tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58794025668272239862024-03-13T12:28:27.710-07:00Emilio Francischelli's Media Blog~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-58853967303928251612018-01-05T02:31:00.001-08:002018-03-05T16:55:35.528-08:00Evaluation Question 1: In what ways does your media product use, develop, or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">All three of my main media products use, develop, and challenge the forms and conventions of their real-world counterparts in various different ways. The main product is our group's "Sweet Dream" music video, the second is our digipak album cover, and the third is the website for our artist "The Acrylics."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This Prezi will take you through the answer to this question with regards to my music video. You can control it using the embedded control icons or your arrow keys and/or mouse, or click the icon in the bottom-right corner for a larger view. No matter how or where you view the Prezi, the controls should be the same.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hopefully that presentation told you everything you wanted to know about using, developing, and challenging forms and conventions in my music video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">For the website, I will answer the question using this Padlet. It allows me to put images in a long column to mimic the layout of the website (each of these images can be enlarged for better viewing) while making branches off of these images to describe how my website uses, develops, and challenges forms and conventions. You can use the scroll bars as well as your mouse to move around and interact, or alternatively scroll past the Padlet and click the icon to open the Padlet in another window if you would prefer to view it that way (if you open the Padlet in another tab, the images within the Padlet should open larger when you click them also.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Click the below image to open the above Padlet in a new window, for a more fullscreen experience with less use of the scroll bars, particularly the horizontal one, and the ability to see the full resolution of images once you click on them within the Padlet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">However you chose to view it, hopefully the Padlet will have answered this post's main question for you in regards to my website.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final webtool of this post is an answer to the question in regards to my digipak. It is a Google Slides presentation, which is more visually appealing than a regular presentation, and which integrates directly into this post. You can use the icons or the arrow keys to scroll through the presentation at your leisure, even pausing the presentation if you dislike the autoscroll feature, and you can open it in fullscreen for optimal viewing using the hollow square icon second from the right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hopefully this webtool will have enlightened you on how my digipak uses, develops, and challenges the conventions of real-world album covers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Now that you are at the end of the post, you should have an understanding of how my music video, website, and digipak all use, develop, and challenge the forms and conventions of real media products. You can go back and visit any of the webtools at any time.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-23454863188067824302018-01-05T02:30:00.001-08:002018-02-14T18:28:52.575-08:00Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">To create a successful campaign, all the media products must combine effectively and all work together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This webtool will go over how my main product, the music video, and one of my two ancillary products, here the digipak, work together e</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">ffectively. It is a Mindomo mindmap. You can scroll around using the mouse and zoom using the bottom right icons, or click the bottom left icon to fullscreen it in a new tab.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hopefully this has explained all the ways my music video and digipak work together, and how effective this is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This next webtool is a Slides presentation. It will describe how my music video and the other main ancillary product, the website, combine effectively. Please click the fullscreen icon in the bottom right for optimal viewing, and please note should you need a larger view of any image you can right-click it and open it in a new tab where you can then even magnify it further, although you will have to exit the fullscreen mode of the presentation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">That webtool should have explained how effective all the ways these media products have combined are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall I think all my media products works really well together and create an effective campaign.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-46299886473513066282018-01-05T02:28:00.000-08:002018-02-16T19:58:07.659-08:00Evaluation Question 3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We consulted our target audience throughout the project and for each of our products to ensure we were doing the right thing to achieve our goals of providing an enjoyable artist and media products to this same audience. We sought, gained, and used audience feedback in various different ways and for various different reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">A short summary profile of our target audience would be as follows: a young British person, from their young teens to early-to-mid twenties, most likely but not exclusively female, who enjoys the Indie Pop genre and embraces all the conventions, quirks, and lifestyle influences that come from this, to do with the music and media products themselves, but also to do with the stylish hipster fashion and upbeat aesthetic across it all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">This first webtool chronicles audience feedback for the music video, which is also (by virtue of the music video being the main product) the journey of audience feedback in relation to our artist overall somewhat. It is a Prezi which you can go through at your leisure and experience each section. Please click the fullscreen icon in the bottom right corner to view it, and then you can use your arrow keys or one of the onscreen options to move through it. You can also play and pause the audio and video files.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Hopefully that told you everything you wanted to know about our relationship with audience feedback throughout this aspect of the project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">This next webtool is a Padlet about audience feedback in relation to our digipak. It covers each stage of the project and the approach we took, as well as what we learned from each. You can either scroll inside the box below, or scroll past it inside this blog post and click the below image, which will open the Padlet fullscreen in a new tab for optimal viewing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Here is the image you can click to take you to the fullscreen Padlet. You can click any image to enlarge it, and use the play and pause functions on the audio and video.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Hopefully that webtool will have explained the collection, use, and findings of audience feedback in relation to the album cover throughout this project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">This final webtool is a Mindomo mindmap serving the same function as the previous two webtools but for the website instead of the music video or digipak. Scrolling is done with the mouse and zooming using the bottom right icons; click the bottom left icon to fullscreen it in a new tab for optimal viewing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The webtool should have explained everything relevant about audience feedback in relation to this part of the project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall I think audience feedback has been important for our project, having an impact on each product at each major stage, and it has all turned out the better for it.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-38868865314117338312018-01-05T02:27:00.000-08:002018-02-25T12:19:59.542-08:00Evaluation Question 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning, and evaluation stages?<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Our group was lucky enough to be doing this project in the modern age. This allowed us access to a wealth of media technologies, with only the good older technology surviving and the bad things having been cut out by now, and with a plethora of new technology to choose from. This applied to every stage of our project, and practically everything we chose to use was incredibly useful in its own way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The following Slides webtool will take you through some examples of the new, modern media technologies which we used throughout the construction phase, as well as how and why they were so good. Click the bottom right icon for optimal fullscreen viewing, and use the provided arrows or your arrow keys to navigate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The webtool should hopefully have been enough to describe the depth and breadth of the kinds of new media technology we used in the construction phase.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">For the research stage, we used quite a few different technologies. Some of these were quite basic pieces of technology that are considered basic and essential for a reason, and others were more specific and purpose-made for exactly what we needed them for. This Google Slides presentation will take you through some of these. You can fullscreen it for optimal viewing with the 'empty square' icon, and move through it with your arrow keys or the integrated arrow icons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">That webtool should have explained to you how we have used various different platforms and technologies to our advantage while doing research for this project.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">This webtool will walk you through what we used in the planning stage. We took advantage of both old and new technologies in this stage, sometimes combining them for the greatest effect and efficiency. All of this is explained in the Padlet, which can either be scrolled through in this box, or you can move past it in this blogpost and click the image below, which opens it fullscreen in a new window for optimal viewing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">That should have explained most of the ways we used new media technologies during the planning stage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The following Prezi explains some of the new media technologies we used in this very set of evaluation posts. We re-evaluated the use of previously used technologies as well as embracing entirely new ones (relative to this project.) Click the fullscreen icon in the bottom right for optimal viewing, and then use the arrow keys or onscreen arrow icons to navigate, or your mouse if you would like.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">That should have explained the diversity of new media technologies in the evaluation stage, as well as the diversity of how we used them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Overall, various new media technologies helped us throughout the entire project. Sometimes the old technologies proved why they were still around, but having access to the fruits of the modern age still really helped us every step of the way due to ease of use, accessibility and flexibility, and so on.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-61412843192354813732017-12-22T18:17:00.006-08:002018-01-29T02:47:35.270-08:00Construction Post 6: Editing the website<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The third and final product of the construction phase would be the website. Jack was leading this project- as with the other stages, the leader did the majority of the basic work with lots of input from the other two group members, who also helped out. In this case me and Noa were the helpers, and we helped not only by doing some website editing, but also by creating various elements for the website, especially in the final week when we had both mostly finished off our products and Jack needed an extra boost from us. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The website was built using Wix, an online website creation software with the ability to edit your website and then publish it live, with Photoshop used to create various images to be used to actually build the site within the browser. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Website editing consisted of creating various pages and website elements, and linking them all together. We have a pop-up, a home-page, and a few supplementary pages that can be accessed from the relevant sections of the main page- for example, clicking the competition image takes the viewer to the special competition page. The home page is built of lots of small sections, including one for the debut video, one for the album, one for the gallery, one for the merchandise shop, and so on.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Eji_9I9YrLQ/Wj_p0zzbALI/AAAAAAAAHP0/gXPyyS_Wmd0SJQxf7imfSBOBb9oxgLGHQCPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Adobe%2BMaster%2BCollection%2BCS5-%2BPhotoshop.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1600" height="216" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Eji_9I9YrLQ/Wj_p0zzbALI/AAAAAAAAHP0/gXPyyS_Wmd0SJQxf7imfSBOBb9oxgLGHQCPcBGAYYCw/s400/Adobe%2BMaster%2BCollection%2BCS5-%2BPhotoshop.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Photoshop CS5 had been a very important tool to us throughout this entire project. It was the only software used for the digipak, went beyond its standard uses of image editing to aid in video editing and animation for the music viceo, and for the website it helped us create virtually every element of all the pages. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Challenges</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A few problems came up during this stage. The main one was the sheer number of images needed on top of the actual framework of the website- the video, for example, had all the footage already available, and the digipak required image editing but also had the basic template already in place. Thus we had to manage time well to have enough for all three projects, with Jack trying to stay ahead to save us time (which he did well) and Noa and I trying to not neglect our own products while aiding Jack (which we managed to do.) Breaking up the work over the multiple weeks we had, and Jack assigning us things to make for him so he could focus on other stuff and know he would have access to another image later on without having to work on it himself or worry, both really helped us overcome this challenge and get all three products done in time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another thing we had to contend with was the way Wix works. Sometimes, we had a plan for something, often something quite conventional, but Wix didn't have a one-step tool for it. For example, if we wanted an image to change when the mouse cursor touched it, yet still be a link to somewhere else, we couldn't just use the button tool- we had to make an invisible link box over an image box. Wix is a great website and piece of software, but it came with a learning curve, especially since we hadn't used it in any other projects throughout the years, although we overcame each issue as they came and still managed to have everything the way we originally envisioned it, and we were all quite proficient by the end.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>My Contributions</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My contributions included making four or five of the merchandise images, making some of the general website pictures, coming up with the idea for a coloured outline to appear around each band member when selected with the cursor, suggesting we move each section of the home page apart more to aid in reading them as separate things, finalising the details of the contest, general work and aiding in decisions and design, and more.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0derEa7awH4/WkBGqKeGmXI/AAAAAAAAHS4/LTXRBzAJppQ_FHR6CaHGpQIlGZF0A7MvwCLcBGAs/s1600/Website%2BGallery%2BOutline%2BGuy%2BChapman%2BExample.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="561" data-original-width="1600" height="140" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0derEa7awH4/WkBGqKeGmXI/AAAAAAAAHS4/LTXRBzAJppQ_FHR6CaHGpQIlGZF0A7MvwCLcBGAs/s400/Website%2BGallery%2BOutline%2BGuy%2BChapman%2BExample.