tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18939481001533319882024-02-19T03:25:11.007-08:00Angela's Media BlogWelcome to my A2 media blog. I'm Angela Chen and my candidate number is 9025. I am working in a group with Thakshana Yogeswaran(9179), Monica Aghadiuno(9365) and Godgift Emesi (9044). We are group 3. To navigate my blog please click on the 3 labels to the right of the page below named A2 Research and Planning, A2 Construction and A2 Evaluation.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-31356891011822176842016-01-06T01:20:00.000-08:002016-05-20T00:27:43.039-07:00Evaluation Post 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?Our music video and marketing campaign follows many forms and conventions of real pop, street and rnb media products. To best connote our genre and image we closely followed the examples of real music videos that strongly reflected the urban street genre.<br />
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For our music video conventions we followed many theories one of which was <b>Simon Frith</b>'s.<br />
Simon Frith believed that music videos came in three types:<br />
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Our music video fits into the performance category as it features a girl group who sing and dance. We take up most of the screen time. Most scenes are performance based shots such as our dance routine, singing to the audience, playing around and performing with male actors. We decided to do something interesting and not just conform to one category of music video but to make a hybrid music video. Our video displays aspects of the narrative genre as the lyrics and scenes with our partners convey small individual stories of how each of our relationships are like with our guys. This is similar to real media texts such as Fifth Harmony's <i>Worth It</i> and Little Mix's <i>Move</i> and even with <i>Misery Business</i> by Paramore (our prelim project). We included male actors to widen our audience appeal as they are for our viewers to gaze at and/or aspire to become like.</div>
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<b>Goodwin</b> also states that there is a "<i>clear relationship between lyrics and visuals" </i>which can be amplification, illustrative or contradictory. Our music video both amplifies and illustrates. Our song is called Red Planet and that line is sung quite a few times in the actual song. Therefore we wanted to use a red colour scheme as it signifies love and passion which fits perfectly with our song. Below you can see that in a few short seconds of our video, most scenes have a red colour scheme.<br />
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We've followed Goodwin's theory to target mass audiences but have also tried to challenge this by not over-sexualising ourselves as female stars and also by sexualising the boys more. This comes across in our lyrics which are quite sexual, but commanding and not submissive. For example lines such as "Give me all of your love tonight". We are also seen pushing away our guys and being playful with them but are never involved in sexual activity on screen.<br />
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Another theory we use and challenge is Mulvey's theory on the male gaze. She believes that audiences have to view characters from the perspective of a heterosexual male. The camera lingers on the curves of a female body and relegates women to the status of objects. Thus female viewers must experience the narrative secondarily by identification with the male. The male gaze theory applies to many music videos. We've used it by adding conventional beauty shots of each member of the girl group.<br />
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Our music video conforms very much to pop and rnb music video conventions. The sound of our song and and the beat are very pop - it includes the guitar, electronic beats and vocals. Our band identity is very street- this is portrayed by our outfits and the way we act and perform in our music video. Monica has a rapper's swag, her movements are tomboyish and explosive. Her facial expressions are fierce. Gift has a Beyonce-like sass and is very outgoing and confident. She smiles brightly and laughs a lot. Thakshana is girly as she plays with her hair and gets up close and personal with her guy but also very hip and cool as she uses a lot of hand gestures inspired by many rappers. Her facial expressions are casual but confident. I come across as a casual girly type as I also like to play around with my hair and dance in a more feminine style. Me and Thakshana try to create a more sexualised image with the way we dance and look at our guys and also the camera.<br />
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We are seen dancing, singing and performing with guys in our video which is very conventional. Our relationships with our guys come across as cute because we're doing random things such as Monica putting a hat on Will. Other times we create a more deeper sexual aspect as Thakshana's face comes really close to Aaron's. This gives our audience a varied experience with fun visual hooks as well as more mature visual hooks. We tried to create visual hooks with editing effects and content such as beauty shots of the girls and narrative shots of a girl and guy getting really close. Each visual hook grabs the audiences attention and also appeals to specific audiences in our target audience group.<br />
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CAMERWORK & FRAMING<br />
Our camerawork is rarely static as we like the extra movement our shots create especially when we are dancing, the camera movement keeps the visuals more interesting and dynamic.<br />
We tried to create visual hooks with editing effects and content such as beauty shots of the girls and narrative shots of a girl and guy getting really close. Each visual hook grabs the audiences attention and also appeals to specific audiences in our target audience group.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-59300522880485169152016-01-05T01:29:00.000-08:002016-05-20T00:26:00.437-07:00Evaluation Post 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?Like other artists' marketing campaigns, we made sure our main product and ancillary texts worked in synergy to promote our band and music.<br />
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One way in which our combination of texts markets D4MES effectively is through the consistent band identity conveyed.<br />
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<b>Richard Dyer's </b>star theory states:<br />
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<li><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;">'A star is an </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">image,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"> not a real person, that is </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">constructed</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"> (as any other aspect of fiction is) out of a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">range of materials</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"> (eg advertising, magazines etc as well as films [</span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">music</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;">]).'</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-small;">'Stars are <b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">commodities</b> produced and consumed on the strength of their meanings.'</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "tahoma" , "geneva" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: x-small;">'Stars represent shared cultural values and attitudes, and promote a certain <b>ideology</b>.'</span></span></li>
