similar shots to this, it is a very interesting shot and we found it used or used in a similar way in many music videos.
6. a shot that demonstrates your use of lighting
This is a shot from the video for Misery Business by Paramore, this is a shot that demontrates lighting because in this video her face is light-up quite brightly and there are bright lights behind her, the lighting helps make her face the main subject in the shot but the lighting also highlights the graffiti saying 'Riot' in the background (name of the album). We used similar lighting in our video, with having a few bright lights behind her, except the lights we used where blue and for a stage performance.
7. a shot that demonstrates your use of mise-en-scene
This shot shows good use of mise-en-scene, this shot shows that the mise-en-scene all fit in with the outside style, all the scenery, his guitar, his hair, his clothes are all in the theme of natural colours (brown and green).
These are to shots used in music video's that show that the makers have watched other videos, because these are very commonly used music video shots, a side shots from a little below of the musician and a shot having the artist on the screen twice in our shot. We used both of these types of shots in our music videos.
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
This is the video with a voiceover of me and Philippa, with pictures of our digi-pack and advert.
The link to the youtube video is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7aHUQZSbs
The link to the youtube video is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH7aHUQZSbs
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts? ...Script for Voice-Over
This is the script for the voiceover.
(Bold - Alie)
(Italic - Philippa)
"Hi I'm Alie, Hi I'm Philippa
Becky Young is a solo acoustic artist and she mostly performs live. We used these aspects about her, in the video. We tried to put this across in the music video by having it as a performance based video and it being just her and her guitar.
We also tried to portray her as she is in real life, a regular teenage girl, dressed in regular clothes, just trying to make it as a solo artist.
We also used aspects of her music and song style in the ideas for our digi-pack and advert idea. As most of the songs that she writes are based upon her; feelings, thoughts and her life. We made the digi-pack and advert in the theme of a diary because a diary is usually where people display their feelings, thoughts and life. Also a notebook/diary seems the kind of places that a teenage singer would note down any lyrics or themes for songs. As the majority of her music is based upon her love life and her boyfriend we tried to portray the diary themed digi-pack and advert as if it was her diary; with pictures of her and her boyfriend. This is also helping to get across the way we tried to represent her in the music video, a normal teenage girl.
The original idea for the advert was to have a shot from the music video, of her on stage, but through comments and feedback it seemed a better idea to have the advert and digi-pack images either similar or excatly the same.
The reason behind having the images on the both the digi-pack and advert the same was because the advert was advertising the digi-pack and this would show that the two are connected and related to one another.
Overall we feel that through the proccess of making the music video, digi-pack and advert that we have definatly achieved the way we wanted all of these to be portrayed."
(Bold - Alie)
(Italic - Philippa)
"Hi I'm Alie, Hi I'm Philippa
Becky Young is a solo acoustic artist and she mostly performs live. We used these aspects about her, in the video. We tried to put this across in the music video by having it as a performance based video and it being just her and her guitar.
We also tried to portray her as she is in real life, a regular teenage girl, dressed in regular clothes, just trying to make it as a solo artist.
We also used aspects of her music and song style in the ideas for our digi-pack and advert idea. As most of the songs that she writes are based upon her; feelings, thoughts and her life. We made the digi-pack and advert in the theme of a diary because a diary is usually where people display their feelings, thoughts and life. Also a notebook/diary seems the kind of places that a teenage singer would note down any lyrics or themes for songs. As the majority of her music is based upon her love life and her boyfriend we tried to portray the diary themed digi-pack and advert as if it was her diary; with pictures of her and her boyfriend. This is also helping to get across the way we tried to represent her in the music video, a normal teenage girl.
The original idea for the advert was to have a shot from the music video, of her on stage, but through comments and feedback it seemed a better idea to have the advert and digi-pack images either similar or excatly the same.
The reason behind having the images on the both the digi-pack and advert the same was because the advert was advertising the digi-pack and this would show that the two are connected and related to one another.
Overall we feel that through the proccess of making the music video, digi-pack and advert that we have definatly achieved the way we wanted all of these to be portrayed."
