A2 Media Studies: November 2016

Everyone gave back information and feedback on which parts and aspects of our video we could improve on.

Video - Many people liked our video and said there wasn't much we could do. someone said the shots were a bit similar and we should try and vary this is the rest of the filming. Everyone said they would watch our video again. Also the outfits we have used people liked the look of and the image we have created. The use of the colours in the background and the atmosphere we have made people really enjoyed. furthermore people said the shots were very good persistently and photos we have are good to use. Lastly, one said that there were too many shots in the drama studio.

Digi pack - Our digi pack was not completed at this stage so we had a lot of feedback about what we could do and improve upon our digi pack. We have idea that we presented and people agreed with the ideas we had. The logo we put on people liked and was effective.

Website - The photos we used in the website everyone liked and the colours made the page pop. The links we had were hard to read so quite a few people said to change the writing to make them clear for everyone.

Brand image - The group liked the friendly happy vibe we created in our work. Also the group liked how we carried this out through all our platforms. One said we needed to stop swearing. Finally people said again that they liked our suits.

Everyone but said they would view our video again.

20/09/2016 - First meeting of the group after being told we were together. We sat down and wrote out all our decisions for our songs.
We each put down our ideas onto a sheet and narrowed it down to a selection of songs.We then noted down some shots and ideas that we definitely want to be shown in the video.

22/09/2016 - we did our presentation in class of our final three contenders of music video songs. The final contenders were Limits Lie by Jamie T, Pressure by Tensnake and He is the same by Jon Bellion. We did our presentation and the class decided that Pressure and He is the same are the best ones to do the music video to and right now our group have decided to run with pressure and are going to continue planning for that video and decide then if we can pull it off.

26/09/2016 - Today we are looking at the lyrics to the video and deciding what kind of shots we can get to go with those verses, we also we're planning out times that none of us were free so we can work with those days and finally i am creating a Steel-O-Matic video. We have decided that we want to have all the planning done by the end of this week so we are ready to shoot.

27/09/2016 - Today we discussed an idea about what our video should include, basic shots and costumes. As we now know the locations Joe has started to write out a risk assessment for each location. Harry has done research on the website and what we should include. Taking screenshots of similar website that he liked and showing what part we would try and include. Also we created and character profile of what each person should be wearing and props need through each shot.

29/09/2016 - In todays lesson we firstly decided on when we would start filming the music video which is Wednesday 5th October. We decided that in this session we would film the opening of the music video as this is our longest shot which includes the most detail. We plan to have our main character walking down a road for a 30 second period singing and dancing to the first verse of the song. We also completed our locations list for when we go on our location recce on Monday 3rd October. We also started to consider band names in this lesson.

30/09/2016 - In todays lesson, we had thoughts on what our band name would be, this is an important part of the process and took quite some time. We didn't decide fully on what the name would be but we had some idea's such as "L9" and "T.C.F.S." but we didn't decide in the lesson. In this lesson Harry continued with the website research whilst Olly and Joe completed a props list.

03/10/2016 - Today at 5 Olly and Nathan went on a Location Recce to find some places to shoot our music video. We found some great locations such as First avenue in Chelmsford which is a nice long road which the band could walk down. We also went and looked at locations which we decided wouldn't be so great such as the Graffiti Wall in Chelmsford town centre. Overall, we were pleased with the outcome of our Location Scout. We also came up with some idea's which are going to alter the narrative involved in the video. One of these ideas was that we could make the video based around time of day starting in the morning when someone wakes up and going through to the night time.

First Avenue

Graffiti Wall

04/10/2016 - Today we did a practice take for our opening sequence. We ran through the dance moves, the camera angles and movement and also the editing process. By doing this practice we assessed the technicalities of the sequence. For example, the opening shot of the zoom might be avoided as it looked to unstable and we thought cutaways might look more professional.

05/10/2016 - Today was our first day of filming. We took a trip into Chelmsford to our first location fifth avenue and filmed our opening sequence. We had the first scene planned out in our heads. We gathered all the equipment needed and got into ollies car and set off. We did go to first avenue first but the road was too busy therefore we had to pack back up and go to fifth. This was a much better location as it was less busy. We could set up in the road and have a couple of tries. We has to wait for the clouds to move a few times. Afterwards we went to the bridge over the river that was near fifth avenue. We has some random ideas to shot as filler shots. On the walk back to the car we found a playground and decided to shot a couple of scenes in here.

06/10/2016 -Today we shot our interview for MTV. This consisted of Nathan being the presenter and then Jk, Harry and Olly being interviewed. We got across the same idea our song we have chosen to do. This was no too serious and fun. Olly started editing this as we filmed a full 11 minutes of interview which had to be cut down and put together as some parts was general discussion. This was great fun to shot. Harry has also completed the Digi pack research of similar artist to us and different ideas we want to include. Jk has made all of our social media accounts today.

