For my final task i am working in a group with Darren Cousins and Bradley Stokes. This is so as we worked together to do our preliminary task and got on really well as a team. This encouraged us to go forward and do our main task together.
This is the brief we have been given for this task :
A promotion package for the release of an album, to include a music promo, video, together with a cover for its release and a web page promoting the artist .
or
A promotion package for a new film, including a teaser trailer together with a film magazine front cover, featuring the film and a poster for the film.
After discussing our options of the two briefs we decided to to do the music video. This was for a number of different reasons but mainly because we felt that as we had only just experienced creating a music video, we would have knowledge that we wouldn't have if we were to make a film trailer in which we had no previous experience. Watching and evaluating this made us aware of all the mistakes we made and how we could improve on them. Due to this we felt we would be more confident in making a music video and produce better quality work if we made a music video. Along with this i will be creating a cover that will be for a digipack (CD cover) and be creating a website to promote the artist of my music video. The deadline for the music video is November 30th and the deadline for everything else on the music video including the digipack, the web page and an evaluation is to completed by the 14th of December.
Thursday, 27 September 2012
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
After uploading our video on to YouTube, we all had a lesson were everyone in the class watched all the videos and got to give evaluative feedback on their own and other peoples videos. this was a very effective lesson as we were able to see the things we done well and the things we needed to improve on. Watching back on our video there were so many things that we felt could have been improved on. I think only then is when the group realised how essential it is to plan and prepare properly as there were many shots that weren't thought through well enough.
We also realised that we took far too little shots. i think due to us not seeing the significance in planning, there was clearly a lack of preparation. this was shown through the amount of shots there were. Once again this wasn't realised until we sat and evaluated our video. I pointed out that for future reference we would need to take much more shots as i felt a lot of our shots seemed to drag for a long time. this made the video seem as if it was being dragged out. Certain shots were very prolonged and didn't engage the audience
As well as this we also had big difficulties with the lip syncing for a certain part of the sing. this problem occured as we had used 2 different versions of the song on two different days of filming. this meant she was singing to a slightly different song on one of the days. this took up a lot of our time trying to mend this situation and eventually we had to cut a large part of the song. we learnt a valuable lesson from this and identified that when making such a project next time, using the same song is crucial.
Location was also something that we evaluated as a group. When watching it we felt that there wasn't enought variety of location. Most of the shots we took were all in school and all the ones that weren't all still had a similar backdrop to them (Grass, trees). We felt like we didn't really put much thought into the location and the relevance of the location as well as the diversity of locations.
These are all the things we found out while evaluating our video.
We also realised that we took far too little shots. i think due to us not seeing the significance in planning, there was clearly a lack of preparation. this was shown through the amount of shots there were. Once again this wasn't realised until we sat and evaluated our video. I pointed out that for future reference we would need to take much more shots as i felt a lot of our shots seemed to drag for a long time. this made the video seem as if it was being dragged out. Certain shots were very prolonged and didn't engage the audience
As well as this we also had big difficulties with the lip syncing for a certain part of the sing. this problem occured as we had used 2 different versions of the song on two different days of filming. this meant she was singing to a slightly different song on one of the days. this took up a lot of our time trying to mend this situation and eventually we had to cut a large part of the song. we learnt a valuable lesson from this and identified that when making such a project next time, using the same song is crucial.
Location was also something that we evaluated as a group. When watching it we felt that there wasn't enought variety of location. Most of the shots we took were all in school and all the ones that weren't all still had a similar backdrop to them (Grass, trees). We felt like we didn't really put much thought into the location and the relevance of the location as well as the diversity of locations.
These are all the things we found out while evaluating our video.
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
As a practise task we have been given the option to create either a music video or a sweed film in a group. I am in a group with Darren Cousin and Bradley Stokes. The three of us decided to make a music video instead of a sweeded film as we all found greater interest in the creation of a music video. We were given song options to choose from and we chose to do a Mariah Carey's song. Looking back on it now this was probably not the best song choice as it was a very slow paste song and prompted us to drag many of the scenes in the video.
As a group we were being introduced to the concept of making a music video for the first time so it was quite a new experience to us. We were definitely not aware of the amount of planning and preparation that a music video required and only began to get a small idea when we were told to create a story board to plan precisely each shot and even then i don't believe we fully grasped the complexity and preparation involved in creating a music video. Nevertheless, we planned to the standard we felt was acceptable. we created a story board with 10 different shots in which we described each camera shot, sketched each camera shot and stated the duration of each camera shot. when we were first told to make a storyboard, i didn't see a need for this. I see myself as being rather creative and so did the other guys in my team, so we were more keen on just going out with a camera and seeing what we came up with and thought this would be a better way of us working. We were absolutely wrong. We did end up planning and creating a story board which was of great use to us. The story board gave us a a sketch of what we were to do and really helped save a lot of time. Also being able to sit down as a group and discuss ideas meant that the end conclusion was well though through and such conclusions wouldn't have been thought of if we made up shots as we went along.
This is a picture of my story board (Back & Front)
We have just finished creating and editing the last bits of our practise video. Lip syncing was a big challenge to us and took up quite a bit of our time. While editing we realised that we had used different versions of the song when recording on different days. This meant that in a certain bit of the video, our main characters lip syncing was completely off sync with the music. Eventually we had to cut part of the video which wasn't a very clean cut. However, bearing in mind the difficulty we put ourselves in, and the fact that we were beginners, i think we done an exceptional job on finding a solution. Bradley stokes, a member of my team done a fantastic job on this and shone especially for the technical skills he displayed when this problem was identified.
This is the link for our practise video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tdADU8zRo&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=5&feature=plcp
As a group we were being introduced to the concept of making a music video for the first time so it was quite a new experience to us. We were definitely not aware of the amount of planning and preparation that a music video required and only began to get a small idea when we were told to create a story board to plan precisely each shot and even then i don't believe we fully grasped the complexity and preparation involved in creating a music video. Nevertheless, we planned to the standard we felt was acceptable. we created a story board with 10 different shots in which we described each camera shot, sketched each camera shot and stated the duration of each camera shot. when we were first told to make a storyboard, i didn't see a need for this. I see myself as being rather creative and so did the other guys in my team, so we were more keen on just going out with a camera and seeing what we came up with and thought this would be a better way of us working. We were absolutely wrong. We did end up planning and creating a story board which was of great use to us. The story board gave us a a sketch of what we were to do and really helped save a lot of time. Also being able to sit down as a group and discuss ideas meant that the end conclusion was well though through and such conclusions wouldn't have been thought of if we made up shots as we went along.
This is a picture of my story board (Back & Front)
We have just finished creating and editing the last bits of our practise video. Lip syncing was a big challenge to us and took up quite a bit of our time. While editing we realised that we had used different versions of the song when recording on different days. This meant that in a certain bit of the video, our main characters lip syncing was completely off sync with the music. Eventually we had to cut part of the video which wasn't a very clean cut. However, bearing in mind the difficulty we put ourselves in, and the fact that we were beginners, i think we done an exceptional job on finding a solution. Bradley stokes, a member of my team done a fantastic job on this and shone especially for the technical skills he displayed when this problem was identified.
This is the link for our practise video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4tdADU8zRo&list=UUzCuzU6TJVKZ_Khku1FndtQ&index=5&feature=plcp
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