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We created pop star images that are similar to our actual identities so that everything is synergistic and consistent including our poses, facial expressions, personality and how we speak as these things would all be noticed and closely watched by fans and viewers. However star theory means it is just a representation which meant we could be creative with how we wanted to present our complete image in order to target our audience.<br />
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Example of a real marketing campaign<br />
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How the three texts are synergistic and link together, work together: branding (font), band image (street, London, girl power), genre (pop, RnB)<br />
Our brand logo is clear and consistent. It is also shown on our website. All our fonts are white with some red letters to follow through with our red black and white colour scheme. However our album cover contrasts with our website in that it has a light grey background rather than a black one. We feel this contrast is a nice change rather than a stark contrast that seems out of place. Also our dressy black attire shows our prestige, classy side which ties in with connotations of both celebrities who attend classy events as well as the normal girl image who likes to go out and fun fun clubbing with friends.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-44194315285280091182016-01-04T04:12:00.000-08:002016-05-20T00:13:37.839-07:00Evaluation Post 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?Our target audience consists mainly of young girls and women as we are a girl band promoting female empowerment. We also target fans of the rnb and pop music genres as our style of music is a combination of the two genres.<br />
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This includes young people of all ethnicities and genders.<br />
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We targeted our audiences using Blumer and Katz's Uses and Gratifications Theory which states the 4 simple needs of a media consumer:<br />
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<li>Personal relationships: using media for emotional and other interation</li>
<li>Personality identity: finding yourself reflected in texts, learning behaviours and values</li>
<li>Surveillance: sourcing information from texts that is useful for life/living</li>
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DIVERSION<br />
Because our video is performance based it is naturally a source of entertainment. Singing and dancing with cool lighting, effects and non linear editing will create a clubby, fun atmosphere that hooks the audience engaging them to watch the whole video.</div>
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Our other media texts such as our Instagram and our website allows viewers and fans to know us as individuals better. It gives them an idea of what our friendship group is like and what we get up to everyday as normal people. Therefore we try to connect with our target audiences on a deeper emotional level and set an example of a close-knit, successful fun friendship group pursuing their dreams and careers as this is the USP of a lot of successful groups such as One Direction.</div>
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PERSONAL IDENTITY<br />
Everyone in the group get along very well but are at the end of the day individuals who have their unique traits. We've tried to connote this through our scenes with our partners which are all different and give off different vibes. For example mine is tense as me and Mario stare at each other's eyes and get very close while Gigi's is very cute as she is being playful with Eddie.<br />
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We also include a bit of info about each of us in the 'Meet The Girls' section of our website.</div>
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Our website is the main text that gratifies audience's needs for information. It informs them of our newest songs/albums merchandise and tours. It also links all our social media sites, has an abundance of photos and even short bio pages on each member of the group. Our Facebook page and Twitter account are the main social media platforms that gratify the audience also for sources of information. What's good about social media sites is that theyr'e constantly updated and are accessible to everyone with the proliferation of technology. They're also highly interactive as users can like and comment on things.</div>
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We received a lot of feedback from people of both genders and varied ages. One way in which we received this feedback was through an anonymous survey online. We could link this to anyone who was willing to take it.</div>
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Results from SurveyMonkey<br />
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<li>Female respondents made up 82% of the people who took the survey suggesting that they were more interested in our music video which confirmed that our primary target audience were females</li>
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- "sometimes there are too many flashes or fast cut aways it is too much for the eyes and loses my focus on what's happening"<br />
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<i> - '</i>'the dance choreography was good, the hair flicks were nice''<br />
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Another group of people I got feedback from were family members and personal friends. This gave me viewers of varied ages and opinions from people who did not worry about offending me. Below is an interview I did with my sister Catherine, age 16.<br />
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During our editing week, I also got feedback from media students in the years below which I thought would be very constructive seeing as they also took the subject. It was very helpful.<br />
They really liked the video saying it looked sophisticated and professional. They liked the special effects we edited in. Their only criticism were that we had too many cuts and flashes which seemed to be a trending criticism so we took that into consideration and altered our editing accordingly. So it now looks much better.</div>
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<b><u>Research & Planning</u></b><br />
Our research was all internet based. Due to the proliferation of the internet and its advancement, google was immensely useful. We could research anything we wanted on the music industry including current popular artists, target audiences and youth culture. Google images and sites such as pinterest were particularly useful in researching fashion and art to inform our clothing choices and hair styles as well as make-up looks for the music video<br />
