Vinyl- the colouring process

Hi guys, so today has been eventful. Me and Connor decided to try colouring a vinyl.
We did this by purchasing a vinyl, and spraying it with acrylic paint- it turned out really well....

Just to add, we did this outside, as the acrylic spray has many dangers. Additionally, we recorded our step by step process,  to give you an idea of how we achieved this look. We used the Nikon coolpix bridge camera and Windows movie maker to edit it all together- enjoy :)

Vinyl research

Hey guys, so I did a little more research on the use of vinyl and also included some information about Hepworth's theory- be sure to click the link and check it out...

                                                                      

                                                                          Vinyl research

Our vinyl draft

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor decided to create a vinyl draft, to scale (12 inches), in order to give us a rough idea of how it would look, and design ideas, here is our draft with explanations...

Vinyl usage research

Hi guys, I thought I’d carry out research on vinyl usage and how people in the 21st century have started to use vinyl's again. This research supports Mine and Connors decision to create a vinyl.



I gathered my research from http://techgeek.com.au/2013/08/15/why-is-vinyl-becoming-popular/

Vinyl designs research

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have been thinking that although we want to create a vinyl, we need to focus on the design, however, the designs are endless. We recently just researched a few design ideas that we may want to create...

Our two favourites were the simple sleeve pocket and a album that opened up.

1) Me and Connor really liked the simplicity of the sleeve pocket idea. We would still use our initial cut out idea we had, where the foreigner icons on our album cover would be cut out and buyers would be able to see the record. We then thought about adding a information booklet at the back of the record, which would include information on the songs, and other information on the band.

 2) Additionally, Me and Connor like The Beatles album and how it opened up and presented two pockets, both with information packages and vinyl's. We really liked this idea as it was different to any other album we had seen. We also liked the extra details such as the images. However, we feel that this idea would be difficult to achieve, as our band is just starting out, and so hasn't got much of a history to present on the album.

Me and Connor have decided to go with option 1, as it will be much easier to achieve due to our band just starting up. Option 2 requires a band history, which we simply don't have.
Additionally, Me and Connor found a website that enables users to download templates, this helps us a lot when trying to size our album, as it gives us the correct measurements. 

(here is the site which we used; http://www.cravedog.com/pages/templates.php)

Vinyl idea #2

So guys, I recently mentioned that Me and Connor wanted to create a vinyl for our album. We've discussed a few options in order to make our vinyl cover stand out.

1) Me and Connor came up with the idea of making the 'Foreigners' on the front of our album cover made out of wood. We thought it'd look effective if the Foreigners were not 2D but 3D pieces of wood in the shape of the outline on our album. This was the first idea we came up with which meant it had a few faults. Although this would look great being 3D it does face a few issues, one being that they could fall off completely, which wouldn't be appropriate as it's an album.

2) Instead we came up with a second idea. We wanted to focus on the Foreigner, that's why we came up with the wooden idea. Instead we thought of making the foreigner icons completely transparent. By doing this, it would mean people would see the vinyl itself. We felt in order to make this stand out more, we would make the vinyl all white in order to seem like a cloud matching our sky theme.

3) As I mentioned in point 2, Me and Connor wanted to make a colourful vinyl as it will be visible. We came up with multiple ideas, one being creating a sky look matching our front cover. We would do this by spray painting our vinyl a sky blue colour. Then using a white paint to create cloud shapes. Although this may be very difficult to achieve, we feel it would look great in contrast with the front cover of our album.

I'll keep you updated on our progress...

Location change

Hey guys, so we have received an email back from Chesterfield bowl and they said we could film there....

I thought I'd put together a small slideshow of Chesterfield bowl so you could have an idea as to what was there- there is a small arcade within Chesterfield bowl so we can still add aspects of an arcade within the  music video.

No title - Kizoa Movie - Video - Slideshow Maker

Risk assessment

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have just completed our risk assessment for our music video. Throughout our video, we do face a few risks, so we felt it was essential to carry out an assessment.

Vinyl analysis

Hi guys, so I've recently had a look at a few vinyl albums in order to gather some inspiration for mine and Connors vinyl. My favourite out of the 4 I looked at was The Beatles album so I decided to complete an analysis on this, here it is...

Vinyl analysis from 10lowean

Motion tracking- review

Hi everyone, so here is my review on motion tracking, and also what Me and Connor achieved, enjoy....

