music video final draft

Ancillary Task Final Draft

Q3: what have you learned from your audience feedback

Q3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

during the creation of our media product we used many different technologies at the varying stages in attempts to create a strong product as well as learning of how they play a big role in influencing how well media products do.

in the planning stages of our media product we created things like animatics as a way of making our post super visual by illustrating our work in a more interesting and higher quality way. this use of technology allowed us to view our work in a different way and gain better perspective of our work.
during the research stages I made use of technologies like youtube to look at other media products and videos such as chipmunk which has the same british feel to it as ours.

EVALUATION

Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts

I think the combination of our main product and ancillary text have been very effective in the way that one has helped the other in promoting itself.

I think they worked well because the design of both the video and digi-pack and poster has worked because they maintain a consistent image across the board.

For example the same costume that was used in the shooting of the digi-pack was used in the music video as well, which helps the audience in instantly identifying him and his role within the music.

The combination of the main product and ancillary texts has worked well due to the fact there is a universal style that has then been used across the board.

EVALUATION

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products

Our media product has taken form as a music video accompanied by a digi-pack and poster to promote our main artist as is typical with other media products.

Our media products use and develop many different conventions of real media products for example echoing the typical style of product promotion in the hip-hop genre we used our artist as the main driving force behind our promotion creating a strong sense of individuality within.

This was achieved by the use of many different close-ups for the digi-pack and usage of our track name and surroundings to create an identity for our artist which has been done by scores of artists within the music industry for example 50 cent who has created a gangster/entrepreneur image like our artists has gained the identity of a rapper who’s heavily focused on money and his background roots.

The music video is immensely typical in its following of hip-hop conventions the surroundings and costume don’t really conform to a stereotypical image of gangster rappers as it has a quintessential brutishness to it. Its editing however tends to challenge normal conventions for example its use of wipes and staggered matrix style effects more specifically the bullet dodging effect are not something that are generally found in music video this tends to add some originality and an interesting effect to the video and keeps viewers from getting bored of the same type of editing they commonly see.

The digi-pack tends to challenge conventions in the fact that a lot of artists in the hip-hop genre tend to use large glitzy jewelry or strong graffiti or a strong surrounding of some form to create the style it wishes to achieve. Ours however uses several portrait shots of our artist, which doesn’t always show him clearly, but our altered to make the promotion of him stronger something illustrated by the work below.

below are some examples comparing our work to original texts

professor greens video bears the most similarity to ours as it is quintessential british hip-hop but retains a looser and more gritty feel to the production. like frame professor green's image is heavily promoted and very distinguishable thanks to how the camera is used it picks up the qualities of what we most associate with him such as his tattoo and hair cut much like frame is noticeable thanks to the promotion on his image which is made into a brand like status thanks to well lit camera shots.

ancillery task feedback

assessment

boardwell and thompson

Boardwell and Thompson draws its elements from hollywood and continuity and talks about four different elements of editing

Rhythmic

This refers to the timing of the video. The video is treated like a piece of music in the way editing is done so it cuts on the beat off the beat while accenting and not accenting certain parts of the video or film. The shots and the timing between them is a crucial element that helps to dictate the rhythm of the video.
With long drawn out shots this often is used when showing something emotional and in depth where the audience needs to absorb some form of important visual or auditory stimulus however short very snappy shot dictate a piece filled with speed and tension and often composes of several hundred short clips of something very exciting to pick audience adrenaline levels up but keep them guessing as to what the clip is really about.

Temporal

this part of the thoery focuses on the timing elemants of films and how they can be manipulated in order to give a dramatic twist or some form of a variation on  the current plot line. for example when you fastforward to another point in the plot you create a sense of mystery but when you flashback you can give viewers a greater scope of the storyline for example in the film momento the storyline is constantly being thrown back and forward to create both enicmatic and mysterious vibes in the story.
it also focueses on the point of shots that are not relevant for example obvious things such as eating and drinking as they bear no relevance to the dramtics oo the storyline.

Rythmic

rythmic discuesses the lengths and the paces of your shots like in a piece of music each shot has its own varying level of tempo and rhythmic pace.
the best example of this is in cinemas when you see movie adverts. these short sequence of clips is carefulyl edited useing this theory depending on what the filmakers are trying to achieve. the movie might be a romcom so would have long slow shots to capture viewers intrest whereas action would be short sharp and direct so they excite the viwers which makes them want to go and see the movie more.