07/10/2016 - Today the MTV video was finished, this took time as there was 10 minutes worth of footage which had to be cut down the three minutes, I also filtered out the swearing and added backing music. Joe continued working on the Website which is coming along nicely, he also continued to post on the social media to help create a realistic platform for our band. Harry worked on the blog, posting location and prop lists.

10/10/2016 - Today was the first day after the weekend break. Harry started and finished the textual of a similar music video. Talking about camera, mise en scene, editing and sound. This gave us more inspiration form our own video. Jk is working on our Avenue website which is looking great. He has involved many different aspects to the website. Also Jk is making an avenue t-shirt. Olly has produced a neater MTV script which we used in the interview. Nathan has planned out our shooting schedule and started our story board for our music video. Drawing each shot and how long each part will be.

11/10/2016 - Today we got in early and started filming in the drama studio. We had to bring in paint and all wear blue jeans and a white t-shirt. We had a black background and then used the lights in the drama studio and it looked like we were performing as a band. Harry had a key board, Jk had a microphone and ollie had a bass guitar. We sung along to the parts we haven't got footage for so we can put in little sections that cuts to use performing. Nathan was filming use performing. Olly and Nathan then uploaded all the footage we had and started editing. Jk is working on our logo.

12/10/2016 - Today we filmed in the science rooms. We played close attention to mise en scene and made sure the colours were all perfect. For example we placed three test tubes next to each other and put food colouring in each of them for each band members colour and even put them in the same order we were standing in on the video.

13/10/2016 - Today Olly did a lot of the editing for the video trying to use the footage from the science room and incorperate it into the timeline. JK worked on the Logo whilst Harry and Nathan got up to date on blog work.

14/10/2016 - Today the focus was getting all of the blog work up to date and planning the filming for next week. Olly sent out an email to the sports department to ask when the gym was free for one of our shots.
18/10/2016 - Today we went to shot in the dance studio. This was a full suit shoot again and in glasses and hats. We had us sitting down and then we did a load of random dancing. Then Nathan uploaded the footage and started editing. Olly did a few blog post and so did Jk.

20/10/2016 - Today Harry aded photos to our group photo album. Jk researched other artists logos so we could get inspiration from This to try and think of our own logo for Avenue. Olly and Nathan did a talking walk through of our story board and then uploaded this to edit it and piece it together. Also in the green room Olly and Nathan produced some foley for the writing on paper right at the start of the our music video.

31/10/2016 - This was the first day back after half term. We all looked at the video to refresh our memories about what we had done and what needed doing. Jk got on with the half way evaluation after this which was more of a presentation with a voice over. Olly got on with editing. Nathan got on with the story board and narration over this. Harry did a risk assessment for the science room and finalised some blog work.

01/11/2016 - Today the group worked on basic blog posts to get up to date with what needed doing. Olly also looked at more editing he could do and the footage we had recently shot to see if any good parts were missed.

02/11/2016 - Today we went back to the avenue to film. Harry, Olly and Jk where back in suits. We also did a photo album for our digi pack and got a few photos we could use. When we got back Nathan and Olly uploaded the footage to the computer and we all watch through it. Then we all got on with blog post and kept up to date with what needed doing. We also went to locations around the avenue and got a bit more footage that could be used.

03/11/206 - Today Olly got on with editing the footage from yesterday and put this all together. Harry got photos from each filming day and put together a photo album for all our photos of filming and us working away. Also did a few separate ones foe evidence of filming. Jk produced and continued a prezi for our half way evaluation. Nathan was producing an idea for our video. Also discussed with Olly the plans for our video.

4/11/2016 - Today we had to present our halfway evaluation to the class. We showed what we had for our video and all the other aspects such as website, digi pack, brand image and general information about our band. The class then filled out and sheet to give us feedback on what we could improve on, broken up into each section and how that could be improved. We also watched other groups presentation and gave them feedback.

8/11/2016 - Today we had to look at other classes presentation as they wanted more feedback. We had a good discussion about these and the pother groups benefited from this. At the end we had 15 minutes to finish off blog posts.

10/11/2016 - Today we discussed our group directions and what needed doing again so we could get back on track. Olly mapped put a rough draft on a bit of paper. It gave us all jobs to complete and what we needed to do. We all got back together and were one, once again. After this meeting we all went to our stations and got on with what we needed to do. Jk looked through photos and added to the website. Olly went to complete and finalise the magazine Avenue featured on. Nathan got ideas and started producing our digi pack. Harry got on with blog posts such as feedback.

14/11/2016 - Today was first day back after the weekend and we had plans. Jk updated our website adding photos and making it look better from the feedback we got. Harry got on with feedback from halfway evaluation. Also added photos to the photo album. Nathan added photos to our digi pack to make it more completed and added details. Olly did some touches to our music video and made the magazine cover for Avenue.

