Similar shots from other music videos - Vic

Here is one shot that we had initally seen and thought it was a good idea to use the idea of the other band members flashing into the shot. We altered the shot to have all three band members in it first then they flash out, we also added a verity of different choppy shots.







We gained inspiration from Taylor Momsen make up, hair and costume in the 'Pretty Reckless' video 'Makes me wanna die'. We thought it looked very gothic and effective which links with the theme.

Question 4- Jack, emily, Vic

Here is a video that we have been shown in the lesson, it gave us ideas in which to answer question 4, this was our favorite. We have always said that the technology question is the most tedious to complete and also watch. We wanted to do something inventive, so we thought we could adapt this to what we need to do.
Making sure we make note on all technology that we have used and the links between the two. For instance Tube chop,Youtube and Blogger, we used tube chop after looking through video's on youtube and chop the sections we want and them put them on the blogger.
We will most likely choose a song to put with the video, i think it should be more of a mellow song but i think we should do one by The Pretty Reckless so i have Chosen You.


I also think that its wise to stick within the colour scheme for this video. So Black, Red, Yellows and earthy colours, nothing too bright and in your face. We will  then add logo's for youtube and Blogger and what not (techno things we have used). We will also ensure that we include Twitter on this as we used that as almost an information source of what the band are all about and what their up to. \

Question 2 - Vic, Jack, Emily

This question focuses on how well did everything link together this includes the music video, the digi pac and the poster.

This evalution question is for us to demonstrate our understanding of genre and how all elements must link together.

All three of us created our music video together, however we created our own digi pac and posters. We had very different visions for our digi pacs and posters. We have used several of the same images for ancillary products however they all came out very differently: emily created a painted style digi pac andposter, jack created a pigi pack with with an antic edge and i created a a very gothic style digipac and poster.

Audience Feedback - Vic

Our audience feedback includes:

- Comments from our teachers on the our blog posts.
- Feeback from our teachers after our first draft.
- Feeback from our 25 word pitch.
- Our first draft questionnaire feedback, for our class.
- Feedback from other media students who have seen our music  video draft.


We will deomstrate how the feedback effected our final music video, to show that we listened to our audience and created a better video.

Evaluation Question 3- Emily, Jack, Vic

How effective is the combination of your main products and ancillary products?

- Elements choosen to carry across work and why it represents the artists.
-What we have not included and why.
-Use a range of tecnology.
-Evaluate the branding.

For this we will:
Do a radio show of us being interviewd talking about how each of us use the pictures and style in a different way tocreate different digi-paks from the same film. We will then put that radio commentary over the top of a image slide show emphasise what we are taking about. We will be interviewd together and each comment on eachothers.

Question 3 Planning- Jack, Emily, Vic

Firstly we will put up the questionnaires that we asked people at the beginning, asking them about what the thought about our genre, who they would associate with the drama, wether they had heard of the group (The Pretty Reckless) and the song (Factory Girl) and so on....
For question 3 we have decided to do audio notes for our audience feedback, all of which will be interrupted by our comments on what's being said.  We want to start with the teachers reaction on the location the song and their main focus at the start of the course, The girl's. We want to make a point about how they were unsure about our choice of girls and wondered how we would transform them into suitable figures for our genre.  We would then play the video and show the ancillary products to the teachers and a selected few people including the stars of the video and ask them to give feedback, being completely honest. Commenting on what they thing worked and what they think didn't work, the location, the costume, the song, and whether there was continuity throughout not only the video but between the video and ancillary products. After this we think that it may be a good idea to add things onto maybe a slide show or image loop of things we disagreed on but then compromised as a group, such as costume, the editing of the music and so on. 


We hope that this will give a clear insight into how we shaped our final products and how audience, teacher and our own feedback made our products what they are today. 

Question 1 planning - Vic, Emily and Jack

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

We are going to produce our answer to this question in an interview style question. We are going to be responding to a law suit - The claim that we have copied their ideas and thier music video. We are going to produce a strong argument with the use of examples to create a clear strong argument.

