Saturday, 11 December 2010

Evaluation: Part 1 - Brief

The initial brief I was working towards was Brief Number One - Music Promotion. This mainly appealed to me because watching music videos on Youtube and other online sources was an everyday thing. I felt that the opportunity to make a music video was far more interesting than making a Children's TV Drama.
In our group the idea we went forward with was my Music video after presenting a powerpoint about it and my ideas for the songs video in class.

Here is my Presentation for Solo' Ver Now.

The artist that i found was an unsigned Soul/RnB artist who we felt emphasised sophistication in his song. We found the song and artist from the popular website called www.unsigned.com. From the stage where we knew we definitely wanted to use his song, we sent an email to him asking for permission to use his song for our A2 Music Promotion project.

 Due to our assumption that he would reply within a few days with a yes, we continued with the research and analysis' of similar text whilst generating ideas for the video. At this point we still didn't have a response from the Artist so we continued trying to contact him e.g. messaging his MySpace page but again, no response. We felt we were too far into the ideas of our music video to be set back by restarting with a different song. So we decided to continue using the song but we acknowledged that it is a copyright infringement.

The generic hybrid of RnB mixed with Soul is appealing as it creates a level of calm and smoothness through out its genre. The genre also captures me due to its slow pace coming from Soul, in contrast to the pace of a Rap song where lyrics are too fast to hear.
I believe this song appealed to me and my age group as it contains a presence of RnB through out which generally attracts teenagers and young adults.

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

Job Allocations: What actually happened.

  • Mood Board: Me
  • Music Video Analysis: Amandip... 3 Done (Taio Cruz, Drake, Enrique)
  • Audience Research Survey: Both
  • Focus Group: Me
  • DVD Cover Analysis: Amandip... 2 Done (M.J, Young Money)
  • DVD Cover Analysis: Me... 1 Done (Linkin' Park + Jay-Z)
  • Magazine Advert Analysis: Me... 3 Done (Kanye West, La Roux, 50 Cent)
  • Audience Reseach Analysis: Amandip
  • Treatment: Me
  • Song Lyrics: Me
  • Magazine Advert Analysis (Extra): Me
  • Flatplans: DVD Digipak Front & Back Cover Analysis: Me
  • Flatplans: Magazine Advert Analysis: Amandip
  • Shot List: Me

Post-Production Log 14

Post Production: Friday 3rd December..

Also ended up being a snow day.
But the teachers were kind enough to extend the deadline till Thursday 9th December. Much Appreciated!

Thursday, 2 December 2010

Post Production: Slight Problem.. 2/12/10

The day before our Final Edit deadline the school gets closed due to snow  -_-

We've got the 3 minutes on the timeline and everything looks good, we just needed to add our visual effects and some transitions today but now we can't until tomorrow.