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
All of the FEEDBACK we have recieved over the length of the project......
Video Rough cut feedback
Nick......After finishing our second rough cut, we showed Nick and he gave us feedback. The feedback he gave us was that he doesn't think that the parts of the music video that are shot in the car work very well and that the footage from the junction is a lot better. He said we should consider, in the re-edit, to erase the footage from the car, and just have the whole music video as the junction footage.
Junction.......At the Junction this week everyone in the class had to show our rough cut that we have so far to the test of the class and to two guys that work for the Junction. Pete and Rob from the Junction, after watching the videos, gave each of us feedback on what they; like, dislike and feel we could do to improve our music videos.
The feedback they gave me and Philippa on our music video was;
They both don't feel like the lyrics to the songs really fit with the song, the lyrics are about dying for someone and crying for someone, but the video is 'Too Nice'. Pete and Rob think that we should have added something a bit darker into the video, like of her coffin or something like that, which would relate to the lyrics of 'I'd die for you.'
Also they were in agreement with Nick about the footage in the car, they don't think we should include it either.
Response to feedback
During the making of the video we took these comment about our rough cuts into consideration, and tried to change all the things that we got feedback about. The main thing being the fact that both pieces of feedback we got, from Nick and Pete + Rob at the junction, about the car footage not working well with the footage from the junction and at we should consider making the whole video a performance video using only the footage from the junction. Due to the feedback we received we did change our final video into a performance based video, and I personal think that it works quite well and I am very please with the feedback and advise we received.
Digi-pack and Advert Idea feedback
Nick........Me and Philippa told Nick our idea for our advert, having a live performance picture, and he told us that we should consider changing the idea, he told us that the idea for our digi-pack, the diary idea, would be good for the advert as well, so we re-consider the whole idea and decided that instead of using a picture from the live performance music video as the main image for our poster, we would use the exact image that we are using for the inside of our digi-pack, for our advert.
Response to feedback
This advice was very useful to the making of our Advert, because of the feedback from Nick saying that we should consider using the same image from our digi-pack for the advert, this helped us because I think that with having it as the same image, looks a lot better than what I think our first idea would have looked, and also it looks like it is advertising the digi-pack more, because with having the same image it connects the two together, rather than just having the advert a random image of Becky.
Final Video feedback
My dad works for a company called Godfrey Entertainment that makes TV shows and music videos and other media products. Once me and Philippa had finished our final video I emailed the link to my dad and asked him if we could get someone he works with the watch it and email me some feedback.
The email I sent to my dad...
The chief editor of Godfrey Entertainment,Todd, emailed me this feedback.....
“Hi Alie,
Nice job on the music video. Your Dad said you were interested in
feed back... There isn't a right way or a wrong way as I'm sure
you've learned in
your classes as art is subjective.
Were you limited to shooting in studio? Not allowed to mix in random
shots of your artist perhaps walking down a street?
I think you have to consider the type of song and that dictates the
style of the video. You did that. Your cut matched the pace of the
song. Creatively, you could have taken some of your shooting a
little further, for example, shooting close ups of a shoe or even a
shoe lace on the stool, ecu of the frets of the guitar, her eyes,
etc. I think more of that would have been interesting. Textures
(from filters during your edit) could have been also used to add some
depth. Grainy black and white. Perhaps an over exposed or blown
out look(hot). Maybe more rack focusing.
These aren't new ideas. There really aren't too many ways to
innovate as everything has been done and done again. It depends on
whether you're limited by budget, turn around time,
location, or class assignment.
It would be difficult to create for your many different angles, but I
really liked the shadows on her face as the video was fading to
black, about 4:03, where she was more back lit.
Keep up the good work!
Todd”
Response to Todd’s feedback
This feedback is very useful and would have helped a lot if I had asked him to give me feedback before the final video was finished. It gives a lot of information that would have been helpful, but he liked the music video, and that is very good to know because it shows that we have done some things that a professional editor finds good. I am very glad that Todd feels that the video is cut well to the song and that it fits the style of the song and video. The things that he has mentioned about what we could have edited we all things that we had either tried and it didn’t work or have consider and decided not to do; we tried to have other footage but other feedback told us not to have it in the final video. The textures and filters idea may have been a good idea, it could have been something we could have added with more time to edit. I am very happy with this feedback.
