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Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Evaluation Question 4: Scott Mitchell
The link for our website: http://smjrecords.net16.net/index.html
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Evaluation Question 3: Simon Callisto
Evaluation Question 3: Audience Feedback on Prezi
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central play button and then click 'More' and then 'fullscreen'
in order to view it properly.
Monday, 27 February 2012
Evaluation Question 2: Muhudir Rahman
Music Industry on Prezi
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central play button and then click 'More' and then 'fullscreen'
in order to view it properly.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
Evaluation Question 1: Simon Callisto
In what way does your media product use, develop and challenge the forms and conventions of real media products?
Due to publishing rights please could you view this on Youtube and also there is a chance that the sound may have been removed from the video but the annotations may still be present.
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Final Audience feedback for Main product + Ancillary tasks
This is the final audience feedback for all of our produced products which include the music video along with the poster and the digipaks. We tried to vary the ways in which we could potentially gather audience feedback so that we could cover our target audience but also a much broader spectrum that may not necessarily be part of our secondary audience. For example we used questionnaires, Vimeo, Facebook and recorded some people also giving their opinions on the final product.
Main Product Feedback:
Editing
- Well edited together but too many title shots
-Good use of special effects
- Fast paced and edited to the beat
- Match on action effect on certain effects are quite useful
- Exploding text + the addition of colours stands our far too much
- Blur effect of the fire is very interesting
- Rapid cuts
Cinematography
- Good variation for shots when it comes to the drums
- Good use of restricted shots
- Not many mid-shots
- Close ups on interesting scenes e.g. glitter
- Good use of depth of field/focus
- Interesting angles + view points
Mise En Scene
- Unknown mysterious setting
- Good use of glitter and fire as props create professional finish as well as reflect lyrics
Creativity
- Mixture of events taking place that are quite dramatic
- Glitter represented in more of an 'epic' and 'spectacular' rather than its usual connotations
- Overlapping editing effect is visually interesting and also reinforces editing to the pace of the music
- Combination of different events varying in the situations meaning that it retains repeatability for the audience
Main Product Feedback:
Editing
- Well edited together but too many title shots
-Good use of special effects
- Fast paced and edited to the beat
- Match on action effect on certain effects are quite useful
- Exploding text + the addition of colours stands our far too much
- Blur effect of the fire is very interesting
- Rapid cuts
Cinematography
- Good variation for shots when it comes to the drums
- Good use of restricted shots
- Not many mid-shots
- Close ups on interesting scenes e.g. glitter
- Good use of depth of field/focus
- Interesting angles + view points
Mise En Scene
- Unknown mysterious setting
- Good use of glitter and fire as props create professional finish as well as reflect lyrics
Creativity
- Mixture of events taking place that are quite dramatic
- Glitter represented in more of an 'epic' and 'spectacular' rather than its usual connotations
- Overlapping editing effect is visually interesting and also reinforces editing to the pace of the music
- Combination of different events varying in the situations meaning that it retains repeatability for the audience
Monday, 20 February 2012
Friday, 27 January 2012
23/01/2012 - 27/01/2012: Week Post
During this week it was essential that all of us finished our video as our deadline had been extended for our music video, digipak and poster. Our final audience feedback was due on Monday but due to all of us not had finished so our deadline was extended. During this entire week we were all present but Junior was absent on Thursday as he had his last exam. We wanted to insure that by the end of this week we had finished the main body of thee video and all the little changes were added the following Monday.
Pre-final Audience feedback
On Monday we received audience feedback which consisted of both positive and negative comments all of which varied. The primary concern of all our peers and teachers was that obviously the video wasn't finished but that it seemed like our conceptual video wasn't going to get filled. It was necessary that we filmed something that remained consistent within the video but still visually interesting. This was the point at which we decided to watch some of Pendulum's videos and watched 'Witchcraft'. From watching it we decided to incorporate elements of performance but it was also necessary that we worked on the criticism from the feedback.
8th shoot
We used a friend called Sam Mitchell to be our guitarist and would be the prime focus of our performance based scenes that we wanted to incorporate. We filmed him in a small dingy room and removed all forms of light and used a smaller controllable light source in order to keep up the flashing effect used consistently throughout our video. The details of this shoot are already blogged.
