Today we finished our directors commentary and uploaded it to the blog.
We also analysed two other groups music videos from the long road music video youtube account and wrote them up on the blog.
We checked through all out blog posts to check that everything was up to date, posted and that each post was tagged correctly.
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Showing posts with label Sam Pudney. Show all posts
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Directors Commentary - Blog Version
This is our final director's commentary which will go on our digi-pack.
Analysis of another group's video
Music Video Analysis: R1-16
When we were watching this music video we thought that the locations they used were really good and we really liked the London shots, this shows good effort. There was also a good variety of shots which made the music video more interesting. Their costume changes were good and fitted well with the genre.
However, we think that the lip-syncing could have been better and also there wasn't much of a narrative and what there was didn't really make sense. Some shot durations were too long which could to the audience getting uninterested.
Overall we feel that they made good effort but the narrative and editing could have been a bit better.
When we were watching this music video we thought that the locations they used were really good and we really liked the London shots, this shows good effort. There was also a good variety of shots which made the music video more interesting. Their costume changes were good and fitted well with the genre.
However, we think that the lip-syncing could have been better and also there wasn't much of a narrative and what there was didn't really make sense. Some shot durations were too long which could to the audience getting uninterested.
Overall we feel that they made good effort but the narrative and editing could have been a bit better.
Thursday, 1 December 2011
What We Did Today - 1/12/2011
Today we practiced for, and filmed our directors commentary in the media studio. We also uploaded our footage onto final cut.
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Sam's Evaluation
Q1)
For our meida products we decided to choose a stereotypical view of a boyband. The song we decided to use was "Strange" by JLS. So our group thought it would be a good idea to use some of the things that are done by JLS e.g. costume, cheesy acting, air grabs etc. The video contained a typical boyband image in the way we filmed our video. For instance we showed a lot of close-ups portraying emotion from the singers, which is something you are likely to see in a real media products. This all links in with Goodwin's points and how the lyrics and visuals, music and visuals are typical of our genre, cheesy boyband pop video. The frequent use of close-ups show off each individual artist to show the importance and emotion of the band. Furthermore there is a constant notion of looking at the camera, again to show emotion and to capture the feelings of the singers. It is also done to make it look as though they are actually singing to someone in particular. Our video, advert, and DVD cover all conform to the stereptype by including typical balck and white colour. This can display the mood and give off a good effect.
Q2)
Our media products all work well as a promotional package for a number of reasons. Firstly they all have similar effects e.g. black and white, and the cover and magazine both contain either camera shots from the music video or a still camera shot taken in a location from the video, while wearing the same costumes that are seen in the video. This shows good continuity. It creates the image of a typical boyband in the way we use black and white and longing, emotive looks into space, which is stereotypicallywhat you would in a boyband is stereotypically what you would in a boyband video, DVD cover, and magazine advert. Our products are successfulat attracting the target audeince, which is most likely going to teenage girls or fans of JLS. The reasons it is successful is because it shows off the image of the boyband and constantly shows the artists, which is what the audience want to see. Things such as featuring a gallery on our DVD means that the audience can look at pictures of the band, together and individually.
Q3)
We learnt a lot from the feedback we were given. Firstly from our initial pitch we realised that in order to make our music video a success, we had to go all out and make it as cheest as possible. By doing this we hoped that instead of the video looking embaressing, it would look cheesy, but in a good way, as though it was actually something you would see in real life. From our rough cut we learnt that we would have to improve our video by doing a number of things. Firstly our peers said that we needed to include different locations in our video. With this in mind we decided to film outside, wearing different costumes to make our video look better and more professional. Secondly we were told to use more effects on final cut. So after hearing this we decided to inlude more cross-dissolves, fade in/outs, and include the use of split-screens. We had a lot of compliments for our final cut. For instance many said that we showed good lip-synching, acting and emotive singing. They also said it was good how we looked like a proper boyband, and how we used effects such as black and white, split-screens etc. to make our video successful.
Q4) The use of the new technology helped us massively in making our music video a success. Firstly the HD cameras, and still shot cameras helped us capture fantastic shots with great quality. They aslo helped us in making the lighting look effective in certain shots. Final cut was essential in making our music video look professional and successful. We included a large amount of editing techniques to amke it look better e.g. black and white, fades, cross-dissolves, split-screens etc. Although it took a lot of time to find out how to do some things, in the end, I believe our product looked very professional. The use of photoshop is something our group found harder to do to begin with. However once we knew what we were doing, it became a lot easier. We managed to include good effects such as gradient going from colour to black and white for our DVD cover, as well as making our advert look effective and professionally made.