Website process- 4

Me and Connor have been adding to our website- we've almost completed our video section.

We decided to add in a quote from a reliable source, to make it seem to users that we're a well-established band. Additionally, as we haven't quite completed our video yet, we decided to create a image saying 'video coming soon' in different pastel colours, this is only temporary as we hope to have completed our video very soon.

Filming process- 3

Hey guys, so a few days ago we filmed the Matlock bath scenes. We did gather clips outdoors, however, when we came to film inside the arcade, we didn't get permission to film. Here is a clip of our process

Instead, we have come up with the idea of filming inside a bowling ally which I have emailed before hand seeking permission.

We have also come up with the idea of filming at either Mine or Connors house of the cast playing board games; we'll let you know how it goes :)

Website process- 3

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have added to our website, with a music section, allowing users to download the song.

For the purpose of this screengrab I had to condense the screen so all information would fit on- on the website, the font is much bigger. This section of our website didn't take long, as we already added the song to our music, this allowed us to just click on this, and it automatically uploads our album cover and song.

Motion Tracking- research

Hey everyone, so Me and Connor want to add the title of the song within our music video, but we want to use motion tracking to create this, as 'normal' text can look boring. I found a very useful youtube clip on how to create this as we wasn't sure how to make this effect.




The effect seems simple to make so I won't be making notes on this new skill, I'll let you know how it goes...

Website process- 2

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor have recently just completed our tour date page on our website, and it's looking great.

We decided to do a little bit of research on local arena's. We didn't want the arena's to be big as our band is relatively small. Additionally, we looked on other small band websites to discover the prices of their tickets so we felt £20 was a perfect price. We also linked ticket master onto our 'click here to buy' button.


However, when Me and Connor pressed the preview our website button, we noticed users could not go onto other pages once on a page. We decided to add a menu button on each page of the website so users could click where they wanted to and go on any page.

Filming process- 2

Hey guys, so Me and Connor have just finished filming our lip-syncing scene. We originally recorded on our storyboard that I would be lip-syncing facing forward, however, when we tried filming me lip syncing facing sideways- which was similar to our preliminary- we preferred this with the coloured lighting.

Here is the set up of our filming. We began filming with me sat on the chairs and alternating with the two so we could create the cloning effect in the editing process- (excuse the mess, we filmed this in my spare room). Additionally, we used a plain white blind as the backdrop which contrasted well with the coloured lights.

I already had this multi-coloured light which we plugged in an extension cable, it's very bright which worked well when filming as it showed all colours.

Website process- 1

Hey guys, so Me and Connor have started making our website for our band. We only managed to complete the home page and merchandise page, as we already previously made the merchandise.

Here is our front page which is very similar to our plan. We managed to get our GIFS onto the background, and the white, simple, font looks really effective on the sunset background. We've made the GIFS a consistent background on each page. Additionally, we managed to link the social media pages onto the icons, so when a user clicks onto the icon, it takes you directly to the bands social media page.

Here you can see our consistent background on
our merchandise page. We've added each product onto the merchandise page also with the descriptions and price. We liked that underneath the heading a line was drawn , it almost looks hand drawn which we feel is effective as during our music video we are adding a hand drawn effect.



I'll keep you guys posted on our website development...

Website GIFS

Hi everyone, so I've created the background for our website using different GIFS, Me and Connor filmed a few clips yesterday for our music video, which we have used for our website GIFS, here they are...

Disappearance effect- feedback

Hi guys, so I've just attempted the disappearance effect, and it wasn't successful, I decided to complete a PowerPoint on how I felt it went...

Disappearance effect and how i found it from 10lowean

Disapearing to dust effect- notes

Hi guys, so I decided to watch the clip multiple times and make notes throughout the video making it easier to refer to when editing my clip, here are my notes...

Filming process- 1

Hi everybody, so we started filming today...

Firstly, we defiantly chose the correct day to film, we started filming at 3:30, so we thought we didn't have a lot of time to film, however, we was wrong. We filmed all the car scenes, and in some clips the sunset is clear to see, which looks great when adding our vintage filter.
Additionally, we found recording lots of clips at a time useful as we had a wide choice of shots to use within our music video.

However, as it's November, it was chilly. We were aware it was going to be cold, but not this cold. We were all wearing relatively thin clothing such as denim jackets as this matches the personal identity of our band and song and so we was rather cold when filming. For out next filming process we will be filming inside so we don't how to worry about this too much.

