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- Ancillary Task 1 (16)
- Ancillary Task 2 (2)
- Evaluation (5)
- Feedback (2)
- Final Product (3)
- Planning (14)
- Production (2)
- Research (26)
Monday, 11 April 2011
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Saturday, 9 April 2011
Friday, 8 April 2011
Thursday, 7 April 2011
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary tasks?
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Radio transcript cont.
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Analysis of feedback
Positive
The first main point that was made was that the video fitted really with the song and the genre that it was for. Another point that was made was the miming was 'really effective' and made it seem more like a convential professional music video. Various people also said that there were a good range of shots and the different locations mixed with the editing gave the piece a good pace that fitted with the song. The final positive point that I can gain from my feedback was about the use of the stop motion animation and the normal animation. My audience said that this split up the piece well and the shots were really effective which i'm very pleased with!
Negative
The main negative point to gain from the feedback was about the structure of the piece. A few people said that they thought it would have been a more interesting storyline if there had been other characters used in the video and also the flashbacks could've been done better as they were not always obvious that they were meant to be flashbacks/daydreams.
Friday, 18 March 2011
Audience Feedback
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Magazine advert

Due to the feedback that my piece was too busy I experimented with positioning of the 'fantasy' parts of the picture. I decided to have most of the flowers etc on one side of Cesca and the writing of the piece on the other side. I also made the font so that it wasn't overlapping Cescas body as this made it clearer to read. In doing this I think the piece benefitted massively as it was clearer to look at, but still included the busy sections, the only difference was that they are all in an actual section rather than dotted all over the picture.
Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Magazine advert research




Final Digipak


Sunday, 13 March 2011

This is the right hand side inside panel. I found some old wrapping paper at home with this pattern on and thought it went well with the theme of my video and was good colours to fit with the mise en scene of the digipak. With this firs draft, I felt that it was too bright and a bit of an eye sore so I explored ways to make it less harsh.

The first inside panel for my digipak was the left hand side one. I wanted to use something of relevance to the song itself and something that related to the video so that the audience could associate this cd digipak with that song. Originally I drew an old suitcase that could represent her 'packing up' her worries and leaving them behind, but the this didn't look very interesting on the page as basically the drawing was simply a box. Instead I chose to use the old fashioned radio, which features in the video as well.
I wanted to keep the design simple and effective to create the feel of a pop art drawing.
Influences for digipak



Saturday, 12 March 2011
Ancillary task 1 - Digipak

Once I had finalised the cover for the single, I could then develop it through onto the back. As on the front cover the sky was bright and blue (daytime), I thought it would look cool to contrast this and do a night scene on the back cover. The same style was used - hand-drawn - and with some effects on the flower and heart to make them stand out and look more aesthetically pleasing.
Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Ancillary task 1 - Digipak

Ancillary task 1 - Digipak

Ancillary task 1 - Digipak


Ancillary task 1 - Digipak inspiration


Ancillary task 1 - Digipak

Thursday, 3 March 2011
Making the digipak
Wednesday, 2 March 2011
Change of storyboard
Friday, 18 February 2011
Shot list
Shot list
XLS – Panning Shot – Setting up location
MCU – High Shot – First shot of Cesca
Pan up – Shot goes up to the sky which then fades to black to show the passing of time
LS – Flashback – Panning shot of her walking and falling over
MCU – Crab shot to the right – Cesca turns radio on and dances around kitchen
BCU – Animation - Shot of the radio
MLS – Eye level – Cesca sitting down on wall miming
LS – Eye level – Spinning round lamppost
MLS – Panning shot – Forest scene of Cesca walking
CU – Eye level – Magazine scene – Reading a magazine
Stop motion section of magazine blowing in the wind
CU – High shot – Feet stepping through leaves
MCU – Cesca in the park
Stop motion of penny’s and pounds
BCU – Animation – Shot of the radio
MS – Low shot – Cesca miming to the camera (street scene)
MS – Eye level – Graffiti scene, dancing around
MCU – Tracking shot – Walking through streets
MCU – Slightly low shot – Walking through woods
MLS – Kitchen scene – Cesca dropping the egg
Panning shot then tilt down – Location shot
Zoom in – Location shot
Zoom out – location shot
MCU – Graffiti and street scenes, walking around
CU - High shot – Cracking an egg (right this time rather than dropping it)
BCU - Tilt up – Shows Cesca’s face being happy
MLS - High shot – by the river, Cesca miming
MCU-MLS - Crab shot right – Walking away into the distance
Worms’s eye - Location shot
Bird’s eye – Location shot
BCU – Radio being turned off
Thursday, 17 February 2011
Mise en scene
Narrative of the piece
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Filming update!
Drawbacks with filming
Tuesday, 8 February 2011
Character notes
Your character is an 18/19 year old girl who lives in a quiet town. Her life is not the most exciting and she often embarrasses herself due to her clumsy nature. This makes her self-confidence even worse until one day she has a revelation that it doesn’t really matter about being clumsy, and things will just go right if you relax and calm down. The video is a story of her journey of realising this and how good life can be after you gain a bit of confidence! Before her revelation she is a quiet, shy girl yet afterwards she is more confident and bubbly. This girl is supposed to represent the artist in her struggle to find herself as a popstar and now finally having made it she is loving life. The artist is an urban popstar who is very cool and care free so that needs to come across in her performance.
Monday, 7 February 2011
Lip Sync/Lip Dub
Because the film track and music track are recorded separately during the creation of a music video , artists usually lip-sync to their songs and often imitate playing musical instruments as well. Artists also sometimes move their lips at a faster speed from the track, to create videos with a slow-motion effect in the final clip, which is widely considered to be complex to achieve.
A lip dub is a type of video that combines lip syncing and audio dubbing to make a music video. It is made by filming individuals or a group of people lip synching while listening to a song or any recorded audio then dubbing over it in post editing with the original audio of the song. There is often some form of mobile audio device used such as an mp3 players. Often they look like simple music videos, although many involve a lot of preparation and production. Lip dubs can be done in a single unedited shot that often travels through different rooms and situations within a building. They have become popular with the advent of mass participatory video content sites like YouTube.
Tom Johnson, a technical writer who blogs about Web 2.0's effect on communication, describes a good lip dub as having the characteristics, or at least the appearance, of spontaneity, authenticity, group participation and fun.
For my piece I am going to need to use the technique of lip dubbing as this is a population convention that is seen in pop music videos. With this help I have decided that I will need to acquire something to play the song off so that Cesca will be able to mime the words in time, so that when I put it together in editing the timings are correct.
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Storyboard
This is a rough first draft of the video, not all of it has been done. The 'tweet' section in the song has not been drawn on the storyboard as this will all just be little random shots of locations and things that relate to the video and therefore thought this would be too much to draw!