The theoriest we are going to use are:

Laura Mulvey (Male Gaze)
Stuart (Matching editing to music beats)
Furguson (Facial expressions)
Millum (Facial expressions)
Roland Bathes (Narative Code)

We are going to compare our Music video to:

Rhianna.
Courtney Love (Hole)
Taylor Momsen (The Pretty Reckless)
Effy (Skins)

The Final Draft Of Our Video FINALLY- Jack

Done.-Jack

After what seems like the longest day of my entire life i think i have finally finished!
ive handed in my digi pack and poster (as seen below) so hopefully it turned out well!!!!!!

reasons for digipak and poster- emily

For my poster i really like the idea of it being a mirrored effect creating more people in the band. I think that it really makes the band look alot fuller and more powerfull. I messed around with some other photos and different font until i found one which i really liked. The font i have choosen in a white called OCR A EXTENDED. I really like this text as its simple and lets the photo do the talking for the band. The photo i have choosen for the poster is the same as the front of the digi pack. I have done this because i belive it ties the digi pack and poster together so you can see it is from the same artist and the same album. Also i have choosen MOJO KERRANG and Q to feature on my magazine showing to the
audience what genre of music it is without having to listen.Throught the poster and digi-pak there is a theme running throughout with the paint effect which lies over the top of the pictures. I have choosen this effect because personally i think it makes the piece look more vampy glamour by giving it a gothic twist. Again the font i have used is the same on the digi-pak as it is on the poster, this gives it some form of continuity throughout the peices. I have taken ispiration from many digi packs but the one which i took the most was 'WET WET WET.' Even though this isnt my genre of music i belived it gave my digi-pak the look which it needed. The painted effect was shown throughout the wet wet wet digi-pak and i instantly took a liking to it. I also choose to have no text on the extra pages on the digi-pak as i belive that my didgi-pak is more visual than anything else, its more like a piece of art on each page than a extra page with text on.
I belive my digi-pak could be improved slightly by maybe using a different layout or a more formal font. All in all i think both are very sucsessful and have turned out exactly like i wanted them too!

Posters - Vic

I am finding it difficult to find inspiration for my poster so I reaserched several on the internet.

Here are several examples of other band posters.

 

 

 I am unsure whether to use a photo of all thee girls in the band like the 2nd image above, or a single image of the lead singer like the images of courtney Love and Taylor momsen above.

I am completely sure that i am not going to use a drawn image as it wouldnt fit with my digipak theme.

More editing - Vic

Here is another photo that I have edited, I really do like the way that I have made her hair fire red and also given it a glossy texture. My only concern is that I have cut it from the original background and im not sure how it will look when put onto another background on the Digipak.

Analysis of Photoshoot - Vic

I have used the programme prezi to analysis our photo shoot. I have included the best photos and stated why they look good and why they work, I have also included other photos stating why they do not work.

Photo Shoot. on Prezi

Before and After - Vic

I have used the programme Image Loop to create a slideshow of the original photos that were taken at the photo shoot and the edited version. These are just several of them; I still need to edit some photos of daisy (Fleur).

I have used the 'old film' effect on Image Loop, I choose this effect because it is the same effect that we used on our music video that we created. I have also chosen a red background which fits in with our blog colour scheme, and also cannotes sexuality and danger which fits in with the identitys that we have created for our band members.

Why I didnt upload my full Digipac - Vic

I havent had a chance to upload my final version of the digipac because my photos were on the school computer and I wasnt at school Thursday because the buses stopped running to Lutterworth so I couldnt get in or home and on Friday I only had one lesson and my teacher couldnt get in to school so I wasnt in Friday. I have already uploaded some of my edited Photos that I have done I just need to add more too them.

My Mock up Digi Pack- Jack

Front Cover

 Inside page

Behind Cd

 Inside Page

   Inside Page

  Back Page

Of course when its submitted all images will be standard size 11.9x11.9. 

