Music Video

What have you learned from your feedback?

Well some of the audience liked it and some didn't. The people that liked it said that they like the fact that we used dominos because it was different and very creative but the people that didn't like it said that one of the scenes were not in sync and that we should have used more locations because it was a bit boring.

We could have improved by using more locations and adding more effects to the music video to make it more fun for the audience also we could improve the video by making all the shots in suc with rest because even if it is just one shot that is out of sync it still effects the rest of the video.
Next time if I do this again which I know I won't but next time I would plan this music video properly and really think about what we are trying to portray in the music video. I would also use a song that already had a music video so that it would make it easier to think of an idea that really works.

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

This is my first time making a prezzi i hope i did a good job of it. Um i dont know why the images moved about i tried to fix it continued to move out of place. So it looks a bit messy.

How effective is the combination of your main product (video) and ancillary texts (digipak and advertisement)?

My digipak and advertisement have a direct link because they both use the same font, the colour scheme is the same consisting of white purple and black, the main images on my advert and digipak are of the same person.

My target audience was a student at university who likes to socialise with her friends and keeps up with the latest trends. We considered her to be a mainstreamer.
I think my target audience will be attracted to my digipak and advertisement because the colours are not too bright and flashy and the text is not to fancy. Thinking back i should have made a link to my music video in my digipak and advertisement by using an image of dominos to show the link with my music video.

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

Laura Mulvey talks about the representation of women in music videos. She says that women are the subject of mens desire so they dress in a particular way to please their male audiences. Jessie J and Lilly Allen go against this through the makeup and outfits they wear that is why we were influenced by them. They portray themselves as strong women. We wanted our artist Messie M to be strong and independent, that is why she is the only person in the music video and she is dressed in clothes that are not too revealing but comfortable for her.
We also wanted to show this by using long shots of her whole body and close ups of her face instead of taking shots of her legs or her bum. We did this to show that she is not trying to be the subject of the male gaze.

We were influenced by Jessie J's Who's laughing now music video. So we aimed for our music video to be similar to what her music videos looked like in who's laughing now.
Jessie uses bright colours and wears funky outfits so that is what we wanted our artist to look like. We watched videos like price tag and saw that she was wearing really bright clothes and her makeup was really different so we were inspired to use that. Also in the music video the editing matched the beat of the song and when it cut it would cut to a completely differnt scene so it keeps the audience interested.


We were also influenced by Lily Allen because she had an effect in her music video ldn that changed each time she skipped by, we liked the effect and wanted to use it but we couldnt because it was too difficult for us to do.

As you can see in the video she is skipping along when the colours behind her follow her revealing "reality".


We were also drawn in by her outfit. She mix matches her outfits which give her a carefree fun attitude e.g she wears a dress but instead of high heels she wears trainers. So because of this we wanted our music video to be fun and colourful.

For our digipak and advertisment we also looked at Lily Allen and Jessie J. Both there album covers were bright and fun but the font was simple so that it was not too distracting to the image. So for my advertisment and digi pak i did the opposite by using a fun bold font but a simple picture. Our group decided to use white black and purple as our colour scheme. We wanted the colours to match but with the purple and white it was able to brighten it up a bit.

Andrew Goodwin talks  about how pop videos are built around the feelings of the song rather than the story a pop video would usually use the singer as both the narrative and character and the singer will often look directly into the camera so that they can involve the audience.

My music video would be considered as a performance based music video with visual motives.

Finished DigiPak

I have finally finished my digipak. I really hate photoshop..... i really do why is it so complicated to use. Anyways this is how my final digipak looks like.

In order Inside Panel
Advert
Outside Panel


The process of making this digipak was not easy i found out that i only had two days to complete my digipak and i had not started yet. I originally had ideas but scrapped them because i thought they were bad so that left me in a ditch because i had no ideas and little time. Amy who has photoshop at home and was able to finish hers told me that i could download photoshop for free at home and do it there so i did...... I dont know what i did but i ended up with a completed different version of photoshop and it took more than 1hr and 1/2 to perfect one image and in the end i ended up not using it. So that day was a waste luckily i had done some work on monday so i had something to do on wednesday. 
I'm happy that this is finally over and i dont have to think about photoshop again.
I think there are some things that i could improve on my digipak and i would like to improve but its too late now. Hopefully i get a good grade.