Online feedback
I posted the link to the final music video onto social networking sights to see if I could get any feedback from people online.
The FACEBOOK link I posted.......
The tweet on TWITTER I did..........
I posted it on Facebook and Twitter, did not get any feedback from people on Twitter and the only feedback on facebook that I recieve was......
Final Digi-pack and advert feedback
For the digi-pack and advert, instead of using social networking sites for feedback (because i didn’t really receive any), I decided to show people in the class the image of the digi-pack and advert and ask them to write me some feedback;
Tim.......’I like it because it’s a mess, the design is all over the place and interesting. There may be to much use of bright colours, but other than that there isn’t really anything I don’t like about it.’
Dave...’ I think that the concept is a good idea, but you need to think of the content a little more, make sure that there is details on everything that is included in the digipack. But it is a good start and also has a good solid ground on which you start’
........I have learned a lot from all of the feedback we have recieved over the process of making our music video, digi-pack and advert, I have learned that people can also have different opinions of what is good and bad, but all of the feedback is useful, as it has given us new ideas and helped us improve other ideas. Also the feedback that we reievced after doing to project has also helped a lot in seeing the other opions that we could have choosen to do, and things that we could have improved upon, and if either me or Philippa make a music video again in the future the feedback will have definatly given us a better idea of what a music video should be like and will have given us a lot ideas, that if not used in another music, may be useful for future projects.
Video Rough cut feedback
Nick......After finishing our second rough cut, we showed Nick and he gave us feedback. The feedback he gave us was that he doesn't think that the parts of the music video that are shot in the car work very well and that the footage from the junction is a lot better. He said we should consider, in the re-edit, to erase the footage from the car, and just have the whole music video as the junction footage.
Junction.......At the Junction this week everyone in the class had to show our rough cut that we have so far to the test of the class and to two guys that work for the Junction. Pete and Rob from the Junction, after watching the videos, gave each of us feedback on what they; like, dislike and feel we could do to improve our music videos.
The feedback they gave me and Philippa on our music video was;
They both don't feel like the lyrics to the songs really fit with the song, the lyrics are about dying for someone and crying for someone, but the video is 'Too Nice'. Pete and Rob think that we should have added something a bit darker into the video, like of her coffin or something like that, which would relate to the lyrics of 'I'd die for you.'
Also they were in agreement with Nick about the footage in the car, they don't think we should include it either.
Response to feedback
During the making of the video we took these comment about our rough cuts into consideration, and tried to change all the things that we got feedback about. The main thing being the fact that both pieces of feedback we got, from Nick and Pete + Rob at the junction, about the car footage not working well with the footage from the junction and at we should consider making the whole video a performance video using only the footage from the junction. Due to the feedback we received we did change our final video into a performance based video, and I personal think that it works quite well and I am very please with the feedback and advise we received.
Digi-pack and Advert Idea feedback
Nick........Me and Philippa told Nick our idea for our advert, having a live performance picture, and he told us that we should consider changing the idea, he told us that the idea for our digi-pack, the diary idea, would be good for the advert as well, so we re-consider the whole idea and decided that instead of using a picture from the live performance music video as the main image for our poster, we would use the exact image that we are using for the inside of our digi-pack, for our advert.
Response to feedback
This advice was very useful to the making of our Advert, because of the feedback from Nick saying that we should consider using the same image from our digi-pack for the advert, this helped us because I think that with having it as the same image, looks a lot better than what I think our first idea would have looked, and also it looks like it is advertising the digi-pack more, because with having the same image it connects the two together, rather than just having the advert a random image of Becky.
Final Video feedback
My dad works for a company called Godfrey Entertainment that makes TV shows and music videos and other media products. Once me and Philippa had finished our final video I emailed the link to my dad and asked him if we could get someone he works with the watch it and email me some feedback.
The email I sent to my dad...
The chief editor of Godfrey Entertainment,Todd, emailed me this feedback.....