Example Digi-Packs- Jack

Here is the cover for Rihanna's new album LOUD. This is one of my favorite covers i think the colour of her hair and lips just make it pop. I also think that the fact she has her eyes shut quite quirky as the cover normally relies on the artists eyes to lure the audience in.  

They have chosen very subtle lettering which i like because it keeps the photo the main focus. They have also included the label title which is quite a focal point due to the colous      they have chosen.

Here is one of the many pictures inside of Rihanna's album. Its one of the more controversial pictures as she isnt wearing anything other than flowers and fur. i like the element of rebellion in this picture and think that this sort of thing would fit i was making a real digi pack for the characters we have made up, but as not all the girls are over 18 and its a school project i think it would seem slightly innapropriate. But i do think that a digi pack needs an element of surprise and edge about it. 

This is another picture which i think is nice in the digi pack. I think its good because its suits the writing in the background. Of course its far too feminine for what we are looking for but its worth taking into account because the pages dedicated solely to writing are good. The white fluid lettering looks nice and is quite dramatic, i look at the page and want to read it.

yet another nice picture, the floaty dress and the red hair are contrasting to the forest around them her position where she is looking away from the camera. the conventions of the picture doesn't  necessarily draw the audience in but the way she is holding the dress and how her arms introduce the picture (almost makes u pan up to her head) make it interesting.

Here is another picture that is slightly more provocative, i think that the tattoo looks really good in this. I think  the position is far too animalistic for something that we are trying to acheive but i think it has been well stylised for Rihanna's music.

This is one of my favourite pictures in the digi pack because it has depth and a nice effect on it. The feathering has made the photograph look a little blurry. and with the lettering that just blends into the background adds a really nice effect. I would like to take this idea and adding subtle tilted writing.

Several Photos that I have edited - Vic

Here are several Photos that I have edited, some look quite good however other do not look as good. I am going to upload several edited photos over the next week and get some audience feedback to help me decide which ones to use. I believe that Jack and Emily are going to do the same and we can decide out of the best ones which to use in our digipac.

Here are several Photos that I have edited. I think that these ones look quite effective and fit in with our genre and the band.

I did edit this one, I thought that i could experiemtn with a pruple wash however I personally do not think this one looks very effective however I will still include it in the audience feedback.

Photoshop - Vic

We are currently experiementing on Photoshop editing some pictures wwhich were taken of the 3 girls for our digipac. I am finding it fairly difficult because I did a film last year for my coursework and havent properly used Photoshop since the beggining of last year. When we were taught how to use it. However I believe that the photos that I have edited so far are looking fairly impressive.

Poster moc- Emily.

After fiddling around with photoshop to get myself used to the software again i came up with this. I dont think this is very good at all as it doesn't look professional enough. The rule of thirds hasnt been applied here and for the shot used i think it needs to be. The photo is good and the cutting out is good also, but as a whole i just dont think it works. The red background is to overpowering for the picture so we need to consider a different colour for the background. The text needs to reconsidered also as i dont think that this style works for the genre of music. The mise en scene from the picture is effective with the use of trinnys stockings, the red lips and the sheer partly see-through top that hannah is wearing showing skin.

The best photos at the photoshoot - Vic

In my personal photos these best pictures that were taken at the photoshoot, and will look the most effective after being edited:

Photo shoot analysis.

Photo Shoot. on Prezi

I used the programme prezi to demonstrate my creative and ICT skills. I analysised several of the best and worst images from the photoshoot. Furthermore i also stated how they could have been improved.

The Final Draft.

DigiPack/Poster- Emily

I feel that these are both coming along very nicely, and that after next week we make have finalised our ideas and will be focusing on the final products. As soon as the whole group has decided on an idea we will post it to the blog to give you all and idea of that were going for. We are using photoshop which at first i was worried about. I have now got used to the softwear and are very happy with using it.

