Showing posts with label Liam Walls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liam Walls. Show all posts
Friday, 11 December 2009
Liam's Evaluation
Media Evaluation
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We began to research other music videos from a similar genre too see if any of our initial ideas had any similarities with other professional media products. We then started to look at a few videos that fitted in with our idea which was that of a narrative music video, the videos that we looked at where ‘Rabbit in your headlights’ and ‘Bitter sweet symphony’ these videos seemed too relate to the ideas that we had for our video. Although the songs did have some lip-syncing but as our song is originally performed by females and our video idea was centred around one man we felt that the lip-syncing as the man was walking around would not work for obvious reasons. But we did feel that our idea would work with traditional media conventions without a performance element or any lip-syncing, although at the same time we felt that it would work well if we challenged some of the traditional media conventions but we did link what was going on in the lyrics to what was going on in the video. We also looked at Goodwin’s points as a guideline for our video, it helped us as it shows us how it challenges real media conventions as we felt our video did demonstrate real gender characteristics as in our video the main character was moping around the town on his way home as men would tend too keep there emotions to themselves, also when the main character steps out in front of the car and the driver gets out and shouts at our main character that would be quite a male characteristic to show aggression which the driver did do in that scene. Also the relationship between the lyrics/music and the visuals was quite strong as most of what was going on in the video had a good relationship to the lyrics. Also we did have in our video allot of close ups of the Artist and although there was no performance base the main character is one of the band members and so therefore there is a strong visual style of lots of close ups and shots of the artist, we also use allot of other varieties of shots to build up tension and get a feel of how the character is feeling and how he reacts too things. So it does use allot of real media conventions, and it does fit in with what Goodwin feels is part of a good music video.
All in all I feel that we have produced our video in a conventional way but have also challenged some ways which may be seen as the norm, I feel that it has worked and has been a successful product.
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
The mood of our main product (The music video) was quite a sombre and depressing mood and we got this across by making our video black and white and getting plenty of shots of our main character looking miserable too get the point across. This was done to fit with the lyrics to show how everything ‘went wrong.’ We then carried this across by using the same black and white effect used in the video in both of the ancillary texts, we also used good continuity across all of the pieces as we had the front cover of our CD case the picture on this was take on location at one of the scenes used in the video and then that front cover was also used on our poster. We also linked the who CD cover the alternative genre of music as it was kept to the same style as our video but also made it a bit different which is a bit like the style of music. We did have some feedback which felt that our CD cover was a bit random as it did have a couple of other people that where not in the video on it but they are members of the actual band, we felt that it did have significance to the whole thing and it also fitted well with real media products as often in many music videos the whole band does not feature in but there is often pictures of the band on the CD case.
The whole piece all together seems to all fit together as we have carried the whole theme across all three products, we also managed to use the same locations, people and costumes so there is a good level of continuity across all of out pieces which gives a good level of professionalism and does tie in with professional media products.
3. What have you learnt from audience feedback?
I felt that there was a lot to learn form our feedback, although in the main all of the feedback that we received was all very positive and it seemed as though the audience enjoyed our work, if there is something that the audience feel we could have done would only make the video better whether or not it would have been an idea that we may have done ourselves. The general feel from the audience feedback is that we should have had some performance based element in the video, but we believed that it would still work if we did have a pure narrative theme running throughout the whole video, and even after our rough-cut and it was felt we could have added a performance element into it would be allot more consistent to just have it as narrative. People also felt that a little more variation between scenes could have been used, but in answer to that we felt that the variation in shots within the scenes helped build up the suspense that was necessary and also got the feeling of the character across to the audience. Also we did add small pieces in between the scenes to add the drama and add more suspense to what was going to conclude our characters journey. It was also felt that the ending of our video could have been a little more conclusive, but we felt that leaving it how we did with our character getting attacked it would leave our audience to make up their minds on what happened to our character, also it left it on a bit cliff-hanger so the audience would be left thinking and would draw them too future videos too see the relevance if any, as some professional music videos do have a general them of each single released form an album.
From the video feedback the feeling is that it is generally all very positive and that people did like it, but it does seem as though the majority of the target audience would have like too of seen the whole band in the video and have had a performance element, although the narrative idea did work it could have made our video stronger and more appealing if there was more shots of the band performing. Also some other people did feel that the whole idea did work as the narrative idea did build suspense of what was going in the video and were able to concentrate on what was going on in the video without seeing the band performing the song they were able too keep focussed on what the story of the guy on his way home from work was.
There was other feedback too our digi-pack as well and people felt that we had carried the theme of the video across all of our sources of media and it was felt that this was a strong idea and that it was pulled of well. Also the fact that the costumes were carried across all of the media pieces and the main theme of the black and white.