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'gallery' section of the website. I have scrolled over the image of myself with the mouse cursor (which has disappeared for the screenshot,) revealing the yellow outline and my character's name. The others have not been scrolled over, and thus are just normal images, but they each have their own unique coloured outline and name if selected in the same manner. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An example of merchandise I created for the online shop. I created each of these separately and saved them as different files, but also made this images with both of them to act as a promo thumbnail image- people will see this in the shop, understand they can purchase an 'Acrylics' branded oyster card holder in multiple colours, and then click the listing and view the individual holder colours through the listing's gallery. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Feedback and Changes</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">We changed the website quite a lot as we progressed, basing the changes on our own adaptations as well as audience feedback, as with the other products. One thing we changed was the obviousness of the contest- an audience member mentioned they wanted to know about it soon after reaching the website instead of having to work more to find it, so we added a link to the contest page to the image gallery at the top of the main page. This solved the problem straight away and ensures people will be more likely to get drawn in quicker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another thing we changed was the start screen. We hadn't decided if we were going to have a start screen or a pop-up when we made a flat-plan, as we considered them interchangeable. However, both our target audience and our teachers seemed to agree that a pop-up that doesn't require a change of page is a much better option. Thus, after finding out about this, we added the pop-up.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our website's pop-up. You can see the 'X' to close it in the corner, and through the semi-transparent background you can see the main homepage- clicking the 'X' simply closes the overlay, and leaves you on this homepage, with no need to redirect to a new webpage. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A third change would be the separation of the 'about' and 'gallery' sections. We originally had them be the same thing- clicking the information box about a band member would open their gallery. However, we found some of our audience who we had try out the website missed this too easily, and thus we added a dedicated gallery lower down the page, with a link to it on the navbar, but still left in the links in the 'about' section. Thus, people who want to click the information boxes to see more are accommodated, but people who don't realise that is an option but still want to see images have a clearly signposted gallery to visit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Progress</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall I think the website was a success. While it ended up taking us the longest out of all three, and we could probably have learned a bit more of Wix on the weekends before the product construction weeks, we still managed to produce a website very much in line with our original ideas, that looks good and is very functional. We used Wix to its fullest extent and produced something we are all proud of.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-58135012217357229912017-12-22T18:17:00.004-08:002018-01-29T02:37:42.285-08:00Construction Post 5: Editing the digipak<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The digipak was the second product we needed to create for the project- it is essentially all four sides of our album cover, the two outside and two inside, in one Photoshop document within a special template. Noa lead this project, although me and Jack were constantly giving feedback and suggesting ideas and changes, while helping to make important decisions- we also took over from Noa a few times, and did small but significant amounts of work on top of the majority she did, which were key to its completion by the deadline.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The main tool used for editing the digipak was Photoshop- the template we worked off of was a Photoshop file, and we simply saved a copy of it with our changes as we progressed. We used a few different techniques to create the digipak- we chose studio shots of each of us for the front cover, and opened them in their own documents. Then we trimmed out the background, and used Photoshop's various edge options to smooth out any mistakes. Then we graded each person and put them in. We created various other elements for the digipak, such as ripped paper for the front, a colourful swirling background, and even a whole new set of photos from an extra photoshoot we planned and carried out over a few days to get the inside cover images. We chose various fonts to match the style we wanted, and carried over some of these (along with certain colours and other design choices) to the website. We used Photoshop's layering and masking tools to keep each page of the album cover within its assigned box on the template.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Photoshop CS5 from the Adobe Master Collection suite of software- the template we were given for the digipak was a Photoshop .psd file, which we saved our own copy of. Any extra images we needed were edited in separate Photoshop files and then imported into the main one.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Challenges</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We came across a fair few challenges while putting together our digipak. One big challenge was the technical difficulties we came across- for some reason, Noa's computer started acting up midway through the process. We tried many different things to get it to stop slowing down, and start responding to key presses and requests to open files, even enlisting the help of the media technician and school IT department. However, we eventually decided to save time and just have Jack and Noa swap computers. As Jack was working inside a browser, he had a lot less problems with the computer, while Noa got to move to a computer without any issues. This was an efficient and effective way of nullifying what could have been a very drawn-out and destructive problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another challenge we faced was how to include the title of the album in a way that didn't obstruct the focal image of the album cover, i.e. the band members, but still made the title very visible. We had planned to put it in the corner above the band members on our flat plan, but actually creating the album and seeing how it worked in real life made us realise we didn't have enough space. Thus, we decided on having the effect of a line of ripped paper at the top, with a smaller one below, and the band members in between. The top line of ripper paper provided a blank space for the title to be centralised and obvious, and the space between the paper retained focus on the band members contained within it. Plus, the paper adds to our DIY aesthetic. We thus adapted to the challenges and changing ideas that arose when we created the digipak.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>My Contributions</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My contributions to this product include doing some of the basic work when Noa wasn't available and it needed to be done, suggesting various ideas and collaborating on important decisions, having the idea on how to create the colourful swirly background we ended up using, bringing in my camera and a lot of props for the photoshoot for the inside cover (having the inside cover be an interesting spread of items over a table was also my idea back in the planning stages,) suggesting some of the primary colours for the dominant colour scheme across the digipak, and more.</span><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L1E3D89G_S0/WkBBtDbHdgI/AAAAAAAAHSg/Aj0VpfIE7vAzbbzOIKger74xu-rdz5T5gCLcBGAs/s1600/Album%2BInside%2BCover%2BPhoto%2BExample.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="901" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-L1E3D89G_S0/WkBBtDbHdgI/AAAAAAAAHSg/Aj0VpfIE7vAzbbzOIKger74xu-rdz5T5gCLcBGAs/s400/Album%2BInside%2BCover%2BPhoto%2BExample.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An example of one of the photos we took for the inside covers of the album. I brought in a lot of the photos, as well as the phone, colourful abstract ball, vintage camera, and the camera used to take the photo. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Feedback and Changes</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we progressed through the creation of the digipak, we changed our ideas and received lots of feedback, which helped us reach a better final product. One of the first changes of this kind, and one of the biggest, was the move from having the band members go from large to small along the front like the flatplan, to instead having them in a straight line. We did it as the flatplan described at first, but realised something was wrong, yet couldn't think of any interesting alternatives. Audience members pointed out that, instead of what we currently had, just having the same images in a straight line would look quite good. Thus we proceeded with the ripped paper change mentioned above- we only had to create the paper effect, and didn't have to choose and edit different images of the band members. A side effect of these changes was to also make each band member more visible and recognisable through the move from full body longshots to midshots between the paper strips, especially the ones who were on the smaller end on the original design. This ended all our problems with the front cover in one fell swoop.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A segment of our album flatplan, showing the original descending size order, with Casey and Hugh as the two biggest. When we came to create this, multiple people confirmed our fears that the last two band members were too small. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our final album cover, showing everyone in a line. It is still interesting like the flatplan was, but the people are much more recognisable. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another piece of feedback we received from our target audience was to make everything easier to recognise and read. We accomplished this in a few different ways. We found a font for the back cover that included black blocks around the text, which drastically increased readability. We then also upped the brightness and saturation of the inside cover image to make everything stand out more. This both made everything a lot easier to look at, and brought certain elements more in line with the style of the front cover. The audience responded positively to these changes</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final change we made was to make the legal information a lot clearer. We were told by our teachers that important images such as the record label logo as well as the barcode and similar weren't very obvious, and after a few test prints one of the staff noticed that they were outside of the acceptable template borders for the digipak too. Thus we simply responded by re-organising everything, putting a strip of legal information at a good size across the bottom of the back of the album cover, and having all the track names above it. This both eliminated the issue of not having all the legal information in a good format, as well as the sizing issues with the template that might have ruined the final printing.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The back of our album cover, showing both the clear track names in their black blocks, as well as the obvious strip of legal information, including record label logos and barcode, across the bottom. Black and white makes these elements stand out against the colourful background. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Progress</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall I think the digipak creation went well. While we could have decided on a better position for the band members before proceeding with the creation of the digipak, and while we could have saved even more time by swapping computers at the first sign of an issue rather than pushing onwards and seeing what happened for a short time, overall we responded to every change we thought we needed to make, and ended up with a good looking digipak which fulfilled everything we wanted and needed it to.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-60151728916364550612017-12-22T18:17:00.002-08:002018-01-29T02:19:03.230-08:00Construction Post 4: Editing the music video<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When we moved onto making the three main products of the project for the last few weeks of construction, we decided to assign leadership roles for each one. Jack is most proficient with Wix, having done the most work with it previously and over the last Summer, and thus was given the website. Me and Noa are probably both equally proficient at Premiere and Photoshop- however, I had some ideas for special effects for the video that I already knew how to do (whereas Noa didn't,) and Noa has more knowledge of masks in Photoshop than I do (which are a big part of editing the digipak,) and thus I lead the video editing while she lead the digipak editing. These leadership roles meant we were always making good use of time- if any of us had time allocated to media, we immediately knew which product to default to and work on. The leaders of each project did the majority of the legwork for each aspect, and made smaller decisions as they went along, while all three of us collaborated on the ideas and design and so on for each, and we made important decisions as a group. We did, however, all move around and work on each part of the project though- when someone had a particularly good idea for a product they weren't leading, or when extra work was needed for a certain product to keep it up with the other two, or so we could all learn how to use each program and put our own unique touches on each product, and so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As mentioned before, I lead the creation of the music video. Creation of the video was accomplished through the Adobe Master Collection CS5 suite of programs- Premiere for the actual editing, and Photoshop for certain special effects which were then imported into the Premiere video. Having everything laid out in a timeline in Premiere was very beneficial to the process of building up the video alongside the music track, and I learned a lot about the various tools and effects that could be dragged onto clips in the timeline to tweak lighting and add transitions and so on. In Photoshop, I expanded on my knowledge of what Photoshop could be used for- for example, I knew about viewing videos and animations using the 'animation' window and other tools, as well as how to create them using these same tools, but until this project I hadn't actually created any.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Challenges</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We hit many challenges throughout the video creation process. One of the biggest and almost constant challenges was fitting in lip-sync across the entire video, while still using a good variety of shots. This necessitated cleverly choosing the right parts from our large range of takes, and fitting them in amongst the narrative shots, to create the kind of video we wanted. As our video is a hybrid of narrative and performance, both sides are equally important, so we had to make sure we had enough lip-sync throughout to balance and tie together the constantly changing narrative. The two best methods I discovered for overcoming this challenge were matching up the audio waveforms from the song and the clip, and cutting on obvious syllables by watching Noa's lips, and then matching that to the same syllable in the song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another challenge was how to make the narrative flow alongside the performance. The performance was carried by the progression of the song, but the narrative had to fit in with it and play in between and beside it while still remaining coherent. Different techniques were used- changing between scenes at certain points in the song, where the song rises or falls or the lyrics have some significance, using white flashes and other effects to show the jump between different places, and of course intensifying the coloured lights using grading so as to differentiate where and when different scenes are taking places, amongst other things. Overall I think both aspects of the music video really work well together, and blend together into one coherent video that both shows off the band's performance and tells a story.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A segment from our music video. It shows the narrative transition from 'Singing in the Rain' to 'Sergeant Pepper,' and then the use of the slot machine as part of the 'Sergeant Pepper' narrative. Alongside this there are multiple shots of the band as well as the singer lip-syncing. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>My Contributions</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My contributions to this product include doing the majority of the legwork- I decided what clips would look best when, cut and put in most of the clips, did most of the grading, put in most of the transitions and effects, synced everything up, and so on. I also used my knowledge to create the more visually dynamic pieces of the video- I created the trichromy shots by putting three clips into Photoshop and removing the colour channels from them to create a single composite video clip with 'colour ghosts.' In the previous stages of planning and construction, I worked towards creating these shots, by getting a slot to film footage for them onto our shootboard, and then directing everyone on where and how to stand and move to create the best footage for when I came to create the effect in Photoshop. I also created the explosion animations for the fight scene using Photoshop's animation tools, and more.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A sequence from our music video. It shows the blinking flash transition between the normal band shots and the trichromy shots, some of the different kinds of trichromy shots (longshots and close-ups, for example,) and it also shows the flash transition between the 'Mortal Kombat' narrative and 'Apartment' narrative. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The 'Mortal Kombat' fight scene from our music video. You can see the practical effects we used, as well as the explosion animation I created, and even the fast blinking cut effect I used at the end of the shot of me playing the drums. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Feedback and Changes</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we progressed through the creation of this product, we developed our ideas and plans for what it should look like. We solidified certain ideas once it became apparent they would work well, and changed others based on our own better ideas as well as feedback.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A good example of this would be the shot when Casey has entered 'Alice in Wonderland' and sees herself in the mirror, revealing her costume has changed. We planned for this shot to be tricky, and actually filmed two versions. We first tried the most visually striking version, in which the camera is zoomed in on Casey's face, and it zooms out revealing it was zoomed in on her reflection in the mirror. However, teachers we showed the video to stated this shot was too dark, even after grading, so we changed to the other version of the shot in which the camera starts at a midshot of Casey in the mirror and tilts around to show a midshot of Casey herself. This shot was a lot nicer looking both before and after the grade, was suitably dynamic through the camera movement, and got a lot better reactions from the audience.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The old, unsuccessful costume transition shot. No matter what we did with grading and other tools, it always looked either too dark or too washed out at the beginning, and we didn't think any of the takes looked particularly good in terms of movement and speed and so on either. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another thing we changed, this time based on audience feedback, was the amount of dancing and fun movements we had in the video. After being told to include more of this by some of our target audience, we put more of the 'Singing in the Rain' shots in, as well as more of the relevant 'Sergeant Pepper' shots in. This was before we had reached the end party scene, so we ensured we had enough dancing and movement when we got to that as well. People generally responded well to these changes, with the people who had suggested the changes saying they preferred the new version and others seeing it for the first time saying they liked the energy of the video as well as the video overall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One very big change we had to make based on both our own realisations after finishing the first draft and looking back at it, as well as feedback from primary audience members such as fellow media students and secondary audience members such as the media staff, was to make the video a lot faster. This consisted of finding certain moments where not much was going on, such as between lines or even between words where Noa wasn't performing a particularly interesting movement, as well as finding certain shots that just seemed slower or that lasted for a second or two without any particular changes. We then put various quick cut-aways into these places, resulting in a new draft purged of slower or less interesting visuals and more full of dynamic visuals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Progress</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall, I think editing the video was a success. We adapted to new ideas and feedback over the multiple weeks, and I finished the video in time for the deadline. While I think we could have had slightly better lighting at points (I think the 'Sergeant Pepper' and 'Alice in Wonderland' lighting is a bit similar at times, although I fixed this as much as I could with grading and believe it is an issue with how we filmed it,) and we could have used actual cardboard to create animations for the fight scene (I made the Photoshop animation look as much like cardboard as I could, but it was a later addition so we couldn't do anything physically,) everything still came out great, and we tackled every issue we came across and found creative solutions to them. The result is a very interesting video both matching our plans and excelling our collective vision for what it was going to be, and I am very proud of it.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-35208464110506930732017-12-22T18:16:00.006-08:002018-01-29T02:07:54.797-08:00Construction Post 3: Week 3 video and photo shoots<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The third week of production was mostly finishing planning for our outdoor promo shots, and then carrying out these plans, all in the span of the one week we had allocated for this. This presented its own set of challenges in comparison to the studio promo shoot- while we no longer had as strict timing for when we could take the photos, we were also no longer using a controlled environment in school. We thus had to plan just as much as with the other promo shots, just for different reasons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Challenges</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had to get permission from our teachers to leave school during a lesson, and then stay out of school through the end of that lesson into some shared free periods which we had scheduled for media use back at the start of the project. Then we had to get permission from the school office in order to leave the premises during school hours. We thus had to make sure we got everything ready quickly and efficiently so we could do everything properly and officially while still having enough time to take a variety of photos. We arrived to school in most of our costume, as the costumes consisted of normal clothes designed to look like something our characters would wear, and I provided the photography equipment as I do it outside of school as a hobby- this meant we had one less thing to organise in school and sign off for, as we didn't have to use any of media's equipment. We then used the area around the school as the location for our first shoot, since we had London streets, a park, and a bus stop to work with just a couple of streets away from school at max. Thus we overcame the challenge of staying on time even with all the extra preparation needed but still getting all the photos we wanted.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our second challenge was finding a wider variety of photos to get. We decided to use the weekend to go to Whitechapel, an area further into London not too far from any of us, and then take photos with our phones instead of dedicated cameras, to mimic the look of the band going out. This came with its own challenges, such as organising ourselves without in-school meetings, and travelling into London, but we overcame these and reaped the benefits of more photos, which were more candid than our previous pictures, all in a new location, and in the evening too, and we even had the chance to get Tom in some more photos, as he could not attend the previous shoot around the school in Edmonton. Thus we managed to get a very large variety of shots across both shoots in the span of a week.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A candid 'selfie' taken by Noa as Casey with the rest of us acting as our characters too. This kind of shot is important as it further reinforces our band's identity, shows them as real people going out into London like any group of friends might, and includes Tom who up to this point had been slightly underrepresented in the photoshoots. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>My Contributions</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I contributed to this stage of the project as I have done for all stages. I was an actor in all of the shots, both by myself in solo shots and interacting with Noa and Jack (and later Tom) as their characters for further characterisation and interesting promotional shots. I took a lot of the photos, as Noa was in more photos than either me or Jack as she is the main personality of the band, and thus required one of us to be using the camera, and because Noa and Jack were often in photos together as part of their sibling personas, necessitating myself being on the camera. I also provided my own photography equipment for group use as a way of saving some time and effort by bypassing the need to use the media department's equipment. I provided two lenses, and got to learn how to use the second lens which I had only recently acquired- I used it to take some interesting headshots of both Noa and Jack, that were very different than the standard shots and which were unattainable in the studio shoot or with the other lens, and which I learned how to do while out shooting. I of course also helped plan and organise everything.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A shot of Noa and Jack at an Edmonton bus stop, taken by me. We needed a lot of photos like this, as they are important in playing up the relationship between their two characters, and thus I had to take them as the remaining group member. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A photo I took of Noa using the second lens I had, with a blurry background effect unachievable with my camera's standard 'kit' lens or in one of the studios. Shots like this are an example of how we pushed ourselves and learned how to experiment with the equipment more when doing our first ever outdoors shoot. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Audience Feedback</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our audience told us to get some more candid shots than were possible in the studio- this, combined with teacher advice to get more candid shots that we had already received, lead us to doing the Whitechapel shoot, which was a benefit to us as it provided a lot more and varied material to work with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We were also told by some target audience members</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> to play up the personality of the front of the band, which for us is the singer. This is one of the things that lead us to taking lots of pictures of Noa acting as Casey, as well as lots of pictures of her interacting with Jack as her character's brother, to further her personality.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall I think this week was a success. We expanded on the success of the previous photography week by getting another swathe of images, very different to the last week's images, and different between both of this week's shoots. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While we could have found more opportunities in Whitechapel, we still managed to best the darker conditions and take some good nighttime photos to supplement our Edmonton photos.</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We responded to the unique challenges of each shoot, while adapting based on our own ideas and audience feedback, and obtained a lot of material for the website and, crucially, our band's social medias, where outdoor shots will form the majority of photos posted instead of studio shots. We ended up with a large variety of shots to serve us well in the rest of the project.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-4251112896338398452017-12-22T18:16:00.003-08:002018-01-29T02:00:28.245-08:00Construction Post 2: Week 2 video and photo shoots<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Week 2 of production and construction consisted in part of planning for the future weeks of photos and editing, but mainly of planning and then carrying out the photo shoots for our album cover shots, as well as our various studio promotional shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had the small photography studio set up in the media department available to us some of this week, having to share it with one other group, the third group being in the main studio. The photography studio consisted of a small collapsible white screen, a camera on a tripod, and multiple lights synced up to the camera, with various diffusers and settings available. The first challenge was learning how to use all of this new equipment, which we all tackled very well with the help of the technician- we were proficient in its use quick enough to get all the images we needed.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me from the studio photoshoot. Note the dark clothing- this is because I have not yet changed into my costume, which is a lot brighter, as we are currently learning and experimenting with the equipment, so we don't run into snags and issues later, speeding up the whole process. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first problem we encountered when shooting commenced was the availability of Tom. While us group members had already marked down when we were all available at the very beginning of the project, Tom wasn't as tied to it as us, and had his own commitments. We thus had to plan around when he was available- this meant we had a lot less time for his shots, but by maximising the time we did have by using all possible slots he was available, we ensured we got lots of images of him and nullified any danger of missing out on key pictures needed for the digipak and also the website.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Another challenge was the limited time we had overall- as we were sharing the studio with another group, and the studio was set up in a media classroom needed for other things unrelated to the music video project, we had limited chances to be in there. This further impacted the problem of finding time for Tom, but even with that out of the way, we had to be very efficient in order to take lots of pictures of all three of us main group members in the estimated two days we had.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My own contributions were similar to that of my fellow group members. I was one of the four people being photographed, and I had to stay in character as Guy Chapman as well as changing costumes so as to ensure some variety. I had to figure out a variety of poses, adapting them based on what feedback I was receiving both from my group while actually shooting and from the audience when getting feedback between shoot sessions. This resulted in me doing some calmer poses to better reflect the professional look the album and website need to have, as well as the more energetic ones I was already doing as part of Guy Chapman's characterisation. Outside of acting, I also took a lot of photos. When I was on camera, I directed the lighting, and also moved it around myself- the directions the lights were pointing had to be adjusted based on what the photos looked like, in order to finally reach the perfect photo. I also did the framing and composition of all the photos I took, working in tandem with the actor I was photographing, whom I directed to get the shots I needed. I took a lot of photos of Noa, Jack, and Tom, many of which ended up in the final products.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of Noa and Jack acting as Casey and Hugh, showing off their characters' sibling relationship. This relationship is very important to the identity of our band, and appears throughout the products- thus it was important to get photos such as these, which were taken by me, as of course both Noa and Jack had to be in the photos, and Tom wasn't a group member and wasn't available much besides. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Audience and Teacher Feedback</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After talking to our audience, who said some of our more conventional pictures were sometimes a bit boring, we decided we needed more options for the digipak. This ended up being a very good decision, as we ended up using some of the less normal and more dynamic shots when we came to creating the final digipak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another piece of feedback was that we were told by a teacher, who was familiar with the process of taking studio photographs and so on, to look more candid- we facilitated this by having conversations while shooting and having the photographer take pictures at surprising moments. This improved the overall quality of almost all of our shots.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>Our Progress</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ultimately the second week was a success. Despite the limited time by the week's end we had a lot of professional-looking studio photos for our album and website. As we went along we faced and overcame many challenges, and implemented many changes, some of which we decided on ourselves, and some of which we received as feedback. </span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While we could possibly have gotten some more full-body shots, overall we still got everything we needed, and to a very high standard as well, to be carried into the next stages of the project and facilitate their success in turn- the next construction stages are a lot harder without quality material to work from.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-41730064243442669072017-12-22T18:16:00.000-08:002018-01-29T01:54:48.905-08:00Construction Post 1: Week 1 video and photo shoots<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first week of construction was the shoot week. It was one of the busiest weeks, for many reasons. One is that it was one of the most physical and hands-on stages of the project, as we had to shoot everything we needed for our video mostly by ourselves in the space of a week. Another is that we had no leeway to continue into the next week because of studio bookings- this meant challenges were intensified because we had to respond to them even more quickly and efficiently than usual, as we had to implement solutions in the same week. We managed to do all of this effectively and the week was a success.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b><u>My Contributions</u></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I personally worked well. I assumed every role of production at some point and carried them out effectively- for example, I acted, directed, operated the camera, did the lighting, set up and packed away the studio, did behind-the-scenes work, and much more.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Here is a picture of me preparing to act in the party scene. I am wearing my Mortal Kombat costume while sitting at the drums I play in the video, with a party extra standing behind me. As one fourth of the band, I had two costumes and personas to assume while being filmed over the entire week. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me directing as I give an actor confirmation that their position is correct. Throughout the entire week I took the role of director many times- as Noa had a lot of screentime, and Jack was often in the scene with her playing the part of her character's brother, I directed a lot while they acted. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me operating the camera, zooming in the lens while looking at the monitor. As with directing, I operated the camera a lot out of necessity due to the difference in the number of scenes between myself and other group members at certain points- I often directed and operated the camera at once. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me operating the lighting desk. It was necessary for someone to be in the gallery most of the time, and it was often me who took on this role while my other group members took on different ones- I changed lighting set-ups and varied the intensity and so on, and even used the sound desk when required. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me adjusting one of the lights as part of the studio set up. I also adjusted the lights throughout the day too, if required, and did a lot more behind the scenes jobs to keep everything running smoothly. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My solo contributions include lighting, directing, and filming every shot that focused on or only included Jack and Noa, as well as all of Tom's solo shots. I acted in every scene in which Guy Chapman was present, as I played the part of that character, which includes every band shot and all of the 'Mortal Kombat' shots, as well as the pillow fight and party scenes. I ensured I had the track on my phone at all times and often was the one who linked up my mobile to the sound desk in order to play the song so that we could lip-sync or perform to it. I personally took charge of directing the trichromy shots as I had the best understanding of how to get the optimal footage to merge and create effect in the editing stage, having also been the one who came up with the idea for these shots too. I of course also did a fair share of the standard studio work, on top of my specific contributions, some of which are mentioned here.</span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our Challenges</span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Our group faced a fair few challenges unique to ourselves, outside of the general challenge of shooting a music video without much help in a short span of time, which all three groups faced.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />The first one was when we had to immediately transition from the test shoot on Friday 3rd November into the first day, and one of the busiest days, of the main shoot on Saturday the 4th. This day was when we almost exclusively filmed the party scene footage, which necessitated organising not just ourselves but also the large group of extras required. We had to teach all of them everything we had learned and planned over the course of the project in a concise manner- this included studio health and safety, what they had to do in the video, and much more. Then of course we had to manage them throughout the day, not just in terms of directing them as actors and so on, but also in terms of keeping them happy as people willing to help us out. We overcame this challenge very well, as we confirmed with some of the actors later while we were collecting audience feedback (the actors are part of our target audience) that they left very happy with the unique experience despite the fairly long working day, and we got all the footage we needed.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We had an extensive group of extras to manage on the very first day of filming, besides having to manage ourselves and Tom and do all the standard work needed for the average shoot day. We did this efficiently and successfully. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another challenge we faced, possibly our largest one, was that a whole morning of footage was corrupted at some point. We planned for this to some degree- on Thursday, we had scheduled a check of our footage, and it was this check which revealed to us that most of Tuesdays footage was corrupted on all of the places it was stored, meaning we had no back-up. We thus had to figure out how to re-shoot a large portion of both the 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Singing in the Rain' footage, but luckily we had planned back-ups on Friday evening and on Saturday, which we re-planned our shoot schedule around when we found out what had happened. We also collaborated with the media technician, and decided with him that we should have an extra back-up- he thus took our footage and stored it on his computer in the media department on top of the multiple studio back-ups. We never encountered this problem again, and the other two groups who both shot after us also took advantage of this extra back-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We also faced various smaller challenges throughout the shoot. One of these included when we had to make the decision on what to do with the cyclorama- the seam between the wall and the floor was visible on camera. We originally planned to keep it visible on account of our DIY homemade aesthetic, but we also wanted to try and eliminate it to see how it would look without a seam on the advice of the media staff. We wanted to explore all routes and did not want to disappoint the staff, so we tried various ways of covering up the seam, including taping paper all along it. This took up a lot of time, which meant we had to be even more efficient with the following shots and even reschedule some. Ultimately we decided we liked it how it was originally, but it was a useful experience in terms of experimenting in the studio and solidifying ideas while shooting, and we managed to both test every possible configuration and ensure we were making the correct decision to produce the best-looking footage, while also not impacting on the amount of shots we could get.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We made changes to our shoot throughout, adapting to different situations as well as audience feedback- we got the party scene actors to look at our ideas, as well as some of the non-party shots we filmed that day, to get their feedback, as they are part of our target audience. They suggested we make the lighting for the band shots more pink, so we did. We also got Tom's feedback throughout the week, as he was constantly present due to being an actor, but not part of the planning process- thus, as a target audience member outside of the main group, he was able to guide us, suggesting improvements and choreography for his shots (such as the movements during the 'Sergeant Pepper' set-up he was part of) as well as other areas, such as his idea to improve the handheld shots by standing still and trying to be more stable rather than moving around so much and letting the camera shake get out of hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I think, overall, we made very good progress during this week. While we only focused on the filming part of production, we also got every bit of footage we might ever need for the project. We faced various challenges, but combatted them effectively within the very limited timeframe we had for the shoot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We managed to develop our ideas on top of the efficient work we were doing, and ultimately had a very successful shoot. Looking back, we could have done more variations on certain shots as part of the experimentation we did- we did various angles for the instrumentalists' solo shots, for example, but not many different angles for the singer outside of the handheld shots- and we could have improved on the 'Sergeant Pepper' lighting somewhat as it ended up being a little bit more similar to the 'Alice in Wonderland' lighting than originally intended, but these reflections only serve as another piece of experience we can carry into the rest of the project, and we still ended up with high-quality, varied, and interesting footage that was a huge boon during editing.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-21917994370478421892017-11-26T17:54:00.003-08:002017-12-22T18:15:27.459-08:00R+P Post 33: Reflections on my role and contribution during Research and Planning<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My role in the project was the same as both of my group members- an equal share of the work overall, while excelling in certain specific areas. My learning curve has also been similar to theirs- while I have done filming projects before, and while I have been part of a music video creation project before, I have never undertaken such a large project with just a group to rely on. The previous filming projects didn't fully prepare me for the music video process, including the research into this area, specialised planning, and music video filming style; nor all the extra work such as the album cover and website. The music video project didn't fully prepare me for the shoot, as I didn't have to plan or set-up the shoot last time, and only had to act in it, without really touching the camera or lighting or anything. Thus, as we proceeded with this project in stages, at each stage I utilised my knowledge and experience from similar steps taken in previous projects, while adapting for all the new challenges, and learnt alongside my group as we went along.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As the work we shared equally was still of course of the upmost importance to the success of the project, with each of our contributions to this burden being necessary for this success, I will share some examples of it.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me when I happened to be the one using the lighting desk. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me directing, while standing next to the camera. Sometimes I, along with the other members of my group, would both direct and operate the camera. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me setting up the camera at the beginning of that day's shoot. Noa can be seen in the background, also setting up. This was another one of the things we shared equally, yet all made an important contribution to. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me manually adjusting one of the lights from the ground floor of the set, while working with another group member in the lighting gallery. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As mentioned earlier, along with all of the regular work I shared equally with my group, such as doing research, making documents, working on all aspects of the shoot, and so on, I also excelled in certain areas, as did my group members. I thus will now leave out the pieces of work I shared equally with my group members, and just focus on those aforementioned specific areas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During video research and planning, some examples include...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I contributed various tracks and influences and so on. One of my song suggestions, Sweet Dream by Black Cat Zoot, became our chosen song. Some of my influences, such as band New Young Pony Club and music video "Ghengis Khan," ended up being important influences on the respective parts of our project.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I created the logo for our record label.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I had the idea of using trichromy as a special effect in our video.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I provided people who proved useful- for example, I did audience research with people such as my cousins, who fit our audience criteria perfectly, and I got my brother to be in the party scene. This also extends to the other research and planning sections.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I created various shots which made it into the final cut, such as the one where Casey jumps and the scene transitions with the jump, and the one where the camera is focused on the hands of the keyboard player.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I contributed to the choreography of the fight scene, even while performing in it.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I contributed to the style and colour scheme of the video, suggesting various ways we could light different set-ups, even creating some moodboards. Some of these ideas made it into the final plans.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During album cover research and planning, some examples include...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I provided various useful influences, such as Fantastic Playroom, and noted many useful conventions- I noticed the border around both the California Nights and Talking Dreams album covers, for example.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I created the final rough flatplan after suggesting various ideas and influences myself and working with my group to develop all of our ideas.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During website research and planning, some examples include...</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I suggested useful influences, such as the website of the band Chvrches, and noted useful and influential conventions, such as a pop-up/start screen.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I contribtued to the final flatplan with my ideas, some of which made it into the final version.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During pre-production, some examples include...</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I wrote up a lot of the timeline, especially the end section.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I created various stickynote shots for the storyboard.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I filled out a lot of the shootboard, especially in terms of the images.