When filming, we was at an advantage as the roads weren't busy and there wasn't many people around so we didn't have to worry about getting cars or people within the shots. However, for our next filming day, we're filming in a arcade so could potentially be full of people, due to this, we must be prepared by taking forms for people to sign, giving their permission to feature within our music video.

Disapearing to dust effect- research

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor have been trying to think of ways to transition from one scene to another within our music video, we felt that using the appearance effect can look boring at times so I decided to carry out some research on how to achieve a similar effect.
I found a tutorial on how to seem like the character is disappearing to dust which I felt looked really cool. The video is easy to understand and teaches you along the way. I'll make sure to keep you updated...

Here is the clip I found;

Vinyl idea

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor thought about doing something for our album that's out of the box.
We felt that we wanted to be original for our album so wanted to attempt doing a vinyl album instead of a CD.

This is one of The Last Shadow Puppets vinyl's. TLSP have had a great impact on our research for our music video as well as Two Door Cinema Club. So make sure to keep checking out my blog for more information on these vinyl's.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LP_record; an LP record is usually 12 or 10 inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter. This size gives us an outline of how big our front cover will have to be. I feel that Me and Connor should continue using our album cover design but make it much bigger for the purpose of the vinyl idea we've come up with.

Mis-en-scene: Costume

Hey guys, so I decided to put together this poster in order to give you an idea of the costume the main character will be wearing, and give you an idea of what the other characters will be wearing. We wanted to keep a consistent vintage theme like I previously mentioned in the mood board.

Mis-en-scene by Annabel

Display design for social media- improved

Hi everyone, so when I made the Facebook page for our band, I tried to add our display picture that we originally made, however, the design we made didn't fit properly in the display box, we felt that compared to other band social media pages, ours didn't seem very professional. However, once we finally finished our front cover for our album, we felt this would look great for the display picture as it not only tells viewers who we are but advertises our album.






Our new display picture for Facebook.

Mood Board

Hi everyone, I've created a mood board just so you guys can get a feel for the kind of look we're going for.

We want to create a retro look for our music video. We aim to do this through using vintage filters, by overlaying the clips with blue, pink and green undertones. Additionally, we want to show this through the use of polaroid style pictures, by making the frames of our music video look like a polaroid picture has 'come to life', we aim to show this retro look through our costumes, by wearing denim jackets.

Why we chose anarchy

Me again! I felt that I needed to complete a post on why we decided to call the album anarchy, as it's a random word to choose, it's simple, but I feel the word itself is effective. Here's why Me and Connor chose to call our album anarchy...

I used video scribe to make this video.

Album analysis

Hi guys, so I've completed an album analysis on The Vaccines- What did you expect from The Vaccines, I didn't do this analysis on the front cover or back, I decided to do it on the booklet you receive when you purchase an album. Enjoy...

The Vaccines from 10lowean

Album cover ammendments

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor recently received some feedback from our peers about our album cover. One media student suggested that we alter our album title, by making it in the centre of our album cover as it seemed to wash away when positioned at the side. Additionally, our peers mentioned that they felt the bands name seemed rather squished in, so we decided to make this bigger and position this fully across the top of the album cover so it seemed less squished together.

Here is our amended album cover...

Album Cover

So, we've done it, the album cover is complete, it's simple, yet effective. Another media student came up with the idea for the album name which is Anarchy, hope you like it...

Album cover process- 3

Hi guys, so here is our third idea, Me and Connor felt that this would be a great idea for a front cover, with one of the foreigners cut out, we attempted this using Adobe Photoshop.

 

I like this idea and it makes the one foreigner stand out. However, Me and Connor felt that this contrasted with the clouds too much, and it looked too much on the eye. We felt that our album cover number 1 is the cover for us as it's not too much on the eye, we wanted the album cover to be simple yet effective.

Cloning effect- Evaluation

Hiya, so I thought I'd give a small evaluation on the cloning effect and my experience.
I really do think it looks much harder than it is, I used Premier Pro to create this cloning effect. This programme is not something I'm familiar with, as I feel the programme looks overwhelming, however, making this cloning effect, did not take me long, The overall process took me about 45 minutes/ one hour, which isn't what I'd expect as it looks so technical.