15/11/2016 - Today we planned out the filing for tomorrow. We did practise shots of jumping off the chair and shots of the smoke scene. We needed to plan out what we was doing exactly as we only had 2 of each colour smoke bomb and they only last about 30 seconds therefore everything had to be perfect in 2 stakes. We put together a YouTube video of our practise. we also had an idea of doing the Oliver twist side jump where you tap your feet together. Also sliding off a chair which look very good.

16/11/2016 - Today was the big scene we had been planning and had thought of for ages. The sky was blue the sun was out and the grass was green. It was a perfect day to shot. We got suited and booted up then strolled over the back field. We had a few practises with the smoke bombs in hand but not lighting them. Then we filmed through running and what lyrics we needed to sing. The first take we had was through the smokes bombs and planned on jumping through but the wind was high and they didn't reach the height we was thinking. After this we regrouped and then planned to hold them and dance about which looked very good as well. the smoke was no reaching the height and we could see there clear colours.

17/11/2016 - Today Nathan was away on a uni interview so Harry, Olly and Jk got down to work with a few posts. Jk also created the website biography of the group and added the improvements that we got from the feedback. Olly also looked through the footage again to see if he could edit more and finalise the recent editing. Harry also added to the photo album from the footage yesterday and behind the scenes.

18/11/2016 - Nathan was at another uni again today so we got on with basic blog posts. Olly also made a post reflecting on the end chorus's editing idea.

22/11/2016 - Today Olly did a bit of editing as he lost some of his previous attempts. This was not planned as he thought he saved the work but this was not the case Nathan had to edit the smoke onto our digi pack which takes a lot of time. Harry updated the filming feedback and got that uploaded. Jk updated the website further from the feedback.

24/11/2016 - Today we all sat at our computers and got on with work. Nathan carried on with the digi pack and finished off the smoke cloning. Olly got on with editing of our last scenes and got it how he wanted. Jk did the website and the research for the website as he needed new ideas. Harry got on with tour poster research.

25/11/2016 - Olly sat down with our teacher and looked through the footage. They state meed what needed to be improved and changed. Each member of the group also went over and said what they felt about the music video so far. Nathan edited the digi pack and updated some of the parts which could have been better. Harry finished off a few blog posts and then started on the avenue tour poster. Jk added to the website and then tweaked the website research.

28/11/2016 - Today we got in and Olly had to add back in the footage that he had moved and then replace it back in the right position. Jk added to the website after i passed him over the photo album. This added in the gap he was worried about. Nathan had mores ideas for the digi pack and updated this. Harry did updated research on the tour poster as he needed more ideas to include.

29/11/2016 - Today Nathan finalised the digi pack as he will not be in tomorrow and that is the deadline. He stayed after school getting it up to standard. Olly was editing our video adding a few extra parts that could look better. Jk did some website research and added what he had learnt to the website. Harry made 4 drafts of a poster. Each could be used but it was jus creating the correct synergy with the digi pack, brand image and music video.

30/11/2016 - Today all our 1st draft for website, digi pack and video. Nathan wasn't in today so he finished it off yesterday and sent it to miss. Olly was in control of getting the video sorted so he added in fillers that would make up the reminder we hadn't completed yet. Therefore we are not fully happy with the ending. Jk gave the website link to miss as it was all completed. Harry edited some images to pitch to the group for a poster.

01/12/2016 - Today we all had to look at each others websites and give feedback based on the mark scheme. The whole of the group had to do this foe everyone else's. We typed the feedback on word then pasted in the feedback to survey money.

02/12/2016 - Today we had to feedback on the digipacks each group made. We had to emailed this to our teacher then miss would sort out each individual one and give them to each group. After we received this feedback we would make the improvements suggested. On the feedback we had to make this a blog post to reflect and show we was doing peer marking. also we could grab ideas from each other.

6/12/2016 - On this day we did feedback for the first draft of other people music videos. All the feedback was uploaded to our blogs.

8/12/2016 - Today we started to assess our feedback and look for things we could improve. We decided we were going to film an extra section in the gym and decided we were going to get headbands and wristbands for the Mise En Scene.

9/12/2106 - Today we planned the shots we were going to get in the gym scene. We thought about the ropes and the matts and where we could film to be creative and fun. We also set up the risk assessment for this shoot.

12/12/2016 - Today we tidied up our blogs working on unfinished blog posts or improving the blogposts as we waited for the headbands to arrive for our final shoot.

14/12/2016 - We had planned to film today however the headbands still hadn't arrived so we had to postpone the shoot.

15/12/2016 - Today we went and filmed in the gym. We was in full gym wear and headbands and wrist bands to match the colours. This was our last filming day.

16/12/2016 - Olly edited the gym scene with Nathan helping while Joe and Harry continued with blogwork.

20/12/2016 - Last day before Christmas was less productive, we watched other peoples music videos to see the improvements they had made. We had all finished and our group to say the least was thrilled with our end product.

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