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YouTube<br />
YouTube was really useful for us as we watched countless music videos to inspire ideas for our own on visuals, fashion choices, video effects and even dance routines we could learn. Having access to the Latymermedia account meant we could upload videos onto the shared channel such as tutorials and stealomatics. We could also view previous years' music videos. One particularly useful thing we did was upload a collection of videos that inspired each of us into one playlist so we could collectively view them and know what our other team members were interested in.<br />
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Whatsapp<br />
For ease of communication, we created a whatsapp group chat, on which we discussed and shared project matters outside of school. Whatsapp is a hugely popular mobile app that is really simple and convenient to use.<br />
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Instagram<br />
We had access to social media via the internet which was essential in communicating with each other to share our research using apps such as Whatsapp and Facebook. The fact that we can access the internet hence these apps on our mobiles meant we had ease of access to information and ease of communication anywhere at any time. It also meant we could see what current artists were up to and how they built their image and promoted their music via Twitter and Instagram. It allowed us to see what they did in their personal lives at home and also their professional lives out. Of course we were able to research artists' marketing campaigns online in order to create our own. We also sourced their fashion styles from google images and Instagram. YouTube is the main platform for viewing music videos worldwide. We watched countless videos to inspire our own ideas in preparation for production which included dance styles, fashion worn in music videos and how they were shot and edited.<br />
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<b><u>Construction</u></b><br />
For the contruction of our music video we used the Seward studio at school to our advantage as our shoot location. This meant we had access to the school's studio technology including the lighting system, cameras, tv and sound system. We then used the media department's editing suites for post production. Adobe Premiere Pro was our choice of editing software. Photoshop was our choice of software for creating our album cover and inside. We used Wix to create our website.<br />
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Although Wix was mainly easy to navigate and had lots of available functions and features, it was sometimes difficult to use especially as we did not have previous experience with it. One problem was the fact that a lot of the pictures we uploaded were distorted with either heads cut out the frame or legs missing from the bottom.This problem was easily solved by looking up instructions online.</div>
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I also used my phone (a Samsung Galaxy S4) to record evidence of our construction stages so I could upload them later onto my blog.<br />
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<b><u>Evaluation</u></b><br />
For the evaluation stage I used various web tools one being Blogger to collate my progress. I also used tools such as Slideshare, Padlet and Prezi to present my work. In order to present evidence in visually dynamic ways I used Imgflip to create gifs and publisher to create tables and diagrams. I also used YouTube to upload evidence the group needs such as certain shots and first shoots/edits.<br />
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Here are our original flatplans for the website layout:<br />
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Firstly we started with a template from the music section and personalized it using a simple black background. Then we created the header with the D4MES logo on top and navigation options below which we made to show on every page the viewer clicked on. Each button on the header is linked to another page. We decided on a red,black and white colour scheme for brand image and consistency. Athough those colours sound more like the colours you would see on a grunge, punk pop band's website, we made it work as the font on our website was simplistic and giving it a classy, RnB vibe.<br />
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At first the logo was centered on the header and even larger in size but after we asked for feedback we decided to change it.<br />
<u><b>Criticisms from teacher feedback:</b></u><br />
<i>"A centred header is quite general in style,maybe try something more interesting"</i><br />
<i>"There's so much empty space around it that could be used"</i><br />
<b><u>Crticisms from fellow students and audience members:</u></b><br />
<i>"The font is a bit too big - it looks slightly awkward and takes attention away from the main statement images"</i><br />
Although a centred header is not uncommon, it did not add anything to our website so we placed the header to the side which we thought added to our minimalist, classy vibe instead. We also realised that our website was not interactive enough and could use the space to the right of our header better so we put a subscription option on the right of the page allowing fans to be updated. This is a key convention of artists' websites.<br />
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After some thought we decided to create an 'enter site' page as it was a common convention and allowed us to make certain features more prominent such as getting the audience to buy our new album and watch our newest music video.<br />
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We filled our homepage, meet the girls page and the gallery page with photos of D4MES to add visual richness and show off our 3 dimensional characters. We also included classic features such as a news and store page where fans can be updated by our live twitter feed and buy merchandise. This is to increase their interactivity with us as a girl group and give them a chance to buy into and be part of our brand and identity. Of course we added social media links at the footer of every page.<br />
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Overall the website turned out nicely and we all did our share of the work on it. The only thing that annoyed me was the fact that we had to manually crop pictures to fit either our heads or our legs in as we could not do it on Wix. Everytime we inserted an image it would not be to size. Other than that Wix was generally easy and convenient to use.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-29395021914416015002015-12-19T18:00:00.000-08:002016-05-24T13:18:19.328-07:00Construction Post 5: Digipak post-production<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Although we had a flat plan for our album cover and back, the end product differed greatly to what we'd first imagined it to look like. Nevertheless we're happy with how it turned out. The process was very experimental as weren't so sure on how we actually wanted it to look.<br />
