Main task

This is the main task that I made, this is the music video that i have made for the song 'Sunrise'

Auxiliary task 2, Poster

This is the poster that i have designed to advertise the sale of the album that i have made for the music video.

Auxiliary task 1, 4 panel Digipak

This is the front cover, inside left, inside right, and back cover of my Digipak that i made for the band and for the music video that was created. 

Question 4

 Media Evaluation

Question 4

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

The construction of the music video we used two types of digital camera, one that needed a tape to save our filming onto, on the other hand with the other camera we could save all our filming onto the camera. They were both were essential to shoot our films with, as they were able to shoot good quality films and was easy for us to transfer the films onto our mac for the editing. The cameras were not the professional cameras that are used to shoot real music videos or films but we used smaller cameras, this made it a lot easier to carry our equipment around to our locations for filming.

Also with constructing our music video we used an apple mac, this was useful for us to store our entire recordings on, also with that it allowed us to keep everything organised together, we also kept all our draft music videos that we have on this. The mac made it easier to store all our recordings together and stay organised, also it had the applications we need so that we can edit our music video together, this made it easier all together to get our music video together.

For the construction of our music video we also used the editing software of IMovie, this made the editing process a lot easier for us. With this it stored all our recordings into the software alongside the canvas were we put the music video together, allowing us to see a suitable place to put our films within our music video. This made the whole editing of the music video a lot easier, as IMovie also provided simple transitions that we used within the music video. IMovie made constructing the music video so much easier as they provided all the tools that we needed to edit our music video together.

For researching we used safari that is programed in the mac we used, we looked at music videos in similar genres and also with similar narrative so that we could develop ideas for our music videos, like the narrative story, lighting, camera angles and the costumes.  We also looked at previously made music videos that was used in A-level media and what marks they got so that we know what we should do to get the top marks on our work.  We also used the OCR website again so that we can look at the mark scheme so that we know what to do to aim for the top marks. This was useful for us as we can use this to help see what we should do and also with this it helps us know what we need to do to get higher marks.

With planning we used blogger to write down all our ideas and plans that we had, so that we can show what we are planning and also need to do. With this it helped us to stay organised and to also show our progress we have made through out our music video. We also kept our checklist on there to show what we are going to do and also what we did, this helped us also as we can see what we needed to do to complete the filming.  Also with planning we also made an extra copy on Microsoft word again so that we had a back up in case anything happened.

With the evaluative section I used Microsoft word to write notes for all of the questions, also with Microsoft word I also answered the questions on there, and then transferred it to the other platforms through that. Another software that I used was prezi, which is an online PowerPoint software; this allowed me to create a presentation for one of my questions.  I also used the website slideshare so that I could upload one of my PowerPoint presentations and upload it to my blogger page. 

Question 3

Question 3

Audience feed back

Music video

 With the music video I placed it up on my Facebook page and asked people to evaluate my music video. Through all comments it was obvious that they understood it was a rock music genre music video, through both the music and also the shots and angles used, another positive was that the narrative was easy for them to follow and to understand what is going on.  However one comment made a statement that “the editing transitions is far too simple and repetitive through out the music video”, next time I would use more transitions and try and make it look more professional. Another comment said “the timing was good and all the lip syncing was in time/in sync, however there should be more shots of both of them together”, therefore next time I will also add and remove some shots to include more shots of both artists together. Another comment was “the camera angles and shots were good, however sometimes it was a bit unbalanced and shaken” for this I would use a tripod more and keep the camera stationary to make sure that the whole shot is stable.

Digipak

With the Digipak it was obvious that the audience knew it was related to the music video as both the main artist and actor were used upon the front cover and throughout the whole Digipak, also the name of the song was placed upon the front cover. There was one comment on the colour scheme used “the colour scheme was very good as the colours used were both very good as they resemble the colours from the sunrise” this was good as this is what I wanted to do, so I can relate the colour scheme to the album name/song title.

Poster

With the poster it was also easy to see that it related to both the Digipak and also music video, “it was easy to see that this was a poster advert for the album as the album cover is shown, and also online/physical stores were mentioned throughout” , however another comment was “the font was boring and bland to look at, it should be more exciting and eye catching”, for this next time I will use a better font and perhaps even font colour to make it more exciting, some one also mentioned the colour scheme that was used again, “the colour scheme was very good and bright, it made the poster a lot more eye catching”. 

