Friday, 16 December 2011

Evaluation




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






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






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


Location

Here are a few ideas of locations for our music videos;






Music Genre Research

The soundtrack we are using for our media production is called 'Dry Your Eyes' by The Streets. Instead of being categorised as one, this song seems to fall into a few different genres. It could fall into grime/UK garage and maybe even rap/hip-hop.

Grime is a genre originating from the UK and has grown recently over the years, becoming more successful and popular. It is not very different from UK garage and also gives us a slight vibe of rap, almost as if it is a mixture of these two genres.

Two examples of artists who create tracks within this genre are;
- Giggs (don't go there ft B.o.B ,
- Skepta (Hold on , amnesia
In the song Dry Your Eyes it is as if the lyrics are being spoken rather than the artist singing it! However, the chorus part is done by him singing. Giggs uses this same effect. For example in one of his tracks called 'Don't Go There' featuring B.O.B. The whole track is rapped with a freestyle effect, the chorus however is done by another artist singing.
These artists usually make songs about everyday life or events that have happened in their personal life. For example; Skepta's song, 'Hold On' is about him not giving up in life even though people are trying to bring him down. Going back to Giggs's track, 'Don't Go There', it is based upon the life of people from where he lives and about the gangs etc.
The outfits worn by these type of artists are quite casual; also depending on what kind of lifestyle they have. They may go for the urban style or even the indies. It is hardly ever glamorous or classy.


You will here and see these soundtracks on radio's such as BBC One Extra, or on TV channels like Channel U, or even magazines advertising similar genres to these. 

Risk Assessment

In this assessment I will be discussing the risks and hazards that took place during this whole production.

- A few of the shots we took outside were done during our evening classes. As it was quite dark there were two risks involved during this process; firstly, whilst crossing the roads and walking to our chosen locations we were carrying large equipment such as the tripod and video camera, there could have been a chance of someone falling or tripping up, which would've caused harm to themselves or the equipment. Secondly, it was quite unlikely, but still possible that the equipment could have been stolen/gone missing.
- It could also have been stolen or gone missing each time a member of the group took the equipment home with them after booking it for the weekend.

- One of the shots were done at the back of our college near a big pond. It was when the actor and actress were sat on a bench outside. The video camera was placed besides the pond whilst filming. This was a hazard as there was a chance of the camera person or even the equipment falling into the pond.

- There was a point where I was taking pictures for our animatic, and I had to stand in the middle of the road just to get a perfect shot! I made sure there were no cars, but this was obviously still risky.

Poster

This is a poster advertising the music video:



Magazine Advert

Back Cover

Front Cover

DIGIPAK

Official Music Video - Dry Your Eyes by The Streets

Equipment

Video Camera PD170

Tripod
Lighting
( was required whilst filming )



Mac Book ( for editing with Final Cut Pro, Photoshop & researching )

iPhone ( for taking pictures of locations and for our ani
matic )

Wednesday, 7 December 2011

Call Sheet

Cast/Crew of Production 

Humayra Khan
- Director

Contact number - 07572354647
Email address - humayra.k@hotmail.co.uk


Elizabeth Mensah-Tandoh - Camera Person
Contact number - 07932044157

Email address - emensahtandoh@gmail.com


Dan Smith - Leading actor/Editor
Contact number - 07944738736
Email address - dan-da-man-92@hotmail.co.uk



Tamara Birch - Assistant Producer
Contact number - 07931654833
Email Address - tamarabirch94@hotmail.co.uk


(Extras)
Melissa - Leading actress
Contact number - 07723554487
Email Address - melissa93@hotmail.com

PRODUCTION: Weekly Update (5)

7/11/11



  • We faded some of the flashback footages into the shots where the actor is by himself. This made our video look really effective, and improved the reminiscing scenes.

PRODUCTION: Weekly Update (4)

2/11/11
  • Continued with editing; 
         - after removing any unnecessary footage, we worked on the remaining footage.
         - placed shots of the couple ( being the flashbacks ) in between shots of the actor
         walking and sitting alone in various different places; this shows that he is reminiscing
         about her. 

Sunday, 4 December 2011

PRODUCTION LOGO

Here is the logo representing our group; simply just containing the first letters of each of our initials - 



Saturday, 3 December 2011

PRODUCTION: Weekly Update (3)

30/11/11
  •  Today we just carried on filming the flashbacks.
    - We completed a few more shots of the couple happy together and holding each other
    - We then created a scene of them both arguing. This was done at a bus stop, involving more dramatic acting and a variety of shots and angles; mostly using close-ups.
  • As we had extra time on our hands we carried on filming more shots of the main actor on his own; again all alone and depressed just reminiscing about his girlfriend.
  • We then began editing some footage; simply just cutting out shots we did not need, for example; any shots with mistakes.