All in all it is felt that people did like our digi-pack especially the relationship between that and the video. It was felt that more information could have been displayed on the poster and the CD cover but other than that people did seem to like it and the relationship between the pieces.
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
During the researching and planning stage we used various types of media technologies, we started by looking at music videos on YouTube of bands that we knew where of a similar indie route, we looked at these videos and developed our initial ideas through this, we then used things like Google to research into our band and visit the web page too look at there influences and their other videos. We also added some of our idea too the blogger.com site and on here we developed all of our ideas and we got feedback from the group.
When we got a bit further on with the planning stage we drew up or story board and took photos of it on PhotoBooth and then added them too blogger.com. Upon constructing our video we used programmes.
1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
We began to research other music videos from a similar genre too see if any of our initial ideas had any similarities with other professional media products. We then started to look at a few videos that fitted in with our idea which was that of a narrative music video, the videos that we looked at where ‘Rabbit in your headlights’ and ‘Bitter sweet symphony’ these videos seemed too relate to the ideas that we had for our video. Although the songs did have some lip-syncing but as our song is originally performed by females and our video idea was centred around one man we felt that the lip-syncing as the man was walking around would not work for obvious reasons. But we did feel that our idea would work with traditional media conventions without a performance element or any lip-syncing, although at the same time we felt that it would work well if we challenged some of the traditional media conventions but we did link what was going on in the lyrics to what was going on in the video. We also looked at Goodwin’s points as a guideline for our video, it helped us as it shows us how it challenges real media conventions as we felt our video did demonstrate real gender characteristics as in our video the main character was moping around the town on his way home as men would tend too keep there emotions to themselves, also when the main character steps out in front of the car and the driver gets out and shouts at our main character that would be quite a male characteristic to show aggression which the driver did do in that scene. Also the relationship between the lyrics/music and the visuals was quite strong as most of what was going on in the video had a good relationship to the lyrics. Also we did have in our video allot of close ups of the Artist and although there was no performance base the main character is one of the band members and so therefore there is a strong visual style of lots of close ups and shots of the artist, we also use allot of other varieties of shots to build up tension and get a feel of how the character is feeling and how he reacts too things. So it does use allot of real media conventions, and it does fit in with what Goodwin feels is part of a good music video.
All in all I feel that we have produced our video in a conventional way but have also challenged some ways which may be seen as the norm, I feel that it has worked and has been a successful product.
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
The mood of our main product (The music video) was quite a sombre and depressing mood and we got this across by making our video black and white and getting plenty of shots of our main character looking miserable too get the point across. This was done to fit with the lyrics to show how everything ‘went wrong.’ We then carried this across by using the same black and white effect used in the video in both of the ancillary texts, we also used good continuity across all of the pieces as we had the front cover of our CD case the picture on this was take on location at one of the scenes used in the video and then that front cover was also used on our poster. We also linked the who CD cover the alternative genre of music as it was kept to the same style as our video but also made it a bit different which is a bit like the style of music. We did have some feedback which felt that our CD cover was a bit random as it did have a couple of other people that where not in the video on it but they are members of the actual band, we felt that it did have significance to the whole thing and it also fitted well with real media products as often in many music videos the whole band does not feature in but there is often pictures of the band on the CD case.
The whole piece all together seems to all fit together as we have carried the whole theme across all three products, we also managed to use the same locations, people and costumes so there is a good level of continuity across all of out pieces which gives a good level of professionalism and does tie in with professional media products.
3. What have you learnt from audience feedback?
I felt that there was a lot to learn form our feedback, although in the main all of the feedback that we received was all very positive and it seemed as though the audience enjoyed our work, if there is something that the audience feel we could have done would only make the video better whether or not it would have been an idea that we may have done ourselves. The general feel from the audience feedback is that we should have had some performance based element in the video, but we believed that it would still work if we did have a pure narrative theme running throughout the whole video, and even after our rough-cut and it was felt we could have added a performance element into it would be allot more consistent to just have it as narrative. People also felt that a little more variation between scenes could have been used, but in answer to that we felt that the variation in shots within the scenes helped build up the suspense that was necessary and also got the feeling of the character across to the audience. Also we did add small pieces in between the scenes to add the drama and add more suspense to what was going to conclude our characters journey. It was also felt that the ending of our video could have been a little more conclusive, but we felt that leaving it how we did with our character getting attacked it would leave our audience to make up their minds on what happened to our character, also it left it on a bit cliff-hanger so the audience would be left thinking and would draw them too future videos too see the relevance if any, as some professional music videos do have a general them of each single released form an album.