For our meida products we decided to choose a stereotypical view of a boyband. The song we decided to use was "Strange" by JLS. So our group thought it would be a good idea to use some of the things that are done by JLS e.g. costume, cheesy acting, air grabs etc. The video contained a typical boyband image in the way we filmed our video. For instance we showed a lot of close-ups portraying emotion from the singers, which is something you are likely to see in a real media products. This all links in with Goodwin's points and how the lyrics and visuals, music and visuals are typical of our genre, cheesy boyband pop video. The frequent use of close-ups show off each individual artist to show the importance and emotion of the band. Furthermore there is a constant notion of looking at the camera, again to show emotion and to capture the feelings of the singers. It is also done to make it look as though they are actually singing to someone in particular. Our video, advert, and DVD cover all conform to the stereptype by including typical balck and white colour. This can display the mood and give off a good effect.
Q2)
Our media products all work well as a promotional package for a number of reasons. Firstly they all have similar effects e.g. black and white, and the cover and magazine both contain either camera shots from the music video or a still camera shot taken in a location from the video, while wearing the same costumes that are seen in the video. This shows good continuity. It creates the image of a typical boyband in the way we use black and white and longing, emotive looks into space, which is stereotypicallywhat you would in a boyband is stereotypically what you would in a boyband video, DVD cover, and magazine advert. Our products are successfulat attracting the target audeince, which is most likely going to teenage girls or fans of JLS. The reasons it is successful is because it shows off the image of the boyband and constantly shows the artists, which is what the audience want to see. Things such as featuring a gallery on our DVD means that the audience can look at pictures of the band, together and individually.
Q3)
We learnt a lot from the feedback we were given. Firstly from our initial pitch we realised that in order to make our music video a success, we had to go all out and make it as cheest as possible. By doing this we hoped that instead of the video looking embaressing, it would look cheesy, but in a good way, as though it was actually something you would see in real life. From our rough cut we learnt that we would have to improve our video by doing a number of things. Firstly our peers said that we needed to include different locations in our video. With this in mind we decided to film outside, wearing different costumes to make our video look better and more professional. Secondly we were told to use more effects on final cut. So after hearing this we decided to inlude more cross-dissolves, fade in/outs, and include the use of split-screens. We had a lot of compliments for our final cut. For instance many said that we showed good lip-synching, acting and emotive singing. They also said it was good how we looked like a proper boyband, and how we used effects such as black and white, split-screens etc. to make our video successful.
Q4) The use of the new technology helped us massively in making our music video a success. Firstly the HD cameras, and still shot cameras helped us capture fantastic shots with great quality. They aslo helped us in making the lighting look effective in certain shots. Final cut was essential in making our music video look professional and successful. We included a large amount of editing techniques to amke it look better e.g. black and white, fades, cross-dissolves, split-screens etc. Although it took a lot of time to find out how to do some things, in the end, I believe our product looked very professional. The use of photoshop is something our group found harder to do to begin with. However once we knew what we were doing, it became a lot easier. We managed to include good effects such as gradient going from colour to black and white for our DVD cover, as well as making our advert look effective and professionally made.
Thursday, 24 November 2011
Digi Pack - Ancillary
Here is our final Digi Pack cover, which was one of two ancillary tasks we had to complete, we looked at other artists digi packs for ideas such as Robbie Williams, and we have tried to make the product look as professional as possible. We did this product on Photoshop which did prove to be slightly challenging as only some of the group were confident with using it, but we all contributed ideas and took into account feedback from our peers. And we believe that the outcome is successful. Magazine Advert - Ancillary
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
Shcedule For Next Few Weeks
23rdth Nov: Digi-pak editing
24th Nov: Digi-pak editing
28th Nov: Timed response to the evaluation questions.
30th Nov: No lessson. Type responses onto the blog.
1st Dec: Filming Presentation Script - D2 3.25-4.10
5th Dec: Editing director commentary
7th Dec: Editing (deadline)
8th Dec: Peer feedback of directors commentary
12th Dec: Finalizing blog.
Thursday, 17 November 2011
Ideas For Digi-Pak
Images we are thinking about using for DVD Cover..
Image that we plan on using for the magazine advert
Analysing Student Digi-Paks
We are analysing a student digi-pak that used the running theme of a derelict area and graffiti.
The video featured showed a derelict area with two main artists graffitiing the area. The colour filters and the lighting combined creates a somewhat dire theme as well, dark and dreary.
The DVD cover features both actors in the video next to a grubby white background which is graffitied which matches the theme of the video. The inner cover of the dvd is similar, however it only shows the grubby-white graffiti background. The back cover also features the features of the DVD as well as the BFCC certification, barcode and DVD PAL logo. The spine of the cover was plain black with a plain white text.
The magazine advert had a thick black border on the top and bottom blended into a picture of the derelict area and grubby-white graffitied walls. This matches the visual theme running through the video and DVD cover. The text in the black background is white and the same text on the spine of the DVD, which shows good continuity. The magazine advert shows the general conventions of the adverts with a star-rating, where to purchase the DVD from and release date.