Spatial

spatial discuses wear the film was shot and refers to the simalrity between shots thereafter. master shots illustrate the spatial element with a master shot depicting the location of the film and then subsequents that follow to give the viewer bits and pieces of a storyline. master shots help the viewer to create there own impression of the space they are looking at. EG like in mission impossible when you see tall buildings fast cars and guns you develop the sterotypical impression of a spy however someone else may assume that it is a movie involving rich war-ing gangsters.

theories: goodwin

goodwins theorie has three separate elemeants to it:

1. illistration
2. amplification
3. disjuncture 

storyboard animatic

CD album design

This is our draft design for our CD cover design. We thought hard and very carefully into what direction we went in in regards to our design. Keeping in mind the universal style of hip-hop in that its very focused on key themes such as fame, fortune, glitz and glamour we chose a very symbolic choice of scenery by shooting in a tunnel to represent the artists drive and commitment to making money and succeeding. The fingers on the front cover that make the frame shape help in both showing the artists name (which is frame) and making him the most important feature  in the shot. The back is going to  be the artist making the frame shape with his fingers and the track titles in the back ground.

storyboards

album advert

This is the advert for our artist that was created. The advert rather than using an image of the album itself has instead used the artist to promote himself as an image rather than let the album promote his image. The album has instead been placed down in the bottom corner so the audience still know that its an album being promoted but its consider less important compared to frame the artist. The advert follows an approach commonly seen in hip-hop where artists often value and place more importance on there image than the image of there material.

location shots

i've taken 6 photos of potential locations that we can use for our shoot

this shot I chose because it had the bridge behind it that has a nice amount of shadow under it which lends to the non-chintzy style of british hip-hop culture.

I liked this location and I think we would be most likely to use it as it gives the very british feel. we could also use it because of the surroundings like the stairs where we could film some interesting shots

we could use this location and the location below to film some of the jogging scenes in our film.

this picture I liked because it was dark and gloomy. being a tunnel i thought it would help compliment the subconscious message of being                                    driven and committed. we could perhaps use this scene slightly later in the video I also liked the compliments between the lighting the small lights gives it a very urban british feel but natural lighting at the end of the tunnel perhaps signifies the artists goal is at the end and he's nearly going to get,

this location we could be very likely to use as the setting works well and would be good for doing some tracking shots or using some multiple shots of this scenery to break up our film and help prevent viewer
fatigue.





this location where definitely going to use for our park bench scene and possibly our jogging scene as-well. the darkness will help add some variation in our film.

where also going to use this location so we can shoot stock footage
of the sunrise that happens over london bridge.


this location we are going to use to capture the footage of a sunrise as we feel it would be a great introduction to our film because the song is       called good morning. this choice of location is good in ghilighting the british hip-hop style of our video, a strong visual element will blend nicely with the time-lapsed sun rise footage where going to use as a literal message for "good morning".

location permission

I have got in contact with the film permission department and they have stated that permission needs to be given but we would be given a half hours filming time free of charge.

props,costume and makeup

INTIAL IDEAS

Genre: hip-hop

Location: south London

                   Tower bridge

                    Wimbeldon

                   Mitcham

Equipment: camera

                        Still camera

                       Lighting

                       Mac using livetype

                       And final cut

 Props: ipod

              Chain

              Phone

Costume: modern or vintage clothing

 Hoodys

Caps

Allstar shoes

Chains

Sunglasses

Boots

this is the props, costume and makeup that we will need in order to shoot

a successful music video. the video is going to be stripped down british

hip-hop so we wont need as many props compared to the very glamourous look

of american hip-hop that has been popularised by the likes of 50 cent and p diddy

Advertisement research

When looking at these three adverts that have been made for the
hip-hop genre we notice common convention appearing.

