Goodbye!

This is our final post we have finished our project! We've really enjoyed working on our music video project, it's been hard work but also really rewarding. I think our website, album cover and music video are really professional and we have all enjoyed working as a team and were all really sad this is our final post :'(

GOODBYE!

To the moderator

Dear Moderator

This blog belongs to:

Tom Aston-4045
Ciara Borkowski-4125
Jessica Ball-4070
Hugh Donnelly-4255


First of all, thank you for taking the time to look through our group blog. On the right you will see a bit about us,links to our individual blogs and links to our website and also a link back to the teachers central blog "Latymer Music Video"

Our group blog consists of research, planning , production and parts of our evaluation that we did as a group. You will find that our whole evaluation is on each of our individual blogs. Our evaluations are in the form of pictures, videos and text.

We chose to produce an album cover and a website homepage as our ancillary texts to our music video, which are at the top of both our individual blogs and group blog.

Use the labels on the right to find different section of our project, hope you like it all!


Regards

Tom, Hugh, Ciara, Jess

Evaluation Question 4

Here is the video we all created to use in our question 4 in the evaluation.

Evaluation Question 3

Here is the video of the screening that we edited to form part of our evaluation

Evaluation Question 1

Here was our group response to the question:




Videos we've referenced in our evaluation


JLS - Beat Again


JLS - One Shot

Copyright

We intially tried to email Sony asking for copyright permission for the song 'Just got Paid'. Unfortunately they did not get back to us and so we were left unsure wether it would allowed on youtube.

However after placing our video on Youtube Ms Blackborow recieved an email that the content had been accepted and we were allowed to keep our video up without breaching any copyright issues. This has solved any issues we had.

Evaluation

We have discussed as a group our ideas on how we want to present out evaluation. This is how we have broken up each question

Question 1- Making a video

• JLS-One Shot- Comparison video
• Ciara-Goodwin Theory
• Hugh- Album Cover Anaylsis/ conventions
• Jess- Website coventions
• Tom- Vernallis Theory

Question 2- We will present this question individually on our blog

Question 3- We have a screening video, questionaires,target profiles, small amount of writing individually

Question 4- Technical video showing equipment etc or we can do a picture of the equipment

GUYS

280 views on youtube already! yaay

Also think you all saw the comment from Jazzi but if not here's what she left on my facebook..

Media Screening Session

In today's lunchtime we had our first screening of the media video, the turn out was really good and we managed to fill the room completely. We set up all the desks ad chairs and got the video and lights sorted so that when the audience arrived we had made it as easy as possible.

We played the video through once and had a very positive feeback and a lot of laughs! We then asked the audience to watch it for the second time but fill out a questionaire this time.

The feedback we got from the questionaire was really helpful. Most people rated it 9 or 10 out of 10 and everyone said that they really liked it. We tried to get a variety of gender and ages to the screening to make our feeback more accurate.

Here are a few examples chosen from the questionaires that were filled out:

Questionaire for Screening

Copy of our questionaire:


Media Questionnaire

Facebook Event Page

In order to let our audience know about the screening on Wednesday we have created a Facebook event page with details. We have around 70 people clicked attending so we are hoping for a big turn out.

Here's the link to the page:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=174280715933730

FINISHED!!

Editing Update!

Were all working hard on post production and getting the video edited and creating the ancillary tasks: Website and Album Cover. Curretly all 3 tasks are well under way and we are very close to finishing , hopefully we will be done by the deadline this friday.

Post- production

All our footage looks good we have now completed all 3 shoots and have more then enough footage that will work. We have 3 weeks to the production deadline and we are confident that we will meet this. We are splitting the tasks up between us and hopefully this will work well so that we complete each task easily and make it all look as professional as possible

Shots for website

Me and Ciara worked on editing some individual shots we got from saturdays shoot for the website. I used a website called http://www.pixlr.com/editor/  and first of all used turn down the saturation so the colour wasn't as bright and then brightened it slightly. Then I used a effect called cross process and then I warmed it up and constrasted it slightly. These are how the pictures looked before and after..

Shoot 3

So we've now had our third and final shoot which went really well and we used the most amazing house- Lordship Park. Everyone arrived on time for a days shoot which we managed to finish well before we thought we would and we got everything we wanted and more!

The first part of the day was dedicated to the photos that we needed for out ancillary products. With the help of ezra's camera we were able to get really high quality shots. Some shots that we planned didnt work as well therfore we got lots of different group and individual shots that allowed us to pick and choose our favourite when we got back to our edit suite (and with over 400 we really weren't short!!)

The seond half of the day consisted of getting more performance for the music video.We worked really hard as a group. As hugh was obviously performing in the band we allowed him to take shots when he was not in them and the rest was done by myself, Tom and Jess. As a group we would set up each shot we would make sure lighting, composition and location worked well for what we wanted. As a team we would sorted through any disagreements and we were all very happy with the shots that we got.

We owe a big thank you to the boys that made up the band, they worked so hard for all shoots, they responded and helped with whatever we wanted to do and they also gave their indivindual input which made the shots we got very natural and they look so good.

Shoot 2 Reflections

Yesterday was our second shoot. We knew that we had quite a lot missing from our initial shoot, primarily close ups of the band members, so we focused on that. This was done by running through the entire song for each member and shooting them in close up, as well as some close ups of the dance routine. We set up the lights in the same way as the first shoot, but tried to use the hazer more becuase we thought that it looked much better. We all agree that we got everything we needed from the shoot, and are happy with the results.

Shot List

This is the shot list that we are usuing on our shoots to make sure we get everything done.

Shot List

Detailed Lyric Anaylsis

We have done a break down of our lyrics and the timing of the lines and words which will help us out a lot when we are shooting. This helps us know the shots we need and the order in which they need to be put in.