This effect however is all about concentration. When I did this, I noticed I couldn't move the tripod as I needed a stable, consistent shot, so the two clips would match up when it came to the after effects, Dan did mention to me that no matter how hard you try, the lighting may always be off, either it be the sun or  a artificial light, the lighting will always change even if its minutes apart, this is something Me and Connor must take into consideration as when we use the cloning effect, it will be outdoors, and as we will film at night time, the lighting is always unpredictable, so we need to focus on the lighting, or when we come to edit this, it will be obvious that the two clips are different.


Overall I feel that this effect is very achievable and looks fantastic, without being too time consuming, but be sure to be careful when filming as, if something is slightly off, it will come through when editing.

Cloning effect-practice

Ahhh, so guys, I finally had a go, I will be honest, it took me less than an hour, obviously in the real thing, it may be harder as the clip will be much longer. I asked a year 12 media student, Jaden, to act in this for me, and he did a great job. Hope you enjoy...

Album cover process- 2

So Connor thought that the album cover needed something else as it seemed rather simple, so he came up with the idea of keeping a consistent mirrored view, and mirroring the top layer of the album photo with the foreigner upside down. Here's what we came up with.

Although we liked the flip view, we felt it took away the foreigner image and you couldn't really tell what it was. We then decided that we should stick to the original image as the mirrored idea took away the main piece of the album cover.

Cloning effect- Notes

So guys, I've mentioned a few times that Me and Connor want to create the cloning effect within our music video, so before we went straight into it, we wanted to have a practice at this. I've researched a lot into this effect, and couldn't find a helpful video, however, two media students (Dan and Alex) recently used the cloning effect within their preliminary (I'll link this down below), so I decided to ask their advice. Dan recently showed me what steps to take in a simplified form, and it doesn't seem as hard as it looks. Here are the notes I made whilst Dan taught me the steps, beware, they are in note form, so I apologise if you struggle to read these.

Here is Dan and Alex's preliminary where they used the cloning effect.

Filming Schedule

Hey guys, so we've designed a filming schedule of the days where everyone who is part of our music video is free, luckily, Nick and Will (who will be in the music video) are very flexible so fits in well with everyone's availability.

Facebook page

Hiya, so Me and Connor have designed our Facebook page for our band, we used our album cover as the profile picture. I'm not exactly happy with the cover picture, however, once we start filming at our locations, we will have more options for the cover picture, I'll link our Facebook page down below...

Facebook page- click here

Display design for social media

So guys, we've designed a display logo for our band that will be displayed as a profile picture for social media sites such as twitter and Facebook. We want this to be easily recognised for our viewers, so we aimed to use a similar colour scheme of yellow and grey/black throughout our designs...

Album cover process- 1

Hi guys, so we've started our album cover designs, I really like this idea, as it's simple and looks so good. We've added four character or 'foreigner' designs that feature throughout our designs, but I used serif draw plus to outline this icon. I then got a picture of the sky, cropped it, copy and pasted this, then mirrored it, so the sky looks mirrored. Although I mentioned we want to keep a consistent colour scheme of yellow and grey/black, this album features blue's and white, however, our band colours are yellow and grey/black, these colours feature on our merchandise and websites.

Storyboard

Hi everyone, so Me and Connor have finished our storyboard, here it is...

The drawings aren't very good at all, however, we wanted to give you a rough idea of what shot will go at what point of the song- be sure to check out the shot list to give you more of an idea of the shots we will use.

Key= LS- Long shot CU- Close up MS- Mid-shot

Shots

Hi guys, so I've decided to write up all the different shots in order to make the story board easier to make, and give us an idea of what shot to do each time, here's what we've come up with...

In a car- Character putting in earphones; close up of them closing their eyes

Extreme Close up of eyes opening

Long shot of character sat on a car seat with earphones in, in the middle of the woods

Tracking shot, of character trying to find a way out of the woodland area

Comes across themselves and friends messing around the woods

Mid shot of the character trying to get the friends’ attention; realising no-one can see them

Long shot- clicking ending up in matlock bath

Point of view shot of friends walking

Close up- character looking confused

Long shot- Character following friends into the arcade

High shot- friends playing on 2p machine

Close up- friends looking happy

Close up- character crying

Long shot- friends going into photobooth whilst character leans on the booth

Long shot- friends coming out of photobooth whilst character leans on the booth

Mid shot- lip syncing

Long shot- character clicking fingers// ends up at ashover rock

Long shot- character watching friends have fun

Mid shot- lip syncing

Mid shot- clicking fingers ending up in cellar

Mid shot- Character in cellar (music stops) looking confused

Mid shot- clicks fingers

Mid shot- character watching themselves do homework

Long shot- Character watches friends walk by

Montage of memories

Mid shot- lip syncing

Long shot- Character going mad in the woods

Mid shot- lip syncing

Extreme close up- character opens eyes

Mid shot- character takes earphones out to find it was all a dream

Merchandise

Me again... So, we've recently designed four different t-shirts that will go on our website once it's finished, on the merchandise tab.

