Digipak Update

We have began editing our digipak, however, we still need to add the photos so our progress is very limited. We are waiting to take our images for the digipak, which will help finish the digipak completely.

Lesson Update

This lesson, I have started making the Advert for our Final Piece. I did this by using photoshop, as well as Dafont.com in order to download the font for our mastheads and subtitles. I feel that this is effective as the font is very conventional to James Blunt's other albums. As well as this, we have followed conventions by using our own institution logo as well as the social media icons. This identifies to the audience that we, as an institution, are up to date with social media and are available on all platforms.

Advert and Digipak Ideas.

These are our ideas for our advert and digipak. The top image will be used as an idea for our digipak as the front image. I feel this is effective because it includes the silhouette of our actor as well as the main scene for our music video of Roseberry Topping. Similarly, the advert also has these elements with it. This is effective as our target audience will notice the relationship between the digipak and advert and will make links with these and our institution.

Shot List

Shotlist from 14150892


This is our Shot list which accompanies the storyboard. From this, we can identify each shot, the action as well as the mise en scene we hope to portray by using these shots. As well as this, we can portray each camera movement - making sure the camera is constantly moving through out.

Lesson Update

Today, we have peer assessed each others blogs in pairs, using the ABC formate of Add, Build and challenge. I was paired with David Drewit, who looked at both my third rough cut and my blog layout and gave me points to improve. One main point which he mentioned was to add more annotations to each of my blog posts, which is also a target for myself to achieve by the end of this week. As well as this, as a group, we have planned to re-film and get more shots for rough cut 4. This will be done on Sunday 6th December, where we will try to take photos as experimentation for the advert and digpak.

Light Experimentation

We experimented with using HID lights in order to see if it was bright enough to use in the flash backs. From this we can conclude that it will look effectively when using it in the flash back shots.

Advert Ideas

Plan for advert from AlexInkster

Rough Cut Three

Rough Cut Two

Digipak and Advert Font Analysis

Font analysis from bethdavies5

Lesson Update

Today, I have began analysing my 6 chosen fonts that could be used for the advert and digipak. This is evident in the image below.

Lesson Update

Today, I have looked at different fonts for both the advert and digipak. I plan to analyse them individually and single out one main font we will use.

Animatic Storyboard

Lesson Update

Today, I have completed the animatic storyboard - which I have uploaded to youtube and embedded in the post above.

Lesson Update

Today I have continued editing my animatic story board and have been planning times and places to shoot for the flash back scenes in our music video. I feel that this needs very detailed planning as each member of the group have times filming at certain times for reasons like work.

Lesson Update

Today, I have began editing my animatic story board in final cut pro, where I have used the screenshots from my storyboard and began editing the length of the shots to fit the composition and beats of the music.

Screenshots Of Group Planning

Storyboard Pages

Editting Evidence

Images of filming

Rough Cut One

Logo Creation Screenshots

Call Sheet

Risk Assessment

Risk assessmant from AlexInkster

Focus Group Questionnaire

Focus group questions from AlexInkster

Focus Group Powerpoint

Focus group from AlexInkster

Primary Audience Research

Audience Profile

Permission Request

Focus Group Feedback

Focus group analysis from AlexInkster

Focus Group Video

Treatment Sheet

Treatment sheet from bethdavies5

ACE Productions Logo

Lesson Progress

Reccee Shots of Roseberry Topping

These are our reccee shots of our main setting for our music video. These help to establish the scene.

Lyrics Breakdown (When I Find Love Again) James Blunt

James blunt lyric breakdown my ideas from 14150892

This helps us to understand the meaning behind the lyrics - thus giving us ideas for the concept and narrative.

Initial Ideas

Created with Padlet

This is our initial ideas of what our music video will include - like the setting, narrative and costumes. This will act as our rough plan, helping us be more organised when planning to film.

Detailed Music Video Anakysis Taylor Swift (Final)

Detailed analysis taylor swift from bethdavies5

This detailed analysis will help us as inspiration as to what elements should be included in a 'love story' narrative. This will benefit our group as a consequence of giving us a rough basis of the conventional plot within the narrative.

Lesson Progress

In this lesson, I have began to upload our initial ideas to paddle from a written format. This is going to be put forward to our focus group in a future lesson.

