- Glow Sticks
- Poster of James Dean
- Lights
- Lava Lamp
- Plasma ball
- Bubble bath
- bath bombs
- makeup
- outfits
- sleeping mask
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No Rest - Dry the River
For this task we were made to listen to the song No rest by Dry the River. The first time we listened to the song without visuals, we closed our eyes and listened to the style of music and imagined what kind of video would suit this song. After we had listened to it for the first time we then got a copy of the lyrics....
"No Rest"
"No Rest"
I used to be a king alone
Like Solomon or Rehoboam
And in the eaves, the Corvidae
Did jealous keep my picture frames
And everything did oxidate in place.
But then you came, a single cell
With astrolabe and carousel
And algebra and symmetry
And none of this was lost on me
And I could see how still I’d been before
If I don’t eat, I don’t sleep at all
Like limbs in procession,
Like so many birds
Stampeding like oxen,
Our hearts are a herd
I loved you in the best
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best
Did you see the light in my heart?
Did you see the sweat on my brow?
Did you see the fear in my heart?
Did you see me bleeding out?
I loved you in the best
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best…
Like Solomon or Rehoboam
And in the eaves, the Corvidae
Did jealous keep my picture frames
And everything did oxidate in place.
But then you came, a single cell
With astrolabe and carousel
And algebra and symmetry
And none of this was lost on me
And I could see how still I’d been before
If I don’t eat, I don’t sleep at all
Like limbs in procession,
Like so many birds
Stampeding like oxen,
Our hearts are a herd
I loved you in the best
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best
Did you see the light in my heart?
Did you see the sweat on my brow?
Did you see the fear in my heart?
Did you see me bleeding out?
I loved you in the best
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best way possible
I loved you in the best…
After seeing and listening to the song again, I began to imagine an outdoors setting with lots of nature and green/brown colours and lighting. The song seemed to be about someone he once loved so i imagine the artist to be quite passionate when singing as it repeats the ' I loved you in the best way possible'. I could also imagine a man laying down with rain pouring down whilst singing the lyrics. For this type of song I imagine a performance style music video. I could also see a main artist singing in an empty field with people slightly further in the field playing musical instruments.
After visualising our ideas we was shown the music video...
Representation in Music Videos
In this music video there is strong representation of women being sexualised. The second shot of a women shown in this music video is a close up of her chest with lingerie on, this portrays to the audience that she's a sexual object. This shot is also quite short which puts all the attention back on the rapper which could perhaps show that she is being used as nothing more than a sexual object and is of no real importance. The video then shows a series of different women appearing to be on magazine covers this suggests the idea that 'women' should be looked at, one of the magazines is named 'fantasy' which could be referring to the female as a mans fantasy. This therefore continues to support the representation of sexualising women, and making them look submissive to men. This style of video is quite stereotypical for a rap video as they often feature 'sexual' women in some sort of way. This can be used to make the artist seem powerful.
Class Presentation
Music Video Presentation Feedback
Consideration - Rihanna:
- Does not have a chorus so may be hard to keep the audience interested or keep a particular theme.
- Rihanna is black and everyone in our group is white so it would seem unrealistic to many people watching as the voice and appearance do not match.
- Since the song is by Rihanna, it may be had for the audience to detach from the image of Rihanna that goes along with her recognisable voice.
- This song could get boring since it is the same tempo all the way through and does not change much.
- Anyone in our group could play the main artist.
- This song has an interesting beat as it varies and it consists of a main chorus so there is lots of room for creativity.
- Could be both performance and narrative- based.
- Could be filmed outdoors and be very symbolic.
- Comparable to Kate Bush and Florence and the Machine for their quirky look.
- Has a very 70s vibe - comparable to bands like Jackson 5 but with a modern twist.
- Very colourful song, has a lot of room to be visually interesting, creative and colourful.
- Would include dancing
- Very performance based with strange twists to make it more alternative.
- Would have to have an iconic artist with lots of costume changes and alter egos.
- Lava lamps, disco balls, studio lights etc.
Production Diary
17.09.17
Today in class, we were sorted into groups for our music video task and our group consists of: Charlotte, Anneka, Holly and Katie. In our groups we had to come up with multiple songs that we could potentially use for out music video. Our criteria was to choose songs that do not have a very recognisable artist, an artist that would match the student in the video, and has to be interesting enough to generate multiple different ideas for the visuals for the video. We looked at multiple different songs and artists while brainstorming such as: NAO, Daughter and Rihanna.
22.09.17
In class today, we created a group presentation to show to the class our three song choices and our ideas and interpretations for each of the potential songs. Katie created two slides on powerpoint for the song Nostalgia by NAO, Holly created two slides for the song Burn it Down by Daughter, and Anneka created two slides for Rihanna's Consideration. On the first of our slides, we hyperlinked the song to play to the class when presenting and on the second we described our ideas for our own music video if we were to do it to that song.
23.09.17
Today, two of the four groups in class presented their presentations for their music videos while the rest of the class gave them feedback on their song choices and more ideas to use in their videos. This was productive to the other groups as it allowed them make a clearer and better oriented decision of which song to choose as a group.
24.09.17
In class today, our group presented our slideshow of our three top song choices for the final music video to the class and received feedback from our teacher and classmates. They told us their individual different ideas and which song would be the most successful for our group to create in their own opinion. Charlotte wrote down everyone's comments and made it into a blog post which is view-able on each of our own blogs.