After Effects
At this point Scott began to use the Adobe After Effects in order to try and add the text as well find some other potential effects that could be incorporated at certain point within the video. We tried a variety of different effects that could essentially be applied ranging from a 'Blob', 'Poly pixilation' etc. When it came to the actual text we had insure that the font suited the style that remained consist in order to retain the sense of continuity. In addition we wanted to try and potentially attempt to keep the themes from both of our ancillary tasks consistent to try and potentially represent them within our actually video. However due to technological difficulties this proved to be harder than expected and we weren't capable of incorporating this within the video.
9th shoot
This shoot was based around using the Mission Impossible App and we experimeted with various effects that were able to reinforce the dramatic scale of our initial ideas and potentially add a consistent thread that would be found within the music video.
Pre-final Audience feedback
On Monday we received audience feedback which consisted of both positive and negative comments all of which varied. The primary concern of all our peers and teachers was that obviously the video wasn't finished but that it seemed like our conceptual video wasn't going to get filled. It was necessary that we filmed something that remained consistent within the video but still visually interesting. This was the point at which we decided to watch some of Pendulum's videos and watched 'Witchcraft'. From watching it we decided to incorporate elements of performance but it was also necessary that we worked on the criticism from the feedback.
8th shoot
We used a friend called Sam Mitchell to be our guitarist and would be the prime focus of our performance based scenes that we wanted to incorporate. We filmed him in a small dingy room and removed all forms of light and used a smaller controllable light source in order to keep up the flashing effect used consistently throughout our video. The details of this shoot are already blogged.
After Effects
At this point Scott began to use the Adobe After Effects in order to try and add the text as well find some other potential effects that could be incorporated at certain point within the video. We tried a variety of different effects that could essentially be applied ranging from a 'Blob', 'Poly pixilation' etc. When it came to the actual text we had insure that the font suited the style that remained consist in order to retain the sense of continuity. In addition we wanted to try and potentially attempt to keep the themes from both of our ancillary tasks consistent to try and potentially represent them within our actually video. However due to technological difficulties this proved to be harder than expected and we weren't capable of incorporating this within the video.
9th shoot
This shoot was based around using the Mission Impossible App and we experimeted with various effects that were able to reinforce the dramatic scale of our initial ideas and potentially add a consistent thread that would be found within the music video.
Wednesday, 25 January 2012
8th Shoot (FX Mission Impossible App)
This shoot wasn't exactly planned because of the fact that we felt that our initial idea which seemed really dramatic and aggressive is something we felt that we should go back to. Therefore we felt that as we were doing a conceptual video it needed that extra push in order to really present our themes through a plethora of different motifs. We tried looking at attempting our building destruction idea but due to the lack of Cinema 4D it didn't prove to be possible. Therefore in order expand our use of technology Scott had this 'FX Mission Impossible' App which was capable of generating various destructive back drops scenes varying from boulders, flying cars, missiles, crashing helicopters etc. We thought that it would prove to be a brilliant idea as it not only acted as a motif for our themes but portrayed them on a far more epic scale. Below are a variety of different practice takes using some of various backdrops ranging from missiles, car crashes and some boulders.
7th Shoot (Sam's performance)
During this shoot we were required to film some guitar performance in a small dingy room that was total pitch black. Whilst we wanted to incorporate some performance elements we wanted to still make it visually interesting for the audience. We used an iPhone to act as our small controlled flashing light source in order to maintain the consistent theme of flashing throughout the video. In addition we felt that performance would play a vital role and we wanted to stick the generic stereotypes of what a performer within this genre would dress and look like. We got a guitar from our friend Melissa Tehrani who is also playing a role within our video and it was an electric one. We tried to get him playing the guitar from a variety of different angles varying from high angles, low angles, close ups, canted shots etc. This therefore insured that it creates a variation of shots in order to present the our guitarist in a stylistic manner. Below are pictures depicting our progression throughout the shoot:
Here is some video footage that was taken during the shoot and was indeed incorporated within our video:
Here is some video footage that was taken during the shoot and was indeed incorporated within our video:
Monday, 23 January 2012
Pre-final Audience Feedback
On Monday we had a group feedback sessions for what we had edited so far and unfortunately at this point we hadn't yet finished our actual video which proved to be highly detrimental to our feedback as it mainly consisted of us not finishing it. However our feedback varied from both the good and bad. In addition
Positive feedback:
- Edited to the pace of the video
- Great use of lighting to create professional look
- Retains audience interest due to the varying use of props e.g. glitter, drums, lights
- Good representation of intended themes through motifs, such as the fire representing the anger and passion
- Beginning to work its way towards being a very good example of a conceptual video
Negative feedback:
- Sloppy footage that doesn't keep theme consistent
- Certain clips were to long
- Actually finish the editing the rest of the song
- Film some more footage that would prove to be the main basis of the entire video that could potential give the video more depth
- Attempt to get some small pieces of performance in there to give it repeatability
- Attempt to link the scenes together in more of a stylistic manner in order to try and incorporate those conceptual conventions
- Fix the random walking scenes with the character wearing a white shirt as it seems far to out of place
- Genre isn't yet immediately identifiable to the audience and tends to be more of a guess rather
Improvements we intend on making:
- Actually finish the entire video
- Attempt to film some more performance elements in order to try and avoid it being far to boring
- Reduce certain clips by adding relevant clips between them in order to cut them down without moving the overall structure
- Create a more conceptual effect by adding some bright vibrant bloc-like text just like that present in Kanye West's 'All of the lights' music video
- Rearrange certain clip, as the events taking place don't seem to actually fit the pace of music at those points
- Encouraging this idea of performance by having some lip syncing present with female character
Overall we seem to have more negatives and the main one seemed to be that it not being finished hindered the entire project and therefore our main aim is to finish absolutely everything. This may include refilming, adding any essential effects in Adobe after Effects etc.