Digipak Analysis Kings of Leon

This digipak analysis will act as a secondary piece of inspiration for our final product as - by using the same conventions that products of the same genre used. Therefore, by analysing this product, it will give us great inspiration.

Advert Analysis Kings of Leon

This advert analysis will benefit our research as it will act as inspiration on what elements to include in our own advert as part of our final piece. This will be beneficial as it help identify the conventions of the genre.

9 Frame Analysis

Our 9 frame analysis will help us to give a rough idea of the conventional mise en scene of James Blunt's music videos. Therefore, this will help us as inspiration for our music video as to what shots to include.

David Buckingham's Theory of Negotiation

David buckingham's theory from bethdavies5

Tzetvan Todorov's Theory of Structure

Tzetvan todorov’s theory of the structure of a music video from bethdavies5

Detailed Music Video Analysis (Imagine Dragons) final

This written response will be used as inspiration of what aspects to include in our music video, especially considering that our artist - James Blunt - is categorised into the same music genre as Imagine Dragons. 

Florence and the Machiene Digipak Analysis

Created with Padlet

Similar to the advert analysis, the digipak analysis will also be used for inspiration when creating our final outcome as a consequence of portraying conventions like a running theme through out the advert and digipak.

Florence and the Machine Advert Analysis

Created with Padlet

This advert analysis will help us as part of inspiration for our final product as it helps identify conventions of general adverts for similar genres. These conventions include the type of images and the fonts.

Detailed Music Video Analysis (James Blunt)

Music video analysis (James Blunt) from bethdavies5

I have also embedded the music video for James Blunt's Heart to heart below.

This written analysis will be used as inspiration for James Blunt's conventions. This is because, as a group, we plan to use a James Blunt song as our track for the music video. Therefore, this will benefit us as a group as it will help identify conventions of the artist himself.

Nicholas Abercrombie and Limitation of Genre Theories

Nicholas abercrombie and Limitation of genre theory from bethdavies5

Detailed Music Video Analysis (Imagine Dragons) Plan

Detailed analysis (imagine dragons) from bethdavies5

I have also embedded the music video for 'Demons' by Imagine Dragons below.

I will use this plan as a guide on what to include in my detailed analysis as well as using it as inspiration for our final cut.

Detailed Music Video Analysis (Taylor Swift) Plan

Detailed analysis (taylor swift) from bethdavies5

I have embedded the music video for 'Wildest Dreams' by Taylor Swift below.

I plan to use this plan to write a detailed response including analysis of the music video. This will help us as inspiration for our final cut.

Andrew Goodwin's Theory of Analysis

Andrew goodwin’s theory from bethdavies5

Detailed Music Video Analysis of (James Blunt Heart To Heart) Plan

I have embedded the music video of Heart to Heart by James Blunt below.

I  plan to use this plan to write a detailed structured response including the analysis for this music video.

Shot Count Task 2 (Beyonce)

Run the world shot count task from bethdavies5

I have embedded Beyoncé's music video for 'Run The World' below.



I decided to do a second shot count task to help portray a more conventional approach to the number of shots in a more upbeat video. This is effective as it gives us an estimate number of shots that we need to make our music video successful.

Shot Count Task (Florence and The Machiene)

Built this ship to wreck shot count from bethdavies5

I have embedded the music video for 'Built This Ship To Wreck' below.






For this task, I had to count each shot of the music video for 'Built this Ship To Wreck', which will effectively help to give a rough estimate for the number of shots needed to create a successful music video. However, this may not have been the best music video to do a shot count task for as each shot flows into each other, creating the illusion of it all being shot at one time. Therefore, this challenges conventions when considering the number of shots used as it had a much smaller number compared to more conventional music videos.

Pinterest Boards

Follow beth's board Ideas For Music Videos on Pinterest.

Follow beth's board Photoshop Techniques on Pinterest.   

Follow beth's board Digipak on Pinterest.
         
Follow beth's board Advert Ideas on Pinterest.


These Pinterest boards will help us as inspiration as a group, to help generate ideas for: our music video; digipak and advert and also inspire us to use new photoshop techniques. I feel that this will benefit our group as it will inspire us to stretch and challenge our skills when making each element of our final piece.