Final Product- Emily

After some hard work editing and early mornings we have finaly got the video to look like we wanted it. We found there were some bits that we needed to change from the story board and as a group we belive they have worked out for the better. I really think we have managed to capture the genre of our video well, with the use of different washes and choppy editing. We also managed to keep continuity excelent as we only used footage from one of the days. Overall i am very happy with our final product and now we are just working hard on our digi packs and poster for the group. I just hope now that they can be as sucsessful and only enhance our video.

Filming on Monday - Vic

Before we began filming on Monday night Jack and I had several concerns:

- We couldnt film in the original location due to the lack of light as we had to film around 7pm because Trinity didnt finish work until 6pm.

-Finding a location to re-film in Trinitys house.

-Finding a suitable location which matches our genre for the digi pack.

- Getting to and from the location.


Although we did have these concerns we were able to overcome all of them, therefore the day was very successful. Jack and I had a look around the house to see if we could film in a suitable place. We found and old brick fire place which we believed to perfect. We filmed Trinity singing the entire song so that we can add more 'performance' shots in our music video. We got through everything fairly quickly because we used our time well. Also yet again the girls listened well and got everything first time.

Monday night- Emily

Unfortunatly i was unable to make it on monday night due to prior commitments. After speaking to both Vic and Jack i found that it went very well. i trust them alot that the photos will have came out exactly as planned

Why we moved filming to Monday night - Vic

Unfortunatly we had to move filming from Sunday morning to Monday night. I was unable to film on Sunday due to a family problem which was a bit disappointing that we couldnt film then but we found a way round it: me and Jack could film on Monday night with the girls. Whilst we filmed we also took a veriety of Photographs of the girls for the digi pack.

Time Schedule for Sunday - Vic

8.30 - Meeting.
8.40 - Begin make up.
9.00 - Finish make up.
9.05 - Get shots of daisy playing guitar: mid and long shots. 
9.15 - Get some group still shots of the girls, for Digi pac and C.D promotion poster. 
9.55 - Daisy leaves for work. Hannah leaves.
10.00 - Get close ups of Trinity lip syncing the second half of the song. Getting her to repeat several times with a veriety of different shots including: Extreame close up shots of of her mouth, close up of the face, mid shot, long shots.
10.40 - Get some shots of Trinity in different locations singing.
11.00 - Shots of Trinity in other locations.
11.30 - Finished.

Check List for Sunday - Vic

As I am in charge of filming this Sunday I thought it would be useful to create a check list...

1. Chaise Long.
2. Guitar and guitar strap.
3. Make up.
4. Printed off of Lyrics.
5. Story Boards.
6. Still images of the girls faces, so therefore we can get make up the same.
7. Text girls before to bring the clothes.
8. Camera.
9. Tripod.
10. Spare Batteries for camera.
11. A still image camera.
12. Jack daniels bottle.
13. Ciggerettes.
14. Hair product: to make the hair messy.
15. Hair spray.
16. Fur coats.
17. Phone so I can play the song for Trinity to lip sync.
18. Microphone.
!9. Microphone stand.
20. Hair Brush.
21. Umberella (Just in case).

Weather Forecast - Vic

I have been onto the BBC weather forecast to assess the weather for Sunday. Currantly its a possitive overview, from being wet and rainy the entire 4 days leading up to Sunday, then sunday is forecast white clouds. This is a similar forecast to the previous time we filmed. This is a really possitive result.

2nd date of filming- emily

As you know are second date to film will be on the sunday the 21st. Unfortunatly i will not be able to be there and neither will jack whic we are both very dissapointed about. What we will do is try and sort out as much stuff as possible before the day to make sure evrything goes to plan on the sunday. Little things like making sure vic had a fully charged camera and enough space on tapes and a tripod, as well as reminding the girls of how their hair and make-up was on the previous filming date. We have spoken as a group to discus what shots we need to finalise the music video. We are going to create almost like a mini story board for the day to help vic remember which shots are needed.

