Evaluation

Evaluation 

Media evaluation press from charlottesingleton

Final Music Video

Audience Feedback

Music video and audience feedback from face book and youtube

youtube...

Facebook...

As audience feedback is a great help we decided to upload the music video to youtube and also Megan's facebook in order for us to have feedback to work on.
We uploaded our video to youtube and as you can see we had already had 67 views which lets us know people are watching it, we don't have any comments yet but we are not concerned about that as having it on youtube allows easier access to it and allows us to share with people for audience feed back.

On Facebook our friends and family could see the video and comment there feedback although the number of likes is not displayed in the screen shot above I can confirm that it did get quite a lot, we have also had comments from friends who would fit our targeted audience, the fact that we have received posititve comments from people made us feel quite happy about our music video and it was good for us to hear.

Dragonfly Posters

These are the posters for our band and promotion of the album, again the use contrasting images for representation of our band image. They have our logo and alot of band promotion included in them. They are important to be consistant with the music video and the digi-pack. 

Digi Pack Complete

This is my final digi-pack that I have created for the band. The pictures I have included in my digi-pack are all fun edgy type pictures shot with the natural and beautiful surroundings in the back ground i think this is a nice element to have as it sets up the tone of being free and having fun. I not only used photo shop for the editing of the pictures but a website called rollip aswell. Rollip was usefull to help me put effects on the picture such as the bootm left one, bottom right and the centre and top right aswell. I think the subtle use of hearts effect and the sparkle effect just shows our girly inncocent side that we want audiences to feel, the others are high contrasted showing our natural fun side and finaly the top right picture and the black and white one puts an edgy rock feel on the digi-pack. All these elements are exactly what we wanted to portray to the audience.

The use of contrast and black and white was used also in our music video so I have therefore incorporated these elements for consistency as well as representation. All the photos are natural as well in terms of the band,  apart from one photo, we have not staged or posed for the photos we have just let Tolga (the camera man) take photos of us just being ourselves natural. This combines perfectly with the idea of documentary that we have used in our music video and I think this works better than if we had been staged.

The picture that will be on the front cover of the digi pack is the bottom right which shows us as a band from the front looking at the camera but still very natural. The picture next to it in black and white which is the back cover of the band and at the end of the digi-pack. I think it is quite nice how it contrasts the front cover and is a image of us walking away the back of us its ironic how front cover shows our front and back cover shows our backs.

I have included the same font as what will be on the poster, and this is the font that was picked by the audience feedback. T he rough trade logo is placed on the digi-pack as well as  it is the record label for our band, which we also researched into a great deal in the planning stages of the process. And finally our band logo is there so that the audience can recognise us as a band and the logo is sort of our trade mark.

Although I had limited time to create this digi-pack, because i was in charge of editing along with megan, the editing took up the majority of our time. so we had to create our digi-packs quickly but the thought and representation has still been very much considered and i think it has been a success.

Band Logo

This is the logo we have created for our band using photoshop, putting a silhouette of a dragon fly along with our specific font of which we got from Da Font. We think this works as our logo as the black and pink together represents everything we are trying to achieve in terms of our band image. The pink symbolising our girly innocent side and the black representing our edgy rock element. 

This is our trade mark and audiences will recognise us when seeing this logo so i am pleased that it works in the representation. 

Feed Back Of First Screening

As we screened the first draft of our music video in class to the teachers and students in the media department we got them to fill out feed back sheets so that we could establish the points we need inproving. and these are the feedback sheets .....

From the comments we can see that we need to touch up and develop on a few small things overall the feedback was quite good and we are happy with the results. we will be working on each bit to improve.

The Editing Almost Complete 

These shots are from the performance part of the video which will be mostly in the chorus. We have made the shots feel more rocky with the different contrasts in each shot and also we have scattered black and white shots in to add a different refreshing element to it.

New Ideas

 New Ideas 

We decided to use Joley's house to film in as we could achieve a more natural truthful vibe to our video and we will be using the DSLR camera.

We wanted to achieve a documentary styled video with natural shots of the band to show the image and an insight into there life which the target audience would like to see and show that they do normal everyday things. Shots in the car to add something different to it and different angles.