25.09.17
Today, we watched and marked other students music videos and evaluated their performances comparing it to the mark scheme . This was a helpful lesson as it helped by giving us inspiration for our own music video ideas, also we were able to see what grades where obtained by what video. We were then set a task to upload the music videos we watched and to write a post about what worked within the videos and what could have done with improvement . This would therefore help us when it came to planning and filming our own music video.
26.09.17
In today's lesson, we came up with our artists name 'Sindee', and began to divide the tasks between us. Katie created a timetable of availability for next week, this meant we could begin to plan our filming schedule. Holly began to start the shoot mood board to help give us inspiration and ideas, Charlotte researched similar genre albums and CD covers whilst Anneka began to analyse the song lyrics and decide which of our shot ideas would fit in each part of the song.
27.09.17
We had a major brain storm session today - we all came up with ideas and imagery and shots for the music video. We planned to film next Tuesday as we have half a day and also the following Wednesday when we have the day off from school. This time off from school is very useful as we will be able to film in daylight without anyone needing to be at work. We listed locations to shoot and began to come up with a prop list.
28.09.17
Today was independent work as our teacher was absent. As a group, we all did individual tasks which were required for us to complete. Anneka and Charlotte did the similar genre music videos' analysis by embedding videos which we found inspirational for our own video into a blog post and describing what we admired about the video and which aspects we would not use as inspiration and our reasons for both. Holly and Katie created a mood board for the whole video and the shots we aim to use. They found images from the internet and other artist's social media accounts and put them onto a word document to create a collage. The images which she used were reflections of our own ideas for shots, along with other artist's own ideas from their music videos. This is useful as it will allow us to know the main theme for our video and not go off track from our original ideas.
02.10.17
In today's lesson we completed our lip sync task. For this, we each lip synced 30 consecutive seconds of our song Nostalgia. After we had finished filming, we edited the footage on Adobe Premier, uploaded it to YouTube, then exported it to our blogs. We then made an agreed decision that Charlotte would be the main artist and feature in the music video.
03.10.17
Today we began filming our music video. After school we went to Chelmsord City Center to do some shopping. Within this shopping, we bought our props - these included marble light up balloons, glow sticks, silly string, glitter stick on eyelashes and sleeping mask.
We then went back to Charlotte's house to begin the filming process. We began by choosing outfits for Charlotte to wear in the video and taking photos which could be used for the digipak, album cover and for the blog. After this we filmed out first scene outside where Charlotte is seen walking two dogs down the street in an extravagant outfit (large coat, tracksuit bottoms, heels and sunglasses), we used a range of shots, such as a 360 shot, tracking shot and a panning shot. For the next shoot, we filmed in the conservatory. Charlotte was seen in these shots drinking tea and lip syncing the lyrics. We then ran a bubble bath bath and put the glow sticks and balloons in the water to create our desired colourful and neon scene. Charlotte was filmed sitting in the bath with dark makeup on, lip syncing and dancing to the song. The final filming scene was in Charlotte's bedroom where we filmed her drying and curling her hair, then in her bed lip syncing and pretending to wake up.
Today was just the start of filming, we wanted to see what we could achieve in just one afternoon. It was a good starting point as it means we can now spend time looking back through our footage to see what went successfully and looks good and will be used, and what needs improving. The next step in the filming process is to shoot the scenes in the drama studio, and perhaps re-shoot some of our previous footage that may not be suitable.
05.10.17
Today was our first lesson back from filming, as a group we looked back through the photographs we took that could potentially be used for album covers. We selected a few of our favourites to use. We then uploaded our filming to the Mac and began to look back through the footage Holly and Anneka sorted through the footage by deleting clips which would not be used. Charlotte began to work on the steal-o-matic by deciphering which videos to use, whilst I updated the blog.
06.10.17
Today we spent the first part of the lesson learning about different styles of websites and how they are portrayed. Mrs Brookes showed us a screen cast she had made for a band website. The aim of this was to expand our research on websites and give us inspiration for our potential website. We were then set the task to each do a screen cast into our own chosen website. We each individually began doing this by choosing a website to use and downloading the correct software to complete this task (steal-o-matic).
09.10.17
We had a catch up lesson with our teacher today to track our progress on completing our tasks and blog posts, we established how the tasks would be differentiated between us all to make sure we would stay on track and have everything completed by the deadline. We then continued the lesson each working individually on tasks. Anneka was editing the steal-o-matic on Adobe Premier by trimming the parts of the chosen music videos which we admired and would like to use. Charlotte uploaded the images we took in the filming process to blogger to create a blog post on costumes, make-up and props. Katie and Holly updated the production diary and began uploading the evidence of filming and evidence of work.
10.10.17
Today Katie worked on Evidence of filming and photos and footage and posted it on the blog. Anneka continued with the steal-o-matic, she added new footage and edited it on Adobe Premiere. Holly filtered through all the pictures and footage we took in the filming process and divided them into what would be productive in our music video.
12.10.17
Today Katie began the risk assessment, Charlotte worked on the official shooting schedule document, Anneka continued the steal-o-matic and Holly continued the storyboard.
16.10.17
In Today's lesson, we began the process of editing by uploading all the footage onto premier, Anneka began the editing process for our music video, Charlotte did some research for our digipack by looking at similar genres of music and artists's digipaks. Holly did some research into websites and Katie continued to finish the official documents for the risk assessment and shooting schedule.