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I helped create the screen-test.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I contributed to the designing of the promo shots.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I created the entire Scorpion costume myself, as well as the elaborate parts of the Sergeant Pepper costume. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I provided various pieces of costume, such as Casey's shirt, Guy's entire outfit, Terence's hat, and more.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I helped create and paint various cardboard props- for example I did a lot of painting of the slot machine, and I figured out how to create a lamppost around the pole we already had.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I provided various props, such as Hugh's guitar, the 'Alice in Wonderland' mirror, and the sofa pillows.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I helped to create various lighting set-ups, as well as organise the sets.</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of me saving a lighting set-up I had just worked on, still in my band costume from performing earlier on. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During production, some examples include...</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I took the lead when filming the trichromy shots so that we would have footage we could use to get the effect.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I worked on certain shots alone because of how the schedule worked- a lot of the solo shots of Tom performing as Terence, for example, were set up and filmed and directed and so on by me alone, as Noa and Jack had to be elsewhere.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Overall, without the sharing of the burden between each of us in terms of the regular work, as well as the various different areas we all excelled in (some of mine are mentioned here, but Jack and Noa of course had their own,) we would not have been as successful in this period of the project. I think I learnt a lot as I went along, performed my roles well, and made a very strong contribution to the project.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-13335418495101145792017-11-26T17:54:00.001-08:002017-12-11T18:24:49.672-08:00R+P Post 32: Test shoot and rough edit<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">While we were making preparations for the main shoot well in advance, before we actually got to the main shoot we had a test shoot to do. The test shoot took place on the Thursday and Friday before the main shoot, with the first main shoot day being the Saturday immediately following the test shoot. Thus we also had to prepare for the test shoot, and in turn the test shoot was valuable preparation for the main shoot. As well as effectively being a 'dress rehearsal,' following on from the previous rehearsal, in which we got to practice more as well as use some more props and costumes, we got a chance to make preparations for the main shoot in that we tweaked various lighting set-ups that were saved to the lighting desk, for use in the main shoot. The test shoot was thus basically a big refresher on how to use the studio and how to get the footage we wanted for our video, indirectly helping us in the main shoot by preparing us for it more, while at the same time also directly contributing to the set-up of our main shoot through the lighting as well as props and costumes and so on (we were able to leave everything we needed in the studio overnight on Friday for use in the main shoot the next day.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We organised it like it was our main shoot, creating a shootboard to organise ourselves before the shoot, and at the same time getting some practice in creating shootboards, which paid off when working on the more important main shoot shootboard. However, in the interest of time, we didn't do a full shootboard- it was more of a schedule, that served the same basic functions as a shootboard.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One page of our test shoot schedule draft. Instead of a full shootboard, we just consolidated all of the basic information we would need on the day, such as who is needed when and what set-up to do. It was more than enough for the test shoot. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final test shoot schedule sheet. As the project as a whole has strict timings and deadlines, all of the groups share the test week, and just use different days. We are colour-coded in red. Everything we needed to get into the studio and generally practice our shoot is included in our two columns. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We got to see how we all worked in all aspects of the shoot, rather than just acting as with the previous rehearsal. We got to use the camera and actually capture some footage, work on the lighting both in the gallery and with the adjustment rod on the main set, get the sound system up and running, and so on. However, we did also get to practice acting more as well, this time with lighting and more costume and props, and all viewed through the camera so that we could work on composition and framing and similar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">A good example of some test shoot footage, roughly edited to show what the final version might look similar to. Here, we have our final lighting for the 'Alice in Wonderland' set-up, which we worked on before filming this footage; plus, Noa is in her final costume, and we have most of the set prepared so that we can accurately frame and compose the shot. Noa is practicing her acting, while I film, and Jack directs. Click to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">This was really helpful to us as it allowed us to practice everything we would be doing in the main shoot soon after wrapping up the test shoot. We learnt a few things about how to use the studio, and refreshed our knowledge on things we already did know. We figured out if the set and lighting looked good, and what the actors would look like performing in them. All of this has benefitted us and our project because we know we are on the right track.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: x-small;">Some of the 'Singing in the Rain' test footage. This was useful in that it showed us how we WEREN'T on the right track- the lighting was much too dark once we looked at it outside of the studio, despite how it appeared in real life and on the camera screen underneath the studio lights. Thus, we updated the lighting for the main shoot to include some more white, to better illuminate everything. Noa and Jack got to practice their performance, while I set up and monitored the camera. Click to play</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">The test shoot also benefitted the project in that we found out what we were doing wrong. This included shooting issues, such as how lighting looked once outside of the studio regardless of what we thought it looked like during shooting, as well as behind-the-scenes issues, such as how to most effectively and safely set-up, use, and pack up the studio equipment and lights. Luckily, however, we found out we were mostly fine on all fronts, and we didn't have any major accidents or mistakes or have to make any drastic changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Overall, I think the test shoot was great. It provided a condensed version of the shooting process, from pre-production and planning, to production and shooting, and even to post-production to some degree- while we didn't have time to do a full edit, given that our first main shoot day was the day after our final test shoot day, we did get to make small rough edits to see what certain sequences would look like, as well as review the footage for any obvious mistakes. It was a hugely beneficial step towards getting a good end product out of our project.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-85614760217858374032017-11-26T17:53:00.005-08:002018-01-29T01:33:53.578-08:00R+P Post 31: My call sheet<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">During the process of creating the shootboard, we realised we needed some form of call sheet. Thus, we decided to integrate it with the shootboard, in order to enhance the 'all-in-one' function of the shootboard. We sat down with Tom Brown, the only cast member (outside of the extraordinary circumstance and set-up of the party scene) who isn't part of our media group, and talked with him about his timetable. We had previously also confirmed with Lily Mo Browne that she could be our make-up artist- thus we also sat down with her and went over when she was free too. We implemented their concerns into our call sheet and storyboard, and marked down whenever they were free to shoot and do make-up, or just available to help out on set even if they weren't needed to fulfil their primary roles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Creating a call sheet was an important step, as it helped us organise some elements of our shoot less under our control, but still vital to our video- both Tom and Lily are outside of our media group, and don't even do A2 Media, yet have fairly major roles in the shooting process. It allowed us to provide necessary information to these people, so that they could be available when we needed them to be- we gave each of them a copy of the finished shootboard with integrated call sheet so that they could have all of the information they needed, in regards to availability and location and time and so on.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-6238126208031644962017-11-26T17:53:00.003-08:002017-12-11T17:59:06.262-08:00R+P Post 30: My shootboard<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Nearer to the time of the final shoot, we decided to create a shootboard, in order to organise ourselves as well as everything and everyone we would need for this crucial period. The shootboard combines a lot of different elements into one document, and thus serves as a hub for everything in the shooting period. It turns the shot list and set-up list into a practical schedule with times and dates, and even incorporates elements of the props and cast lists to collect and centralise at least a summary of this information into one place to avoid having to reference too many sheets when looking for any information (for example, the main props list may not have to be referenced if the shootboard conveys the necessary information on this matter for the shot currently being filmed, which for us it does.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first page of our finished shootboard. This page contains the most information, and is a good example of a typical page of the shootboard besides. It shows the call times for different cast and crew members, as well as some examples of shots, with the necessary shot images and information, as well as props and casting, along with the planned time to film, all in one row. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span>The shootboard creation process was a success- we organised everything related to our shoot into one, even using keys to help us (for example, the cast section has names bolded and unbolded, bold meaning they are needed in the shot as actors and similar, and not bold meaning they are available for behind-the-scenes work but not needed for the shot itself.) We plan to have multiple copies, at least one loose copy on hand to bring around with us, and some on the walls of the studio in different places, such as the main set and the gallery, so that they can be quickly referenced at any time and the benefits mentioned here easily reaped.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-35500231843139926832017-11-26T17:53:00.001-08:002017-12-01T01:33:13.138-08:00R+P Post 29: Rehearsals<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Rehearsals were important in figuring out both how we could physically connote the personalities of the band members, through gestures and body language and so on, as well as how we could lay out the more intricate scenes through choreography. To this end, we allocated some of our pre-planned meeting times to rehearsing- we had already decided to meet in various free periods that we all shared, so we simply went to the studio to rehearse instead of to the media department to plan. Additionally, we were able to use the test shoot as a more advanced rehearsal, that used the lighting and some costumes and props that were ready at that time- this allowed us to both rehearse normally as well as capture an approximation of what our planned movements and so on would look like on camera.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One of the most important things to rehearse was gestures and personality during the band shots. We therefore had Noa and Jack mess around a bit, and tried to figure out what kind of moves would be best to get across their relationship. We had them glance at each other and smile or laugh from time to time, and we had larger interactions such as going back to back while performing, and we added all of this to our 'movement bank' for use later when we were capturing footage. Noa also got some time on the stage by herself, to prepare for her lead role, I got to practice using the drums a bit, and Tom got to have his first real experience of what he was going to have to do in the shoot, being the only one not part of the group and thus not privy to the entire planning process.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Every scene except the band scene has specific movements and actions to advance the narrative, including Casey falling asleep and going to the dream in the apartment set-up, or biting an apple to be transported to another scene in the Alice in Wonderland set-up. We got to try out all of these movements, and see if they worked within the bounds of the studio and camera frame. This was beneficial as it helped us either change our ideas by the main shoot, or, in the majority of cases, to practice the correct movements before the main shoot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Certain scenes needed even more rehearsing, specifically the Singing in the Rain and Mortal Kombat scenes. This is because we included movements directly inspired by movements in those pieces of media in our video. For Singing in the Rain, we choreographed a dance, or rather a set of dance-inspired movements, inspired by the famous movie scene. For Mortal Kombat, we choreographed a basic fight scene to look like a fight from the video game. These two required extra attention as we had more complicated and sequential movements, especially Mortal Kombat which takes place almost entirely in one framing and thus one take (although we plan to have cuts to other scenes like the band performing which increases the margin of error.) Being able to practice them in advance is a great help, as we don't want to waste time on a shoot day trying to get the choreography right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When we were getting to grips with the studio, the technician gave us a tutorial on how to use all the different pieces of kit. This immensely benefitted us, as it allowed us to know how to make the best of the professional-quality equipment in advance of the shoot. Producing a kit list has helped us keep track of everything we need to know how to use in order to be effective at at using all of the studio and equipment's assets to produce a music video.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our group's kit list. We were lucky to have access to a set of high-quality equipment, that furthermore all worked together- the monitors showed the camera feed, the computer controlled the lighting desk, the wires allowed everything to work etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We learned how to use different pieces of equipment in conjunction, and organised the kit list so that they would follow each other. Knowing which pieces of equipment go together is useful, as they must be used in conjunction to be used to full effect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The camera was placed on the tripod to stabilise it, and to allow us to take all the long-shots and later closer shots we wanted, while keeping the camera in approximately the same position and reducing shake. We have a large variety of shot types, as is convention of music videos, so this is important. The camera had the Koolertron monitor attached to it to effectively act as a larger, more true-to-life screen, and this helped us frame our various shots, which helps immensely for all shots but especially for shots with very specific framing, such as the Mortal Kombat shots, which need to look like they are from an old video-game while leaving space for the health bar props to be held above the characters' heads. The small monitor outputs to the large monitor, which can be moved on wheels to show the actors what they look like on camera without them having to leave the stage or get out of position, or moved around to show the person in the gallery who is operating the lighting approximately what the lighting looks like on camera, so they can make adjustments. As each set-up has a very specific lighting set-up, and lighting and colour are key to our band and music video's aesthetic and meaning and so on, this is very important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The sound desk, lighting desk and computer, studio lights themselves, and even the clamps and cyclorama, all work in conjunction. Someone in the gallery has control over all of the lights through the desk and computer, as well as the studio's sound system, which is key to playing the song so that Noa can lip-sync to it. Having a centralised control that we are all trained to use is incredibly useful, as it streamlines the process of changing between all our different specialised lighting set-ups and so on- the desk can edit and save lighting set-ups, and the computer manages them, and when the correct one is selected, the music can be played if necessary for that shot. The clamps hold the cyclorama up so that our lighting has a blank white background to shine on, and thus makes the lighting look good, while providing a stage for us to perform and film on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Windows and Apple laptops, as well as the external drives, are also key. The camera only has so much memory, which is filled relatively fast due to the quality, size, and length of the footage. Thus it must be preserved by using a card reader with one of the laptops, and then backing the footage up both on the laptops and the external drives. This ensures the card can be emptied whenever it needs to be and that the footage is in multiple places and can't realistically be lost, which is of course incredibly important.