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For our digipak we decided to use Adobe Phototshop CS5.5 to edit our images and put them together. This worked out really well as most of us already had a lot of experience working with photoshop.<br />
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We worked with a digipak template shown below.<br />
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<li>The blue area was allocated for any text spillovers</li>
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This is a picture of our original flatplan which consisted of us standing against a brick wall and one of the inside covers being an arty geometric design.</div>
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The hard part was choosing which photos we wanted to use which resulted in our digipak process being very long due to much experimentation.<br />
We wanted to used the photo below at first as we really liked our outfits however the pose did not seem quite right or bold enough for the front cover. We wanted something that made more of a statement.<br />
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Thus we changed it to the photo below as it has the professional, classy girl group image that we wanted to portray.</div>
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The process of editing our digipak:<br />
1. Using the selection tool and the magic wand we removed any backgrounds.<br />
2. We used the define edge tool to remove any white edged and rough edges around us for example around our hair.<br />
3. We increased or decreased the size of our image using 'show transform' option and placed the image where we wanted it.<br />
4. We would crop anything we didn't want out.<br />
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This is the first final draft of our album front cover (above) and inside cover (below). The back cover of our album (top left) surprisingly turned out very similar to our initial plan so we were very happy with it as it worked out to how we first visualised it. However after asking for feedback on our digipak from our target audience group and teachers we realised we needed to make changes to the front and inside.<br />
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<i>"I like the consistent colour scheme it's classic but the red keeps it interesting"</i><br />
<i>"I like what you've done with making some letters red"</i><br />
<b><u>Criticisms:</u></b><br />
<i>"The background of your inside cover is not nice, it looks very grunge and moody, I don't feel the rnb or pop vibe"</i><br />
<i>"The inside image of you all looks very washed out so you kind of blend in with the background"</i><br />
<i>"There's quite a lot of space around you on the front cover, you girls need to fill up more of the frame"</i><br />
We agreed with the criticisms so decided to improvise and make some changes. Below is me and Thakshana's drafted result of our research on cool Photoshop effects. We wanted to create an inside cover that contrasted the front and made a statement.<br />
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However this was not working out well as it did not suit our band image. In the end we decided to use the background of our front cover in order to keep the consistent white and grey theme. We also made the image above black and white as that looked lot cooler and fit in with the monochrome look. Just as we added red letters to the back of our album, we put our star names up with a red letter each. This used the empty space around us effectively. Below is the end result.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-57613065690962622852015-12-17T13:36:00.000-08:002016-05-24T13:37:19.978-07:00Construction Post 4: Music video post productionHaving previously used and enjoyed Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5, we decided again to edit our video using the program.<br />
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Above is our edit suite.<br />
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1. After importing the clips we wanted to use onto Premiere, we created tracks and copy and pasted over the edited Red Planet song from our test edit and dragged it onto the audio track.<br />
2. Then we started cutting clips and dragging them onto the video tracks. We had to make sure they were synced so that our lips were singing the song perfectly in time to the audio.<br />
3. Then we each put in and edited our own individual shots according to the visual image of what we wanted our own sections to look like in mind<br />
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We proceeded to use special effects such as slow motion, reverse speed, wave warp, fade to blacks, cross section fades, lens flare effect and ProcAmp.<br />
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We used the slow motion and reverse speed often in conjunction to create arty scenes such as the balloon and confetti scene below. The balloon popping and confetti falling was originally very fast but we slowed it down by changing the duration of the clip to 200% and then used the same clip again but ticking the reverse option so that it would play backwards giving the illusion of time rewinding.<br />
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Feedback from our target audience (a group of young girls) included really liking the flashes in and fast cut aways we currently had so we put more in to make the scenes more dynamic and visually engaging as they were impressed by them. An example of that is also in the clip to the right<br />
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We often placed cross section dissolves onto the end of one clip and the start of the next so that the shots transitioned nicely into the next for example in the clip to the right.<br />
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This clip also shows the very beginning of our music video which previously started with Thakshana's spotlight shot. However one of our teachers said that it would be more suitable to introduce us as a group and then come in with the individual shots which was a key convention of band music videos. Thus we made our changes accordingly.<br />
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<span br="" style="font-family: inherit;">Wave warp was an effect I found as an alternative to the old, static TV effect we originally had in mind. It worked well when we introduced a small wave and then a larger one shortly after to build up the dramatic effect. A great example of this is during my verse.</span><br />
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ProcAmp was very useful for grading which was the final step of editing the music video. This meant adjusting the brightness, contrast, hue and saturation of our all our clips.</span><br />
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Another interesting effect we found was the lens flare effect. This added more impact to the laser set up of my scene as it helped to intensify the galaxy/space vibe of my verse. At first this lens flare was static but after watching a tutorial in YouTube I learned how to move the flare in order for it to look more natural as there is camera movement which moves me around in the frame.<br />