I liked how simple this is and the use of yellow really makes the t-shirt stand out.

I decided to make parts of the band name in capitals just to add something different

to the t-shirt to make it seem more edgy.

We decided to make this icon more of a symbol of our band as it

represents the 'foreigner'. I really like this icon on the T-shirts as people could

wear it even if their not fans of the music.

We aimed for this t-shirt to be simple, with a paisley pattern on

the pocket ,with the letters 'APF' standing for

Ancient Pyramids and the Foreigner, we decided to give a shortened down

version simply for the marketing point of view, as the band Last shadow puppets

did a similar thing by shorting their name down to 'TLSP' which

works well on their merchandise.

This is very similar to the other t-shirt, however, this t-shirt

would be plain on the front and the icon on the back. When researching

other band t-shirts, hardly any had this kind of design on the merchandise, so we

felt this was a original design to have.  

I used Serif Draw to Photoshop and edit these t-shirts.

Band Name

Hi guys, so Me and Connor have finally come up with our name for the band. We wanted a long band name as we liked the length of the name 'Two door cinema club' and it fits well as our music video is a song by Two Door Cinema Club. Drum roll pleaseeee........

Ancient Pyramids And The Foreigner!!!

I really like the name of this as its something completely different. We decided to call it this as the group within the video will be 3 boys and 1 girl, so the ancient pyramids symbolise the boys and the 'foreigner' symbolises the girl. Hope you like it!!

Locations

Hey everyone, so I've recently created this Slideshow on locations for our music video.

Locations - Kizoa Movie Maker - Video Editor

First slide- One of the locations Me and Connor came up with is Ashover Rock, as we want to keep a consistent woodland theme and we thought the views would be perfect filming.

Second slide- We also came up with the idea of filming at the Matlock Bath amusements as we wanted to keep the video being fun.

Third slide- Me and Connor thought It'd add comedy to our music video if we added a dark, gloomy, cellar. We thought as our character would keep appearing in places, that may be they appear in this setting. Once they appear here, we thought it may be effective to have the music stop, until they're back in a happier place that will match the tempo of the music.

Fourth slide- We thought Wooley Moor woodland area would be a good place to open our video with our character/s first appearing there.

Fifth slide- Additionally, Me and Connor liked the idea of a outdoor theme, we thought Matlock bath would be a great idea, with the character following round their friends around the town.

Two door cinema club- website analysis

Hi guys, so I recently mentioned in Mine and Connors website outline that we aim for our website to carry some similar qualities as Two door cinema clubs website. I thought I'd complete a short website analysis on some of the pages we've taken inspiration from.

Two door cinema club from 10lowean

Making a GIF

Hi everyone, so I made two GIFS, however, I didn't make these GIFS using makeagif.com, instead I used https://giphy.com/gifs/kxwW71sL2o5Vu, as makeagif.com didn't work as well as I hoped.

Here are one of the GIFS...
via GIPHY
I used ,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUY0k4oTmgk, this clip in order to make it a GIF. The website allows users to decide on the duration of the GIF, users can also use a clip of there choice, either through pictures or youtube clips.

Website outline

Hey everyone, so Me and Connor have recently designed the outline for our website, this is just a rough outline of the positioning of where we want our drop down menu to go and the position of our bands name. We've taken inspiration from Two Door Cinema Clubs website too, with the use of GIFS in the background, instead of a simple background such as a still picture.

We used Serif draw plus to create the outline

Here is what viewers will first see when clicking on our website (remember its just a outline).

Viewers will have to click on the menu tab for the drop down to happen and they can then

choose what they want too look at. I like the simplistic idea of this outline as it will

draw attention to the GIF we plan to have.

This is what viewers will see when they click the menu tab. They will have a choice

of four tabs, either news, music, video or store, I think for our actual website, we may

add a tab for gallery too.

