Teachers Comments

Evaluation

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





 What have you learned from your audience feedback?

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




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

Final Project

Music Video First Draft

Production Logistics

Area Scouting 

My dad has recently purchased a Old, Disused factory in Wingham which we thought gave a good effect while we where filming because the song is called "Hope". The Main building we used was dusty, filled with cobwebs and very dark which added a nice effect when we lit up the scene we where filming.

Birds Eye View (Google Maps)

This is a Slidely Gallery of some of some of  the picture we took on the first day of filming our final production.

There was also a large overgrown area attached to the factory site, when we filmed this the weather was nice so when we filmed outside it was really bright so we adjusted the camera setting to the brightness outside.

Artist Costume

Chloe wore normal clothing when we went filming at the site at Wingham. This is supported in our research as most of the Indie/Acoustic artist wear normal clothing when filming there music videos. Examples of this are Ed Sheerans' "One" and Lucy Rose "Middle of the Bed"

Ancillary Tasks

Mock-Ups of Ancillaries  (Album Cover and Magazine Advert)

Looking at the Music Video Adverts and Album Covers that we researched and some others i created a basic mock up version of my Magazine Advert and Album Cover. 

Front and Back Cover 

Inside Covers 

Mock-Up of the Magazine Advert with the information I will include on it.

Final Ancillaries (Album Cover and Magazine Advert)

Front and Back Covers

Inside Covers

Magazine Advert

Editing Software Tutorials

As we approached post production, there were multiple effects that we had intended to apply to our footage. However we did not know how to create all of these effects within Final Cut Pro. As a result, we had searched the internet in order to find out how to apply these effects. Below are the following tutorials we had used. Both tutorial turned out to be very helpfull as we were going to use the fade to white to end our production however when we showed our focus group they chose the cut to black ending instead. The flip and rotate tutroial helped us to make our video dynamic however our focus group said that it did not fit in with song we had so we chose to not include a flip motion or rotate motion.

Responses to Focus Group

Production Tutorials

Before we started the filming process, we had decided that we should research some concepts used when filming music videos, as well as looking into the settings that we could change on the camera we used. Below are our findings.The first tutorial helped us to ensure we achieved the correct apperture and exposure in all our shots, it also aloud us to get the correct depth of field and focus. The second tutorial tought us we shutter speed we should be shooting our music video at, our focus group decided that the best shutter speed for realisic film quality was 24fps. The final tutorial showed us how to lay out and format a shot correctly; this also aloud us to check whether we broke or conformed to the codes and convetions of an acoustic video which we can apply to our final piece.

Dimensions of Digipak and Magazine Advert

As our group were about to peform the first mock ups of our digipak and magazine advert, we had realised that we needed the standard measurements in order for our images to fit the product. Below are the necessary dimensions we will be referring to when creating our product.

Standard size of a Digipak - 140mm x 125mm x 6.5mm 

Standard size of a Full Page Advert- 7-1/2” X 10”, (45 picas X 60 picas), Bleed: 8-5/8” X 11-1/4”

Fonts for Digipak

In preparation for designing our ancillary products, we decided that we should research specifically into the fonts used on digpaks and magazine covers. This is because it is a key component to any digipak or magazine advert, as it can be a visual shorthand for what the genre of music is. Below are our findings.

Font Research from FelixJoelMedia

Presentation Tutorials

While we have been researching, we needed ways to present our work so that our research, planning and production can be easily acessed and well presented. Therefore, we had researched into the different presentation tools that we could use. Below are a few examples that we have found.

www.Slideshare.com
www.Prezi.com
www.slideboom.com
http://www.sliderocket.com/ 

In addition to this, we noticed that when we were posting our research, sometimes a coloured highlight would appear on our work. We had then researched ways to prevent the highlight appearing. Below is a forum post that helped us find a solution.

Brainstorm

In order to decide what we would be filming, we decided that we would need to brainstorm ideas. However as we all struggled to find a time we could brainstorm together, we decided to convey our ideas over the internet when we would all be available. As we did not know how to share each others screens or know what the best way to record was, we conducted some research to find out how to present our ideas to each other. Below are the tutorials we used.

Prop List

Male Outfit

• Old Blazer (Torn and Ripped)
• Old Jumper (Oversized)
• Old Trousers/Joggers with Hole in the knee
• Loafer Style Shoes
• Waxed Hair to add a Rough effect
• Black and Brown Paint to at Shading to face and Dirt to the costume 

Female Outfit

• Old Jumper (Oversized and Stretched with Hole on Arm and Waist )
• Old Trousers or Old Dress
• Loafer Style Shoes, Boots or sandals 
• Waxed Hair to add a Rough effect
• Black and Brown Paint to at Shading to face and Dirt to the costume 

Other Props 

• Dented Can of Beams
• 2 x Knife
• 2 x Fork
• Candle
• Box of Matches 
• 2 x Dinner Plates 
• Gas Masks (Maybe) 

Storyboard (Idea 2 - Performance)