Overall I'm very happy with how we edited our music video, we put in so much time and effort which paid off.</span></span><br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-72691635936976445762015-12-16T13:36:00.000-08:002016-05-19T23:49:10.035-07:00Construction Post 3: Promo shoots<div style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;">
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Our timetable for our promo shoots:<br />
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Wednesday 9am-11am<br />
Thursday 4pm-8pm (back-up session)<br />
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Our set is to the right. We had extra lighting and the flash feature in order to take the best photos possible.<br />
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I think the first promo shoot session went really badly as we had technical difficulties such as the flash on the lights not working which meant most of our pictures turned out really dark. Also the camera was not in focus for a lot of the shots. We didn't check up on our pictures as we were taking them so we didn't realise that at least one of us were unprepared in each picture - we never got ready at the same time to have our picture taken.<br />
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Gift doing Monica's hair below.<br />
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Me doing my hair at the vanity table.<br />
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The next promo shoot went a lot better. The flash was working and we made sure the camera was in focus. This time we checked our pictures every few shots and also counted down subtly to get ready together, in sync for the pictures. Since me and Monica had the same frees we took each other's individual shots which turned out really nice. We played with props such as a chair which I thought Monica looked quite cool sitting backwards on. However her legs looked slightly awkward in the pictures being spread out so much so we didn't use those but kept them if we wanted to zoom in and tighten the frame as her facial expressions were on point. Monica also shot my picture from low angles to give a more dominant vibe and directed me well telling me which facial expressions looked best.</div>
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The classy promo shoot was quite difficult as the poses we tried looked very awkward a lot of the time. We wanted to give off a classy prestige vibe but ended up taking pictures which looked like prom photos or family photos. In the end we went with a simple concept and stood side by side as most girl band album covers feature the same poses. Below are some of the nicer selection of photos from our shoots.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-1853883420272414312015-12-15T13:35:00.000-08:002016-05-20T00:21:38.908-07:00Construction Post 2: Days 4-6 of our music video productionPriorites for the second half of our shoot week:<br />
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<li><b>Graffiti backdrop</b> - industrial like set up with spray paint cans and buckets</li>
<li><b>Red lighting</b> - group shots with boys (posing)</li>
<li><b>Classy scene</b> - involving a long table red cloth, wine glasses</li>
<li><b>Laser setup </b>- mine and Marios' scene</li>
<li><b>Scaffolding</b> - Thakshana's and Monica's scenes with their partners</li>
<li><b>Monica</b> - re-shoot of her individual shots</li>
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<u>Day 4 - Thursday 26th Nov</u><br />
This day was dedicated to shooting mine and and Mario's scene with lasers. Despite the challenges we faced when shooting my own scene with this setup, we improvised successfully with the help of Emma, our technician. We set up two lamps at separate ends of the stage facing towards mine and Mario's bodies. This allowed both our faces to be lit. However Mario is a lot taller than me so my face became shadowed when I moved backwards. This meant we had to work out an area that I could move in while staying lit.<br />
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When I push Mario away I could not move back much as I also had to stay in frame. The end result was very successful.
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We had feedback from quite a few people who visited us during our shoot. These were their opinions:<br />
<i>"It looks much better this time, the lasers stand out a lot more" </i>- this was also due to us blurring out the background to largen the size of the laser lights on screen.<br />
<i>"Your acting with Mario doesn't look awkward despite the lack of space you can move around in" - </i>this was due to the narrow areas of white light<br />
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"<i>You got rid of the shadows!" - </i>this was due to successful positioning of the floor lamps<br />
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<u>Day 5 - Friday 27th Nov</u><br />
We shot our group shots in front of the scaffolding on day 5. This involved shots of us just posing quite still trying to look cool. We also shot us pretending to spray paint D4MES onto the backdrop to add to the street vibe.<br />
We also shot all of Thakshana's individual shots in front of the same backdrop.<br />
We also shot Monica and Will's scene as he was available to kindly come after school. This allowed us to free up our Saturday schedule as it was already quite packed due to all the boys only being collectively free on Saturday to film the mass group shots.<br />
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<u>Day 6 - Saturday 28th Nov</u><br />
Saturday involved shooting the dinner table scene and mass group shots with the boys.<br />
Initially for the dinner table scene, all four guys were serving and waiting on us girls sat at the table but we decided that there was too much going on and four waiters were unnecessary. In the end we decided to coast two waiters. We managed to get varied shots of this scene, one being a close-up of champagne being poured into a glass with me in the background which I thought was quite cool as we planned to slow mo some of these shots for effect.<br />
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For our mass group shots we posed with each of our partners. This included cute poses, confident cool poses and loving poses to create that 'SQUAADD' image.<br />
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We also shot Thakshana and Aaron's scene which was quite long as her verse was long. They had a lot of screen time so we needed to fill that screen time up making sure it wasn't boring or dragging on for too long. Thus we decided that they could use the large space available and Aaron could walk towards Thakshana backing her up against the scaffolding.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-42764415116446534912015-12-14T13:34:00.000-08:002016-05-20T00:18:57.221-07:00Construction Post 1: Days 1-3 of our music video productionOur shoot days 1-3 priorities:<br />
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<li><b>Beauty shots</b> with full white lighting and a white backdrop</li>
