Monday, 11 May 2015

Final Post

Hello and thank you for looking at my blog. This post is for ease of use. I will put all of the necessary details as well as all of the final products here. Candidate Name: Bradley Heath Sanders Candidate...

Sunday, 10 May 2015

Evaluation Question 1 - In what ways does you media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions or real media products?

When we began this project I looked at many music videos that I thought to be similar to the ones that we were going to produce in order to get an idea of the conventions that they used and the effects that each individual convention had on the overall video. Very early on in my blog I wrote a lot about...

Audience Feedback

We showed a small group of peers and adults our final edit of the music video and asked them for feedback afterwards. "I thought the music video was very interesting. I was taken aback by the detail that was in the story and it had a very powerful an emotive feel to it. I think this video could be...

Ancillary Products - Magazine Advert

It fell to Jack to create the Magazine poster. We all agreed that it should match the look of the digipak by using the same effects. He took the front cover of the Digipak and used that however he...

Ancillary Products - Digipak 3

The final image that we used was another picture that I took at corfe castle. This time one of our actor looking sideways at the camera. Similarly to the previous images, we editing the Actor and...

Ancillary Products - Digipak 2

For the two inside pages Sam decided to use both pages at once by stretching the image we used over the double page spread. He chose to use a picture of corfe castle that I took on location. The framing...

Ancillary Products - Digipak 1

The Digipak is one of the two sub products that we have to produce for the ancillary tasks. The digipak is the small four page booklet that is found inside a CD case. The dimensions...

Saturday, 9 May 2015

Final Edit

After consolidating our resources me and Sam came together to create a final edit that we will use for the final project. We began by looking at what we had both done and seeing what we both liked and disliked. Sam mentioned that he likes the editing that I had done for some of the scenes like the boy...

Wednesday, 6 May 2015

My Edit

Initially I hadn't had any previous editing experience apart from previous media projects. This time I wanted to look into the editing process in more depth by learning how to use more advanced tools...

Ancillary Products

In addition to the editing we have to complete our ancillary products; a digipak and Magazine advert poster. Since everyone felt that I took a forefront role in both filming we agreed that I would step back a little and allow for Jack and Sam to focus on this, giving them something to really create...

Editing Plan

Sam has a lot of editing experience from other projects that he did on his own time. This really put him in charge of this aspect of the project however editing is something that i have been wanting to really learn how to do effectively since I wasn't able to do this in previous videos. We agreed to...

Recording Done!

After two days of getting footage on an expensive camera that I had to protect, we called it a wrap at my house once capturing the last scene of the boy leaving the house into the night. We shared some pizza and spoke about what we had done.  The last things that need to be done are the ancillary...

Recording Session 2 - Balston Road

On the 7th January, the team had organised to come back to my house in order to film. We carefully transported the equipment back and began as soon as we got home. Due to the time of year it got dark very quickly so we had to take advantage of what little light we had. We could always darken the footage...

Recording Session 1 - Swanage

On the 2nd January every member of the team organised to got to corfe castle near wareham and to swanage in order to capture the outdoor shots that we wanted. Sam sent off an email asking for permission to film at the castle however there was no reply. Upon arriving at corfe and speaking to the manager...

Shot List

Since we are due to begin filming soon the team put together a shot list to follow. We did this because we needed to make sure that the footage that we needed. Depending on the time and weather conditions during filming these shots may change slightly.  1. Close up on back of boy, surroundings...

Questionnaire Results

After giving out the questionnaire that we made, we collected the results and analysed them. These were our findings. Question 1 - How old are you? The vast majority of the people who took the questionnaire fell into the 13 - 24 bracket. This makes sense since a large amount of our peers would fill...

Crew

Not including our two actors, there are three people working on this music video. By the end of the project we would like to each have done a similar amount of work, while at the same time having taken dominant roles in specific areas.  This naturally leads to each person having a role that...

Audience Questionnaire

      I  feel that it is important to have understanding of both your target audience as well as the people who don't fall into that demographic. One of the best ways to try and understand these people are by understanding their interests. One of the best ways to...

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Equipment

This is Prezi presentation about the equipment that the group has available. *The full name of the video camera that we are going to use is the JVC GY-HM1...

Editing Software

We had three main options as to what we were going to use to edit our music video. Adobe Premiere Pro, Windows Movie Maker or Final Cut Express. The major differences between the options are that Premiere is installed on most computers in the school that are running a copy of Windows,...

Research into Industry

The music industry is a vast and complex topic to try and analyse, therefore I will focus on music videos since this is what we are going to be producing. Generally there are two big divides in the music industry; The famous, mega budget superstars that make millions from each single and the obscure...

Friday, 20 February 2015

Thursday, 29 January 2015

Genre - Indie Folk Music

In music, a genre is a style or category of music. It is used to group together songs so that, for example, should a listener particularly enjoy classical music, they can easily find songs that sound similar that they may also like. In the case of Far Away, the genre would be known as indie folk....

Wednesday, 14 January 2015

Mise-en-Scene

In film, Mise-en-Scene (MeS) is defined as being everything that appears in front of the camera. This applies to costume, props, lighting, composition etc... MeS is very important for this project...

Sound

My project is rather unique in that it is a music video. This means that no dialogue or diegetic sound is needed, all audio in the project will be the song (Far Away). Luckily I have done some similar work to this before, giving me some experience on how to make a piece without any dialogue.  The...

Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Depth of Field

Depth of Field (DoF) is the which objects in a scene are blurry and which are clearer depending of their distance from the camera. Depending on the DoF which can be changed with the aperture of the camera,...

Camera Shots

The shots are arguably the most important part of all the camera work that I need to consider. There are many different types of shot. Each creates an effect on the viewer and the scene, I can use...

Camera Movement

Learning to control the pace of a scene was something that I felt was rather important. Far Away is a slow song with a steady tempo so a fast paced music video wouldn't match, hence why I need to get...

Camera Angles

The angles that are used for a shot matter almost as much as what is in the shot itself. The height of the camera can show power and status, whereas the distance can purvey isolation and calmness.  When...

Monday, 12 January 2015