Additionally, we will link the social media pages we create for our band onto the social media logo's such as Facebook, so viewers can be directly shown to our social media pages.

How to make a GIF

Hey everyone, so I've recently mentioned that Me and Connor wanted to create a GIF for our website background. I've been doing some research into these, and they're actually really simple to make.



I found this YouTube clip very useful as it gave me a tutorial on how to use a site which this clip suggested, I then went on to look into the website.

http://makeagif.com/- This website, allows people to make GIFS from pictures, videos, and youtube clips. It seems really simple, and quick to use, so make sure you keep tuned on my blog to see my attempt at a GIF.

Kings of Leon- website analysis

Hey everyone, so I've recently completed a website analysis on the band Kings Of Leon's website. However, I really like Two Door Cinema Club's website too, so I thought I'd link that as well as Kings Of Leon so you can check that out... Enjoy

http://kingsofleon.com/#home
http://twodoorcinemaclub.com/

Kings of leon from 10lowean

Beyonce- Hold Up textual analysis

Hey guys, so I've just completed a textual analysis on Beyoncé's song called Hold up. Enjoy...

Beyonce textual analysis from 10lowean

Stuart Hall's reception theory

This theory is related to 'users and gratification theory' and builds upon the ideas of the media sending messages sending messages to the audience. Stuart Hall said that producers encode their media texts with a meaning. The audience then decodes this message.
In Mine and Connors video we want to encode out video with the preferred meaning  of 'looking after what you've got before its gone'. However, some viewers may reject this preferred message and take this as something else, viewers may decode this as teenagers are superficial rather than the actual message we want to deliver which is to look after what you've got until it's gone. This will be through fun/atics, so the audience will have to be active when trying to discover the hidden meaning.

Audience profiles

 Will- 18

Genre tastes; Alternative, indie, rock

Bands/artists; Tame Impala, Wolf Alice, Two door cinema club

3 Favourite music videos; Comeback Home- Two door cinema club, Freezy- Wolf alice, Don't stop- Foster the people

 Abby- 17

Genre tastes; Grime, alternative, indie

Band/artists; Tame Impala, Magic gang, Jaws, JME, Rihanna

3 favourite music videos; The less I know the better- tame impala, Everlong- Foo fighters, Ready for the floor- Hot Chip

James- 18

Genre tastes; Grime, acoustic, Dance/hip hop

Bands/artists; Ed sheeran, Stormzy, Take That

3 favourite music videos- Somebody that I used to know- Gotye, Shut up- Stormzy, Greatest day- take that

Me and Connor carried out primary research to gather data about our target audience music consumption. Most of the people we asked had similar music tastes suggesting a lot of people of the target audience have similar genre preferences. Above are just 3 examples of the research we carried out to give you and idea of the type of things people like. For our music video, we want the audience to have a personal identity with the visuals and a diversion from their everyday activities, we want to audience to be active and be mindful about what is going on.

Logo feedback

Hi everybody, so we recently received feedback from 10 individuals from our target audience, about our logo designs.

8 out of the 10 people we asked said they preferred this logo as it seemed more professional. One individual said 'they like how the wings blended in with the rest of the logo'. Me and Connor have decided that we will use this for our final production logo as most people who we asked liked this one more than our second logo design.

Logo's

Hey guys, so we've recently designed a two logos for our company. We're not too sure which one to use at the moment so over the course of the next few weeks, we will ask a few people who match our target audience which one they prefer. These designs were inspired by Tame Impala's album covers which I will link down below.

I really like this design as it keeps a consistent colour scheme throughout (yellow 

and grey) which I really liked. I thought it was very simple, as we don't want it

to be over the top, as its just the production name.  

I really liked the bright colours, I feel they contrasted nicely with the outlines of the two heads and the white writing of the 'Conabel Productions', it also caught the audiences eye which they then look straight at the two heads.

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tame+impala&FORM=HDRSC2 - Tame Impala album cover research

Appearance technique- review

So, I thought I'd do a little review on the appearance technique we created today in order to give you an insight about our thoughts about the transition. Personally, I feel that we will definitely use this technique within our final music video, its a good and effective way to transition from one setting to another, yet its so simple. The whole filming and editing took us about 30 minutes which isn't a long time in comparison to the hand drawing effect we recently tried.
However, although this was easy to create, next time we use this technique, I feel we need to plan what gesture we will use to transition from one setting to another. For example, the character closing their eyes and then opening them up to find their in another setting, I think this would work well to start the video off. I recently researched previous A2 students who used this effect, so thought I'd link it below so you can get a feel for what I'm trying to describe. This student went underwater and then came back up to find their in another setting, its almost like they just appeared there like magic, which is similar to what we want to create...