<li><b>Chorus dance shots </b>in most backdrops</li>
<li>Film our <b>filler shots</b> such as the balloon and confetti shots</li>
<li>Film me, Gift and Monica doing our <b>individual</b> verses in our personal backdrops (strobes etc.) and spotlight setup</li>
<li><b>Review footage</b> to identify anything that needs to be re-filmed and alter our schedule accordingly if needed.</li>
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<u>Monday</u><br />
Day 1 of shooting went really well. We were very excited and headed straight into lighting, makeup then shooting. Despite coming into the studio on time, we still got slightly behind schedule as we did not realise how long it took to do our makeup and set-up. For example for the lighting we had to manual maneuver the lights in order to have them in the right angle and with the right flood level.<br />
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What we finished filming that day:<br />
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I think our spotlight shots turned out well as it looked like neon jungle's but we made it our own by covering half the lamp with a red filter in order to create a cool gradient. The lamp was quite heavy to use so I had to move it really slowly to achieve a smooth pan for Monica's shots. Me and her had a lot of frees together so we filmed each other's shots a lot of the time.</div>
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The video below includes my thoughts on how the first day of shooting went.<br />
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What we got done that day:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Monica's individual verse pink lighting</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Panel background set-up - dancing in pairs</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Floor lamps pink lights set-up - group dance</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Monica's black background + strobe lighting effect</li>
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I loved how Monica's individual scene turned out. We kind of free styled this shot as the blackout and dimmed white light we planned to use just created a very old-fashioned vibe we didn't like. In the end we used a blackout setting and white strobes which lit in rhythm to the beat of the music we put on through speakers. This achieved a very jumpy, club-like atmosphere which worked very well with her rap verse. This combined with her pink backdrop shots contrasted nicely.<br />
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We also shot our panel background setup which looked really good with pink and orange lights lighting it up from behind. Our only issue was that the size of that backdrop was too small to fit all four of us dancing at the same time. We improvised and danced in pairs, planning to edit it together which worked out much better in the end.<br />
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<u>Wednesday</u><br />
We ended up not having much to shoot on Wednesday as we had to reschedule some scenes as shown below on the original version of our shootboard and then the edited version.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-34593624400571683352015-12-12T13:31:00.001-08:002016-05-13T04:31:56.258-07:00R+P Post 33: Reflections on my role and contribution during research and planningWe all got very involved in the the research and planning stages as a team. This meant I took a role in contributing to all aspects of this stage.<br />
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Making Backdrops<br />
Our friend Priya helped us draw out the basic design for D4MES in a very urban, street font which is going to be one of the backdrops for our music video. We then made a stencil of it and spray painted the design onto fabric. I helped to draw out the stencil, spray paint and also paint the outlines of the design using a brush and acrylic paint.<br />
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Props<br />
We found a nice pieces of red cloth in the media department which I said would look good as our tablecloths. So we decided to put two different typed of fabrics together to create a classy dinner table scene. I also helped my group to order our spray paint by choosing the best deals and the colours we would use.<br />
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Planning outfits<br />
I drew up a table and asked each member what they had in their wardrobes and what they'd like to wear in order to plan everyone's outfits, make-up and hairstyles for the music video.<br />
We also met up at my place and spent a day trying out make-up looks and outfits to see how they worked together in order to be as prepared as we could.<br />
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Creating the shoot schedule<br />
This was a long process we divided up between ourselves but eventually got done. It involved working out who was performing in front of which backdrops with which lighting and everyone's timing according to our timetables. Gift finished a lot of the schedule as she was very fast at putting it together but we planned and decided everything as a group.<br />
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Planning shots<br />
We all came up with many types of shots and scenes for the music video. This included beauty shots, wide shots and moving shots.<br />
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Acting<br />
Acting for the music video was so much fun. Our shoot sessions were full of laughter and excitement. Although lighting was a pain to set-up it was worth it. We had many dance rehearsals to perfect our routine. It was like a workout every time.<br />
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Filming<br />
As me and Monica had the same free periods we both actively shot each other's scenes. I'm proud of what we'd achieved during the test shoot despite room for improvement.<br />
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Editing the test shoot<br />
Editing was fun as we finally had a chance to see the result of something we put so much effort and time into. It was fun seeing the effects we could use and best worked with our music video. It also meant we could see if there were shots missing, shots we could have filmed better and also any concepts we didn't like.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-88031291524784734982015-12-12T13:31:00.000-08:002016-05-13T04:30:53.451-07:00R+P Post 32: Test shoot and rough edit<br />
Result of our test shoot and rough edit<br />
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Test shoot schedule<br />
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Our times (group 3's) are shown in yellow.<br />
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TEST SHOOT<br />
Pros<br />
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<li>The test shoot was really fun</li>
<li>We tried out new ways of shooting shots such as moving shots of us playing around and dancing freestyle.</li>
<li>Even though all our male actors weren't available Amber took Aaron's place temporarily so all of us were able to practice our scenes with someone.</li>
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Cons<br />