Sunday 21st- Jack

The new plan is to film on sunday rather than saturday as some of the girls are unable to be there saturday morning. Myself and Emily may not be able to be present so Vic will be sorting out the day. I no i will do as much as i possibly can to make sure vics morning goes smoothly. For instance im meeting with ll the girls to tell them what they are wearing and what not and to tell them to behave hah!
I think the day will run smoothly for Vic. All the girls need to remember is their make up and clothes! and then if hannah could use her brothers guitar again that would be great. But i will be sorting this all out before hand!!!

Feedback- Jack

After receiving feedback we think we did well. We completely understand what we need to do to improve on our video. We have sat down as a group and discussed if we agree with what the teachers have said, and overall we do, there is a few shots that i like that i think we should keep but that can all be sorted in the final stages of editing. !!!! One of us will type up the feedback properly at some point so what the teachers said is on the blog!!! 

Filming Photos - Vic

Finally got the photos of us filming!!

The photos have come out really clear, and really show the day pretty much step by step.

The start of the day...

Mine and Jacks cars loaded and ready for filming. It was difficult to fit the chaise long in my car so it had to go in at an angle and for the drum kit in jacks car, it took about 3 times for them to fit in.  

A key issues that we were concerned about was that the gate wouldn't open  so therefore we wouldnt be able to fit our cars in, to unload the props and get the light from the headlight (if needed). However on arrival on the day of filming we found out that with a bit of strength we got the gate open.

Setting up the drum kit was a big struggle. We didnt even contemplate that it would be hard to set them up. Luckily we had trinity's boyfriend at hand to help set them up... and give a quick introduction lesson on how to play them. Which really helped when it came down to filming her playing them, because she listened to what Ben had to say and had a natural rythm. A further bonus was that Hannah was able to pick up the beat of the song whilst it was played off Jack's phone on set.

Hannah helped do all of the girls make up (including her own).This was a massive help because as it turned out she was very good at artistic make up, which really benefitted for our filming. Seeing as hair and make up is massive element of it.

I helped with the girls hair, as I new what sort of look we were going for. Therefore I brought some hair products to give it a 'messy' look.

The set...

This image shows jack filming Trinity close up: lipsyncing. This shot took several times to perfect however Trinity was a brilliant at lipsyncing. 

This second image shows jack

(with the help of Ben)directing the girls on what we are aiming for this particular shot. I stood at the back (taking photos) and directing from the back of the girls.

This shot is a shot of the video camera recording hannah playing the drums.

These shots are of jack and myself, which Ben took whilst we were filming the girls. We worked very well together as we had the same ideas in our heads of what we were looking for. The camera work on our first draft looked very effective this was possibly because for most shot we had someone holding the base of the camera to ensure that there wasnt any 'wobbily' shot. We used Emily's camera to film which was better than the school camera which also benefitted when it came to the footage.

 I think working together was a key element to the success of our first draft. Furthermore our time keeping was very good, this is because we followed the story boards and also Emily had previously created a time Schedule, to ensure that the day ran smoothly and as quick as possible.

Emily finding a good location for one shot, and doing a similar pose to how we wanted the girls to pose; also seeing how wide it was assessing whether we coulc fit all three girls alongside each other in the door (we obviously concluded that we couldnt). 

The second shot is of Em filming daisy walking towards the camera. Emily had a good advantage filming these shot mainly because she is fairly small and could therefore assess the way the girls were walking better. Em coached the three girls how we wanted them to walk, and was able to critically assess whether they were doing to right.

Trinity Being a diva...

Trinity and thge girls became cold fairly quickly due to the lack of clothing, therefore jack, emily and myself were constantly fussing keeping the girls warm. Trinity's feet also began to hurt so therefore she had Ben (her boyfriend) on carrying patrol. 

 

This is just a shot from behind the camera whilst jack was filming of the first shot in front of the main gates.

This is a shot again from behind the camera of daisy walking towards the camera.

These are the final shots of us packing up and walking back to the cars. This was just after 'thats a wrap shot'. It was lucky that we finished when we did as it began to rain just after we filmed the last shot.