18.10.17
Today Mrs Field taught us about cross media, and the importance of having a brand image, which links throughout all of our media , such as the website, the music video and dig pack. We looked at Daft Punk's website, music video and Digipak to see an example of how their cross media worked and how the brand image was constantly used with unity throughout the different elements of media.
19.10.17
Today, we collectively decided to create appropriate social media platforms for our artists for the reason of expanding our brand and making our artist more widely known. Katie took charge of this and created a twitter account. She personalised it by making the profile photo, header photo pictures of our artist; making the bio say we were a new artist and making the location say London to make our artist seem more professional. We then all brainstormed some names for our artist to put on the twitter account. We decided that in tomorrows lesson we would create a survey of our brainstormed names.
For the remainder of the lesson, Anneka continued with the editing, Holly began the process of creating the website, and Charlotte began to edit the images for our Digipak.
20.10.17
Today we did create the name survey as we had planned in our previous lesson. Katie created this survey on SurveyNuts, a website which allows the public to make free multiple choice styled surveys. Once this complete, Katie sent the link to teachers and students across the school for them to participate in the survey in order to get a large enough sample for us to make the correct decision of our artist's name.
Anneka continued editing. She is beginning by editing the chorus and second verse as she feels it will make it easier to build the whole video and make it have unity by beginning in the middle of the song. She is using different effects which she has found through browsing the internet and watching tutorials in order to reach the best outcome possible.
Charlotte is still continuing with the Digipak. She is editing each photo on Adobe Photoshop to make them all have the colour purple as the main theme, in order to have unity throughout the six photos. She is creating this purple theme by colour correcting to produce the purple tint, then adjusting the brightness and saturation of each photo accordingly.
Holly continued with making the website, she is using the website WIX in order to produce it. WIX allows the public to use its arsenal of tools and designs to make their own free website, with their own URL to share it - which is what we intend to do. Holly also made a gif to make to opening image of the website, so anyone visiting our website can see a snippet of our intended music video.
26.10.17
Today is the day during half term which we met up as a group in order to get more footage for our music video and more images for our digipak and website. We filmed at Charlotte's house, likewise to our first day of filming to continue the unity throughout the music video. Holly had the task of filming Charlotte and Anneka ensured that the mise en scen was correct: the lighting, costumes and props. Katie could not attend, so Charlotte showed her the footage the next day in order to ensure the whole group agreed and was included in the creative filming process.
We managed to get a range of both indoor and outdoor shots of different angles and movements.
For the photography aspect, we additionally managed to get a range of shots which we decided we would use in the Digipak.
30.10.17
Today Katie received the results from our artist name survey. The most popular name which the recipients decided on was "Nova". Within our group decision, we all decided that we liked this name also and would use it for our artist. Katie altered the twitter account so that it advertised our new name to our followers.
Mrs Brookes set us the task of creating a presentation on our halfway evaluations, which should include a 30 second teaser for our music video, our first drafts of our digipak and website, our artist's background, and our target audience and how we would convey this. Holly and Katie began this presentation.
Charlotte continued with the Digipak, by asking our teacher for their opinion and on receiving her feedback, she altered it accordingly. Our teacher said to change some of the photos in order to make the unity across it more obvious.
Anneka continued editing. She used the effect "warp stabilizer" on all of the clips which the camera was too shaky. This effect made the clips more stable and fluid which created an overall more complete look to our video.
31.10.17
Today, Katie completed the steal-o-matic and then uploaded it to YouTube, which allowed us to upload it onto our blogs. We all agreed that the steal-o-matic task gave us more clarity of what our theme and ideas were for our final video were.
Anneka continued editing the music video. As of this lesson, she has completed 20 seconds of solid footage and believes it is going well and on track.
Charlotte continued with the Digipak by deciding on 12 song names and an album name, and adding that text onto the back cover of it.
Holly continued with the website.
01.11.17
Today, Katie continued with the Halfway evaluation presentation. Today she wrote about Nova's background and rise to fame, and then our target audience and how we made this clear in our video and other platforms.
Charlotte made a second social media platform for Nova. She created an Instagram account in order to get our artist's name more widely known.
Anneka continued editing to get as much done so that we had our solid 30 second teaser looking successful and professional.
02.11.17
Today, we completed the halfway evaluation presentation. Charlotte sent her second draft of the Digipak to Katie, Holly sent a link and some screen-grabs of the website to Katie, and Anneka exported the 40 seconds of footage which she had and uploaded it to YouTube so that Katie could import it to the presentation. Katie put all of what she was sent on the presentation and put it on the blog ready to present to the class on Monday.
6.11.17
Today, three groups from our class presented the halfway evaluations. Phoebe and Lucy's Can't Sleep went first. We wrote our comments on a sheet, stating what we thought were successes and weaknesses of each aspect.
Our group went second, we collected our feedback sheets at the end of the presentations and Charlotte uploaded them to the blog after we had gone through them.
Jordan, Harry and Sam's Paleme went last where we additionally wrote our feedback on similar sheets.
This lesson was productive as it allowed us to see how far along we were in comparison to the rest of the class. Furthermore, the task made our group do more work than usual in the past week as we treated it as a form of a deadline.
4.12.17
Today we collected the feedback from the first draft of the music video and went over it as a group. We discussed the points people had made which we were planning to take into consideration and add into the music video. This was mainly to steady out some shots, make the timings more precise, and make the colour correcting consistent throughout.