Saturday, 21 January 2012
15/01/12 - 20/01/12: Week Post
During the past week it was vital for our group to get extra footage for our music video as we recently noticed we did not have enough footage to successively finish our music video. We only had almost a minute and 10 secs of our music video and we were in need to fill our music video until it reached the end of the song which is 2:30 seconds. Also there was an even more greater pressure for us as our main editor, Junior was in the midst of his January exams which meant he had to go away for a week to proceed with his exams. However Jubel had to step up to fulfill the groups expectations to proceed with the music video independently as our SFX creator was also off due to illness during this week too.
So on Monday, Jubel started his independent role on attempting to finish the music video by continuing from where Junior had to stop because of his exams. The point where Junior stopped was where the music gradually builds up which was in need of fast transitions and clips. Through our selections of footage there was some footage that could be used at this part of the music video therefore Jubel used the footage of Zenneth's fire scenes to help add to the build up of the song. Jubel used this part and fastened the temp so the viewer can see a glimpse of it which adds to that certain conceptional feel. Also to help build the tension we used the boxing scene where we see Jubel, as our boxer get punched in the face in slow motion which was embedded in the video to help reach the climax of the fast scenes. Overall with the editing on Jubel's behalf there was new footage edited to fit into our music video however it still did not fill up to 2:30 second gap.
On the next media lesson which was a Wednesday, as a group without Scott we came to a conclusion that we were in need of more footage, so as a group we jotted down our ideas and Junior came up with an idea using a I Stop motion effect like the one used in the Plan B video to create a visage of headphones to slowly reach Jubel's ears from below his body which we felt was a idea that would help to build up to the conception feel to our music video. However again Junior had exams that day and could not help with the idea, but again Jubel had to work independently with the help of handy Ibrahim to help film. We decided to use a green screen as we wanted to add a range of colors as the background. We wanted to use dark colors to help mirror the same mood of our music video. We needed a white plain t-shirt to help exceed the effect the green screen gives so Jubel had to travel to Primark to purchase the white t shirt. We used a HD camera to record and pause every action the black headphones done by traveling up Jubel's body. After the I Stop effect we finally uploaded our footage to final cut but we needed to edit the footage to speed up every frame to make the effect work and eventually we reached our final product.
On Thursday, again Jubel was alone and Scott was still ill however Jubel knew what his objective of the day was, which was to finish off the editing and to find the perfect place to put our I Stop effect into our music video. Also we still needed more footage so Jubel thought to use random ethnic people to lip sync our track "Fire in your eyes" to help fill the massive gap in our music video. However is was easier said than done as the people Jubel asked were either shy to do it or busy but eventually we found two people that wanted to do it. They were Micheal and Stefan, Jubel filmed them in a bright room and zoomed up on their lips whilst reading the lyrics.