Appearance technique- practice

Hey guys, so today Me and Connor gave the appearance effect a good go. It didn't take us very long to do. We aimed to keep the camera still, but as the clip was filmed on my phone ( hence the bad quality of the clip :( ), I didn't have a tripod so was difficult at times. The editing didn't take long either which is a bonus, as its simple to create but also really effective. I feel maybe the clicking of the fingers was hard to perfect the timing, so in our final music video we may use the opening of the eyes to transition and create the appearance effect rather than the clicking of fingers. In order to edit this we used windows movie maker however, for our final music video, we'll be using Adobe after effects and premier pro so editing will be simplified.

Appearance technique- Steps

Hey guys, so I recently mentioned that Me and Connor wanted to feature an appearance technique within our final music video. This simply is a transition and mainly requires a lot of attention on filming, camera positions and the subject (actor) making it more believe by using facial expressions. I tried to research into this, but nothing was quite similar to what we wanted to create so instead I wrote out a few simple steps for us to follow when filming to give us prompts on how to achieve this effect.
Here are the steps we created...

How Deep Is Your Love- Textual analysis

Hey guys, so I've just completed a textual analysis on Calvin Harris & Disciples - How Deep Is Your Love. I feel this has a similar aesthetic to what we aim to create our music video like as it includes an 'appearance' transition and also the main character seems confused throughout the video as to why she's there which is similar to our initial ideas.

How deep is your love textual analysis from 10lowean

Narrative

Afternoon! So, Me and Connor have recently just done out pitch video which I've just uploaded, but I wanted to give you an insight on the narrative of our music video as it wasn't made clear within our pitch and we have altered a few things.

We aim to first start off the video with one of the charcters putting headphones in and closing their eyes to symbolise the following clips the audience is about to see is almost dream like. We're still keeping our initial ideas of a 'hide and seek' game and adventures but adding a twist.
We want to create the illusion that the character (character 1) is watching in on himself/herself having fun with friends, almost ghost like, trying to get their attention only to find that their friends can't see the character. We want to make the character confused that no-one can see them and make it seem like its real when really, its a dream. At some parts we may want to use a cloning technique so be sure to keep checking my blog for our practice of this! To finish off the video, character 1 would then open their eyes all for the audience to find out it was just a dream.

The reason we decided to change our mind was the original narrative seemed too simple and there wasn't anything significant that would grip the audience. We felt that the use of the 'ghost' effect would be more interactive for the viewers.


Attached below is Mine and Connors brain storm of our narrative, it took us about a day to come up with this, enjoy our hardtoreadcolourfulposter :)

Pitch video

Hey guys, so Me and Connor have just finished our pitch video, keep checking my blog for more about our narrative as our final plans have been made (and you're in for a treat)...enjoy

Hand drawing effect- behind the scenes and advice

I feel overall the hand drawing effect is very simple to create. Although a points it is rather time consuming and can become repetitive when editing large clips but the outcome is all worth it.
Here is My step by step way on how to produce this effect...

To begin with, import the clip you wish to add this effect on, into Adobe After-Effects, the programme itself seems rather over whelming as there so many buttons and you feel everything can go wrong, don't worry, just follow these steps.

Be sure to render your clip before you start editing. To begin with, I thought 'oh its okay it'll work without rendering...it wont! Rendering allows us to work on the clip with the brush tool.

  One you've rendered the clip, double click the clip itself and a 'paint' icon will appear in the bottom right corner- nearly close to the fun parts, I promise- the duration is usually set to 'constant' in order to create this effect, you want single frame, feel free to use any duration type you want, but this is the one you need to create this.

THE FUN BEGINS! Me and Connor chose to use a rather small brush size so we could get into smaller parts of the body, If your clip is a close-up shot, I'd recommend using a bigger brush simply because the smaller brush size won't give the same effect. We used brush size 9, this was the perfect size for us as the clips were birds eye view and a long shot, so was the right sized brush for us. You can also change the colour of the lines if you prefer to.

Make sure to have fun with this as much as we did, it may seem daunting and rather time consuming at first, but once you get into the swing of things, you'll fly by.

