A2 Music video (Final)

Here is our full video for our cover of living in a box.

Do's and don'ts

Do's and Don'ts 

 below are some do's and don'ts we are aiming to keep this year while filming .

Do's         
                                                                    
Bring a spare SD Card for more filming shots .            
Take more than one of the same shots                                 
Take a spare camera                                                     
film with confidence
Have fun while filming
use rule of thirds
stick to the storyboard


Don'ts

Have the cameras reflection in the shot
Don't rush each shot take time while filming
Don't have anyone speak other each other while filming
180 degree rule


                                                                                                       

Evaluation

 

Evaluation

 

 

Below is my evaluation for the whole task. in this evaluation I have answered 4 questions below and used all of my knowledge to complete this evaluation and used audience feedback and media knowledge to complete this task.  

 

 

 



Self Evaluate Past work

 

Self evaluation past work

 

Looking back and my past project and my contribution to the completion of the task video I would say that for last years video we stayed in a local location for our video and this was the only location used within the video as our ideas were not as broad as what we have used this year.

 

Last year we filmed our video all in one shot and as the video was short and the focus of the video was horror a film opening so the video out set was clear before we started. The shots we used were a lot of walking shots the basic shot as this filled up time and also we had more cast within the video last year as we were in a bigger group this meant we all had roles within the video and could complete the task much quicker.

 

looking at my contribution last year I can say that last year I was heavily involved with the creation of this task. I was in the film as one of the 4 characters, I also filmed around 50% of the video and I edited all of the video and would say that I created the majority of this task by myself. so what could I evaluate from this project and what could I learn not to do within the latest project.


Now looking at this years project I wanted to change my whole approach to shooting the video for example on shooting we chose a much larger and more ambushes video with filming on location in London with us moving around a lot more to 3 different locations within central London. This was one of the do's that I wanted to complete as I felt before I video was a bit boring and location was very vague and I wanted this to change so we decided on a bigger location, a risk but one I was willing to take.

This year our aim is to record our video in the least amount of takes but not to rush it like we did last year, thus why our video look some what rushed so I would like the video to be taken time and if we have to go to London again then we will.  learning from last years mistakes I hope we are able to create a good video.  remove bad camera shots and unnecessary shots that where used last year. did hold down the production of this video

Looking at my contribution this year compared to last year I can say that this year I want to be more on the filming side rather than editing as I want to have more of a role with the creation rather than getting left to do the editing and would like to focus more on the filming side and creative side of the production and still edit.
         

A2 Meida Magazine page design (final)

 

 

 

 

 

Above we have our final Magazine page design for our music video. this consists of showing off the design which was created on Photoshop. to create this  page from a magazine we have  used the same concept as our ancillary task with the mind of both being able to correlate our music video Living in a box as you can see the page design has the element of cardboard. Which was one strong element we wanted to portray in our Ancillary tasks, so that element is consistent throughout each design. looking more into detail you can see our main lead singer on the poster. we decided that having him in the centre of the page was key to the narrative of the song but also the video as you would be able to link him to the song which is the most important part. Coming out of the box seen here is the storyline behind the whole project the story follows Steven on his travels to a happier time in his life and the video shows that with his journey being the main element in the video. so we had time to think of how we could incorporate that into the page design and the CD cover. The picture of him coming out of the box. So this is seen on both the Magazine and also he cover of the CD , this helps you link the two together. 

 

Having Steven on the magazine page was a decision that we took as looking at other examples of poster/Magazine pages they all include the artist giving off the impression that this is new by that artist will sell. so for us having that link of narrative with the front cover including our main headliner was important to us.

 

 



A2 Music Video Preview

Here is our Music video so far the video is not complete but this is what we have produced so far the video takes from the song Living in a box the song follows a journey in Stevens life and when he decides to do something different and make a move out of his daily life and find his past.

I feel what we have produced so far is good and really shows what is to come towards the end of this video .The whole video is based on a story, a story about life and when sometimes life can be bad but only you yourself can change that for the better.

A2 media focus group

Above is a video of our focus group for our music video. For this we asked 3 questions to a audience of 2 these questions were based on the music's background. the questions include what type of music genre was this after you watched the video? . This focus group gives us some good feedback on what we have produced. so far and gives us a indication to what out audience thinks of our production.