Dear Moderator

Dear Moderator

This group blog belongs to:

Claire Buswell - 4145
Wanda Dunham - 4275
Dominic Crewe - 4215
Kerry Mcallister - 4540


Firstly, thank you for spending the time to look through our group blog. You can read a bit about us on the right hand side and see the links to our individual blogs, our website and also to our central "Latymer Music Video" blog page

this group blog consists of research, planning, production and some sections of our evaluation that we made collectively as a group. In addition to this each of our personal evaluations are on our individual blogs - which include text, links, pictures, videos and audio.

We decided that we wanted to produce an album cover and a website as our additional ancillary products (to our music video), which you can see at the top of our group and individual blogs.

Please use the labels down the righthand side to help navigate through different sections of our project. Hope you enjoy our work!

Regards

Claire, Dom, Wanda and Kerry

Q4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

This video explains the new processes we learnt and went through when editing our music video on Adobe Premiere Pro

Q3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Here is a clip of our exclusive Erwins Felicide screening to gather audience feedback



After our audience screening we interviewed two of our members from our target audience to get their feedback of the video

Q2 - How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

We took on the roles of the managing directors at Live Records ltd. to discuss our creative decisions concerning Erwin's Felicide. Therefore, we discussed the branding and the revenue streams we create through the combination of music video, album cover and website.

Q1 - In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Here is a discussion about the forms and conventions of our music video. For individual detailed anaylsis, see our individual evaluation on individual blogs.

Signed Off Website

Today we got our website signed off and published. And with that, the production of everything is over!

Now, we just have to evaluate everything and the project will be done.

Screening of the Music Video

Today, we 'premiered' our music video in the media block.

Based on what we read on the questionnaire, the general concensus is that our music video was good although we have to do some proper statistical analysis to find out more information.

After the screening, we also got to do an interview with two people who came along.

Finished Music Video

It may have taken longer than we thought but our music video is FINALLY FINISHED:

Completed Album Cover

After weeks of working with photographs, logos and fake song titles, the album cover is finished!

The album cover has been sent off the the printers and we can't wait for our individual copies.

The finished design is at the top of the blog if you want to see it.

Rotoscoping...

After watching through our music video, we thought that the narrative was really good although the performance wasn't as good.

The different colours of the blue wall, orange costume, pink accessories, etc. were quite distracting so we've started to use a new technique of rotoscoping. What this does is make everything in the performance black and white apart from Angus.

We're very optimisitic that this will be done in a few days if we all put in some hours.

Album Cover and Website Photoshoot

After staying behind today with our band, we got over 80 photographs to sort through and decide which ones go on our album cover, website and anywhere else we may need to put them.

Here are just a few of the more interesting ones...

Editing Music Video

After capturing the performance, the actual footage looks incredible.

I think that with just a few changes to brightness and contrast, it will look even better but we all need to be working on the post-production to get it looking perfect in two weeks.

Performance Shoot

After weeks of planning, we've just filmed our performance!

Overall it went very well, we managed to get plenty of shots to use from close ups to wides. We also managed to film behind the scenes to edit into a video if we get the time. And we've got plenty of photos to put on the website.

Now that we have all the footage, we just need to edit it into a music video and we're done with that part of the production.

Jack's Timetable

Hey guys, I managed to get hold of Jack's timetable:

 

Tada! We can organise everything properly now 

Also he just told me this:

• There's a tutorial on Tuesday's that can last up to a few hours which he might have to go to
• He has extra music stuff for an hour before lunch on Friday
• Thursday's have a half hour extra of German

So basically it's gonna be all after school stuff for him

Final update, he can't make this Saturday as he has to help out at an open day, but we can rearrange that right? But Tuesday 9th is thankfully completely fine

Studio Booking

Currently we are booking the Seward Studio for the following times:

A - Angus
I - Izzy
J - Jack
T - Tom
C - Claire
D - Dominic
K - Kerry
W - Wanda
R - Robyn

Wed 3rd - 12:30 3:45 - Technical rehearsal / teaching - C D K W
Thu 4th - P4 P5 - Photographs -  I T C D W
Fri 5th - P6 - Rehearsal - A R D K
Fri 5th - P7 - Rehearsal - I T C D W
Fri 5th - P8 - Rehearsal - A I T C D K W
Mon 8th - P2 P3 - Photographs - I T C D W
Mon 8th - P7 P8 - Photographs - A D K
Tue 9th - 3:45 - Real Shoot - All

Storyboards

To work out the timings of our music video, to serve as a reminder to us of what specific shots to shoot and to give our actors a general idea of what we want them to do, we made a storyboard.


The storyboard on the wall of our edit suite

  Wanda put the effort into drawing the Post-Its because of her artistic abilities but we had all previously worked out generally what we wanted to happen and when.


Shot 57 - MS of Angus walks through market at 1:10

 The storyboard currently has considerably more shots of the narrative than the performance, this is because most of the performance shots will be repeated and also, it's not too much of a priority because our narrative shoot is in a week's time.

In further preparation for the narrative shoot, in pairs we went around London to film a reccie. When we got back to school, Dom spent a week overcoming technical problems to edit the footage into this.


We made this video because:

• We didn't know which shots we could actually get without visiting the location again.
• It's considerably clearer than the storyboard for us and the actors.
• Any of us can watch it outside of school to remind ourselves of what needs to be shot.

Antagonist Facepaint Tests

Angus' Performance Outfit

Test for Antagonist costumes

We tested the white hair spray used for the antagonists outfit on dark hair ensuring it looks effective

Logo

• Dead cat - 'felicide'
• Referencing the Blink 182 dead person logo - similar target audiences
• Bold, simple - looks good on t-shirts, stands out, albums