EX 1 Is the type of advert that is promoting its own
big name product but also allowing the artists to
promote themselves off the back off it. The drink itself
is most likely lending itself to the artist because this is
the type of product that wants to be seen in modern day
clubs

EX 2 This advert dose not share the advirtisement space with another product sugeesting that these artists are big enough in the hip-hop world to promote themselves after looking at the advert before we can see that the type of clothing and the surrondings associated with it are very similar. The clothes often seen in these adverts are large plain white t-shirts big chains, caps and hoodys that are often tied in with the typical british club dance culture.

EX 3 This advert is slightly diffrent from the previous three. It draws upon the slightly more glamourous american hip-hop surroundings. This artists wears more glamourous clothign suggesting that he is more famous in the hip-hop world. He is also promoting an alcoholic drink that matches his expensive clothing further contibuting to his fame.

peer feedback

technical tutorials

I have learnt alot from the technical tutorials. I learnt most from the creative blogging video and will use many of the techniques in there to make my blog posts more visually creative rather than just use the common methods of having pictures on there.

track permission email

this is the email to scorcher the artist who's song we are covering in order to ask permission 

to use his track. this is an important step to take from a legal point of view as he could sue for compensation for alleged copyright infringement.

talent release form

Talent Release Form

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Talent Release Form

Talent Name: ____________________________ Project Title: ___________________________________

I hereby consent for value received and without further consideration or compensation to the use (full or in part) of all videotapes/images taken of me and/or recordings made of my voice and/or written extraction, in whole or in part, of such recordings or musical performance for the purposes of the production of a Media Advanced Portfolio. The work produced will be distributed digitally via a video sharing site/blog and will be screened at the Media Showcase.

I have agreed with the production company that they will allow me to use copies of any of the above for self promotion.

at __________________________		on ________________________
(Recording Location)		(Date)
by __________________________		for ______________________________
(Producer)		(Production Company)

Talent’s signature__________________________________________________

Talent's Address ________________________________

                        ________________________________

Postcode _____________

Date: ____/____/____

__________________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­___________________________________________________________

If the talent is under 16:

Legal guardian (sign/print name)

__________________________________________________

Address ________________________________

            ________________________________

Postcode _____________

Date: ____/____/____
__________________________­___________________________________________________________


it is important to have signed talent release forms before you begin any form of filming for your music video.
talent release forms are important to have as they show that the signee acknowledges the fact that the crew are filming there likeness and will not seek to claim any form of benefit and or compensation from the video. 

song details

The song that we have chosen is by an relatively unknown english hip hop
artist called scorcher. The song is called good morning and we chose it due
to its heavy beats and vibrant feel and also due to the fact that it meets our criteria
for english based hip hop music only.

Album ideas

track titles

TRACK NAMES

1. Good morning
2. Too much to soon
3. Stop running
4. Rain on a sunny day
5. Buzzin
6. I’m gonna shine
7. Make money
8. Everything’s changed
9. Too cool for college
10. Rap 64
11. When the war began
12. Tomorrow

this track titles list is to show the names of the songs that we will be putting on the back of our album cover.
looking at it you can see that is follows the tradtional hip-hop convention of tieing subject matters
in with money and fame.

lyric annotation

the lyrics have been annotated by emily.

the Bordwell and Thompson method has been used with the annotation. she has highlighted and made light of the common lyrics seen in hip hop such as "I was busy making paper" showing hip hops attitude and the devotion it places on money and success.

story boarding

this is a video of us storyboarding. to help speed things up we worked by delegating
task between us all. emily had to draw the storyboard itself while me and jordan shared
the role of colouring and writing in the important detail like shot types and timing of the shots for example.

Assessment 10/10/11 TME

Check the Written Assessment Feedback sheet which was given to you.

Roles

our roles have not been comfirmed as off yet

intial ideas

the image above is a spider diagram that was made on a website called bubbl to illustrate my initial ideas in a visual way. each section has been broken off looking at the various different aspects that need to be taken into account when brainstorming and finally creating our music video.

when we brainstormed we where very careful in taking into account how much equipment we would need depending on the style of hip-hop and the artist material that we would be using for example some artists have a very glamourous approach to there material while others adopt a very stripped back approach which instead of focusing on huge glitzy visual stimulation relies on driving home the strong message created through the lyrical content.

  through looking at my brainstorm the equipment that where using reflects the more stripped back approach to hip- hop using only the nessacesary elements to create the hip-hop image.