So on Monday, Jubel started his independent role on attempting to finish the music video by continuing from where Junior had to stop because of his exams. The point where Junior stopped was where the music gradually builds up which was in need of fast transitions and clips. Through our selections of footage there was some footage that could be used at this part of the music video therefore Jubel used the footage of Zenneth's fire scenes to help add to the build up of the song. Jubel used this part and fastened the temp so the viewer can see a glimpse of it which adds to that certain conceptional feel. Also to help build the tension we used the boxing scene where we see Jubel, as our boxer get punched in the face in slow motion which was embedded in the video to help reach the climax of the fast scenes. Overall with the editing on Jubel's behalf there was new footage edited to fit into our music video however it still did not fill up to 2:30 second gap.
On the next media lesson which was a Wednesday, as a group without Scott we came to a conclusion that we were in need of more footage, so as a group we jotted down our ideas and Junior came up with an idea using a I Stop motion effect like the one used in the Plan B video to create a visage of headphones to slowly reach Jubel's ears from below his body which we felt was a idea that would help to build up to the conception feel to our music video. However again Junior had exams that day and could not help with the idea, but again Jubel had to work independently with the help of handy Ibrahim to help film. We decided to use a green screen as we wanted to add a range of colors as the background. We wanted to use dark colors to help mirror the same mood of our music video. We needed a white plain t-shirt to help exceed the effect the green screen gives so Jubel had to travel to Primark to purchase the white t shirt. We used a HD camera to record and pause every action the black headphones done by traveling up Jubel's body. After the I Stop effect we finally uploaded our footage to final cut but we needed to edit the footage to speed up every frame to make the effect work and eventually we reached our final product.
On Thursday, again Jubel was alone and Scott was still ill however Jubel knew what his objective of the day was, which was to finish off the editing and to find the perfect place to put our I Stop effect into our music video. Also we still needed more footage so Jubel thought to use random ethnic people to lip sync our track "Fire in your eyes" to help fill the massive gap in our music video. However is was easier said than done as the people Jubel asked were either shy to do it or busy but eventually we found two people that wanted to do it. They were Micheal and Stefan, Jubel filmed them in a bright room and zoomed up on their lips whilst reading the lyrics.
Saturday, 14 January 2012
03/01/12 - 13/01/12 Week post
New Year
We returned after the Christmas holidays and assumed we had to finish the editing and digipac and poster. However over the two weeks various problems had cropped up and realised that the digipac and poster hadn't really been attempted. In addition we had to continue addressing the other issues with our video which would be harder as we all had various exams throughout this week especially me hence why this week post is over the past two weeks.
Poster feedback
During the holidays Jubel had been working on the poster and went through a whole host of various images and effects to try and project the themes of our genre but since drum and bass has so many other genre intertwined into it there's no one right way of portraying that to the audience. However we thought the best way he would see what suited best was by having various types of text for the title of our poster to see what worked best and get audience feedback from it.
Evaluation of idea
We had hit a problem because of the fact that since we were doing a conceptual video we needed to make sure that we had a lot going on but due to the length of our song which was bordering on five minutes we didn't think it was a practical to try and fill it all up. This was because there was a fear that people would lose interest and the fact that we feared that we didn't have enough footage became an issue.
Solving the issue
We then decided to cut the song down but stupidly cut it down to two minutes and as everything was in sync with i didn't want to move anything because it took far to long. Therefore we thought of way to get some more unique footage and decided to add some performance to the video as well as vibrant text that would appear as they sang the lyrics. This then allowed us to think of having an introduction and constantly relate back to it and use it as a link into other shots. Which addresses the comments concerning the making the video flow more like most conceptual videos.
Lost Shoot
On the 11th we filmed part of the performance text idea which required the character picking up the camera and putting it down then walking away. This was done as its role was to try and link together the drastically different scenes together which are usuall present within conceptual videos. *Updated* - However due to technical difficulty we were unable to retrieve the clip after removing due to negative feedback.
We returned after the Christmas holidays and assumed we had to finish the editing and digipac and poster. However over the two weeks various problems had cropped up and realised that the digipac and poster hadn't really been attempted. In addition we had to continue addressing the other issues with our video which would be harder as we all had various exams throughout this week especially me hence why this week post is over the past two weeks.
Poster feedback
During the holidays Jubel had been working on the poster and went through a whole host of various images and effects to try and project the themes of our genre but since drum and bass has so many other genre intertwined into it there's no one right way of portraying that to the audience. However we thought the best way he would see what suited best was by having various types of text for the title of our poster to see what worked best and get audience feedback from it.