“Hi Alie,
Nice job on the music video. Your Dad said you were interested in
feed back... There isn't a right way or a wrong way as I'm sure
you've learned in
your classes as art is subjective.
Were you limited to shooting in studio? Not allowed to mix in random
shots of your artist perhaps walking down a street?
I think you have to consider the type of song and that dictates the
style of the video. You did that. Your cut matched the pace of the
song. Creatively, you could have taken some of your shooting a
little further, for example, shooting close ups of a shoe or even a
shoe lace on the stool, ecu of the frets of the guitar, her eyes,
etc. I think more of that would have been interesting. Textures
(from filters during your edit) could have been also used to add some
depth. Grainy black and white. Perhaps an over exposed or blown
out look(hot). Maybe more rack focusing.
These aren't new ideas. There really aren't too many ways to
innovate as everything has been done and done again. It depends on
whether you're limited by budget, turn around time,
location, or class assignment.
It would be difficult to create for your many different angles, but I
really liked the shadows on her face as the video was fading to
black, about 4:03, where she was more back lit.
Keep up the good work!
Todd”
Response to Todd’s feedback
This feedback is very useful and would have helped a lot if I had asked him to give me feedback before the final video was finished. It gives a lot of information that would have been helpful, but he liked the music video, and that is very good to know because it shows that we have done some things that a professional editor finds good. I am very glad that Todd feels that the video is cut well to the song and that it fits the style of the song and video. The things that he has mentioned about what we could have edited we all things that we had either tried and it didn’t work or have consider and decided not to do; we tried to have other footage but other feedback told us not to have it in the final video. The textures and filters idea may have been a good idea, it could have been something we could have added with more time to edit. I am very happy with this feedback.
Online feedback
I posted the link to the final music video onto social networking sights to see if I could get any feedback from people online.
The FACEBOOK link I posted.......
The tweet on TWITTER I did..........
I posted it on Facebook and Twitter, did not get any feedback from people on Twitter and the only feedback on facebook that I recieve was......
Final Digi-pack and advert feedback
For the digi-pack and advert, instead of using social networking sites for feedback (because i didn’t really receive any), I decided to show people in the class the image of the digi-pack and advert and ask them to write me some feedback;
Tim.......’I like it because it’s a mess, the design is all over the place and interesting. There may be to much use of bright colours, but other than that there isn’t really anything I don’t like about it.’
Dave...’ I think that the concept is a good idea, but you need to think of the content a little more, make sure that there is details on everything that is included in the digipack. But it is a good start and also has a good solid ground on which you start’
........I have learned a lot from all of the feedback we have recieved over the process of making our music video, digi-pack and advert, I have learned that people can also have different opinions of what is good and bad, but all of the feedback is useful, as it has given us new ideas and helped us improve other ideas. Also the feedback that we reievced after doing to project has also helped a lot in seeing the other opions that we could have choosen to do, and things that we could have improved upon, and if either me or Philippa make a music video again in the future the feedback will have definatly given us a better idea of what a music video should be like and will have given us a lot ideas, that if not used in another music, may be useful for future projects.
Monday, 16 November 2009
4.How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
The Technology we used.
The Cameras and Tripods
This me with the HD Video Camera, tripod and headphones that we used to film the footage for our music video. We only used the tripod for a few shots as most of our footage was hand-held. It definatly helped the footage buy using HD cameras instead of DV, as it made the quality of our video so much better than it would have be in DV.
We also used a Nikon D40x camera for taking pictures of the desgin for our digi-pack and advert, because we made the desgin on paper then, used the camera to take pictures of the images so that we could put the images in photoshop to edit.
The Computers
We used Mac computers for the whole project, for; importing video footage and pictures, editing software, blogging, other internet social networking sites.
The editing software
The editing software that we used during this project, were Final Cut Express and Photoshop.
We used Final Cut Express to edit all of the footage we had, we used it to cut up the footage, add transitions and add effects. And we used Photoshop to edit the images for the digi-pack and the advert, we used it to edit the dimensions of the photo's we took of our desgin, and edited them (adding things, moving things around).