From the video feedback the feeling is that it is generally all very positive and that people did like it, but it does seem as though the majority of the target audience would have like too of seen the whole band in the video and have had a performance element, although the narrative idea did work it could have made our video stronger and more appealing if there was more shots of the band performing. Also some other people did feel that the whole idea did work as the narrative idea did build suspense of what was going in the video and were able to concentrate on what was going on in the video without seeing the band performing the song they were able too keep focussed on what the story of the guy on his way home from work was.
There was other feedback too our digi-pack as well and people felt that we had carried the theme of the video across all of our sources of media and it was felt that this was a strong idea and that it was pulled of well. Also the fact that the costumes were carried across all of the media pieces and the main theme of the black and white.
All in all it is felt that people did like our digi-pack especially the relationship between that and the video. It was felt that more information could have been displayed on the poster and the CD cover but other than that people did seem to like it and the relationship between the pieces.
4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
During the researching and planning stage we used various types of media technologies, we started by looking at music videos on YouTube of bands that we knew where of a similar indie route, we looked at these videos and developed our initial ideas through this, we then used things like Google to research into our band and visit the web page too look at there influences and their other videos. We also added some of our idea too the blogger.com site and on here we developed all of our ideas and we got feedback from the group.
When we got a bit further on with the planning stage we drew up or story board and took photos of it on PhotoBooth and then added them too blogger.com. Upon constructing our video we used programmes.
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
FEEDBACK
Magazine Ad
- Tour dates good idea
- not enough information about actual cd
- good how images relate to video
- like the image on the cd can see the product.
- website for more information good
- red hard to see on background
- usally see ratings on magazine adverts
- wearing same clothes in both images relates well
CD
- more information on production
- no age ratings
- one image relates to video and two images show that there are other videos or sings so promotes all
- promotes artist well
- more information would have made it more realistic
- good colour scheme - purple is easier to read than red
emily pippa hollie
- Tour dates good idea
- not enough information about actual cd
- good how images relate to video
- like the image on the cd can see the product.
- website for more information good
- red hard to see on background
- usally see ratings on magazine adverts
- wearing same clothes in both images relates well
CD
- more information on production
- no age ratings
- one image relates to video and two images show that there are other videos or sings so promotes all
- promotes artist well
- more information would have made it more realistic
- good colour scheme - purple is easier to read than red
emily pippa hollie
we really like that the artist is holding the CD so he himself is promoting it. The advert could include more about who the band are and more about the CD.
Friday, 20 November 2009
Analysis of 'Whatever people say that i am, That's what im not' CD cover
This is the debut album by Arctic Monkeys. This is something that we will take influence from when we create ours. This is because it represents the same style as our music video. The black and white photo is something we may aim to do. Its simple and effective and it shows what genre of music to expect.
Thursday, 19 November 2009
Definition of Digi Pack
A Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging, and is a registered trademark of AGI Media.
Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. Since Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies, and because there is no other common name for Digipak-style packaging made by other companies, the term digipak is often used generically, even when the media holder is a hub or "Soft Spot" rather than a full plastic tray.
Digipak-style packaging is often used for CD singles or special editions of CD albums and the tall DVD Digipak (DVDigipak)is used as a premium package for DVDs and DVD sets. Because such packaging is less resistant to abrasion than jewel cases, it tends to show signs of wear relatively quickly.
Digipaks typically consist of a gatefold (book-style) paperboard or card stock outer binding, with one or more plastic trays capable of holding a CD or DVD attached to the inside. Since Digipaks were among the first alternatives to jewel cases to be used by major record companies, and because there is no other common name for Digipak-style packaging made by other companies, the term digipak is often used generically, even when the media holder is a hub or "Soft Spot" rather than a full plastic tray.
Digipak-style packaging is often used for CD singles or special editions of CD albums and the tall DVD Digipak (DVDigipak)is used as a premium package for DVDs and DVD sets. Because such packaging is less resistant to abrasion than jewel cases, it tends to show signs of wear relatively quickly.
Feedback From Other Groups
Positive feedback
-Generally very good, we successfully managed to make the video feel depressing and moody.
-The variation of shots was very good, we managed to make each individual shot clear, but we also managed to prevent the audience from being bored.
-continuity is another strength of our video. We managed to make each shot connect to the next without the main character appearing to move back in time, or forwards.
Constructive criticism
-We would need to include a bit more variation in the events that happen, perhaps make them a little faster or different to each other.
-We could also use a stronger ending, make it more conclusive through use of sound, or finish on a part of the song that would make the video end better.
-Generally very good, we successfully managed to make the video feel depressing and moody.
-The variation of shots was very good, we managed to make each individual shot clear, but we also managed to prevent the audience from being bored.
-continuity is another strength of our video. We managed to make each shot connect to the next without the main character appearing to move back in time, or forwards.
Constructive criticism
-We would need to include a bit more variation in the events that happen, perhaps make them a little faster or different to each other.
-We could also use a stronger ending, make it more conclusive through use of sound, or finish on a part of the song that would make the video end better.