 Shooting at Joley's was so much better and after we had finished we felt better about how it will look in the end because we found it more natural and felt that it fit to our genre more than our previous ideas. It included shots of us hand held filming each other, showing different outfits to wear, talking and laughing, writing the lyrics to our song, natural shots of us in the kitchen having a drink.

Digi Pack Ideas

Digi Pack Ideas 

I found this website Rollip were you can edit and photo you like with lots of different effects and filters it has really helped me in making each photo different and unique to fit our bands vibe, as well as photoshop. This was quick and easy to do and I really liked using it.

I have taken this screen shot to show the evidence of what I have been doing each picture has been carefully selected out of the photo shoot pictures that we took in the park I want to use the picture in the bottom right hand corner as the front of the album cover and the picture next to it as the back of the album cover. I think this would be quite nice as you see the front of the band and then the back of the band so it fits nicely with were the pictures are located on the album.

Digi Pack Ideas

Digi Pack Ideas 

These photos I edited in photoshop are my practice ones so that I can get used to the program and therefore be able to use different effects for my final digi pack idea.

New Photo Shoot

New Photo Shoot 

Change of location

We decided to change our location of filming it was previously meant to be filmed in greenwich park but we then decided to change location and tested it firstly in belvedere in a deserted road. We started to edit the footage we had when realising it was not the right footage that we wanted and it didn't portray our band image in the way we wanted to it also did not conform to any other conventions we had seen on a pop rock music video.


With that in mind we decided to transform our original idea keeping the performance element as the chorus however making the verses more of a documentary style footage of the band showing a bit more about there lives and who there are, exactly what fans want to see. We are shooting in Joely's house and going to film it hand held so it looks like a documentary style.

Editing

Edititng 

These are a few screen shots of the different shot types in our first chorus. We have edited it all together so that the lip syncing is in time with the words we have also put a lot of shots in as the song is very fast paced and edgy and we wanted to portray this in the video. the first chorus is of the performance element of the band so we have shot this footage as if we are preforming to an audience at a gig or concert. The lighting is darker as we wanted to show the edgy pop/rock atmosphere. Liking the idea of random black and white shots we added a few here and there to the editing we have done so far just because we thought it added a refreshing different element to the video.

filming

FILMING 

Yesterday we asked the head of the music department if we could take out the drum kit and guitars as we had problems the other day were they didn't let us. He said it was absolutely fine and that it was not the other teachers decision he has told us we can. We was pleased with this as it meant we could get on with what we had to do, filming the chorus (the performance bit) of the video.

Today we all got together after school with the HD camera and tri-pod. we went to the room that we had previously booked out yesterday and got the instruments to set up in the room. After setting up we shot lots of footage so that we had alot to work with and different angles. The filming went very well and we managed to get alot done. We will be shooting on location in due course.

PROBLEMS IN OUR FILMING

PROBLEMS IN OUR FILMING

In the filming that we done on tuesday after school we had a problem occur. We arranged to use the drum kit from music with the teacher however when we went to get it the teacher we asked was in a meeting and the other teacher would not let us use them.
We ended up shooting the shots of me and Megan with the guitars and did as much as we could in the circumstances.

Production Plan

PRODUCTION PLAN.

Wednesday 9^th January:

Sorting out our production plan.

Booked the camera and equipment.

Checked weather forecast.

Friday 11^th January:

Filming!

Edwin Close, Bexleyheath, Kent.

8:30am- 11:00am

Filming the first part of our storyboards.

Costumes:

Megan- Casual dress or skirt and top, tights, shoes, denim jacket.

Charlotte- Jeans, nice top, shoes

Joely- Skirt, flowery top, shoes, tights.

Monday 14^th January:

Period 5. Editing the footage we filmed on the 11^th.

Tuesday 15^th January:

Filming. After school, from 3:00pm on wards.

Wednesday 16^th January:

Editing the footage we have.

More to be added…

POTENTIAL DIGI PACK IDEA

Here we have taken photos on the photo shoot we done the other day. the reason it looks different and more effective is because Megan used her phone app Instagramto play around with the lighting and effect of the photo. We chose this photo in particular as we though it had a girly fun vibe about it. the colours are lovely and soft and the picture itself, positioning and look of it is quite unique which we liked. Editing this photo was good practice for us as we are adding in instagram photos in our actual music video. the boarder makes it look more professional and we are considering it to be used in our Digi-packs.

Photo Shoot.

OUR PHOTO SHOOT