For the remainder of the lesson. we typed up the feedback and Anneka applied the feedback to the video in the editing process
6.12.17
Today Charlotte finalised the Digipak to make it the final draft. She posted it on the blog under the title 'Digipak Final'. All of us as a group posted it onto our own blogs.
Anneka continued editing and Katie and Holly carried on with the feedback evaluation.
08.12.17
Today we began planning for the interview for Nova. We want it to be in the same style of Noah Cyrus's MTV interview which is relaxed and more getting to know about the interviewee - as Nova is new to the public.
We created a blog post on this resesarch which has an embedded emaze containing all of our research. This emaze has analysis of Louis Thomlinson's interview MTV interview as well as Noah Cyrus's (mentioned earlier). It ends with our plan for our own interview for Nova.
Anneka continued with the editing doing small amendments.
11.12.17
Today we all worked on individual blog posts in order to fill in any gaps which we had neglected by prioritising other work in this coursework process. Katie and Charlotte worked on a post on marketing research, Holly worked on a post on more website research to document the whole process of creating a website.
Anneka helped with the blog posts by making contribution to the research and writing of them, and carried on with the editing of the final video.
12.12.17
Today we worked on more blog posts. As Charlotte has finished the Digipak, she created a blog post on the Digipak research/ inspiration and the process behind it. She also created a post on the Digipak feedback that she received from the final Digipak.
Holly and Katie worked on a post on the Cross Media task and Anneka continued the editing.
13.12.17
Today we did more blog work. we posted blog posts on Music video Inspiration and Song Inspiration for the final song choice and the music video visuals.
Anneka continued editing as well as contributing to the blog posts.
14.12.17
After conversing with our teacher during the lesson today, we had more clarity on what posts we had left to write about - which was not many as we had completed the majority of them within the earlier stages of our coursework (September, October, November).
Therefore we continued making blog posts based on our teacher's feedback. Today in lesson we did: Costume Inspiration, Editing Techniques, and Filming Techniques.
15.12.17
Today Anneka completed the editing for the Music video and began exporting it, which will not be completely done until our next lesson (Monday 18/12). We carried on with blog posts: Location analysis, Mark scheme analysis, and Social Media Inspiration.
18.12.17
Today in our lesson, the music video had completed exporting on Adobe Premiere Pro, so we uploaded it to YouTube under the title Nova Final on Anneka Williamson's channel. We then embedded the video onto our own individual blogs under the Construction label.
19.12.17
Today, as the music video was complete, we all prioritised working on our blogs and completing our blog posts. We collectively worked on Merchandise Research, Music Video Representations, Artist Inspiration for Nova's Image, and Issues we Overcame In The Filming Process.
Holly also completed the Website and we all uploaded this onto our blogs under the name Website Final and labelled Construction.
Today in class, we were sorted into groups for our music video task and our group consists of: Charlotte, Anneka, Holly and Katie. In our groups we had to come up with multiple songs that we could potentially use for out music video. Our criteria was to choose songs that do not have a very recognisable artist, an artist that would match the student in the video, and has to be interesting enough to generate multiple different ideas for the visuals for the video. We looked at multiple different songs and artists while brainstorming such as: NAO, Daughter and Rihanna.
22.09.17
In class today, we created a group presentation to show to the class our three song choices and our ideas and interpretations for each of the potential songs. Katie created two slides on powerpoint for the song Nostalgia by NAO, Holly created two slides for the song Burn it Down by Daughter, and Anneka created two slides for Rihanna's Consideration. On the first of our slides, we hyperlinked the song to play to the class when presenting and on the second we described our ideas for our own music video if we were to do it to that song.
23.09.17
Today, two of the four groups in class presented their presentations for their music videos while the rest of the class gave them feedback on their song choices and more ideas to use in their videos. This was productive to the other groups as it allowed them make a clearer and better oriented decision of which song to choose as a group.
24.09.17
In class today, our group presented our slideshow of our three top song choices for the final music video to the class and received feedback from our teacher and classmates. They told us their individual different ideas and which song would be the most successful for our group to create in their own opinion. Charlotte wrote down everyone's comments and made it into a blog post which is view-able on each of our own blogs.
25.09.17
Today, we watched and marked other students music videos and evaluated their performances comparing it to the mark scheme . This was a helpful lesson as it helped by giving us inspiration for our own music video ideas, also we were able to see what grades where obtained by what video. We were then set a task to upload the music videos we watched and to write a post about what worked within the videos and what could have done with improvement . This would therefore help us when it came to planning and filming our own music video.
26.09.17
In today's lesson, we came up with our artists name 'Sindee', and began to divide the tasks between us. Katie created a timetable of availability for next week, this meant we could begin to plan our filming schedule. Holly began to start the shoot mood board to help give us inspiration and ideas, Charlotte researched similar genre albums and CD covers whilst Anneka began to analyse the song lyrics and decide which of our shot ideas would fit in each part of the song.
27.09.17
We had a major brain storm session today - we all came up with ideas and imagery and shots for the music video. We planned to film next Tuesday as we have half a day and also the following Wednesday when we have the day off from school. This time off from school is very useful as we will be able to film in daylight without anyone needing to be at work. We listed locations to shoot and began to come up with a prop list.