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">The miscellaneous pieces of extra kit are still very very important. The various wires ensure that everything that needs to connect can connect, which is necessary for the pieces of equipment described above to function together in conjunction in the ways described, so that they can be used to their fullest potential. They also provide power from the mains to everything that needs it for the same reasons. The multiple batteries and chargers means the camera should never be out of action, so that footage can constantly be filmed, maximising efficiency. The lighting rod allows for the manual adjustment of lights, which is one of the only things the lighting equipment in the gallery can't do. One person can go in the gallery while one adjusts lights on the set, and they can collaborate and talk to reach optimal lighting conditions.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-15303308039036712392017-11-26T17:52:00.002-08:002017-11-30T20:16:17.071-08:00R+P Post 27: Casting<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">When he had decided on the band members and their personalities, we had to cast them. We decided to go with our original plan to use all three of us as three of the band members, to ensure that our cast was committed to the project- if we had gotten someone outside the group, there is a chance they would have been less committed to the project and caused issues later down the line. However, we did need a fourth person, so we asked Tom Brown, a mutual friend of all of us, and someone who did Media at AS. Out of everyone we could have picked, he was the best choice, as he is a good actor who fits the role of Terence Kitchener really well, and we know he won't let us down because of our good relationship with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The process of casting involved seeing if we could fit the roles assigned to us- especially for the lead singer. To this end, we did a Screen Test to see how we all worked together, if Noa looked and sounded like she was singing the original artist's voice, if everyone could emulate the personality of their band character through their performance, and if we all fit our roles. By the end, we were happy with our casting decisions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our Screen Test video. While the performance isn't as refined as we hope the final product will be, something we will be working on with rehearsals and so on, we think that each of us have our roles down to a certain degree, with the correct gestures and facial expressions. Click to play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Casey Tyler-</b><i> Noa Craig</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Noa is a confident performer who has performed in drama productions and similar in the past- she thus knows how to act and isn't camera shy, which is important for the lead singer and personality/face of the band, and is especially important for the happy-go-lucky personality of Casey Tyler- she has a fairly similar personality in real life, and we were able to partially tailor the role to her, but not to the detriment of our overall plans, i.e. had we decided on a different personality for Casey that we liked more but was different from Noa, we would have went with that, especially as Noa is an accomplished actress and would be up for the task. While the song we chose had a female singer, and thus Noa as the only female member of the group seemed like an obvious choice, we didn't want to pick her simply based on that- however, after testing her out in the role, we found she fits very well with the original artist's voice and the atmosphere of the song, as well as with the personality of Casey Tyler and the planned atmosphere of the music video.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Noa in her Casey Tyler band costume. Here she is posing as if for a dramatic promo shot. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Hugh Tyler-</b><i> Jack Edmondson</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jack is a drama student and has been involved with many plays and even musicals in the past. He thus is no stranger to playing the part of a character or a music performer, and being a longtime friend of Noa he works well with her- which is important, as while Hugh likes to act cooler than Casey, he still has to have a good sibling relationship with her while performing, and match her enthusiasm. Jack is a naturally enthusiastic person, so again he fit very well. He actually has had experience playing a guitar in an indie pop music video before, through the Echosmith music video remake task, and thus he also already has experience in a similar role.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jack in his Hugh Tyler band costume. In this picture, he is trying to capture the cool side of his character, which we can really bring out more when he is alone and we don't have an opportunity to show his relationship with Casey. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Guy Chapman-</b><i> Emilio Francischelli</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I was selected for the role of Guy Chapman- as my other two group members are more accomplished actors, it makes sense that they were given the two lead roles- and then out of the two remaining roles we decided on Guy, as I fit his personality, gestures, etc. better than that of Terence. I have had some experience being in a music video and in front of a camera before, for example in the Echosmith remake and other previous media projects, but I am a bit less confident than some of my peers, so the quieter role of Guy suits me very well- I can still act well enough to be convincing, but don't have to be the face of the band. However, I do like to mess around with my friends and am quite outgoing when I get comfortable, so as I build up confidence in the role I should also be able to tackle the mischievous side of Guy's character as well.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Me in my Guy Chapman band costume. Here I am trying to pose as if I am in a promo shoot, in order to build up my confidence and experience in playing the role of Guy in front of the camera. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><u><b>Terence Kitchener-</b><i> Tom Brown</i></u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As we had run out of group members to cast by the time we came to cast Terence, we thus had to cast outside of the group- however, this meant we could choose someone perfect for the role. We decided on Tom, both because of his good relationship with all of us, but also for his experience in being a media student up to AS level and in taking part in many drama productions, often alongside Jack. While we know him as a down-to-earth and friendly person, even when joking about with us and other friends he plays the role of the "straight man" very well- this, combined with his acting skills, means we think he will nail the role of the slightly smug and more serious personality of Terence Kitchener. Our friendship should cover the other side of his character, in which he interacts and has fun with the other band members.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Tom in his Terence Kitchener band costume. In this picture he is attempting to play up the more serious facial expressions associated with his role, and succeeding quite well. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">As part of the casting process, we also had to cast people as extras in the party scene. As we would be dealing with a large number of people, we decided to make a list for better organisation. This list consisted of people who we all thought might be suitable for the role of a person at a party, while still being reliable. We narrowed this list down to five people after seeing who was available on the days we were thinking about shooting the party shots on, and then worked with them from there in order to secure costume and some basic personality for their characters and so on. The final list consists of Ray Baker (a fellow media student,) Lily Mo Browne (a friend of ours,) Hugo Perrot-Barnaby (a friend of Noa and myself,) Caleb Wycoff-Smith (a friend of Noa,) and Luciano Francischelli (my brother.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The preliminary list of possible extras. It is extensive, as we created it with the intention of cutting it down to a shortlist, and visible is some evidence of us eliminating people as options for reasons like availability. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A group photo showing all four of us, the band members, alongside all five of the extras in their costumes. We know each of these people personally, and not just as acquaintances but as friends and family, so despite the larger number of people to organise, we think we will be able to use our directing and organisational skills to get them to perform how we want them to, while they remain receptive and willing to help. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-402781235404284052017-11-26T17:51:00.005-08:002017-12-11T19:35:48.712-08:00R+P Post 26: Set design, locations, and props<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We also had to finalise the details of our set design. Our plan is for quite a minimalist look, with only a few set props, most of which we could make ourselves in order to maintain our DIY cardboard aesthetic. Otherwise, we wanted complete control over the set so that we could create the pastel, dreamlike side of our aesthetic, and thus we turned to lighting. We will be shooting entirely in studio, so that we can use various different lighting set-ups on the cylorama, and thus we did a reccie of the studio to learn a bit about the lights, and even started working on the set-ups. Our plan is to have a distinct colour for each set-up, to complement the props and costumes and even themes of the set-up. For example, the "Alice in Wonderland" set-up is purple, to complement Casey's blue dress and the green of the tree (if any of the props were purple or even pink the purple might interfere,) as well as to reference the purple Cheshire Cat from the same source media.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The studio as we found it when we went in for our reccie. The cylcorama ensures a blank white canvas for us to shoot on, and the various lights you can see above allow for precise manipulation of the colours displayed. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jack being guided through how to operate the lights from the floor, while Noa and I watched and learned alongside him. You can see our "Alice in Wonderland" lighting set-up in the background, or at least a preliminary version of it, with the tree prop in the middle of being set up. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We took inspiration from a few different videos. We noticed having a plain studio is quite conventional for music videos, and thus we adapted this convention to our own needs. Studio-shot music videos tend to have only a few props so that the aesthetic can be carefully constructed and controlled, in comparison to on-location videos which tend to have a lot of props in order to simulate real life more.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of Jessie J's music video for her song "Price Tag." While it is somewhat outside of our genre, this was still an influential video on us because it has very similar set design to what we hope to achieve. There is a plain white room with different colours used for different scenes, with only one or even no big props. We also hope to emulate the success of songs and videos such as this one. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of Echosmith's music video for their song "Cool Kids." This is a song and video we were already familiar with, from a band that has been an influence from within the genre throughout the project, so we looked to this video for inspiration. While they use less colours than we are planning to, they still have a lot of variation in the kinds of lighting they use, and they do have at least some colour variation between white, grey, and pink. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Most of the props that we are planning to use to build the sets we are going to make- besides the sofa and some other miscellaneous things. They are directly inspired by the lyrics and our interpretation of them, as well as the pieces of media we are referencing. For example, we looked at the lamppost in "Singing in the Rain," and then decided to replicate it in cardboard and paper to fit our aesthetic. It is going to be the only set prop in its set-up.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The lamppost from "Singing in the Rain." We looked at images such as this for all four pieces of media, in order to determine if we'd need set props, and what they should be if so. For this one, the lamppost is integral to this famous scene, and very recognisable besides, so we decided to rework it in our cardboard aesthetic. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A photo of Jack working on the lamppost prop. We used a layer of cardboard as the structure of the post, and then surrounded it in black paper to make it look more similar to the original, while retaining the homemade look. We tried to shape it into a recognisable approximate version of the original. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of the completed lamppost, in the wings of the studio waiting to be used. We built it on top of a 'swingball' base to aid in standing it up, and built some small lights into the paper approximation of the lamp to make it give off a nice glow and resemble the light of the original a bit more.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We followed a similar process for every single set prop- it differed slightly when it came to set-ups like the apartment, as that one is set in the 'real world.' Thus we just used a sofa, and in certain shots we used as normal props various items relating to the pieces of media throughout the dreams in the video, such as a "Singing in the Rain" VHS box and a "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" vinyl record cover.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our set props for each set-up that required them. Certain set-ups, like Mortal Kombat, had normal props that we created by hand in a similar fashion to certain props on this list, but not free-standing pieces of set design like the ones shown here.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-79256671058403268142017-11-26T17:51:00.001-08:002017-12-11T20:06:18.365-08:00R+P Post 25: Costume, props, and make-up<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We decided to finalise both the costumes and props we would need for the video, since we had already figured out and consolidated our ideas for the band's fashion, style, and aesthetic, as well as all the different set-ups and shots we would need, which already necessitated figuring out all of the props and costume changes to some degree. We first simply wrote out everything on paper to get our ideas down, and then we worked from there.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first page of our preliminary costumes sheet. We figured out most of the basics for each person's costumes- everyone has a 'performance' costume they wear for the band shots, and a 'narrative' costume they wear when they are acting the part of a character from a classic piece of media. Additionally, Casey has an extra costume for the narrative sections we added later- pyjamas for the shots in her home before and after she has the dream. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second page of the preliminary costumes list. We wanted all the band members to look fairly similar in terms of performance costume- that's why they are all wearing different coloured shirts on this ideas sheet. We later expanded on this idea by having everyone wear a shirt (or in Casey's case a jacket) of a similar colour to the primary colour of their narrative costume, but more pastel to fit with the band's aesthetic. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The narrative costumes were fairly simple, as we simply had to replicate the costumes of the chosen characters- Alice from "Alice in Wonderland" for Casey, Gene Kelly from "Singing in the Rain" for Hugh, Scorpion from "Mortal Kombat" for Guy, and one of the Beatles from the cover of their album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" for Terence. We also decided to give Casey some make-up so she would match Alice better, and then give the rest of the band members the standard make-up to make them look good under studio lights, and no more. This had the added benefit of making Casey stand out more, as she should as the face and major personality of the band.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The visual reference for Casey's Alice costume. We used older versions of the characters in keeping with the song's themes and the video's storyline- this we went with the older but very recognisable 2D animated "Alice in Wonderland" film, rather than more recent adaptations in live-action and similar. We imitated both the costume and the make-up, such as the pink lipstick and eye make-up. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The visual reference for Hugh's Singing in the Rain costume. It is a screenshot showing Gene Kelly in the most famous moment of the film, where he is dancing and of course singing in the rain. We simply had to get a nice suit costume together, as well as a similar-looking hat, and we noted down the umbrella for the props list later on. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The visual reference for Guy's Scorpion costume. As with Alice, we went for the classic, recognisable version of the character's costume from the older games to fit with our ideas. This also made it easier for us when it came to creating the costume, as newer versions of this character from the newer "Mortal Kombat" games have much more elaborate costumes. Plus, the older version has a stronger yellow, which we decided would look good in the video. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We then moved on to the performance costumes. We looked back at our influential artists for ideas on what kind of clothes we should be wearing- we already knew the colours, as the colour scheme came from our band and video aesthetics. This culminated in the three male band members wearing black jeans, with a pastel coloured shirt that somewhat corresponds with the colour of their narrative costume, and Casey herself in a blue denim jacket and blue top to match her Alice costume, also with black jeans. In this way we have created synergy with the band's overall aesthetic, such as the clothes they will be wearing on promo shots on the website and such, but we have preserved the video's unique aesthetic too. Someone from our target audience said "the costumes make the band look like they belong together," so we seem to have been successful.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of Lucy Spraggan. Artists like Lucy Spraggan, as mentioned previously on this blog, have been very inspirational for us when developing costumes for our band. We looked through all our old reference photos as well as some new ones in order to find the best fashion choices for our music video costumes, and this photo of Lucy Spraggan was particularly useful for Casey's performance outfit. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of Echosmith. They have been a big influence throughout, and at this stage it was no different- we liked their different shirts and varying accessories, and although we were looking primarily at fashion and clothing styles rather than colours, the colour scheme in this photo (as well as others) did have some influence on our music video costumes. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of New Young Pony Club. We investigated different bands wearing matching costumes, and found it fairly frequent both inside and out of the studio, and both inside and outside music videos. This is a particularly extreme example in that they are all wearing the same t-shirt, but it was helpful in illustrating the extent of this convention, which we used in our band costumes. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eventually, after various preliminary ideas sheets and research into different costumes, we decided to try and get all the costumes together. We got as many possible options for each outfit as possible, and then tried them out- once we were happy with them, we took photos and used them to create a list of all our costumes. The narrative costumes were a little trickier, as we had to actually create some of them (but we did that as part of this process too,) and we ended up using some of the budget on an "Alice in Wonderland" costume (the exact Amazon listing for this can be found <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traditional-Alice-Adult-Costume-Medium/dp/B00TTY3HZ8/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" style="background-color: cyan;">here.</a>) Once they were completed, we took more photos and added them to the rest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We also refined our make-up ideas somewhat at this stage, to better fit with the eventual final costume designs. The two people with the most costume-specific make-up were Casey as Alice and Hugh in the band. We tried to replicate Alice's make-up as best as we could, to add an extra layer of authenticity. With Hugh, we wanted to explore his personality and stage prescense a bit more, as he is arguably the next most important member of the band after Casey, and he shares a lot of screentime with her because of their brother-sister relationship. We therefore decided to give him some 'guyliner,' and this eyeliner really helped to make him look more outgoing and interesting, as if he had dressed up and done his make-up to look good in the video alongside his sister. A male band member wearing eyeliner also breaks traditional gender norms somewhat too, which feeds into the band's welcoming nature that they use to appeal to their young target audience.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We looked once more to our reference pictures of older depictions of Alice. While make-up differed, we noticed a few common traits, and we picked and chose some of the less common but interesting traits we also wanted. We ended up going with the recognisable pink lipstick, as well as eyeshadow (which we added glitter to so it would stand out more,) along with fuller eyelashes. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of Brandon Flowers from the Killers. We looked to various male icons in the past and tried to find some kind of make-up that set any of them apart, in order to influence Hugh's make-up. While the Killers are closer to indie rock than our chosen indie pop, they are still very similar to our other influences and our band in a lot of ways, and besides that Brandon was one of the first big stars to break the norms of male fashion by wearing make-up. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The only other costume considerations we had to work on was the range of costumes for the party scene at the video's climax. To take some of the pressure off of us at this busy time so we could focus on other parts of the project, and to add to our video's authentic and DIY aesthetic, we asked all the people we had cast for the party scene to suggest their own costumes for this scene based on what they had access to. We gave them some guidelines and vetted their suggestions, and ended up with a wide range of costumes- ranging from other recognisable characters from pieces of media, such as Luigi from "Super Mario Bros." and Shaggy from "Scooby Doo," to costumes that were simply visually interesting, such as a human-sized fried egg.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The first page of the props list. As you can see, we divided the props up in a similar way to the storyboard (which we were using to help us create this list) in order to aid organisation. We also noted which props we would have to create to further help organise us, as this ended up being quite a few props because of our DIY and cardboard-style video aesthetic. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The second page of the props list. This page also contains all of the musical instruments we needed- it was during the process of creating this list that we finally decided exactly what each band member was playing, as previously Guy and Terence could have swapped instruments (either with each other or to a different instrument completely) anytime before the video. While this was incredibly unlikely, especially as we had built their personalities while knowing what instrument they played, finalising this decision based on props we knew we had access to was quite good for organisation. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The next step was gathering all the necessary props. Most of the props we provided ourselves, either as we owned them or knew people who had them and would be willing to lend them to us. We also got a few props through school, such as the Drum Kit, and we purchased the TV simulator with some of the budget as we knew it would provide a great effect but no-one we knew had one (the exact Amazon listing for it can be found <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/4VWIN-Simulator-Anti-burglar-Security-Deterrent/dp/B06XPH312N/ref=sr_1_4?rps=1&ie=UTF8&qid=1508401907&sr=8-4&keywords=tv+simulator&refinements=p_76%3A419158031" style="background-color: cyan;">here.</a>) That left the props we had to make, so we created a few preliminary designs for these props, gathered the necessary materials, and met outside of school a few times in order to make them.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An example of a preliminary props design sheet. This page shows some of the Mortal Kombat set-up's props, such as what would eventually become the "Fight!" sign, as well as the health bars that we would hold up above the actors. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final evolution of the "POW" sign on the design page above. When creating it, we weighed up the practicality of our plans and adjusted them accordingly. Thus, instead of string, we will just have someone hold the sign, and of course the text itself has been edited too. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The final versions of the health bars. They also changed slightly from the design sheet, with the names hanging down with string instead of being on top of the bar- this was easier to make, made both the bar and names clearer, and is more accurate to the actual video games we are referencing in which the names often sit below the bar. We provided the cardboard, sticks, and string, and used the school's paint. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-47529554407788519062017-11-26T17:50:00.006-08:002018-01-29T01:09:16.974-08:00R+P Post 24: Planning my digipak panels<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Similar to the process we followed with the website, once we had built up a large set of influential album covers through research, we could move onto planning our own. We set to work with knowledge of relevant conventions, as well as what we wanted the album to look like in order to comply with the overall aesthetic of the band, while having synergy with the music video and website. We created a final flatplan to represent the consolidation of our ideas into one document.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The front and back panels of our flatplan. We have included genre conventions such as the border, as well as important but more general conventions such as having the band's name on the front and the song names on the back. We gave it a bit of unique flair to represent our band's personalities by having a line-up of the band (conventional for debut albums as people seeing the album and thus band for the first time must be able to gain some information about them,) but making the sizes of the people in the line-up go down in descending order, but not to too small a size, as the smallest person must still be visible on a CD-size case.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The front of Echosmith's album "Talking Dreams." We really liked this one- it has the conventional border, the band and album names large and obvious, and a very clear colour scheme to introduce the band. We sketched our flatplan and thus it is in black and white, but we specifically annotated that we were going to have a lot of colour, in part due to the influence of this album, as well as due to audience input, in which audience members stated they wanted to see lots of colour that lined up with the band's aesthetic. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The inside panels of our album. We drew in the CD's location in order to design around it. We wanted more personality to be available in these sections, to further inform and draw in people who liked the cover enough to open the album. Thus we settled on a picture of a table, to provide a nice background, with a lot of things relevant to our band sitting on top- this includes relevant music equipment such as a guitar pick, microphone, and drumsticks, as well as pictures of the band and its members. We noticed things like this on a fair number of albums we researched, and furthermore, many audience members mentioned to us that they quite liked the idea as they didn't see it as often as plain inside spreads. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-9296792959171436482017-11-26T17:50:00.003-08:002018-01-29T01:05:11.453-08:00R+P Post 23: Planning my web pages<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">After looking at all the conventions of websites in our genre of indie pop, we moved on to designing our own. We used our knowledge of the general structure of such sites, as well as the smaller yet essential things that also contribute, in order to construct an eye-catching website plan that shows off our band and their aesthetic, helping sell them to the audience, while still adhering to convention. One key convention that really guided our flat plan is that a lot of websites, of the kind we are looking at and trying to fit in with, present everything on one page, with each section available by scrolling and the navigation bar following you down and providing a quick way to jump to each section.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We have a header image of the band, to instantly show viewers who we are, and hopefully give an idea of our aesthetic and music if the promotional shots we take are good. A navigation bar setting out everything a visitor could need in a clear way is present above, and it will follow when the page is scrolled down, providing a constant opportunity for interaction through the social media links and thus encouraging people to get immersed in the site and thus the band. This will make them more likely to like us, and thus more likely to buy our music and/or merchandise. To this ends, buttons that link to our music on iTunes, Spotify etc., to our store, or even to our tour tickets are frequent and obvious, providing ways to interact in and of themselves, while remaining ways to buy. We may also have a pop-up that appears when you first enter the site, informing people of our new album and music video, and how they can buy it. The video itself is also near the top of the page so that people can interact by clicking it, and then experience a three minute long showcase of our band's music, personalities, aesthetic and more to draw the audience in. The entire website will have a colour scheme and general aesthetic that matches our band and their video, and this synergy continues into the social media pages, which are also ways to advertise things like band merchandise and music.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We each did a flatplan before the final version. We each focused on different aspects despite sharing certain key conventions, such as the navigation bar, and these aspects guided the final version. Noa really focused on the infinite scroll, being particularly inspired by the website of Alvvays. We decided it was a good idea because it was conventional, but also because it provides everything the audience could want on one page, including information on the band as well as ways to buy. However, multiple audience members told us they thought the main column of the website was too small, with the art on either side taking up too much space, and so we changed this in the final version by widening the main column and fitting more in.