Evaluation of idea
We had hit a problem because of the fact that since we were doing a conceptual video we needed to make sure that we had a lot going on but due to the length of our song which was bordering on five minutes we didn't think it was a practical to try and fill it all up. This was because there was a fear that people would lose interest and the fact that we feared that we didn't have enough footage became an issue.
Solving the issue
We then decided to cut the song down but stupidly cut it down to two minutes and as everything was in sync with i didn't want to move anything because it took far to long. Therefore we thought of way to get some more unique footage and decided to add some performance to the video as well as vibrant text that would appear as they sang the lyrics. This then allowed us to think of having an introduction and constantly relate back to it and use it as a link into other shots. Which addresses the comments concerning the making the video flow more like most conceptual videos.
Lost Shoot
On the 11th we filmed part of the performance text idea which required the character picking up the camera and putting it down then walking away. This was done as its role was to try and link together the drastically different scenes together which are usuall present within conceptual videos. *Updated* - However due to technical difficulty we were unable to retrieve the clip after removing due to negative feedback.
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Poster V1
Audience Feedback:
- Strays to far from the themes present within the current digipak and genre.
- Seems rushed
- Random light effect makes it seem like a pop album poster rather than our genre
- Good focus on instruments relating to our genres conventions
Friday, 16 December 2011
12/12/11 - 16/12/11: Week Post
Fresh Start
This week we intended on having audience feedback on a rough edit. On Monday we got a pleasant surprise and Zenith came up to us saying that he had acquired some kit that was necessary for the fire spinning which pushed our plans into motion. Furthermore the majority of filming had to be completed as we were leaving for our christmas holidays
Audience feedback
On Monday we had audience feedback which proved to rather interesting as we were able to identify the strong points and weak points of what we currentl had. Therefore throughtout the week intended on trying to address some of the issues raised.
4th Shoot
We decided to film our boxing scene which Jubel was starring in and it consisted of a single punch and a dramatic fall that we intended on editing so it would reverse as one entire scene. We ran into a couple issues due to the fact that the boxing equipment required was in use during the period of time thast we wanted to use it for. Therefore we decided to continue some more editing whilst Jubel worked on the poster and Scott worked on the digipak. Later on during the day we finally started shooting the boxing stuff but better, but obviously knowing our luck it just proved to be a lot more difficult than anticipated. Once we had gotten back to upload and edit the footage it just didnt work meaning we had to film it again.
5th Shoot
After our intial failure to film the boxing scenes effectively we attemplted them again. Lucky for us we found some photography lights that created this flashing effect which made the shots look very conceptuual. Therefore we turned off all the lights within our location and had Jubel aggresivly punch towards the camera whilst the lights flashed and it ended up looking really good. Allowing us to address some oof our critism
6th Shoot
As aformentioned we finally were able to finally film Zenith's fire spinnig which we had organised and it worked brilliantly. We had to wait till around five for it to get really dark so that we could really get the best possible effect from the fire spinning and it was rather amazing. Our entire group attended the shoot.
Good ending
This proved to be a very good ending to the wekk as we had practically filmed the majority of our film it was purely a matter of piecing all the piece together and possibly addressing anymore of the critism brought up.
This week we intended on having audience feedback on a rough edit. On Monday we got a pleasant surprise and Zenith came up to us saying that he had acquired some kit that was necessary for the fire spinning which pushed our plans into motion. Furthermore the majority of filming had to be completed as we were leaving for our christmas holidays
Audience feedback
On Monday we had audience feedback which proved to rather interesting as we were able to identify the strong points and weak points of what we currentl had. Therefore throughtout the week intended on trying to address some of the issues raised.
4th Shoot
We decided to film our boxing scene which Jubel was starring in and it consisted of a single punch and a dramatic fall that we intended on editing so it would reverse as one entire scene. We ran into a couple issues due to the fact that the boxing equipment required was in use during the period of time thast we wanted to use it for. Therefore we decided to continue some more editing whilst Jubel worked on the poster and Scott worked on the digipak. Later on during the day we finally started shooting the boxing stuff but better, but obviously knowing our luck it just proved to be a lot more difficult than anticipated. Once we had gotten back to upload and edit the footage it just didnt work meaning we had to film it again.
5th Shoot
After our intial failure to film the boxing scenes effectively we attemplted them again. Lucky for us we found some photography lights that created this flashing effect which made the shots look very conceptuual. Therefore we turned off all the lights within our location and had Jubel aggresivly punch towards the camera whilst the lights flashed and it ended up looking really good. Allowing us to address some oof our critism
6th Shoot
As aformentioned we finally were able to finally film Zenith's fire spinnig which we had organised and it worked brilliantly. We had to wait till around five for it to get really dark so that we could really get the best possible effect from the fire spinning and it was rather amazing. Our entire group attended the shoot.