28.09.17
Today was independent work as our teacher was absent. As a group, we all did individual tasks which were required for us to complete. Anneka and Charlotte did the similar genre music videos' analysis by embedding videos which we found inspirational for our own video into a blog post and describing what we admired about the video and which aspects we would not use as inspiration and our reasons for both. Holly and Katie created a mood board for the whole video and the shots we aim to use. They found images from the internet and other artist's social media accounts and put them onto a word document to create a collage. The images which she used were reflections of our own ideas for shots, along with other artist's own ideas from their music videos. This is useful as it will allow us to know the main theme for our video and not go off track from our original ideas.
02.10.17
In today's lesson we completed our lip sync task. For this, we each lip synced 30 consecutive seconds of our song Nostalgia. After we had finished filming, we edited the footage on Adobe Premier, uploaded it to YouTube, then exported it to our blogs. We then made an agreed decision that Charlotte would be the main artist and feature in the music video.
03.10.17
Today we began filming our music video. After school we went to Chelmsord City Center to do some shopping. Within this shopping, we bought our props - these included marble light up balloons, glow sticks, silly string, glitter stick on eyelashes and sleeping mask.
We then went back to Charlotte's house to begin the filming process. We began by choosing outfits for Charlotte to wear in the video and taking photos which could be used for the digipak, album cover and for the blog. After this we filmed out first scene outside where Charlotte is seen walking two dogs down the street in an extravagant outfit (large coat, tracksuit bottoms, heels and sunglasses), we used a range of shots, such as a 360 shot, tracking shot and a panning shot. For the next shoot, we filmed in the conservatory. Charlotte was seen in these shots drinking tea and lip syncing the lyrics. We then ran a bubble bath bath and put the glow sticks and balloons in the water to create our desired colourful and neon scene. Charlotte was filmed sitting in the bath with dark makeup on, lip syncing and dancing to the song. The final filming scene was in Charlotte's bedroom where we filmed her drying and curling her hair, then in her bed lip syncing and pretending to wake up.
05.10.17
Today was our first lesson back from filming, as a group we looked back through the photographs we took that could potentially be used for album covers. We selected a few of our favourites to use. We then uploaded our filming to the Mac and began to look back through the footage Holly and Anneka sorted through the footage by deleting clips which would not be used. Charlotte began to work on the steal-o-matic by deciphering which videos to use, whilst I updated the blog.
06.10.17
Today we spent the first part of the lesson learning about different styles of websites and how they are portrayed. Mrs Brookes showed us a screen cast she had made for a band website. The aim of this was to expand our research on websites and give us inspiration for our potential website. We were then set the task to each do a screen cast into our own chosen website. We each individually began doing this by choosing a website to use and downloading the correct software to complete this task (steal-o-matic).
09.10.17
We had a catch up lesson with our teacher today to track our progress on completing our tasks and blog posts, we established how the tasks would be differentiated between us all to make sure we would stay on track and have everything completed by the deadline. We then continued the lesson each working individually on tasks. Anneka was editing the steal-o-matic on Adobe Premier by trimming the parts of the chosen music videos which we admired and would like to use. Charlotte uploaded the images we took in the filming process to blogger to create a blog post on costumes, make-up and props. Katie and Holly updated the production diary and began uploading the evidence of filming and evidence of work.
10.10.17
Today Katie worked on Evidence of filming and photos and footage and posted it on the blog. Anneka continued with the steal-o-matic, she added new footage and edited it on Adobe Premiere. Holly filtered through all the pictures and footage we took in the filming process and divided them into what would be productive in our music video.
12.10.17
Today Katie began the risk assessment, Charlotte worked on the official shooting schedule document, Anneka continued the steal-o-matic and Holly continued the storyboard.
16.10.17
In Today's lesson, we began the process of editing by uploading all the footage onto premier, Anneka began the editing process for our music video, Charlotte did some research for our digipack by looking at similar genres of music and artists's digipaks. Holly did some research into websites and Katie continued to finish the official documents for the risk assessment and shooting schedule.
18.10.17
Today Mrs Field taught us about cross media, and the importance of having a brand image, which links throughout all of our media , such as the website, the music video and dig pack. We looked at Daft Punk's website, music video and Digipak to see an example of how their cross media worked and how the brand image was constantly used with unity throughout the different elements of media.
19.10.17
Today, we collectively decided to create appropriate social media platforms for our artists for the reason of expanding our brand and making our artist more widely known. Katie took charge of this and created a twitter account. She personalised it by making the profile photo, header photo pictures of our artist; making the bio say we were a new artist and making the location say London to make our artist seem more professional. We then all brainstormed some names for our artist to put on the twitter account. We decided that in tomorrows lesson we would create a survey of our brainstormed names.
For the remainder of the lesson, Anneka continued with the editing, Holly began the process of creating the website, and Charlotte began to edit the images for our Digipak.
20.10.17
Today we did create the name survey as we had planned in our previous lesson. Katie created this survey on SurveyNuts, a website which allows the public to make free multiple choice styled surveys. Once this complete, Katie sent the link to teachers and students across the school for them to participate in the survey in order to get a large enough sample for us to make the correct decision of our artist's name.
Anneka continued editing. She is beginning by editing the chorus and second verse as she feels it will make it easier to build the whole video and make it have unity by beginning in the middle of the song. She is using different effects which she has found through browsing the internet and watching tutorials in order to reach the best outcome possible.