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<li>We didn't test shoot everything that we had wanted to. This was due to lack of time management and proper communication between the group.</li>
<li>Some of our male actors did end up waiting a while with nothing to do. We could have better organised their call times and shoot slots.</li>
<li>Some shots were not focused which we didn't realise until viewing the shots to edit them. Next time we will make full use of the TV to see how our shots look on a large screen and also check the camera focus every time we shoot. We also plan to view our shots more regularly on the computer during the shoot week in case we need to re shoot anything. An example of an out of focus shot below.</li>
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ROUGH EDIT<br />
Pros<br />
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<li>We were very efficient with editing. Everyone contributed time equally.</li>
<li>We learnt how to speed up shots and used previous knowledge from our prelim to edit in flashes to the beat of the song.</li>
<li>We made use of fade-ins and outs.</li>
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<li>It doesn't look as cool and professional as the music videos we've all researched and took inspiration from so we need to work on filming and editing.</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-43695556958322209232015-12-12T13:27:00.000-08:002016-05-13T04:26:32.198-07:00R+P Post 31: My call sheet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A call sheet is essential in making sure the shoot day goes well. It keeps the crew and cast organised by giving them something universal to follow. Therefore we made call sheets in order to help us be as efficient as we can be.<br />
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Call time: Time at which all crew and cast must arrive and start doing makeup, costume and lighting<br />
On set: Time at which crew and cast need to finish preparations and be ready to shoot on set<br />
Break/Lunch: Periods of rest essential for regaining energy<br />
Tech call: Time needed to prepare lighting and equipment for shooting<br />
Finish filming/tidy up: Time at which shooting needs to be stopped and tidying up started<br />
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Overall the call sheet was very helpful in keeping us organised and the shoot days going as smoothly as possible. No one including our male cast was waiting around for long periods of time with nothing to do.<br />
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Where we could, we've added in real life stills from music videos to use as visual reference points. This would help us remember what our ideas meant and looked like so that we could save time when shooting.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-10817581345633252722015-12-12T13:25:00.000-08:002016-02-01T06:23:54.762-08:00R+P Post 29: Rehearsals<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We had many dance rehearsals and below is one of our first ever sessions in the studio.</div>
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Below is another rehearsal in a media classroom when Gift and Thakshana had a free.<br />
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To prepare for our test shoot we rehearsed intensely for one week to perfect our dance routine and get it right with everyone in sync and looking somewhat like professional dancers. It took us a few sessions before we got the right moves and remembered the steps correctly.</div>
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This is the rehearsal schedule with group 3's sessions highlighted in yellow (our group).</div>
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We sourced a lot of YouTube dance videos to inspire our moves including videos from The Fitness Marshall and Matt Steffanina. The Fitness Marshall is great as he takes you through the steps in a tutorial like method. Matt Steffanina also has separate tutorial videos to the usual dance ones.</div>
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1MILLION dance studio is a YouTube channel I personally love to keep up to date with. This video is something that I would like our dance routine to look as good as.</div>
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For one of our studio sessions we tested our dance routine in the actual lighting we wanted to use such as the red silhouette scene. This helped us to see what it would look like realistically on screen which made us realise that we needed to make our moves more dynamic and out there so that we don't look like bodies just shuffling around. Being silhouetted meant there was out a lot of detail that was visually left out. You could only see our arms and legs moving as well as hair whips if any. It made the dance more boring.</div>
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TV Screen<br />
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MacBook Pro<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;">24mm-105mm Canon Lens</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;">Tripod</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "times" , "freeserif" , serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; text-align: center;">Dolly</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Turrent lamps</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-74113862637168695912015-12-11T13:24:00.000-08:002016-05-13T03:24:53.450-07:00R+P Post 27: CastingFor our girl group we decided to cast ourselves for the following reasons:<br />
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<li>We would be able to carry out our ideas the best as we personally came up with them and have the visuals in our head.</li>
<li>Each of us are passionate and enthusiastic about something whether it's dance, performance or visuals and camerawork so we would work great as a team with each individual being able to make a contribution to the project.</li>
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We contacted various guys a few who rejected the offer as they were busy but we managed to gather together a diverse range of males.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-88749028051763962392015-12-11T13:23:00.000-08:002016-05-13T04:32:20.486-07:00R+P Post 26: Set design, locations and propsWe decided to shoot in a studio as this was the most convenient and advantageous option for our group. It would allow us access to lighting and also allow us to access props easily. We can change outfits backstage behind the studio and also switch backdrops quickly.<br />
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<li>Wine Glasses</li>
<li>Juice (colour of champaign)</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-10355475183554248252015-12-10T13:22:00.000-08:002016-05-13T01:03:29.893-07:00R+P Post 25: Costumes, props and make-upAfter having a lengthy group discussion about outfits, we created a digital table with visual references to plan our outfits for the music video.<div>
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Outfit 1 - Individual style</div>
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Outfit 2 - Street urban style jogger themed</div>