Good ending
This proved to be a very good ending to the wekk as we had practically filmed the majority of our film it was purely a matter of piecing all the piece together and possibly addressing anymore of the critism brought up.
6th Shoot 16/12/11 (Zeniths stuff)
Finally we were able to actually film Zenith's fire dancing at Wandsworth common and we were all filled with joy not only because of the fact that it was going to be a spectacle but because of the fact that after all our initial failure it was finally happening. The entire group along with Zenith and his 'Burn unit' armed with a bucket of water and a blanket make its way toward Wandsworth Common. There wasn't really anything that was expected from him to perform other than actually light the cubes and from there we just allowed him to do his thing. Something we did want to do is get him from a variety of different angles in order to create more of a stylistic effect. This resulted in some varying shots which consisted of close ups as well as distorted shots. Below are a variety of practice shots and images that can once again depict our gradual progression throughout the shoot.
Here is some footage taken from when filming the his fire stuff:
Here is some footage taken from when filming the his fire stuff:
Wednesday, 14 December 2011
5th Shoot 14/12/11 (Jubel boxing V2)
This was our second attempt at filming Jubel in order to once again get this 'stylistic' affect in order to try and keep the boxing theme interesting. In addition in order to make the scene more interesting we wanted to alter the light using the photography lights allowing us to flash in and out of the scene by altering the natural lighting. Below are a collection of images that depict our gradual progression throughout the entire shot as we developed from our previous idea.
Throughout the entire shoot we really wanted to make sure that whilst incorporating the boxing theme we needed to make sure that it remained quite interesting and would still fit in with our conceptual music video. We used an array of different flashing lights to create this effect and felt that it seemed more professional and gave it a sense of repeatability. In order to insure that we could control the light within our mise en scene we used a large white reflective board in order hide the background as it was cluttered.
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| Initial flash |
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| Punching flash scene |
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| Preparing punch stance |
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
4th Shoot 13/12/11 (Jubel Boxin V1)
Today we filmed the first re-shoot of the boxing scene and we wanted to try and aim for a conceptual look to try and make sure it looks visually interesting which would help to maintain a sense of repeatability. We tried to vary the types of shots so that we could be able to use them in multiple ways to represent that constant thread throughout the entire music video. Furthermore we wanted to try and create a reverse motion introduction for our video which would consists of the main character spitting into the camera. However we didn't seem to create the dramatic 'stylistic' effect that we were aiming to achieve. This therefore meant that we intend on re-filming this scene and below shows the gradual progression through the entire shoot from being rather hopeful to seeing that this wasn't going work.
Character in boxing stance
Character preparing to do spit take
Character being punched and then recovering
Monday, 12 December 2011
Audience Feedback - Initial Edit
Today we had a preview of our rough edit to a select group of candidates in ordeer to gather feedback concerning the negatives and positives of what we had. However due to our ever changing idea it wasn't a significant amount of the video that had been produced so people were required to base their judgements purely on what was there.