 

Hand drawing effect- The making

So today, we did it! It took an hour to do two clips,  which I don't thinks too bad considering we're beginners. Thought I'd share with you the two clips we did...






This is our practice piece number one. We simply used the white paint tool to create this. From the research process I found that a lot of videos highlight feature of the mis-en-scene which I think would be effectice when using the hand drawing effect. This skill is simple but effect, it can make a plain video come to life with something so simple.






The second example is my personal favourite. I started to use the white brush tool effect, Connor suggested to use different colours to make it seem more fun... straight away, from the use of a simple coloured brush stroke, added life to the clip. We will defiantly use this skill when producing our final music video, it a simple trick that adds character to the clip.

Hand drawing effect- Step by Step

Hey guys, so Me and Connor are going to give the hand drawing effect a little go, but first I wrote up the tutorial I watched in a step by step way so we can quickly refer to it whilst practicing... I also added a few After Effects keyboard shortcuts, as it'd get us used to working quickly as we have to work to a deadline for our final music video... Hope our practice piece turns out well, I'll keep you updated, but, for now, I'll just upload my step by step notes...

Hand drawing effect- The research

Hey guys, so recently I've really been interested in the 'Hand drawing' effect that a few music videos have included lately. For example, disclosures front covers include this;

 

and Justin Bieber's 'what do you mean' video also includes this effect. Me and Connor really want to create this in our final video so I did a little bit of research and watched multiple YouTube videos on how to create this within after-effects, thought I'd link below my favourite tutorial I found and the most helpful video...

Copyright email to Glassnote records

Me and Connor have emailed the record company in order to receive permission to use the song 'Undercover Martyn' to use for our final music video. Here is the email we sent,


I am writing to you to request permission to film a music video version of your song Undercover Martyn. This forms part of my OCR A-level Media Studies course where my task is to record a music video to a song of my choice. It is only for assessment purposes and will not be used for any commercial or profit seeking purposes. I acknowledge your copyright of the material and will not use it for any other purpose than that stated above.

If you require any further information or clarification regarding the use of this material for educational purposes please contact my teacher Mr Welch (welchch@tuptonhall.derbyshire.sch.uk)

Here is the screen-grab;

Feedback from preliminary task

Hey guys, so we recently received some feedback on our preliminary task- don't worry it was all positive- however, I'd just like to discuss a few points I feel were Mine and Connors strengths and weakness'. I feel that Me and Connor came up with rather inventive idea's for our preliminary task, the use of a silhouette shot and also the reverse of a clip at the start of the video, was really effective for the audience. I noticed when others watched it, they couldn't stop watching, which is generally what you aim for when making a music video. Sir stated in the feedback sheet that the use of these skills have a good sense of aesthetic and recommended to use these in our final music video if relevant. Although the song we've chosen to do our final music video doesn't really fit this theme, I think it'd be effective if we used a 'silhouette in the sun' shot, maybe walking through a field, creating a silhouette image at dusk with the sun in the background, this would fit our theme a lot more as we want to make the video more fun and playful. Sir also stated that we used filters to keep a consistent sense of genre and appropriate look. I do find this useful as Me and Connor could add a vibrant filter overlaying our clips in order to give a happy and joyful feel to the video.

Although I do feel that our preliminary was successful I feel there is room for improvement and ways we can learn from this task. I do feel the filter was rather heavy and at times, when there was a close up shot, the audience struggled to see, this is not what we aimed for, as the clip was in reverse so we wanted everyone to be able to see it. In the future if we were to use this reverse technique again, we would make sure that the lighting is bright or use a more vibrant filter in order to enhance the feature's of our faces, bodies or even objects and make clear to the audience that the clip is being reversed. From the feedback we received, Sir suggested that if we do go for a similar aesthetic again, try aim to explore illustrator where we can write and draw over the video. I feel that this technique would work rather well, as we can use this in order to make the video more playful and enjoyable, especially as the less exciting parts, this may make the video more interactive and interesting and allow the audience to 'step into our shoes' rather than just simply watch a music video.

Below is the feedback sheet we received....

'Keep your head up'

So, in mine and Connors pitch we mentioned that we wanted to make our video with the similar initial idea's as Ben Howards 'keep your head up'.  The video consists of a few people having fun but in the beat of the song which is similar to what we want to do. I guess a few of you haven't seen this music video so I linked this down below so you have a feel of what we're talking about...