Charlotte is still continuing with the Digipak. She is editing each photo on Adobe Photoshop to make them all have the colour purple as the main theme, in order to have unity throughout the six photos. She is creating this purple theme by colour correcting to produce the purple tint, then adjusting the brightness and saturation of each photo accordingly.
Holly continued with making the website, she is using the website WIX in order to produce it. WIX allows the public to use its arsenal of tools and designs to make their own free website, with their own URL to share it - which is what we intend to do. Holly also made a gif to make to opening image of the website, so anyone visiting our website can see a snippet of our intended music video.
26.10.17
Today is the day during half term which we met up as a group in order to get more footage for our music video and more images for our digipak and website. We filmed at Charlotte's house, likewise to our first day of filming to continue the unity throughout the music video. Holly had the task of filming Charlotte and Anneka ensured that the mise en scen was correct: the lighting, costumes and props. Katie could not attend, so Charlotte showed her the footage the next day in order to ensure the whole group agreed and was included in the creative filming process.
We managed to get a range of both indoor and outdoor shots of different angles and movements.
For the photography aspect, we additionally managed to get a range of shots which we decided we would use in the Digipak.
30.10.17
Today Katie received the results from our artist name survey. The most popular name which the recipients decided on was "Nova". Within our group decision, we all decided that we liked this name also and would use it for our artist. Katie altered the twitter account so that it advertised our new name to our followers.
Mrs Brookes set us the task of creating a presentation on our halfway evaluations, which should include a 30 second teaser for our music video, our first drafts of our digipak and website, our artist's background, and our target audience and how we would convey this. Holly and Katie began this presentation.
Charlotte continued with the Digipak, by asking our teacher for their opinion and on receiving her feedback, she altered it accordingly. Our teacher said to change some of the photos in order to make the unity across it more obvious.
Anneka continued editing. She used the effect "warp stabilizer" on all of the clips which the camera was too shaky. This effect made the clips more stable and fluid which created an overall more complete look to our video.
31.10.17
Today, Katie completed the steal-o-matic and then uploaded it to YouTube, which allowed us to upload it onto our blogs. We all agreed that the steal-o-matic task gave us more clarity of what our theme and ideas were for our final video were.
Anneka continued editing the music video. As of this lesson, she has completed 20 seconds of solid footage and believes it is going well and on track.
Charlotte continued with the Digipak by deciding on 12 song names and an album name, and adding that text onto the back cover of it.
Holly continued with the website.
01.11.17
Today, Katie continued with the Halfway evaluation presentation. Today she wrote about Nova's background and rise to fame, and then our target audience and how we made this clear in our video and other platforms.
Charlotte made a second social media platform for Nova. She created an Instagram account in order to get our artist's name more widely known.
Anneka continued editing to get as much done so that we had our solid 30 second teaser looking successful and professional.
02.11.17
Today, we completed the halfway evaluation presentation. Charlotte sent her second draft of the Digipak to Katie, Holly sent a link and some screen-grabs of the website to Katie, and Anneka exported the 40 seconds of footage which she had and uploaded it to YouTube so that Katie could import it to the presentation. Katie put all of what she was sent on the presentation and put it on the blog ready to present to the class on Monday.
6.11.17
Today, three groups from our class presented the halfway evaluations. Phoebe and Lucy's Can't Sleep went first. We wrote our comments on a sheet, stating what we thought were successes and weaknesses of each aspect.
Our group went second, we collected our feedback sheets at the end of the presentations and Charlotte uploaded them to the blog after we had gone through them.
Jordan, Harry and Sam's Paleme went last where we additionally wrote our feedback on similar sheets.
This lesson was productive as it allowed us to see how far along we were in comparison to the rest of the class. Furthermore, the task made our group do more work than usual in the past week as we treated it as a form of a deadline.
4.12.17
Today we collected the feedback from the first draft of the music video and went over it as a group. We discussed the points people had made which we were planning to take into consideration and add into the music video. This was mainly to steady out some shots, make the timings more precise, and make the colour correcting consistent throughout.
For the remainder of the lesson. we typed up the feedback and Anneka applied the feedback to the video in the editing process
6.12.17
Today Charlotte finalised the Digipak to make it the final draft. She posted it on the blog under the title 'Digipak Final'. All of us as a group posted it onto our own blogs.
Anneka continued editing and Katie and Holly carried on with the feedback evaluation.
08.12.17
Today we began planning for the interview for Nova. We want it to be in the same style of Noah Cyrus's MTV interview which is relaxed and more getting to know about the interviewee - as Nova is new to the public.
We created a blog post on this resesarch which has an embedded emaze containing all of our research. This emaze has analysis of Louis Thomlinson's interview MTV interview as well as Noah Cyrus's (mentioned earlier). It ends with our plan for our own interview for Nova.
Anneka continued with the editing doing small amendments.
11.12.17
Today we all worked on individual blog posts in order to fill in any gaps which we had neglected by prioritising other work in this coursework process. Katie and Charlotte worked on a post on marketing research, Holly worked on a post on more website research to document the whole process of creating a website.
Anneka helped with the blog posts by making contribution to the research and writing of them, and carried on with the editing of the final video.
12.12.17
Today we worked on more blog posts. As Charlotte has finished the Digipak, she created a blog post on the Digipak research/ inspiration and the process behind it. She also created a post on the Digipak feedback that she received from the final Digipak.
