Sunday, 10 April 2011
Reflection on working as a group
During this piece of coursework we had to work in a group since the workload would be far to much for just one person, however, this is very different to what I have done previously since I consider myself a one man wolfpack...
After considering everything I feel we worked relatively well as a group since we all had set roles that we were assigned too. The real issue we had was timing, since we all had outstanding commitments so that we could only really meet up when we would all definitely be together - during school time mainly.
The other issue we had was that our storyboard in the end had very little relevance to what we decided to shoot, mainly with the POV shots so we had no idea what we needed to film before each session. This lead to alot of tension and countless arguments within the group but fortunately we have managed to finish the project and in general we're satisfied with our final piece.
After considering everything I feel we worked relatively well as a group since we all had set roles that we were assigned too. The real issue we had was timing, since we all had outstanding commitments so that we could only really meet up when we would all definitely be together - during school time mainly.
The other issue we had was that our storyboard in the end had very little relevance to what we decided to shoot, mainly with the POV shots so we had no idea what we needed to film before each session. This lead to alot of tension and countless arguments within the group but fortunately we have managed to finish the project and in general we're satisfied with our final piece.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
CD Cover Analysis
I feel that the CD cover I created cleverly complimented the other media products I have created for our artist, B Money, since it continues the theme of comedy value with pennies in the eyes as opposed to the hude ammounts of money that would usually be found on a front cover.
However I still try to hold back over doing it by using the urban background and font to keep some of the conventions found in hip hop continuous with our artist. Another convention used is making the front cover in all black and white and using one element of the picture in colour, in this case the pennies in the eyes so the focus of the audience is drawn to this point.
However I still try to hold back over doing it by using the urban background and font to keep some of the conventions found in hip hop continuous with our artist. Another convention used is making the front cover in all black and white and using one element of the picture in colour, in this case the pennies in the eyes so the focus of the audience is drawn to this point.
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Evaluation Preperation
When our video is finished we will come together as a group and evaluate every aspect of our music video and coursework. We will discuss both the pros and cons off the video, and the methods we took to get to the final video. There are many was to evaluate our work but we as a group believe the best way for us to evaluate is by using a PowerPoint presentation with our work on and we will hold a discussion were we answer pre set questions.
We will record the evaluation with all of our group members answer question and discussing aspect of the video, the question will cover every aspect of our final video and how we got to this point .
The evaluation side of the coursework allows us to show the audience how we feel the video went and give them more of an insight into the videos background.
Final Filming Session
We came together as group for the last time to film the final piece of footage needed for us to complete our video. We only needed a small amount of shots to fill in the gaps that are in our music video, filming took place at a member of the groups house and overall we as a group fill that the filming went well and all the shots needed we got.
Filming went smoothly and i believe we got all the shots that we needed to a high quality and hopefully these shots will help us finish the Music Video .
Filming went smoothly and i believe we got all the shots that we needed to a high quality and hopefully these shots will help us finish the Music Video .
Showcase
Before completely finishing our videos we as students came together to show our videos, in a showcase. The showcase was put in place so our music video could be shown to fellow students and teachers to give us feedback. We hoped to gather feedback on the positive and negative sides of , editing, costume, lighting performance and overall feel of the video, not only this but also to see if the narrative of our video is easily understandable. Each person was handed a sheet to revive our video and write comments of what they though.
The sheet handed out consisted of questions such as, what was especially good about the music video. Would you watch it again? If yes why? If no, why not? And did you notice any errors within the video?, the sheet also asked the class to rate certain areas of our video out of 10 , were ten is the highest.
The class were asked to rate the, editing, sound, camerawork, synchronising of sound, did it seem like a real MV and would you watch it all ?
Once showing our video to the class, we then discussed the pros and cons. The first positive of our video was the editing as many people said and wrote that the editing was between a nine and a ten on the sheet. However our teacher pointed out to us that the editing was off on one point, so this has to be fixed. Another positive point that the class informed us was good that the opening sequence to our video is entertaining and engaged the audience from the off.
Were as a negative aspect of our video is the narrative, many people were confused with where it was going so, no we will have to come together as a group and discuss the ways in which we can make the narrative easily understandable to our audience. Also the fact that there is a section of shots that are the same so we need to change this aspect to engage the audience through out.
The sheet handed out consisted of questions such as, what was especially good about the music video. Would you watch it again? If yes why? If no, why not? And did you notice any errors within the video?, the sheet also asked the class to rate certain areas of our video out of 10 , were ten is the highest.
The class were asked to rate the, editing, sound, camerawork, synchronising of sound, did it seem like a real MV and would you watch it all ?
Once showing our video to the class, we then discussed the pros and cons. The first positive of our video was the editing as many people said and wrote that the editing was between a nine and a ten on the sheet. However our teacher pointed out to us that the editing was off on one point, so this has to be fixed. Another positive point that the class informed us was good that the opening sequence to our video is entertaining and engaged the audience from the off.
Were as a negative aspect of our video is the narrative, many people were confused with where it was going so, no we will have to come together as a group and discuss the ways in which we can make the narrative easily understandable to our audience. Also the fact that there is a section of shots that are the same so we need to change this aspect to engage the audience through out.
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