How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
Tuesday 31 March 2015
Monday 30 March 2015
The Overall Process
Production Diary #18
In comparison to the coursework tasks that were faced at AS, there has been a massive jump in terms of the level of creativity, the equipment and software needing to be used and the overall research and planning process. When starting the process in the middle of July last year (2014), I believe that I made the right decision of starting with the research tasks prior to going straight in with the planning of my music video as I was struggling to come up with specific ideas and possible songs that I could use. When looking back through my blog, the first post that I uploaded was my introductory production log, outlining my thoughts and feelings towards the months ahead, as well as possible ideas that initially entered my head. I then started looking into other music videos that could possibly provide me with some information. The first proper research task that I uploaded was the research into various music labels. When looking into all the different labels that are out there, I felt that I could delve further into this and look at the different artists signed to them, and hopefully I could have found an artist, and more specifically a song, that I would form an idea for.
Even though it did take quite a few months to come up with an idea, it did give me a good amount of time to complete the majority of the research tasks that I uploaded to my blog. There were some planning tasks that I could complete without the ideas needed, however, for others it was a necessity that I had at least found a musician or band and a possible song to complete them.
I finally came up with the idea at the beginning of January after finding some inspiration from Vance Joy's 'Riptide' and a lyric video for 'Little Talks' by Of Monster and Men. I quite liked the idea of the lyrics written on pieces of card that were featured in the Of Monster and Men lyric video as well as the direct link between the actions and lyrics in Riptide. I decided that I wanted to incorporate this somehow into the song Maps by Maroon 5 as well as the idea of photos of friends and other loved ones.
Once I managed to come up with the idea for my music video, I found it quite easy to create the Digipak and Magazine Advert to go alongside this. I decided that it was important that you could see a link between the three products. To do this, I incorporated the lyric cards through video and photos into the music video, digipak and magazine advert. I felt that this highlighted the importance of this prop.
Overall, the process has been quite challenging and not as straightforward as last year, however, it was good to experience creating different products on different media platforms.
In comparison to the coursework tasks that were faced at AS, there has been a massive jump in terms of the level of creativity, the equipment and software needing to be used and the overall research and planning process. When starting the process in the middle of July last year (2014), I believe that I made the right decision of starting with the research tasks prior to going straight in with the planning of my music video as I was struggling to come up with specific ideas and possible songs that I could use. When looking back through my blog, the first post that I uploaded was my introductory production log, outlining my thoughts and feelings towards the months ahead, as well as possible ideas that initially entered my head. I then started looking into other music videos that could possibly provide me with some information. The first proper research task that I uploaded was the research into various music labels. When looking into all the different labels that are out there, I felt that I could delve further into this and look at the different artists signed to them, and hopefully I could have found an artist, and more specifically a song, that I would form an idea for.
Even though it did take quite a few months to come up with an idea, it did give me a good amount of time to complete the majority of the research tasks that I uploaded to my blog. There were some planning tasks that I could complete without the ideas needed, however, for others it was a necessity that I had at least found a musician or band and a possible song to complete them.
I finally came up with the idea at the beginning of January after finding some inspiration from Vance Joy's 'Riptide' and a lyric video for 'Little Talks' by Of Monster and Men. I quite liked the idea of the lyrics written on pieces of card that were featured in the Of Monster and Men lyric video as well as the direct link between the actions and lyrics in Riptide. I decided that I wanted to incorporate this somehow into the song Maps by Maroon 5 as well as the idea of photos of friends and other loved ones.
Once I managed to come up with the idea for my music video, I found it quite easy to create the Digipak and Magazine Advert to go alongside this. I decided that it was important that you could see a link between the three products. To do this, I incorporated the lyric cards through video and photos into the music video, digipak and magazine advert. I felt that this highlighted the importance of this prop.
Overall, the process has been quite challenging and not as straightforward as last year, however, it was good to experience creating different products on different media platforms.
Audience Survey
Please could you fill out this Audience Survey so I can gain feedback on my music video and both ancillary tasks. You will find all 3 of the media products under the 'Final Product' tab down the side of my blog under 'labels'.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YHJ6V9G
Thank you. (you may need to copy and paste the link)
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YHJ6V9G
Thank you. (you may need to copy and paste the link)
Tuesday 24 March 2015
Thursday 19 March 2015
Filming, Footage and Final Draft
Production Diary #16
On the 5th February, I booked the black box studio again to shoot some more footage for my music video. To be prepared, my teacher is expecting us to have a final draft of the music video finished by the time we come back from the February Half Term. I had hit a creative block, however, I was quite happy and pleased with the way things had turned out, now I just need to wait and see how the footage turns out when I edit it together using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 this week in class. Also this week I have been updating my blog and making some adjustments to posts that I have previously updated. For example, the analysis of the ancillary tasks is a very important research task and carries a tariff of 4, however, the first time I did the task I got a 2 due to the lack of detail to my work.
I have also managed to put together most of the footage for my music video, however I do still have about 15 seconds left to fill. I did find that the editing of the video was easier than the actual filming as the footage that I had filmed went together quite well. I did also get some feedback from my media teacher who said that some of the shots that I had got were too long, however I broke some of the shots up and flipped them so it looked like they were filmed from different angles, which I feel reflects the frantic nature of the song as it picks up in the chorus.
I am planning to film the last 15 seconds of footage over the next week by incorporating a map and the lyric cards in as my teacher did say that as they were only in the first minute of the video, they did seem a bit random so I should try and get them in at some other point in the music video.
On the 5th February, I booked the black box studio again to shoot some more footage for my music video. To be prepared, my teacher is expecting us to have a final draft of the music video finished by the time we come back from the February Half Term. I had hit a creative block, however, I was quite happy and pleased with the way things had turned out, now I just need to wait and see how the footage turns out when I edit it together using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 this week in class. Also this week I have been updating my blog and making some adjustments to posts that I have previously updated. For example, the analysis of the ancillary tasks is a very important research task and carries a tariff of 4, however, the first time I did the task I got a 2 due to the lack of detail to my work.
I have also managed to put together most of the footage for my music video, however I do still have about 15 seconds left to fill. I did find that the editing of the video was easier than the actual filming as the footage that I had filmed went together quite well. I did also get some feedback from my media teacher who said that some of the shots that I had got were too long, however I broke some of the shots up and flipped them so it looked like they were filmed from different angles, which I feel reflects the frantic nature of the song as it picks up in the chorus.
I am planning to film the last 15 seconds of footage over the next week by incorporating a map and the lyric cards in as my teacher did say that as they were only in the first minute of the video, they did seem a bit random so I should try and get them in at some other point in the music video.
Actors and Auditions
Here is a video featuring some test shots that I used when trying to work out who I believed would fill the role that I needed in this video. The video does not feature too much acting so features some simple tasks to do. This also gave me a chance to test lighting and other equipment I would possibly need for the video.
Actions-Auditions from Zoe Ramsdale-Clark on Vimeo.
Thursday 12 March 2015
Tuesday 10 March 2015
Contact Sheet
The contact sheet is a collection of all the images I have taken that will be included on either the Digipak and Magazine Advert.
Thursday 5 March 2015
Monday 2 March 2015
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