Question 2

http://www.slideshare.net/liambruce/question-2-48150518

this is the slideshare web page that I have uploaded my question 2 how effective is the combination of your main product and auxiliary tasks?

Question 1

http://prezi.com/ncegz69ajkxj/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

This the prezi powerpoint  that i have made question 1 the codes and conventions of a music video

Filming done

We have now completed all our filming and is all saved onto our computers, we will be editing the whole music video now together, we will be placing the filmings we have done within the music video and then adding the transitions onto it and syncing it up so that it is all in time together.

Plans

We plan on finishing all our recordings, we plan on recording thursday, friday, and then on sunday depending on the weather.

Diary scene

we have now gone out and filmed our diary scene for another narrative part of the music video, we now have plans to finish off our recording on Saturday, and need to arrange a time with the singer so that we can complete the rest of the narrative part of the music video, and then finish off the editing of the film.

Check list

We have a few things to do to finish off our recordings and edit together our final version of our music video, here is a list of things that we plan on doing this week:

• Diary scene
• Reshoot hanging scene
• bullying on corridor
• reshoot bed scene
• singing scene

Photos

We have now taken photos for our digipak and also our magazine advertisement for the auxiliary tasks.

Similar music videos

There are a few music videos that are similar to ours, and we are looking at these videos for inspirations or ideas that we could use in our music video.

Here are some of the videos we have looked at:

The Amity Affliction - Don't Lean On Me -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4URaV1i14A

Patent Pending - One less heart to break - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQkOhQjcW4Y&list=PLXhsD13BODnBXIQwzsSO7Gjlyko5EiCht

Then we have the actual music video for our song we are doing

Our last night - Sunrise  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlScrMv7Pd8&list=PLyMS_59Ig9p16VkdE9o_jJMrPmo7rtp1A

music video draft 2

here is our second draft of our film, this includes some of the narrative sections of the music video

More editing

We have done more editing to our film, we have added more of our narrative that we have recorded, we have nearly finished all of the filming and editing, the only things that is left to do to finish off the film is some more narrative recording and then placing them into our film.

new filming

we have gotten new filming of the narrative part of the music video, we have filmed a lot more scenes and will be adding in the narrative scenes to the music video soon.

First draft

Here is a rough draft of what we have so far for our music video, we still need to add narrative scenes, however we have all of the musical scenes shot and put together in the video.

plans for narrative

we have got plans to record more for the narrative of the music video, we have to get some props and also get time for us to get together with the actor also, however we are more likely be able to complete the rest of our recordings very soon.

Narrative

We have started to shoot some scenes for the narrative part of the music video, we will still need to shoot more scenes for the video, however we are planning to shoot these scenes soon and get the props that we need soon also.

Out takes

With recording outside in public there were a few mistakes made, one being a man walking in front of the camera during recording the singer, the other one was the guitarist made a mistake whiles playing and lost were he was and had to stop.

intro of music video

Here is a basic version of the intro made for our music video, this will not be guaranteed to be in the final version but this is what we have done for now.

Editing

With editing we have been putting in the two sections of the guitarist and singer together, we will be placing the narrative part in when we have shot some of those scenes, we have been using the precision editing on the effects to make the timing right, and also for the timing of the effect.

Filming

We have done two days worth of shooting we have both parts of the  singer and the guitarist playing, and we have begun planning and story boards of the narrative section of the music video, and plan on shooting those scenes soon.

More filming

we completed more filming over the weekend, we filmed some of the singing parts over at seacombe ferry, here when we filmed we were able to use the skyline of liverpool from over the water.

planning on putting the film together

we are planning on putting the film together, we are using I movie for this, as they have sections were we can place certain images together were we can choose certain angles and shots that we want to use for the music video.

putting the music video together

We have imported the film onto Imovie and we will be editing all the shots on here and putting it all together. We have already had experience with the software so we already know how to use the software and that is why we have decided to use Imovie to edit our music video together.

Song difference

We had problems with getting all of the equipment for the song, so to make it easier for us we decided to do the same song but the acoustic version, we could not get all the instruments together for the song, so with this we will need a lot less equipment, as it would only be a acoustic guitar.

Sunrise (acoustic) by our last night - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ihCEM_Cta4

Filming

Over the christmas holidays we did some recording of some of the artist performing the chosen, our location that has been used is in the new brighton ares, we shot different camera angles for the music video, with the different camera angles we are going to use these so we can choose appropriate angles and shots to use, and also there are shots of the artist walking around for the story part of the music video, we are planning on finishing the live music portion of the music video soon.