The video featured showed a derelict area with two main artists graffitiing the area. The colour filters and the lighting combined creates a somewhat dire theme as well, dark and dreary.
The DVD cover features both actors in the video next to a grubby white background which is graffitied which matches the theme of the video. The inner cover of the dvd is similar, however it only shows the grubby-white graffiti background. The back cover also features the features of the DVD as well as the BFCC certification, barcode and DVD PAL logo. The spine of the cover was plain black with a plain white text.
The magazine advert had a thick black border on the top and bottom blended into a picture of the derelict area and grubby-white graffitied walls. This matches the visual theme running through the video and DVD cover. The text in the black background is white and the same text on the spine of the DVD, which shows good continuity. The magazine advert shows the general conventions of the adverts with a star-rating, where to purchase the DVD from and release date.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Response to feedback of final edit
The feedback that we received from the group was consistent in both the good and somewhat few negative points. We believe from our feedback that we have successfully created a good music video.
The negative feedback that we received (in some places we think irrelative) was fair. The main point being that our costumes were not "boyband" enough. If we had the chance to re-do our video we would definitely co-ordinate ourselves better so that we do have better style costumes. In response to the comments on explanation to narrative, we purposely created our video so there was no narrative. However, we could have created a narrative if we wanted to and if thats what our audience wanted to see then we could add a narrative next time.
Monday, 14 November 2011
What We Did Today - 14/11/2011
Today we completed the editing process. We added another split screen so just one didn't look random as well as desaturating some of the clips to add anther dimension to our video. We edited minor issues as well to make the video look more refined and professional.
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Todays Tasks: 9/11/2011
Today we need to finish the editing process. We have 50 seconds of the song left to finish, as well as adding colour corrections and filters.
Should we not finish (although we probably will) we have tonight's open evening to finish editing. Monday we will commence writing our evaluations and our digipak.
Should we not finish (although we probably will) we have tonight's open evening to finish editing. Monday we will commence writing our evaluations and our digipak.
Monday, 7 November 2011
What We Did Today - 7th November
Today we spent the whole lesson editing. We have managed to work through just over a minute of the song and have nearly finished. We have done some research into creating a glass smashing effect and if we have enough time will add it in towards the end of editing. We also did research into and managed to implement a split screen effect into the video.
Attempt to Contact the Artist
Being an avid fan of twitter, i thought that twitter would be the best way to try to contact JLS. So I messaged the boys via Twitter..
I will update the blog if i get a response.
Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Peer Feedback of Rough Cut
What our peers thought was good:
The resounding comments from everyone was that the quality of the lip syncing was brilliant along with the emotion that we conveyed in the song.
"Really love the commitment to the performance"
"Lip syncing was really well done"
There was also a resounding factor that we could improve on. This is that our peers told us that we should use more locations to add variety as well as changing clothes and and colour corrections.
"Not much location variation"
"Could there be more relevance to the locations?"
Wednesday, 19 October 2011
Research Into Transition Types
We found a very useful website to help us with our research into transition types.
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/editing/transition/types.html
This website explained a varied range of transition types that we could use to make our music video more refined and professional.
Cut: The most simple and commonly used transition. This is an instant change from one shot to another.
Dissolve/Crossfade: This is where two shots are dissolved from one to the other, hence the name. This type of shot gives a sense of time passing as well as a relaxed, slow paced mood.
Fade: This is where the first shot fades into a solid colour before fading into the second shot. Usually signaling the beginning/end of a scene.
Digital Effects: These sort of effects include colour replacements, pixillation, focus drops and lighting effects. These can all link two shots together in a more advanced way for different effects.
http://www.mediacollege.com/video/editing/transition/types.html
This website explained a varied range of transition types that we could use to make our music video more refined and professional.
Cut: The most simple and commonly used transition. This is an instant change from one shot to another.
Dissolve/Crossfade: This is where two shots are dissolved from one to the other, hence the name. This type of shot gives a sense of time passing as well as a relaxed, slow paced mood.
Fade: This is where the first shot fades into a solid colour before fading into the second shot. Usually signaling the beginning/end of a scene.
Digital Effects: These sort of effects include colour replacements, pixillation, focus drops and lighting effects. These can all link two shots together in a more advanced way for different effects.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Editing Techniques
We will use only a small amount of editing techniques in comparison to other music videos. This is because almost all of te eidting will be done to focus on emotion.
- Monochrome - We will use black and white in the shots of the actors.
- Fades - Will be used to switch between emotional sots and between shots of the boy band and the actors.
- Slow Motion - Will be used to extend the legth of shots and convey a deep sense of emotion. Will probably be used in conjunction with black and white.
- Colour Corrector - If shots are too dull or bright then we will use this to correct them.
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