Final Cut Express
Photoshop
The Social Networking sites.
As well as hardware and software, we also used a lot of social networking sites during this project. Blogger; to post of work on. Youtube & Vimeo; to upload of rough cuts and final video's onto and to find research for the planning. Twitter & Facebook & Hotmail; to post, email or just inform general people about the video and ask for feedback.
The social networking sites that we used helped us a lot in getting people to watch our video and getting feedback.
All of these; hardware, software and online social networking sites have helped us a lot in the duration of the project, they have been the main things used in the whole of the project; planning, making and evaluation. We have used them a lot, and our project would not be like it is now. We would to have been able to the online research/online feedback without the internet, we would not have been able to do all the digital editing that made our video interesting without the Mac's and editing software, and our video wouldn't be as good quality without the camera and tripod.
The Cameras and Tripods
This me with the HD Video Camera, tripod and headphones that we used to film the footage for our music video. We only used the tripod for a few shots as most of our footage was hand-held. It definatly helped the footage buy using HD cameras instead of DV, as it made the quality of our video so much better than it would have be in DV.
We also used a Nikon D40x camera for taking pictures of the desgin for our digi-pack and advert, because we made the desgin on paper then, used the camera to take pictures of the images so that we could put the images in photoshop to edit.
The Computers
We used Mac computers for the whole project, for; importing video footage and pictures, editing software, blogging, other internet social networking sites.
The editing software
The editing software that we used during this project, were Final Cut Express and Photoshop.
We used Final Cut Express to edit all of the footage we had, we used it to cut up the footage, add transitions and add effects. And we used Photoshop to edit the images for the digi-pack and the advert, we used it to edit the dimensions of the photo's we took of our desgin, and edited them (adding things, moving things around).
Final Cut Express
Photoshop
The Social Networking sites.
As well as hardware and software, we also used a lot of social networking sites during this project. Blogger; to post of work on. Youtube & Vimeo; to upload of rough cuts and final video's onto and to find research for the planning. Twitter & Facebook & Hotmail; to post, email or just inform general people about the video and ask for feedback.
The social networking sites that we used helped us a lot in getting people to watch our video and getting feedback.
All of these; hardware, software and online social networking sites have helped us a lot in the duration of the project, they have been the main things used in the whole of the project; planning, making and evaluation. We have used them a lot, and our project would not be like it is now. We would to have been able to the online research/online feedback without the internet, we would not have been able to do all the digital editing that made our video interesting without the Mac's and editing software, and our video wouldn't be as good quality without the camera and tripod.
Todd (cheif editor) Feedback
My dad works for a company called Godfrey Entertainment that makes TV shows and music videos and other media products. Once me and Philippa had finished our final video I emailed the link to my dad and asked him if we could get someone he works with the watch it and email me some feedback.
The chief editor of Godfrey Entertainment,Todd, emailed me this feedback.....
“Hi Alie,
Nice job on the music video. Your Dad said you were interested in
feed back... There isn't a right way or a wrong way as I'm sure
you've learned in
your classes as art is subjective.
Were you limited to shooting in studio? Not allowed to mix in random
shots of your artist perhaps walking down a street?
I think you have to consider the type of song and that dictates the
style of the video. You did that. Your cut matched the pace of the
song. Creatively, you could have taken some of your shooting a
little further, for example, shooting close ups of a shoe or even a
shoe lace on the stool, ecu of the frets of the guitar, her eyes,
etc. I think more of that would have been interesting. Textures
(from filters during your edit) could have been also used to add some
depth. Grainy black and white. Perhaps an over exposed or blown
out look(hot). Maybe more rack focusing.
These aren't new ideas. There really aren't too many ways to
innovate as everything has been done and done again. It depends on
whether you're limited by budget, turn around time,
location, or class assignment.
It would be difficult to create for your many different angles, but I
really liked the shadows on her face as the video was fading to
black, about 4:03, where she was more back lit.
Keep up the good work!
Todd”
The chief editor of Godfrey Entertainment,Todd, emailed me this feedback.....