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Outfit 3 - Classy theme</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-18274950139538445762015-12-10T13:19:00.000-08:002016-05-13T07:59:19.301-07:00R+P Post 24: Planning my digipak panelsThis is our flatplan for the album cover and inside.<br />
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We wanted to incorporate a brick wall (bottom left) which is quite conventional of the street, urban hip hop style music and would complement our outfits well. It would also be a simple backdrop to shoot in front of. It is not hard to find one.<br />
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For the back of our album (bottom right) we wanted to keep it simple as half of the space would be dedicated to the list of songs in the cd. So we decided to go with headshots of our group.<br />
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Inspired by Neon Jungle's very cool, arty album covers, we wanted to give off a similar vibe. To do so we thought geometric shapes and designs would work well as they're simple and not too over the top (top right).</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-14180090809837465062015-12-10T13:18:00.000-08:002016-05-13T04:33:16.477-07:00R+P Post 23: Planning my web pagesAfter having a group meeting, we researched existing artists' websites to start planning and drawing out what we wanted our own website to look like.<br />
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<li>Social Media Links e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram</li>
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These websites below inspired us to plan our own.</div>
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This arty graphic design we thought was very urban, cool and edgy. It was quite attention grabbing and the clean white and grey theme of their website balanced it out.</div>
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We decided to draw out a flat plan on paper however this was not very helpful so we decided to digitally create a rough draft to help us visualise the end result.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-14278411459222487532015-12-10T13:17:00.000-08:002016-05-13T04:33:02.788-07:00R+P Post 22: Planning my promo shotsThese are a few real album covers we looked at to decide our outfits as well as poses. These three stood out to me.<br />
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Then to help me decide specifically what we should wear I created a moodboard of ideas inspired by Rihanna's style.<br />
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This lead to us planning three different outfits for our promo shoot:<br />
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<li>A classy look</li>
<li>An individual look</li>
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To check with each other what to bring to our shoots we decided to confirm on our Whatsapp group chat and sent pictures of our outfits to each other.</div>
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We also decided to try out makeup ideas at my place. Thakshana is doing my foundation below.</div>
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Our denim look will be a street but also casual and cute look where all four girls will be wearing at least one item of denim. Flannel shirts as well as check patterns are also quite popular as well as sneakers and boots. This is one of our end results.</div>
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Our classy look will reflect the prestigious side of D4MES and we aim for it to be a cross between black tie and clubbing attire. Below is what we looked like when shooting.<br />
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Our last look will be the girls wearing an outfit which portrays their own individual style and reflects their personalities. Monigal's would be tomboyish and casual, Gigi's would be stylish and girly, Shana's would be smart and mature, Angel's would be smart and slightly grunge.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-22580283889671057132015-12-09T13:16:00.000-08:002016-02-03T01:51:32.443-08:00R+P Post 21: My key shots storyboardWe created our key shots storyboard in a timeline format which was really effective.<br />
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This is the key for our storyboard showing the different shot types.<br />
We used post-it notes for each of manoeuvre and colour coding. This meant if a shot was wrong we just had to take a post-it note off and redraw and replace it. If we changed the position of a scene in the song we just had to rearrange the post-it notes. So it was easy and convenient to make our storyboard in this way.<br />
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Below is a breakdown of our key scenes:<br />
<b>1. Silhouetted</b><br />
<b>2. Individual</b><br />
<b>3. Group dance</b><br />
<b>4. Love shots</b><br />
<b>5. Dinner scene</b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15176392819707919348noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1893948100153331988.post-50397971110527597042015-12-08T13:13:00.000-08:002016-02-03T01:18:44.139-08:00R+P Post 20: My music video timelineAfter planning scenes and shots for our music video we made a timeline to put our ideas together.<br />
This was useful in the following ways:<br />
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<li>It helped us time our shots and decide how long they should go on for</li>
<li>After making one we knew how many shots and scenes we needed to create and shoot. Then we could start making further useful documents such as a storyboard and shots list.</li>
<li>It helped us somewhat visualise the whole music video to see if it flowed nicely.</li>
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Here is a one minute extract of our timeline.</div>
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Although it was simple it served as a nice basic draft of what our music video would become and included the scene details and shot types. The rest of the timeline followed the same format.</div>
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The next step in our project is to create a stealomatic that puts together all our ideas and best conveys the kind of music video we want to create. A stealomatic is basically a visual, moving pitch of our music video. We made one which contains references to roughly ten real music videos we liked to hopefully represent the style and feel of our own.</div>
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This is the list of the music videos we took references from.</div>
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<li>F(x) - Red Light</li>
<li>Beyonce - Naughty Girl</li>
<li>Little Mix - Move</li>
<li>Calvin Harris - How Deep Is Your Love</li>
<li>Fifth Harmony Worth It</li>
<li>Zara Larsson - Lush Life</li>
<li>Rihanna - What Now</li>
<li>Pia Mia - Do It Again</li>
<li>Neon Jungle - Trouble</li>
<li>Emeli Sande - Heaven</li>
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I think that a stealomatic is a really effective mode of presentation as it highlights the style of direction, content and creative process our music video will embody.</div>
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