Filming update

By this time next week I should have a few sequences edited together in order to show something of my work. I feel as if after tonight in which I am filming I will be ready to start pulling some scenes together in order to make my music video successful.

Shooting Update..

I will  be shooting my footage tonight or tomorrow night, in order to bring some footage together to ge tmy first edit in place hopefully for sometime next week. The footage which I shot at the weekend  is not yet in a stage in which it can be edited together so this is why I will be taking it out this week.

Editing update:

The footage that i have taken over the weekend is not yet in a state as which it can be edited properly as i need to fill in a few gaps, this will mean I will be taking a camera out one night next week.

Problems with filming

I have had a slight problem this weekend with filming. What has happened is one of my cast members has been away all weekend. This meaning I have had to re schedule the filming containing this cast member un till next weekend.

What I hope to acomplish!

Seeing as my video is abstract my intentions are to make it as fun and interesting as posible. I want it to be aesthetically pleasing and for the audience to enjoy it. One of the ideas I have is to include some funny but inventive dances. I think this will immediately draw people to the video. Due to the video being abstract there is no real meaning behind the video apart from expressing yourself. The audience can expect to see a lot of random scenes throughout the video such as shots that don't really mean anything but things that people do in every day life. I hope to acomplish a positive minded music video mostly

Audience Feedback- Polls

The audience of my music video will appeal to most ages from the age of 10. People will find the video interesting and funny to watch. It will be aesthetically pleasing and very enjoyable. I believe that the main audience will be 10-18 year olds but I think that all ages, both male and female will love the video and energy applied. Younger children will enjoy the video as it is all about "expressing yourself". This is all about having fun and not caring about what anyone else thinks of you. This is why in the video my main character and many other people will be taking part in random and different activities living life to the full.

Due to the age target audience I will be aiming my music video at the S.E.G. group 'E'. This is because this group will either still be in full time or part time education or they will not have a disposable income.
In my polls the majority of the people that have answered the questions are under the S.E.G. group 'E'. Although there are a few that fall under the 'A' and 'B' category and this means that they should be able to afford to buy the video.

The genre of my music video is R&B because from knowledge I know that this is one of the most popular genres, if not the most popular. This is because the genre takes up the majority of the charts and chart music is what people listen to the most.

Contingency Plan!

There are many things that could go wrong in pre production, production and post production.
One of the things that could go wrong is that one of my actors could pull out for whatever reason. I have made sure I have a back up actor so i aren't running around trying to find another one when I could be filming.
Another problem that you will see occur in a lot of filming is that a location where you wanted to film is unavailable to use. For example a few of my shots are outside and if the weather is bad I will have a shooting schedule with me in order so that we can go inside and film another one of the shots.
Another thing that could go wrong is that when I'm filming away from home the camera I am using may run out of battery or another thing is that the camera's memory could run out. In order to prevent this from happening I will have a spare memory card with me and also will have spare batteries. A lot of time is saved if this is done.
Another thing that could go wrong is that your tape that you are using could be damaged. This happened to one of my friends in a practise video that he produced. He had to film all the footage again and this adds a time delay on when the prduct is finished. I would get around this by filming the footage on a different tape, or filming the footage twice or more to make
sure I don't lose it.

Cast members

The main character in my music video is my brother. He will be miming the song and most of the video will be based around him. I have spoken to him and made sure he is fine with this and he is up for the challenge. There will be many other people that will be involved in my music video including, my friends, Robbie Thompson, My Dad, and my other friend. There will be many more people included in the video that have yet to be decided but I have a general idea on who will be involved.
My brother, who is 13 will be appealing for my target audience which is his sort of age group. They will find it funny and also hopefully inspirational as the video is also about expressing yourself. The song and its lyrics is all about people nto caring about what anyone else thinks about them.

Some of the shots that my brother is in include him doing all sorts of different things and doing various different things in his life. These things could be things like: Playing games consoles, playing football or different sports, on his bike and just random things in general.

Struggles

I have struggled so far with coming up with an idea to use for my story board. I want to interpret the lyrics a lot with the video and link what is said in the song to the video.
Another thing that i am struggling with is the fact that I am struggling at the minute to find enough cast members to be in my video.
I need to create a cast members list and try and sum up a list of good and willing actors that will be starring in my video.