“Hi Alie,
Nice job on the music video. Your Dad said you were interested in
feed back... There isn't a right way or a wrong way as I'm sure
you've learned in
your classes as art is subjective.
Were you limited to shooting in studio? Not allowed to mix in random
shots of your artist perhaps walking down a street?
I think you have to consider the type of song and that dictates the
style of the video. You did that. Your cut matched the pace of the
song. Creatively, you could have taken some of your shooting a
little further, for example, shooting close ups of a shoe or even a
shoe lace on the stool, ecu of the frets of the guitar, her eyes,
etc. I think more of that would have been interesting. Textures
(from filters during your edit) could have been also used to add some
depth. Grainy black and white. Perhaps an over exposed or blown
out look(hot). Maybe more rack focusing.
These aren't new ideas. There really aren't too many ways to
innovate as everything has been done and done again. It depends on
whether you're limited by budget, turn around time,
location, or class assignment.
It would be difficult to create for your many different angles, but I
really liked the shadows on her face as the video was fading to
black, about 4:03, where she was more back lit.
Keep up the good work!
Todd”
Rough advert
This is a rough version of our advert, the image for our advert is the exact image of the inside pages of our digi-pack, to make the image more into an advert we added text and a logo for a website (that if it was a real digi-pack, it would be available to buy on that website).
The play.com logo we used for the advert.
The play.com logo we used for the advert.Sunday, 15 November 2009
Making the Digi-pack - Tuesday 10th Nov
For mine and Philippa's digi-pack, as we had decided to have it in the style of a diary, instead of making the digi-pack design of computer software, like photoshop, we decided that because it was suposed to look like a real diary, we would actually make the desgin on paper, using pictures, postit notes and notebook pages. We started by getting a large piece of paper, drawing the outline around a real digi-pack to get the sizing right, and then making a colage of things that a typical teenager would put in their diary. We then also got a note book and made the front look just like the normal front of a teenager girl's dairy. And the back using postit notes saying what the digi-pack contains.
After creating these we took pictures of all of these images so that we could put them on the computer and use photoshop to change the images into the dimensions of a digi-pack.
After creating these we took pictures of all of these images so that we could put them on the computer and use photoshop to change the images into the dimensions of a digi-pack.
This is the equipment that we used to make the paper version of our digi-pack.
This is Philippa taking a picture of the inside pages of the digi-pack we created, she took these pictures so that we could edit the pictures in photoshop to fit the dimensions of a digi-pack.
Editing the Final Cut - Wednesday 11th Nov
On wed, me and Philippa finished our final cut of our music video, the editing on wednesday was mainly just finishing up the editing we had done on monday, once we had finished cutting up all of the footage, we put a lot of transitions and effects into the video, to make it more interesting.
The main transitions and effects that we use in the final edit of our video are, transitions like having to different pieces of footage over-lay each other, so that both are on the screen for a while whilst fading into one another.
Once we had finished putting these effects into the video, we watched the video quite a few times, to pick up on any mistakes or things that need changing before exporting. Whilst watching it over and over, we discovered quite a few mistakes that needed fixing like; the was a bit of a gap in between to pieces of footage that needed to me filled and we also discovered a few things, like a close-up shot of her mouth, where she licks her lips, that we weren't aware of when editing. In going back through the video a few times it helped us get everything exactly how we wanted it.
The main transitions and effects that we use in the final edit of our video are, transitions like having to different pieces of footage over-lay each other, so that both are on the screen for a while whilst fading into one another.
We also decided to add a few effects like having a shot of just Becky's mouth singing, twice on screen facing each other in a mirror effect. These effects we quite simple things to do, but helped make the video a lot more interesting.
Once we had finished putting these effects into the video, we watched the video quite a few times, to pick up on any mistakes or things that need changing before exporting. Whilst watching it over and over, we discovered quite a few mistakes that needed fixing like; the was a bit of a gap in between to pieces of footage that needed to me filled and we also discovered a few things, like a close-up shot of her mouth, where she licks her lips, that we weren't aware of when editing. In going back through the video a few times it helped us get everything exactly how we wanted it.
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