Holly and Katie worked on a post on the Cross Media task and Anneka continued the editing.
13.12.17
Today we did more blog work. we posted blog posts on Music video Inspiration and Song Inspiration for the final song choice and the music video visuals.
Anneka continued editing as well as contributing to the blog posts.
14.12.17
After conversing with our teacher during the lesson today, we had more clarity on what posts we had left to write about - which was not many as we had completed the majority of them within the earlier stages of our coursework (September, October, November).
Therefore we continued making blog posts based on our teacher's feedback. Today in lesson we did: Costume Inspiration, Editing Techniques, and Filming Techniques.
15.12.17
Today Anneka completed the editing for the Music video and began exporting it, which will not be completely done until our next lesson (Monday 18/12). We carried on with blog posts: Location analysis, Mark scheme analysis, and Social Media Inspiration.
18.12.17
Today in our lesson, the music video had completed exporting on Adobe Premiere Pro, so we uploaded it to YouTube under the title Nova Final on Anneka Williamson's channel. We then embedded the video onto our own individual blogs under the Construction label.
19.12.17
Today, as the music video was complete, we all prioritised working on our blogs and completing our blog posts. We collectively worked on Merchandise Research, Music Video Representations, Artist Inspiration for Nova's Image, and Issues we Overcame In The Filming Process.
Holly also completed the Website and we all uploaded this onto our blogs under the name Website Final and labelled Construction.
Audience
How do you consume music?
When? do you have a daily music routine? Is some music more suitable at a certain time of day than another?
I listen to music a lot especially on the weekends if I'm getting ready to go out. I also have a bathroom speaker so listen to music everyday when I have shower in the evenings. I think the different genres of music that I listen to depend on what mood I'm in and what artist I have been listening to most recently. For example in the evenings if there is a party the type of music would generally be chart music and pop as its easy to dance to and its a popular style of music.
Where? clubs, bedroom, gigs, car?
I Personally listen to a lot of music when I'm driving, I have my own Spotify account and have made various playlists such as my favourite most recent songs, holiday albums and have downloaded my favourite artist albums such as 'American Teen' by Khalid. I also listen to music in the gym has it helps me to control my running and motivates me to keep going e.g I set my self a challenge to run for at least 10 songs. I always have music on when I have my friends over especially if we are getting ready to go out. In general I listen to music in a variety of different places all the time.
Who with? do you share your music or is it an individual experience?
I share my music with my friends when they come over, or if we all go to a concert or festival we all listen to music together. I find listening to music quite a social thing as me and my friends tend to have quite similar music tastes which means we enjoy talking about music and dancing together. I also share my music, so for instance if I find a really good song I will tel my fiends as the chance is they will probably like it too. Although I do share my music it can be quite personal for example I have certain songs which remind me of things in the past or I feel that I can really relate to the lyrics, therefore sometimes I do enjoy music as an individual experience.
How? radio, computer, ipod, tv, live, dancing, homework, getting ready ie doing other things - background wallpaper
I consume music mainly through my phone, I use spotify and youtube to listen to songs, I often use a bluetooth speaker as well. When I'm in the car i use my aux cord to listen to music from my phone and sometimes listen to the radio if I'm interested in finding out the top charts. I find music can be really relaxing and take your mind of of things, so sometimes I listen through my headphones when I'm doing work as it helps me to concentrate.
Why? What are the pleasures associated with music consumption? What does it offer the audience and what needs does it gratify?
When? do you have a daily music routine? Is some music more suitable at a certain time of day than another?
I listen to music a lot especially on the weekends if I'm getting ready to go out. I also have a bathroom speaker so listen to music everyday when I have shower in the evenings. I think the different genres of music that I listen to depend on what mood I'm in and what artist I have been listening to most recently. For example in the evenings if there is a party the type of music would generally be chart music and pop as its easy to dance to and its a popular style of music.
Where? clubs, bedroom, gigs, car?
I Personally listen to a lot of music when I'm driving, I have my own Spotify account and have made various playlists such as my favourite most recent songs, holiday albums and have downloaded my favourite artist albums such as 'American Teen' by Khalid. I also listen to music in the gym has it helps me to control my running and motivates me to keep going e.g I set my self a challenge to run for at least 10 songs. I always have music on when I have my friends over especially if we are getting ready to go out. In general I listen to music in a variety of different places all the time.
Who with? do you share your music or is it an individual experience?
I share my music with my friends when they come over, or if we all go to a concert or festival we all listen to music together. I find listening to music quite a social thing as me and my friends tend to have quite similar music tastes which means we enjoy talking about music and dancing together. I also share my music, so for instance if I find a really good song I will tel my fiends as the chance is they will probably like it too. Although I do share my music it can be quite personal for example I have certain songs which remind me of things in the past or I feel that I can really relate to the lyrics, therefore sometimes I do enjoy music as an individual experience.
How? radio, computer, ipod, tv, live, dancing, homework, getting ready ie doing other things - background wallpaper
I consume music mainly through my phone, I use spotify and youtube to listen to songs, I often use a bluetooth speaker as well. When I'm in the car i use my aux cord to listen to music from my phone and sometimes listen to the radio if I'm interested in finding out the top charts. I find music can be really relaxing and take your mind of of things, so sometimes I listen through my headphones when I'm doing work as it helps me to concentrate.
Why? What are the pleasures associated with music consumption? What does it offer the audience and what needs does it gratify?