Lyrics of Express Yourself

I say the same thing twice, I'm awkward when I speak

Ain't got the perfect smile, don't turn heads on my street

Trying to be a superstar like everybody else

But being myself is something I do well

[Chorus]

Whatever you do

Do it good

Whatever you do do

do lord lord

lorddo it good (yeah)Express yourselfExpress yourself

(oh do it)

See it's not what you look like when you doin' what you doin'

Express yourself

(oh do it, here we go now)

I don't make the papers, I'm far from JLS (JLS)

Ain't got the X-factor, I'm not what they expect

(Listen)

But it won't be long before my turn is next, to express

now with all due respect

[Chorus]

See whatever I do

I do it good

So whatever you do do do lord lord lorddo it good

(yeah)

Express yourself

Express yourself

(oh do it)

See it's not what you look like when you doin' what you doin'

Express yourself

(oh do it)

(Switch it up for me)

Lose my shirt and tie

There ain't nothing too high

Show them what you've got

(wooooooooow)

There's nothing wrong with perfect, perfect

Now it's your time to shine

Express yourself

(Click your fingers now)

Express yourself

(come on)

(oh do it)

[chorus]

See it's not what you look like when you doin' what you doin'

Express yourself

Express yourself

Express yourself

See it's not what you look like when you doin' what you doin'

Express yourself

come on now (x6)come on now (x6)(fades out)

Shot location Ideas..

Shot Location Ideas:

• At a party when there is a lot of people who would all be willing to feature in one of the dance scenes that is in my video.
• Another one of my shots will be on a standard street. This is because it links to the lyrics on the song.
• I will be filming most of my shots near my house as there aren't too many props needed for the filming.
• A main location for the filming will be my back garden as it is long enough and ideal for filming a good shot.
• An ideal area to film some of the more basic shots will be at Wyke college. This is due to the fact that is easy access and I know that it is available at all times. Also that there is, more often than not available to use without any noise disruption.
• Most of my filming will be done at home as the main character in my music video is my brother and it would be very difficult to get him into college.

EXPRESS YOURSELF

I have chosen to use this song to build a video around. This is because i would like to produce an abstract/animatic music video. This song is very unique in the manner that it is very fun and a cheery song. The song is about being yourself and doing what you want to do. I believe that the video could open up so many ideas for my music video. I already have many ideas about what to base my video on and i am excited to start my storyboard.

Settings for Nirvana music video

Plan B- Ill manors

Depending on how well I do in the table tennis tournament, we will begin production tomorrow lunchtime (friday 28th) as a group. This will most likely take place in the green room. We will be bringing in props for the shooting and at some points we will need to improvise.

Storyboard imitate

By the 8th October, as a group we will have created a media text copied and imitated from one of the group members storyboard created over summer.

The roles that we have are:

Camerman- Sam Shaw
Props- group effort
Acting- Danny Williamson/ Adam Harrison
Directing- Harley Young
Editing- Group Effort

The song we have chosen to replicate is Nirvana's song- Sliver

Skills Development Essay

Skill Development Evaluation Essay

Paragraph 1: In the foundation portfolio at first our task was to create a college magazine. In order to create this I had to do planning and a lot of research before completing. For example, I researched into other existing college magazines that I liked and took ideas from theirs in which I thought would look good in a college magazine. I also researched into what colour schemes I should do. In the end I came to the conclusion that I would use the colours that represented Wyke College as it would make sense and also the colours would draw the reader in as they are colourful and attractive. I had to think what the target audience would like to see in the magazine. As my target audience was college students I thought that I would include a competition inside, I decided that this would be for an iPod as this is what sixth form students would be interested in. I had to carefully decide also about what price to charge my magazine at. I had to think about the fact that the majority of the 1^st and 2^nd year students do not have jobs so they may not be able to afford or may not want to buy the college magazine.
For my music magazine in my foundation portfolio I chose to do the genre- RnB.  I thought this would be best for me as I knew the most about this genre. However still a lot of research had to be done. This research comes in the form of looking into existing artists and the sort of music they created. Also which artists came under the genre so I was able to link and include them in either the front cove, contents or double page spread. I had to think about and look into the sorts of colours in which you would use to represent the genre. In the end I went for a bluey green colour as this represents a happy theme and the RnB music is generally happy, fast flowing and usually upbeat. The font That I used had to be thought about quite deeply. For example for a music magazine with the classical genre you would use classy italic font as this would display and link to the style of music, very soft and relaxing. For Rnb I decided to do a faded and ragged look to the font. I found the font on a website. The font related to the genre as it was in your face and had a cheery look about it which relates again to RnB music. Another part of research I had to do is look into the layout of existing music magazines. I had to look at where about the image was placed and how much of the page it took up. In the end I decided not to use too much text on the front cover as if the audience were to look at that they would not want to pick it up and read all of it. An RnB front cover usually is in your face and very colourful and this is what I attempted to imitate.                                       

