Hello and welcome all!
Enoch Bugyei
Centre Number: 12632
Candidate Number: 0094
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Tuesday, 28 April 2015
Analysis Of Music Videos
Here is a Prezi presentation of the analysis of 3 music videos that i chose to pick.
Monday, 27 April 2015
Construction
Editing our footage with Final Cut Pro:
This is my partner and I's progress of editing our music video in Final Cut Pro. We are seriously putting some awesome effects and creative cutting in our edit. I must say that so far our edit of our footage is looking top notch and professional with all the creative decisions we have implemented. I feel the final version of our music video edit will really stand out to our target audience.
The Finale! The music video!
After hours and hours of editing our footage, my partner and I have managed to produce a wonderful music video that really stands out. Every little tweak, every little piece of video cutting was vitally important to this music video. We managed to keep it just below the time limit of the actual music video time for Sam Smith Money On My Mind. Overall I must say that we are very happy with it and its a been a great ride of a journey!
Final Focus Group:
We let some of our media peers watch our music video and after watching, we asked them a few questions about what they liked about it and what they disliked about it. Overall I feel that the feedback I got was helpful and beneficial for the future.
Summing up the comments:
One of my peers said they like how the music video went backwards after the end once our protagonist lost his riches and went back to square one. They liked how it showed the transition stage of the music video itself when looking at the ending part. One person also said how they liked the effect of the video cutting to the beat of the song which gave it a smooth flow while watching. A negative that was said was that the sound sometimes appeared to be fuzzy, which to me I didn't really notice at all while watching the music video. But because of this, I feel that next time I must pay attention to the sound quality of the music video.
Directors Commentary:
This is our commentary me and my partner did where we talk over our music video and just talk about the things we did with the music video. We wanted to justify why we did certain shots, why we chose certain locations, and why we used special effects such as the time going backwards. Overall I felt we justified our reasons well and did a good job!
Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Ancillary Tasks
The Building/Construction of the digipak/advert:
This is the first process of building up our digipak with my partner. I must say am not really good at using Photoshop on the Mac's but so far I feel that this little progress is a great encouragement to keep me going editing the digipak. There is going to be a lot of trail and error while making it. We are also making the advert for our music video aswell in the process.
Pictures of our final digipak:
So after a long time playing with Photoshop with trail and error, my partner and I have managed to do our final version of our digipak. We are absolutely impressed by it and we feel that when our target audience looks at the digipak, they will be appealed and intrigued about what the music video has to offer for them. Here is the final version of the digipak:
This is our final version of our digipak advert. This was done in photoshop and we decided to stick to the house colours of black and white to keep that fluidity and link between the advert and the digipak
Saturday, 18 April 2015
Evaluation Questions
Question 1:
In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Question 2:
How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
Question 3:
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
Question 4:
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Thursday, 12 February 2015
Character Lists
The Cast of the Characters and Helpers In The Music Video
Pierre:
The character that he plays:
He is the main protagonist of our music video and is the character our target audience will see throughout the whole music video. He is portrayed as the person who comes from a deprived urban area where he lives on the streets. He is poor and wishes one day he will be rich, which one day his wish comes true by a winning lotto ticket given to him. He turns from rags to riches quickly and gets everything he's always sought after for. We do see a downfall where the money he has controls him and as a result loses it completely in the end, going back from riches to rags.
How he helped us:
Pierre is an 'A Level Drama' student that has exceptional acting skills. He is an actor that can act naturally to anything to the scenes that we asked him to act in. He is a talented young man in this area and this was the kind of actor we were looking for to make our music video stand out nicely towards our target audience. His great contribution brought us positive confidence when making the music video.
Poor and Deprived:
Rich and wealthy:
Ildiko:
The character she played:
She played as a golddigger towards the main protagonist. In other words she was the person that used our protagonist for money to have her advantage of the things she likes for herself. Her great force of manipulation and seductiveness towards the main character made him feel special and at the same time lured him into the things she wanted from him. Later on when he turns poor again, she drifts off and never sees him again.
Lovneesh:
The character he plays:
Lovneesh plays the character of being the friend of our main protagonist when he is rich. He is introduced into the scenes where the protagonist is trying to make some new friends in the streets of London.
How he helped us:
As you can see in the picture, he has a camera strapped around his neck. When our main camera ran out of battery, we were able to use his camera to continue filming our scenes. He was vital and needed in that situation when it occured because we were able to film more creative scenes and as a whole have more fun with experimenting with different camera techniques and shots when we were filming different scenes. He also helped in filming behind the scenes of the music video production.
Enoch (Me):
The character he played:
He played as a stranger who gave spare to the protagonist while the protagonist was beat boxing. He encouraged him to keep beat boxing hoping someday he will get out of deprivation.
How he helped the production of the music video:
He was the brains behind the ideas of what to do for the music video. He did research on the differences between the rich and poor in terms of assets (clothes, shoes etc), and with the information obtained from the research, he decided to implement those ideas into the music video production, therefore finding ways to make the ideas obtained unique and appeal to the teenage target audience. He was vital to the creavity of the music video while we were filming on the go and always introduced new ideas that made everyone who helped, something to think about.
Pierre:
The character that he plays:
He is the main protagonist of our music video and is the character our target audience will see throughout the whole music video. He is portrayed as the person who comes from a deprived urban area where he lives on the streets. He is poor and wishes one day he will be rich, which one day his wish comes true by a winning lotto ticket given to him. He turns from rags to riches quickly and gets everything he's always sought after for. We do see a downfall where the money he has controls him and as a result loses it completely in the end, going back from riches to rags.
How he helped us:
Pierre is an 'A Level Drama' student that has exceptional acting skills. He is an actor that can act naturally to anything to the scenes that we asked him to act in. He is a talented young man in this area and this was the kind of actor we were looking for to make our music video stand out nicely towards our target audience. His great contribution brought us positive confidence when making the music video.
Poor and Deprived:
Rich and wealthy:
Ildiko:
The character she played:
She played as a golddigger towards the main protagonist. In other words she was the person that used our protagonist for money to have her advantage of the things she likes for herself. Her great force of manipulation and seductiveness towards the main character made him feel special and at the same time lured him into the things she wanted from him. Later on when he turns poor again, she drifts off and never sees him again.
Lovneesh:
The character he plays:
Lovneesh plays the character of being the friend of our main protagonist when he is rich. He is introduced into the scenes where the protagonist is trying to make some new friends in the streets of London.
How he helped us:
As you can see in the picture, he has a camera strapped around his neck. When our main camera ran out of battery, we were able to use his camera to continue filming our scenes. He was vital and needed in that situation when it occured because we were able to film more creative scenes and as a whole have more fun with experimenting with different camera techniques and shots when we were filming different scenes. He also helped in filming behind the scenes of the music video production.
Enoch (Me):
The character he played:
He played as a stranger who gave spare to the protagonist while the protagonist was beat boxing. He encouraged him to keep beat boxing hoping someday he will get out of deprivation.
How he helped the production of the music video:
He was the brains behind the ideas of what to do for the music video. He did research on the differences between the rich and poor in terms of assets (clothes, shoes etc), and with the information obtained from the research, he decided to implement those ideas into the music video production, therefore finding ways to make the ideas obtained unique and appeal to the teenage target audience. He was vital to the creavity of the music video while we were filming on the go and always introduced new ideas that made everyone who helped, something to think about.
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