Music consumption offers an audience to experience a variety of emotions, happy, sad, emotional, thoughtful etc. This is why i enjoy listening to music it can make you feel certain ways and connect you to the lyrics so you can understand what the artist is trying to portray. It can help me focus aswell as making me want to get up dance, i love the social aspect o music and that to me is the main pleasure associated with music consumption.
Prelium Evaluation
1) Who did you work with and how did you manage the task between you?
In my group there was me, Phoebe, Holly and Jamie. Once we had been told the task, we as a group took a couple of lessons to look at different styles of music videos. We each put forward our ideas for what style of music and video we felt would work well. We eventually choose the song Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepson. I felt comfortable to play a main role in the music video therefore I took on the role of Carly Rae Jepson. Within the group we worked well together everyone was assigned a role and they fulfilled this role. Jamie was in charge of editing and me, Holly and Phoebe was in charge of keeping up to date with blog posts and the filming and ensuring we had the right props, costumes, setting, etc. Everything ran smoothly and everything was kept up to date, including the production diary. As a group we planned when we was all free and where and when we was going to film so we could stay on track for the task.
2) How did you plan your sequence? What processes did you use?
To plan our sequence we used a storyboard, designed this on Emaze I was in charge of taking the screen shots of every different shot up until 30 seconds We then put these in order and wrote down what type of shot was used. We then used this to create our video. We used this method because it showed us clearly what shots we needed to shoot and how long each shot lasted. We also used a shooting schedule. The shooting schedule helped us keep on track with the organisation of filming and helped us get the right settings.
3) What theories could you apply to the video you chose?
Our music video could apply to Carol Vernallis's theory which states there is 4 key concepts creating a music video which is Editing, Narrative, Camera and Diegisis. Our music video for Call Me Maybe heavily relies non the concept of Narrative, which Vernallis's suggests the video is a visual response which reflects the lyrics and overall purpose of the song. The visuals of our song often portray the lyrics which therefore links Carol Vernallis Theory to our music video.
4) What technology did you use to complete the task, and how did you use it?
For filming we used an iPhone. We used this because it was a really high definition which is what we wanted for our video. The iPhone was also portable which was really good for when we had to go to different sites to film. For the editing, we used Premier. We used this because it is quite simple to use but produces a high quality finish. Which allowed us to blur out the background and match the editing effects used in the actual video.
5) What factors did you have to take into account when planning, shooting and editing?
The factors that had to be taken into account were: locations, props, camera, actors and time. In the 1st minute of the video there are 3 main locations - the house, the garden and the garage. We had to travel to a couple places to film. We had to take 2 cars to get all the equipment there. We had to set up the locations for our video once we got there. We thought that the locations would be difficult to sort out but they were not. Everyone lived fairly close by to the school so there weren't any long journeys and the setting up was fairly simple. For the props we had to have a drum kit, keyboard, guitars and a microphone. We had to transport all of these from the school to the locations and then set them all up and in the right places. With help from multiple people this went fairly straight forward. We had a 2 week deadline that we had to stick to. We met this deadline and sent in the prelim.
6) How successful was your music video copy? Please identify what worked well, and with hindsight, what would you improve/do differently? What did others say about your production?
Overall the music video copy went really well. The main thing that worked well was the actors involved in the video. All the actors were dedicated and gave up time to ensure the video was shot and was finished to a high standard. The main actress was me as I looked the most like Carly Rae Jepson, which worked really well in the final finish. As a group we put a lot of effort into the camera work to ensue that we matched the scenes ad cuts as best as we could. If we were to do it again we would probably choose a video that needed less people. In the video there was a whole band and a singer and we found it difficult to get enough actors and a camera man for the shooting of the video. These particular shots were also difficult to match as it was hard to get only certain people in the shots. The main feedback we got from the video was that it was really good. They said the camera work and actors matched the original music video really well. The only thing we could improve on was the colour correcting. The original music video was a light, warm colours. We attempted to recreate this but it proved to be quite difficult so the colours don't match exactly. Especially as it rained the day we decided to film outside which made it almost impossible to look like the summers day in the actual music video.
7) What have you learnt from completing this task? Looking ahead, how will this learning be significant when completing your music video, do you think
In the future this task will help to prepare me for my final music video as I am now aware of how much planning and time must be dedicated to the actual music video. From the task I have learnt that a shooting schedule and the plan of the music video is essential.
8) How does it compare with filming an opening to a film?
The music video filming was very difficult compared to the film opening as I found there were more cuts and more editing involved such as matching up the lip sinking which proved to be hard. There was also more angles used and quicker shots so it was important to get these right in order to look in time and match the original music video.
9) What are your strengths and weaknesses as a group member?
As I played the main role in the music video I felt that my strengths was being confident and taking on the character of the artist and portraying her song which I felt went really well, especially as this was my first time taking on an acting role. I was also good at keeping organised and up to date with how our progress was going and what we had to do next. However my weakness as a group member was the editing of the video, I am not very confident with the programme so left most of the editing to Jamie who was very skilled at editing, I felt like this was the right thing to do as we all played to our strengths and each had a role to play. Next time I would involve myself in the editing.
10) Looking at the other group's videos which do you think were most successful and why?
I think we was a very successful group, but the group that done the song Kathleen were also very successful the camera work was almost identical to the actual video and the editing was amazing especially as it had some hard effects that they needed to recreate.
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