Mise en scene
- Good use of glitter/light effect on the drums
- Fire spinning is different and gives a unique edge
- Very professional scenery
- Good use of lighting creates 'mystery'
- Boxing clips are very lack luster and bring down vibe of the overall video
- Random punching bag scene ruins smooth flow of the other shots
- On the verge of a good conceptual video but needs to link the scenes better
- Currently level three
Editing
- Edited to the pace of music creating synchronous flow of shots
- Fast pace retained audience attention
- Good use of conceptual methods by adding subtle effects
- Make sure every shots fit with the beat
- Level three or four
Cinematography
- Variation in camera shots
- Close ups of glitter create stylistic effect
- Tight shots retain audience interest
- Use more unique shots to try and relate back to genre and type of video
- Have more angle shots
- Worried that we don’t have enough footage to fill rest of the song as we don't want to bore people
- Level three
Creativity
- Immensely original idea
- Themes of the song transpire through the shots
- Use techniques to juxtapose actual themes of the song rather than portraying a literal meaning
- Use of fire spinning and glitter creates unique visuals not normally seen
- Have more props and possibly more characters
- Level four
Genre
- Leaning towards grungy look
- Not instantly able to recognize genre with greater though
- Inspire that we include all aspects of the songs genre and project that through the shots, mise en scene etc
- Leaning towards rock
- However still has suggestive themes of other genres which retains audience interest
- Level three
Intended changes
In light of these changes we intend on:
- Re-shoot boxing scenes and portray them in more stylistic conceptual way
- Have a greater amount of shots by trying to incorporate performance in a simple way
- Shoot form different angles
- Have a constant thread to relate back to throughout the video
- Make sure professional shots remain constant
Friday, 9 December 2011
5/12/11 - 9/12/11 Week Post
Initial Failure
Monday was the worst day in the world because nothing went right, which eventually resulted in a massive breakdown of the group. On Monday we intended on filming Zenith's fire scene, as well as our initial film shoot. We attempted to organise the band scene but it all fell apart as we couldn't find a suitable location to film but both of our actor no longer felt comfortable being a part of it. Furthermore when trying to use test shots we realised that our mise en scene has poor surroundings as it was cluttered but also our initial idea wasn't practical enough thus making that period of time pointless. We also argued about some of the ways in which we could alter the idea, which eventually resulted in a breakdown of the group structure and all filming halted. Whilst in an attempt to piece us back together none of us were in the frame of mind to try and potentially fix the issue.
Minor success
After our slight breakdown Jubel and Scott then went searching for an effective way to insure that we could film in our desired location without actually seeing all of the clutter in our mise en scene. They eventually found a large white back drop that was easy enough to move and covered the entire area. Unintentionally it seemed quite professional despite it being a 'quick fix' and proved to work well when we tried to create various lighitng effects. Whilst this was a minor success it dealt with one of our many problems.
More failure
Around four in the afternoon we intended on filming Zenith's fire spinning act. We went to Wandsworth Common and waited for 45 minutes in the freezing cold as he failed to even set fire to the balls and apparently it was due to the fact that they had not been fully burnt in the paraffin properly. Throughout the ordeal I had taken over 30 images on the camera to try and at least have evidence of the shoot; however once we got back to school in order to upload the images none of them were there and had apparently not saved properly. We then arranged with Zenith to refilm some his fire scene again the following day as well as the boxerobics on Friday
New inspiration
We came back on Tuesday motivated attempting to alter our idea in order to make it creative yet practicle, which then resulted in us sitting down as a group discussing what was capable of being filmed and what wasn't. We decided to make the primary focus of our video conceptual in comparison to the performance and led to the decision of no longer having a vocalist, which allowed us to then go back to some of our intial idea and try to portay the video from more of a stylist angle. Therefore we decided to keep the boxing idea but just represent it as aforementioned in a more stylstic manner which introduced some narrative elements and there would be a consistent thread throughout the video.
Furthermore we planned on redoing the band shoot but approach it in a different manner and decided to use more materials such as glitter which now plays a large role within music video but also help to make the performance segments seem more visually interesting. In addition we intended on using different types of lighting in order accentuate the glitter even more but also create this professional finish.
2nd Shoot
On the Wednesday we successfully set up the band scenario but had to go through a long process of testing various shots as the glitter effect that we were hoping for didn’t seem to initially work. Therefore we had to change the intensity and position of lighting as well as film it in a way that looked as professional as possible. This consisted of us using a variation in lighting equipments as well as creating new ways of positioning them with a low budget.
3rd Shoot
On friday we finally went to this boxerobics club which we had been informed about by a friend. However the way in which we had imagined it to be was far from what we expected but due to the fact that we were running out of ideas to try and incorporate our boxing iidea we thought that we'd just go with it just in case anything useful came out of it. We arrived there and lets say it didnt have the best possible mise en scene as it was in some ugly brown gymnasium that had only a few punching bags and a massive net. We tried to really confine the boxer to an constricted area so that we could potentially get the effect we wanted without actually seeing any of the clutter in the back. Lets just the results weren't that great.
New Digipak concept
We also had a new concept for our album cover and poster which helped reinforce our bands and revolved around childrens toys but ones which we battered and broken. Our intial idea revolved around using a dolls head which was provided by me (Junior) but proved to be far to 'girly' which defeated the purpose of our idea. However this allowed our idea to develop to burning a vintage teddy bear but once again this failed. Purely due to the fact that this era has everything 'saftey proof' which to our dismay wasn't a good thing. We tested it on several different toys a monkey, orange bear and a normal brown bear.