Paragraph 2: Before coming into AS Media Studies I already had some skills of the subject as I did it as a BTEC at GCSE. I really enjoyed the course and knew I wanted to further it at A levels. In GCSE Media I improved many things that would prepare me for A levels. One thing that I learnt was that I had to be very creative. In GCSE we made magazines on topics of our choice in which I learnt that I had to think carefully about why I was doing and was always thinking about what other people would want to see and read.
Also with my magazine making in GCSE we used Photoshop which is what we used in AS to make our magazine so using it in GCSE also really helped me develop my skills and confidence when using it this year. Part of my media in GCSE was to do with research which is again a bit part of media A level. I realised how detailed the research had to be, for example if doing a music video and using a certain song, It would be useful to look into the genre of the song, who it would appeal to, would a large audience enjoy the song, do research into the song and also into the artist. This will prepare you nicely for the project as you will already have a strong understanding on the particular area. I think that the post-production part of the project which is the editing will be the most challenging part. I used the adobe premiere pro in GCSE to edit my video so I will have some advantage on others but it was certainly the most challenging area.

Paragraph 3: The skills that I picked up from last year had really helped me in my foundation portfolio as I got a feel of the amount of work that would be required and I learnt a lot on how to manage my time and not leave myself with too much work to do. My creativity also came into the foundation portfolio, I improved this whilst doing GCSE Media Studies. This took a big role in AS level foundation portfolio. I think that I realised how much detail I had to go in and how much research had to be done. I will further take this into A2 media as I now know that the amount of work required is a lot. I did a lot of work on Photoshop in  GCSE as well so I had some experiences with that programme.

Paragraph 4: I think my creativity skill improved throughout the course of the foundation portfolio. An example I would use is definitely the step up in quality from my college magazine final product and my music magazine. I changed a lot of aspects from the college magazine to the music one. When I finished my music magazine I realised what I was capable and realised how much better it was to my first product. My skills on Photoshop also developed as I used that throughout the year. I believe that my skills were much more advanced when creating the music magazine compared to when I produced the college magazine. I became much more creative and did a lot more of thinking outside of the box.

Paragraph 5: In conclusion I think that all of my skills have developed nicely over my time in GCSE Media Studies and my first year of A levels. I have learnt that the work needed for the subject is a huge part of your final grade. My skills have also developed as I have learnt and improved on my skill of going into detail when explaining a certain thing. Also I think that for this forthcoming year I will be well prepared going into the project when creating the music video as I had a lot of experience at GCSE and we did a taster/practise project at the end of the AS year which would give me more ideas on how to structure my video. I learnt things like how to successfully provide lip sync and miming the lyrics for the audience and make them believe that it is the actor singing the song.

Qualitative Data- This is the data that is collected from many different sources which show and gather information. For example- questionnaires can be reliable.

Quantitative Data- This is data that is collected to show information on a specific and certain topic. You could use surevey's or tally charts for example.

I like the ideas used in this video. In my opinion the best thing about this video is the cinematography and camera work. This video is very clever as it shows B.o.B and what looks like him sat on a bench playing his guitar when really it is tricking us and he is actually laying on the floor and people are walking past his head. This is whilst he is singing 'Don't let me fall' which I also think is very clever. The song is also not very well known and this is good so it is something that is new to people.



I quite like the idea of this video because it is very straight forward but also quite interesting and influential.

Qualitative + Quantitative

                Qualitative                                                                                         Quantitative






              Psychographics                                                                                   Demographics

              Values + Attitudes                                                                            pure data statistics

Our continuity editing for A2 media :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-qY0bAjnLk&feature=plcp

Brief

1. A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo video, together with two of the following three options.

• A website homepage for the band;
• A cover for its release as part of a digipak (CD/DVD package)
• A magazine advertisement for the digipak (CD/DVD package)