Friday, 6 November 2009
Response to feedback
We believe all the feedback that we received was valid and useful.
We understand that it needs more footage and we are in the process of filming more but we did have some issues with the camera when were out filming initially so we didn't manage to film anywhere near as much footage as we wanted to. Also we don't believe that a performance element is necessary too our film as the while point of the video is that it is a narrative video as apposed to a performance style video. Also we can understand it being a little boring at points at the moment as to make a rough cut out of the amount we managed to film we had to manage with what we had and unfortunately parts may seem a little boring but they will be attained to when we have filmed the rest of our footage. again when we can film more we will sort the car crash scene out as that is actually going to be the end scene and not in the middle.
Thanks for all your feedback it shall be taken into consideration when we are able to edit more!
We understand that it needs more footage and we are in the process of filming more but we did have some issues with the camera when were out filming initially so we didn't manage to film anywhere near as much footage as we wanted to. Also we don't believe that a performance element is necessary too our film as the while point of the video is that it is a narrative video as apposed to a performance style video. Also we can understand it being a little boring at points at the moment as to make a rough cut out of the amount we managed to film we had to manage with what we had and unfortunately parts may seem a little boring but they will be attained to when we have filmed the rest of our footage. again when we can film more we will sort the car crash scene out as that is actually going to be the end scene and not in the middle.
Thanks for all your feedback it shall be taken into consideration when we are able to edit more!
feed back from roughcut
positive
-lots of good variety
-cuts are to the beat of the music, with key events fitting in with the music
-mixed relationships
-like the narrative structure
-good editing with a lot of variety
negative
-needs more footage!!
-perhaps add a performance element to it
-can be a little boring at points
-car crash could use more drama
-lots of good variety
-cuts are to the beat of the music, with key events fitting in with the music
-mixed relationships
-like the narrative structure
-good editing with a lot of variety
negative
-needs more footage!!
-perhaps add a performance element to it
-can be a little boring at points
-car crash could use more drama
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Roughcut
This is an unfinished version of our rough cut. The camera that we used on the day of filming had a technical issue with the battery, it wouldn't charge properly. We are going to have to find a new time to shoot so that we can correct the shots that were taken at the wrong time.
Target audiences
Our target audience would include younger people, most likely teenagers to young adults. This is because our video takes influence from other videos by bands like Arctic Monkeys. The target audience for the actual band that made the song, Camera Obscura, would be a much more mature audience. This is because the video is bright, cheerful and simple. Our video is much darker, it shows a gang attacking another man, it is violent and completely contrasts the music.
problems with the editing
We have encountered a problem with the editing in that the shots we have were filmed at different times of the day, so we have a mix of very light day-time shots, and darker night shots. This is major setback and means that we will have to try and gather the original cast and choose what sort of lighting we want, then get a camera out and work out the times when we can shoot.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
camera problems
The camera that we borrowed for the weekend of shooting we had planned had faults with its battery, it didn't charge as it was supposed to and so we have only a limited amount of shots we can use for our rough cut, so we cant complete the deadline on time. We will have to film the rest of the film after half term, and make a rough cut out of what we have.
Thursday, 15 October 2009
Shooting Schedule
from the problems with the camera we are now using a college camera and have booked it for Friday and over the weekend, so we will have time to shoot after college at 4:10 on Friday and then we will have the whole of Saturday and Sunday.
Trouble Shooting
Unfortunately we have had some technical problems with the camera that one of our group members brought in, so we have had to change to using a college camera and re-think our plan of shooting.
Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Mood board
This is our mood board, it shows what film style we want to use in our video. We want to use a dark film style to show the character in a depressive light.
We will add a more in depth mood board soon.
Advert for a Music Video
This is an advert for the band 'Gallows' tour of England.
The advert features the bands feature album artwork from the album they will perform 'grey Britain' as well as the bands name in the middle of the advert. It makes the advert eye-catching, and easy to recognize.
The advert features the bands feature album artwork from the album they will perform 'grey Britain' as well as the bands name in the middle of the advert. It makes the advert eye-catching, and easy to recognize.
Friday, 9 October 2009
Example of Previous Video
This is a previous video that one of our group members did for his "opening sequence". we thought it would be a good video to watch and blog as it showed good conventions and skills throughout. for example good use of "match on action" shots, "180 degree rule" etc. It shows what we have accomplished before.
Album Cover Analysis
This is Metallica's most recent album 'Death Magnetic'. Its record label is 'Warner Bros'.The cover itself is bright and eye catching. It is easy to see. The large amount of silver and white is very different to Metallica's earlier artwork, which usually incorporate darker colours, the 'Black Album' being an example of this.
However it is still very much Metallica due to the coffin in the center of the artwork.