Consistent failure
On Friday our intention was to attempt at filming Zenith's fire stuff again to see if it would actually work this time but obviously becuase the world likes to challenge us apprently one of his parent threw all of his equipment away. This proved to be tideous but it was an essential part of our video and caused us some serious problems. Hopefully next week things will go better.
Monday was the worst day in the world because nothing went right, which eventually resulted in a massive breakdown of the group. On Monday we intended on filming Zenith's fire scene, as well as our initial film shoot. We attempted to organise the band scene but it all fell apart as we couldn't find a suitable location to film but both of our actor no longer felt comfortable being a part of it. Furthermore when trying to use test shots we realised that our mise en scene has poor surroundings as it was cluttered but also our initial idea wasn't practical enough thus making that period of time pointless. We also argued about some of the ways in which we could alter the idea, which eventually resulted in a breakdown of the group structure and all filming halted. Whilst in an attempt to piece us back together none of us were in the frame of mind to try and potentially fix the issue.
Minor success
After our slight breakdown Jubel and Scott then went searching for an effective way to insure that we could film in our desired location without actually seeing all of the clutter in our mise en scene. They eventually found a large white back drop that was easy enough to move and covered the entire area. Unintentionally it seemed quite professional despite it being a 'quick fix' and proved to work well when we tried to create various lighitng effects. Whilst this was a minor success it dealt with one of our many problems.
More failure
Around four in the afternoon we intended on filming Zenith's fire spinning act. We went to Wandsworth Common and waited for 45 minutes in the freezing cold as he failed to even set fire to the balls and apparently it was due to the fact that they had not been fully burnt in the paraffin properly. Throughout the ordeal I had taken over 30 images on the camera to try and at least have evidence of the shoot; however once we got back to school in order to upload the images none of them were there and had apparently not saved properly. We then arranged with Zenith to refilm some his fire scene again the following day as well as the boxerobics on Friday
New inspiration
We came back on Tuesday motivated attempting to alter our idea in order to make it creative yet practicle, which then resulted in us sitting down as a group discussing what was capable of being filmed and what wasn't. We decided to make the primary focus of our video conceptual in comparison to the performance and led to the decision of no longer having a vocalist, which allowed us to then go back to some of our intial idea and try to portay the video from more of a stylist angle. Therefore we decided to keep the boxing idea but just represent it as aforementioned in a more stylstic manner which introduced some narrative elements and there would be a consistent thread throughout the video.
Furthermore we planned on redoing the band shoot but approach it in a different manner and decided to use more materials such as glitter which now plays a large role within music video but also help to make the performance segments seem more visually interesting. In addition we intended on using different types of lighting in order accentuate the glitter even more but also create this professional finish.
2nd Shoot
On the Wednesday we successfully set up the band scenario but had to go through a long process of testing various shots as the glitter effect that we were hoping for didn’t seem to initially work. Therefore we had to change the intensity and position of lighting as well as film it in a way that looked as professional as possible. This consisted of us using a variation in lighting equipments as well as creating new ways of positioning them with a low budget.
3rd Shoot
On friday we finally went to this boxerobics club which we had been informed about by a friend. However the way in which we had imagined it to be was far from what we expected but due to the fact that we were running out of ideas to try and incorporate our boxing iidea we thought that we'd just go with it just in case anything useful came out of it. We arrived there and lets say it didnt have the best possible mise en scene as it was in some ugly brown gymnasium that had only a few punching bags and a massive net. We tried to really confine the boxer to an constricted area so that we could potentially get the effect we wanted without actually seeing any of the clutter in the back. Lets just the results weren't that great.
New Digipak concept
We also had a new concept for our album cover and poster which helped reinforce our bands and revolved around childrens toys but ones which we battered and broken. Our intial idea revolved around using a dolls head which was provided by me (Junior) but proved to be far to 'girly' which defeated the purpose of our idea. However this allowed our idea to develop to burning a vintage teddy bear but once again this failed. Purely due to the fact that this era has everything 'saftey proof' which to our dismay wasn't a good thing. We tested it on several different toys a monkey, orange bear and a normal brown bear.
Consistent failure
On Friday our intention was to attempt at filming Zenith's fire stuff again to see if it would actually work this time but obviously becuase the world likes to challenge us apprently one of his parent threw all of his equipment away. This proved to be tideous but it was an essential part of our video and caused us some serious problems. Hopefully next week things will go better.
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