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Evaluation question 2

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

There are similarities that cross between the main task (music video) and the two ancillary tasks (Website and Digi-pac). The similarities between the three tasks is the 'Nerd' theme, to start off with the main character in the video is dressed up as a geeky character, this is the common theme which runs through the video, digipak and webpage. In the website and Digi-pac the 'Nerd' theme is represented through the red geeky glasses The geek is necessary for the song and video, as it represents the outcast and keeping away from society and not getting involved with anyone until he sees his first love, the 'Nerd' is such a strong image, but we decided not to use the whole geek image for the ancillary tasks, but just a certain area of a 'Geek' so the glasses were essential to use for the ancillary tasks.

When it came to the writing of the the website and Digi-pac we wanted to use the same type of writing which was significant, this was done by having it in red, this matched the red 'Geek' glasses and the writing within them as well as the text we used for the webpage and Digi-pac this makes it unique, as shown in the two ancillary tasks, this is just another similarity.

The only major difference across the three media in which we created was colour of the geek style glasses in the Digi-pac and website compared the glasses used in the music video.

Evaluation question 1

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

The genre of our music video was a popular music style which follows most music styles by having a narrative and story. Since the song is about a Geeky youth who falls in love with one of their classmates and then ends up dating her after changing his appearance etc. We matched the lyrics into the song when the main singer is in the video for a chorus or two, if the singer wasn’t in it, the video matched the storyline of the lyrics.

Like most pop videos, we used a main character to base the video around, Since the song is about a geek, we decided to base the video around Geeky character, Also like main pop videos we had the artist who sang the song, to be a part of the video and sing along to certain sections of the song.

An example of this is the music video of Taylor Swifts ‘Love Story’. Even though she represents the main character and the singer of the song, it still is the same concept of what we represented in our music video.

The main representation in our video is the geeky looking teenagers/youths. Our video presents young people as smart, scared youths and unpopular, although we know this is all to do with feeling out of place. This idea of feeling out of place and scared of what you want to say promotes the video as being aimed at teenagers. These representations are typical of the media, to display youths as shy and unpopular, however we do this as part of our storyline to show how shy young people are with their boring everyday lives can change to express how they really feel in certain situations.

final video

This is our final product of the video part of our coursework, its a re-edit of our ruff cut with some brand new shots that we went out and filmed. In the new shots we added the presence of the artist maisie mae although we did not add anymore shots of me as the geek. The video took a while to edit as we had limit of software to use as of the strange scenareo that happend with only allowed us to edit our video within windows movie maker.
       We managed to lip sync the video to the music this time round and attempted to make the video run more smoothly. There are some ruff edges around our video but both me and george are happy with our final peace of work and hope that our hard

ruff cut video

this video is our ruff cut edit of our music video. it was a bit rushed due to my operation on my knee but now that we have started filming again it will not be long until the new video is up.
The problems with this video is that too many ideas were reused and material from esle where which we did not have copyright over was used within our video. we are currently edditing new footage and will be making sure that all the maerial is of our own.

Feed back from class

 George presented our music video to the rest of our media group. They gave us some contructive critisicisium such as using straight cuts instead of fancy transistions all the time. Also make cuts smaller because they seem to go on a bit to long. The final bit of criticisium was that some shots were repetive. To over come this, we'll edit our video so that it has straight cuts and shooter clips. I will be able to walk again as of from next week so we will film some more footage so that we have more varaity of shots and footage so that our music video be as repetivive as our first draft.

Website

This is what our website looks like at the moment. We have tried to carry the theme of black white and red from the digipack that we had created. This theame gives a more proffessional look as when we had looked at exsiting websites the whole layout is based on the current album of single on sale. This is to encourage sales and alow there fans to reconise the new album or single at a glance and without any effort.
            I believe that this theme works although we have decided the website can still do with a few tweeks to make it even better. We plan on adding the music video to the website but to do this we need to finish it first then we can use YouTube to post the video upon the home page.

The current link to our website is www.maisiemae.weebly.com

Creating the Website

We have now started to creat the website using a free website creater which is called weebly we will be using this to upload photos of our digipack and make sure the theme we have previously created is fluent across the whole of media production.

Creating the Digipack



 To create our digipack for Masie Mae we decided to use Adobe Fireworks. The specification says that we can not use any pre existing images so to start off we decided to fins a copyright free image of a pair of glasses. Once we had done this we were then able to use basic shapes that to make our logo for the front cover of the album. We decided to create a logo which had the word nerd in one lense and the word love within a heart within the other lense. therefore making the name of the song from our video and the title of her album.