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Noa's flatplan. As you can see, she has left a long thin space for the majority of the website, while still adhering to the conventions of having a navigation bar and set of images at the top, as well as an obvious 'buy' button. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I focused on delivering as much information as possible as quickly as possible, to capture the attention of audience members who visit the website. I noticed this was conventional, with large headers on websites like that of Echosmith, that show off a music video or set of images or both. We ended up including a fairly dense block on information at the top of the website on our final flatplan- the audience wanted a title at the very top too, though, to introduce the website before this block of information. Thus this was added to the final design.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Part of my flatplan. This segment shows my idea for a navigation bar with a lot of different options, including all the standard opportunities to buy such as 'tour' and 'shop,' and extra ways to interact and get acquainted with the band like 'win' and 'about' respectively. The 'win' section is conventional, but slightly less common than, say, the 'music' button, but it made it from my flatplan onto the final version.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The top of Echosmith's website, which provides a lot of information at once, and which was one of my favourite inspirations. The header image is also the thumbnail for the band's most recent music video, and the navigation bar is clear and easy to read, with the band name as well as all the relevant buttons. The colour scheme is instantly clear. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Jack liked the idea of having a set of images that people could click through as the header of the website. This provided a way for the audience to get a quick idea of what our band is like, while also allowing for some interactivity. He then placed the music video under this, so that people who have been drawn in enough at this point can scroll down and see a whole new section of the site with a video for them to watch, rather than wasting our 'ace in the hole' right away. This idea made it into the final flatplan, and Jack was inspired by Sheppard's website.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The relevant section of Jack's flatplan, showing the image box and arrow keys to go through all the images, and then the video right underneath rather than being part of it. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-20471360481777973702017-11-26T17:50:00.001-08:002017-11-27T18:51:42.699-08:00R+P Post 22: Planning my promo shots<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We decided we needed two sets of promo shots- one lot in the studio, for the album cover as well as the website, and one on location, mostly for the website and associated social media. We wanted a good mix of professional-looking studio pictures and down-to-earth pictures outside of the studio, so that we can show off both our band's attitude towards music and their individual personalities outside of work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We decided to look at the various promo shots of some of the influential bands we researched in order to get ideas for our own promo shots. We noticed certain kinds of promo picture coming up time and time again, and decided we could use these conventional shots to our advantage. We didn't do a lot of flat plans for individual shots, because we wanted a naturalistic indie style even in our studio shots, but to compensate for this we kept these images with us, as well as all our other influential images that we found through research, in order to reference them and imitate them wherever fitting.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An intimate shot of Alvvays. They band members are touching and leaning on each other, and this really helps to show off their closeness, personalities, and relationships, and show off the real people behind the band, despite the sterile studio setting. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A similar shot of the band McFly. Once again it is in a studio, but each individual band member's personality is shown off through their poses and facial expressions, and you get a sense of the good relationship between them through their close proximity and the fact that they are leaning on each other. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some artists also have other kinds of shots to show off specific relationships. This is a promo shot of Best Coast, a duo rather than a full band, and thus they are more close than the average band. You get a strong sense of each person's personality and their specific link, with the singer laughing and pointing to the guitarist. Shots like this would be especially good for illustrating the relationship between Casey and her brother Hugh. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A shot of Kings of Convenience in a similar vein to the Best Coast one above. Here, the hand resting on the shoulder and the 'slice of life' look of the promo shot (and it is still clearly a promo shot, as seen through the eye contact with the camera,) as if the camera was interrupting a conversation, really cements the good relationship between these two specific people. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-73685558608414358182017-11-26T17:49:00.004-08:002017-11-27T05:10:17.906-08:00R+P Post 21: My key shots storyboard<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Following on from the timeline, we decided to create a storyboard. Whereas the timeline was the first version of our ideas consolidated onto one sheet, with a focus on the overall structure of the video with as much detail as we could fit, the storyboard had more of a focus on the shots themselves. The timeline described each shot briefly with text- the storyboard has actual images of each shot, with the framing, composition, and other useful and/or essential information available at a glance. To allow for this level of detail and aid in our organisation, we ended up dividing the storyboard into sections across two A3 sheets instead of just one as with the timeline, but this hasn't negatively impacted us too much as each sheet is laid out simply and both sheets are stored together; the pros outweigh the cons.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The first page of our storyboard. As with the timeline, I will provide closer photos where relevant, but this overview should serve to show that we have organised the sheets into sections to aid readability, while including all the shots individually with a key to help in getting information at a glance. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The second page of the storyboard. The second set of sections were spread out equally like the first, aiding our organisational efforts. The sticky notes themselves are easy to read, and having them separated into sections is good for preserving this readability. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We divided the storyboard into set-ups. We knew we would have a lot of different kinds of shots of the band, so we gave the band a set-up, and we knew we would have a narrative section for each of the four pieces of classic media we incorporated into the video, as well as a section for the lead singer falling asleep and waking up in her home, so we gave each of those a set-up too. In this way we could see every single shot, camera position, etc. we would need for each section (as each set-up will take place in a different location within the video, and thus each will have their own set, lighting, mise-en-scene etc.) as well as which sections will take us longer to film as they have more shots. The shots themselves have fairly detailed drawings of what is taking place, showing the framing and composition as well as the actors and props needed to some extent. The colour of the sticky notes corresponds to a key, which further aids how much information can be gleaned from one look at a shot.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An example of one of the sections on the storyboard- this one is for the "Mortal Kombat" video game set-up. You can see all of the different shot types and framings we will need, as well as the costume of certain characters, and even the 'fight sign' prop. Text descriptions aid understanding of what is happening in each shot- one even has an editing note as that shot will probably take place in slow motion. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-42964592104793142112017-11-26T17:49:00.002-08:002017-11-27T04:51:56.332-08:00R+P Post 20: My Music Video timeline<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We produced a timeline in order to lay out solid, concise ideas for the music video's structure, shots, and so on, rather than leaving everything split up across all the research and planning documents we had created so far. Having everything all on one large piece of paper, with shots laid out in chronological order with text descriptions and accurate times to match up with the song, was a really big help in organising our thoughts and finalising our planning.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A picture of our entire timeline. I will provide closer pictures when talking about relevant sections, but hopefully this overview still allows you to see how we managed to pack as much concise and useful detail on the final plans for our music video onto one sheet, that we can reference whenever we need it. This includes shots with shot types and text descriptions, some lyrics, accurate timings, and more. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Our planned structure is to work around the lyrics- we broke the timeline up into verses and choruses, and we timed the lengths of certain sections, particularly the narrative sections, around the lyrics we were interpreting. We even allocated the time for the outro scene that takes place once the song itself has ended.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">An example of part of our timeline- this is the end section. You can see where we have marked off the choruses along the line, and drawn in the details for the shots around it. You can also see the outro right at the end, as well as the large party scene that takes place just before it. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Overall the timeline was a very useful document to create. We achieved our aim of consolidating and finalising our ideas onto one sheet, and we created the first detailed structure for our video- we can even look at the timeline while editing the footage to guide us.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17405747152453458087noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5879402566827223986.post-63944450217797606852017-11-26T17:48:00.004-08:002017-11-27T02:58:24.787-08:00R+P Post 19: My influences and vision for the project<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We decided to create a visual representation of our music video to go along with all the ideas and interpretations we had planned so far. We realised that pictures and flat plans wouldn't be enough, and that to represent a full video, we needed another, preliminary video. This was the steal-o-matic, in which we took clips from various sources, mostly influential music videos and the pieces of classic media we were working into the narrative through interpretation of the lyrics, and then edited them together as if they were actual footage from a shoot into a rough visual representation of our plans. We were able to use clips from lots of our influential artists, as well as movie and even video game clips, all to build a real, viewable representation of what had previously just been research, ideas, and plans.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Our steal-o-matic. It is only a minute long as it is simply a preliminary test for what our video could be, not a full prototype for the final version. It contains clips from many sources, each relevant in different ways- they might have a shot type we like, they might have a colour scheme we wanted, etc. We edited them in the same way we are planning to edit the real thing. Click to play.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">One way it helped us was laying out our ideas for where lyrics, music, and video/editing all interact. Right at the beginning, for example, there is an instrumental section, with some guitar chords interrupted by brief solos on the piano and guitar and so on- when the drum solo kicks in, so does the first verse. We decided to have our lead singer asleep on the sofa for this instrumental part, to set up the dream part of the lyrics and narrative. The musical interruptions would also be edited to interrupt the narrative with close shots of the instruments that were interrupting, and then when the first verse starts and the music really starts to pick up, suddenly we switch to a long and wide shot of the band with the lead singer now performing with the band(something we had picked up from Vernallis' ideas of breaking continuity editing and going from close to long and vice versa to make the video dynamic.) We found some really nice shots from some of our influential music videos that contained the framing, colour scheme, and actions that we needed to construct this section, and thus we edited them together into our steal-o-matic, and were all able to see how these ideas actually worked visually in a video.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The opening section of our Steal-o-matic. The sleeping is from "Feeling OK" by Best Coast, the keyboard is from "Montreal" by Roosevelt, the guitar is from "Crazy For You" by Best Coast, as is the handheld close-up from the next interruption, and the shot of the whole band is from "Geronimo" by Sheppard. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The steal-o-matic also allowed us to refined our performance segments, even in terms of set design and camera as well as the performance itself. For example, we have used Sheppard's "Geronimo" quite a lot- this is because, although we are not planning on having a large set with lots of props scattered around as they have, we are planning on having energetic long-shots of the whole band in a studio setting. Plus, the colour scheme of having bright pastel colours (in the form of the many props in the Sheppard video, and likely lighting and some props in ours) on top of a plain, more neutral background (in the Sheppard video, this is the grey room, but we will likely just have a blank studio cyclorama to experiment with) is something we have been working on for a long time.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">A clip from Sheppard's music video for their song "Geronimo." We have used parts of this in our steal-o-matic, as the varying shot types, including the extreme long shots of the band in a studio setting, as well as the camera movements, are quite useful to us in visualising what our video might look like in terms of camera. Additionally, although they have more props to build mise-en-scene, this video has a similar colour scheme to what we are planning and has been an aid in planning set design for our video. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">Narrative is also something we refined through our steal-o-matic. As we wanted to use references to various pieces of media in our video by recreating them in a style that fit our artist and aesthetic, we took this opportunity to edit in clips from films like "Singing in the Rain" and even video games like "Mortal Kombat," scenes from which we were going to reproduce as part of the narrative's storyline, in which the lead singer has dreams of interacting physically with characters from these pieces of media. This allowed us to see how these more unorthodox video clips would fit in with the rest of the music video- and in the end, we decided that (even without being able to recreate them in our own aesthetic and just using raw footage from the source media) they fit quite well. We could have a small dance scene like the famous segment from "Singing in the Rain," we could use a profile long-shot to mimic a match from a fighting game like "Mortal Kombat," and then edit them along with all the performance clips when it came to making our final video.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One of the most famous scenes from the film "Singing in the Rain," which we are planning to recreate in our music video. Dance scenes are not uncommon in music videos- we just have to re-choreograph this particular dance to be suitable for our video, while melding its darker colour scheme and set with our own colour scheme and mise-en-scene (possibly by making the orange light of the lamppost more pastel and simplifying the background.) Seeing these clips in the steal-o-matic made these developments possible. Click to enlarge.</span></td></tr>
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