Behind the scenes of the photoshoot

Having major difficulties uploading these videos

So.... i am unable to upload the videos onto blogger which is annoying because the videos are funny but it seems like blogger doesn't find it funny.

fonts for digipak

We had a look at different font, and decided that we wanted to use a simple and not too fancy font.

Photos Taken For Digipak

Photoshoot Behind The Scenes

Today we had a photoshoot.... well something similar to that. We didnt have much locations but we were sure that we wanted to film in front of a white wall. We found a place on the lower ground of the college and we took pictures there. Then we went outside and took really good pictures out there. I decided to start filming the behind the scenes so that you could see what we got up to.
I forgot to film the stuff that we did inside.


1st up just a couple of pictures of stylist Chau putting fake lashes on Michaela.  Then after that a few pics from outside in the park field whatever.

 

This is the Prototype of My Album Cover

On mondays lesson it felt like an arts and crafts session cutting and sticking blah blah, but it was fun. We were bascially making our prototype album covers. Here is what i got up to.

The colour scheme as you can see is purple black and white. This is not exactly how my album is going to look like but i can tell that the colours will work well together. We just need a font to match.

Planning for the Real Digipak

We were given a task to plan for our  Album Digipak and this is what we came up with. This is the group section of the planning i will soon start planning individually for the album cover.

IMAGES

Analysing Previous Years Digipak

This digipak is good because the title really stands out so its the first thing that people see when they look at it.
The colours are really effective and match each other really well.
From the colour i would think that this album was associated with love so i think it indicates a clear genre.
The use of space is really good because the title is in the centre and the track list is in the centre so all the space is used effectively.
The text size on the back could be a little bigger because it is white so it would be harder to see.

This digipak isn't good because the colours clash with the overall background which is grey.
The panels link in some way because each panel has a musical instrument in it.
The genre is clear that it is an indie
band. This is made clear because of the instruments and the colours used.
The use of font was good but the colour made it look bad.









This digipak is really good and i think the best out of the ones i have commented on.
The colours used are really effective in showing us what kind of genre the music will be.
The artists name is big and clear for people to see.
The use of font is also very effective in showing us what the album genre is.
All the panels link in really well with each other.
The use of space was effectively used the artist takes up much of the space.

Album Cover

This is the practice album cover that i made using photoshop. It isn't that great but hopefully when i do the real thing it will be better.

Feedback

This is the feedback we got from the audience when they saw our music video.

Cinema Visit

Yesterday we went to the cinema to watch our music videos on the big screen.
I was really excited to have everyone watch our video and i was excited to see what everyone else got up to as well.


I noticed that what you see on the big screen is different from what you see on the computer screen because everything on the big screen is magnified. What i came to realize by watching my performance in the cinema is that one of our base tracks was out of sync and it was very obvious. This was disappointing because we tried our best to get everything in sync but that one track let us down.
Apart from that i thought the cuts were good and it matched the beats of the song which made it better.
I think we could have used a bit more effects to big up our video but we were running out of time and because time was wasted at the beginning with us being unsure of what to do we had less time to add all the effects.
But overall i thought the music video was well done and the audience laughed at the end part where Michaela had a shocked expression on her face because i told her that i forgot to film.

The Start of Our Album Cover

Last week we talked about starting our album covers.
To be continued

Pictures and Videos

Here are some pictures of us filming and some of the practice clips we took. Bascally all the memories during filming.

Letter To Jessie J's Company

I sent a letter to Jessie J's Company well i hope i sent it there.

To Whom This May Concern

We were hoping to use Jessie J’s song Domino for our A2 Media course which involves us creating a music video for our chosen song choice.

We will not use our finished work to earn money, the purpose of using the song is strictly for our Media work.

It would be very appreciated if we could get your permission to use this song.

Thank you

Complications

We had many complications when planning and filming our music video.

We couldn't upload our rough cut
We had no strong base our music video
Dominos kept falling over
Missing Media lessons
Shaking footage
Dark lighting on some scenes
Not enough shots
Bad Backgrounds for our music video
Some of the clips being deleted
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