 This is the image that we are using for the front cover of our album. We decided to add the name of the artist aswell just to make the album cover seem more proffessional and so that we could use it on our website when creating a theme across the whole range of products that we are creating.

This is the final layout of the digipack the top row is the oustide of the digipack and the bottom is the inside of the digipack with the section on the right displaying where the cd would be placed if we created a hard copy of it.

Filming issues

After Christmas I will be awaiting a operation on my knee this means that I either need to get lifts to filming as I'm supposed to stay at home or I can try and make sure we have finished filming by the time I have my operation

Gaining Permission to film

We have just gained permission to film in both the school campus and the library. The answer from the school was instant, but the library have given us the go ahead after we have signed some papers so we will have to wait until we can get those papers in our possession. This next photo is of our headteacher Mr Lord given us permission to film and shaking my hand. George was taking this picture.

Results from location scouting

these images from around our school are the results of our location scouting

These images show the areas within school that we would like to use as a set in our music video. The next stage is to ask permission from our head teacher and the head librarian to film within these areas.

Location scouting

Today me and George are going around school taking photos of possible locations for our music video. We are also trying to gain permission to film within the school campus and within the Werrington library

Camera we are using for our music video

GZ-HM310BEK
Because we have found out in the past that the cameras provided by school can be difficult to use when trying to get the best image possible, we have decided to use my Dads camera which has full HD and also digital stabeliser. This feature is a improvement on the cameras that school provide as even if the camera is on unstable ground it will be able to focus on the target and move with the target not the camera. This was a problem with the schools camera as even when a tripod was used it would still shake even if it was from a slight wind. The audio capabilities of my Dads camera is unknown at this point but it does not provide us with any problems as all the audio and background noise will be added in when it comes to editing the final piece of work. 


We will be using schools cameras to film the behind the scene video to use in our Evaluations 

How to link the video with lyrics

This video by K.I.G called Head Shoulders Knees N Toes, is made by a hand held video camera similar to the ones that we plan on using. This video was not made of high quality but was huge because of the link between the dance and the music. Throughout the whole of this video there are different locations and people used but the same dance used. This is all in sync with each other and the song which is about the most complex throughout the entirety of this video. This is an example how we can use simple ideas to make a great music video and also add the key features from the codes and conventions of a music in which we plan to add into our project. 

How to make a music video without using a huge location

In the video You Need Me, I Don't Need You by Ed Sheeran is the perfect example how you can make a great music video without having to move anywhere in between shots. This music video uses one studio to film the whole video. This is because there is no backgrounds or props which means that you can tell a story without having to move. This is done by the changes in lighting which surronds the main targets in the video. This video is not just one camera shot though. There is mutliple camera shots including, Long Shots, Medium Shots and Extreme Close ups. This mixes up what the audience is viewing and keeps them on their toes visually. The different shots and changes between the number of people on the screen or who is on, as for example Ed Sheeran does not appear on the screen until right at the end, where he is still masked by the dark lighting that is present throughout the whole video.

Final Cast and Crew List

Over the next few weeks, before we will break up for the Christmas holidays we will be looking to fill these following positions.

Cast

Maisie Mae (possible two different actors for the same role)

Eugene (possible two different actors for the same role)

Maisie Mae's friends (from three actors to around six)

Jocks (from four actors to six)

Bullies (three different actors)

Extras (This is only a possibility, it may not be possible if we can not find enough actors) 


Cheer Leaders
Goths
Boyfriends and Girlfriends

Crew                                                                           Name 


Cameramen X2                                                          George and Me
Lighting support                                                          Tara Tilley
Hair stylist                                                                   Kayley- Jayne Hughes
Make-up artist                                                             Kayley- Jayne Hughes
Editors                                                                        George and Me
Runners


Tara Tilley and Kayley- Jayne Hughes are friends of our group and go to two different schools but have volunteered to help us. This means that we only have to fill one spot on the Crew section and the actors which we will be aiming to fill when we have a meeting on Friday the 2nd November at 1:30pm GMT.

Lighting and how it represents characters

In this music video the lead singer plays two different characters of different temperaments. The lighting for the character who is portrayed as a rock stars, the lighting for this character is really loud when it comes to the colours but other than the actual light which is shone onto the characters and the people around him. The rest of the lighting is dull and dark. His opposing character is a polite middle class character who wears bland colours and very clean lighting showing his "innocence". This is consistent throughout the video until they class at night when the are arguing in the middle of their two houses. The lighting becomes very dark and shows a aggressive nature between them. This kind of lighting would be good to use in our music video to define the characteristics of our characters without them having to say anything.